Black River
the name of several rivers in the United States: (1) An affluent of the Arkansas river, in Arkansas, 400 miles long. It is navigable to Poplar Bluff, 311 miles; (2) a river in New York, rising in the Adirondacks, and emptying into Lake Ontario near Watertown, length, 200 miles; (3) a river in Wisconsin, flowing S. W., and emptying into the Mississippi river near Lacrosse; length, 200 miles; (4) a river rising in the S. E. of Missouri, flowing nearly S., and entering the White river, of which it is the chief tributary, at Jacksonport, Ark.; length, 350 miles, of which 100 miles are navigable.
BLACK SEA (ancient Pontus Euxinus), a sea situated between Europe and Asia, and mainly bounded by the Russian and Turkish dominions, being connected with the Mediterranean by the Bosporus, Sea of Marmora, and Dardanelles, and by the Strait of Kertsch with the Sea of Azov, which is, in fact, only a bay of the Black Sea; area of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov about 175,000 square and Ewing Galloway STEEL MILL NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Enc. Vol. 2-p. 52 ORBIT OF MARS ORBIT ORBIT OF OF THE VENUS EARTH ORBIT OF VENUS ORBIT OF MERCURY THE SUN SIZE OF THE STAR BETELGEUSE COMPARED WITH ORBITS OF OUR PLANETS ITS DIAMETER IS 260.000.000 MILES THE STAR BETELGEUSE COMPARED IN SIZE WITH OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM. IN THE DRAWING THE SIZES OF SUN AND PLANETS IN PROPORTION TO BETELGEUSE ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED, BUT THE APPROXIMATE PROPOR- TIONS OF PLANETARY ORBITS ARE REPRESENTED. BETELGEUSE WOULD FILL THE SOLAR SYSTEM ALMOST TO MARS LOCATION OF BETELGEUSE, IN ORION Photo by J. H. Hare STATUE OF THE "LIBERATOR" SIMON BOLIVAR Publishers' Photo Service A STREET IN THE NATIVE SECTION OF BOMBAY, INDIA રાભજી ભગવાન... ઝવેરીઓ. ઝ.મે રી ઓ.
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Press Illustrating Service TYPES OF GERMAN BOMBS AND GRENADES TAKEN IN THE WORLD WAR Photo by Royal Air Force A DIRECT HIT OF AN AVIATOR'S BOMB ON AN AMMUNITION TRAIN NEAR BRAY, FRANCE Ewing Galloway A VIEW OF TREMONT STREET, BOSTON COMMON, AND THE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MASS. BLACK SHEEP BLACK WARRIOR miles: many large rivers fall into it made King's Counsel and Solicitorthe Danube, Dniester, Dnieper, Don, etc. In the winter it is scarcely navigable.
During January and February the shores from Odessa to the Crimea are ice bound.
The most important ports are those of Odessa, Kherson, Eupatoria, Sebastopol, Batum, Trebizond, Samsun, Sinope, and Varna. The fisheries are of some value.
After the capture of Constantinople the Turks excluded all but their own ships from the Black Sea until 1774, when, by the Treaty of Kainarji, they ceded to Russia the right also to trade in it. The same right was accorded to Austria in 1784, and by the Peace of Amiens to Great Britain and France in 1802. The preponderance thereafter gained by Russia was one of the causes of the Crimean War, in which she was compelled to cede her right to keep armed vessels in it, the sea being declared neutral by the Treaty of Paris, 1856.
In 1871, however, when France could not attend, owing to the Franco-Prussian War, the sea was deneutralized by a conference of the European Powers at London in response to the Russian protest. For m military and naval operations in 1914-1918 See WORLD WAR.