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 city and county-seat Whatever is worn up to that time of Navarro co., Tex.; on the Houston and Texas Central and other railroads; 180 miles N. E. of Austin. It is a great oil district. The city is the seat of the State Orphans' Home and the Odd Fellows' Widows and Orphans' Home, and has street railways, waterworks, daily and weekly newspapers, three National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,749; (1920) 1.1,356.
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an Italian term given to a leading street or fashionable carriagedrive.
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HIRAM, an American educator; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 6, 1828. He became Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at St. John's College, Annapolis, in 1866, and of English language and literature, rhetoric, and oratory in Cornell University in 1870. Among his publications are: a "Hand- Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English" (1871); "An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning" (1886); "Jottings on the Text of Hamlet," "Lectures on the English Language and Literature," "The Aims of Literary Study, "Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton" (1899); etc. He died in 1911.
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GEORGE BRUCE, statesman, was born in New York City, July 26, 1862. He was a general law reporter, private secretary to several public officials, and head master of a school at Hempstead, N. Y. Private secretary to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, 1896-1903; Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1903-1904; Postmaster-General 1905-1907; Secretary of the Treasury, 1907-1909. President of Consolidated Gas Co., New York, after 1909, and a director in numerous corporations.
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ROYAL, an American journalist and art critic, born in New York City. He served as literary editor and art editor of the New York "Tribune," and contributed many articles on art subjects to magazines. He was the author of the lives of Augustus St. Gaudens (1907), and John La Farge (1911), and also edited several works.
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a village and county-seat of Cortland co., N. Y.; on the Tioughnioga river; and the Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, and the New York Central railroads; 37 miles S. of Syra- It is a farming and manufacturing cuse. ing trade center, and has several wireworks, foundries, machine shops, and manufactories of carriages, stoves, harness, furniture, cash registers, and steel ware. It is the seat of a State Normal School, and has electric lights and railways, several churches, daily and weekly newspapers, 2 National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 11,504; (1920) 13,294. CORUNA. See CORUNNA.
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Wheels faced with corundum, (emery) or made of a composition of corundum and cement. See Emery Wheels.
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a seaport of Spain, in the province of the same name in Galicia, on the N. W. coast, on a peninsula at the entrance of the bay of Betanzos. It consists of an upper and a lower town, the former built on the E. side of a small peninsula, and the latter on the isthmus connecting the peninsula with the mainland. The harbor, which is well protected, is deep, spacious and safe. Cattle form the chief export. There is a government tobacco factory employing thousands of women and girls. There is a lighthouse, 92 feet high, called the Tower of Hercules, and supposed to be of Roman construction. Corunna was the port of departure of the Spanish Armada (1588), and the scene of the repulse of the French and the death of Sir John Moore (1809). Pop. about 60,000. CORVÉE, an obligation on the tenants or of certain districts to perfinabitants or their lord, such as the maintenance of roads, etc.
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MATTHIAS. See MAT-
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kor'i-don, a shepherd in one of the idyls of Theocritus, and in one of Virgil's eclogues. Hence the name is used in pastoral poetry and elsewhere to designate a shepherd or rustic. Spenser gives the name to a shepherd in the Faerie Queene and again in Colin Clout. Scott gives it to a shoemaker in Count Robert of Paris.
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mastworts; an order of diclinous exogens, alliance Quernales. It consists of trees and shrubs with alternate, simple, exstipulate leaves, often with the veins running straight from the Male flowers midrib to the margin. amentaceous, with 5 to 20 stamens; female having the ovary crowned by the rudiments of an adherent calyx; ovary with two or more cells. Among the genera are carpinus (hornbeam), corylus (hazel), fagus (beech), castanea (chestnut), and quercus (oak). They are found in the temperate parts of the Old and New Worlds. In In the tropics they grow chiefly on mountains.
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in botany, that form of inflorescence in which the flowers, each on its own pedicel of different lengths, are so arranged along a common axis as to form a flat, broad mass of flowers with a convex or level top, as in the hawthorn and candytuft.
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a genus of scomberidæ, or by some it is made the type of a family coryphanida. The head is greatly elevated, and the palate and jaws both furnished with teeth. C. hippuris and several other species are found in the Mediterranean and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic. They pursue the flying fish. The first-mentioned species is one of the two animals called the dolphin.
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a synonym for acute nasal catarrh, or "cold in the head." The affection usually subsides without any treatment.
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now called STANCHIO OF STANKO, an island in the Ægæan Sea, on the coast of Asia Minor; area, 95 square miles; pop. about 10,000. It was the birthplace of Hippocrates, and had anciently a celebrated temple of Esculapius. In Cos was manufactured a fine, semitransparent kind of silk, much valued by the ancients. Cos is also the name of the principal town, a decayed seaport. The island yields grain, wine, silk, cotton, citrons, etc. It was occupied by Italy in 1912 and afterward restored to Greece. The peace treaty with Turkey awards it to Italy, but when that is signed it will be ceded to Greece.
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a town in Calabria, Italy, 43 miles S. W. of Sibari; on a hill between Crati and Busento. Its history goes back to 330 B. c., when it was named as the burial place of Alexander of Epirus. Alaric was killed there in 410 A. D., and it became an archbishopric in the 11th century. It has a fine Gothic cathedral and law courts. Pop. about 15,000.
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