Each of these 13 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 of Georgia, in Fulton co. It is on the Central of Georgia and the Atlantic and West Point railroads. Its industries include oil mills, fertilizer factories, saw and planing mills, iron works, cotton mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 3,682; (1920) 5,241.
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town of Rhode Island, in Providence co. It is on a the New York, New Haven and Hart, ford railroad, and on the Seekonk river, which separates it from Providence. Its industries include chemical, electrical, works. Pop. (1910) 15,808; (1920) 21,793. and wire
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the strait between Long Island Sound and New York harbor, separating the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. It is about 12 miles long, varies from one-half a mile to 32 miles in width, and is navigable by the largest ships.
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a borough of New Jersey, in Bergen co. It is on the Erie railroad. It is chiefly a residential city for New York business men, and has cotton and linen bleaching works. It contains a mirror and a steam boiler factory. Pop. (1910) 4,275; (1920) 5,463. EAST ST. LOUIS, a city in St. Clair co. Ill., on the Mississippi river, opposite St. Louis, Mo., and on the Baltimore and Ohio, Illinois Central, Burlington and Quincy, and seventeen other railroads. It is connected by a steel bridge with St. Louis, Mo., and has excellent passenger and freight steamer service with all leading river ports. The city contains the St. Louis National Stockyards, one of the largest in the United States; has rolling mills, glass works, machine shops, grain elevators, manufactories of pneumatic tools, baking powder, locomotives, fertilizer and paint, and is the largest horse and mule market in the world. It has 2 National and several private banks, electric street railroads, electric and gas lighting plants, high schools, a public library, daily and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 58,- 547; (1920) 66,767.
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a village of Ohio, in Mahoning co. It is on the Balti more and Ohio railroad, and on the Mahoning river. Its chief industry is the manufacture of iron. Pop. (1910) 4,972; (1920) 11,237.
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a favorite English watering place, especially for the wealthier classes, in the Rape of Pevensey, midway between Brighton and . Hastings, and 66 miles S. of London Pop. (1918) 48,784.
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a lonely Pacific islet in lat. 27° 8' S., and lon. 109° 24' W.; discovered by Roggeveen on Easter day, 1722, visited in 1773 by Captain Cook; is 47 square miles in area; entirely volcanic, with many extinct craters rising more than 1,000 feet; and is fertile, but with little water. Sheep and cattle grazing was started by a French house in Tahiti, after the departure in 1878 of the missionaries, with 300 natives, for the Gambian Archipelago, 500 having been shipped to Tahiti four years earlier. The natives still left are fair Polynesians; between 1860 and 1882 they dwindled from 3,000 to 150, as well from polyandry as from emigration. They have little to say as to the origin of the picturesque remains that have made Easter Island famous. These include over 500 rude stone statues or busts, possibly portraits of famous persons, not idols, varying from 3 feet high to 70. The There are besides 100 stone houses, with painted interiors and (undeciphered) incised tablets. Most of the natives were carried off in 1863 by the Peruvians to work guano. The island has been, since 1888, a Chilean convict station.
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the Greek Church which formerly had its chief seat at Co Constantinople, and for its chief ruler the patriarch of that capital, as distinguished from the Western Church which had its metropolis at Rome and was ruled by the papacy.
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the empire which had its metropolis at Constantinople, as distinguished from the Western one which had its capital at Rome. The name did not begin with the building of Co Constantinople; it arose when, hen, in A. D. 394 394 , Valentinian, himself ruling ruling at the capital just mentioned, made his brother Valens Emperor of the East. It came still more into use when the final separation between the East and the West took place in A. D. 395. The Eastern Empire is held to have continued till 1453, when its chief city was captured by the Turks and became the Turkish capital. It is sometimes called the Lower Empire, implying that it was later in time than its more celebrated predecessor, to which, however, the name Higher is not applied.
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an auxiliary order or secret society to which Free Masons and the wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, and widows of Masons are eligible. The first chapter was organized in New York in 1868. There are now twenty-eight grand chapters in as many states and over 100,000 members. The emblem of the order is a five-pointed star. See Masonry
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a town of Massachusetts, in Hampshire co. It includes three villages and is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and the Boston and Maine railroads. Its industries include a dyeing plant and manufactories of rubber goods, buttons, shoe webs, cotton goods, felt, yarn, etc. It is the seat of Williston Seminary and has a public library and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 8,524; (1920) 11,261.
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SIR CHARLES LOCK, an English artist, and critic and his torian of art; born in Plymouth, Nov. 17, 1793. His paintings were noteworthy; and in such books as "Materials for a History of Oil Painting" (1847-1869) and "History of the Gothic Revival" (1871), he manifested taste and discrimination. He died in Pisa, Italy, Dec. 14, 1865.
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CHARLES ALEXANDER (OHIYESA), an American physician, born at Redwood Falls, Minn., in 1858. He He gradwas the son of Sioux Indians. uated from Dartmouth College in 1887, and after studying medicine became Government physician at the Pine Ridge Agency, serving until 1893. He was Indian secretary of the Y. M. C. A. from 1894 to 1897, and was in charge of the field work of that organization among the Indians. From 1897 to 1900 he was attorney for the Santee Sioux Indians at Washington, and from 1903 to 1909 held revise Sioux family an appointment to He married in 1891 Elaine names. Goodale, poet. He wrote several books on Indian life and customs. These include "Indian Boyhood" (1902); "Old Indian Days" (1907); "The Soul the Indian" (1911); "The Indian To-day" of (1915); "Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains" (1918). He also lectured on Indian life and history.
ELAINE GOODALE, an American writer; born at Mt. Washington, Mass., in 1863. She was educated privately. She early began writing verse which attracted considerable notice. From 1883 to 1891 she was a teacher and supervisor of Indian schools. In the latter year she married Charles A. Eastman. Her writings, chiefly poetry, include "Apple Blossoms" (1878); "Little Brother o' Dreams" (1910); "Indian Legends Re-told" (1919). She was a freq requent contributor to papers and magazines on Indian subjects.
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