These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Hessian Crucible, Hessite, Hestia.
A triangular-shaped crucible, made from the best fire-clay and coarse sand. They are a cheap kind, and come in nests of sizes from 2 to 8 inches high. They are usually for experimental purposes, and seldom last but once. See CRUCIBLE.
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an orthorhombic gray sectile mineral of metallic luster. Hardtion: Tellurium, 37.2; silver, 62.8 = 100. Found in the Altai Mountains in a talcose rock, also in Transylvania and Hungary.
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hes'ti-a, in Greek mythology, the goddess of the hearth. She was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. She was considered the guardian of family life, and, as the state was looked upon as a great family, a fire was kindled to Hestia at every public resort. If a colony was to be established in any new place, the emigrants were careful to take with them some portion of the fire sacred to Hestia that the favor of the goddess might be with them in their new abode. Hestia was identified with the Roman Vesta, and her worship in Greece was similar to that of Vesta in Rome. See Vesta
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a term introduced by Agassiz to designate the unsymmetrical tail of elasmobranch and most ganoid fishes, in which the vertebral axis is bent upward in the tail, making the upper lobe much the larger.
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an order of marine mollusks, the most highly organized of the Gasteropoda. In this verorder the foot is compressed into a tical muscular lamina, serving for a fin, and the gills, when present, are collected into a mass on the hinder part of the back. The chief genera are Carinaria and Firola.
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or ATAMAN, the title of the head (general) of the Cossacks.
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a monoclinic, transparent or translucent brittle mineral, of pearly luster, and white, red, gray, or brown color.
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JOSEPH, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, born at Kingston, N. J., in 1730. In 1763 he moved to Edenton, N. C., and in 1774 was elected to the Continental Congress, of which he was a member until his death in 1779.
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ABRAM STEVENS, an American statesman; born in Haverstraw, N. Y., July 31, 1822. He was graduated at Columbia College; was commissioner to the French Exposition of 1867; member of Congress 1875- 1879 and 1881-1886; mayor of New York 1887-1888; -1888; secretary of the Cooper Union, New York. He was a high authority on all questions relating to iron. He died in New York City, Jan. 18, 1903.
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PETER COOPER, an American engineer and inventor, born in New York City in 1861, the son of Abram S. Hewitt and the grandson of Peter Cooper. In his early manhood he became eminent as a scientist and was chosen director of the Cooper-Hewitt Electric Co. and other corporations. He was the inventor of the Cooper-Hewitt Mercury Vapor Electric Lamp, the Cooper-Hewitt Mercury Vapor Rectifier and many other important inventions relating to electricity, and also made important discoveries in relation to wireless electricity. He was a member of many scientific societies and received honorary degrees from Columbia University and Rutgers College.
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MAURICE HENRY, an English novelist and poet; born in London, Jan. 22, 1861. Educated at London International College, and admitted to the bar in 1891. From 1896 to 1900 he served as Keeper of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments, a post which his father Henry Gay Hewlett had filled before him. He first gained international reputation with a brilliant dieval romance, "The Forest Lovers" (1898), and followed that with several other tales of olden times notable for creative imagination and rare beauty of style. His books include: "Songs and Meditations," poems (1896); "The For- MAURICE H. HEWLETT est Lovers" (1898); "Pan and the Young Shepherd" (1898); "Little Novels of Italy" (1899); "Richard Yea-and-Nay" (1900); "New Canterbury Tales" (1901); ; "The Queen's Quair" (1904); "The Road in Tuscany" (1904); "Fond Adventures" and "The Fool Errant" (1905); "The Stooping Lady" (1907); "The Spanish Jade" and "Halfway House" (1908); "Open Country" (1909); "Rest Harrow" (1910); "The Agonists' (1911); "Mrs. Lancelot" (1912); "Bendish" (1913); "A Lovers' Tale" (1915); "The Little Iliad" (1915); "The Song of the Plow" (1916); "Peridore and Paravail" (1917); etc.
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Maurice Henry (1861-), an English author. He was born in London and received his education at the London International College. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. His first published volume was Earthwork out of Tuscany, which appeared in 1895. Several volumes relating to life in Italy during the middle ages followed. His first popular story was The Forest Lovers, of which James Lane Allen says that its "style alone is an extraordinary achievement." Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay is a glowing romance of the Crusaders and Richard Coeur de Lion . The Queen's Quair is a story of Mary, Queen of Scots. The archaic language used in some of Hewlett's stories makes them difficult reading.
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in ancient music, an interval of four tones and one semitone, equivalent to that which the moderns call a sixth.
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a six-sided plane figure. A regular hexagon has six equal sides and six equal angles. The length of a side is exactly equal to the distance from the center to an angle. It is one of the three regular geometrical figures that may be placed together to fill an area completely. The other two are the triangle and the square. If circles be brought together by equal pressure from all sides, those in the interior will assume the form of a hexagon. Cylinders piled up like cordwood, whether on the side or on end, and subjected to pressure, become six-sided. This is the shape of the prisms of basalt rock formed by the cooling of lava under pressure. The bee builds six-sided cells. See Geometry
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in crystallography and mineralogy, one of the six great systems of crystallization. It agrees with the tetragonal system in having only the lateral axes equal, but differs in having three equal lateral axes instead of two. The vertical is at right angles to the lateral one. The symmetry of the crystals is by sixes and twelves.
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