Mundt, Madame Klara Muller
Madame Klara Muller (1814-1873), a German novelist who wrote under the pen name of Luise Muhlbach. She was born at Neubrandenburg. She was married to Theodor Mundt, himself an author, in 1839. Madame Mundt was the author of a large number of historical novels. They are without special literary merit, but display considerable descriptive power and are so entertaining that they have done much, in England and America, as well as in Germany, to interest young people in the various historical characters which are presented. Among them may be mentioned Marie Antoinette and Her Son, Joseph II and his Court, Queen Hortense, Frederick the Great and His Court, Henry VIII and His Court.
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Mungoos
or MONGOOSE, Herpestes , common in many griseus, an ichneumon, non parts of India, and closely akin to the Egyptian species, H. ichneumon. The mungoos is a weasel-like animal, tawny yellowish-gray, the head with reddish and yellow rings, the colors so disposed as to produce an iron-gray hue. Length of body 16 or 17 inches, of tail 14. It kills numerous birds, sucking their blood and leaving the body uneaten.
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Munhall
a borough of Pennsylvania in Allegheny co. It is situated on the Pennsylvania railroad. It contains a Carnegie Library and important manubal to vtio bus viis 5,185; (1920) 6,418.
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Munkacsy
MICHAEL (mönkäche), a Hungarian painter, whose real surname was LIEB; born in Munkacs, Hungary, Oct. 10, 1846. He went as a turner's apprentice to Vienna, and studied painting there, at Munich, and at Düsseldorf, and in 1872 settled in Paris. He visited New York in 1886. Except a few portraits, his works are nearly all "Tragedy of Errors" (1889); "Derring- The best-known exgenre pictures. amples of his work are "Milton Dictating 'Paradise Lost' to His Daughters," "Christ before Pilate," "Crucifixion," and "Mozart's Last Moments." He died in Bonn, Germany, May 1, 1900. EDWARD, CHARLES MUNROE, chemist; born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1849, he graduated from Harvard in 1871, acting as assistant in chemistry till 1874. He was professor in chemistry at the U. S. Naval Academy from 1874 to 1876, and chemist to the torpedo corps, U. S. Naval Torpedo Station and War College 1886-1892. Became dean of faculty at George Washington University in 1893, president of American Chemical Society in 1898, and special agent of J. S. Census Bureau 1905 and 1910. In 1911 he published "A Primer on Explosives for Coal Miners."
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Munkacsy, Michael
moon-ka'che, Michael (1846-1900), a modern Hungarian painter. He was the son of a peasant named Lieb, and was trained as a carpenter. but took lessons from a strolling artist and adopted the name of his native village, Munkacs, as a surname. His early paintings were so far successful that he was able to study at Munich and later at Dusseldorf. His first great success was The Last Day of a Condemned Man, which he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1870. He then took up his residence in the French capital. Some of his lighter pieces are Going to School, The Kitchen Politician, The Butter Woman, and The Pawn Shop. Some of his most famous paintings are owned in America. Milton in his Blindness Dictating Paradise Lost hangs in the Lenox Library, New York . John Wanamaker of Philadelphia paid $120,000 for Christ Before Pilate, and with princely generosity permitted it to be exhibited from city to city for the good it might do. It is considered a masterly work. The Last Moments of Mozart was purchased by General Russell Alger of Detroit for $50,000. It is too early for a final estimate, but Munkacsy bids fair to have a place among the noted painters of the world. See Painting
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Munroe
HENRY SMITH, mining engineer; born in Brooklyn, in 1850, he was educated at Columbia University, and became assistant geologist of the Ohio State Geological Survey in 1870, and chemist in the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 1870. He was assistant geologist and mining engineer in the geological survey of Yezo, Japan, from 1872 to 1875, professor of geology and mining, University of Tokyo, 1875-1876, and adjunct professor of surveying and practical mining at Columbia 1877 to MÜNSTERBERG 1891. From 1891 to 1915 he was professor of mining at Columbia, emeritus professor in 1915.
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Munsey
FRANK ANDREW, American publisher; born at Mercer, Me., Aug. 21, 1854. Educated at public schools. Was manager of a telegraph office in Augusta, Me. He came to New York in 1882 and edited and published "The Golden Argosy" magazine. At first a juvenile publication, he changed it to a story magazine for adults, as "The Argosy." "Munsey's Weekly" started in 1889, developed into "Munsey's Maga- 1000 zine" in the year 1901. As the first popular illustrated magazine of standard size to be sold for ten cents it attained a great circulation and was widely imitated. Mr. Munsey owns and controls "The Argosy," "Munsey's Magazine," "The Rail Road Man's Magazine," "The All-Story We "The Baltimore Weekly,' " News," "The Sun," New York, and in "The New York Herald" 1920 acquired and "The Evening Telegram." Mr. Munsey has writen several novels and books are "Under Fire" for boys. His works Great City" (1890); "Afloat in a (1887); "The Boy Broker" (1888); forth" (1894).
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Muntz-metal
An alloy of copper and zinc used for the sheathing of ships, composed of copper 60, zinc 40. This alloy admits of hot rolling. See BRASS; COPPER; SHEATHING-METAL. Mushet Cast Steel is made by melting malleable scrap-iron with charcoal and oxide of manganese in crucibles directly, independent of blister-steel. See STEEL.
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Mural Arch
a wall, or walled arch, placed exactly in the plane of the meridian line for fixing a large quadrant, sextant, or other instrument, to observe the meridian altitudes, etc., of the heavenly bodies.
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Mural Circle
an astronomical instrument consisting of a graduated circle, furnished with a telescope and firmly affixed to a wall, in the plane of the meridian. It is used for determining with great accuracy altitudes and zenith distances, from which may be found declinations and polar distances, and has a graduated circle secured at right angles to its horizontal axis. See TRANSIT.
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