Jordan
Jordan names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
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Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the princiwhich nding"), the principal river of Palestine, the bed of from N. e, the bed of which forms a great valley stretching . stretching from N. to S., in the E. part of the country It of three of the country. It is formed by the junction junction of three source of the Jorstreams. The highest source of the Jorthe dan is the Hasbany, which rises near hich rises near the Druse town of Ha ya, on the W. side Hasbeiya, on the W. side of Mount Hermon. There is another moun- There is another spring on the S. side of the same of the same nountain at Bânias (Paneas or Cæsarea Philippi), and the Leddan at Dan. The course of a idan at Dan. The Jordan flows S., and after a after a course of a little over 100 miles, having passed (The e, having passed through the small Huleh Lake Huleh Lake (The Waters of Merom) and the Lake of and the Lake of Tiberius (Sea of Galilee), 682 feet below lee), 682 feet below the Mediterranean, it falls into the N. exfalls into the N. extremity of the DEAD SEA (q. v.), 1,292 . Besides SBA (9.0.), 1,292 feet below the Mediterranean streams erranean. Besides smaller affluents, it receives four , and Wady Kelt from ceives four streams, the Wady Far'ah ad Wady Kelt from the W., the Hieromax and Jabbok from feet above x and Jabbok from the E. The source is 1,700 is 1,700 feet above making a total fall when it reaches the Dead Sea of 3,000 Dead Sea of 3,000 system of waterworks; 2 feet. The Upper Jordan was first explored by John McGregor in his Rob Roy rdan was first exand daily, weekly, and monthly igor in his Rob Roy STARR, na Amer-
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
the chief river of Palestine. It rises on the slopes of Mount Hermon and flows southward into the Dead Sea . Its length is about half that of the Thames. The lower part of its course is below the level of the sea. Its total descent is 2,300 feet. The Lake of Galilee is simply a widening in the upper course. The river is subject to floods in the winter season, but in the dry season it is not above three feet deep at its mouth. It is crossed by several fords and ferries. The Jordan is celebrated in sacred history. See Galilee ; Dead Sea
Jordan DAVID STARR, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DAVID STARR, an American educator; born in Gainesville, N. Y., Gainesville, N. Y., died at Cornell and Jan. 19, 1851. He studied at Cornell and Harvard. After holding important proof important professorships, he served as president 1885 to resident of the University of Indiana from made comm 1885 to 1891. In the latter year he was Uniwas made president of Leland Stanford Jr. Jr. University. He served in this capacity until 1913-1916, oscity until 1913, and as chancellor from 1918-1916, when he became chancellor emeritus. ( Care and emeritus. ( He wrote "Science Sketches," " "Cara and Culture of Men," "Footnotes to Evoluotes to Evolution," etc., and served on a number of on a number of important government commissions, since Foundamissions, since 1909 Director of World Peace Peace Foundation, author of 400 scientific monographs, , zonographs, "The Way of Lasting Peace" (1916), etc. of Science ce" (1916), etc., president California Academy , U. S. Fish- Academy of Science, 1896 and 1909, chairman rman U. S. Fish- 01-1904) and Alaseries Commission (1901-1904) and Alas- .) ka Salmon Investigation (1903-1904 tion (1903-1904)
Jordan ELIZABETH, an American editor and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIZABETH, an American editor and writer, born in Milwaukee, in 1867. She graduated from the Convent of Notre Dame, Milwaukee, and was for ten years following on the editorial staff of the New York "World." She was editor of "Harper's Bazar" from 1900 to 1913, and from the latter year, was literary adviser to Harper and Brothers. She was a member of many women's organizations and was a prominent worker for woman suffrage. Her published writings include "Tales of the City Room" (1898); "Many Kingdoms" (1908); "Wings of Youth" (1917). She also wrote many plays. She contributed many short stories to American and English magazines.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's put the Dead Sea 1,292 feet below the Mediterranean in 1921; upstream diversion has since dropped it to roughly 1,400 feet below sea level, falling about a metre a year, and the lower Jordan that Aiton's called "the chief river of Palestine" now carries only a small fraction of its historic flow after Israel's National Water Carrier (1964), Jordan's King Abdullah Canal and Syrian dams on the Yarmuk (the accounts' "Hieromax") took most of the water. The river is now an international boundary rather than a feature of a single country: the emirate of Transjordan was created in the year Collier's went to press, became the independent Kingdom of Jordan in 1946, and the Jordan today divides it from Israel and the occupied West Bank. Of the two Americans, David Starr Jordan died in 1931, and Stanford stripped his name from its buildings in 2020 because of his advocacy of eugenics, a side of him the entry does not mention. Elizabeth Jordan, described as "a prominent worker for woman suffrage," had in fact won that fight the year before Collier's appeared, with the Nineteenth Amendment of 1920; she died in 1947.
Written for this edition, 2026.