Each of these 12 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.
MARIE kērts'ef), a Russian author, born in and Russia in 1860; came of a noble and ests wealthy family, went to Italy to study singing, and to Paris to study art. Her Her fame rests on her private " Journal, " Pop begun in her thirteenth year, which also seems to have been written with ultimate publication in view. She died in Paris in 1884.
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A process of making steel by blowing the metal in converters lined with dolomite in place of gannister, as in the Bessmer process. Dolomite is a magnesian limestone, which, being well burned and ground, is mixed with tar to give it consistency. This can then be rammed in the converters, or pressed into bricks for lining with. This basic lining absorbs some of the phosphorous present in the iron, the rest being taken up by the lime, which constitutes about 15 per cent of the charge, and is introduced before the molten iron enters the converter. See BESSEMER STEEL; CONVERTER; GANNISTER; DOLOMITE. Basin is sometimes termed a pouring-basin, or runner, and is a suitably formed reservoir constructed with sand within a wood or iron box-frame. Its purpose is to receive the metal from the pouring-ladle, and connection with the mould is made by down-runners, which lead from its lowest part, either to the mould direct, or to some system of runners which lead to it. See DOWN-GATE; GATES; RUNNER; BASIN. Bath. See TINNING; TIN-PLATE.
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the slag or refuse matter which is obtained in making basic steel, and which from the phosphate of lime it contains is a valuable fertilizer. labiate plant, ocymum
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the largest island of the Sulu Archipelago, Philippine Islands. Basilan is about 36 miles long and situated S. of Mindanao. It is separated from Mindanao by a strait only 9 miles (bäsh- wide. This island is very mountainous, most of it is covered by virgin for- . The soil is extremely rich and produces cotton, coffee, sugar, chocolate, tobacco, indigo, and spices of all sorts. . about 8,000. The name Basilan is applied to the whole group of 34 adjacent islets. The leading port is Isabela, on Basilan Strait.
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originally the hall or court-room in which the King administered the laws made by himself and the chiefs who formed his council. When the Christian religion was made the state religion in Rome many of these buildings were given up to the new sect; the arrangement of that portion of the interior where the official business was conducted easily lending itself to the Christian ritual. In some of the oldest basilicas in Rome, e. g., in the subterranean Church of San Clemente, the early development of the Christian arrangement from the Roman is still to be seen. Many of the oldest and most splendid of the Roman churches are built on the plan of the basilica, and are called basilicas in consequence.
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a name of several ointments, the chief ingredients of which are wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil.
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A gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria, who claimed to huve received his esoteric doctrines from Glaucus, a disciple of the Apostle Peter. The system had three grades-material, intellectual, and spiritual, and possessed two allegorical statues, male and female. The doctrine had many points of resemblance to that of the Ophites (q.v.), and ran on the lines of Jewish Kabalism.
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an Emperor of the East; lived in the 5th century. He was the brother of Leo's wife, Verina. As commander of a large armament sent against the Vandals, he was defeated (468) by Genseric. In 474 he usurped the throne; but in 476 was defeated, deposed, and imprisoned by Zeno.
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baz'i-lisk, the fabled, eight-legged, lizard-like king of dragons and serpents. It is now considered that the basilisk and the cockatrice were the same superstitious conception under different names. The cockatrice was produced from an egg laid by a very old cock and hatched by a toad. "It inhabited the deserts of Africa, and, indeed, could only inhabit a desert, for its breath burned up all vegetation; the flesh fell from the bones of any animal with which it came in contact, and its very look was fatal to life; but brave men could venture into cautious contest with it by the use of a mirror, which reflected back its deadly glance upon itself." The name has been applied by zoologists to a harmless hooded lizard of South America . Like as the Basiliske, of serpents seede, From powerful eyes close venim doth convay Into the lookers hart, and killeth farre away. --Spenser, Faerie Queene.
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CHARLES, an American chemist, born in Noxubee co., Miss., in 1870. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1890 and carried on post-graduate courses in Germany. He filled various chairs in the department of chemistry in the University of North Carolina from 1891 to 1904, and in the latter year was appointed professor of chemistry and director of the College of the City of New York. He was the discoverer of several new elements including carolinium and berzellum, and carried on important investigations in the chemistry of anesthetics. He was a member of many chemical societies. His writings on chemical subjects include "School Chemistry" (1898); "Radium and Its Application in Medicine" (1909); "Municipal Chemistry"; and many articles in scientific magazines. He was the inventor of several processes for the refining of oil.
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a name applied to a variety of textiles, but designating the style of the weave rather than the material of which they are composed. The weave is in imitation of the plaited work of basketry, and is produced by the disposition of the warp and woof threads, which are brought into relief in groups, alternately.
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a remarkable island rock of Haddingstonshire, Scotland, near the mouth of the Firth of Forth, 2 miles from Canty Bay, and 34 miles E. N. E. of North Berwick. Composed of volcanic greenstone and trap tuff, it is about a mile in circumference, nearly round, and musical instru- 313 feet high. It is inaccessible on all sides except the S., where it shelves down to the water. It is inhabited by countless numbers of solan geese and other birds. A cavern tunnels the rock from W. to E., and is accessible at low tide. an In 756 St. Balthere or Baldred died in a hermitage on the Bass Rock; in 1316 it came into the possession of the Lauder family. In 1671 Charles II. purchased it for £4,000, and within its dreary dunof history geons many of the most eminent of the later at Smith Covenanters were confined during his include " Consti- and James II.'s reign. The Bass was North Carolina, " the last spot in the British Islands which held out for the Stuarts, being captured only in 1694. In 1701 the fortifications were demolished. In 1902 a lighthouse was established there.
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