Each of these 11 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
county-seat of Custer co., Mont., 114 miles N. E. of Billings, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and Northern Pacific railroads. Center of extensive cattle and farming district, and market for horses. Has manufactures of saddlery, woolen goods. Has fine buildings and park. Pop. (1915) 7,621; (1920) 7,937.
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a town in Worcester co.; Mass.; on the Charles river and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Albany railroads. It has a waterworks system supplied from large wells, National and State banks, public library, Memorial building. are manufactories of shoes, shoe thread, boot and shoe trees, straw goods, shoe cement, cement, foundry products, machinery, bone cutters, rubber goods, etc., and granite quarries. Milford was incorporated April 11, 1780; includes the village of North Milford; and is the trade center for a large farming and manufacturing section. Pop. (1910) 13,055; (1920) 13,471.
a town of New Haven co., Conn., 9 miles S. W. of New Haven, on Long Island Sound, on Wepowaug riv river, New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad. Summer resort resort, with Taylor library, great memorial bridge, soldiers' monument. Manufactures straw hats, silverware, electrical supplies. Pop. (1910) 4,366; (1920) 10,193.
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FIRST MAR- QUESS OF, Admiral Louis Alexander Mountbatten, Personal Aid-de-Camp to the Ki Ki King of England. Born at Gratz, Austria, in May, 1854. Married his cousin, Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria. Became naturalized British subject. Entered the navy in 1868. Rose to Commodore in 1902. Served in the Egyptian War of 1882. Director of Naval Intelligence 1902-1905. Rear-Admiral 1904. Commanded Chief Atlantic Squadron 1908-1910. Second Sea Lord 1911-1912. First Sea Lord 1912-1914. Resigned his German titles at the King's request in 1917, assuming the surname of Mountbatten and created a peer. term principally
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a used in reference to the policy of maintaining great standing armies. The development of militarism in Europe was the basic cause of the World War.
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in Europe, re ligious associations wh whose members united in themselves the double characters of monk and knight. These orders arose about the period of the Crusades, the first to be formed being the HOSPI- TALLERS (q. v.). Their primary duties were to tend sick pilgrims at Jerusalem knighthood. and on their way to the Holy City. The order of the Templars soon followed; their purpose was to protect pilgrims and guard the Temple at Jerusalem. The 3 2 2 30 US M H 6 8 7 M MILITARY INSIGNIA - COLLAR INSIGNIA 4. Field Artillery 1. Right-All Enlisted Men 5. Coast Artillery 2. Cavalry 6. Engineer Corps 3. Infantry orders of Alcantara, of Calatrava, and of Santiago of the Sword, in Spain, had for their immediate object the defense of their country and creed against the Moors. The Teutonic Knights had their ○★★★ ○★☆★ 5 ④ ② ③ MILITARY INSIGNIA - SHOULDER STRAPS Top Row Shoulder Straps of United States Bottom Row - Shoulder Straps of United 4. Brigadier-General 1. General 5. Colonel 6. Lieutenant - Colonel 2. Lieutenant-General 3. Major-General Major (Gold Leaf) origin in the Crusades, but afterward made the S. E. and E. shores of the Baltic the theater of their activity. These religious associations have mostly been abolished or have fallen into disuse, though some still subsist as orders of
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a fever which sometimes arises in females when first milk is secreted after child-birth.
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a harmless snake of a grayish ash color, with three rows of dark spots along the back and sides. It is found in the Northern and Middle United States. MILKY WAY. See GALAXY.
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a common plant with milky juice. We have a large number of milkweeds. The entire family includes over 1,000 species, most of them found in tropical climates. Most observing young people have noticed the fleshy flowers with a hooded crown and curious horns. The stickiness of the milk is due to rubber of which it contains considerable quantities. The bark of some kinds yields a valuable fiber. A mountain tribe of India uses these fibers to make elastic bowstrings. Another tribe makes the ropes and bands used in wells of this material, because it does not rot in water. From the roots of the red milkweed, over which orange-colored butterflies hover, herb doctors drew a valuable remedy for pleurisy. Several tropical milkweeds are cultivated in hothouses on account of their curious flowers. The silky down of the milkweed pod suggests the cotton plant.
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in astronomy, a luminous band of light extending quite around the heavens. It is produced by myriads of stars, each of which is supposed to be a sun like our own. In fact our sun is thought to be one of our stars of the Milky Way. This band of light is known also as the galaxy. In one point in its course, it divides into two great branches which remain apart for nearly one-third of the great circle , then reunite. The average width is several degrees. Various portions differ considerably in brightness. In places the stars are so distant that few of them are above the eighth magnitude. See Stars A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars. --Milton, Paradise Lost .
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The slag produced at the reheating and puddling furnaces. This slag, after several days' roasting, becomes highly refractory, and is known as bulldog, making an excellent substance for the bottoms of puddling-furnaces. These rich slags are sometimes mixed with the ores in the blast-furnace, and the iron thus produced is then denominated cinder-pig; but, owing to the large percentage of phosphorus usually present in pig iron made by this method, it is very inferior in quality. These slags are frequently called tap and forge cinder. See SLAG.
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SIR JOHN EVERETT (mil-lā'), an English painter; born in Southampton, England, June 8, 1829. He gained his first medal for drawing when nine years old; became a student at the Royal Academy; exhibited his first picture "Pizarro seizing the Inca of Peru" (1846); and received the gold medal for a historical painting, "The Tribe of Benjamin seizing the Daughters of Shiloh" (1848). In his earlier days he was a leader of the pre-Raphaelite School, but on attaining maturity in art he abandoned the peculiarities for which that school is noted. As the result of this new departure Millais painted such pictures as "Ferdinand Lured by Ariel," "Mariana in the Moated Grange," "The Huguenot Lovers," "The Black Brunswicker," and "Ophelia," while its influence was also apparent in his landscapes of "Chill October," "The Fringe ge of the Moor," etc. He was chosen president of the Royal Academy in 1896. He died in London, Aug. 13, 1896.
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