Each of these 16 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 genus of plants, order Ternströmiaceae (theads). It is very near akin to thea, which contains the tea plant; indeed, some botanists combine the two genera into one. The native countries of the camellias are the E. side of the Himalaya mountains, Cochin-China, China, Japan and the Eastern Islands.
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a name given to the giraffe (Camelopardalis giraffa), originally from the notion that it was a kind . of hybrid between a camel and leopard It constitutes the only species of its Camelopardalidæ or genus and family ( Devexa).
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one of the N. circumpolar constellations added by Hevelius in 1690. It is a large, irregularly shaped constellation, something like the animal, and is more than 40° in length, with its head close to the North Pole. It contains no stars brighter than the fourth magnitude. Camelopardalis , Ursa borders upon Ursa Minor, Draco Major, Lynx, Auriga, Perseus, Cassiopeia, and Cepheus.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC, a camera obscura, so constructed that sensitized plates or films may be placed at the back and receive the image. There are many styles of camera in use, those of the tripod variety being used for portraits and landscapes, where a long exposure is required, and the hand camera used by tourists on account of its convenient shape and size. See Pnotoc- RAPHY.
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a prism of glass held in a frame. Its faces are cut at such an angle that an object lying at one side, when viewed through the prism, seems to lie on a sheet of paper directly underneath. The instrument is much used in drawing natural objects. A pencil may be made to follow the apparent outline on the paper with ease. The pencil of light enters the prism horizontally, is totally refracted twice, and enters the eye, passing directly upward at right angles to the original direction.
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an optical instrument used to view or sketch objects at a short distance. It consists of a rectangular box, formed of two parts sliding in each other, like the joints of a telescope, so as to adjust the focus to bodies more or less distant. A tube with a lens is fixed in one side of it, and is turned to the object to be represented. The rays entering fall on a mirror sloped at an angle of 45°, which reflect them upward to the observer's eye. It is con venient that they may be made to pass through a horizontal plate of glass, on which tracing paper may be placed so as to enable one to draw the figure if he be so disposed, but now this is generally done by photography. A lid to the box is of use in ridding the observer of superfluous light. It is supposed to have been invented by Baptista Porta in the 16th century, although it is said that Roger Bacon wrote a description of it 300 years before.
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Richard (1648-1680), a Scottish covenanter. When the Scottish Stuarts on the throne of England turned to the Catholic faith, he resisted their authority openly, and took to the hills and mosshags at the head of his followers. The government put a price on his head. He and his supporters were surrounded in a moss in Ayrshire and cut to pieces. Cameron's head and hands were taken to Edinburgh. Under the name of the Cameronians his followers were long a separate sect in Scotland. The reformed Presbyterians claim to be the lineal successors of the Cameronians. See Covenanters ; Presbyterians
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the title given to the Protestant insurgents in the Cévennes, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, from having worn their shirts over their dress by way of disguise, on the occasion of some nocturnal attacks. Their principal leader, Cavalier, succeeded so far as to effect a capitulation in their favor with the French government. He subsequently entered the English service, and at his death was Governor of Jersey.
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a well-organized secret society, once spread throughout all parts of the kingdom of Naples. At one time the Camorristi were all-powerful, levying a kind of blackmail at all markets, fairs, and public gatherings, claiming the right of deciding disputes, hiring themselves out for any criminal service from the passing of contraband goods to assassination. They had central stations in all the large provincial towns, and a regular staff of recruiting officers. At the end of the 19th century the political power gained by the Camorra had become so notorious and scandalous, that the Italian Government found it necessary to interfere. This resulted in the complete political defeat of the Camorra. The society thereupon returned to its original character and resumed blackmailing, extortion, robbery, and murder. Its activities eventually were suppressed, at least to a certain extent, by the trial and conviction, in 1912, of its this end, the ships were painted with zigprincipal leaders.
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a genus of corals of the family Campanulariidæ, in which the polypi assume a bell shape.
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a family of marine polypi belonging to the order Hydroida. Cells terminal, stalked campanulate; polyps with a large trumpetshaped proboscis. There are six genera.
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a group of lonely islands to the S. of New Zealand, in 52° 34′ S. lat., and 169° 12′ E. long. Though they rise to a height of 1,498 feet, and are only 85 square miles in area, they are yet valuable on account of their harbors. They are also scientifically in teresting, being volcanic, and displaying a rich and rare flora.
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The. See Dry Farming
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the followers of Rev. John McLeod Campbell, of Dumbartonshire, who was deposed from the Church of Scotland, May 24, 1831, for teaching the universality of the Atonement. He established a church at Glasgow in 1833. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to the church founded in the United States by Thomas and Alexander Campbell, and by its members called Christians, Christian Church, or DISCIPLES OF CHRIST (q. v.).
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a seaport on the W. side of the peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico, on a bay of the same name. It has a citadel, university, naval academy, and shipbuilding docks. The haven is safe, but very shallow, and the trade, principally in logwood and wax, has greatly fallen off, while cigars and palm-leaf hats are almost the only manufactures. Founded in the middle of the 16th century, it was taken, occupied, and burned by buccaneers in 1685. Estimated pop. about 17,000. Campeachy is the capital of a State of the same name, which has an area of 18,089 square miles and a population of about 90,000.
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