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a city of Michigan in Wayne co. Its chief industry is the manufacture of automobiles and motors. The development of this industry has greatly increased its industrial importance in recent years. Pop. (1910) 4,120; (1920) 46,499.
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in physical geography, any district having a considerable elevation above the sea. In literature, the term applies to the northern part of Scotland, called the Highlands, by way of distinction from the southern portion, designated as the Lowlands. The line between the two sections has never been very distinct. At an early day the Highlands were occupied by a Celtic people who spoke the Gaelic language, living in tribes or clans. The warriors wore kilts and plaids. They danced to the sound of the bagpipe, and were skilled with the claymore or broadsword. The Lowlands were peopled by a class closely akin to the English, that is to say, of Teutonic or Scandinavian origin. By constant intercourse and intermarriage the distinction between Highlanders and Lowlanders has been more or less effaced. A family name beginning with Mac is indicative of Highland origin. The gallant conduct of the Highland regiments and the writings of William Black, have done much to surround the Highlands with an atmosphere of romance. See Scotland
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THE, a somewhat vague and indefinite geographical division of Scotland, N. and W. of a line running N. E. from Dumbarton on the Clyde through the counties of Dumbarton, Stirling, Perth, Forfar, Kincardine; then N. W. through Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, and Nairn to the shores of the Moray Firth. The Highlands are generally subdivided into two parts, the West Highlands and the North Highlands; the former of which contains the shires of Argyll and Bute, the Southern Hebrides, and part of Perth and Dumbarton; the latter comprehends the counties of Inverness, Ross, Sutherland, the districts of Athol, Ranothers belonging to Inverness and Ross. and the Isles of Skye, Lewis, Lewis, and The mountainous parts of Banff, Moray; Aberdeen, and Kincardine are also recognized as forming part of the Highlands; while Caithness (partly) and the Orkney Isles are excluded, because and Shetland their inhabitants are of Scandinavian origin. The whole of the district, which embraces the Celtic-speaking part of Scotland, is wild, rugged, and mountain- The W. coast is indented by many arms of the sea, and is flanked ous. narrow by numerous islands. Forming, by their natural characteristics, a region distinct from the Lowlands of Scotland, the Highlands were long in a state of political semi-independence. What especially separated this region from the rest of Scotland was not only the Celtic language and blood, but also the clan system and all connected with it.
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reputed to be the founder of the monastic system in Palestine; born in Tabatha, near Gaza, Palestine, about 290. He was educated at Alexandria, and converted to the monastic system by St. Anthony. He then lived as a hermit in the desert between Gaza and Egypt for many years, and finally died in Cyprus in 372. His memory is celebrated Oct. 21.
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ST., an English abbess; born in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 614. She was daughter of Hereric, a nephew of Edwin of Northumbria, and was baptized at 14 by Paulinus. Recalled by Bishop Aidan from her retreat in a French monastery, she became abbess of Heorta or Hartlepool in 649. In the year 657 she founded the famous monastery at Streaneshalch or Whitby, a double house for nuns and monks, over which she ruled with_remarkable wisdom for 22 years. Her effigy still stands on the ancient seal of Hartlepool, and churches preserve her name both there and at South Shields. She died in Whitby, England, Nov. 17, 680.
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Saint (614-680), an Anglo-Saxon abbess. She was a member of the royal family of Northumbria. She was head of the abbey of Hartlepool, and later of the famous monastery of Whitby, which she founded in 658. For twenty-two years she ruled this community of monks and nuns with marked ability. St. John of Beverly and the poet Caedmon are among those whose names are remembered in connection with this monastery, which, in St. Hilda's time, was probably the strongest religious house in Great Britain . For many years a tradition was current at Whitby that, when on a summer afternoon the sun shone on the high windows in the north part of the abbey, Saint Hilda's figure could be there discerned.
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. See Gregory Viii
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a city of Prussia, province of Hanover, 16 miles S. E. of Hanover. It has a splendid Gothic cathedral, built in the 11th century, with bronze gates 16 feet high. There are also many other splendid examples of medieval architecture. It manufactures iron products, cotton and woolen goods, tobacco, sugar, etc. From 818 to 1803 it was the capital of a bishopric. Pop. about 55,000.
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RICHARD, an American historian; born in Deerfield, Mass., June 22, 1807. He first became known as a miscellaneous prose-writer and political journalist. The "History of the United States" is his greatest work, covering the period from the discovery of America to the end of President Monroe's first administration (6 vols. 1849- 1856). Among his other works are: "History of Banks"; "Theory of Morals"; "Theory of Politics"; etc. He went to Italy in 1861 as United States consul, and died in Florence, July 11, 1865.
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ALBERT ROSS, an American educator born in Nova Scotia in 1869. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 1892 and took post graduate courses at Cornell, in Germany, and at Clark University. From 1895 to 1897 he was professor of psychology and education at Wisconsin State Normal School at Oshkosh. He was appointed assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska in 1897, and from 1898 to 1903 was professor of philosophy and director of the psychological laboratories of that institution. In the latter year he was appointed professor of educational psychology and dean of the Teachers College of Missouri, and was chosen president of that institution in 1908. He published many articles on psychology and philosophy in journals devoted to those subjects, and also contributed articles to magazines on economic subjects. He was a member of many economic societies and received many degrees from other colleges.
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