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 race of rhapsodists or singers, with regard to whom there are three theories: (1) That they were the descendants of Homer. (2) That they were poets of an early epoch, but of a regular school, whose works, ks, collected and arranged in a complete form, were attributed to Homer. (3) That they were a race of wandering minstrels, who, coming after Homer, imitated him, added to, and interpolated his works.
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a borough in Allegheny co., Pa., on the Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, the Bessemer and Lake Erie, and the Union railroads; 10 miles S. E. of Pittsburgh. It is the trade center of the surrounding country; is the seat of the Carnegie steel works; and has several glass works and machine shops. There are daily and weekly lights, public newspapers, electric schools, high school, electric street railways, National banks. On July 6, 1892, labor troubles culminated in a serious riot, provoked by the introduction of Pinkerton detectives in the mills. The riot was subdued by the State militia with difficulty, and some loss of life. Pop. (1910) 18,713; (1920) 20,452.
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a battlefield in England. In 1402 Earl Douglas at the head of 10,000 Scots had ravaged England as far as Newcastle, and was returning, when on Sept. 14 he was intercepted by an English army under Hotspur and the exiled Earl of March and Dunbar, and posted himself upon Homildon (Humbleton) Hill. Hotspur was eager for a headlong charge, but, by March's advice, the bowmen were set upon the Scots, who sustained an irretrievable defeat.
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the art of preaching; that branch of practical theology which teaches the principles of adapting the discourses of the pulpit to the spiritual benefit of the hearers.
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a sermon addressed to a congregation of people; a plain, familiar discourse on some religious topic. The " Book of Homilies, " in the English Church, is the name given to a collection of sermons setting forth the principal doctrines of Christianity, and principles of Protestantism. The first part was published by Archbishop Cranmer in the reign of Edward VI., and the second by order of Convocation in that of Elizabeth.
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in geometry, corresponding in relative position and proportion. In physiology, corresponding in type of structure; thus, the human arm, the foreleg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the swimming-paddle of a doiphin or whale, being all composed essentially of the same structural elements, are said to be homologous, though they are adapted for quite different functions.
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the arrangement of strata in different localities, apparently in the same relative position in the geological series, without its being known whether or not they are contemporaneous. The existence of the same fossils, or many of them, in strata widely separated in geographical position, or at least not occurring together, so as to have total revenue for 1919-1920 was $6,688,their relative age tested by proved continuity or by visible superposition.
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An artificial man supposed to have been made by the alchemists, and especially by Paracelsus . To manufacture one, he states that the needful spagyric substances should be taken and shut up in a glass phial, and afterwards be placed to digest in horse-dung for the space of forty days. At the end of this time, there will be something which will begin to move and live in the bottle. This something is a man, but a man who has no body and is transparent. Nevertheless, he exists, and nothing remains but to bring him up which is not more difficult to do than to make him. You may accomplish it by daily feeding him during forty weeks, and without extricating him from his dung-hill-with the arcanum of human blood. At the end of this time you shall have a veritable living child, having every member as well-proportioned as any infant born of a woman. He will only be much smaller than an ordinary child, and his physical education will require more care and attention.
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or HO-NAN (hō-nan'), a central province of China; area, 67,940 square miles; pop. about 25,000,000 Its capital, Kaifung-fu, is on the Yellow river, from which it has often suffered, the river bed being here elevated above the adjacent country.
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the name given by the Japanese to the chief island in their empire. The area is 87,425 square miles. See JAPAN.
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an ant (Myrmecocystus mexicanus) inhabiting Mexico, and living in communities in subterranean galleries. In summer a certain number of these insects secrete a kind of honey in their abdomens which become so distended as to appear like small pellucid grapes. Later in the season when food is scarce these ants are devoured by the others, and they are also dug up and country eaten by the inhabitants of the .
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or BEE-KITE (Pernis apivorus), one of the Falconidæ allied to both kites and buzzards, but with many peculiarities, such as the thick feathering of the sides of the head down to the base of the bill. It winters in Africa, and breeds in the wooded districts of north Europe, ranging, however, as far E. as China and Japa Japan. The honey buzzard owes its name to its habit of plundering the nests of bees and wasps for the sake of the larvæ, and apparently also the honey.
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a viscid saccharine exudation which is often found in warm dry weather on the leaves and stems of plants, occurring on both trees and herbaceous plants. It is often, but not always, associated with the presence of aphides, cocci, and other insects which feed on the juices of plants, and its flow is ascribed to their punctures; but the rupture of the tissues may be due to warm weather, when for the production of sap the superabundance of sugar is thus thrown off. Orange and lemon and coffee plantations sometimes suffer great injury from the abundance of honey dew.
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or HONEY SUCKER, the name of a large family of birds (Meliphagida), tribe Tenuirostres, order Insessores, characterized by their long, sharp, slender, curved bills, and their long cleft extensile tongue terminating in a pencil of bristle-like filaments. They are entirely confined to Australia and the islands included in the Australian region, where they are very abundant, living on honey and insects.
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