These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Mamaroneck, Mamelukes, Mammalia.
town in Westchester co., N. Y., on Long Island Sound, 20 miles from New York City. Takes in Larchmont, and many New York business men have homes there. Has clothing and rubber goods factories, but chiefly noted as resort for bathing and yachting. Pop. (1910, including Larchmont) 7,657; (1920) 6,571.
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a force of cavalry famous in the history of Egypt. When Genghis Khan overran western Asia, he subjected many of the conquered people to slavery. He sold a body of 12,000, principally Circassians and Turks, to the Arabic sultan of Egypt. They were instructed in military tactics and formed into a corps of cavalry. The name is from an Arab word meaning slaves. Being superior mentally to their masters, they soon became insubordinate and, like the Roman legion, took an active part in politics. In 1254 they assassinated the sultan and appointed one of their own number his successor. They recruited their numbers by slaves brought chiefly from Circassia, and became the dominant element in Egypt for 263 years. When Napoleon invaded Egypt, the Mameluke cavalry was the most formidable force he had to deal with. In 1811 the Mamelukes were exterminated by a general massacre ordered by the Turkish pasha.
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in zoölogy, mammals, the highest class of the vertebrate sub-kingdom. The individuals are characterized by the possession of mammæ (teats), enabling them to suckle their young. The class is sometimes popularly " botteg hae MAMMOTH but erroneously called quadrupeds (fourfooted animals). They have red, warm blood, in this respect agreeing with birds, but differing from reptiles, amphibians and fishes. The mouth is concealed by lips and armed with bony and enameled teeth; each ramus of the mandible is composed of a simple piece of bone. The covering is of hair. Normally, there are four limbs, which in some aquatic members of the class are modified into fins. The toes are generally five. Most of the bones are solid or have cavities filled with marrow, the air cells which aid in imparting lightness to the bones of birds being, as a rule, absent. The bones of the cranium and of the face are immovably fixed to each other. The cranium is larger than in other vertebrates, the lower jaw consists of only two pieces. The vertebral column may be divided into five regions, the cervical, the dorsal, the lumbar, the sacral, and the caudal vertebræ. The heart has two auricles and two ventricles. The respiration is by lungs. MAMMARY GLAND. See BREAST,
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the highest class of vertebrates. It contains all those animals that suckle their young and no others. With the exception of a small group of Australian animals represented by the duckbill, all mammals bring forth their young alive. They are warm-blooded and breathe air. Their skin is more or less hairy, rarely naked. Some of the principal families included in the mammals are man, the monkeys, the bats, the hedgehogs, the shrews, the moles, the bears, the raccoons, the dogs, the cats, the weasels, the seals, the hares, the squirrels, the porcupines, the rats and mice, the sloths, the cattle, the goats, the sheep, the antelopes, the giraffes, the deer, the camels, the horses, the elephant kind, the swine, the seal, the whale kind, the ant-eater, the opposum, the kangaroo, and the duckbill. There are over 3,000 different species of animals that suckle their young. The greater number of mammals live on land, but some, like the walrus, seal, whale, manatee, and dugong, are adapted to a life in the water. One mammal, the bat, is aerial. See the articles describing the various families of mammalia enumerated above.
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a Syriac word used in the New Testament as the personification of worldliness. In Syrian mythology, Mammon was the god of wealth, corresponding with the Greek Pluto. The word has thus come into common use to designate the personification of avarice. The name is of frequent occurrence in literature. In Ben Johnson's Alchemist, Sir Epicure Mammon is a worldly sensualist who finally overreaches himself and defeats his own ends. In Spenser's Faerie Queene, Mammon is the money god whose cave is visited by Sir Guyon, whom Mammon tempts unsuccessfully with all forms of wealth and pleasure. Milton gives the name of Mammon to a fallen angel of sordid character. Thither, winged with speed, A numerous brigade hastened: as when bands Of pioneers, with spade and pickaxe armed, Forerun the royal camp to trench a field Or cast a rampart. Mammon led them on--Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement (trodden gold) Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific: by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught. Ransacked the Center and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. (Let none admire That riches grow in Hell--that soil may best Deserve the precious bane!)
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ISLE OF. See ISLE OF MAN.
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. See Frigate Bird
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GULF OF, an inlet of salt water lying between Ceylon and the Madras coast, and closed on the N. by a low reef of rocks and islands called Adam's Bridge. Its extreme width is nearly 200 miles. The gulf is famous for its pearl fisheries.
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province of Ecuador, of which the capital is Puerto Viejo. Adjuts on the coast and produces cacao, sugar, and other agricultural products . Pop. about 65,000.
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a dangerous reef on the S. coast of Cornwall , England, not far from Lizard Head and near the town of Falmouth. They are barely visible , except at low water, and there is no warning of their presence to the mariner except a bell buoy. Many wrecks have occurred here.
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Important: Safety Warning This page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. Those who have never used the cyanide bath may desire some additional particulars regarding its management. The anodes in such a bath generally carry a slight greenish coating, consisting of copper cyanide. This is soluble in the free cyanide that is in the bath, and only traces of it should appear on the anodes. When the cyanide is used up, this green coating thickens up rapidly, and the bath, shortly afterwards, stops depositing. In such case, add cyanide (dissolved in water) very slowly, in order not to get in too much. If too much cyanide is in the bath, bubbles of hydrogen will come from the objects to be coated, but no copper will be deposited, and the remedy is adding carbonate of copper. If either of the above does not give a rapid and even coating, the bath needs more metal, and you are likely using too small an anode and stripping your bath. The remedy is, of course, found in adding more carbonate and using a larger anode.
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