These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Mussolini, Mussorgski, Mussulman.
BENITO, leader of the Italian Fascisti and Premier of Italy, was born at Predappio in the province of Forli, 1884. He received a normal school training and afterwards studied at the University of Bologna. For a short time he was a teacher of French, but meanwhile he became deeply interested in socialism and the study of the social sciences. He traveled in Germany, France, and Switz- N 1922-23.) a
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MODEST PETRO- VITCH, Russian composer; born in Karev, v, Pskov, in 1839, he entered the St. Petersburg Military Academy, but resigned his commission to devote himself to musical composition. He wrote an incomplete opera, "Salammbo," and brought out a number of songs which made him well known. His masterpiece, however, was his "Boris Godunov" which appeared in 1874, and which, considerably revised, has become a standard Russian opera. An opera almost equal in fame was "Khovanstchina," which appeared have 1880. He left behind three uncomoperas, a fantasie, suite for the and choral works. He died in 1881.
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a Moslem or Moham-
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the juice of the grape, which by fermentation is converted into wine
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a genus of carnivorous mammals, section Arctoidæ, forming a large group, widely diffused in the N. temperate regions. They have broad flattened skulls, low vermiform bodies, short legs, and feet fitted either for running, digging or swimming. The family may be naturally lly divided into three sub-families: Mustelinæ, Lutrinæ, and Mélinæ.
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a small instrument used to modify the sound of the violin or violoncello. It is made of hard wood, ivory, or brass, and is attached to the bridge by means of a slit, its three legs standing between, but clear of, the strings.
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Mikado (or Emperor) of Japan; born Nov. 3, 1852. He ascended the throne in 1867, and married Princess Haruko in 1869. His children are Prince Yoshihito, born in 1879, and proclaimed Crown Prince in 1889, and three princesses. His reign was marked by great reforms; and the feudal system, which had impeded the general progress of the country, was abolished. He died in 1912. See JAPAN.
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or MATHURA (ma'thö-rä), a town of India, in the Northwest Provinces, on the right bank of the Jumna, 30 miles above Agra. For centuries it has been a center of the Buddhist faith; the surrounding country swarms with associations of Krishna and shells usually from 15 to 25 per cent of Balarama. There are numerous temples and mosques; the river is lined with magnificent flights of stairs, leading down to the bathing places in the sacred river; large numbers of pilgrims resort to the city on the occasion of its religious festivals; and troops of monkeys and turtles are supported by the charity of the gentle-hearted people. The city was sacked by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1017; its temples were destroyed by a native sultan in 1500, and by Aurungzebe in 1669; and it was plundered by the Afghans in 1756. In 1803 it passed into the hands of the British. Pop. about 60,000. The district has an area of 1,453 square miles.
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a city of British India, the capital of a district of Bengal. It has several important educational institutions and has manufactories of carpets and cloth. In the neighborhood are important saltpeter mines. Pop. about 50,000.
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in ancient geography, a promontory of Ionia, in Asia Minor, opposite the island of Samos, where the Persian army under Tigranes was defeated at this Ionian city of Asia Minor, by the Greeks, under Leotychides, King of Sparta, and Xanthippus, in September, 479 b. c.
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A town of Argolis said to have been built by Perseus . It received its name from Mycene, a nymph of Laconia. It was taken and destroyed by the Argives.
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inflammation of spinal cord; the (1) acute, (2) by ramollissement, (3) by undefined suppuration, (4) by abscess.
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CORTLAND (ROOSA), clergy- ; man born at Kingston, N. Y., in 1864, he graduated from University of Rochester in 1887 and from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1890, in which year he was ordained a Baptist minister. He was pastor at Syracuse till 1893, at Brooklyn till 1909, and since then at Tremont Temple, Boston . His works include: "The Best Place on Earth"; "American Guns"; "Why do Men Not Go to Church"; "Making a Life"; "Where Heaven Touched the Earth." MYERS, FREDERIC WILLIAM HENRY, an English author; born in Keswick, England, Feb. 6, 1843. He was classical lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1865-1868. He wrote: "St. Paul" (new ed ( 1880),. in 1879 " English), in verse Men; " Wordsworth of " " Renewal of Youth, and Other Poems " " ( 1882); " Essays, Modern and Classical " ( 1883); " Science and a Future Life " a volume of essays; etc. He was a constant contributor to English of age. reviews. He died in 1901.
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HENRY L., United States Senator from Montana; born in the State of Missouri Oct. 9, 1862, and educated in the public schools of that State. Admitted to the bar in 1885 and practiced law at Boonville and West Plains, Mo., for the succeeding eight years. In 1893 he moved to Montana and from 1899- 1903 was a member of the State Senate. In 1907 he was appointed a United States District Judge; resigned when elected United States Senator in 1911. Senator Myers was the Democratic candidate to succeed himself in 1917, and was elected for the term 1917-1923 .
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WILLIAM SHIELDS, chem- ; born in ist Albany, N. Y., in 1866, he attended the Albany Academy and Rutgers College, studying also at Munich, Berlin, and London. He became assistant chemist at the N. J. Experiment Station, 1888-1889; chemist at the Lister Chemical Works, 1892-1893, and associate professor of chemistry at Rutgers College till 1901. Since 1901 he has been director of the Chilean Nitrate Committee for the U. S. and colonies. He joined with the late Prof. Voorhees in plan for agricultural education in Mexico, accepted by Government. MYNA (Acridotheres or Cuvier), a genus of birds of the family Gracula of Sturnidæ , of which there are seven species ranging over the whole Oriental region and Celebes. The head is more or less crested, and some have a naked space behind and under the eye; the bill is rather short, stout, and the tail is rounded; the feet are strong, compressed; the toes long, and the claws moderately curved.
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