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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



SEMIRAMIS, fl. 1250 B. C., Assyrian queen ; 

 built Babylon and greatly increased her do- 

 minions ; invaded India, but was defeated. 



SENECA, Lucius Annaeus, 5?-65, Rom. 

 statesman, moralist, and Stoic philosopher. 



SENNACHERIB, fl. 700 B. C., Assyrian king. 



SERVETUS, Michael, 1509-5:5, Sp. theolo- 

 gian. 



SESOSTRIS (Rameses), fl. 1400 B. C., king 

 of Egypt. 



SEVIGNE, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Mar- 

 quise de, 1627-96, Fr. lady celebrated for her 

 beauty arid accomplishments. 



SEWARD, William Henry, 1801-72, Arn. 

 statesman. 



SEYMOUR, Horatio, 1811-86, Am. states- 

 man ; Democratic nominee for the presidency 

 in 1868. 



SHAFTESBURY, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 

 third Earl of, 1671-1713, Eng. philanthropist, 

 author, and freethinker. 



SHAKSPERE (Shakspeare, or Shakespeare), 

 William, 1564-1616, reputed author of the 

 world's greatest dramas ; born at Stratford-on- 

 Avon ; married Anne Hathaway, 1582 ; went 

 to London about 1586, and became an actor 

 and owner of a playhouse ; acquired a compe- 

 tence and retired to his native town about 

 1610 ; " Venus and Adonis," and " The Rape 

 of Lucrece," the only works published under 

 his own hand, appeared in 1593-4; the first 

 collective edition of the Shakespeare plays 

 appeared in 1623. 



SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822, Eng- 

 lish poet. 



SHERIDAN, Philip Henry, 1831-88, Am. 

 general ; victorious at Winchester, Cedar 

 Creek, and Five Forks ; made lieutenant-gen- 

 eral, 1869, and promoted to the chief com- 

 mand on retirement of General Sherman, 1883. 



SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 ; 

 Ir. orator and dramatist. 



SHERMAN, William Tecumseh, 1820-91, 

 brother of J. S. ; Am. general ; made the cel- 

 ebrated ' ' March to the Sea ' ' ; became general 

 of the army in 1869, retiring in 1883. 



SIDDONS, Sarah {ne'e Kemble), 1755-1831, 

 Eng. actress. 



SIDNEY, Algernon, 1622-83 ; Eng. republi- 

 can ; executed on false charge of complicity in 

 Rye House Plot." 



SIDNEY, Sir Philip, 1554-86, Eng. soldier 

 and poet. 



SIGOURNEY, Mrs. Lydia Howard Huntley, 

 1791-1865, Am. poetess. 



SILLIMAN, Benjamin, 1789-1864, Am. nat- 

 uralist. 



SIMON, Jules, 1814-1896, Fr. statesman. 



SMITH, Adam, 1723-90, Scot, political econ- 

 omist. 



SMITH, John, Captain, 1579-1631, Eng. 

 explorer ; founder of Virginia. 



SMITH, Joseph, 1805-44, founder <>f \\\<> 

 Mormon church. 



SMITH, Sydney, 1771-1815, English divine 

 and essayist. 



SMOLLETT, Tobias George, 1721-71. Scot, 

 novelist. 



SOBIESKI, John, 1629-96, king of Poland 

 and patriot ; defeated the Turks and raised the 

 siege of Vienna. 



SOCRATES, 4707-399 B. C., Gr. philosopher 

 of ethics ; teacher of Plato. 



SOLIMAN IT. (the Magnificent), 1494-1566. 

 sultan of Turkey ; conquered Persia and part 

 of Hungary. 



SOLOMON (the Wise), 10337-975? B. ('.. 

 king of Israel. 



SOLON, 638-5587 li. C., Athenian lawgiver 

 and poet. 



SOPHOCLES, 495-405 B. C., Gr. tragic poet. 



SOUTHEY, Robert, 1774-1843, Eng. poet- 

 laureate . 



SPARKS, Jared, 1789-1866, Am. historian. 



SPARTACUS, .... -71 B. C., Thracian glad- 

 iator in Rome ; inaugurated Servile war. 



SPEKE, John Pfanning, 1827-64, Eng. ex- 

 plorer in Africa. 



SPENSER, Edmund, 1553-99, Eng. poet. 



SPINOZA, Benedict, 1632-77, Dutch- Jewish 

 philosopher and pantheist. 



SPURGEON, Charles Haddon, 1834-92, Eng. 

 pulpit-orator. 



SPURZHEIM, Johann Caspar, 1776-1832, Get. 

 phrenologist. 



STAEL-HOLSTEIN, Anne Louise Germaine v 

 Baronne de (Mine, de Stael), 1766-1817, Fr. 

 authoress. 



STANDISH, Miles, 1584-1656, captain of 

 Plymouth colony. 



STANFORD, Leland, 1824-93, Am. lawyer 

 and philanthropist. 



STARK, John, 1728-1822, Am. Revolution- 

 ary general. 



STEIN, Heinrich Friedrich Karl von, Baron, 

 1757-1831, Prussian statesman. 



STEPHEN, Saint, stoned 367, first Christian 

 martyr. 



STEPHENS, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-83, 

 Am. statesman and writer; the "Nestor of 

 the Confederacy " ; born in Georgia ; admitted 

 to the bar, 1835 ; Congress, 1843 ; opposed 

 the secession of his State ; vice-president of 

 the Confederate States ; elected to the U. S. 

 Senate from Georgia, but not permitted to 

 take his seat ; member of the House of Rep- 

 resentatives, however, from 1871 until his 

 death. 



STEPHENSON, George, 1781-1848, Eng. en- 

 gineer ; inventor of the locomotive engine. 



