Each of these 11 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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKE, an American writer; born in Mt. Airy, Md., April 30, 1781; was the adopted son of George Washington. He wrote "Recollections of George Washington" (1860), and several plays and orations. He died at Arlington House, Fairfax co., Va., Oct. 10, 1857.
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a village 10 miles S. W. of Verona, where the Italians have twice been utterly defeated by the Austrians. On July 23-25, 1848, Charles Albert was routed after severe fighting by Radetzky with a smaller force, and forced to retreat behind the Mincio; and on June 24, 1866, Victor Emmanuel with 130,000 men was defeated by the Archduke Albert with 75,000 men.
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a state in the W. of India, lying to the S. of Sind; under British protection; area, 6,500 square miles. During the rainy season it is wholly insulated by water, the vast salt morass of the Rann separating it on the N. and E. from Sind and the Guicowar's dominions. Its S. side is formed by the Gulf of Cutch, and on the W. it has the violent volcanic action. The date is the only fruit which thrives, and the principal exports are cotton and horses. The Rann of Cutch, a morass, covers about 9,000 square miles, and is dry during the greater part of the year. Pop. of the state about 525,000.
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ST., a celebrated father of the early English Church; born, 9,000, encamped on the Little Big Horn, cording to tradition, near Melrose, about 635. He became a monk, and in 664 was appointed prior of Melrose, which after some years he quitted to take a similar charge in the monastery of Lindisfarne. Still seeking a more ascetic life, Cuthbert then retired to the desolate isle of Farne. Here the fame of his holiness attracted many great visitors, and he was at last persuaded to accept the bishopric of Hexham, which he, however, resigned two years after, again retiring to his hermitage in the island of Farne, where he died in 687. The anniversary of his death was a great festival in the English Church.
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A sharp, curved tool for carving gates in the sand. Some are made exclusively for this purpose in steel or brass; others are merely a sharp-edged piece of tin or copper-plate that may be bent to any desirable shape. At best, such tools as "gate cutters" can only be called a make-shift; the cleaner and more artistic method of forming gates is to ram them along with the pattern. See GATES.
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a low stool, the stool Arabian Sea. The country is subject to of repentance, a seat formerly set apart in Presbyterian churches in Scotland, on which offenders against chastity were exhibited before the congregation and submitted to the minister's rebukes before they were readmitted to church privileges. GEORGES CHRÉTIEN
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CHARLES, a French composer. He received his musical education at the Conservatoire de Paris under Professor Massenet. After having attained his degree of bachelor he made his entry into the Conservatoire and his training under Massenet was followed by his first operetta, "Avant-hier Matin," composed in collaboration with Tristar Bernard in 1905. It was played in Paris at the Capucines. His other works include: "La Carte Forcée," "Son Petit Frère," "Les Rendez-vous strasbourgeois," "Afgar," "Les Muscadines," "La Reine s'amuse," "Sappho," "Lilac Domino," "Florabelle," "La Fausse Ingénue. CUYABÁ, the capital of the Brazilian state of Matto Grosso, occupies pretty nearly the center of South America. It stands on the left bank of the Cuyabá river, 980 miles N. W. of Rio de Janeiro. Founded by gold-diggers in 1719, and wrecked by an earthquake in 1746, it is now a well-built place, with a cathedral and 14,500 inhabitants (1917). It can be reached by the rivers Paraná and Paraguay, a voyage of 2,500 miles from Buenos Aires.
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THEODORE LEDYARD, an American clergyman; born in Aurora, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1822. He was graduated at Princeton College in 1841 and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1846. From 1860 he was pastor of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, resigning to devote his time to literary and reform work. He has written "Newly Enlisted," "Christianity in the Home," etc. He died Feb. 26, 1909.
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or KUYP, JACOB GERRITSZ, a Dutch painter; commonly called the Old Cuyp; born in Dordrecht, Netherlands, in 1575. Jacob Cuyp's representations of cows and sheep, battles and encampments, are clever, but his fame rests principally on his excellent portraits. His coloring is warm and transparent; his manner free and spirited. Cuyp was one of the four founders of the Guild of St. Luke at Dordrecht, and died after 1649. ALBERT CUYP, Jacob's son, was also born in Dordrecht, in 1620. He excelled in the painting of cattle grazing or reposing, wintry landscapes, horsemarkets, hunts, camps, and cavalryfights; and in rendering effects of warm golden sunlight he is without a rival. During his lifetime and long after, Albert's pictures were held in little estimation. England is particularly rich in his works, the National Gallery possessing eight of his subjects. He died in Dordrecht, in 1691. BENJAMIN CUYP, a nephew of Albert, was born in Dordrecht, in 1608, and became a member of the guild there in 1631. He painted Biblical pieces of country life. His best works are in the manner of Teniers.
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a river of South America, rises in Venezuela, flows first N., then E. through British Guiana, and joins the Mazaruni just above the confluence of the latter with the Essequibo. It has numerous rapids and falls; the lowest is at 59° 3′ W., about 30 miles above the mouth of the river.
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an inland city of Peru, capital of a department of same name (area, 156,270 square miles; pop. about ), 500,000 and formerly capital of the empire of the Incas, at the foot of some hills, 11,380 feet above the level of the sea, about 400 miles E. S. E of Lima. According to tradition, this town was founded in 1043, by Manco Capac, the first Inca of Peru. The grandeur and magnificence of the edifices, es, of its fortress, and of the Temple of the Sun, struck the Spaniards with astonishment in 1534, when the city was taken by Francis Pizarro. On the hill toward the north are yet seen the ruins of a fortress built by the Incas. Pop. about 15,000. CYANAMID. NC.NH2, formed by the action of ammonia on cyanogen chloride. The name is also applied to the compound calcium, Cyanamid NC.NCa, an important product formed in the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by the socalled "cyanamid process." Calcium carbide is first produced by heating carbon and calcium at high temperatures in an electric furnace, and this compound is then heated under pressure with nitrogen obtained from the air. The crude product, known also as Nitrolim, is used as a fertilizer and undergoes decomposition in the soil with the production of cyanamid. The latter is then converted to urea, which is hydrolyzed to ammonium carbonate by organisms in the soil (q. v. NITROGEN).
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