Murrumbidgee
a large river of Australia, in New South Wales, rising in the great Dividing Range, and entering the Murray after a W. W. course of about 1,300 miles; chief tributary, the Lachlan.
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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 Murrumbidgee, Murshidabad, Musa Ibn Nosair.
Murshidabad
a town of India, on the Bhagirathi river, a branch of the Ganges; 115 miles N. of Calcutta. The chief buildings of note are the palace of Nawab (1837), the miambara, and a Two miles S. Mohammedan mosque. of the city is Motijhil or Pearl Lake; on its bank stood the palace of Suraj-ud- Dowlah, in which Clive enthroned Mir Jafar, and the English residents-among them Warren Hastings the first-dwelt. On the opposite side of the river is the old cemetery of the Nawabs, containing a mausoleurn, mosque, etc. It is a busy center of trade. During the 18th century it was the capital of Bengal and a very populous city; but about the time (1790) the British made Calcutta their headquarters Murshidabad began to decline. Pop. about 30,000.
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Musa Ibn Nosair
the Arab conqueror of northern Africa (699-709) and of Spain (712); born in Mecca, about 660. He fell under the displeasure of the Caliph of Damascus, and died in rty in Hedjaz, in 717. poverty
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Musacee
an order of endogens, alliance Amomales. It consists of stemless, or nearly stemless, plants, with the leaves so sheathing at the base as to constitute a spurious stem; veins of the leaves parallel, and running regularly margin, often from the midrib to the the splitting into fringe-like divisions.
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Musca
in astronomy, the bee; one of Lacaille's revised S. constellations, called by Bayer, Apis. It is situated between Cruz and the South Pole. No star in it is above the fourth magnitude. In entomology, the typical genus of the family Musidæ. M. domestica is the common house-fly; M. canaria, the flesh-fly; M. vomitoria and erythrocephala, blue-bottle or blow-flies; M. cæsar and M. cornicina, green-bottle flies, etc. MUSCÆ VOLITANTES (mus'sē vol-itan'-tēz) (literally floating flies), in physiology, the name given to ocular spectra which appear like motes or small bodies floating before the eyes. One class of these specks is a common precursor of Amaurosis, but another class is quite harmless.
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Muscardine
a disease very fatal to silk-worms. It arises from the attacks , of a fungus (Botrytis bassiana) which commences in the intestines of the caterpillars and gradually spreads till it destroys them.
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Muscat
or MASKAT, capital of the independent state of Oman or Muscat, which occupies the E. continuation of Arabia. It is surrounded by a wall, and defended by forts planted on the rocky heights above. Its total trade reaches the value of $6,000,000 annually, the chief exports being pearls arls and fish, in which its coastal waters are extraordinarily rich, and salt, dates, drugs, dye stuffs, horses, and the imports chiefly coffee, rice, sugar, piece-goods, oil, etc. Though a very ancient place, Muscat remained small and of little importance till the Portuguese took posession of it in 1508. It was subsequently governed by native rulers ( imams), who in the 17th century succeeded the Portuguese also as masters of Zanzibar and some places on the E. coast of Africa. The city has been for many years under British influence. Pop. est. about 45,000.
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Muscatel
the name given to many sweet, strong French and Italian wines, whether white or red. Among the fi are the white Rivesaltes an from Roussillon, and the Lunel from the Pyrenees, the Lacrymæ Christi of Naples, etc. Fine varieties are yielded by Syracuse, Sardinia, the Cape, Canary Islands, Corfu, Crete, and Cyprus.
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Muscatine
a city and county-seat of Muscatine co., Ia.; on the Mississippi river, and on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and the Muscatine North and South railroads; 211 miles W. of Chicago. Here are a County Hospital, County Insane Asylum, public library, other public and semi-public institutions, National and State banks, waterworks, electric street railroad, electric lights, and several daily and weekly periodicals. It has large lumbering interests, pork-packing houses, flour mills, fruit and vegetable canneries, rolling mills, foundries, large sawmills, plumbers' supply factory, etc. Pop. (1910) 16,178; (1920) 16,068.
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Muscle Shoals
Tennessee River, Alabama, site of the so-called Wilson Dam and of Federal nitrate plants erected during the World War for the purpose of manufacturing atmospheric nitrogen products on a huge scale. At the end of the war the project was still only partially completed, the Wilson Dam being about one-third built. It was then proposed that the Government sell the works and Henry Ford made an offer to develop them in the manufacture of fertilizers. His proposal received the approval of the House of Representatives Military Committee in June, 1922, but was rejected by the Senate Agricultural Committee, which recommended operation of the plants by a government-owned company. The Ford proposal has received wide notoriety, including plans not only for material reduction of fertilizer costs, but for a general development of the Tennessee Valley Valley in the Muscle Shoals neighborhood, based upon vast water-power development through the completion of the Wilson and other dams. An appropriation of $7,500,000 for further work on the Wilson Dam was made by Congress in 1922.
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Muse
in mythology, one of nine nymphs or inferior divinities, distinguished as the peculiar protectresses of poetry, painting, rhetoric, music, and gen erally of the belles-lettres and liberal arts. They were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory). Originally there appear to have been only three of these divinities, and their names, Mneme, Melete, and Aæde, or Memory, Reflection, and Song, sufficiently show the nature of the faculties over which they were supposed to preside.
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Muses, The
The, in Greek mythology, goddesses of the arts and sciences. They were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Among early Greek writers, the number of Muses and their respective offices are given variously, but among later writers nine Muses were recognized. They were Calli'ope, Muse of epic poetry; Cli'o, of history; Euter'pe, of lyric poetry; Melpom'ene, of tragedy; Terpsich'ore, of dance and song; E'rato, of love poetry; Polyhym'nia, of sacred song; Ura'nia, of astronomy, and Thali'a, of comedy. The Muses were reputed to have entered into contests with the Sirens, with the daughters of Pierus, and with the bard Thamyris, in all of which they won victories. The nightingale, the swan, and the grasshopper were sacred to them. The Muses are represented in art as beautiful maidens, dancing in a circle, often with Apollo. They are crowned with roses, palm leaves, and laurel. In Rome a temple and grove were consecrated to the Muses.
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