Each of these 11 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.
or ABUSHEHR ("father of cities," also variously written Bushahr; in Persian, Bendershehr), a port of Persia, on a sandy peninsula on the E. shore of the Persian Gulf, in the province of Fars. The climate is most unwholesome. It is the land terminus of the Indo-European telegraph line. It has lost much of its former importance as a trade center, its harbor being neither deep nor safe. Pop. about 2,000.
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HORACE, an American clergyman, born near Litchfield, Conn., in 1802. He was pastor of a Congregational Church in Hartford until 1859. His numerous works on religion, theology, and morals, and other topics, include "Christian Nurture," "God in Christ," "Christ in Theology," "The Vicarious Sacrifice," "Nature and the Supernatural," "Forgiveness and Law," "Moral Tendencies and Results of Human History," "The Character of Jesus, Tesus," "Work and Play," "Christ and His Salvaation," "Politics the Law of God," etc. He died in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 17, 1876.
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a term applied during the Civil War to loose, irregular characters, particularly of the southwest. When at home they professed to be neutrals, sympathizing with neither army. As a matter of practice, they hid away in ambush and shot passing soldiers, or, like ordinary bandits, held up travelers for their valuables. It is difficult to draw the line between a bushwhacker, a guerilla, and a highwayman.
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. See Abstract; Contract; Corporation ; Insurance ; Legal Tender ; Mortgage ; Real Estate ; Trust ; Bank ; Copyright ; Act Of God
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a town of ancient Egypt, in the Delta, the chief place where the rites of Osiris were celebrated. The name is also given as that of a mythical Egyptian King.
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FERRUCCIO BENVENUTO, an Italian pianist and composer, born near Florence, in 1866. He received his chief musical education from his father and mother, who were both talented musicians. He won prizes for composition and piano playing and was appointed professor at the Conservatory of Moscow. From 1891 to 1893 he taught at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He removed in 1894 to Berlin, and in the year following made extensive concert tours through Europe and the United States. He was considered to be one of the masters of the piano. In 1913 he was appointed director of the Conservatory of Bologna. His musical compositions have great merit.
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in sculpture, the representation of that portion of the human figure which comprises the head and the upper part of the body. During the literary par period of Greece the portrait busts of the learned formed an important branch of art, and in this way we come to possess faithful likenesses of Socrates, Plato, Demosthenes, etc., in which the artists show great power of expressing the character of those represented. The number of busts belonging to the time of the Roman Empire is very considerable, but those of the Roman poets and men of letters have not been preserved in nearly so large numbers as those of the Greeks. The first bust that can be depended upon as giving a correct likeness is that of Scipio Africanus the Elder.
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ANASTASIO, a Mexican statesman and revolutionist, born in Jiquilpan, Michoacan, July 27, 1780. In 1808 he joined the Spanish army, and, for a time, fought against the party of the revolutionists, but in 1821 he acted with Iturbide. He was made Vice-President and commander of the army, in the administration of Guerrero, 1829. He afterward revolted and led the Centralist party, and in 1830 became acting President of Mexico. In 1832 Santa Anna opposed him at the head of an army, and he was conquered and banished (1833). When the Centralist party returned to power he was recalled, and in 1837 was elected President of Mexico. In 1842 he was obliged to retire from the Presidency, and was succeeded by Santa Anna. He served in the Mexican army in the war with the United States, retiring from military service in 1848. He died in San Miguel de Allende, Feb. 6, 1853.
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an island of Scotland in the estuary of the Clyde, with an area of 60 square miles, belonging principally to the Marquis of Bute. It is about 15 miles long, and the average breadth is 3½ miles. In Kames Hill it rises to the height of 875 feet; it has several pretty lakes, the principal of which is Loch Fad, 24 miles long. Agriculture is in an advanced state, and there are about 20,000 acres under cultivation. The herring fishery is also a source of considerprofit. The only town is Rothesay, whose ancient castle is one of the interesting antiquities of the island. The climate of Bute is milder than that of almost any part of Scotland. The county of Bute comprises the islands of Bute, Arran, Great Cumbrae, Little Cumbrae, Inchmarnock, and Pladda, with a total area of 139,658 acres, but only a small part is under cultivation. Arran is about double the size of Bute, but the other islands belonging to the county are small. Pop. about 18,000.
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a coeducational institution, in Indianapolis, Ind.; organized in 1855; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 24; students, 756; volumes in the library, 15,000; president, T. C. Howe, Ph. D.
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Samuel (1612-1680), an English poet. He was educated in the classic learning of the day and held various petty official positions, none of which extricated him from genteel poverty. He is known chiefly as the author of Hudibras, a mock heroic poem ridiculing the Puritans. Hudibras is a sort of Don Quixote in verse. The poem was intended to please the gay and dissolute court of Charles II. Quoting Chambers, "It received all the favor Charles could spare from his spaniels and his mistresses, and he deigned even to garnish his royal conversation with its wit. The courtiers took up the fashion; the coffeehouses and taverns followed suit, and finally the mob went into raptures in imitation of its betters. The best things have become proverbs. His mass of wit has been grated down into common speech, and particles of it may be found any day glittering in the talk of English plowmen and artisans." A few of these proverbial expressions are: Divide a hair. For every why he had a wherefore. I smell a rat. To look a gift horse in the mouth. Devil take the hindmost. Make the fur fly. Made his mouth to water. Spick and span new. Spare the rod and spoil the child. Work before you rest. Count their chickens ere they're hatched. As ye sow, ye are like to reap. True as the dial to the sun. The devil take the hindmost. Look before you leap. Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
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