Each of these 18 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.
the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, Feb. 2; so-called from being formerly celebrated with processions and shows of candles. It was instituted in the 6th century, during the reign of Justinian, and came in lieu of the Roman festival of Lupercalia, which had been also celebrated in the month of February, and with candles.
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There is a superstition that candles and other lights burn blue at the apparition of spirits, probably because of the sulphurous atmosphere accompanying the spectres.
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the popular name of several flowers of the genus Iberis, order Cruciferæ, common in gardens: said to be named from Candia.
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or KEN, a river in Bundelkhand, India, a tributary of the Jumna river. It follows a N. E. course and is about 250 miles in length. In its upper region is an important reservoir.
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the capital and chief commercial town of Crete, situated on the N. W. coast, with a fine harbor. It occupies the site of the ancient Cydonia, but the present town is due to the Venetians, from whom it was wrested by the Turks after a two years' siege in 1669. Canea is the principal center for exporting the productions of the island. Pop. about 25,000. See CRETE. CANEBRAKE (Ludolfia (Arundi naria) macrosperma), a colossal reed, nearly allied to the bamboo, which reaches a height of 30 or 40 feet, and forms dense swamp-jungles (sometimes of wide area) in marshy places, and along the banks of the Red river, the Arkansas, the Mississippi, and their tributaries. CANES VENATICI (Latin "the Hunting-dogs," Asterion and Chara), one of the northern constellations added by Hevelius in 1690, between Boötes and Ursa Major. On the maps, the two dogs, Asterion and Chara, are represented as held in leash by Boötes, and pursuing Ursa Major, and the celestial pole.
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a thicket of cane. Bundles of the American cane are shipped over the country as "bamboo" fishing poles. Cane grows in almost impenetrable thickets in the bottom lands of Kentucky and southward. Many authorities call cane a bamboo. At all events it is closely related to the larger plant so much used by the natives of southeast Asia. Cane grows from ten to forty feet high with a thickness at the butt of one-half to three inches. Cane is, of course, only a large reed. It belongs, with sugar-cane and broom corn, to the grass family. See Bamboo
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JAMES HULME, an American educator; born in Delaware, O., March 18, 1847; spent his early life on a New England farm; was graduated at Williams College in 1868. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar, and practiced 1 in St. Joseph, Mich., until 1877; in 1877- 1891 he was Professor of History in the University of Kansas; and in 1891-1895 was Chancellor of the institution. He then became President of the Ohio State University. He was secretary and president of the National Education Association, and in 1899 became librarian of Columbia University. He died March 30, 1909.
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CANGUE, or KEA, the wooden collar, weighing from 50 to 60 pounds, and fitting closely round the neck, imposed upon criminals in China.
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a town in Sicily, province of Girgenti, well built, and with a population of about 30,000, mostly engaged in agriculture.
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the dog-star or Sirius; hence Canicular days, the dog-days.
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a family of mammals belonging to the order Carnivora, and the section Digitigrada. The muzzle is more or less pointed, the tongue smooth, and the claws non-retractile, the last-named character distinguishing it from the Felidæ. The fore feet have five toes each, and the hind ones four. It contains the dogs, wolves, foxes, and jackals. It is akin to the Hyænidæ. Canidæ have been found in the Eocene, but this may not have been the first appearance of the family in geological time. There are fossil as well as recent genera known.
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one of the peaks of the Pyrenees in France. It is the department Pyrénées-Orientales, 24 miles from Perpignan; height, 9,137 feet.
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LUIGI (kä-nē'nä), an Italian architect; born in Casale, Piedmont, Oct. 23, 1795; was for some time Professor of Architecture at Turin, and afterward lived in Rome, where he published works of great value on the antiquities of Rome, Veii, Etruria, and Tusculum. He died in Florence, Oct. 17, 1856.
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a river of Brazil, flowing wing into the Parnahiba; length, 200 miles.
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The constellation of the Great Dog. The most important star in this constellation was specially named Canis or Canicula, and also Sirius. The Dies Caniculares were as proverbial for the heat of the weather among the Romans as are the dog-days among ourselves. Caphareus (Capo d'Oro). A rocky and dangerous promontory on the southeast of Euboea, where the Greek fleet is said to have been wrecked on its return from Troy.
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a constellation of the Southern hemisphere, remarkable as containing Sirius, the brightest star. - CANIS MINOR ("the lesser dog") is a constellation in the Northern hemisphere, immediately above Canis Major, the chief star in which is 1 Procyon.
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a worm or larva destructive to trees or plants; in America specifically applied to moths and larvæ of the genus Anisopteryx.
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a genus of plants belonging to the endogenous order Marantaceæ. They have beautiful red or yellow flowers. Canna indica is the Indian shot or Indian bead, a native of Asia, Africa, and America; it is common and in flower most of the year in Indian gardens. The seeds have been used as a substitute for coffee, and they moreover furnish a beautiful but not a durable purple. A kind of arrowroot is extracted in the West Indies from a species believed to be C. Achi- The fleshy corms of some cannas ras. are said to be eaten in Peru, and, according to Von Martius, those of C. aurantiaca glauca and others are diuretic and diaphoretic, acting like orris-root.
one of the Argyllshire Hebrides, 12 miles S. W. of Syke, and 3 N. W. of Rum. It is 4½ miles long, 1 mile broad, and 4½ square miles in area. The surface, nowhere higher than 800 feet, consists of trap.
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