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.
NELSON, an American legislator; born in Durham, Me., Feb. 15, 1832. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1855; was elected to the State Legislature six times; was governor of Maine in 1874-1875; was elected to Congress in 1881, and was re-elected for seven terms. He was the author of the Dingley Tariff Bill of 1897, and a member of the Anglo-American Commission of 1898. He died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 13, 1899.
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a powerful tribe of Negritos who lived on both sides of the White Nile between lat. 6° and 12° N. Their territory covers 60,000 square miles. They are intelligent, have some skill in making articles for household use, and also follow agriculture. Each village is governed by its own chief.
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an order of mammalia having on each of the four feet five welldeveloped toes, each terminated by a hoof. Three horn cores. No upper incisors; upper canines assuming the form of long tusks directed downward. The species are large mammals from the Eocene of North America. Professor Cope ranks the Dinocerata as an aberrant group of Ungulata, while Professor Marsh considers them a distinct order intermediate between the Perissodactyle Ungulata and the Proboscidea.
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a tribe or sub-order of reptiles established by Herman von Meyer in 1832, and subsequently called by him Pachypodes, or Pachypoda. In 1841 Professor Owen gave them the name which they still retain, Dinosauria. Huxley places them as one of two sub-orders under his order Ornithoscelida, and thus defines them: Cervical vertebræ short, femur as long as or longer than the tibia. Huxley divides them into three families: the Megalosauridæ, the Sceiidosauridæ, and the Iguanodontidæ. ~
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or DINOTHERE, a genus of fossil mammals belonging to the order Proboscidea (Kaup, Huxley, and others), or to the order Cetacea, and the sub-order Sirenia (Blainville, Pictet, Carpenter, Dallas, and others), The D. giganteum, of which the entire skull and lower jaws were found in Miocene sand at Eppelsheim on the Rhine by Klipstein, and were described by Kaup, was apparently larger than the elephant. Its tusks, which projected from the lower jaw, curved downward, and were used by the animal, which was semi-aquatic, to support its head on the shore. It is believed that it had a short, flexible trunk. British
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ROBERT, a official and lieutenant-governor of Virginia in 1752-1758; born in Scotland, about 1690. During his official career he recommended the annexation of the Ohio Valley and the erection of forts to secure the W. frontier against the French. He was one of the most earnest supporters of the French and Indian War, which began about 1753 and lasted 10 years. He died in Clifton, England, Aug. 1, 1770.
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BATHS OF frontiers, and Roman power restored from Britain to Egypt. In 305, in conjunction with Maximian, he resigned the imperial dignity at Nicomedia, and retired to Salona in Dalmatia, where he died in 313. In the latter part of his reign he was induced to sanction a persecution of the Christians.
BATHS OF. See BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN.
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a genus of toleostean fish, family Gymnodontes, order Plectognathi, deriving their name from the fact that the ivory-clad terminations of the jaws show no suture, and the fish thus appear to possess but two teeth. The body, as in other members of the family, can be inflated with air till the creature floats on the surface of the water under side uppermost; it is likewise covered with ossifications in the skin. The rotundity of these fish has earned for them the name of globe-fish, or prickly globe-fish, and sea hedgehog. The four species of diodon are found in all the seas between the tropics, and range to the Cape of Good Hope. The largest species (D. hystrix) attains the length of two feet six inches.
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a native of Agyrium, in Sicily, who wrote a "Universal History" in 40 books, of which only 15 books and a few fragments remain. He flourished about B. C. 10.
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An Epicurean philosopher, born in Cilicia. He wrote the lives of the philosophers in ten books. This work contains an accurate account of the ancient philosophers, and is replete with anecdotes respecting them. It is compiled, however, without any plan, method, or precision, though neatness and conciseness are observable in it.
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a group of three small islands in Bering's Strait, and midway between Asia and America. DINOTHERIUM
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A Syracusan, son of Hipparina, famous for his power and abilities. He was related to Dionysius the First, who constantly advised with him, and at whose court he obtained great popularity. He was assassinated 354 years before the Christian era by one of his familiar friends. His death was greatly lamented by the Syracusans, who raised a IOI monument to his memory. When Dionysius the Second ascended the throne he banished Dion, who collected some forces, and in three days made himself master of Syracuse.
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A native of Nicaea in Bithynia , who was raised to some of the greatest offices of state in the Roman empire. He is celebrated as the writer of a history of Rome which occupied him twelve years in composing.
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Surnamed the goldenmouthed, on account of his eloquence. There are extant eighty of his orations; but they are rather essays on political, moral, and philosophical subjects than real orations.
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or DIONYSOS (di-ō-ni' sus), the Greek god of wine, son of Zeus and Semele. Zeus appearing to Semele in thunder and lightning so affrighted her as to cause the premature bir birth of Dionysus. Zeus carried the babe in his thigh, and when it came to maturity placed it in Ino's care. Dionysus wandered over the world teaching the cultivation of the vine. One of his surnames was Bacchus.
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that branch of geometrical opt optics which treats of the transmission of rays of light from one medium into another differing in kind. It consists of the results of the application of geometry to ascertain in particular cases the action of what are called the laws of refraction.
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a granite-like rock, consisting of hornblende and albite. It is grayish-white to nearly black in color. It derives its name from being unmistakably or clearly defined, as distinguished from dolerite. DIOSCOREACEÆ, a natural order of plants belonging to the class Dictyogens, consisting of twining shrubs. Lindley enumerates six genera and 110 species, Testudinaria Elephantipes is the tortoise plant of the Cape, or elephant's-foot. Tamus communis, black bryony, is common in hedge-rows.
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