More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different accounts can sit side by side.
Coney Island
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a small island in the Borough of Brooklyn, about 10 miles S. E. of New York City. It is about 5 miles in length and from half to threeth; separated quarters of a mile in width from the mainland by Coney Island creek. It is connected with New York and Brooklyn by steam and electric railroads and steamboat lines. It is a noted day summer resort, and has numerous bathing houses, hotels, concert and other amusement halls, carousels, pavilions, electric lights, and a fine cycle path connecting it with Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Brighton and Manhattan have extensive hotels, and are the preferred resorts for the wealthier class. Coney Island was one of the first landing places of the Dutch, and for over 200 years was considered a worthless waste. In 1840 steamboats began making excursions there, and for 25 years it was a popular resort. In 1875 steam railroads were built, and since then the island has been the most popular resort in the immediate neighborhood of New York City. In 1903 and again in 1911 public parks were opened by the city.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a popular pleasure resort situated at the southwestern angle of Long Island . Suburban railways and lines of boats give ready access. Hordes of pleasure seekers from New York , Brooklyn, and Jersey City frequent the resort during the summer season. Henry Hudson is reputed to have landed here in 1609.
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Connor
Collier's New Encyclopedia: RALPH (REV. CHARLES W. GORDON), a Canadian author, born at Glengarry, Ont., 1860. He was educated at the high school, St. Mary's, Ont., Toronto University, and King's College, Toronto. He was missionary to miners and lumbermen in the Rocky Mountains, 1890-1903; and representative of Canadian Western Missions for the Presbyterian Church in Great Britain, 1893-1894. He took an active part in social service work, and during the World War was chaplain with the Canadian forces at the front. His works include: "Beyond the Marshes," "Black Rock," "The Sky Pilot," "Ould M Michael," "The Man from Glengarry," "Glengarry School Days," "Breaking the Record," "The Prospector, " " The Pilot of Swan Creek, " " Gwen: The Doctor of Crow's Nest, " Life of Dr. James Robertson, " " The Foreigner," "The Angel and the Star," "The Dawn by Galilee," "The Recall of Love," "Corporal Cameron." etc.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: ralph. See Gordon ; Charles William
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Convolvulus
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a genus of plants, the typical one of the order Convolvulaceæ and the tribe Convolvuleæ. The flowers are small and of a pale rose color. It is common in fields and hedges, especially when the soil is light. C. Soldanella, the Sea-side Convolvulus or Bindweed, has reniform fleshy lines, and large rose-colored flowers. It has been sometimes placed in the genus Calystegia. C. dissectus abounds in prussic acid, and is one of the plants used in the preparation of the liquor called noyau.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Morning Glory
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Coot
Aiton's Encyclopedia: an aquatic bird with the habits of a duck. It is popularly called a mudhen. The American coot is fifteen inches in length. It has bluish, slate-colored plumage, a black neck and head, and an ivory-white bill. In place of being webbed, the toes are fringed with greenish, curiously scalloped flaps. The coot does not take to wing freely, but patters along for a hundred feet or so, striking the surface of the water with the feet. It is a skillful diver, and, being worthless for food, it is bolder than the wild duck. The female lays from eight to fifteen buffy white eggs in a nest built of grasses in the reeds of a freshwater marsh. The range of the coot extends from Alaska and Greenland to the West Indies . The bird referred to in the lines from Tennyson's Brook, "I come from haunts of coot," etc., is the European cousin of this bird. See Grebe
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a wading bird belonging to the family Rallidæ, and the sub-family Gallinulinæ (water hens). The head and neck are deep black, the upper parts slaty black, those beneath bluish ash, the bill and frontal plate white, the former with a slightly roseate hue, iris crimson, feet ash-colored with greenish tinge below the knee, above it yellow or greenish red. It is found in Great Britain, Holland, France, Germany, Switzerland, and throughout Europe. It deposits from seven to ten eggs of a brownish white color, spotted with dark brown.
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Copal
Aiton's Encyclopedia: ko'pal, a hard, clear, amber-like resin derived from various tropical trees. It is found also in the ground in a semi-fossil state, deposited, no doubt, by decaying timber. The best quality is obtained from pod-bearing trees on the east coast of Africa, Zanzibar, and Mozambique. Dissolved in hot linseed oil or in spirits of turpentine, it makes a clear, transparent varnish of great beauty and durability. See Amber ; Shellac
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a resin produced by a plant, Rhus copallinum, which grows in Mexico. It is obtained in rounded, nearly transparent, masses; is brittle and colorless, or slightly atly yellow. It is slightly soluble in alcohol and essentials oils, and is made into varnish by mixing in a melted state with oils.
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Cope
Collier's New Encyclopedia: CHARLES WEST, an English painter; born in 1811; studied at the Royal Academy and in Italy; and first exhibited at the Academy in 1831. In 1843 he gained a prize of $1,500 for his picture "The First Trial by Jury"; in 1844, by his fresco the "Meeting of Jacob and Rachael," secured the commission for one of six frescoes for the House of Lords, producing accordingly "Edward the Black Prince receiving the Order of the Garter." Altogether he executed eight frescoes for the House of Lords. Some of his noted works are: "Last Days of Cardinal Wolsey," "Prince Henry before Justice Gascoigne," "Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers," "Burial of Charles I.," "Parting of Lord William and Lady Russell," "L'Allegro and Il Penseroso," "Milton's Dream," "Ann Page and Slender," "Lear and Cordelia." He became an A. R. A. in 1844 and R. A. in 1848, but retired in 1883. He died in Bournemonco, Aug. 21, 1890.
The Encyclopedia of Founding: (1) The top part of a set of flasks (see FLASKS). (2) The brick structure in which the outer surface of a loam-mould is formed. Usually a cope is built to a uniform thickness of one brick lengthwise, and, if necessary, are further strengthened with binding-plates set therein at intervals. See BINDING-PLATE; COPE-RING; LOAM-MOULDING.
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