Each of these 17 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 division of the lower Silurian rocks of North America, apparently equivalent to the Llandeilo ilo Beds, so called from the dark circular markings which stud many portions of its mass, and which have been referred to the impressions of a fucoid (phytopsis cellulosus), others regarding them as the filled-up burrows of marine worms.
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curled maple, the wood of the sugar maple when full of little knotty kn spots, somewhat resembling birds' eyes, much used in cabinet work.
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the representation of any scene as it would appear if seen from a considerable elevation right above.
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a common name for several plants, especially papilionaceous plants of the genus ornithopus, their legumes being articulated, cylindrical, and bent in like a claw.
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the popular name of lotus corniculătus, and one or two other creeping leguminous plants common in Great Britain. The common bird's-foot trefoil is a common British plant, and is found in most parts of Europe as well as in Asia, north Africa and Australia, and is a useful pasture plant.
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one of the orchideæ, neottia or listera nidus-avis of Linnæus. The English designation is a translation of the Latin nidus-avis. The plant is so called from having its root composed of numerous fleshy fibers aggregated in a bird's-nest fashion.
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a name applied to gigantic spiders of the genera mygăle and epeira, more especially to the mygale avicularia, a native of Surinam and elsewhere which preys upon insects and small birds which it hunts for and pounces on. It is about two inches long, very hairy, and almost black; its feet when spread out occupy a surface of nearly a foot in diameter.
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or BYRD, WILLIAM, an English composer, born about 1543; was educated at Edward VI.'s chapel; became organist at Lincoln Cathedral in 1563, and of the Chapel Royal, London, in 1569. He is best known by his fine canon, "Non Nobis Domine," and a volume of "Sacred Songs." He died in London, July 4, 1623.
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It is a common belief among savage tribes that the souls of the dead are conveyed to the land of the hereafter by birds. Among some West African peoples, for instance, a bird is bound to the body of the deceased and then sacrificed, so that it may carry the man's soul to the after-world. The Bagos also offer up a bird on the corpse of a deceased person for the same reason. The South Sea Islanders, again, bury their dead in coffins shaped like the bird which is to bear away their spirits, while the natives of Borneo represent Tempon-Telon's Ship of the Dead (q.v.) as having the form of a bird. The Indian tribes of North-West America have rattles shaped like ravens, with a large face painted on the breast. The probable significance is that the raven is to carry the disembodied soul to the region of the sun.
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GENERAL SIR WIL- LIAM RIDDELL, a British soldier; born in 1865. He was educated at Clifton College and at Sandhurst. He entered the military service as Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1883 and quickly rose through the various grades until he was made Major-General in 1911. He served with distinction in the Boer War, and saw service in India. In the World War he commanded the Anzacs at Gaba Tepe, and in the last year of the war was in command of one of the army corps on the western front.
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a hill in Perthshire, Scotland; once thickly wooded, and made famous by Shakespeare in "Macbeth." It has a magnificent outlook down the Tay valley. Height, 1,580 feet.
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a plateau in the duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary. Here, near the Fugidus, Theodosius defeated Arbogast and Eugenius in 394 includes the Roman mili- It also A. D. tary post Ad pirum.
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CHARLES DE GONTAUT, DUC DE, born in 1562, was Admiral and Marshal of France, and is noted for the friendship which Henry IV. entertained for him, and for his treason toward that monarch. He made his first essays in war under his father, and covered himself with glory at the battles of Arques and Ivry, and at the sieges of Paris and Rouen, by which he acquired the surname of ""Thunderbolt of France." The King loaded him with honors, saved his life at the fight of Fontaine Française, and made him ambassador to England. Biron entered into a conspiracy with Spain and Savoy against his sovereign; and the plot being revealed by Lafin, who had been its instigator, he was beheaded in 1602.
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Australian necromancers. (See Necromancy .)
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AUGUSTINE, an English essayist, born in Wavertree, near Liverpool, Jan. 19, 1850. He graduated from Cambridge and was called to the bar. He is author of charming critical and biographical essays on literary subjects, collected in the two series of "Obiter Dicta" (1884, 2d series 1887) and "Res Judicatæ" (1892), really the third of the same series. "Men, Women and Books" (1895) is a collection of short newspaper pieces. In 1885 he published a "Life of Charlotte Brontë"; in 1897 edited Boswell's "Life of Johnson," "Life of Sir Frank Lockwood" (1898); "Collected Essays" (1900); "William Hazlitt" (1902); "In the Name of the Bodleian" (1905). President Board of Education, 1905; Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1907-1916. The Irish Rebellion which broke out in Dublin in April, 1916, led to his resignation in May of that year.
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a famous mound in Babylonia, on the W. side of the Euphrates, 6 miles S. W. of Hillah, generally identified as the remains of the Tower of Babel.
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or LABOR, in physiology, is the act by which a female of the class mammalia brings one of her own species into the world. When the fœtus has remained its due time in the womb, and is in a condition to carry on a separate existence, it is extruded from its place of confinement, in order to live the life which belongs to its species, independof ently of the mother. The period he period gestation is very different in different animals, but in each particular species it is fixed with much precision. At the end of the 39th or the beginning of the 40th week, the human child has reached its perfect state, and is capable of living separate from the mother; hence follows in course its separation from her, that is, the birth. An artificial birth is that which is accomplished by the help of art, with instruments or by the hands of the attendant. Premature birth is one which happens some weeks before the usual time, namely, after the seventh and before the end of the ninth month. Late birth is a birth after the usual period of 40 weeks. Although this is considered the usual time for legitimate births, the practice of the English law courts is to allow a longer time when the opinions of the faculty, or the peculiar circumstances of the case, are in favor of a protracted gestation.
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