Murex
plural MURICES, in zoölogy, the typical genus of the family Muricida. It is of world-wide distribution, and 180 species are known. M. tenuispina is popularly known as Venus's comb.
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These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Murex, Murfree, Murfreesboro.
Murfree
MARY NOAILLES, pseudonym CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK, an donym American novelist; born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 24, 1850. She wrote: "In the Tennessee Mountains," (1884); "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains" (1885); "In the Clouds" (1886); "The Amulet" (1906); "The Raid of the Guerilla" (1912); "The Story of Duciehurst" (1914).
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Murfree, Mary Noailles
mur'free, Mary Noailles (1850-), an American novelist, better known by her pen name of Charles Egbert Craddock. She was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her early years were passed in her native town. She spent many summers in the mountains, where material was collected for her novels. Her first short story was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1878. For some years, until she chose to make herself known, it was believed that her work was that of a masculine writer. In the Tennessee Mountains, The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain, and Down the Ravine are Miss Murfree's best known stories. Others worthy of mention are Where the Battle Was Fought, In the Clouds, The Young Mountaineers, and The Bushwhackers.
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Murfreesboro
a city and countyseat of Rutherford co., Tenn.; on the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis railroad; 32 miles S. E. of Nashville. It is in a cotton and agricultural region. Here are a court house, National banks, Soule College (Meth.), Middle Tennessee State Normal School, and the Tennessee College for Young Ladies, and several weekly newspapers. The city has carriage shops, planing mill, sawmills, manufactory of red cedar goods, machine shops, cotton-gin works, and a large trade in cattle and cotton, cotton, flour mill, etc. In 1819-1826 it was the capital of Tennessee. Close by the bloody battle of Stone river was fought on Dec. 21, 1862, and Jan. 2, 1863, between Generals Rosecrans and Bragg; the Confederate army was compelled to retreat, but the on both sides were nearly equal. Pop. (1910) 4,679; (1920) 5,367.
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Murger
HENRI (mür-zhār'), a French author; born in Paris, France, March 24, 1822. He lived a life of extreme privation; formed an informal club or society of unconventional young artists and authors similarly situated which was named "Bohemia," and his associates "Bohemians"-a name famous in general literary history. He contributed a great mass of "copy" to numerous periodicals, and at last made a reputation by his "Scenes from Bohemian Life." He also published two volumes of poetry, "Ballads and Fancies" and "Winter Nights"; and wrote dramas for the Luxembourg theater, and tales, etc., for the "Revue des Deux Mondes." He died in Paris, Jan. 28, 1861.
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Murghab
a river that rises in the mountains N. E. of Herat in Afghanistan, flows N. W., and loses itself in the desert of Turkestan beyond Merv.
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Muriatic Acid
hydrochloric acid. Moscow protesting, the people of the A solution of hydrogen chloride gas, HCI, in water. Hydrogen chloride is a colorless gas, with a pungent, irritating odor, having a specific gravity of 1.2596, compared with air as 1. It can be manufactured by decomposing common salt with sulphuric acid, but is now produced very largely as a by-product in the manufacture of salt cake (sodium sulphate). The strongest acid made contains 40 per cent. of hydrogen chloride. Its applications are numerous: it is used in the production of chlorine; the manufacture of various chlorides; for purifying animal and vegetable carbons; for extracting phosphates from bones; for preparing carbonic acid; in the coal-tar color industry, and for many other useful purposes.
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Murmansk Coast
or Peninsula, that section of the Arctic shore stretching from the frontier of Russia with Norway to Cape Svyatoff, on the White Sea, including a distance of about 250 miles. An inward sweep of the Gulf Stream washes the shore, keeping it free of ice the year round, though the White Sea, to the southward, is icebound six months of the year. This region assumed unusual importance during the latter part of the war, after the participation of Russia had been ended by the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, in the early months of 1918. As the only point on Russia's limited sea-coast open to receiving supplies from her allies by sea, large supplies of munitions and foodstuffs had been landed here. In the spring of 1918 the Germans, moving through Finland, attempted to advance in this direction, with the intent to seize these supplies. The Allies immediately landed troops on the coast. The Soviet Government in region precipitated an uprising in favor of Allied intervention and established the Provisional Government of North Russia. More Allied troops, and later Americans, were landed and established a base from which a military campaign against the Soviet troops was waged for more than a year afterward.
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Murom
a city of Russia, in the Government of Vladimir. It is situated on the Oka river. Prior to the World War it had important manufactures and extensive trade in grain. Pop. about 20,000.
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Muromtseff
SERGEI ANDREY- EVITCH, Russian educator and political leader; born at Petrograd in 1850. He was educated at Moscow and Göttingen, and later became Professor of Roman law at the University of Moscow. In 1879 he became editor of the "Juridical Messenger," a law journal. Because of his liberal political views he had to leave the university in 1884, and eight years later his paper was suppressed and the Juridical Society was forbidden to hold any further meetings. On the establishment of the First Russian Duma, Muromtseff was elected Senior Deputy from Moscow by the Constitutional Democratic party, and he was later elected President of the Duma.
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Murphy
LAMBERT, tenor; born in Springfield, Mass., in 1845, he studied at Harvard, and while there took singing lessons under T. L. Cushman. He then commenced singing in churches at Boston, Brookline, Fairhaven, and New York, finally joining the Metropolitan Opera in 1911. Since that time he has been heard on many platforms all over the United States.
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Murphy
CHARLES FRANCIS, born in New York, in 1858. After a common school education had been secured in the New York schools, he worked for a time as a factory operative and later as a street-car driver. In 1892 he became the Democratic leader in the 18th Assembly District of New York. In the succeeding years he was Commissioner of Docks and Ferries and treasurer of the board. From 1892-1902 Murphy was a prominent leader in Tammany Hall, the Democratic organization in New York city, and in 1902 he was elected "sachem" which he has held or chief, a position continuously since that time.
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