Arcole (är'ko-le), or Arcola (är' kō-lä)

A village in the province of Verona, Italy, situated on the Alpone 15 miles southeast of Verona. Here a victory was gained by the French (about 18,000) under Napoleon (Ma éna and Augereau, division commanders) over the Austrians (about 40,000) under Allief of Mantua. It was fought largely in the swamps near vinczy, Nov. 15, 16, and 17, 1796, which prevented the reArcole. Population, 2,000 to 3,000. Arçon (är-son'), Jean Claude Eléonore Le Michaud d'. Born at Pontarlier, France, 1733: died July 1, 1800. A French military engineer and writer, author of "Considérations mil it a ires et politiques sur les fortifications" (1795), etc. He devised the floating batteries used at the siege of Gibraltar in 1782. Arcos de la Fronter a (är'kōs dā la fron-tā'rä). A town and strong fortre in the province of Cadiz, Spain, situated on the Guadalete 30 miles northeast of Cadiz. It was a Roman town, and was lati on (1887), 16,199. long a frontier town of Castile, toward Granada. Popu Arcot (är-kot'). [Tamil Arkat , Arucati , six forests.) A city in the district of North Arcot, British India, situated on the Pâlar in lat. 120 54′ N., long. 79° 24' E., once the capital of the by him in 1751 against the French and natives. Later it Carnatic. It was taken by Clive in 1751 and defended was succe ively held by the French, British, and Hyder Alí, and was ceded to the British in 1801. Population (1891), 10,928. Arcot, or Arkat, North. A district in Madras, British India, about lat. 13° N. Area, 7,616 square miles. Population (1891), 2,180,487. Arcot, or Arkat, South. A district in Madras, British India, about lat. 12° N. Area, 5,217 square miles. Population (1891), 2,162,851. Arco-Valley (är-kō-fä'li), Count Ludwig. Born in Bavaria, 1843: died at Berlin, Oct. 15, 1891. A German diplomatist, secretary of to the United States 1888-91. legation at Washington 1871-72, and minister the actre Janisch (1872) caused his dismi al from the imperial service, to which he was restored on separating from his wife. His marriage with Arctic Ocean. A part of the ocean which lies about the North Pole, is partially inclosed by Europe, Asia, North America, and Green land, communicates with the Pacific Ocean by Bering Strait, and is open to the Atlantic. It is generally regarded as extending southward to the Arctic Circle. Among the lands in it are Green land, Nova Zembla, Spitz bergen, Franz Josef Land, Jan Mayen, New Siberia, Wrangel Land, Banks Land, Prince Patrick Island, Melville Island, Victoria Land, King William Island, Prince of Wales Land, Bathurst Island, North Somerset, Cock burn Island, Grinnell, North Devon, Baffin Land, Ellesmere Land, etc. Among its arms or divisions are Kotze bue Sound, Beaufort Sea, Melville Sound, McClintock Ardennes, Forest of Armenia, situated on the Kur 41 miles north- west of Kars: stormed by the Ru ians May, 1877, and ceded to Ru ia by Turkey 1878. Sa an i an dynasty, surnamed "iPapakan," the son of Papak. He reigned from 211 or 212 A. D. to 241 Ardashir (är-da-sher'). The real founder of the or 242. Beginning with Papak's kingdom about Istakkr, he subdued Kerman and Susiana. In 224 he defeated and killed Ardavan, the last Part hi an emperor, from which time he called himself "king of kings." While Istakkr was in theory the capital, his real capital consisted of bank of the Tigris. The important fact in his career is Ctesiphon and Veh-Ardashir (Seleucia), on the opposite his effective patronage of the Zoroastrian religion. Arda Viraf Namak (är'dä ve-räf nä-mäk'). [The Book of Arda Viraf.] A favorite reli- gio us book among the Parsis, written in Pah- lav i. In the reign of Shapur II., since doubts still ex- isted as to the truth of the Zoroastrian religion, the Das- turs resolved to send one among them to the land of the dead to bring back certainty. Seven were chosen, and drank three cups filled with a narcotis (mang), and slept until the seventh day, during which time he made a jour- these chose three and these again one, Arda Viraf. Viraf ney guided by Sraosha, "the angel of obedience," and Ataro Yazad, "the angel of the fire," through heaven and hell. The rewards of the one and the punishments of the other are minutely described. Neither author nor date is known, but the book belongs undoubtedly to Sa an i an Ardea (är'dē-). [L.; Gr. Ἀρδέα .] In ancient times. Rutulians, and later a Roman colony. geography, a town of Latium, Italy, 24 miles south of Rome. It was the chief town of the 9,000. Ardelan (är-de-län'). A district in the prov- ince of Irak-Ajemi, Persia, about lat. 35° 30′ N., long. 47° E. Ardelia (är-deʻlia). A pseudonym of Anne Finch, counte of Win chelsea. Channel, Gulf of Boothia, Lancaster Sound, Baffin Bay, Smith Sound, White Sea, Kara Sea, Barentz Gulf of Enoch. See Enoch Arden . Nares , Nansen , Peary, Grinnell, Fox . Arctic, The. A first-cla pa enger steams belonging to the Collins Line (the first Ameri- can line of steamships), which was sunk by col- lision in the Atlantic in 1854. Arctinus (ärk-ti'nus). [Gr. Ἀρκτῖνος .] A Greek poet of Miletus (about 776 в. с.), author of the cyclic poem "Æthiopis": the "oldest certainly known epic poet." He was said to be a pupil of Homer. kee former times extended through War wicks hire and other midland counties of England. Malone and other editors of Shakspere have held that the Forest of Arden of "As you Like it" was the Forest of Ardennes Arden (ärden). An Euglish forest which in the bits of description that it is the English forest that Shakspere meant, though the characters are French. Arden of Fever sham. 1. A tragedy first printed (anonymously) in 1592, and at one time attributed to Shakspere. According to Fleay, who dates it 1585, there is some ground for attributing it to "It is a domestic tragedy of a peculiarly atrocious kind, Alice Arden, the wife, being led by her pa ion for a base Kyd. Tieck translated it into German as Shakspere's work. in French Flanders. Wherever the scene of the play was laid, it is evident from the allusions to Robin Hood and paramour, Mosbie, to plot, and at last carry out, the mur has much resemblance to Shakes pere's, or that single der of her husband. Here it is not that the versification character both in and in secondary has a distinct touch of his almost unmistakable hand. Yet both in the selection and in the treatment of the sub have been said to exhibit themselves so uniformly and so ject the play definitely transgre es those principles which strongly in the whole great body of his undoubted plays." speeches smackopriatica 2. A tragedy, founded on the earlier one, by George Lillo in 1736. It was played first in 1759.