[Alabama, The], a vessel built in Birkenhead for the Confederates in the late American Civil War, for the devastation done by which, according to the decision of a court of arbitration, the English Government had to pay heavy damages of three millions of money.
[Alacoque, Marie], a French nun of a mystic tendency, the founder of the devotion of the Sacred Heart (1647-1690).
[Alad`din], one of the chiefs of the Assassins in the 13th century, better known by the name of the Old Man of the Mountain.
[Aladdin], a character in the "Arabian Nights," who became possessed of a wonderful lamp and a wonderful ring, by rubbing which together he could call two evil genii to do his bidding.
[Aladinists], free-thinkers among the Mohammedans.
[Alago`as] (397), a maritime province of Brazil, N. of Pernambuco, with tropical products as well as fine timber and dye-woods.
[Alain de L'Isle], a professor of theology in the University of Paris, surnamed the Doctor universel (1114-1203).
[Alais`] (18), a town at the foot of the Cévennes, in the centre of a mining district; once the stronghold of French Protestantism.
[Alaman`ni, Luigi], an Italian poet and diplomatist, born at Florence (1495-1556).