These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Civil Engineering, Civil Law, Civil List.
the science or art of constructing machinery for manufacturing purposes, constructions and excavations, for general transit, as canals, docks, railroads, etc. It is so called in contradistinction to military engineering, which is confined to war.
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the law of a state, city, or country; appropriately the Roman law comprised in the Institutes, Code, and Digest of Justinian, and the Novel Constitutions.
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the annual allowance voted to the members of the reigning family in constitutional monarchies in which Parliament possesses control of the finances of the country.
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an organization founded in 1881, for the purpose of investigating the efficiency of governmental civil service. It has performed effective work in this connection and largely through its influence many important civil service measures have been passed. During the World War its work was especially valuable in securing civil service efficiency as a factor in military success. After the signing of the armistice in November, 1918, the League effected an investigation into the sources of inefficiency in the civil service at Washington, and recommended the reorganization of the Civil Service Commission.
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a condition consisting in what may be broadly called culture in a nation; and a nation may be considered as civilized when a large proportion of those belonging to it have their intellectual and moral faculties and all their higher nature in large measure developed and becoming increasingly so with the advance of years. Before this can take place, a considerable amount of material prosperity must have been achieved, between which and the culture already described there are continual action and reaction. Regarding progression in material prosperity, certain ty, certain stages tend to occur: (1) a barbarous one, in which one feeds on roots, fruits, and fishes, when these last can be caught without effort; (2) the state of a hunter; (3) that of the shepherd, in which, to avoid the uncercertainty of the result in hunting, wild animals are domesticated; (4) the agricultural state, and (5) that of manufactures and commerce. Regarding mental advance it has been maintained that nations necessarily passed through a theological, a metaphysical, and a positive or scientific stage.
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ort, 50 miles Italian fortified port, an N. W. of Rome, on the Mediterranean, The harbor is both a commercial and naval one, and was originally constructed by the Emperor Trajan; the town indeed owed its origin entirely to the port of this emperor, and hence came to be known as Portus Trajani. The harbor is formed by y two moles and a breakwater, on which latter is a lighthouse. The place, which became a free port under Pope Innocent XII. in 1696, is regularly visited by steamers from many Italian, French, and English ports. It suffered at the hands of the Goths and Saracens, and was occupied by the French in 1849. The Papal troops opened the gates of the fortress to the Italian general Bixio in 1870. Pop. about 18,000.
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the smallest county of Scotland, at the head of the Firth of Forth. Area, 55 square miles; pop. about 35,000.
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COURT OF, a judicial tribunal created by an act of Congress or by legislation of the State to decide or against the States who authorize them. as the
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defined power of perceiving without the use of the organ of vision or under conditions in which the organ of vision with its natural powers alone would be useless. It comprises the sight of things past, present, or future. Various methods of Clairvoyance are recounted: by direct vision of things at a distance (opaque substances being no hindrance); by looking into a black surface; by looking into water, into a crystal, etc.; or by laying the object to be described on the forehead or chest of the clairvoyant; but clairvoyants now usually represent the cerebral region as the seat of illumination. From remote antiquity the possession of such powers by favored individuals has been believed. As instances of clairvoyants in later times may be mentioned Jacob Böhme (1575-1624) and Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), the Swedish scientist and founder of the religious body called "The Church of the New Jerusalem." The phenomena of Clairvoyance have been carefully observed. The clairvoyant state seems to be intimately connected with the mesmeric, the somnambulistic, and the so-
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A device for drawing together and securely holding two or more objects, such as two parts of a flask, core-box, etc. Besides the ordinary ones of cast and wrought iron which may be seen at all foundries, there are a considerable number of patented devices, some of which have very ingenious modes of adjustment. The Diamond Adjustable, with automatic lock, Hawley's Sliding Clamp with excentric head, are among the many truly good inventions which are supplied by the foundry agents. Called a "cramp" sometimes. Clay is a term of uncertain application to all kinds of earth or soil which, when moistened, become plastic and tenacious. Common clays are not easily distinguishable as mineral species; but it is apparent that nearly all have their origin in the decomposition of other minerals, chiefly consisting of alumina in combination with silica and water. See FIRE-CLAY.
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Movable pieces of brass, lead, leather or cork attached to the jaws of a vise while holding objects that would be injured by the vise jaws. CLEANSING, PICKLING AND POLISHING.
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In Irish romance one of the divisions of the Fianna, whose treasure bag containing magic weapons and precious jewels of the Danaan age was kept by Fia of that clan.
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a S. W. suburb of London, lying a mile S. of the Thames. claims against the general government Clapham Common is still an open common of 200 acres. Clapham Junction, in Battersea parish, is one of the busiest railway junctions in the world.
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a maritime county of the province of Munster, Ireland. There coal fields, fisheries, and are extensive sheep and cattle pastures. Chief town, Ennis. Area, 1,332 square miles; pop. about 100,000.
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JOHN, an English poet; born in Helpstone, near Peterborough, July 13, 1793. He was an agricultural laborer, absolutely uneducated; and wrote "Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery," in which a talent not far removed from genius attains many fervent and moving effects. He died in Northampton, May 20, 1864.
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