These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Indian Fig, Indian Literature, Indian Mutiny.
a name given to the Opuntia Tuna and O. ficus-indica, and other species of the cactus family common in the tropical and sub-tropical countries of America, and now naturalized in Africa, Asia, and southern Europe. Their fruit, which is egg-shaped and from 2 to 3 inches long, is cooling and wholesome, and yields a juice used for coloring confectionery.
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a revolt by the Sepoy soldiers against the British Government in India, begun in 1857. The immediate cause was the arming of the Sepoys with a new rifle whose use compelled them to touch the grease on the cartridge. This being forbidden by their religion, a mutiny began at Meerut, on May 10, and spread to Delhi, Cawnpur, The garrison at the latand Lucknow. The ter place was relieved by Havelock in September and again by Campbell in was besieged and November. Delhi taken in 1857; Lucknow was finally captured in 1858; and the last resistance was suppressed in the same year. The fearful massacre at Cawnpur, ordered by , Nana Sahib, in which many Europeans including women and children, were killed, took place in July, 1857.
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a popular name for the teak tree.
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a smooth, pale, wax-like plant, practically leafless. It is shaped much like the stem and bowl of a clay pipe with a flaring mouth. At first sight one would call a colony of them a clump of mushrooms, but close examination shows that the flower is like that of the winter-green, pyrola, and blueberry. It is a member of the heath family. The entire plant turns black in drying. As might be suspected from its lack of coloring matter, the Indian pipe grows on the roots or rotting bodies of other plants, appropriating the food prepared by them to their own use. Like the dodder it has no need, therefore, of green chlorophyll to digest plant food. See Dodder ; Parasite
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a silicate of iron, im- saws. By various enactments of Confrom the Persian gress the territory was divided among the individuals of each tribe. An enrollment of the members of the tribe was begun and completed on June 30, 1907. In 1914 the allotments of land were practically completed. The discovery of oil and gas wells within the territory produced great prosperity among the Indians owning these lands which have been leased for operation. The movement for statehood in the territory began in 1892 and was followed by a Constitutional Convention held in 1905. The preference of the inhabitants of the territory was for separate statehood, but Congress, however, preferred to establish a joint state composed of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The statehood bill was passed by Congress in June, 1906, and on Nov. 16, 1907, Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory became the State of Oklahoma. See OKLAHOMA, and INDIANS, AMERICAN.
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lands set aside by treaties between the United States and the Indians for the residence of the latter. Up to 1871 these lands were fixed by treaty, but as that to some extent recognized the independence of the Indians all later arrangements have been made by act of Congress. At first the land was given unreservedly to the Indians but since 1887 the policy has been adopted of giving each individual Indian his allotted share of land, making him a citizen. Eventually under this policy the reservations will disappear entirely. The larger reservations as they existed in 1920 are: Arizona Oklahoma Acres Acres Navaho .12.115,283 Choctaw 2,590,045 Hopi ... Wichita ... 1,511,576 Fort Apache 1,681,920 2,472,230 Chickasaw 803,108 San Carlos. 1,834,240 Oregon Minnesota Klamath 872,186 Red Lake 543,528 South Dakota .. Cheyenne Montana River Crow 2,467,926 1,836,753 Pine Ridge. 1,943,121 Fort Peck 1,774,967 Rosebud 1,524,210 Blackfeet 959,644 .. California New Mexico Mission (28 Mescalero reserves) 202,216 Apache 474,240 Colorado Zuñi 315,040 Fort Hall 447,940 .. North Dakota Washington Standing Colville 1,297,009 Rock 1,847,812 Yakima 837,758 ... ... The total reservations in the United States was in acreage given over to Indian 1920, 48,477,216 acres.
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an ornamental plant of the arrow root family found in most tropical countries. The seeds are round, hard, and black, hence the name of Indian shot applied to the plant.
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UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational State institution in Bloomington, Ind.; founded in 1820; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 150; students, 3,700; volumes in the library, 100,000; president, William L. Bryan, LL.D.
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in chemistry, C26H31NO27, a clear brown syrup of bitter and repulsive taste, existing in many species of plants, but especially in Dyer's wood (Isatis tinctoria). Indican is sometimes found in the urine of man, both in health and disease. It has also been found in the blood of man and in the blood and urine of the ox.
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in chemistry, a reagent used in volumetric analysis to indicate, by change of color, the exact point at which the precipitation of any chemical body from a solution is completed. Indicators are also used to determine, by change of color, the precise point at which a liquid ceases to be either acid or alkaline. The chief reagents used as indicators are yellow potassic chromate, potassic ferrocyanide, indigo, carmine, litmus, turmeric, Porrier's orange, tropœolin, phenolphthalein, eosin, rosalic acid, etc. 1 An instrument for measuring the horse power of a steam engine. Optics. A finger working in the field of a microscope to point out a special object within the field of view. Telegraphy. The dial and mechanism of a dial telegraph. The face has the letters and figures arranged in two concentric circles. The motion of the hand is continuous in one direction advancing one letter at each closing of the circuit. The movement is effected by clockwork driving a scapewheel, the teeth of which are alternately engaged and released upon opening and closing the circuit, by means of a pawl operated intermediately from the armature of the electro-magnets.
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a declaration or imposition of a tax, an impost, or a prohibition of grave character. The "Cycle of Indiction" is a period of 15 years, not founded on any astronomical occurrence, but fixed first by Constantine the Great as a fiscal arrangement. It began on Jan. 1, A. D. 313. The Popes adopted it in the year 1582, when the calendar was reformed, that year being the 10th of the indiction. The year of the indiction corresponding to any year of our era is thus found: Add 3 to the date, divide the sum by 15, and the remainder is the year of the indiction, the remainder Odicating the 15th of the cycle. 1884+3 = 125, with a remainder Thus 15 of 12. Twelve, therefore, is the indiction of that year. There are three other indictions besides Constantine's: the Cæsarean or Imperial, the Roman or Pontifical, and that of the Parliaments of France.
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