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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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Basket Cloth
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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Bass
JOHN FOSTER, American war correspondent, born in Chicago, 1866; graduated at Harvard University, during the second half of the 19th cen- 1891. He served as a newspaper correspondent during the Cretan insurrection (1895); traversed the country where the Armenian massacres took place (1896); was at the front in the Greek war of 1898, and in the Spanish- American war of the same year. He was in China during the Boxer rebellion in 1900, and was for several months with Kuroki's army in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904. During the World War he followed the Russian campaigns of 1914-1915, was on the French and Balkan fronts 1915-1917, and covered the Italian military operations in 1918. A B C BASS A. Striped Bass. B. Black Bass. C. Rock Bass.
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Bass (Music The string which gives)
in music. (1), The string which gives a bass sound. (2) An instrument which plays the bass part; especially of the violoncello or bass-viol, and the contrabasso or double bass. Both this and the previous sense are found in the following example: (3) The lowest of the principal human voices; those higher in pitch being, respectively, baritone, tenor, alto or contralto, mezzosoprano, soprano. (4) The portion of a choir singing the bass part; also the portion of string band playing the bass part. (5) The lowest instrument of any class or family of instruments; as bass clarionet, bass flute, bass horn, bass trombone, bass tuba, bass viol or base viol. (6) The string of lowest pitch on a string instrument having deep sounds. (7) Bass clef: The lowest sign of absolute pitch used in music; the F clef. A fundamental bass: The supposed generator or foundation of any harmonic combination. Thus C is said to be the fundamental base of the chord G, C, E. Thorough or continuous bass: Originally the bass part figured for the player on a harpsichord or organ. Hence, the art of adding chords to a figured bass; the art of harmony.
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Bass (Name of a number of fishes)
the name of a number of fishes of several genera, but originally belonging to a genus of sea fishes (labrax) of the perch family, distinguished from the true perches by having the tongue covered by small teeth and the preoperculum smooth. L. lupus, the only British species, called also seadace, and from its voracity sea-wolf, resembles somewhat the salmon in shape, and is much esteemed for the table, weighing about 15 pounds. L. lineatus (roccus lineatus), or striped bass, an American species, weighing from 25 to 30 pounds, is much used for food, and is also known as rockfish. Two species of black bass (micropterūs salmonides and M. dolomieu), American fresh water fishes, are excellent as food and give fine sport to the angler. The former is often called the large mouthed black bass, from the size of its mouth. Both make nests and take great care of their eggs and young. The centropristis nigricans, an American fish of the perch family, and sea weighing two to three pounds, is known as the sea bass.
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Bass Rock
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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Bass Strait
a channel beset with islands, which separates Australia from Tasmania, 185 miles long and from 80 to 150 miles broad, discovered by George Bass, a surgeon in the Royal navy, in 1798.
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Bassanio
bas-sa'ni-o, in Shakespeare's comedy, Merchant of Venice, a Venetian gentleman, friend of Antonio. Nerissa speaks of him as "a scholar and a soldier." These words describe the ideal man of the time. Bassanio is Portia's successful suitor, although his part in the play in unimportant. See Merchant Of Venice
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Bassano
a commercial city of north Italy, province of Vicenza, on the Brenta. It has lofty old walls, an old castle, various industries, and an active trade. Near Bassano, Sept. 8, 1796, Bonaparte defeated the Austrians. Pop. about 20,000. BASSEIN. (1) A thriving town in Burma, India, capital of a district of the same name, on the left bank of the Bassein river, one of the mouths of the Irawadi, 90 miles from the sea, but accessible to the largest ships. It is an important center of the rice trade, has considerable trade with Madras, and in a military view also is important, as it completely commands the navigation of the stream. It was captured by the British in 1852. Pop. about 40,000. The district of Bassein has an area of 4,127 square miles, and a pop. of about 500,000. (2) Bassein, a decayed town of about 10,000 inhabitants, 28 miles N. of Bombay. Ceded to the Portuguese in 1534, it was a place of much importance as late as 1720; its remains still point to former splendor. In 1765 it was wrested from the Portuguese by the Mahrattas, and in 1780 surrendered to the British, after a 12 days' siege. BASSES-ALPES Alps). See ALPES, BASSES. BASSES-PYRÉNÉES (bäs-për-nā'), (Lower Pyrénées). See PYRÉNÉES, BASSES.
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