Each of these 20 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 BABU, a Hindu title of respect equivalent to sir or master, usually given to wealthy and educated native gentlemen, especially of the mercantile class. In its modern use it is applied chiefly to native clerks able to write English.
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ROGER WARD, an American statistician, born in Gloucester, Mass., in 1875. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1898, he established a statistical organization at Wellesley Hills, Mass., with branch offices in many cities of the United States and in London, for furnishing statistical information. He was a well-known lecturer on statistics and economics, and acted in the special capacity of statistical adviser to the Government during the World War. He wrote much on money and investment and was the publisher of "Moody's Manual of Railroad and Corporation Securities."
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or MADJICOSIMA ISLANDS a number of islands lying about 30 miles N. of Luzon, and generally considered the most northern of the Philippines. They are subject to the Loo-Choo Islands; aggregate pop. about 13,000.
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Babylon One of the oldest cities of the ancient world, built on both banks of the river Euphrates. Bituriges A numerous and powerful Celtic people in Gallia Aquitania, who had in early times the supremacy over the other Celts in Gaul. Boii One of the most powerful of the Celtic people, said to have dwelt originally in Gaul (Transalpina). Briareus A famous giant, son of Coelus and Terra. He had a hundred hands and fifty heads, and was also called Aegeon.
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a term usually applied to the deportation of the two tribes of the kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nabuchadnezzar, 585 B. C. The duration of this captivity is usually reckoned 70 years, though, strictly speaking, it lasted only 56 years. A great part of the 10 tribes of Israel had been previously taken captive to Assyria.
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feasts in honor of Bacchus, or Dionysos, characterized by licentiousness and revelry, and celebrated in ancient Athens. The Bacchantes of both sexes were clothed in fawn-skins, crowned with ivy, and bore in their hands thyrsi, that is, spears entwined with ivy. These feasts passed from the Greeks to the Romans, who abolished them in B. c. 186.
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a river of northern Italy, rises in the Alps, passes through the towns of Vicenza and Padua, and enters the Adriatic near Chioggia, after a course of about 90 miles.
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a Greek poet, a native of Julis, a town on the island of Cos. He was a cousin of the still more famous lyric poet Simonides, with whom he remained for some time at the court of Hiero and Sicily. He traveled also in the Peloponnesus. He is said to have been a rival of Pindar. He flourished about 470 b. c. In 1895 a well-preserved text of his poems was discovered and published, and Bacchylides has now taken a permanent place as a master of Greek verse.
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a term applied to those trees that bear berries. They are of four kinds: (1) Such as bear a caliculate, or naked berry; the flower and calix both falling off together, and leaving the berry bare; as the sassafras trees. (2) Such as have a naked monospermous fruit; that is, containing in it only one seed; as the arbutes. (3) Such as have but polyspermous fruit; that is, containing two or more kernels or seeds within it; as the jesminum, ligustrum. (4) Such as have their fruit composed of many acini, or round, soft balls, set close together, like a bunch of grapes; as the uva marina.
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IRVING, an American novelist, born in Pierpont, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1859. He was graduated at St. Lawrence University in 1879 and became a reporter of the Brooklyn "Times." Subsequently he established a newspaper syndicate. His novels include "The Master of Silence"; "The Unbidden Guest"; "Eben Holden"; "The Master" (1908); "The Light in the Clearing" (1916); "A 66 Man for the Ages" (1920).
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Addison Irving (1859-), an American novelist and journalist. He is a native of New York state. He received his education at St. Lawrence University. He began his journalistic work as a reporter of the Brooklyn Times. He is the author of a number of novels, the most popular of which are Eben Holden and D'ri and I.
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the double flowering buttercup (ranunculus acris), with white or yellow blossoms, common in gardens.
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or BATJAN, one of the Molucca Islands, immediately S. of the equator, S. W. of Gilolo; area, 914 square miles. Pop. about 15,000. It is ruled by a native Sultan under the Dutch.
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a genus of microscopic algæ belonging to the class diatomacex, the siliceous remains of which abound in Cretaceous, Tertiary, and more recent geological deposits.
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a name given to certain filiform bacteria present in the blood and tissues in malignant pustule, typhus, tuberculosis, and many other diseases. See BACTERIA.
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a name for the Great Fish River of northern Canada, discovered by Capt. Back in 1834 and by him traced down to its mouth under great difficulties.
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TRUMAN JAY, an American educator, born in Milan, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1842; was graduated at the University of Rochester in 1864; and became President of the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y. His publications include "Great English Writers," "Outlines of English Literature," and a revised edition of Shaw's "History of English Literature." He died March 24, 1908.
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a town in the of island Luzon, Philippine Islands; 30 miles N. W. of Manila; was the capital of the Philippines during the British invasion in 1762, when the Spaniards feared a bombardment and seizure of Manila; and was a scene of military activity in the American operations against the Filipino insurgents in 1899. Pop. about 15,000.
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Mrs. Josephine Dodge Daskam (1876-), an American writer. She was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and received her education at Smith College. She is a writer of popular short stories for the magazines. She excels in stories about children. The Imp and the Angel is natural, amusing, and, in parts, beautiful. Other books from her pen are Smith College Stories, A Sister's Vocation, Memoirs of a Baby, The Madness of Philip. Mrs. Bacon sees the humorous side of ordinary occurrences, and varies her style with considerable good natured sarcasm. Her stories are pleasant reading.
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