Each of these 15 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.
the prepared membrane of the cæcum of the It is used to separate the leaves of while under the hammer; thus it reduced to extreme thinness, and in state is used as an application to and wounds. Its manufacture is exoffensive.
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a town of Silesia, on the Katzbach, 13 W. S. W. of Liegnitz. It owes origin and name to its former rich mines: suffered much from Monand Hussites, the Thirty Years ' the campaign of 1813, and finally great fires ( 1863-1874); manufactures of cloth, flannel, etc. and now about 7,000. COAST. See GUINEA
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a term used both in mythology and history to designate a period of special prosperity and happiness. The mythological idea of a Golden Age which is common with most nations was of a time when earth yielded her fruits spontaneously, when man lived at peace with man and beast, when poverty and pain were unknown. The Greeks believed this happy state of things to have existed when Cronus, the Roman Saturn, reigned. After he was dethroned by Zeus conditions began to deteriorate. China, Egypt, Assyria, Media, Persia, each has its Golden Age. The reign of Elizabeth is called the Golden Age of England; the reign of Charles V, the Golden Age of Germany; the reign of Frederick the Great, the Golden Age of Prussia. See Hesiod
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the Bay of Rieselarke, so named because its sands glitter like gold.
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the name popularly given to many members of a genus , and of coleopterous insects, Chrysomela of a sub-family, Chrysomelinæ, belonging to the tetramerous section of the order. The body is generally short and convex, some of the species are destitute of wings. None are of large size, but many are distinguished by their metallic splentropdor of color. The finest species are ical, but some are found in Britaine. g., the golden C. cerealis with purple stripes found on Snowdon, and the brassy-green C. polita and C. staphylea commonly found on nettles in spring.
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in German history, an edict issued by Emperor Charles IV in 1356 with the consent of his Diet. The bull was so called from the golden bulla or seal with which it was sealed. The bull was designed to correct certain irregularities in the working of a self-constituted college that took upon itself the election of emperors. The chief content of the bull was a decree that: 1. Formally sanctioned an electoral college . 2. Defined the powers and procedure of the college. 3. Defined the membership of the college, namely: the three archbishops of Mainz, Cologne, and Trier, the King of Bohemia, the Duke of Saxony, the Margrave of Brandenburg and Count Palatine of the Rhine. See Electors
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THE, the Malay Peninsula; so called by Ptolemy and Milton. GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN or
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or RING-TAILED EAGLE, a North American bird, Aquila chrysaëtus, sub-family Aquilnæ. It is 32 to 40 inches long, and the wing 35. The head and neck behind are lightbrownish fulvous, the tail at base white, terminal portion glossy black, and all GOLD DREDGE other parts purplish-brown. It has great power of flight, but not the speed of many of the falcons and hawks, but its keen sight enables it to spy an object of prey at a great distance, and with meteor-like swiftness and unerring aim it falls on its victim. The nest of the golden eagle is placed on a shelf of a rugged and generally inaccessible precipice. It is flat and very large, and con- The eggs are two in sists of dry sticks. number and dull white with undefined patches of brown. The golden eagle and preys on fawns, hares, wild turkeys, other large birds. It does not attain its full beauty of plumage till the 4th year. The so-called ring-tailed eagle is the golden eagle before it has reached maturity. The European golden eagle is so nearly like the American one that there is a question whether it is not the same species.
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originally the name of a powerful Mongol tribe, but afterward extended to all the followers of Genghis Khan, and of Batu, the grandson of Genghis Khan, who invaded Europe in the 13th century. Under Batu the Golden Horde advanced W. as far as the plain of Mosi in Hungary, and Liegnitz in Silesia, at both of which bloody battles were fought in 1241. They founded the empire of the Kiptshaks, or the Golden Horde, which extended from the banks of the Dniester to the Ural, and from the Black Sea and the Caspian to the mouth of the Kama and the sources of the Khoper. This empire lasted till toward the close of the 15th century, when it was overthrown by Ivan III.
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the harbor of Constantinople, an inlet of the Bosporus, so called from its shape and beauty.
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Under this title have been published many volumes purporting to reveal an infallible method of attaining success in a lottery. La Clef d'or, or La Véritable trésor de la fortune, reprinted from time to time at Lille, is based on the doctrine of sympathetic numbers, which the author claims to have discovered. Each number drawn, he declares, has five sympathetic numbers which directly follow it. Thus the number 4 has for its sympathetic numbers 30, 40, 50, 20, and 76. Knowing this, of course, it is an easy matter to win fortune at a lottery.
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the popular name for plants of the genus Chrysosplenium, a small genus of Saxifragaceæ, consisting of annual or perennial rather succulent herbs, with alternate or opposite crenate leaves, and inconspicuous greenish axillary and terminal flowers. They are natives of central and northern Europe, the Himalayas, and parts of America.
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South a American bird, the agami, which emits a deep, rough sound, suggesting that of a trumpet.
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one of the popular names for the hymenopterous genus Chrysis, or the family of which it is the type. They are not genuine wasps. The wasps proper have a sting, and the "golden wasps" only an ovipositor. See WASP.
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the 50th anniversary of a wedding. The presents given to the couple should all be of gold.
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