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.
hash'esh, an intoxicating preparation made by the natives of India from the tips of the hemp plant. The tips of the Indian variety of hemp are dotted with narcotic resin, associated with a powerful oil. The tips are dried and smoked either with or without tobacco. This oil produces a sort of intoxication. The same effect may be had by steeping the dried leaves and drinking the infusion. The hashish habit is prevalent among the Arabs also. See Tobacco
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a Jewish rabbi; born in Babylonia. He lived in the century preage ceding the Christian era. At the of 40 he removed to Jerusalem, where he studied the law with such diligence as to become master of the chief school of that city. He formed a new digest of the traditionary law, from which the "Mishna," or earliest part of the Talmud, is derived. He lived to the great age of 120 years.
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CHILDE, an artist, born in Boston, in 1859. He was educated in the public schools and studied art in Boston and in Paris. He was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1889, and was afterward awarded many medals and prizes at other exhibitions. He was recognized as one of the most talented of modern American artists. He was a member of the American Water Color Society, and the American Institute of Arts and Letters.
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capital of the Belgian province of Limburg, 18 miles N. W. of Maastricht has several distilleries, , manufactures linen fabrics, lace, and tobacco, and cultivates tobacco, madder, and chicory. In 1831 the Dutch defeated the Belgians here.
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A small mystical sect of Judaism, whose members were to be found in some parts of Palestine and Babylon. They practised some sort of communism, and were known also as "fearers of sin."
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or HATCHIE, a river, rising in Tippah co., Miss., passes through part of Tennessee, ee, and enters the Mississippi river near Randolph. An action occurred at Davies' Bridge on this river, Oct. 6, 1862, between a Confederate force under General Van Dorn, and one of National troops under General Ord, in which the former were de- 300 prisoners and feated with the loss of two batteries. Ord and Veatch were wounded during this battle.
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a house for hatching fish, etc.
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The earliest and therefore most simple form of the Yoga practice. An English translation of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika of Swatmaram Swami was published in 1893. This book consists of four chapters: the first containing advice as to surroundings, conduct, postures, etc.; the second dealing with breathing practice, preparation, purification; the third gives ten Mudras which confer miraculous powers; and the fourth is a sort of supplement, and deals with the results of Yoga practice. The fruits of Yoga are detailed, and are of a very omniscient character.
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CAPE, a low point of North Carolina, forming part of a sandbank, in lat. 35° 15′ N. and lon. 75° 31′ W. The coast line here turns from the direction of N. E. to that of due N.; violent storms are frequent, and render navigation dangerous and the island is marked by a light raised 190 feet above the sea.
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a city of Mississippi, the county-seat of Forrest co. It is on the New Orleans and Northeastern, the New Orleans, Mobile, and Chicago, the Mississippi Central, and the Gulf and Ship Island railroads, and on the Leaf river. It is the center of an important lumbering region. Its other industries include railroad shops, woodworking plants, machine shops and manufacture of fertilizers, mattresses, etc. It is the seat of the Baptist Woman's College. Pop. (1910) 11,733; (1920) 13,270.
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Bishop. See Mouse Tower
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haw'berk, a long coat of mail. It was made of twisted steel links. Though heavy, it was pliable and proof against sword cut or thrust of spear. It had many forms. The skirt of the more complete hauberk fell below the knee. The wrist was extended into a chain mitten that covered the back of the hand. A high collar protected the neck, ears, and lower part of the face. A short-bodied, short-sleeved form was known as a habergeon. Defensive coats of this sort may be seen in the armor room of any old European castle or museum of antiquities. See Armor
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MINNIE, an American opera singer; born in New York City Nov. 16, 1852. Her first appearance was in concert in New Orleans when only 13 years old. She afterward studied with Errani in New York and made her operatic début in "La Somnambula" in 1868. She was uniformly successful both in the United States and European countries. She married the Chevalier de Hesse-Wartegg and retired in 1896.
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Better known as the "Seeress of Provost," a somnambule who came under the observation of 66 66 Haunted Houses Dr. Justinus Kerner, a well-known poet and physician, early in the nineteenth century. A natural trance and convulsive patient, she came to Kerner to be magnetised, but he endeavoured at first to treat her by medicinal means. Finding these unavailing, however, he resorted to magnetism. Henceforward the Seeress passed the greater part of her life in trance, displaying all the usual somnambulic phenomena. (See Magnetism under article Hypnotism .) She saw and conversed with apparitions, developed remarkable clairvoyant faculties, and dealt also in mysticism, describing intricate symbolical circle-systems. She was also the author of a primitive" language, constructed with some ingenuity, which purported to be that tongue, spoken by the patriarchs of old, wherein the words conveyed in some mystic manner the properties of the things they designated. Dr. Kerner and others were sometimes able to see Frau Hauffe's ghostly interlocutors, as dim grey pillars of cloud. Physical phenomena of a poltergeistic character were also of common occurrence in her presence.
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GERHART (houpt' män), a German dramatist and poet; born in Salzbrunn, Silesia, Nov. 15, 1862. He was a scholar of solid attainments at Jena and Berlin. His taste for practical sociology comes out strongly in his intense and powerful poems and dramas; he settled on a small Silesian farm solely to study peasant life. He traveled widely, visiting the United States in 1894. His first play, "Promethidenlos" (1885) was conventional; but under Ibsen's inspiration he soon broke away from the old lines, producing "Before Sunrise" and "A Family Catastrophe," tragedies of labor. These and subsequent plays gave him world-wide repute. He later turned to comedy, but "The Weavers" and its successors represent his forte. Among his later plays may be mentioned "Mathilde" (1902); "Einhart der Lächler" (1907); "The Apostle," a novel (1902).
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