. The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world. intocolumns. In this sense it is sometimes called abroadsheet. Broadstairs, England, a watering-place inthe Isle of Thanet, Kent, two miles northeastof Ramsgate. It is said that the name is de-rived from the width of the passage leadingdown to the sea. Pop. (1901) 6,460. Broadsword, a sword wath a broad blade,designed chiefly for cutting, formerly used bysome regiments of cavalry and Highland infan-try in the British service. The o
. The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world. intocolumns. In this sense it is sometimes called abroadsheet. Broadstairs, England, a watering-place inthe Isle of Thanet, Kent, two miles northeastof Ramsgate. It is said that the name is de-rived from the width of the passage leadingdown to the sea. Pop. (1901) 6,460. Broadsword, a sword wath a broad blade,designed chiefly for cutting, formerly used bysome regiments of cavalry and Highland infan-try in the British service. The orbroadsword was formerly the national weaponof the Highlanders. Broadway, the chief thoroughfare, and theprincipal business street of New York. Start-ing from Bowling Green at the lower extremityof the island, it runs nearly due north to 14thStreet, whence it takes a westerly diagonalcourse to 78th Street, at which pomt it againruns due north to 103d Street. Taking thewesterly trend again to 108th Street, it thenceruns north again, and, following the course ofthe old post road, is continued under the nameof Broadway as far as Albany. Its continuous. LOOKING DOWN LOWER BRO ADWAY, NEW YORK BROADWOOD — BROCHS course is interrupted by two public squares;Union Square at 14th Street, and MadisonSquare at 23d Street. Below Madison Square itis devoted mainly to office buildings and whole-sale establishments. Above Madison Square(where it intersects Fifth Avenue and 23dStreet) are theatres and the chief hotels. Itslength below 59th Street is about five miles, andis traversed by an electric railway. A portionof the subway is excavated under the part ofBroadway which is above 42d Street, and alsothat part below Park Place. Broadwood, John, English pianofortemanufacturer: b. Cockburnspath, Scotland, 1732;d. 1812. Going to London, he entered intopartnership with a Swiss maker of harpsichords,named Burkhardt Tschudi, the firm being knownas Tschudi & Broadwood. In 1769 his partnerretired, a
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