Each of these 15 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 name given to a psalm in the Roman Catholic service. Also a piece of music composed to the "Miserere" or 51st Psalm. Also a small projection or shelf fixed on brackets in the under side of the seat of a stall or pew in churches.
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or MISERICORDE ("mercy"), a narrow-bladed dagger used by a knight in giving the coup de grâce or finishing stroke to a wounded foe. Also the name of a society (of laymen) in Florence, founded in the 13th century, who tend the poor sick, carry victims of accidents or disease to the hospitals, and the dead to their burial.
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a city of St. Joseph co., Ind., and the county-seat, situated on the St. Joseph river and the Grand Trunk and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroads. The city is an industrial center with good waterpower, and its products include rubber goods, plows, cement blocks, machine shop products, automobiles and supplies, cigars, and leather goods. It contains an orphans' home, a hospital, a public library, brary, several parks, ks, and a high school. Pop. (1910) 11,886; (1920) 15,195. Vol. VI-Cyc-Q
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A compilation of Hebrew oral traditions, written about the end of the second century by a certain Rabbi of Galilee. Its doctrines are said by the Jews to be of great antiquity and they believe it to be the oral law delivered by God to Moses, at the same time as he received the written law. It forms the framework of the Talmud . (See Kabala.)
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an Argentine territory; lying between the Uruguay and the Paraná; bounded on all sides but the S. W. by Brazil and Paraguay; area 23,932 square miles; pop. (1918) 57,544. The greater portion of the surface is covered with forest, producing building and dye-woods, oranges, medicinal herbs, and the yerba maté. Maize is largely grown and sugar-cane.
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a city of Hungary, in the county of Borsod. It has many important public buildings and prior to the World War had an extensive trade in wine, agricultural products, and cattle. There were manufactories of flour, shoes, china, etc. Pop. about 52,000.
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in law, every such high offense as is under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon. Mis prisions are either negative, which consist in the concealment of something ; or positive, which consist in the commission of somewhich ought to be revealed thing which ought not to be done. Of the first or negative kind, is "misprision of treason," consisting in the bare knowledge and concealment of treason, without any degree of assent thereto, for any assent makes the party a traitor. "Misprision of felony" is also the concealment of a felony which a man knows, but never assented to, for if he assented, this makes him either principal or accessory.
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the book containing the whole service of the mass throughout the year. In its present arrangement it dates from about the middle of the 14th century. The Roman missal is used generally throughout the Roman Church, though the Ambrosian obtains in the diocese of Milan, and many religious orders have their own missals, differing only in unimportant particulars from the Roman. Eastern Christians of the Communion with Rome have missals peculiar to their own rite.
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a coeducational institution in Marshall, Mo.; founded in 1889 under the auspices of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919; Professors and instructors, 14; students , 232; productive funds, $617,642; income, $30,000; number of graduates, 370 ; president William H. Black, D. D.
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fog; obscurity. MISTASSINI (-sēnē) LAKE, a sheet of water in Canada, in about lat. 51° N., lon. 72° to 73° W .; length, about 125 miles; average width, 20 miles; it the head waters of the Rupert river. First surveyed in 1884.
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FRÉDÉRIC (mes-träl'), a Provençal poet; born a peasant's son, near Maillaune, Bouches-du-Rhône , France, Sept. 8, 1830. He studied law at Avignon, but abandoned it for poetry. In 1859 he published the epic "Mirèio" written in his native Provençal dialect . This charming representation ation of life in southern France made his name famous and gained for him the poet's prize of the French Academy and the cross of the Legion of Honor. It also led to the formation of the society called Lou Felibrige, to create a modern Provençal literature. In 1867 Mistral published a second epic, "Calendou"; in 1876 a volume of poems, "Lis Iselo d'Or" (Golden Islands); and a novel, "Netro ." Died 1914 .
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the capital of Courland, on the rig right bank of the Aa, 27 miles S. W. of Riga; has a castle, begun by Biron in 1738 , and important manufactures, and a trade in grain and timber; founded in 1271 by the grandmaster of the Teutonic Knights. From 1798 to 1807 it offered an asylum to Louis XVIII. Pop. about 40,000.
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suburb of London, England, midway between Croydon and Wimbledon in Surrey, 2 miles S. of the city limits. Has large flower gardens , used largely for the manufacture of perfumes, essences, and medicinal extracts. Country round is largely resorted to for pleasure by Londoners, particularly Mitcham Common, which is extensive playground . Pop. about 30,000.
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Donald Grant (1822-), an American author who wrote under the pseudonym of Ik Marvel. He was born at Norwich, Connecticut, and received his education at Yale University . Later he studied law. He was United States consul to Venice in 1853. In 1855 Mitchell settled on his farm, "Edgewood," near New Haven , where he has spent his time largely in writing on various themes. Reveries of a Bachelor, Dream Life, Dr. Johns, My Farm at Edgewood, Wet Days at Edgewood, Out of Town Places, American Lands and Letters, are among his well known books. Mitchell's style is easy and pleasant, the old fashioned sentiment and quaint humor reminding one a little of Irving.
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Maria (1818-1889), an American astronomer. She was born at Nantucket, Massachusetts, the daughter of William Mitchell, who was himself an asstronomer. She was for a time a teacher in a private school, and was for twenty years librarian of the Nantucket Athenaeum. She became known as an astronomer in 1847 by the discovery of a new comet. She continued her astronomical studies and in 1865 was made professor of astronomy at Vassar College . She received the degree of LL. D. from Dartmouth in 1852 and from Columbia in 1887, and was the first woman honored by election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was interested during her later years in raising a fund to endow the chair of astronomy at Vassar. The fund was completed after her death, and was called in her honor the Maria Mitchell Endowment Fund.
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