These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Fingal, Fingitas, Finland.
a personage celebrated in the poems of Ossian, who was his son. He was Prince of Morven, a province of ancient Caledonia, and struggled against the power of the Romans, who were in his time the rulers of England. He also undertook warlike expeditions to the Orkneys, Ireland, and even Sweden, and was a prince of a highly chivalric character. Lived in the 3d century.
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A tongue or narrow strip attached to the sweep-board by the loam-moulder, when he forms a perfectly true loam-bed on the brickwork, on which to rest a bracket or any other piece of pattern which is to form a part of the finished casting. The moulder marks his true depth by means of a square held against the spindle; and the finger-piece may then be screwed fast and true to the line. This is very superior practice to the common one of attempting to bed such work on soft loam, as, after the bed has been struck, it may be made firm almost immediately with a charcoal fire in an old riddle or lamp. See LOAM-MOULDING; SPINDLE; SWEEP; LAMP.
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The tradition concerning this stone is remarkable. It is described as quite transparent and hard like marble. It is related that a certain king built a temple of it which needed no windows, the light being admitted into it as if it had been all open to the day.
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GULF OF, one of the great arms of the Baltic Sea, extending E. and N. between lat. 58° 40′ and 60° 40', and between lon. 23° and 30° 10' E. It has a length of 260 miles, by a varying width of between 25 and 90 miles.
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JOHN HUSTON, an American educator; born in 1863 at Grand Ridge, III. He was educated at Knox College and at Johns Hopkins University. From 1892 to 1899 he served as president of Knox College, and after that as editor of "Harper's Weekly," and later of "McClure's Magazine." Princeton University appointed him in 1900 professor of politics, and three years later he was elected president of the College of the City of New York. In 1913 he became Commissioner of Education for the State of New York, a position he still holds. In 1917 he went to France as special commissioner representing the State of New York in matters pertaining to education. He is the author of many periodical articles and reviews, and his recent books are: "The French in the Heart of America" (1914); "French Schools in War Time" (1917); "A Pilgrim in Palestine" (1918).
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or FINDON, a fishing village of Scotland, Kincardine county; 6 miles S. of Aberdeen. It has been long celebrated for its preparation of smoked haddocks, known far and wide as "Finnan haddocks," or "haddies." This delicacy is prepared by gutting, cleaning, splitting, and smoking the fish. The most particular part of the process is the smoking, which should be done by the green branches of the fir tree, or still better, spruce; thus communicating to the fish its peculiar odor and bright yellow color.
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. See Literature
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An Italian alchemist doctor and surgeon of the sixteenth century. He was a voluminous writer whose best known work is a Summary of the Arcana of Medicine, Surgery and Alchemy , published in Venice in 1571. It embraces an application of the principles and methods of Hermes to the Science of Medicine. The author's account of the petra philosophorum shews its designation to be purely arbitrary. It is a mixture of mercury, nitre and other ingredients intended as a stomachic and has no connection with the transmuting lapis of the alchemists.
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an inlet of the sea, generally long, narrow, and deep; a term applied in Scandinavian countries to any bay, creek, or arm of the sea which extends inland, and sometimes used to express an inland lake or considerable sheet of water; as, Sogne Fiord. The fiords of Iceland, like those which indent the granitic coasts of Norway, were formed by immense flows of lava, raised and rent by subterraneous forces. In the S. part of the island, the caverns, basaltic colonnades, and natural arches of Stapi remind one of the strangest formations of Ireland, and the beautiful grotto of Antrim. These gulfs, often but half a mile in width, extend as far as 5 or 6 miles into the mountains, where they are surrounded on all sides by perpendicular rocks, rising to an immense height.
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or FIRDUSI (-dö-sē), a Persian poet; lived from about 935 to about 1020. His true name was Abul Kasim Mansur. He is the greatest of Persian epic poets. In 1010, after 35 years of labor, was completed his first heroic epic, the "Shah-Namah" (King's Book), in about 80,000 distichs; it recounts the ancient Persian traditions of heroism. His other great poem, "Jussuf and Zulikha," a religious-romantic epos, is founded on the Biblical story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife. He lived long at the court of Mahmud of Ghazni. equipment connected by wire with a
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a variety of clay used in the making of glass retorts, glass pots, fire bricks, crucibles, and the like. When found it is always a stratum immediately beneath a layer of coal. It must be a pure compound of silica and aluminum, free from an appreciable quantity of alkali, iron, lime, or magnesia. Articles made from a good quality of fire clay may be exposed to a temperature at which glass melts and ordinary pottery crumbles. Fire bricks made of this clay are able to with-stand a heat at which ordinary bricks fuse and run into a glassy mass. In the various operations connected with blast furnaces and the different methods of making steel, it is requisite to have huge retorts, cupolas, crucibles, and fire-brick linings capable of withstanding 1,000 deg., 1,600 deg., 2,000 deg., 2,600 deg. and even 3,000 deg. of heat. See Brick ; Pottery
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. See Damps
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or FIRE ANNIHILATOR, an apparatus intended for extinguishing fire by the spraying of specific liquids, such as water charged with carbon dioxide or some other gas impervious to combustion. These extinguishers are usually cylindrical in form, made of a metal both light and strong, containing a solution of soluble carbonate, and in an upper glass receptacle a quantity of sulphuric acid which mingles with the carbonate solution when the cylinder is inverted preparatory to its use. The resultant carbon dioxide during its process of generation drives the saturated liquid through a valve, nozzle, or other opening, by the manipulation of which it may be directed on the flames. The extinguishers may be of a size convenient for carrying ent for carrying or they may be large enough to require moving on wheels, as in factories. A more elaborate arrangement is the sprinkler system, consisting of pipes running under the ceiling in the successive stories of an establishment, from which water is automatically released when a given temperature is reached, supplemented by the use of certain chemical agents. A smaller form of extinguisher is the hand grenade, containing solutions such as chlorine, and mixtures of calcium chloride, which is thrown bodily in the flames where the fire is at its inception.
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