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.
the name given to any one of the planets that may be seen at certain seasons just above the horizon early in the evening; especially applied to the plane planet Venus on account of its brightness and beauty. Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are the other evening stars.
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MOUNT, the highest known mountain in the world, situated in the Himalayas, in Nepal. It is 29,140 feet high, and was named in honor of Sir George Everest, a noted English surveyor and civil engineer.
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Mount, the highest known mountain in the world. It is situated in the central Himalayas. Height 29,002 feet. The mountain is five and one-half miles high. No one has yet reached the summit. The air is so rare that it is believed no one could survive many minutes. It was named for the English engineer, Sir George Everest, who conducted the great trigonometrical survey of India. Among other achievements are his measurement of a meridian through eleven and one-half degrees. Of late geographers are of opinion that a neighboring crest is higher than Everest, but the question may be regarded as an open one. See Tibet ; Himalayas
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a plant that retains its verdure through all the seasons, as the fir, the holly, the laurel, the cedar, the cypress, the juniper, the holm-oak, and many others.
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a city of Portugal, capital of the province of Alemtejo, 75 miles E. by S. of Lisbon. It is the center of a considerable steel, cotton, and woolen industry, but is most famous for its archæological museum, one of the best in the country. It contains a church library with 25,000 volumes. Pop. about 18,000.
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a city of France, capital of the department of Eure, in Normandy, situated on the Iton, 67 miles W. N. W. from Paris. A considerable industry in linens, shoes, and gasoline engines is carried on, while the town is the_center of an important grain trade. It was the center of heavy fighting during the World War, especially during the intensive operations incidental to the great Allied offensive, known as the Battle of Normandy.
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GEORG HEINRICH AU- GUST VON (a'valt), a German Orientalist and Biblical critic; born in Göttingen, Nov. 16, 1803. After studying at the university there, in 1827 he became extraordinary, in 1831 ordinary Professor of Theology, and in 1835 Professor of Oriental Languages. In 1837 he lost his chair at Göttingen on account of his protest against the king's abrogation of the liberal constitution, became Professor of Theology at Tübingen, but in 1848 returned to his old chair at Göttin- When Hanover was annexed by Prussia in 1866 he became a zealous defender of the rights of the ex-king. Among his chief works are the following: "Complete Course of the Hebrew Language"; "The Poetical Books of the Old Testament"; "History of the People of Israel"; "Antiquities of the People history is considered his of Israel." The greatest work. He died in Göttingen, May 5, 1875.
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RICHARD STODDERT, military officer; born in Georgetown, D. C., Feb. 8, 1817; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1840; served in the cavalry on the frontier, and during the Mexican War with Scott from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico; and was promoted captain for gallantry and meritorious conduct at Contreras and Churubusco. At the outbreak of the Civil War he resigned his commission in the National army; joined the Confederates; and was actively engaged throughout the war. He took part in the Maryland campaign and in the battles of Bull R Run, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness, and attained the rank of Lieutenant-General. After the war he retired to private life. He died in Springfield, Tenn., Jan. 25, 1872.
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THOMAS, an American statesman; born near West Liberty, Va., Dec. 28, 1789; was graduated at the Ohio University in Athens in 1815; admitted to the bar in 1816; and practiced law for 15 years. He was a United States Senator from Ohio in 1831-1837 and 1850-1851; Secretary of the Treasury under President Harrison in 1841; and Secretary of the Interior under President Taylor in 1849. In the United States Supreme Court he ranked among the foremost lawyers of the nation. He died in Lancaster, O., Oct. 26, 1871.
JULIANA HORATIA GATTY, an English story-writer and poet; born in Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, in 1841. Her stories for children became very popular and included "Daddy Darwin's Dovecote"; "Dandelion Clocks and Other Tales"; "A Flat-Iron for a Farthing"; "A Great Emergency and Other Tales", and "Jackanapes." She died in Bath, England, May 13, 1885.
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in Great Britain, the department which deals with the moneys received and paid on behalf of the public services of the country. The public revenues are paid into the Bank of England (or of Ireland) to account of the exchequer, and these receipts as well as the necessary payments for the public service are under the supervision of an important official called the controller and auditor-general, the payments being granted by him on receipt of the proper orders proceeding through the treasury. The public accounts are also audited in his department.
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the process in animal and plant physiology which separates from the essential substance or animal body waste matter of no further use in nutrition. The organs so employed partake of the characters of strainers, which retain substances soluble in the blood necessary to health and extrude the harmful. The primary excretory organs in vertebrates are the kidneys. kidneys. The function of these is to separate from the blood the waste materials produced by the decomposition of nitrogenous substances and expel them from the body. The lungs and the skin likewise perform some of the duties of excretory organs. In its simplest form the excretory organ is found in the Protozoa, in which the contractile vacuole by means of delicate infusoria drains the waste material and then discharges the contents. punish-
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that branch of government whose duty it is to enforce or execute the law. According to the accepted canon of political science, there are three departments of government: the legislative or law-making body, the judicial branch, which interprets the law, and the executive . In the Federal Government of the United States the President is the chief executive, assisted by the various heads of departments. In the State governments the governor heads the executive department. heads of the executive departments , that is, the secretaries of State , War, Navy, Treasury, Interior , Commerce, Agriculture, and Labor, with the Attorney General and Postmaster- General, constitute the President's advisers or Cabinet. This was not provided for in the Constitution , which vests the entire executive power in the President's hands , but the Cabinet has grown up as a matter of necessity. The
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