Each of these 14 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
a coeduca- them remained on paper, largely because tional non-sectarian institution in Marietta, O.; founded in 1835; reported at the close of 1919 : Professors and instructors, 17; students , 300; volumes in the library, 82,000; productive funds, $591,183; grounds and buildings valued at $120,- 000; income , $76,540; endowments, $726, 740; president, Dr. E. S. Parsons.
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A minister of Louis X., king of France . His wife and her sister were accused of having recourse to enchantments to harm the king, his brother Charles, and other barons, with the intention of freeing Enguessand, who was imprisoned. The ladies were arrested. Jacques Dulot, a magician, who was believed to have helped in these sorceries, was also committed to prison, where he took his own life, after his wife had been burnt. Dulot's suicide was considered a conclusive proof of Marigny's guilt, and the ex-minister was tried, condemned, and hanged on a gibbet which he himself had had erected during his term of office. The tide of popular opinion turned at the sight of his misfortune, and the judges dared not condemn his wife and sister-in-law. The king himself repented of having abandoned Marigny to his enemies, and in his will left a sum of money to his family.
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A chronometer hung in gimbals, for use at sea in determining longitude.
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a city and county-seat of Marinette co., Wis.; on Green Bay, at, the mouth of the Menominee river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern, the Wisconsin and Michigan, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroads; 49 miles N. by E. of Green Bay. There are hospitals, public library, electric light and street railroad plants, waterworks, National banks, more than 20 churches, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has lumber and paper mills. Pop. (1910) 14,610; (1920) iron works numerous
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FRANÇOIS, Italian poet, and apostle of "futurism" in literature; born in Alexandria, Italy, 1881, but during recent years a naturalized resident of France. He was the founder and editor of the international review, "Poesia." His works include "Le roi Bombance" (1905); "Le Futurisme" (1911); the manifesto of his group of followers; "La bataille de Tripoli" (1912); and "Le monoplan du pape" (1914).
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GIUSEPPE (mä'rē-ō), an Italian tenor; born in Cagliari, Sardinia, in 1810. A youthful escapade led to his forsaking Italy for Paris, where he quickly won his way into the most exclusive circles, and was appointed first tenor of the opera, changing his name at the same time from De Candia to Mario. After two years' study at the Conservatoire Mario made his début, Dec. 2, 1838, as Robert in "Robert the Devil," and achieved the first of a long series of operatic triumphs in Paris, London, Petrograd, and the United States. In his later years after his retirement from the stage he lost his fortune through disastrous speculations. He died in Rome, Dec. 11, 1883.
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tract of land in Cal., famous for its sequoias.
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a beautiful genus of western plants corresponding in our flora to the tulips of the Old World. Mariposa tulip would be a better name. They are found throughout a wide reach of territory, extending from Montana, Wyoming, and New Mexico to the Pacific coast, and from British Columbia to Mexico. The most easterly species is found in Nebraska. The typical mariposa takes its name from a valley of California. Like the Old World tulip they spring from coated corms. Some species are woodland flowers; some grow in meadows; others in the crevices of crumbled rock; and yet others give variety to arid deserts. The flowers are usually bell-shaped, erect, drooping or nodding. The coloring is exquisite. There are delicate tints, creamy whites, and rich reds, yellows, browns, purples, lilac, and lavender. These flowers are the delight of Western florists and collectors. See Tulip
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JAKOB (mä'ris), a Dutch painter; born in The Hague, Aug. 25, 1837. He studied in France, and was one of the greatest modern Dutch painters of landscape and genre. He died in Carlsbad, Aug. 8, 1899. Less famous was his brother MATTHIJS (born 1839; settled in London), a genre a younger brother WILLEM (1844-1910) was a landscapist. MARITIME ALPS. See ALPES-MARI- TIMES.
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the seaport for the S. Russian coalfield, on the Sea of Azov, 65 miles W. of Taganrog; it was founded in 1779 by Greek emigrants from the Crimea, and exports coal, wheat, linseed, etc. Pop. about 53,000.
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. See Clemens
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Edwin (1852-), an American poet. He was born in Oregon City, Oregon. He was educated at Christian College, Santa Rosa, California. He studied law, but devoted himself to work in educational lines. He first won attention as a writer through the poem, The Man With the Hoe, published in the San Francisco Examiner. The poem was suggested by Millet's picture of the same name. After this poem had made him famous, Markham removed to Brooklyn, New York , and engaged in literary work. His writings in book form include The Man With the Hoe and Other Poems, Lincoln and Other Poems, and Field Folk, Interpretations of Millet. See Millet ; Jean Francois
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EUGENIE, the pseudonym of E. JOHN, a German novelist; born in Arnstadt, Thuringia, Dec. 5, 1825. After some years on the stage she spent her time in writing romances, interesting enough, but with strong didactic tendencies and somewhat unreal. Of these the most successful was "Goldelse" (1866); "The Old Maid's Secret" (1867); "Princess of the Moor" (1871); "Second Wife" (1873); "Countess Gisela" (1869), and "Thuringian Stories" (1869). She died in Arnstadt June 22, 1887.
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CHRISTOPHER, an English dramatist; born in Canterbury about 1564. Soon after graduating at Cambridge (1583), he became dramatist to the "Lord Admiral's Company," London, which produced most of his plays. Among them were the tragedies "Life and Death of Dr. Faustus" (1601); "The Jew of Malta" and "Edward II." (1593), his best work. Many believe him to have been the author of the second and third parts of Shakespeare's "Henry VI." He wrote also the first part of a narrative poem, " Hero and Leander," completed afterward by George Chapman. He died June 1, 1593. to the archipelago; but its navigation is by no means difficult. During the World War the Sea of Marmora had great strategic value, as the only means of procuring supplies from Russia. To open this route the disastrous attempt to open the Dardanelles to the Allies was largely due. genus Hapale, from the tropical region
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