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.
in mineralogy, a term employed to include a great number of crystallized, earthy, and some metallic substances, which easily break into rhomboidal, cubical, or laminated fragments with polished surfaces, but without regard to the ingredients of which they are composed. Among miners the term spar is frequently used alone to express any bright crystalline substance.
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JOHN, an American author, born at Stithians, Cornwall, England, in 1876. He was educated in the public schools and then took extension courses at Oxford and Cambridge. Early in his JOHN SPARGO life he bcame interested in socialism and was one of the comparatively few Englishmen who publicly opposed the Boer War. He came to the United States in 1901 and from then on was active as a socialistic worker, lecturer and writer.
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Jared (1789-1866), an American clergyman, educator, and historian. He was a native of Cambridge and was graduated at Harvard in 1815. From 1819 to 1823 he was the pastor of the Unitarian Church of Baltimore. From 1839 to 1849 he was professor of history at Harvard, and was its president from 1849 to 1853. Before his residence at Baltimore and again after his return to Boston, he was the general editor and part owner of the North American Review. He traveled extensively. As a historian, he was one of the earliest to apply himself to original sources. He is known chiefly as the editor of the Correspondence of George Washington, with a Life of the Author, The Works of Benjamin Franklin, The Library of American Biography, etc. The latter included lives of Arnold, Allen, Marquette, and La Salle. Modern historians have found much fault with Sparks' custom of omitting, or even slightly modifying, portions of his material for fear of injuring the mind or morals of the young reader. His works are readable, but have been superseded. His collection of books is owned by Cornell University .
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in ornithology, Passer domesticus, the house sparrow, a well known bird, the constant follower of civilized man. It ranges over Europe, into the N. of Africa and Asia, and has been introduced into America and Australia. Sparrows are found in crowded cities and in manufacturing towns. Mantle of male brown striped with black; head bluish-gray; two narrow bands, one white and the other rusty-yellow, on wings; cheeks grayish-white, front of
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in ornithology, the Accipiter nisus, extending across Europe, through Asia to Japan. The adult male is about 12 inches long, dark-brown on the upper surface, softening into gray as the bird grows old; the entire under surface is rusty-brown, with bands of a darker shade. The female is about 15 inches long, the upper surface nearly re sembling that of the male bird in ground-color, but having many of the feathers white at the base; under surface grayish-white, with dark transverse bars. The sparrow hawk is very destructive to small quadrupeds and young birds. The hen lays four or five eggs irregularly blotched with brownish-crimson on a bluish-white ground. The name is also applied to the American falcon, the Australian collared sparrow hawk, the European kestrel, and the New Zealand quail hawk.
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a city and countythe seat of Spartanburg co., S. C.; on Glenn Springs, the Carolina, Clinchfield , the and Ohio and South Carolina Charleston and Western Carolina, and the Southern railroads; 98 miles N. of Columbia. Here are Wofford College (M. E., S.), Converse College for Women, Converse College, State Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, Kennedy elec- Public Library, street railroad and tric light plants, National and State banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has cotton mills, ironworks, lumber mills, limestone quarries, and iron States entered mines. When the United 16 the World War in 1917 one of the divisional cantonments, Camp Wadsworth, for the training of National the Guard troops, was established near York State town. Most of the New troops were trained there. Pop: (1910) 17,517; (1920) 22,638.
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CAPE, a promontory at
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a disease of horses which occurs under two different forms, both interfering with soundness. In young, weakly, or overworked subjects the hocksometimes distended with darkeleccolored thickened synovia or joint oil. second variety This is bog spavin. The of spavin is the more common. Toward the inside of the hock, at the head of some of the the shank bones, or between small bones of the hock, a bony enlargement may be seen and felt. This is bone spavin. At first there is tenderness, lameheat, swelling, and considerable in the ness; but as the inflammation bone and its investing membrane abates may entirely disappear, or the lameness a slight stiffness may remain.
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an instrument with a spreading, somewhat funnel-shaped lip, used by a fire chief, or an officer at sea, in order that his commands may be heard above the tumult. When the speaker places the small end at his lips and shouts an order, the trumpet prevents the waves of sound from spreading, and directs them in a sort of sheaf to the spot toward which the trumpet is pointed. In this way the whole force of the speaker's voice, though scarce heard elsewhere, is concentrated in one line of sound. Acting on the same principle the speaking tube used in houses and in offices, especially in communicating from one floor to another, is exceedingly serviceable in its place; but a tube of uniform diameter cannot be made to carry sound to a point distant from its extremity. See Sound
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FRANK HAMILTON, an American author, born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1859. He was educated in public and private schools and at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis. He wrote, besides many short stories in magazines 8 4 5 6 7 7-West African 5-Japanese 6-German, 15th Century 8-Philippine and numerous economic articles in reviews: "The Nerve of Foley" (1900); "Held for Orders" (1901); "Doctor Bryson" (1902); "The Daughter of a Magnate" (1902); "The Close of the Day" (1904); "Whispering Smith" (1906); "Robert Kimberly" (1911); "The Mountain Divide" (1912); "Merrilie Dawes" (1913); "Nan of Music Mountain" (1917).
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or SPIREMINT, in botany, a mint, Mentha viridis, with obserrate long, lanceolate, sub-acute, leaves, and slender spikes of flowers. Found in watery places. It is used in cookery as a sauce, and yields an aromatic and carminative oil, oil of spearmint.
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