Concord (Town of Middlesex a co Mass)
town of Middlesex a co., Mass.; on the Concord river and the Boston and Maine railroad; 20 miles W. of Boston. It is situated in a beautiful rural district, and has several manufacturing establishments. It was for many years the seat of the famous Concord School of Philosophy, and is the site of the Concord State Reformatory. It has a public library, high school, a National bank, and an assessed property valuation of $4,000,000. During the early part of the Revolution the Americans had a large stock of arms and military stores at Concord. Gen. Gage, the British Commander in Boston, hearing of this, sent a body of soldiers to destroy these stores, and on their way they fought the battle of Lexington, the first of the war. When they reached Concord they destroyed what stores they could find, but were soon driven off by the Americans (April 19, 1775). Concord is celebrated as the home of many famous writers, among them Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Miss Alcott. Pop. (1910) 6,421; (1920) 6,461.
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Concordat
a compact, a convention, or an agreement entered into between the Pope and a sovereign prince or a government for regulating the affairs of the Church within the kingdom. A Concordat between Pope Calixtus II. and the Emperor Henry V. of Germany was agreed on in 1122, which terminated the fierce controversy about investitures, and still to a certain extent regulates the affairs of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. In 1516 a Concordat took place between Pope Leo X. and Francis I., King of France, by which the Chapters were deprived of the right which they had formerly enjoyed of electing After the bishops of the several sees. much delay and royal importunity the French Parliament reluctantly registhis surrender of privilege on March 15, 1518. Omitting less interesttered ing Concordats, a celebrated one took place on July 15, 1801, between Pope gh Cardinal Con- Pius VII., acting through salvi, and Napoleon Bonaparte, then first consul. This engagement re-established the Papal authority in France, but placed the clergy, in temporal and in some spiritual matters, under the jurisdiction of the civil power. Other concordats with the French Government were on Jan. 25, 1813, and Nov. 22, 1817. On Aug. 18, 1835, a Concordat concluded between Pope Pius IX. and the Emperor Francis Joseph I. of Austria considerably increased the legal power of the Papacy in that empire; it was virtually abolished in 1868.
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Concordia
The goddess of peace and concord at] Rome, to whom Camillus raised a temple in the Capitol. Confluentes (Coblentz). A town in Germany, at the confluence of the Moselle and the Rhine .
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Concordia
a goddess, to whom many temples were built at Rome; she typified the good results of the compact between the patricians and the plebeian classes.
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Concordia
a town of the Argentine state of Entre Rios, on the Uruguay, 302 miles N. of Buenos Aires by river. It has a custom house and a river-trade exceeded only by that of Buenos Aires and Rosario, exporting salted meat and Paraguay tea. Pop. about 13,000.
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Concrete (Composition used in building)
a composition used in building, consisting of hydraulic or other mortar mixed with gravel or stone chippings about the size of a nut. It is used extensively in building under water, for example, to form the bottom of a canal or sluice, or the foundation of any struc ture raised in the sea; and it is also fre quently used to make a bed for asphalt pavement, or to form foundations for buildings of any kind. It is used as the material with which the walls of houses are built, the concrete being run into moulds of the requisite shape, and then allowed to set. It is generally re-enforced with steel wire to strengthen it especially in open wall building. See CEMENT.
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Concrete (Technical term in logic)
a technical term in logic, applied to an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its attributes, or to the notion of such an object. Concrete is opposite to abstract. The names of individuals are concrete; those of classes, abstract. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name is a name which stands for the attribute of a thing.
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Concretionary Structure
a condition in rocks produced by molecular aggregation subsequent to the deposition of the strata, whereby the material of the rock is formed into spherules or balls, as in the concretions of magnesian limestone and the somewhat similar structures occasionally seen in certain tuffs and crystalline igneous rocks. Concretions are nodules, balls, or irregular masses of various kinds which occur scattered through the body of a rock, and consist of mineral matter which was formerly diffused through the material of the rock.
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Conde
kon-da', a French family, a younger branch of the Bourbons, taking the name from the town of Conde. For an account of the most noted Prince de Conde (1530-1569), see HUGUENOTS.
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Conde
HENRI II., PRINCE DE, who at CONDÉ the request of Henry IV. became a Catholic; born in 1588. In 1616 he was sent to the Bastille, where he remained for three years. After the death of Louis XIII. the prince was liberated, and was made Minister of State to the regent. He died in 1646.
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Conde (II)
LOUIS JOSEPH, PRINCE DE, born in Paris in 1736, was brought up by his uncle, the Count of Charolais, served in the Seven Years' War, and distinguished himself at the battles of Hastenbeck, Minden, and Johannisberg. He became the associate of the Dauphin. After the fall of the Bastille he emigrated. The murder of his young grandson, the Duc d'Enghien, by Napoleon, affected him profoundly. At the Restoration, he returned with Louis XVIII. to France, lived again at Chantilly, and was the author of an "Essai sur la vie du grand Condé." He died in 1818. The great family of Condé became extinct, Aug. 27, 1830, in the person of the DUC DE BOURBON, LOUIS HENRI JOSEPH.
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Condensation
the reduction of anything to another and denser form, as of a vapor or gas to a liquid, or a liquid to a solid; the passage of gases or vapors from the aëriform to the liquid state. It may be due to one of three causes: coolness, compression, or chemical affinity. When vapors are condensed their latent heat becomes free. The condensation of liquids is the reduction of a liquid to smaller bulk, with a proportionate increase in the specific gravity.
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