These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Miami, Miami, Miami University.
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.
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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.
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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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one of the Great Lakes . The name is Algonquin, signifying big water. Four states lie on its borders. Two-thirds of the coast line belongs to Michigan. The largest arm is Green Bay. The largest tributary is the Fox. The extreme length of the lake is 340 miles; greatest width, eighty-five miles. The surface is 578 feet above sea level. The greatest depth is about 1,000 feet. Area, 22,000 square miles. The lake is subject to violent storms and to tides at Chicago of about one and three--fourths inches. Lake Michigan formerly discharged its waters by way of the Chicago and Illinois into the Mississippi, but it now communicates with Lake Huron by way of Mackinaw Strait. The opening of the Chicago River canal has set up a flow through the old channel. See Chicago
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a mining school at Houghton, Mich., part of the University of Michigan, founded in 1885. In the college college there are 157 students with a faculty numbering 26. Nine college buildings make the physical basis of the institution, one of which is a library containing 30,000 volumes. Its entire support is the appropriation granted by the State of Michigan. MICHIGAN, LAKE, one of the great fresh-water lakes between the United States and Canada, being the second largest lake in the world, Lake Superior being the largest. Unlike the other four big lakes, it lies wholly within United States territory. It is 320 miles long and averages 75 miles in width. Its surface is 581 feet above sea-level. MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational non-sectarian institution in Ann Arbor, Mich.; founded in 1837; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 500; students, students, 7,000; volumes in the library, 413,666; endowment funds, $1,393,304; grounds and buildings valued at $8,075,660; income, $1,393,304; number of graduates, 36,789; president, Harry B. Hutchins.
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one of the States of Mexico, on the Pacific Coast; area 22,874 square miles; pop. about 1,000,000. It is to a large extent elevated and mountainous, among the mountains being the volcano of Jorullo; has rich mines of gold, silver, and other ninerals. Capital Morelia; pop. about 40,000.
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A king of Numidia, son of Masinissa , who, at his death, B. C. 119, left his kingdom to his sons, Adherbal and Hiempsal, and his nephew Jugurtha . 2026 Editor's Note: Following the death of Micipsa in approximately 118 BC, his joint succession plan collapsed due to the violent ambitions of his nephew Jugurtha . Jugurtha orchestrated the assassination of Hiempsal I and later defeated Adherbal, triggering the Jugurthine War with Rome. This conflict eventually led to Jugurtha's capture and execution in the Tullianum prison in 104 BC. (Ed: BR 2026-06-23)
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being of the animal or vegetable kingany microscopic dom. See BACTERIA. MICROPHONE. See TELEPHONE.
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. See Bacteria
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Or the Pentagram , a little world (Greek Kosmos, a world)-a five-pointed star, five-pointed star, which represents Man and the summation of the occult forces. It was believed by Paracelsus that this sign had a marvellous magical power over spirits; and that all magic figures and kabalistic signs could be reduced to two-The Microcosm, and the Macrocosm ( q.v.).
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