capital of the earth, and he was to be king over it. ... Then he had another revelation that every man was to have as many wives as he liked, and he gave himself sixteen wives. This was too outrageous for some to endure, and a plot was formed against him by a blacksmith and about 200 of the more respectable citizens, but it was frustrated and led to the seizure of the conspirators and the execution of a number of them. ... At last, on midsummer eve, 1536, after a siege of sixteen months, the city was taken. Several of the citizens, unable longer to endure the tyranny, cruelty and abominations committed by the king, helped the soldiers of the prince-bishop to climb the walls, open the gates, and surprise the city. A desperate hand-to-hand fight ensued; the streets ran with blood. John Bockelson, instead of leading his people, hid himself, but was caught. So was Knipperdolling. When the place was in his hands the prince-bishop entered. John of Leyden and Knipperdolling were cruelly tortured, their flesh plucked off with red-hot pincers, and then a dagger was thrust into their hearts. Finally, their bodies were hung in iron cages to the tower of a church in Münster. Thus ended this hideous drama, which produced an indescribable effect throughout Germany. Münster, after this, in spite of the desire of the prince-bishop to establish Lutheranism, reverted to Catholicism, and remains Catholic to this day." _S. Baring-Gould, The Story of Germany, chapter 36._ ALSO IN the same, _Historic Oddities and Strange Events, 2d Series._ _L. von Ranke, History of the Reformation in Germany, book 6, chapter 9 (volume 3)_. _C. Beard, The Reformation (Hibbert Lectures., 1883), lecture 6._ ANAHUAC. "The word Anahuac signifies 'near the water.' It was, probably, first applied to the country around the lakes in the Mexican Valley, and gradually extended to the remoter regions occupied by the Aztecs, and the other semi-civilized races. Or, possibly, the name may have been intended, as Veytia suggests (Historical Antiquities, lib. 1, cap. 1), to denote the land between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific." _W. B. Prescott, Conquest of Mexico, book 1, chapter 1, note 11._ See MEXICO: A. D. 1325-1502. ANAKIM, The. See HORITES, and AMORITES. ANAKTORIUM. See KORKYRA. ANAPA: A. D. 1828. Siege and Capture. Cession to Russia. See TURKS: A. D. 1826-1829. ANARCHISTS.