Each of these 12 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 small island in the North Atlantic, lying between the Shetland and Orkney Isles, 22 miles from Sumburgh Head. It is 4 miles long by a breadth of 22. Here (1588) the Duke of Medina, admiral of the Spanish Armada, was shipwrecked.
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SIR WILLIAM, a Scotch civil engineer; born in Kelso, Ke Scotland, Feb. 19, 1789; entered business in Manchester, England, in 1817. He constructed the first iron ship in England and afterward his firm built over 100 iron vessels. He was associated with Robert Stephenson in designing and building the great tubular bridge over Menai Strait. He was the author of "Iron, Its History and Manufacture"; "Iron Shipbuilding"; "Useful Information for Engineers"; "An Experimental Inquiry Into the Strength, Elasticity, Ductility, and Other Properties of Steel" (1869); etc. He died Aug. 18, 1874.
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CHARLES STEBBINS, an American public official, born at Cazenovia, N. Y., in 1842. He graduated from Harvard University in 1863, and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1865. He was deputy attorneygeneral of New York in 1874, and attorney-general in 1876-1877. In 1885 he was assistant secretary of the Treasury in President Cleveland's Cabinet, and became Secretary of the Treasury in 1887. He was an officer and director in many important financial institutions.
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a town and port of entry in Fairfield co., Conn., on Long Island Sound, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 52 miles N. E. of New York. It contains the Pequot and Memorial libraries, National and savings banks, a stone powder house and four other buildings constructed during the Revolutionary period. It was founded in 1639. In 1779 it was burned by Governor Tryon. Pop. (1910) 6,134; (1920) 11,475.
a city of Iowa, the It is on the county-seat of Jefferson co. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Its industries include the railroads. manufacture of agricultural implements, wagons, pumps, washing machines, gloves, brooms, etc. It is the seat of Parsons College, and has a court house, county jail, hospital, public library, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 4,970; (1920) 5,948.
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a city of West Virginia, the county-seat of Marion co. It is situated on both sides of the Monongahela river, and is on the New York Central, the Monongahela Valley, and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads. The river is spanned by a steel bridge. Its industries include coal mining, and the manufacture of flour, lumber, iron, glass, cigars, etc. It is the seat of the State normal school, and has a hospital, training school for nurses, excellent school buildings, and the State miners' hospital. Pop. (1910) 9,711; (1920) 17,851.
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an institution for higher education at Wichita, Kan., founded in 1892 as a preparatory school. It took its present form and name in 1896. In the autumn of 1919 there were 252 students and 19 instructors. President, W. H. Rollins, D.D.
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or CIRCLES, rings occasionally observed in pastures, and usually attributed by the peasantry of western Europe to the dancing of the fairies. They are now known to be occasioned by the growth of certain kinds of fungi, which, proceeding outward from a center, render the soil for a time unfitted for the nourishment of grass.
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that assent or credence which we give to the declaration or promise of another, on the authority of the person who makes it. Faith is the means by which we obtain a knowledge of things which do not come under our own observation-things not seen; and in this way faith is distinguished from sight. Faith is also distinct from reason, in so far as it deals with matters which we cannot comprehend by our reason; but, at the same time, while we exercise faith, we must also exercise reason; for it is impossible to exercise an acceptable faith without reason for so exercising it. The term faith is used in theology for the assent of the mind to the truth of what has been revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures. In mythology, Fides was deified by the Romans, and had a temple dedicated to her as early as the time of Numa Pompilius. She is at times represented with a basket of fruit in one hand and ears of corn in the other; but her usual symbol is two hands clasped together.
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a Mohammedan religious mendicant. Among Anglo-Indians, and even among the Hindus, it is often used for a native mendicant of any faith; but specifically it is one of the Mohammedan religion; a Hindu mendicant being better called a Gosavee. Mohammendan fakirs in the East either live in communities or are solitary. The latter wander from place to place, are of filthy habits, and are regarded by the unthinking Mohammedan multitude as men of great sanctity. In the United States, fakir is a slang name given to one of the numerous street merchants and mountebanks.
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a town of France, department of Calvados, 15 miles from Caen. The castle, which stands on a precipice, and in which William the Conqueror was born in 1024, is in ruins, with the exception of a tower.
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a little falcon; a name applied to a genus of tiny falcons, belonging to the sub-family Falconinæ, peculiar to the East Indies. One, Microhierax cærulescens, is found in the Himalayas and Burmese countries. Not one of these little hawks is seven inches in length; they are said to be used by native chiefs for hawking insects and button quails, being ng thrown from the hand like a ball. They sit solitary on high trees, and, according to native accounts, feed on small birds and insects. The word was also formerly applied to a small piece of ordnance, having an outside diameter at the bore of 44 inches, length 6 feet, weight 400 pounds, and carrying a shot of about 2 inches diameter, and 14 to 2 pounds in weight.
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A fertile mountain and plain of Campania , famous for its wine. Falernian wine was held in great esteem by the Romans, and it is often alluded to by the poets. Fannius Strabo , C. Son-in-law of Laelius, introduced by Cicero as a speaker in his De Republica and his Laelius.
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