Each of these 18 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.
William Taylor (1822-1897), an American editor and author, better known by his pseudonym of Oliver Optic. He was a teacher for many years in Boston. He wrote many stories of travel and adventure for young people. Young American Abroad, Starry Flag Series, Riverdale Series, and Onward and Upward are among them. He founded and edited Oliver Optic's Magazine.
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A monster that figures in the Mabinogi legend of Peredur. Peredur obtains a magic stone which renders him invisible, and he thus succeeds in slaying this monster, which had daily killed the inhabitants of the palace of the King of Tortures.
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contrivances designed to simplify and facilitate the making of arithmetical computations. In recent years they have been greatly improved. They include cash registers, and mulelectric tabulating machines, tiplying and dividing machines. Practically all banks and most large business concerns are now supplied with some form of these labor-saving devices.
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the chief city and capital of Abyssinia, in the province of Shoa. It is situated in an elevated country nearly 10,000 feet high. The town is practically without streets and is intersected by deep ravines. It contains the royal palace, which is a pretentious but flimsy structure, and is the seat of several schools. The permanent population is about 50,000. The treaty between Italy and Abyssinia was signed in this city on Oct. 26, 1896. By its terms Italy resigned her claims to a protectorate over the country.
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the name of a peculiar skin disease, first described by Dr. Thomas Addison , an English physician. Its symptoms are anæmia, excessive debility, loss of appetite , faintness, flabbiness of the muscles, and a dingy brownish discoloration of the skin. The patient generally suffers from dyspepsia, vomiting, and nervous troubles. disease has sometimes been ated by careful nursing, but no cure for it has been found, and in the end it is invariably fatal.
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GEORGE, an American journalist and author, born in Indiana in 1866 . He has published " Arte: a Story of the Streets and Town"; "Pink Marsh" (1897), a dialect story, etc. Later he established a reputation as a satirical humorist by his " Fables in Slang" and wrote many successful plays and musical comedies, such as "The Sho-Gun," "Slim Princess" and "Sultan of Sulu," etc. He was made a trustee of Purdue University and a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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George (1866-), an American journalist and author. His witty Fables in Slang is the best known of his writings. He is also the author of Artie, of a comic opera, The Sultan of Sulu, and of several successful comedies, among them, Peggy from Paris, The College Widow, and The Fair Co-ed.
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an institution of higher learning in Brooklyn, N. Y., formerly known as the Adelphi Academy. Since 1912 both men and women have been admitted for the degree of A. B. There were, in the year 1919-1920, 502 students and 31 teachers. The The president is F. D. Blodgett.
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a town in the province of Carniola, Austria; 24 miles S. W. of Laibach. The grotto of Adelsberg, over 5 miles long, is famous for its stalactites, stalagmites, and subterranean streams. Pop. about 4,500.
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The distance or space between the pitch line of a gear and the circle touching the ends of the teeth.
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inflammation of the lymphatic glands. It almost always exists with angeioleucitis-inflammation of the lymphatic vessels. It is produced when an open wound of any kind comes in contact with irritating or poisonous matter, generally from without, though sometimes also generated within itself.
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a growth of spongy tissue in the region of the pharynx, lying above and back of the soft palate. The growth wth begins at the age of three months and during the first three years is of a soft, spongy nature. It becomes harder and more fibrous as age increases. The growth becomes detrimental to health when it is unusual in size. It is now a very general custom to remove it as early as possible. The presence of overgrown adenoids affects the child mentally and physically and their removal in most cases causes immediate improvement.
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a range of mountains in the district of Glatz, valley of the Riesengebirge, Silesia, remarkable as being divided, for several miles, into detached perpendicular columns by fissures from 600 to 1,200 feet in depth. considerable
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Son of Micipsa and grandson of Mesinissa, was besieged in Citra, and put to death by Jugurtha , after vainly imploring the aid of Rome, B. C. IT2.
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a river of north Italy, which has its source in the Alps of Tyrol, above Brixen, where it is called Etsch; it enters Italy by Bolzano and the valley of Trento, parallel to and for the most part about most frequented recreation grounds of the 6 miles from, the lake of Garda, then, turning abruptly toward the E., passes through Verona and Legnano; it afterward enters the great Delta, between the Brenta and the Po, and, forming several branches, empties es its waters into the Adriatic Sea. It is a deep and rapid stream, dividing, by its course, the old Venetian territories from Lombardy The valley of the Adige saw proper. much fighting during the Napoleonic wars and again during the World War. ADIPIC ACID (formula: C6H10O4 (CH₃)" (COOH)2), an organic diatomic of fats by nitric acid.
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a chemical substance in its character somewhat resembling wax or spermaceti. It arises through the chemistry of nature, when the bodies of men and animals, buried in soil of a certain kind, are subjected to the action of running water, or otherwise brought in contact with moisture.
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a membrane in a state of great te tenuity, fashioned into minute cells, in which fat is deposited. It occurs in man, and in the inferior animals, both when mature and when of imperfect development.
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the highest range in New York State, stretching from near Canada, on the N., to near the Mohawk river on the S., a distance of 120 miles; and from Lakes George and Champlain, on the E., to an indefinite line on the W., covering an area of about 12,000 square miles, and occupying parts of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and Hamilton counties. These mountains, the geological formation of which is chiefly granite, run in five parallel ranges; the highest range, or Adirondack proper, is on the E. side of the district, and the peaks rise to a great height. Mt. Marcy is 5,345 feet; Gray peak, 4,900 feet; White Face, 4,870 feet, etc. This whole district, sometimes called the Adirondack Wilderness, is covered with dense forests, except the tallest peak, and some of these forests are still unexplored. The 1,000 lakes in the valleys beautifully diversify the scenery. These lakes and streams are well stocked with trout and bass, and in this district are found black bears, wild cats, deer, otter, hawks, wild duck, eagles, rabbits, partridges, ete.; but no venomous serpents of any sort. There are extensive deposits of iron ore, chiefly magnetite. Forest products supply the most important in- Paper-pulp mills use more of Paper dustries. the lumber than sawmills. The region flows in a southern direction by Roveredo, has become one of the best known and northeastern United States.
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