Each of these 15 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.
a peak of the main Himalaya range, in Garhwal district, Northwestern Provinces, India; 23,210 feet above the sea. On one of its shoulders, at an elevation of 10,400 feet, stands a celebrated temple of Vishnu, which some years attracts as many as 50,000 pilgrims.
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KARL, a German publisher, born in 1801; originator of a celebrated series of guidebooks for travelers. He died in 1859.
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bad'ek-er, Carl (1801-1859), a Leipsic publisher. He is the originator of a celebrated series of guide books still published in his name. The various volumes describe London, Norway and Sweden, Paris, Switzerland, Central Italy, the Rhine, Lower Egypt, etc. They are printed on thin paper with flexible red binding recognizable at a glance. The traveler armed with a "Baedeker" has a mine of information relative to expense, routes of traveling, location of restaurants, hotels, walks, bridle paths, bicycle roads, plans of cities, cab fares, omnibus lines, museums, galleries, excursions, boat routes, scenery, antiquities, industries, and a thousand and one points of information that save asking questions. While indispensable to the traveler, they are most valuable volumes also for a school library.
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LEO HENDRIK, an American chemist, born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1863. He graduated from the University of Ghent and studied electrochemistry in Germany. After being a member of the faculty of several universities in Belgium, he came to the United States in 1889. He founded a company for the manufacture of photographic papers which he had invented, the best known of which was called Velox. From 1889 he was engaged in research mechanical work and was consulting chemist for many important industrial concerns. He invented bakelite, a chemical substance replacing hard rubber and amber. He was a member of the Naval Consulting Board from 1915 to 1920, and also was a member of many chemical societies, both in the United States and abroad. He took out many patents in the United States and abroad on subjects of organic chemistry, electric insulation, etc., and contributed much to chemical magazines on chemical subjects.
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A demon cited in the Grand Grimoire (q.v.), and head of the infernal powers. It is with him that Wierius commences his inventory of the famous Pseudonomarchia Daemonum. He alludes to Bael as the first monarch of hell, and says that his estates are situated on the eastern regions thereof. He has three heads, one, that of a crab, another that of a cat, and the third that of a man. Sixty-six legions obey him.
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ADOLF VON (bã'yer), a German chemist, born in Berlin, Oct. 31, 1835; became Professor of Chemistry at Strasburg in 1872, and at Munich, in 1875, succeeding Liebig at Munich. He made many important discoveries in organic chemistry, especially cerulein, eosin and indol, and discovered a process of making artificial indigo. In 1905 he was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry. He died in 1917.
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a town, Spain, in Andalusia, 22 miles E. N. E. from Jaën. Pop. about 17,500. The principal edifices are the cathedral, the university (now suppressed), and the old monastery of St. Philip de Neri.
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a shallow Arctic gulf or passage, lying between Greenland and the ice covered islands of northeastern America. Its greatest width is about 500 miles. It was discovered by navigators in 1616, who hoped to find a passage through it to the Pacific. This sea was the favorite resort of whalers and seal catchers for more than two centuries. These animals are of late becoming too scarce for profitable pursuit. The sea is closed to navigation by ice during the greater part of the year. This, however, affords little cause for regret as there can be no occasion for its ever becoming a pathway of commerce.
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a Canadian island, crossed by the Arctic Circle; area, about 236,000 square miles. BAFFIN SEA (erroneously styled a Bay), a large expanse of water in North America, between Greenland and the lands or islands N. of Hudson Bay, ex- 55° tending from 68° to 78° N., and to At- 80° W. It communicates with the lantic Ocean by Davis Strait on the S., with the Arctic Ocean by Lancaster Sound and Jones Sound on the W., and by Smith Sound and with the Polar Sea Robeson Channel on the N. Depth, 200- 1,050 fathoms. The tides do not rise more than 10 feet. The surface of the sea is covered with ice during the greater part of the year. The coasts are mountainous, barren, and deeply indented with gulfs. Whale and seal fishing is followed. This sea was discovered by the English navigator, Baffin, in 1616.
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a town of former German East Africa, on the coast opposite the island of Zanzibar; pop. about 25,000. It is an important trading station for ivory, iron, copra, gum and caoutchouc. Bagamoyo is a point of departure for caravans into the interior. The chief imports are cottons, iron ware, rice, oil, spirits, and beer.
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the sugar cane in its dry, crushed state, as delivered from the mill, and after the main portion of its juice has been expressed; used as fuel in the sugar factory, and called also cane trash.
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a Gallic tribe which revolted under Carinus and was subdued by Maximian in 286 A. D.
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GEORGE WILLIAM, an American physician and humorist, born in Buckingham co., Va., Aug. 13, 1828; wrote under the pseudonym "Mozis editor of the Lynch- Addums." He was burg "Express" (1853), and "Southern Literary Messenger" (1859); State Librarian of Virginia (1870-1878), and contributor to various magazines. He wrote "John M. Daniel's Latch-Key" (1868); "What I Did With My Fifty Millions" (1875); and "Meekins' Twinses" (1877). 'He died in Richmond, Va., Nov. 29, 1883.
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WALTER (bāj'ot), an English writer on political economy and government, born in Langport, Somersetshire, Feb. 3, 1826; was graduated at University College, London, and admitted to the bar; but never entered practice. His principal works are "The English Constitution"; "Physics and Politics"; and "Lombard Street: a Description of the Money Market." He died in London, March 24, 1877.
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A pythoness, who is believed to have been the Erithryean sibyl. She is said to have been the first woman to have practised the diviner's art. She practised in Tuscany, and judged all events by the sound of thunder.
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