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.
a term used with reference to a matrimonial alliance between a man of royal blood (or in Germany of high nobility) and a woman of inferior rank. The children of such a marriage are legitimate, but do not inherit the rank or possessions of their father. ginia and the county-seat of Monongalia
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a city of West Virco. It is about 100 miles S. of Pittsburgh, Pa., and is situated on the Monongahela river and on the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Morgantown and Kingwood railroads. It contains the West Virginia University and several important public buildings. Its chief industries are glass works, rks, furniture factories, lumbering, flour milling, and mining. Pop. (1910) 9,150; (1920) 12,127.
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a mountain slope on the E. margin of Lake Egeri , in the canton of Zug, Switzerland, the place where 1,400 men of the Swiss Forest Cantons Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden-won a great victory over 15,000 Austrians, Nov. 15, 1315. HENRY MORGENTHAU
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HENRY, appointed in 1920 Ambassador to Mexico by President Wilson; born in Germany in 1856 and came to the United States when he was nine years old. After graduating from Columbia University he entered the law firm of Lachman, Morgenthau, and Goldsmith in 1879. After thirty years as Wilson in 1913 appointed Morgenthau a New York business man, President World War placed the business of the Ambassador to Constantinople . The Allied nations in Turkey in his hands. No less than nine nations, in recalling their representatives from Constantinople, made Morgenthau responsible for the the performance of this task he showed lives and property of their nationals. In great energy and tact. He returned to the United States in 1917 when the United States severed relations with Turkey. of persons found dead are exposed in or-
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a genus of Cinchonaceæ, royac is a febrifuge. M. citrifolia is sometimes called the Indian mulberry; it is wild or cultivated in India and Ceylon. The typical variety, supposed to be wild in Malacca, furnishes various dyes, from reddish yellow to dark brown; the variety M. elliptica yields a scarlet dye, and M. angustifolia a good yellow. M. tinctoria is also a dye plant, and the green fruits are eaten by the Hindus in their curries.
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the typical genus of the order Moringaceæ. The fruits are long, whip-like beans. The root of M. pterygosperma tastes like horseradish, and has a pungent odor. The leaves, flowers, and young seed are eaten by the natives of India in their curries. The seeds are the ben nuts which furnish the oil of ben. The plant is used by the Hindus as a stimulant and as a rubefacient. It is used by Indian calico printers. The bark yields a coarse fiber from which mats, paper, or cordage may be prepared. M. aptera, a native of India, long naturalized in the West Indies, also yields ben oil. The unripe fruits of M. concanensis are eaten by the natives of India in their curries.
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the chief city and capital of the province of Iwate, Japan, located about 40 miles from the sea and in a rugged, mountainous part of the island of Hondo. The manufactures are chiefly yields abundant fruit. Pop. about 40,000. silk goods and kettles , while the he soil to the Moors who remained in Spain after
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the name usually given the taking of Granada in 1492; Mozarabes or Muzarabes , to the Christian Spaniards who lived in the parts of Spain under Moorish rule; Mudējares, to the Moors who submitted to the Christians in the earlier periods of the reconquest.
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a picturesque and flourishing port of France, in the Breton department of Finistère, on the Dossen. It has many quaint timbered houses, a huge railway viaduct 207 feet high, and manufactures of tobacco, paper, etc. Pop. about 15,000.
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the last of a pretended line of Hebrew prophets, and the pretended author of "The Book of Mormon," or Golden Bible, written on golden plates.
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in astronomy, the planet Venus when it is visible in the morning. Also a weapon used in ancient times. It consisted of a ball with spikes, united by a chain to a staff. Called also holy-water sprinkler.
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a coeducational institution in Sioux City, Ia.; founded in 1894 under the auspices of the Methodist Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 33; students, 788; president, F. E. Mossman, D. D.
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those inhabitants of the Philippine Islands living in the Sulu Archipelago and the island of Mindanao who are Mohammedans. Most of them live in rude boats near the coast and wander from place to place wherever the fishing is good. Others of them live like the "lake dwellers" on houses erected on piles over the streams and ponds. They barbarism and are are in a rude stage of a cruel and warlike race. Polygamy and slavery are practiced among them, and as far as they have any government it is patriarchal. The Sultan of Sulu is supposed to be the supreme ruler, but his actual authority is small over the more distant groups.
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the crystallized form of apatite, occurring in crystals of a brownish or greenish-blue color.
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in geology, the term-first proposed by Lyell in 1833, and since universally adopted for the stratified crystalline rocks-that is, rocks which have been presumably laid down originally by the action of water, and then transformed by fire, chemical agency, pressure, or all combined. Metamorphic action is divided into local-affecting only small portions of rock, or small areas, and regional-affecting rocks over considerable regions. The metamorphic rocks constitute one of the five great classes of rocks. The chief are gneiss, eurite, hornblende schist, serpentine, actinolite schist, mica-schist or micaceous schist, clay slate, argillaceous schist or argillite, chlorite schist, schist, quartzite or quartz rock, and crystalline or metamorphic limestone. Besides these which were probably the first sedimentary, the other classes of rocks have in places undergone metamorphosis.
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that branch of natural science which treats of the laws, form, and arrangement of the structures of animals and plants, treating of their varieties, homologies and metamorphoses; the science of form. Morphology teaches that most organs of a plant, including the bracts, sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, ils, are modifications of leaves. With regard to animals, it investigates the tissues of which their structures are composed, the states through which each animal has to pass before reaching maturity, and the modifications of form which the same organ undergoes in different animals. For instance, the hand of a man, the forefoot of a mole, adapted for digging, are only modifications of one type. Morphology treats also of serial homologies in the same animal, and of homogeneous and homoplastic homologies of organs.
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