These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Feldspar, Felicitas, Fellahs.
Feldspar is a principal constituent of many rocks. Clays seem, very generally, to have resulted, at least in great part, from its decomposition. Kaolin, or China clay, is considered to be decomposed feldspar. See KAOLIN; ROCKS.
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The personification of happiness, is frequently seen on Roman medals, in the form of a matron, with the staff of Mercury and a cornucopia. 118 IOOO CLASSICAL CHARACTERS 2026 Editor's Note: Felicitas was distinguished from the goddess Fortuna in Roman religion: while Fortuna was unpredictable and could bring misfortune (acknowledged by an altar to Mala Fortuna, or "Bad Luck"), Felicitas always had positive significance. She had a temple in Rome by the mid-2nd century BC and was honored at two official state festivals: July 1 in conjunction with Juno and October 9 as Fausta Felicitas. During the Imperial period, Felicitas was frequently portrayed on coins as a symbol of the wealth and prosperity of the Roman Empire, making her an important tool of imperial propaganda. (Ed: BR 2026-07-19)
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MRS. MARY ANN EVANS.
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the people in Egypt who live in villages and cultivate the soil. They form three-fourths of the population; are the most ancient race in that to be country, and are generally believed Egyptians the descendants of the old , their physiognomy resembling that which is found on the ancient sculptures.
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GEORGE EMORY, an American educator; born in Beaver Dam, Wis., in 1858. He graduated from Lawin rence University in 1879 and studied University. Germany and in Edinburgh For 10 years he taught in the high schools of Appleton, Wis., and other cities. In of Euro- 1891 he was appointed professor pean history of Indiana University, and from 1902 was assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. In 1902 he was appointed professor of the University of Maine, serving until presi- 1911, when he resigned to become dent of James Millikin University. In 1915 he was appointed head of the department of history at the University of Utah. He was a member of many learned societies, and was the author of "Outlines of the 16th Century" (1895) and "Recent European History" (1902).
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a foundation in an English university entitling the holder, who is called a fellow, to participate in the revenues of a certain college, and also conferring a right to rooms in the , and certain other privileges, as college to meals, etc. The annual pecuniary value of fellowship varies, and till of late years its tenable for life or till marriage. American colleges frequently have fellowships for their graduates, but the conditions of occupancy are not the same. The pecuniary value of a fellowship in an American college varies from $250 to $800 per annum.
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a name given to the dense volcanic or dike rocks found in the Appalachians, in the Rocky Mountains, and elsewhere. The name is applied more particularly to dense igneous rocks whose structure can only be accurately determined by the use of the microscope. A felsite containing crystals of recognizable minerals is known as a felsite porphyry.
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or FELDSPAR, a genus of minerals rather than a single mineral. Formerly there were included under it five species-viz.: (1) Adularia or moonstone, (2) common, (3) compact, (4) glassy, and (5) Labrador felspar.
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in mineralogy, a group of unisilicates; its composition bases lime, soda having the protoxide , potash, and, in one species, baryta, the sesquioxide only alumina; ratio between the two 1.3. Dana includes under it the species Anorthite (Lime felspar), Labradorite (Lime-soda felspar), Hyalophane (Baryta-potash felspar), Andesite and Oligoclase (Soda-lime felspar), Albite (Soda-lime felspar), and Orthoclase (Potash felspar). Blue felspar, the same as lazulite; common felspar, the same as orthoclase; compact felspar, the same as felsite. It is either compact massive oligoclase, oligoclase felsite, or compact orthoclase, orthoclase felsite, halleflinta. Glassy felspar, the same as sanidine; Labrador felspar, the same as labradorite; lime felspar, the same as indianite, or as labradorite; potash felspar, the same as orthoclase. The name was used specially to distinguish it from albite (soda felspar). Soda felspar, the same as albite.
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CORNELIUS CONWAY, an American classical scholar; born in Newbury, Mass., Nov. 6, 1807. In 1834 he became Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard; in 1860 its president. His publications include many translations from German, French, and Greek, of which "The Clouds" and "The Birds" of Aristophanes are the most distinguished; also "Familiar Letters from Europe" (1864); "Greece, Ancient and Modern" (1867); ; "Selections "Selection from Modern Greek Writers"; etc. He died in Chester, Pa., Feb. 26, 1862.
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Cornelius Conway (1807-1862), an American scholar. A native of West Newbury, Massachusetts. He was graduated at Harvard in 1827 and taught at Northampton, Massachusetts, and Genesee, New York . In 1829 he was a Latin tutor at Harvard and a year later a tutor in Greek. In 1832 he became Eliot professor of Greek, and in 1860 he was made president of Harvard. President Felton did much to popularize Latin and Greek. Several translations and school editions of Greek authors are to his credit. His best piece of work was a spirited volume, Ancient Literature and Art, which led many a young man to choose a classical course in college. President Felton was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, a regent of the Smithsonian Institution , and a member of various learned societies.
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in vertebrate animals the first bone of the leg or pelvic extremity, situated between the os innominatum and the tibia; in insects the third joint of the leg; it is long and generally compressed; also in architecture, the long, flat, projecting face between each channel of a triglyph in the Doric order.
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A supposed French Rosicrucian Society, concerning which very little is known. It flourished in the middle of the seventeenth century; and its members claimed that it was of Scottish origin.
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GEORGE MANVILLE, an English story-writer; born in London, Jan. 3, 1831. He graduated from journalism into fiction, gaining prominence by "Eli's Children" (1882), a tale of clerical life; "The Golden Magnet" (1884), a story for boys; "The Master of the Ceremonies" (1886); "High Play" (1898); "A Woman Worth Winning" (1898); ); "Nic Revel" (1898); "The Silver Salvers" (1898); "The King of the Beach" (1899); etc. He died Aug. 27, 1909.
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