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 420 Index Earth, the, shape of, 1 ; rotation of, 1 ; distance from sun, 2 ; age and origin of, 5 ; surface of, 20 Earthquakes, 93 East India Company, 315, 320, 373, 374 East Indies, 374, 379 Ebro, 174 Ecbatana, 107, 110 Echidna, the, 32 Eclipses, 8 Ecnoraus, battle of, 173, 408 Economists, French, 352 Edessa, 259 Education, 279, 342, 349, 350 Egbert, King of Wessex, 250, 410 Egg-laying mammals, 32 Eggs, 23, 25, 30, 100 Egypt (and Egyptians), 69, 76, 88, 89, 90, 94, 96, 98, 112, 116, 118, 119, 128, 130, 141, 166, 199, 200, 228, 242, 255, 276, 278, 376, 377, 384, 407, 409, 412 Egyptian script, 76, 77 Elamites, 86, 88, 166 Elba, 331 Electric light, 342 Electric traction, 342 Electricity, 306, 340, 342 Elephants, 40, 122, 142, 170, 173, 242, 285 Elixir of hfe, 246 Elizabeth, Queen, 308, 315 Emigration, 319 Emperor, title of, 310 Employer and employed, 356 " Encyclopaedists," the, 352 England (and English), 290, 370, 409, 410 England, Norman Conquest of, 254 England, overseas possessions, 313 English Channel, 314 English language, 93 Entelodonts, 40 Eoanthropus, 45 Eoliths, 43 Ephesus, 143 Ephthalites, 190 Epics, 104, 122, 124, 125 Epirus, 124, 170, 171 Epistles, the, 212 Eratosthenes, 144 Erech, Sumerian city of, 75 Esarhaddon, 407 Essenes, 204 Esthonia, 234 Esthonians, 398 Ethiopian dynasty, 407 Ethiopians, 94, 223 Etruscans, 92, 98, 168, 408 Euclid, 144 Euphrates, 75, 108, 122, 124, 166, 187, 407, 408 Euripides, 133 Europe, 191 Europe, Central, 312 Europe, Concert of, 333 Europe, Western, 51, 283 European overseas populations, 319 Europeans, intellectual revival oi, 279 el seq. Europeans, North Atlantic, 312 Europeans, Western, 312 Everlasting League, 411 Evolution, 15, 40 Excommunication, 262, 267, 268, 272 Execution, Greek method of, 134 Ezekiel, 120 Factory system, 346 Family groups, 59 Famine, 398 Faraday, 340 Fashoda, 377 Fatherhood of God, the, 206, 214, 240 Fear, 59 Feathers, 31 Ferdinand of Aragon, King, 278, 286, 292 Ferns, 22, 25 Fertilizers, 345 Fetishism, 61, 62 Feudal system, 247, 380, 381, 382 Fielding, Henry, 346 Fiji, 386 Finance, 128 Finland, 234 Finns, 334 Fish, the age of, 15 el seq. ; the first known vertebrata, 17 ; evolution of, 2d Fisher, Lord, 395 Fishing, 54 Fleming, Bishop, 272 Flint implements, 42, 45 Flood, story of the, 89, 11? Florence, 279 Florentine Society, 305 Florida, 319, 365 Flying machines, 92, 344. (See also Aero- planes) Fontainebleau, 331 Food, rationing of, 393 Food riots, 395 Forests, 54, 188 Fossils, 10, 12, 41. (Cf. Rocks) Fowl, the domestic, 86, 100