Each of these 12 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 city in Italy in the province of Caserta, situated about fifteen miles northeast of Naples. Located in one of the most fertile sections of Italy and near the Caroline aqueduct which supplies Caserta with water. Pop. (1920) about 20,000.
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FRANCISCO, President of Mexico; born in Coahuila 1873, and, after receiving a good education, devoted himself to the development of the large FRANCISCO MADERO estates belonging to his family. In 1903 he entered actively into politics, forming the Club Democratico Benito Juarez, and leading the independent voters against Diaz. His book, "La Sucesión Presidencial en 1910," which attacked the autocratic regime of Diaz, singled him out as Diaz's logical opponent in the election then looming, and he was nominated by the National Democratic party. He was, however, thrown into prison, and on release fled to the United States, returning to put himself at the head of an armed revolt. Diaz submitting, Madero was made president. In 1912 revolts broke out, Huerta deserting him and ng about his He was bringing murdered on Feb. 23, 1913, four days after his resignation. See MEXICO.
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capital of Hopkins co., Ky., on the Kentucky Midland railroad, 40 miles S. E. of Henderson. It forms the junction to several railroads and has timber mills and coal mines. Agricultural products, especially tobacco, are important articles of trade. Owns many of its public utilities. Pop. (1910) 4,966; (1920) 5,030.
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chief tributary of Beni river, South America, over 900 miles long, rising in Peru, and running through Bolivia. At Rivera Alta nearly a mile wide.
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An old and powerful secret society, of Italy , who worshipped and idealised nature, and which seems to have been founded by members of the ancient Italian priesthood. It had a tradition that one of the Popes as Cardinal de Medici became a member of the fraternity, and for this there is good documentary evidence. It accepted the allegorical interpretation which the Neo-Platonists had placed upon the Pagan creeds during the first ages of Christianity. 66 برود
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white stony corals or madrepores, a sub-order of Zoantharia, class Anthozoa.
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in poetry, a little amorous poem sometimes also called a pastoral poem, containing some delicate and tender though simple thought, and consisting of not less than three or four stanzas or strophes. Madrigals were first composed in Italy, those of Tasso being accounted among the finest specimens of Italian poetry. In music, an important species of vocal polyphonic composition which reached its highest development between the middle of the 16th and the middle of the 17th centuries. Madrigals are of various kinds: (1) Simple melodies accompanied by other parts not containing counterpoint or ns full imitation; (2) elaborate compositions of contrapuntal devices, sometimes consisting of two or more movements. The favorite number of parts during the classical period above named was five or six.
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A celebrated river of Asia Minor flowing into the Aegean Sea . It is famous among the poets for its windings, and from it the application of the word " meandering" to a winding stream has become proverbial. Maecenas or Mecaenas, C. Clinius. A celebrated Roman knight, who rendered himself immortal by his liberal patronage of learned men. To the interference of Maecenas, Vergil was indebted for the restitution of his lands. Maecenas, according to the received opinion, wrote a history of animals and a a journal of the life of Augustus. Vergil dedicated his Georgics to him, as did Horace his Odes.
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me-se'nas (73-8 B. C.), a celebrated minister of the Roman Empire. Nothing is known of his early life. After the death of Julius Caesar he was the trusted friend and confidential adviser of Octavianus, known later as the Emperor Augustus. This emperor rewarded him with a palatial residence in the midst of gardens on the Esquiline. His home was the resort of the literary people of Rome. Virgil and Horace owed him many favors. A new poem or play was sure to be read in the house of Maecenas before it was made public. His name has become synonymous for a patron of literature. He himself wrote some minor works, a few fragments of which are extant.
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MÄLAR, Baltic; length about 81 miles; average breadth, 13 miles; area, 525 square miles; contains upward of 1,200 islands. Its E. end is closed by Stockholm, where its waters are poured into the Baltic, the difference of level being about six feet. It is surrounded by the districts of Stockholm, Nykoping, Upsal, and Vesteras. MAELSTRÖM (mel'struhm) ("grinding stream"), a famous whirlpool, or more correctly current, between Mosis Madura, the third largest in the presi- kenäs and Vaerö, two of the Lofoden Isles.
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mal'strum, a famous whirlpool. It is situated off the Norwegian coast between two of the Lofoden Islands. The channel is about twenty fathoms deep. The tidal currents run from north to south for six hours, then for six hours in the opposite direction, creating a tremendous whirling of the water. The whirlpool is greatest at high tide or low tide . When the wind sets squarely against the current, the channel becomes furious. A ship cannot weather it. Whales have been dashed to their death on the rocks and thrown up on the shore. There is peril enough, but stories of ships engulfed and boats sucked down into the depths have been exaggerated to such an extent that the maelstrom has become a proverbial expression for certain sorts of danger.
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the capi tal of the Dutch province of Limburg, 19 miles N. N. E. of Liége, situated on the left bank of the Meuse, a stone bridge (1683) connecting it with the suburb of Wijk; formerly an important fortress, it is still a garrison town, but the tions were dismantled in 1871-1878; the fortificatown hall, with spire and carillon (1662), contains many paintings and a library; and in the three-towered church of St., Servatius (12th-14th century), the cathedral once, is a "Descent from the Cross," by Van Dyck. But Maestricht's great sight is the subterranean quarries of the Pietersberg, formerly called Mons Hunnorum (Mount of the Huns, 330 feet). Their labyrinthine passages, 12 feet wide, and 20 to 50 feet high, number 16,000, and extend over an area of 13 by 6 miles. They are supposed to have been worked first by the Romans, and, among other fossils, have yielded two heads of the huge MOSASAURUS (q. v.). The manufactures include glass, earthenware, and carpets; and the trade is considerable. Maestricht, called by the Romans Trajectum ad Mosam to distinguish it from Trajectum ad Rhenum (Utrecht), was six times besieged between 1579 and 1814, and in 1830 was the only town that withstood the insurgent Belgians. Pop. about 40,000.
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