Each of these 14 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.
HATHOR, or HETHER, an Egyptian goddess, identified with Aphrodite or Venus. Her symbol was the cow bearing on its head the solar disk and hawk feather plumes. Her chief temple was at Denderah. From her the third month of the Egyptian year derived its name.
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MOUNT, or HAGION-OROS, or MONTE SANTO, a famous mountain of Turkey in Europe, on a peninsula peninsula projecting into the Ægean Sea, between the Gulfs of Contesa and Monte Santo. It rises abruptly from the water to a height of 6,349 feet above sea level, and in its lower parts is covered with forests of pine, akachestnut, etc., above which towers bare conical peak. Herodotus. states that the fleet of Mardonius, the Persian general, in attempting to double this mountain, was reported to have lost more than 300 ships and 20,000 men. When Xerxes invaded Greece he determined to guard against the recurrence of a similar disaster by cutting a canal across the peninsula; of which great work the traces still remain. In modern times, Athos has been occupied for an extended period by a number of monks of the Greek Church, who live in a sort of fortified monasteries, in number about 20, of different degrees of magnitude and importance. These, with the farms or metochis attached to them, occupy the whole peninsula; hence it has derived its modern name of Monte Santo. These monasteries are situated in positions of strikingly romantic beauty. Some of them belong to Russians, others to Bulgarians and Serbians.
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a lake and mountain of Central America, in Guatemala. The lake is about 24 miles long and 10 broad; the mountain is an active volcano, 12,160 feet high.
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ALBERT HENRY, an American sculptor, born in Milwaukee. He studied art in Boston and in Paris. In 1909 he became a member of the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Sculpture. Among his best known works are the Copenhagen Memorial Fountain at Boston, and the Lapham Memorial at Milwaukee. He also made architectural sculptures for several churches and many protraits and ideal sculptures. He was a member of the American Federation of Arts and other art societies.
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EDWARD, an American political economist, born in Brookline, Mass., Feb. 10, 1827; graduate of Dartmouth College. He has become widely known by his papers and pamphlets on trade competition, banking, railroading, fire prevention, the money question, tariff, etc. Soon after the battle in Manila Bay, he was elected vice-president of the Anti- Imperialist League. Among his publications are "The Distribution of Products" (1885); "Industrial Progress of the Nation" (1889); "The Science of Nutrition" (1892); "Taxation and Work" (1892); "Every Boy His Own Book" (1893); etc. He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 11, 1905.
ELEANOR, an American author, born at Rensselaer, Ind. She was educated at the Indianapolis Normal Training School, for several years taught at Indianapolis and Chicago, and was a special writer on the Chicago press. Her writings include "The Boyhood of Lincoln" (1908); Lincoln's Love Story" (1909); "The Story of Chicago" (1910); "Johnny Appleseed" (1915); "Hearts Undaunted" (1917); etc.
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in architecture, colossal statues of men used instead of pillars to support an entablature. Roman architects called them telamones (Greek). When statues of women support an entablature, they are generally called caryatides.
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. See Cables
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a city and noted seaside resort in Atlantic co., N. J.; on a long, sandy island, known as Absecon Beach; 60 miles S. E. of Philadelphia, with which it is connected by steam and electric railroads. The island stretches along the coast for 10 miles; has an average width of 4 of a mile, and is from 4 to 5 miles from the mainland. At the N. end is the Absecon Light, well known to coastwise sailors. The city has several miles of bathing beach, a magnificent promenade on the ocean front, a very large number of hotels and boarding houses, electric lights, public schools, churches of the principal denominations, several National banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. It is probably the first all-the-year-round resort in the United States, its splendid climate giving it a large popular patronage even in the dead of winter. The transient population varies, but is estimated at from 400,000 to 500,000. Pop. (1910) 46,150; (1920) 50,707.
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a gigantic fossil reptile, order dinosauria, obtained in the upper Jurassic strata of the Rocky Mountains, attaining a length of 80 feet or more.
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in anatomy, is the name of the first vertebra of the neck, which supports the head. It is connected with the occipital bone in such a way as to permit of the nodding movement of the head, and rests on the second vertebra, or axis, their union allowing the head to turn from side to side.
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Was the general name of the great mountain range which covers the surface of north Africa between the Mediterranean and the Great Desert (Sahara) on the north and south, and the Atlantic and the Lesser Syrtis on the west and east.
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In the Rajah Yoga philosophy of S'rimat Sankaracharya, Atmadhyana is one of the stages necessary to acquire the knowledge of the unity of the soul with Brahman. It is the fourteenth stage and is the condition of highest joy arising from the belief, "I am Brahman."
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translated "Soul," but better rendered Self," and meaning in the Hindu religion the union of the soul Aura with God. It is believed that the soul is neither body nor mind, nor even thought, but that these are merely conditions by which the soul is clouded so that it loses its sense of oneness with God. In the Upanishads it is said Self, smaller than small, greater than great, is hidden in the heart of the creature;" and "In the beginning there was Selt." "The
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the pressure exerted by the atmosphere, not merely downward, but in every direction. It amounts to 14.7 pounds of weight on each square inch, which is often called in round numbers 15. On a square foot it is 2,160 pounds, or nearly a ton. It would act upon our bodies with crushing effect were it not that the pressure, operating in all directions, produces an equilibrium. If any gas or liquid press upon a surface with a force of 15 pounds on a square inch, it is generally described as having a atmosphere; if 60 pressure of one pounds, of four atmospheres; if 120 pounds, of eight atmospheres, and so on.
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