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ALICE (THOMPSON) (mā'nel), an English author; born in London, England, about 1853. She spent much of her childhood in Italy, and married (1877) Wilfrid Meynell, editor of "Merry England." She wrote "Preludes" (1875; 2d ed. 1893), illustrated by her sister, Lady (Elizabeth) Butler; "Rhythm of Life" (1893); "The Children" (1896); "The Spirit of Place" (1898); "Collected Poems" (1913); "Essays" (1914); etc.
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A schedule which, when fastened on the doorpost, possessed talismanic qualities. It is said in the Talmud that whoever has the mezazoth fixed on his door, and is provided with certain personal charms, is protected from
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Daphne Mezereum, a small shrub with deciduous obovate or spatulate lanceolate leaves; flowers generally in threes; silky-pink, or white; very fragrant. Berries red, ovoid. Acrid and poisonous; the berries are cathartic; the leaves used as a vesicant. MÉZIÈRES (mā-zyar'), the capital of the French department of Ardennes, on a bend of the Meuse, opposite Charleville, and 155 miles N. E. of Paris; principal building the flamboyant church, restored in 1884, in which Charles IX. was married in 1570. Strongly fortified by Vauban, and protected by a citadel, in 1521 it was successfully defended by the Chevalier Bayard, with 2,000 men, against 40,000 Spaniards under Charles V.; in 1815 held out for two months against the Allies, who besieged it after the battle of Waterloo; and in the Franco-German war of 1870-1871 capitulated after a frightful bombardment. Again, during the World War, the town and its vicinity was the scene of much and heavy fighting. Pop. about 11,000.
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a low story between two higher ones, especially between the ground floor and the story above it.
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a process of engraving on copper or steel. The smooth plate is abraded with a roughened file-like tool, and myriads of tiny points are raised over the surface of the plate. These points catch and hold the ink, and an impression taken from a plate in this condition would give a soft velvety mass of black without variety of light shade. A burnisher is next used to get rid of the raised points where half tones and lights are wanted. Sometimes where very brilliant lights are required, they are cut away so as to insure a smooth surface of copper. By means of this burnishing process, all gradations of light and shade are obtained from the white of the smooth copper to the black of the roughened plate. The process dates from about the middle of the 17th century.
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a city of Oklahoma, in Ottawa co. It is on the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Missouri, Oklahoma, and Gulf, and the Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri Interurban railroads. It is the center of an important lead and zinc mining region. Lumbering is also an important industry, and the agricultural interests are important. It was the first town in the former Indian Territory, built on land set apart for town purposes, by act of Congress. Pop. (1910) 2,907; (1920) 6,802.
a river rising in Hardin co., O.; flowing a general S. W. and S. course through Logan, Shelby, Miami, Montgomery, Butler, and Hamilton counties, and entering the Ohio river at the extremity of the State. It is about 140 miles long. The Miami and Erie canal runs alongside the river between Piqua and Hamilton.
a county-seat of Dade co., Fla., 366 miles S. of Jacksonville, at the mouth of the Miami river, on the Florida East Coast railroad. Popular winter resort, steamers running between it and Havana. Situated in great fruit-growing ing country, and has several canneries. Pop. (1910) 5,471; (1920) 29,571.
a town of Arizona, in Gila co. It is on the Arizona Eastern railroad, and is the center of a rich copper mining district. Water power is derived from the Roosevelt Dam, 40 miles distant. Pop. (1920) 6,689.
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an institution founded in 1809 at Oxford, O. Coeducational. In 1918 the students numbered 765 and the faculty 55. The State of Ohio granted land to the University at its start and has since granted appropriations. The present endowment is $104,000 and the income about $300,- 000. The grounds and buildings are valued at over a million dollars. The library contains 49,000 volumes.
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or SLATE, a slaty metamorphic rock composed of mica and quart quartz. The mica is usually muscovite (potash mica), though sometimes it is biolite (magnesian mica). The rock usually splits along the micato constitute the whole mass of the rock ceous folia. Occasionally mica seems Next to gneiss, mica schist is the most common metamorphic rock. MICE. See MOUSE. perors of Constantinople. MICHAEL I.
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the name of various persons spelled Micah, Michah (I Chron. xxiv: 24, 25), or Micha (II Sam. ix: 12) mentioned in the Old Testament. Specially: The prophet called Micah the Morasthite. Morasthite means of Moresheth, Moresheth-gath (Micah i: 14). Scarcely anything is known of him, except what may be gathered from his prophecies. In the Old Testament canon: The 6th inor prophets," i. e., of in order of the "minor oks. The most the minor prophetic books. natural division of the book is into three sections, ch. i.-ii., iii.-v., and vi.-vii., each beginning with a formula calling on the people to hear (i: 2, iii: 1, vi: 1). Passages in Micah resemble others in Isaiah Miicah iv: 1-5 and Isa. ii: 1-5). (see Micah cah is quoted or alluded to in Matt. ii:5, 6; x: 35, 36; Mark xiii: 12; Luke xii: 53; John vii: 42. The canonical authority of the book has never been doubted.
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. See Wilkins Micawber
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(See Healing by Touch.)
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ALBERT ABRAHAM, scientist. Born in Strelno, Germany, in 1851, was brought to San Francisco when young, and in 1873 graduated from the Naval Academy. He taught physics at Annapolis and then pursued his studies in Europe, and on his return became professor of physics at the Case School, Cleveland, and in 1892 head of the physics department, University of Chicago. His experiments in the determination of the velocity of light began in 1878, and to this end he invented the interferential refractometer, which was followed by the echelon spectroscope. President of the American Physical Society (1901-1902) and of American Association for Advancement of Science (1910). Many honorary degrees from universities.
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