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GLINKA, SERGY NIKOLAEVICH (1774-1847)

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GLINKA, SERGY NIKOLAEVICH (1774-1847) , See also:Russian author, the See also:elder See also:brother of Fedor N. Glinka, was See also:born at See also:Smolensk in 1774. In 1796 he entered the Russian See also:army, but after three years' service retired with the See also:rank of See also:major. He afterwards employed himself in the See also:education of youth and in See also:literary pursuits, first in the See also:Ukraine, and subsequently at See also:Moscow, where he died in 1847. His poems are spirited and patriotic; he wrote also several dramatic pieces,; and translated See also:Young's See also:Night Thoughts. Among his numerous See also:prose See also:works the most important from an See also:historical point of view are: Russkoe Chtenie (Russian See also:Reading : Historical Memorials of See also:Russia in the 28th and zgth Centuries) (2 vols., 1845) ; Istoriya Rossii, &c. (See also:History of Russia for the use of Youth) (to vols., 1817-1819, 2nd ed. 1822, 3rd ed. 1824); Istoriya Armyan, &c. (History of the See also:Migration of the Armenians of Azerbijan from See also:Turkey to Russia) (1831); and his contributions to the Russky Vyestnik (Russian Messenger), a monthly periodical, edited by him from 1808 to 1820. GLOBE-See also:FISH, or See also:SEA-See also:HEDGEHOG, the names by which some sea-fishes are known, which have the remarkable See also:faculty of inflating their stomachs with See also:air. They belong to the families Diodontidae and Tetrodontidae.

Their jaws resemble the See also:

sharp See also:beak of a See also:parrot, the bones and See also:teeth being coalesced into one See also:mass with a sharp edge. In the Diodonts there is no mesial See also:division of the jaws, whilst in the Tetrodonts such a division exists, so that they appear to have two teeth above and two below. By means of these jaws they are able to break off branches of See also:corals, and to masticate other hard substances on which they feed. Usually they are of a See also:short, thick, cylindrical shape, with powerful fins (fig. O., Their See also:body is covered with thick skin, without scales, but provided with variously formed spines, the See also:size and extent of which vary in the different See also:species. When they inflate their capacious stomachs with air, they assume a globular. See also:form, and the spines protrude, forming a more or less formidable defensive See also:armour (fig. 2). A fish thus blown out deleterious qualities to other fish. They are most numerous between the tropics and in the seas contiguous to them, but a few species live in large See also:rivers, as, for instance, the Tetrodon fahaka, a fish well known to all travellers on the See also:Nile. Nearly too different species are known.

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