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Queen consort of George V. of England; born in 1867, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck. Married Prince of Wales, afterward King George V, July 6, 1893. Five sons and a daughter were born of the union-Edward Albert, 1894; Henry, 1900; George, 1902, and John, 1905. ck, 1895; Mary, 1897;
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that is, Mary of Magdala, a woman mentioned in the New Testament as having had seven devils cast out of her, as watching the crucifixion, and as having come early to the sepulcher on the resurrection morning. She was erroneously identified as the "woman who was a sinner" (Luke vii: 37), and hence the term Magdalen came to be equivalent to a penitent fallen woman. MAGDALENE COLLEGE (England), a Cambridge University college. Founded by Baron Audley of Walden, Chancellor of England, it dates from 1519, but really began its career in 1542. A Benedictine house, called Monk's Hostel, founded in 1442, first occupied the site. Buckingham College, the first educational institution erected here, was supported by property in London and the spoil of the monasteries. A peculiar feature of the foundation of Magdalene College is the appointment of the master by the owner of Audley End, seat of the founder. The college is noted for three libraries, the college library proper, the Peckard, and the Pepysian. The last occupying a separate building contains the collection of Samuel Pepys, the diarist, and the manuscript of his work, and rare documents, including the love letters of Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn.
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a city in Queensland, Australia. Important quartz- and gold-mining industries are located there. Pop. about 12,000.
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UNIVERSITY OF, a non-sectarian institution for both sexes, located at Annapolis and Baltimore. It was founded in 1807. In 1919 the faculty members numbered 211 and about 1,400 students were enrolled. The University has an income from invested funds of $150,000 and some $50,000 are derived from other sources. The University li brary contains about 25,000 volumes.
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a county-seat of Yuba co., Cal., on Yuba and Feather rivers, the southern Pacific railroad, 52 miles N. of Sacramento. Has considerable navigation and trade, and contains Notre Dame College, and buildings in the Spanish style. Iron foundries, fruit canneries, woolen mills, and gold dredging employ many hands. Pop. (1910) 5,340; (1920) 5,461.
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a coeducational institution in Maryville, Tenn., inde Maryvillspice the Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 60; students, 826; productive funds, $803,701; president, Samuel T. Wilson.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) a people of British East Africa, dwelling in a district that includes Kilimanjaro, Kenia, and Lake Baringo. The S. half of the district is low and barren, with no rivers and little rain, while in the N. it rises into a plateau region (5,000 to 9,000 feet), rich in running streams, forests, and grass land. The Masai are not a Negro or Bantu race; they resemble the Gallas, being men of magnificent stature and Apollo-like forms, though their faces are ugly and ferocious in expression. After marriage, which takes place when they lay aside the habits of the warrior, they settle down as cattle breeders. They are an aristocratic race, and clever public speakers. The work is done by slaves and by the women and boys. They speak a Hamitic language.
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the commonly received name of TOMMASO ANIELLO, a fisherman of Naples; born in Ar Amalfi, in 1623. He headed the populace in their revolt against the Spanish viceroy in 1647, when only 24 years of age. His career lasted but nine days, in which time he had 150,000 men under his orders, and was elevated to sovereign authority. He was murdered by four ington, D. C., and gradually gained the assassins armed with arquebuses at Naples, July 16; and, as the resistance he commenced never ceased till the Spanish yoke was broken, he has since been venerated as the liberator of his country.
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a town in Nicaragua, 10 miles from Lake Nicaragua. Tobacco, lagu coffee, and sugar are products of the vicinity. Has large hat factories. Pop. about 13,000.
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an island of the Visayan group in the Philippine Islands, → constituting a province; area, 1,732 square miles; pop. (1920) about 30,000, including 66 dependent islands. It is under a civil government in accordance with the provincial organization act of 1901. Lignite and gold are found, and a leading industry is the manufacture of sugar sacks.
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PIETRO (mäs-kän'yē), an Italian composer; born in Leghorn, Tuscany, Dec. 7, 1863. He produced, after a somewhat irregular musical education, the brilliantly successful one-act opera "Cavalleria Rusticana" (Rustic Gallantry) in 1890, in competition for a prize, the plot being taken from a story by Verga. Later operas were "Friend Fritz" (1891); "The Rantzaus" (1892); "Amica" (1905); "Isobel" (1911); "L'Alodoletta" (1913). He made a financially disastrous tour of the United States in 1905.
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a fine North American fresh-water fish of the pike genus, inhabiting the St. Lawrence basin, but also introduced into other waters.
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a town in Algeria, picturesquely situated on the S. slope of Mount Atlas, 48 miles S. E. of Oran. It was a stronghold of Abd-el- Kader, and was taken by the French in 1835 and 1841. Pop. about 25,000. MASCARENE (mäs-ka-rēn') ISLANDS, the islands of Bourbon, Mauritius, and Rodriguez, so called from Mascarenhas, a Portuguese navigator, who discovered Bourbon in 1545.
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one who or that which is supposed to bring good luck.
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JOHN, English poet; born in 1875. Spent much of his early life on the sea, and engaged in different occupations in New York and London. ill JOHN MASEFIELD He began to write verse when young, winning prizes. In 1913 was elected member of Academic Committee. His poems based on his experience at sea have made him best known. Works include: "Salt Water Ballads"; "A Mainsail Haul'; "A Tarpaulin Muster"; "Ballads"; "Captain Margaret"; "The Tragedy dy of of Man"; "The Tragedy of Pompey the Great"; "Multitude and Solitude"; "The Street of To-Day"; "Poems and Ballads"; "William Shakespeare"; "The Everlasting Mercy"; "The Widow in the Bye-Street"; "Dauber."
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