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.
ancient Mincius, a river of northern Italy. It flows from the southern extremity of Lake Garda, and after forming lakes and marshes around Mantua joins the Po, 8 miles beyond. It was a military base during the old wars between France and Austria, and is 115 miles long.
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in popular sometimes used as opposed Metaphysicians of the a rule, contradistinguish heart, but only from They regard it as possessing emotions as well as intellectual powers; the former manifesting themselves in feeling, the latter in thought. Its existence is supposed to be established by the consciousness of the thinking individual. Till about the middle of the 19th century, mind was almost universally held to be possessed by none of the inferior animals; any apparent intelligence on their part was attributed to instinct. Darwin declared that the intellect and even the moral powers of man did not differ in kind, though very greatly in degree, from the rudiments of them exhibited by the lower animals. Not denying the latter instincts, he sought to establish that they had reason too, and that the superiority was the result chiefly of natural selection carried on through cosmic periods of time.
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one of the Philippine Islands, next to Luzon in point of size; length about 300 miles, breadth 150 miles; area 36,292 square miles; pop. about 500,000. All the country, except on the sea-coast, is mountainous, the volcano of Apo being 8,819 feet high. Coffee, cocoa, and cotton are exported. The chief town is Zamboanga or station at Samboangan, and naval its waxtremity.Pop. about 30,000.
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a Prussian town in Westphalia, on the Weser, 40 miles W. of Han- , a over; it has a fine new bridge (1874) Gothic town hall, a Catholic church (till 1811 cathedral), built between the 11th century and 1379, and restored in 1864- 1885, manufactures of tobacco, beer, and a considerable brandy, glass, etc., river trade. Till 1873 a fortress of the second class, it was already a town in Charlemagne's day, and suffered much in the Thirty Years' War, and again in the Seven Years' War, wh when, on Aug. 1, 1759, the French were defeated here by an Anglo-Hanoverian army under Ferdinand of Brunswick and Lord George Sackville. Pop. about 27,000.
a town of Louisiana, the parish seat of Webster parish. It is on the Louisiana and Arkansas railroad. It is the center of an important cotton, corn, and sugar raising region. Its industries include saw mills, cottonseed oil mills and compresses. It has an excellent high school and three parks. Pop. (1910) 3,002; (1920) 6,105.
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one of the language a word larger of the Philippine Islands, situated to heart. S. of Luzon, from which it is separated normal type, as by the Strait of Manila; length about it not from 110 miles, breadth about 53 miles; area matter or body. 3,851 square miles; pop. about 30,000. The province of Mindoro, composed of Mindoro proper and groups of neighboring isles, has a population of about 40,- 000. Rice, cacao, and wild cinnamon are the products.
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THE UNITED, one of the largest labor organizations in the United States, organized in 1890, on the basis of "industrial unionism," in contrast to the crafts system of organization of the American Federation of Labor. It includes all workers connected with the coal-mining industry, under the status of foreman. It is governed by a national executive board and twenty-five delegates, each representing a district. The organization made its first big gains in membership during the strike of the miners in the bituminous districts, in 1897, and during the successful strike in the anthracite districts, during 1900 and 1902, under the leadership of John Mitchell. In the fall of 1919 it attempted to organize a nation-wide strike of the workers in the coal industry, but was defeated by a Federal injunction and through lack of public sympathy. The official organ of the organization is "The United Mine 1 Worker."
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a variety of bitumen, intermediate between the harder and softer kinds; sometimes resembling india-rubber.
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If a jet of steam is forced through liquid slag, the latter is changed into a mass of fine white threads, which when gathered together appear like cotton wool. It is sometimes called mineral wool. If an extra strong current of moist air be blown into a cupola that is slagging freely, this phenomenon is likely to occur.
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See PETROLEUM. Minerals are all such natural bodies as are destitute of organization, existing either within or on the surface of the earth, and which are neither animal nor vegetable. The hardness of minerals, beginning with the softest, is as follows: 1. Talc; 2. Gypsum; 3. Calcareous spar; 4. Fluorspar; 5. Apatite; 6. Feldspar; 7. Quartz; 8. Topaz; 9. Sapphire; 10. Corundum; 11. Diamond. See PRECIOUS STONES; EARTHS; MINERALS.
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UNITED STATES. The table which appears on pages 242-243 gives the production of metals and minerals in the United States for 1918, with estimates of production for 1919.
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waters so far impregnated with mineral matter as to give them a peculiar taste or smell, and specific medicinal properties, which may exert effects on the human body different than on ordinary water. They are usually divided into four classes-carbonetted, or those containing free carbonic acid gas; chalybeate, or those impregnated with iron; saline, containing considerable quantities of neutral salts, as sulphate of magnesia, chloride of sodium, etc.; and sulphurous, or waters containing sulphuretted hydrogen. The term mineral waters is also applied to artificial aërated waters. Natural mineral waters are generally connected with recent or extinct volcanoes, and they are most common in volcanic regions. Some are thermal. MINERAL WAX. See OZOKERITE.
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WESTERN FEDERATION OF, a labor organization of employees of mines, smelters, etc., founded in 1893, on the industrial union principle, and now covering over two dozen States, mostly in the Rocky Mountain region. The Federation indorses socialism, its slogan being "labor produces all wealth; therefore all wealth belongs to those who produce it." It played a very prominent part in the Cripple Creek strikes, in 1894, when the militia was called into the field. It also backed the strike in the Coeur d'Alene Mines in Colorado, in 1899, when martial law was declared on account of the revolutionary violence of the strikers. The official organ of the organization is "The Miners' Magazine."
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