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 countyseat of Pickaway co., O.; on the Scioto river, the Ohio and Erie canal, and the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley and the Norfolk and Western railroads, 28 miles S. of Columbus. It derives its name from a circular earth work built works, canneries, and flour mills, numerous churches, a high school, graded public schools, several daily and weekly newspapers, 3 National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 6,744; (1920) 7,049. court in the
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In a pendulum clock the difference of time caused by the pendulum following a circular instead of a cycloidal path.
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numbers whose powers end on the same figure as they do themselves: such are numbers ending in 0, 1, 5, 6. See CIRCULATING LIBRARY. LIBRARY.
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one who sails round the globe. The first European known to have circumnavigated the globe was Magellan or Magalhaens, a Portuguese, who accomplished the feat in A. D. 1519. From him the Strait of Magellan derives its name.
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among the Romans, a nearly oblong building without a roof, in which public chariot-races and exhibitions of pugilism and wrestling, etc., took place. It was rectangular, except that one short side formed a half-circle; and on both sides, and on the semicircular end, were the seats of the spectators, rising gradually one above another, like steps. On the outside the circus was surrounded with colonnades, galleries, shops, and public places. The largest of these buildings in Rome was the Circus Maximus, capable, according to Pliny, of containing 260,000, and according to Aurelius Victor 385,000 spectators. At present, however, but few vestiges of it remain, and the circus of Caracalla is in the best preservation. The games celebrated in these structures were known collectively by the name of ludi circenses, circensian games, or games of the circus, which under the emperors attained the greatest magnificence. The modern circus is a place where horses and other animals are trained to perform tricks, and where exhibitons of acrobats and various pageantries, including a large large amount of buffoonery, are presented.
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A method of producing statuary, etc., by modelling a wax figure on a prepared core, inclosing the wax with suitable composition, drying the mould and melting out the wax, and finally filling the space with metal. See STATUARY-FOUNDING.
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a chronic nonsuppurative inflammation affecting the interstitial connection or supporting tissues of an organ. The process begins after a more rocess or less hyperæmia of the parts in a growth of new connective tissue which is fibrous in character. This subsequently contracts, and in so doing interferes with the nutrition of the proper physiological tissue of the organ, causes it to atrophy or degenerate, and finally takes its place. The term was originally applied to the LIVER (q. v.).
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the tendril of a plant by means of which it climbs, usually a modified leaf or the prolongation of a midrib. CIRRUS. See CLOUD.
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the capital of the ancient Massylii in Numidia. After the defeat of Jugurtha it passed into the hands of the Romans, and was restored by Constantine, who gave it his own name. See CONSTANTINE.
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a former state in north Italy. After the battle of Lodi, in May, 1796, General Bonaparte proceeded to organize two states-one on the S. of the Po, the Cispadane Republic, dane Republic, and one on the N., the Transpadane. These two were on July 9, 1797, united into one under the title of the Cisalpine Republic, which embraced Lombardy, Mantua, Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona, Verona, and Rovigo, the duchy of Modena, the principalities of Massa and Carrara, and the three legations of Bologna, Ferrara, and the Romagna. The republic had a territory of more than 16,000 square miles, and a population of 3,500,000. Milan was the seat of the government or Directory. The army consisted of 20,000 French troops, paid by the republic. The republic was dissolved for a time in 1799 by the victories of the Russians and Austrians, but was restored by Bonaparte after the victory of Marengo, with some modifications of constitution and increase of territory. In 1802 it took the name of the Italian Republic, and chose Bonaparte for its president. A deputation from the republic in 1805 conferred on the Emperor Napoleon the title of King of Italy; after which it formed the kingdom of Italy till 1814.
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a city of Texas, in Eastland co., on the Texas and Pacific and the Texas Central railroads. It is the distributing center for a large territory. Its business is drawn largely from the oil industry. In 1920 a large dam to provide for the city's water supply was begun. It is the center of an important agricultural region and in the neighborhood are important clay and coal deposits. It has newspapers, electric lights, natural gas, hotels, banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 2,410; (1920) 7,422.
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or CISLEITHAN PROVINCES, formerly Austria proper or Austria W. of the river Leitha, which partly forms the boundary between it and Hungary.
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a place of interment of an early or prehistoric period, consisting of a rectangular stone chest or inclosure formed of rows of stones set upright, and covered by similar flat stones. Such cists are found in barrows or mounds, inclosing bones. In rocky districts cists were sometimes hewn in the rock itself.
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A tank, artificially constructed for holding liquids. Foundry cisterns should be spacious and of sufficient number to accommodate every need. Their efficiency is enhanced when provided with a ball-cock which will automatically maintain a certain height of water at all times, with no possibility of flooding the foundry floor.
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Sodom and Gomorrah, chief of those five cities which, according to the commonly received account, were destroyed by fire account, from heaven, and their sites overwhelmed by the waters of the Dead Sea.
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the acid of lemons, limes, and other fruits. It is generally prepared from lemon-juice, and when pure is white, inodorous, and extremely sharp in its taste. In combination with metals it forms crystalline salts known as citrates. The acid is used as a discharge in calico-printing and as a substitute for lemon in making beverages.
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