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Each of these 9 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.

Corregio

kor-red'jo (1494-1534), an Italian painter. He is noted for graceful figures and his handling of perspective. His pictures are highly prized in the galleries of Europe. His subjects are similar to those of Michael Angelo and Raphael, with whom he is, in a way, associated and ranked; but he could be spared with far less disaster to art. Holy Night, his most celebrated painting, hangs in the Dresden Gallery. Artists consider it a masterpiece of light and shade. There are six of Corregio's paintings in this gallery. They cost Augustus $90,000. Others are to be found at London, Paris, Naples, Florence, and Rome; but most of Corregio's work was done by way of interior decoration for the churches of Parma. In the main dome of the Parma Cathedral, he painted the Assumption of the Virgin. Mary, the mother, is borne aloft by a host of rejoicing angels, while Christ, the Son, hastens to meet her . Corregio was the son of a Modena merchant. He lived chiefly in Mantua and Parma. He died without having visited Rome, Florence, or any of the renowned art centers. See Raphael

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Corrib

LOUGH, lake of the a counties Galway and Mayo, the second largest in Ireland. Lying only 30 feet above sea-level, it is of very irregular shape, 25 miles long from N. W. to S. E., and 1 to 6 broad, with an area of 68 square miles. From its S. end, 4 miles N. of Galway, it discharges its surplus waters by Galway river into Galway bay. It receives the waters of Lough Mask, at its N. end, through the Pigeon Hole and other caves, as well as those of the Clare and other smaller rivers. It contains many islets, and to the W. are mountains 3,000 feet high, while near it are many stone-circles.

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Corrientes

a province of the Argentine Republic, between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers, extending from Entre Rios to Misiones territory, with an area of 33,535 square miles. The surface is generally flat, with numerous lakes and swamps, but has undulating stretches along the Paraná and in the E., and is heavily wooded in parts. Lake Ibera, a group of lakes and swamps covering some 1,800 square miles, is surrounded with a jungle, in which the tacuara bamboo (30 feet) is conspicuous; and here jaguars and alligators abound. The mean temperature (72° F.) is the highest in the republic, and the extremes (44°-98°) are not so excessive. As in Paraguay, Guarani is the common language, Spanish being employed only by the official and educated classes. Cattle-raising is the chief occupation; agriculture is very backward. Pop. about 350,000. The capital, Corrientes, is almost hidden among orange-groves, 15 miles below the confluence of the Paraná and the Paraguay, and takes its name from seven currents formed by points of rock above the city; vessels of nine feet draught can reach the town at all seasons. Steamers from Buenos Aires (832 miles) touch here. Pop. about 30,000.

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Corrigan

MICHAEL AUGUS- TINE, an American clergyman; born in Newark, N. J., Aug. 13, 1839. He was educated at the Roman Catholic Theological seminaries of St. Mary's and Mount St. Mary's and at the American College in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1864. He was made president of Seton Hall College in 1868, Bishop of Newark in 1873; Archbishop of Petra and coadjutor to Cardinal Mc. Closkey in 18C0; and Archbishop of New York in 1885. He died in 1902.

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Corrosion

The act of eating or wearing away by slow degrees, as by the action of acids on metal and other substances. Corrosive Sublimate is the chloride of mercury, and is formed by sublimation from a mixture of sulphate of the protoxide of mercury and common salt. It has a disagreeable, acrid taste, and is extremely poisonous. It is a white, transparent substance, dissolves in 16 parts of cold and 3 parts of boiling water, and crystallizes from a hot solution in long, white prisms.

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Corrosive Sublimate

also called mercuric chloride, HgCl2, bichloride of mercury, perchloride of mercury; prepared by heating mercuric sulphate with dry sodium chloride; the mercuric chloride sublimes as a white transparent crystalline mass, sp. gr., 5.43. It is dissolvable in about 20 parts of cold water, and very soluble in alcohol and ether. It precipitates albumen, hence white of egg is an antidote. It is very poisonous, and is used to preserve both animal and vegetable substances. It is used in pharmacy as Liquor Hydrargyri Perchloridi, and as Lotio Hydrargyri Flava when mixed with lime. Corrosive sublimate is a powerful irritant, and is used externally in skin diseases. It is administered internally in syphilis, usually in conjunction with iodide of potassium. It is also much in use by surgeons in an antiseptic spray and as a cleansing agent for sterilizing their operating instruments. As an antiseptic wash for wounds or sores its strength is generally used in proportion of one part art of the salt to 5,000 of the solvent.

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Corrosives

in surgery, substances which eat away whatever part of the body they are applied to; such are glacial acetic acid, burned alum, white precipitate of mercury, red precipitate of mercury, butter of antimony, etc.

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Corrugated Metal

metal that has been corrugated to give it increased rigidity and power to resist buckling and collapse. The process is merely an application to metallic substances of the old contrivance of "goffering" or "piping," by means of which frills are stiffened and kept in shape. The metal to be corrugat corrugated is passed between pairs pair of rollers with with ridged surfaces, the ridges ridg of one fitting into the hollows of the other, and the sheets or plates operated on are bent and compressed into the wavy outline of the rolls. Walls and roofs of light and temporary buildings are extensively made of corrugated galvanized ironi. e., sheet-iron first corrugated and subsequently coated with zinc by dipping the sheets into a bath of the liquid metal.

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Corry

a city in Pennsylvania, in Erie co., on the Erie and the Pennsylvania railroads. It is an important industrial center, and has steel works, machine shops, flour mills, and manufactures of locomotives, gas engines, furniture, shovels, toys, etc. It has the State Fish Hatchery. There are a handsome high school and other important public buildings. In the vicinity are mineral springs and petroleum wells. Pop. (1910) 5,991; (1920) 7,228.

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