[Alexandri`na Lake], a lake in Australia into which the river Murray flows.
[Alexandrine Philosophy], a Gnostic philosophy, combining eastern with western forms of thought.
[Alexandrines]. See [Alexander of Paris].
[Alexan`dropol] (22), the largest town in the Erivan district of Russian Armenia, and a fortress of great strength.
[Alexis, St.], the patron saint of beggars and pilgrims, represented in art with a staff and in a pilgrim's habit; sometimes lying on a mat, with a letter in his hand, dying.
[Alexis Michaelovitch], czar of Russia, the father of Peter the Great, the first czar who acted on the policy of cultivating friendly relations with other European states (1630-1677).
[Alexis Petrovitch], son of Peter the Great, conspired against his father as he had broken the heart of his mother, was condemned to death; after his trial by secret judges he was found dead in prison (1695-1718).
[Alexius Comne`nus], emperor of the East, began life as a soldier, was a great favourite with the soldiers, who, in a period of anarchy, raised him to the throne at the period of the first crusade, when the empire was infested by Turks on the one hand and Normans on the other, while the crusaders who passed through his territory proved more troublesome than either. He managed to hold the empire together in spite of these troubles, and to stave off the doom that impended all through his reign of thirty-seven years (1048-1118).
[Alfa], an esparto grass valuable for making paper.
[Al`fadur], the All-Father or uncreated supreme in the Norse mythology.