Moore
FORT, an ancient defensive work near Sand Bar Ferry on the Savannah river, Ga.
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Moore
GEORGE THOMAS, American botanist; born in Indianapolis, 1871; graduated from Harvard, 1895. Had charge of botany department at Dartmouth College, 1899-1891; physiologist and algologist in Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1903-1905, professor of plant physiology at Shaw School of Botany, Washington, D. C., 1909-1912. Has written many valuable contributions to scientific subjects related to botany.
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Moore
EDWARD CALDWELL, American theologian; born in West Chester, Pa., 1857; studied in Germany. Ordained Presbyterian minister in 1884, serving in Yonkers, N. Y. (18 (1886-1889), and Providence, R. I. (1889-1901). Became Parkman professor of theology and Plummer professor of Christian morals at Harvard in 1901. He has lectured in most of the big universities in this country and England, and is now President of American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions.
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Moore (FORT power of the Moors)
FORT power of the Moors was restricted to the kingdom of Granada, and in 1238 the king of that territory became the vassal of Ferdinand III., King of Castile. At length, in 1491, Ferdinand V., King of Castile and Aragon, after a 10 years' war, conquered this also, and put an end to the dominion of the Moors in Spain, after it had lasted nearly 800 years. A portion of the Moors then returned to Africa; but most of them remained in Spain, where they became peaceful and industrious subjects, and adopted generally the external forms of Christianity. Philip II., however, in his hot zeal for Catholicism, resolved on *heir entire destruction, and by his oppressions and cruelties, drove them into insurrection, in Granada (1571), after the suppression of which, over 100,000 of them were banished.
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Moore (GEORGE an English author born)
GEORGE, an English author; born in 1853. Among his novels are: "A Modern Lover" (1883); "A Mummer's Wife" (6th ed. 1885); "A Drama in Muslin" (1886); "Confessions of a Young Man " ( 1888); " Esther Waters " ( 1894); etc. He wrote also in verse: " Flowers of Passion " ( 1877); " Pagan Poems " ( 1881); and the volumes of essays " Impressions and Opinions " ( 1891); " Modern Painting " ( 1893); " The Untilled Field " ( 1903); " Hail and Farewell " ( 1911- 1914); "The Brook Kerith" (1916).
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Moore (II)
JOHN BASSETT, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University and a distinguished publicist and writer on international law; born Dec. 3, 1860, at Smyrna, Del., he was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. He entered the State Department as a law clerk in 1885, and was appointed Third Assistant Secretary of State in 1886. While he continued in the public service a great part of his time, he was after 1891 professor of international law at Columbia. In 1898 during the Spanish- American War he was for a time Acting Secretary of State, and was counsel to the American Peace Commission which drew up the treaty with Spain. From 1899 he has represented the United States on many important diplomatic enterprises. In 1913 he became counselor to the State Department, but resigned in 1914 to resume his work at Columbia. He has published a number of authoritative treatises on his subject, the largest being his "Digest of International Law" (8 vols., 1906).
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Moore (III)
JOSEPH HAMPTON, mayor of Philadelphia; born in Woodbury, N. J., in 1864. After graduating from public schools he became a reporter and assistant editor of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger." In 1895 he entered politics and became Chief Clerk of the City Treasurer, and in 1901, City Treasurer. In 1905 he was elected to fill an unexpired term in the House of Representatives, and then from 1907 to 1919 successively re-elected as the candidate of the Republican party. In 1919 against the will of the leaders of the Republican party in Philadelphia he won the nomination for mayor of that city and took office in January, 1920.
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Moore (IV)
WILLIS LUTHER, American meteorologist; born in Scranton, Pa., 1856. Was printer during his youth, then entered Signal Corps, which later became the U. S. Weather Bureau, in 1876. Rose through hard study, becoming chief of Weather Bureau, 1895-1913. In 1914 became professor of applied meteorology of George Washington University. Has lectured extensively and contributed to scientific publications, and published "Descriptive Meteorology" (1901).
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Moore (SIR JOHN a British military)
SIR JOHN, a British military officer; born in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 13, 1761. He served at Minorca, in the American War, as Brigadier - General in the West Indies ( 1795), in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798, in Holland in 1799, and in Egypt in 1801, where he was severely wounded. Moore was now regarded as the greatest living British general. In 1808 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the British army in Portugal to operate against Napoleon. He advanced to Salamanca, but was finally compelled to retreat to Corunna. The absence of the fleet to receive his army forced him to a battle against Marshal Soult, in which Moore fell, mortally wounded, in the hour of victory, Jan. 16, 1809.
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Moorhead
a city of Minnesota, the county-seat of Clay co., situated on the Red river of the North, and on the North ern Pacific and Great Northern railroads. It contains the State normal school and Concordia College. It has also an excellent public library. The city is the center of a productive agricultural community. It has grain elevators, silo factories, railroad yards, foundries, and machine shops. Pop. (1910) 4,840; (1920) 5,720.
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Mooruk
a variety of cassowary, inhabiting the island of New Britain.
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Moosehead Lake
the chief lake in New England, situated on the border of Somerset and Piscataquis counties, Maine. It is about 35 miles long and 12 miles wide. It has an area of about 115 square miles. The Roach and Moose rivers empty into it, and its outlet is the Kennebec river. The lake is one of the most important centers for hunting in New England and at Greenville are excellent hotel accommodations.
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Moosejaw
the chief city of a division of Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, on the Moosejaw river, and on the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific, and Canadian Northern railways. The city has many important public edifices, including a public library, court house, city hall, and collegiate institute. It has also important industrial interests, including iron works, flour mills, lumber mills, and manufactories of automobiles and tractors. Pop. about 14,000. MOOSE, LOYAL ORDER OF, an American secret and benevolent organization founded by Dr. J. H. Wilson at Louisville, Ky., in 1888. The purposes of the order are social and fraternal, and to furnish payments to members during illness, and funeral benefits. The first lodge was established at Cincinnati, O. The organization owns an estate of 1,000 acres at Mooseheart, near Aurora, Ill., where has been established a home, farm, and school for orphans and dependent members. The order is governed through the supreme lodge. There were in 1920 1,600 lodges and over 600,- 000 members.
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