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.
a famous compilation of romances relating to the life and death of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, made by Sir Thomas Malory and printed by Caxton (1485). It is in prose, and was translated from the French prose romances. See MALORY, THOMAS.
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in law, the conveyance of property as security for the payment of a debt or performance of a promise, and on the condition that if the debt be duly paid or the promises fulfilled the conveyance shall be void. The term is applied: (1) To the act of making such a conveyance; (2) to the deed by which such conveyance is made; (3) to the rights thereby conferred on the mortgagee. He who makes the mortgage is the mortgagor; he for whose benefit it is made is the mortgagee. Whatever may be sold may be mortgaged. Mortgages may therefore covert chattelstor Ing, either in one single instrument conestate. Mortgages must writtaining the whole case, or in two, one containing the conveyance, the other the condition of the conveyance, this last document being the "defeasance." A deposit of title-deeds, with a verbal agreement, creates an equitable mortgage in some States which recognize this proceeding as a mode of securing a debt. The different States regulate the time in which mortgages are to be recorded, in order to protect innocent purchasers, but an unrecorded mortgage is good as against the mortgagor, or any purchaser knowing of its existence at the time of his purchase. In those States which recognize chattel mortgages (or mortgages of personal property), a record of the same within a specified time is required, to render them valid as against other claimants.
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the complete death of part of the body. It is generally the result of acute inflammation, but may be also an idiopathic disease. In Scots law: (1) The disposition of lands for religious or charitable purposes. (2) A term applied to lands given formerly to the Church for religious purposes, or, since the Reformation, for charitable or public purposes. By the present practice, when lands are given for any charitable purpose they are usually disposed to trustees, to be held either in blanch or feu. (3) A charitable fund or institution obtained from the yearly revenue of such lands.
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a parish of Surrey, England, formerly famous for its tapestry works; now malting and brewing are the leading industries. It is also a great boating place, the Oxford and Cambridge race being rowed from Putney to Mortlake. It has associations with Archbishops Anselm and Cranmer, the astrologer, Dr. Dee, and Cromwell, Swift, and Stella.
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A cheap brass used for making imitation jewelry. It is made by alloying copper with about equal parts of zinc. See GOLD ALLOY; ORMOLU; TOMBAC.
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in paleontology, the name given by Conybeare to a gigantic marine Saurian, called by Wagler Saurochampsa. It is now made the type of a family, Mosasauridæ. M. camperi was discovered in the Maestricht chalk in 1780, and was named by Sömmering Lacerta gigantea. It came into possession of the French at the fall of Maestricht (1794). Another species, M. princeps, is believed to have been 70 feet long.
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JOHN SINGLETON, an American military officer; born in Powhatan co., Va., Dec. 6, 1833; was graduated at the University of Virginia, and became a lawyer. On the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the Confederate service as adjutant of the 1st Virginia Cavalry. In 1862-1865 he was colonel of the "Partisan Rangers," an independent cavalry command that did very effective work in cutting National communications, capturing outposts, etc. After the war he practiced law at Warrentown, Va.; was United States consul at Ho Hong Kong in 1875-1885. He wrote "War Reminiscences" (1887) and "The Dawn of the Real South" (1901). Died in 1916.
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IGNAZ (mōsh'e-les), a musician; born in Prague, May Bohemian m 30, 1794, of Jewish parents; was between 1808 and 1816 the favorite music master Vol. VI-Cyc-U of Vienna. Settling in London in 1825, he taught at the Academy of Music and conducted the philharmonic concerts. After residing in England for 26 years, he became professor in the conservatory of Leipsic. He edited, in English, Schindler's "Life of Beethoven" (1841). He died in Leipsic, March 10, 1870.
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GEORGE HIGGINS, United States Senator from New Hampshire, 1918-1924; born in Maine in 1869; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1890. In the same year he became private secretary to the governor of New Hampshire; then, from 1893 to 1906, he was secretary to the State Forestry Commission. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1908 and 1916. President Taft appointed Moses Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro, a position which he held from 1909 to 1912. Senator Moses was a vigorous opponent of the ratification of the Treaty of Ver sailles when that document was laid before the Senate.
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a branch of the Volga's tributary, the Oka, rises in a marsh in the E. of Smolensk, flows E. to the city of Moscow, and thence 112 miles S. E. to the Oka. Its total course is 305 miles. It is navigable from its mouth to Mos- November and April, cow, except between veen when it is generally frozen, and is connected directly with the Volga by the Moskwa Canal. MOSLEM (Arabic, muslim, a true believer; plural, muslimin, hence the corrupt form, musulman), a general appellation in European languages for all who profess Mohammedanism.
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HENRY, artist; born in New York City in 1841; he began by studying wood engraving and painting at Cincinnati and in France and Germany, attaining a reputation in Paris, where he lived for years. His first public work was as draughtsman on "The Omnibus," a Cincinnati comic weekly. He won numerous gold medals and similar distinctions here and abroad, among them the cross of the Legion of Honor. His best known works include: "The Reurn," "Wedding Feast in Brittany," "Rainy Day." He died in 1920.
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or RESERVE, a maritime tract of Nicaragua, having E. the Caribbean Sea, and S. the river San Juan, which separates it from Costa Rica. The river Segovia, which enters the Caribbean Sea near Cape Gracias a Dios, is the boundary with Honduras. Next the sea, the surface is low and C B E E. Female broken by numerous lagoons, but gradually rises toward the interior. Mosquito Coast is inhabited by people of mixed Indian and African race, some 15,000 in all, and by tribes of aboriginal Indians. Chief town, Bluefields; pop. ( 1917) 4,706. Mosquito Coast was discovered by Columbus in 1502, and appropriated by Spain. From 1655 to 1850 it was an English protectorate, but in 1860 was made over to Nicaragua. After being for some time under the protectorate of Great Britain was was reincon reincorporated with Nicaraguamby the department of Zelaya, Nov. 20, 1894. Recognized by Great Britain in 1905.
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