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Horizon (1871), a play by Augustin Daly. [Olympic Theatre, 65 perf.] Alleyn Van Dorp ( Hart Conway), a recent West Point graduate, is dispatched to the Far West on his first commission. He employs his spare time seeking the lost daughter and husband of his foster mother. He soon learns that Med ( Agnes Ethel), whom the Indians call “the White Flower of the Plains,” and her drunkard father, Wolf ( J. B. Studley), are the very persons he seeks. After Wolf is murdered, the notorious criminal John Loder ( J. K. Mortimer), who is known as “Panther Loder” or “the White Panther,” takes Med under his protection. He loves her and treats her well, but she is kidnapped by the Indian chief, Wannamucka ( Charles Wheatleigh). Van Dorp rescues her, and Loder kills Wannamucka. For all his cruelty and dishonesty, Loder cares enough about Med to recognize she will fare better with Van Dorp, so he relinquishes her to the soldier. Critics praised the play for its reasonably accurate picture of the contemporary West and for its willingness to see virtue in villains and faults in heroes and heroines. One of Daly's great rivals, A. M. Palmer, later said not only was it Daly's best play but the finest American play he had ever seen. Despite critical and professional admiration for the work, the public's acceptance of the John A. Duff offering was minimal.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Horizon." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Horizon." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Horizon.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Horizon." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Horizon.html |
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horizon, from Greek horos, a boundary, horizo, form a boundary, limit.
1. The line which limits an observer's view of the surface of the earth and of the visible heavens. In celestial navigation three meanings must be distinguished: (a) the visible horizon, that which is actually seen. This, however, is affected by the dip of the horizon which depends on the refraction of light by the atmosphere and the observer's height above the sea; (b) the sensible horizon, the true horizon at sea level at the observer's position on the earth's surface, corrected for dip; it is the projection on the celestial sphere of a plane tangential to the earth's surface at that point; (c) the rational horizon; this is the projection on the celestial sphere of a plane parallel to the sensible horizon but passing through the centre of the earth instead of tangential to its surface. In measuring the altitude of a heavenly body considered as infinitely distant, the radius of the earth is insignificant, and normally the sensible and rational horizons coincide. For some purposes, however, they must be distinguished. 2. The broad ring in which a globe of the earth is fixed. The upper surface of the ring, level with the centre of the globe, represents the plane of the rational horizon. See also bubble horizon. |
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"horizon." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "horizon." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-horizon.html "horizon." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-horizon.html |
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ho·ri·zon / həˈrīzən/ • n. 1. [usu. in sing.] the line at which the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet: the sun rose above the horizon. ∎ (also apparent or visible horizon) the circular boundary of the part of the earth's surface visible from a particular point, ignoring irregularities and obstructions. ∎ (also celestial horizon) Astron. a great circle of the celestial sphere, the plane of which passes through the center of the earth and is parallel to that of the apparent horizon of a place. 2. (often horizons) the limit of a person's mental perception, experience, or interest: she wanted to leave home and broaden her horizons. 3. Geol. a layer of soil or rock, or a set of strata, with particular characteristics. ∎ Archaeol. a level of an excavated site representing a particular period. PHRASES: on the horizon just imminent or becoming apparent: trouble could be on the horizon. |
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"horizon." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "horizon." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-horizon.html "horizon." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-horizon.html |
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horizon in astronomy, roughly circular line bounding an observer's view of the surface of the earth where the sky and earth seem to meet. This is the visible horizon. At sea the visible horizon is a perfect circle with the observer at its center, but on land it is irregular due to topographic features. The distance to the horizon varies as the square root of the observer's elevation for small elevations; at four times the height the distance to the horizon is twice as great. The celestial horizon , the principal axis in the altazimuth coordinate system , lies halfway between the observer's zenith and nadir . In geology horizon refers to sedimentary deposits of a certain period, usually marked by characteristic fossils. |
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"horizon." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "horizon." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-horizon.html "horizon." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-horizon.html |
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Horizon, play by Augustin Daly, produced in 1871 and printed in 1885.
Alleyn Van Dorp, a West Point graduate on his first command, combines army duties in the Far West with a search for the long‐lost husband and daughter of his foster mother. In the Indian country he finds a vigilance committee ejecting the drunkard Wolf and his daughter Med, loved by the gambler Loder and the Indian chief Wannemucka. Alleyn falls in love with Med, discovers that she and her sick father are the two he seeks, and twice rescues her from Wannemucka's Indians. Loder kills Wannemucka but, realizing that Med deserves a better life than he can give her, departs, leaving her to Alleyn. |
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Horizon." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Horizon." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-Horizon.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Horizon." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-Horizon.html |
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1. An informal term used in stratigraphy to denote a plane within a body of strata. This may be at a boundary of lithological change, or commonly the term may refer to a thin, distinctive bed within a lithological unit. See also BIOHORIZON. 2. An interface separating two media with different geophysical properties. 3. In soil, a horizontal layer that can be distinguished from the layers below and (except for the surface layer) above it. Identified by a coding system using a capital letter, sometimes followed by a subscript, such layers are used to diagnose soil types. See SOIL HORIZON. |
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AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "horizon." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "horizon." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O13-horizon.html AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "horizon." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O13-horizon.html |
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horizon XIV. Late ME. orizon(te), — OF. orizon(te) (mod. horizon) — late L. horīzōn, -ont- — Gr. horízōn, sb. use of prp. of horízein bound, limit, f. hōros boundary, limit. In later OF. and Eng. conformed to the L. nom.
So horizontal pert. to the horizon XVI; parallel to the plane of the horizon XVII. — F. or modL. |
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T. F. HOAD. "horizon." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "horizon." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-horizon.html T. F. HOAD. "horizon." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-horizon.html |
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1. In stratigraphy, an informal term that denotes a plane within a body of strata. It may be at a boundary of lithological change or is (commonly) a thin, distinctive bed within a lithological unit. 2. An interface separating two media with different properties. 3. See soil horizon. |
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "horizon." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "horizon." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O14-horizon.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "horizon." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O14-horizon.html |
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "horizon." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "horizon." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O7-horizon.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "horizon." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O7-horizon.html |
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Horizon." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Horizon." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Horizon.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Horizon." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Horizon.html |
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horizon The great circle formed by the intersection of the plane perpendicular to the observer's zenith with the celestial sphere; also called the astronomical horizon.
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"horizon." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "horizon." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-horizon.html "horizon." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-horizon.html |
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"horizon." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "horizon." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-horizon.html "horizon." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-horizon.html |
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