Bone Ash
ash made of calcined bones. It consists chiefly of tricalcic phosphate Ca" (PO4)2"", mixed with about one-fourth its weight of magnesium phosphate and calcic carbonate.
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Each of these 13 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.
Bone Bed
in geology, a bed containing numerous fragments of fossil bones, teeth, etc.
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Bone Manure
one of the most important fertilizers in agriculture. The value of bones as manure arises chiefly from the phosphates and nitrogenous organic matters they contain. Bones have long been used as manure in some parts of England, but only in a rude, unscientific way. It was in 1814 or 1815 that machinery was first used for crushing them in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and bone dust and dissolved bones are now largely employed as manures, great quanof bones being now imported into Great Britain for this purpose. Before being utilized in agriculture they are often boiled for the or they contain, which is used in the manufacture of soap and lubricants.
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Bongabong
a town in the S. E. part of Luzon, Philippine Islands, with an estimated population of 25,000. It lies in a mountainous district, and attained military importance as the headquarters of a regiment of United States troops. The town has a municipal government based upon popular election.
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Bonham
a city of Texas, the countyseat of Fannin co. It is on the Texas and Pacific, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads, and the Red river. The city is the center of an extensive agricultural district and has an important trade in cotton, grain, and live stock. It is the seat of Carlton College. Its industries include flour mills, cotton and cotton seed oil mills, railroad machine shops, planing mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 4,844; (1920) 6,008.
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Bonifacio
STRAIT OF, the Fretum Gallicum of the Romans, lies between Corsica and Sardinia. At the narrowest part it is only 7 miles wide. The navigation is difficult owing to the great number of rocks, which, however, are favorable to the production of coral.
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Bonin
or (Japanese) OGASAWARA ISLANDS, a volcanic group in the Pacific BONIFACE V. succeeded Adeodatus in Ocean, 700 miles S. S. E. of Japan, stretching between 26° 30′-27° 45′ N. lat., and between 159°-155° E. long. Area, 32 square miles; population about 4,000. Discovered by Quast and Tasman in 1639, they were taken possession of for Great Britain in 1827 by Captain Beechey; but in 1878 the Japanese reasserted their sovereignty, with the view of making them a penal settlement. The named Port Lloyd. harbor is
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Bonito
a fish, thynnus pelamys. It belongs to the family of scomberidæ (mackerels), and is nearly allied to the BONITO tunny. It is found in the Mediterranean, and is a great foe to the flying fish. The belted bonito is the pelamys sarda, and the plain bonito, the alexis vulgaris.
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Bonivard
FRANÇOIS DE (bō-nëvär'), a younger son of a family which held large possessions under the House of Savoy, was born about 1496 at Seyssel, on the Rhone, and in 1513 became prior of St. Victor at Geneva. Falling under the suspicion of the Duke of Savoy, he was taken prisoner by him in 1519. After 20 months' imprisonment he was set free, but i 1530 he was again seized, and taken to the castle of Chillon, Lake of Geneva, where he was imprisoned for six years, the last four in that subterranean vault which the genius of Byron has made famous by his poem. He died in 1570. His chief works are his "Chroniques de Genève" (1551; new ed., 2 vols., 1831), and "De l'Ancienne et Nouvelle Police de Genève" (1555).
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Bonnevault, Maturin de
Father of the preceding also accused of sorcery, visited by experts who found upon his right shoulder a mark resembling a small rose, and when a long pin was thrust into this he displayed such signs of distress that it was judged that he must be a sorcerer, indeed, he confessed that he had espoused Berthomée de la Bedouche, who with her father and mother practised sorcery, and how he had gone to seek serpents and toads for the purposes of their sorceries. He said that the Sabbath was held four times yearly, at the feasts of Saint John the Baptist, Christmas, Mardi gras and Páques. He had slain seven persons by sorcery, and avowed that he had been a sorcerer since he was seven years of age. He met a like fate with his sons.
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Bonnevault, Pierre
A sorcerer of Poitou in the seventeenth century, who was arrested as he was on his way to the Devil 's Sabbath. He confessed that on the first occasion he had been present at that unholy meeting he had been taken thither by his parents and dedicated to the Devil, to whom he had promised to leave his bones after death, but that he had not bargained to leave his infernal majesty his immortal soul. He admitted that he called Satan master, that the Enemy of Man had assisted him in various magical acts, and that he, Bonnevault, had slain various Book of the Dead persons through Satanic agency. In the end he was condemned to death. His brother Jean , accused of sorcery at the same time, prayed to the Devil for assistance, and was raised some four or five feet from the ground and dashed back thereon, his skin turning at the same time to a blue-black hue. He confessed that he had met at the Sabbath a young man through whom he had promised one of his fingers to Satan after his death. He also told how he had been transported through the air to the Sabbath how he had received powders to slay certain people whom he named, and for these crimes he received the punishment of death.
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Bonneville
LAKE, a lake that once filled a now desert basin of Utah; at its greatest dimensions had an area of feet 30,000 square miles, and was 1,000 deep.
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Bonsal
STEPHEN, an American journalist, born in Baltimore in 1865. He was educated at Concord and Heidelberg. In the Bulgarian-Serbian War he was special correspondent dent of the New York "Herald," serving in the same capacity has been in Macedonia and Cuba. He Secretary of Legation of the United States in Pekin, Madrid, Tokio, and Korea. He was secretary to the governor of Porto Rico in 1913, and served in various capacities in Mexico and the Philipin the years following. In 1917 he pines was appointed a Major in the National Army, and saw service in France. He was intrusted with special missions to Austria and Bohemia in 1919. He has written "The Real Condition of Cuba": "The Fight for Santiago," etc.
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