Feisal
Feisal names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Feisal EMIR, first king of Irak (Mesopotamia)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EMIR, first king of Irak (Mesopotamia), was born in Hedjaz in 1885, being the third son of Emir Hussein. He was educated at Constantinople and was afterward elected to the Turkish Chamber of Deputies, where he became the leader of the Arab nationalist party. Perceiving that Turkey was about to enter the World War on the side of Germany in 1914, he escaped to Mecca and was instrumental in persuading his father to declare the independence of Hedjaz, and as a consequence to take sides with the Allies. In the war he raised an Arab army and acted in conjunction with General Allenby, whose right wing he commanded in the final advance on Jerusalem and Damascus. In March, 1920, an Arab congress at Damascus declared Syria independent and chose Feisal for king, but troubles soon arose with France, which in April, 1920, was named mandatory over Syria, and Feisal was forced to resign the throne. In establishing a new Arab state in Mesopotamia, England invited him to stand, with her permission, as a candidate for the throne of that country, and he was elected by the native assembly and was crowned king August 23, 1921. LAW, a law For the first time the rural population by the William Propounded the effect of the earth's rotation on winds and moving bodies in the northern and southern hemispheres. North of the equator such moving bodies are deflected to the right. In the southern hemisphere they are deflected to the left. FIVE-POWER TREATIES. (See 42,166,120 WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.) 54.2 FLETCHER, HENRY PRATHER, American diplomat and public official, was born at Green Castle, Pa., April 10, 1873. He was educated at Chambersburg Academy and under private tutors, studying law for four years under the Hon. D. Watson Rowe. He served as a private in the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and was afterward a lieutenant in the Philippine service, 1899-1901. He entered the diplomatic service in 1902 as second secretary to the American legation in Cuba, subsequently serving in China and Portugal. In 1909 he was appointed minister to Chile and in 1916 became ambassador to Mexico. In 1921 he was made Assistant Secretary of State under President Harding and on Jan. 3, 1922, was appointed American ambassador to Belgium.
Feisal EMIR being found in farms of over 1,000 acres
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EMIR being found in farms of over 1,000 acres, while farms of under 20 acres showed a decrease of 5.1 per cent. Farm owners decreased from 3,948,722 to 3,925,090, while tenants increased from 2,354,676 to 2,454,804, and managers increased almost 18 per cent. Native-born white farmers increased in the decade from 75 to 76.3 per cent of the total number, while foreign-born white farmers decreased from 10.5 per cent to 9 per cent. In regard to the conveniences of life, 38.7 per cent of the farms of the country reported telephones in 1920; 10 per cent were equipped with water-pipe systems, and 7 per cent were provided with gas or electric lights. Motor-vehicle returns showed that almost two million farms, or 30 per cent of the entire number, had automobiles, and 2 per cent had motor trucks. The rural population of the country showed an increase of only 3.2 per cent between 1910 and 1920, in comparison with 28.8 per cent increase in the urban population for the same period. was less than the urban. Following are the figures of population, farms, and farm property in the United States: 1920 1910 Population, 105,710,620 91,972,266 total. 51,406,017 49,806,146 Rural..... 54,304,603 Urban.. Percent 48.6 rural... Number of 6,448,343 6,361,502 farms....... 955,883,715 878,798,325 Land in farms.. Average acres 138.1 148.2 per farm.... Value of farm property..... $77,924,100,338 $40,991,449,090 Average value $6,444 $12,084 per farm.... The value of farm products as recorded in the census of 1920 was almost $15,000,000,000, an increase of 182 per cent over the value in 1909; but this was due mostly to the prevalence of extraordinary prices in 1919. The quantities of all the more important crops showed an average increase of only 8.6 per cent. The important farm crops of 1921 were estimated by the Department of Agriculture, Dec. 28, 1921, at a value of $5,675,- 877,000, or almost three and a half billion dollars less than the crops of 1920. The total value of crops in 1909 amounted to almost this figure, $5,231,850,683.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught Feisal at the very moment of his coronation on 23 August 1921, and could say nothing of what followed. He reigned until his sudden death in Bern on 8 September 1933, having seen the British mandate ended and Iraq admitted to the League of Nations as a nominally independent state in 1932. The Hashemite dynasty he founded lasted only two more reigns: his grandson Faisal II was shot with most of the royal family in the coup of 14 July 1958, and Iraq has been a republic ever since. His brother Abdullah's line, by contrast, still rules in Jordan.
Written for this edition, 2026.