Each of these 16 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.
state of Venezuela, on the N. E., where it is washed by the Atlantic. The Venezuelan Andes traverse to the plain of Barcelona, with the Coast Range (Sierra del Mar) rising from the sea. Cattle-raising considerable, with coffee and cacao. Capital, Maturin. Area, 28,- 000 sq. kil. Pop. (1917) 90,439.
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county in Ireland, ancient Gaelic name Muineachan. Area, 477 square miles. Watered by Finn and Blackwater. Manufactures include linen, stock-raising. Mainly agricultural with stone quarries. Pop. about 70,000.
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a state or government in which the supreme power is vested in the hands of a single ruler, and which is absolute, limited, or constitutional, hereditary, or elective. An empire; a kingdom; the state or country ruled by a monarch, absolute or constitutional.
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or BITO- LIA, formerly second town in Turkish Macedonia; 90 miles N. W. of Salonica. It manufactures carpets and silver filigree, and trades in corn and agricultural products. Under its ancient name of Pelagonia it gives title to a Greek archbishop. The Serbs captured the town in the Balkan War 1912. Since then a part of Serbia. In November, 1915, the town was captured by the Austrians and Bulgarians, who, however, lost it again to the Allied forces in November, 1916. See WORLD WAR.
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an ore of cerium metals, consisting of cerium-lanthanum-didymium phosphate, (Ce, La, Di,) PO4, and containing thorium and other rare earth metals. The thorium content varies from nothing up to 18 per cent. thorium oxide. Monazite occurs either as yellowish brown and translucent or dull brown and opaque. S.G. 4.9 to 5.3, hardness 5½. River sands frequently contain this mineral being in small amounts, North worked and South commercially Carolina. in mined in many parts of States, in the southern Urals and in Norway. Thorium is used in the manufacture of incandescent gas mantles and cerium for pyrophoric alloys.
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or MANGBATTU, a country in central Africa. Its area is about 4,000 square miles. Pop. about 1,500,000. The soil is fertile and produces tobacco and sugar cane. The inhabitants were formerly cannibals, but the country in recent years has become farther, lay almost depopulated by slave traders.
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a town and port of entry of New Brunswick, on the Petitcodiac river, 89 miles N. E. of St. John. It is at the head of navigation on the river, has a fine harbor, and contains many The whole important factories in leather, hats, by a wall, foundry materials and flour and planing mills. A center for lumber and farm products. Pop. about 12,500.
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an alloy made from the nickel-copper ores of Ontario, and containing 67 per cent. nickel, 28 per cent. copper, 5 per cent. iron and manganese. It is strong, tough, and ductile, will not rust, and is resistant to the action of acids and alkalies. These properties render it valuable in marine engineering and the construction of chemical equipment.
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A Kabalistic term covering that branch of magic which deals with the reading of the future by the computation of time and observance of the heavenly bodies. It thus includes astrology.
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a borough of Pennsylvania in Westmoreland county about 40 miles S. of Pittsburgh. It is on the Monongahela river and on the Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroads. It is an important industrial city and contains large steel and tinplate works. Its other industries include wire-fence factories, lumber yards and brick works. Pop. (1910) 11,775; (1920) 18,179.
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CLAUDE, a French landscape painter, leader of the Impressionist School; born in Paris 1840. He drew directly from nature, producing wonderful effects of light and air, and endeavoring to catch the transitory aspect of scenes. For twenty years he labored before his views were accepted, traveling much of the time studying foreign art. His first painting that expressed his artistic methods was "Impression-Rising Sun" (1874). His earlier style is represented by "The Breakfast" in the Luxembourg, Paris. "The Orchard," and "Bordighera," produced later, show his wonderful handling of light effects. Among the best of his late productions are "Waterloo Bridge" (1904); "Palazzo Dario, Venice" (1908); "Rouen Cathedral": „ "Water Lilies"; "View of the Thames,' all in the Luxembourg Gallery.
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a state of British Burma with an area of 660 square miles. The land is for the most part hilly. Rice is produced on irrigated land, and tobacco, sugar cane, cotton, and fruit are grown. Pop. about 21,000. The capital is the city of the same name.
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a state of Burma with an area of 2,299 square miles. It is for the most part undeveloped country. The northern part is covered with a dense jungle. Pop. about 19,000.
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in philology, an epithet sometimes applied to the whole class of Turanian tongues; sometimes specifically applied to that group spoken by the Kalmucks and other tribes from Tibet to China. In ethnology, one of the five great races of the world. The head is square; the face flattish, nearly as broad as long; the eyelids narrow, obliquely turned up at their outer angle; the nose flat, the cheeks projecting, the chin somewhat prominent. The hair is straight, the color black, that of the face and body yellowish. It includes not merely the natives of Mongolia properly so called, but the Tartars, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Samoeides, the Cochin Chinese, the Burmese, the Tamuls, the Turks, the Hungarians, and the Finns. Called also Mongolide, Mongoloids, and Turanians.
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ANTOINE ERNEST, a French statesman, born in 1846 at Châteauneuf-sur-Charente. Elected deputy 1885-1889. Senator and leader of the Radical Socialist party in 1891. Minister of Justice in 1899-1902. Vice-President of the Senate, and Premier in March, 1911. He was succeeded in 1911 as Premier by Caillaux when the Chamber voted a lack of confidence in the Government. In December, 1913, he be- Cabinet came Minister of Marine in the of Dumergue. The "Figaro" newspaper charged that in 1911 Caillaux had induced him to hold up the trial of the swindling promoter Rochette until the charge was outlawed and Monis resigned.
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a philosophical theory that be referred to all being may ultimately one category. Thus idealism, pantheism, to materialism are monisms, as opposed the dualism of matter and spirit. See PHILOSOPHY.
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