Each of these 18 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 mountain in Austria belonging to the Noric Alps, on the frontiers of the Tyrol, Carinthia, and Salzburg. It is 12,350 feet in height, and takes its name from the resemblance of the principal summit to a large bell.
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or GROSSGLOGAU, the capital of a district in Prussian Silesia, Germany, situated on the Oder, 60 miles northwest of Breslau, on the Oder river. Here is located a second class fortress, built on an island in the river.
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the largest river in Norway, issuing from Lake Aursund, at 2,339 feet above sea-level, and winding 350 miles to the Skager Rack at Fred-verted into a cathedral at the Reformaerikstad. Its course is interrupted by frequent waterfalls, the last, with a descent of 74 feet, being the Sarpsfos, 7 miles from the mouth. It is only navigable a few miles above and below Sarpsfos. Its most important affluent is the Vormen from Lake Mjösen.
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(See Dee.)
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a leguminous plant, native of the desert regions of Australia. It is a low straggling shrub with light-colored, hairy, pinnate leaves, and large, brilliant scarlet flowers, the standard or banner petal of which appears in the form of an elongated shield with a dark brown boss in the center.
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This stone is said to fall from Heaven in the wane of the moon. It is shaped like the human tongue, and was used by magicians to excite the lunar motions.
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the name is given to the interpretations or explanations of the Justinian code, which were generally written between the lines of the text and on the margin, and were hence called "glossæ interlineares" and "glossæ marginales." These glosses were sometimes held to be of equal authority with the text itself. Accursius, who died about 1260, collected and arranged the glosses of his predecessors. The practice of introducing glosses was also adopted with the books of the canon law.
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a disease affecting herbivorous animals, especially cattle and horses. It is characterized by dark-colored carbuncles on the tongue.
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a vocabulary or dictionary of glosses, or explanations of words obsolete or rare, or occurring only in works of a special class as technical terms, or of provincial dialectal forms of words.
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inflammation of the tongue. When it occurs, it is generally as a symptom of some other disease. The tongue when inflamed often becomes too large for the mouth.
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the mouth of the wind-pipe. It constitutes a narrow aperture covered by the epiglottis when one holds his breath or swallows. It contributes by dilatation and contraction to the modulation of the voice. It is sometimes called the rima glottis.
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a city in Camden co., N. J.; on the Delaware river and on the Atlantic City and Pennsylvania railroad; 3 miles S. of Camden. It has steam ferry connections with Philadelphia, and has electric lights and street railroads, waterworks, cotton mills, iron, terra cotta, print works, the Welsbach gas mantle factory, and valuable fishing interests. There are weekly newspapers, and savings banks. Pop. (1910) 9,462; (1920) 12,162.
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a city in Fulton co., N. Y.; on the Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville railroad, and on the Erie canal; 50 miles N. W. of Albar Albany. It is celebrated for its manufacture of gloves. It contains the Nathan Littauer Hospital, the Parsons Free Library, a high school, business college, a National bank, waterworks, electric lights and railroads, and daily and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 20,642; (1920) 22,075.
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a beetle of which the male flies and does not shine, while the female shines and does not fly. It is from the latter sex, therefore, that the name glow worm has been derived. The phosphoric light is displayed at the tail of the insect.
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a beetle famous for emitting light. The common glowworm of English literature is the wingless and, therefore, wormlike female of a beetle closely related to our firefly. This insect is about half an inch long, black, with dusky reddish legs and a marginal line of the same color. Like our firefly, the glowworm is nocturnal. The last segments of its body emit a steady, strong, soft, bluish gleam. As the light-giving female has no wings, it is easily caught. A couplet from Hamlet gives a glimpse of the hours Shakespeare kept and of his keen observation: The glowworm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. Evidently the poet did not know that it is the female that glows. "The glowworm," says Mr. Edison, "can do something we have not learned to do. It can give light without heat." For a further discussion see FIREFLY. Glub-dub-drib. A land visited by Captain Lemuel Gulliver in which only musicians dwelt. See Gulliver'S Travels
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a genus of plants, order Gesneraceæ. Some of the species are among the more popular flowers, and are well known to gardeners by their foxglove-shaped flowers of varied colors, each standing on a separate stalk-in some forms with the opening of the tube directed downward; in others standing erect. The gloxinia generate buds from fragments of their leaves, under the hands of the cultivator.
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a town in the government of Tchernigoff, Russia; 112 miles E. of Tchernigoff. It has manufactures of soap, candles, and leather, and a considerable trade in grain. In the vicinity is the chief source for porcelain clay in the empire. Pop. about 15,000.
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CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD (glök), a German composer; born in Weidenwang, July 2, 1714; studied music at Milan, under San Martini, and presented soon afterward several operas in theaters in Italy. Judging that his want of success was partially due to the weakness of the libretti, he conjoined with himself in his labors the poet Ranieri di Calzabigi, and his next subsequent opera, "Helena and Paris," was received with tumults of applause. In 1774 he went to Paris, and presented there successively CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK several masterpieces, as "Iphigenia in Aulis," "Orpheus," "Armidas," "Iphigenia in Taurus," "Alcestes." He died in Vienna, Nov. 15, 1787. GLÜCKSTADT (glük'stät), a town in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, on the Elbe river, 32 miles N. W. of Hamburg. Founded in 1616 by Christian IV. of Denmark, it is a pretty town, regularly built, and intersected by canals, its chief building the Rathaus (1642; restored 1874). During the Thirty Years' War Glückstadt successfully withstood three sieges; its fortifications were demolished in 1815.
ALMA, a soprano singer, born in Bucharest, Rumania, in 1886. At the age of three she was brought to the United States, where she was educated in the public schools and at Normal College of New York. She studied music in that city, and made her first appearance in 1909 in opera. She at once gained recognition as an artist of unusual talent, both in opera and on the concert stage. In 1914 she married Efrem Zimbalist, violinist.
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