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.
an educational LLEGE, an educa Gambier, O.; found of the P urch; reported a volumes is Ident, Rev. V KENYON, WILLIAM SQUIRE, LLIAM SQU from Iowa, 1869. He was and studiec sity of Iowa. ney for five as district jud ial district. sistant to th United S 1911. He 1918. Se the Li Party and iberal and chairm appointed t 1919 and committee t xpenses in 1
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A method of divination which is practised by making divers signs on the baked head of an ass. was familiar to the Germans and the Lombards substituted for it the head of a goat. The ancients placed lighted carbon on an ass's head, and pronounced the names of those who were suspected of any crime. If a crackling coincided with the utterance of a name, the latter was taken as being that of the guilty person.
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a beverage produced by bringing about alcoholic fermentation in milk. Originally made in the Caucasus, Hawke mainly from goat's and sheep's milk. It contains approximately three-quarters -in 1759, of one per cent. alcohol, about one per cent. of lactic acid and two-and-one-half per cent. sugar. Koumiss is a similar beverage, originally made by the Tartars from mare's milk, but is also prepared from cow's milk by adding a small quantity of sugar and yeast to skim milk. It may contain as much as three per cent. alcohol.
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a Karen Vampire . (See Vampire.) Kepler, John-1571-1630: A great mathematician and astrologer. He was born at Weil in Würtemburg and educated at a monastic school at Maulbrunn and afterwards at the university of Tübingen, where he studied philosophy, mathematics, theology and astronomy. In 1593 he became professor of mathematics and morals at Gratz in Styria, where he also continued his astrological studies. He had an unhappy home life, and was somewhat persecuted for his doctrines. In 1626 were printed the famous Rodolphine tables, which he had prepared along with Tycho de Brahe, the astronomer. He died at Ratisbon. The laws of the courses of the planets, deduced by Kepler from observations made by Tycho, and known as The Three Laws of Kepler, became the foundation of Newton's discoveries, as well as the whole modern theory of the planets. His services in the cause of astronomy have placed him high amongst the distinguished men of science, and in 1808 a monument was erected to his memory at Ratisbon. His most important work is his Astronomia nova, seu Physica Coelestis tradita Commentariis de Motibus Stellae Martis (1609) which is still regarded as a classic by astronomers.
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a term applied to the subterm stance which forms the chief constituent of hair, feathers, nails, claws, horns, and the epidermis and epithelium of the and higher animals.
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inflammation of the cornea, with congestion of the conjuncongestion tiva and sclerotic coat of the eye, which ic coal of may go on to infiltration by pus, and deaffitration struction of the sight by ulceration. The sight Three forms are found-viz., syphilitic, re foundstrumous or scrofulous ophthalmia, and rofulous of pustular corneitis. Keratitis, when as- Stis. Kerat sociated with suppuration, as in smallsuppuration pox, and other affections, is called onyx, affections, from its resemblance to the lunula of the blance to th nail.
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a term applied by XIS. a the German surgeons to the operation of geons couching, performed by introducing a Cormed needle into the cornea or horny coat of the eye, and depressing or breaking the opaque lens.
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a town and holy place in Asiatic Turkey 60 miles S. W. of Bagdad. The pilgrims number at least 200,000 annually. The sanctity of Kerbela arises from the fact that it is built on the site of the battlefield on which the Hussein, son of Ali and Fatima, lost his life (680) in attempting to maintain his attempti right of succession to the califate. cession to Every Shiite Moslem throughout the Moslem world who can afford it seeks sepulture afford it in the holy ground. ound.
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a Hebrew trumpet. The Hebrew word is sometimes used in the Bible as imes used synonymous with shophar, and to it is sometimes affixed jobel, rendered in the English version ram's horns.
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or DESOLA- TION ISLAND, an island of volcanic origin, in the Antarctic Ocean. The surface is mountainous (Mount Ross, 6,- 120 feet), and most of the interior is covered with an ice sheet and its gla- Ban Its ciers. The island was discovered in 1 there ar 1772 by a Breton sailor, Kerguelen- 1 Taberan Cook (who christened it Desolation Is- ous. Pop. about 40,000. land) in 1776, by the "Challenger" in 1874, and by English, American, and pony trisul German expeditions to observe the tranod in the sit of Venus in the same year.
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a group of islands in the Gulf of Cabes, E. of Tunis.
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a town belonging formerly to Bokhara, Central Asia, about 120 miles S. of Bokhara city, on the left bank of the Amu-Daria or Oxus. An important place both commercially and stategically, it is the halting place of the caravans a s founded trading from Bokhara to Herat, and stands near the chief ferry over the paince anc Oxus.
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a group of volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean, 700 miles N. E. of Auckland, New Zea- Etish admin land. It consists of four principal is di 1839 lands-Raoul or Sunday (7,200 acres), College. Macaulay (756 acres), Curtis, and L'Esperance-and several smaller is lands. The group was discovered in 1788, and annexed by Great Britain in mate Sce 1886.
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or KARMAN (ancient Carmania), one of the E. provinces of Persia, S. of Khorasan, and having an area of about 59,000 square miles. The N. and N. E. are occupied by a frightful salt waste called the Desert of Kerman, which forms a part of the great central desert of Iran. The small tract of Nûrmanshir, toward the E., is fertile and well watered. Roses are cultivated for the manufacture of attar of roses; silk and various gums are exported. The pop. of about 600,000 is chiefly Persian; the rest are Guebres or Parsees, Belûchis, and other wandering tribes. us to 180 Kerman, the chief town, is near the middle of the province, in the central the an mountain range. Pop. about 60,000. In 1722 the town was destroyed by the Mithridate Afghans; in 1794 it was taken and pillaged by Aga Mohammed, and 30,000 of turned o the inhabitants made slaves. At present a sacked b Kerman is only noted for the manufacture of the famous Kerman carpets (a sort of woolen rugs), felts, and brass cups.
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