Each of these 14 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 mountainous district on the E. side of the Jordan, bounded by the Hieromax (Yarmuk), Arabia, Moab and Ammon, and the Jordan. The district was given to the tribes of Manasseh, Reuben, because of the multi- Gad, and and tude of their cattle, and as a frontier land which was exposed to invasion. There is mention of Gilead in Gen. xxxvii. Ramoth (Es-Salt), Jabesh, and Jazer are three of the cities mentioned in Scripture.
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an ancient city near the Jordan, where the Israelites passed the river into Caanan, where they were circumcised and held the first Passover after leaving the desert (Joshua iv: 19). Here rested the tabernacle, till removed to Shiloh; here Samuel held court as judge of Israel, and here Saul was crowned. It is frequently mentioned in the Bible; a school of the prophets was established here (II Kings iv: 38), yet it afterward became a seat of heathen worship (Amos iv: 4). Josephus places it within 2 miles of Jericho, but no traces of it are at this day extant.
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or GILGIT (gil-git'), a valley and district in Kashmir, India, on the S. slope of the Hindu Kúsh, and watered by the Gilgit, or Yasm, a tributary of the Indus.
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an American flowering plant allied to phlox and the garden sweet william . Numerous species are found on the plains and in the mountains as far west as the Pacific coast. Gilias vary greatly from low matted plants clinging to the crevices of a mountain slope to tall, imposing meadow plants. The gilia of the west corresponds to the phlox of the east.
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DAVID, SIR a Scotch astronomer; born in Aberdeen, June 12, 1843; educated at Marischal College. He was chief of staff of Lord Lindsay's observatory, founded in 1870; in charge of Lindsay's expedition to Mauritius in 1874 to observe the transit of Venus and the opposition of Juno, by means of the heliometer, for the determination of the solar parallax. He determined the longitudes of Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Aden, Bombay, Seychelles, Reunion, Mauritius, and Rodriguez by cable and chronometers, and measured the first base-line for the Egyptian triangulation at the request of the khedive. In 1877 he was in charge of the expedition to Ascension to observe the opposition of Mars for parallax; and in 1879 appointed director of the Cape Observatory. In 1896-1897, he made the first geodetic survey of Natal, Cape Colony, and Rhodesia. He introduced cataloguing the stars by photographs. Wrote "History of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope" (1913). He died in 1914.
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a net suspended in a stream, having meshes which allow the heads of the fish to pass, and which catch in the gills to prevent the fish from detaching itself.
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in ichthyology, one of the rudimentary gills constituted by sacs, occurring in the myxinoids and lampreys. A gill of the ordinary fishes is the homologue, not of a single gill sac, but of the continuous halves of two of them.
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a variety of the common trout, in which the coats of the stomach are said to be thickened like the gizzard of birds by feeding on shell-fish.
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ST. (san zhēl), a town in the department of Gard, France, 12 miles S. S. W. of Beaucaire. Its territory produces a strong red wine, which is exported.
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WILLIAM, an American playwright; born in Hartford, Conn., July 24, 1855. He is the author of several successful plays, in many of which he has assumed the leading parts. Among his best-known productions are: "The Professor" (1881); "Esmeralda" (1881), with Mrs. F. H. Burnett; "The Private Secretary"; "Held by the Enemy" (1886); "A Legal Wreck" (1888); "Too Much Johnson" (1895); and "Secret Ser- "Sherlock vice" (1896); "Sherlock Holmes"; "Clarice"; etc.
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a town of Dorsetshire, England, on the Stour, 22 miles W. of Salisbury. It is the center of a fruitgrowing district. Near it are the "Pen Pits," thought variously to be quarry holes or prehistoric dwellings.
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QUINCY ADAMS, an American military officer; born in Black River, Lorair. co., O., Fe Feb. 28, 1825; graduated at West Point in 1849. He was promoted captain in 1861, and Brigadier-General of volunteers early in 1862. He displayed skill as an engineer by the capture of Fort Pulaski in April, 1862, and was appointed commander of Department of the South in June, 1863. He made a successful attack on Morris Island in July, 1863, began to bombard Fort Sumter and Charleston in August, and took Fort Wagner in September; Fort Sumter was reduced to a ruinous condition, dut its garrison continued to hold it till Feb. 17, 1865. General Gillmore commanded the 10th Corps near Richmond in 1864, and was brevetted Major-General U. S. A., in 1865. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 7, 1888.
INEZ HAYNES, an American author, born of American parents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1873; received her common school education in Boston, then took a special course in Radcliffe College, from 1897 to 1900. She was first married to Rufus Hamilton Gillmore, and later to William H. Irwin. Together with Maud Wood Park she founded the National College of the Equal Suffrage League. She is the author of "June Jeopardy" (1908); "Maida's Little Shop" (1910); "Phoebe and Ernest" (1910); "Janey" (1911); "Phoebe, Ernest and Cupid" (1912); "Angel Island" (1914); "The Ollivant Orphans" (1915); "The Lady of Kingdoms" (1917); "The Happy Years" (1919), and many short stories published in American magazines.
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Patrick Sarsfield (1829-1892), an Irish-American bandmaster. He was born near Dublin, Ireland. At the age of eighteen he went to Boston, and soon after organized Gilmore's Band. He arranged the Peace Jubilee in Boston in 1819 and the World's Jubilee in 1872. He composed military and dance music. Columbia, intended as a national hymn, is his most noted composition.
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or JILOLO (jē-lōlō), an island of the Molucca group in the Indian Archipelago; area 6,500 square miles. It is of singular form, consisting of four peninsulas, radiating from a common center, and having large bays between. It is rugged and mountainous. The principal productions are sago, cocoanuts, uts, spices, fruits, edible birds'-nests, horses cattle , and sheep. The original inhabitants, called Alfoories, have been gradually pressed into the interior by the Malays.
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