Each of these 13 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 mountain in central Africa. It is on the boundary between the Belgian Congo and British East Africa. It includes several ridges and peaks. It was discovered in 1888 by Stanley. The Duke of the Abruzzi, in 1906, climbed the two highest peaks, which he called respectively Alexandra and Margherita. The first is 16,750 feet and the second 16,816 feet high.
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a coeducational institution in Alliance, 0.; founded in 1846 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919. Professors and instructors, 20; students, 334; president, W. H. McMaster, D. D., A. M.
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a peak of the White Mountains, in Coos co., N. H.; about 85 miles N. by E. of Concord; height, 6,285 feet above sea-level, being not only the culmination of the White Mountains, but the highest land in New England. The summit is reached by a railroad. MT. WILSON SOLAR OBSERVA- TORY, near Pasadena, Cal., at an elevation of 5,886 feet. It was built in 1904, as an expedition from the Yerkes Observatory, by the Carnegie Foundation, and contains a Snow horizontal tele lent by Yerkes Observatory. Prof. George E. Hale, who was instrumental in having the observatory built, is the director. The clear atmosphere of Mt. Wilson makes it a very desirable spot for solar observations.
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a large or very high hill; a large mass of earth rising to a great height above the level of the adjacent land; a high elevation or prominence âĞupon the earth's surface; a high mount. In geography, mountains usually exist in chains, the highest being the Himalayas. Parallel to a leading mountain chain there are in some cases two others of inferior elevation, one on each side. Sir Charles Lyell proved that every great mountain is the result, not of one upheaval, but of many. The composition of the different parts of a mountain regulates its form; trappean rocks, for instance, tending to make one or more table lands with precipitous sides, and granite a rounded top.
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A spiritualistic community founded in Mountain Cove, Fayette Co., Virginia, in the autumn of 1851, under the leadership of the Rev. James Scott and the Rev. T. L. Harris. Both mediums had. settled in Auburn in the previous year, and had obtained a considerable following. While Harris was absent in New York the command to form a community at Mountain Cove was given through the mediumship of Scott, and. about a hundred persons accompanied him to Virginia. The members were obliged to deliver up all their possessions, again at the command of the spirits. Dissensions arose and pecuniary difficulties were experienced, and only the advent of T. L. Harris in the summer of 1852 saved the community from dissolution. However, the dissensions and difficultiesremained, and early in 1853 the community finally broke up.
Only in An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
military college at Fort Riley, Kan., consisting of schools of equitation, fa horseshoers, bakers and cooks. T courses number four for the first, two for the second, two for the third. Only the School of Equitation gives tuition to officers. The staff consists of a commandant, instructors, detachment, and student officers and enlisted men.
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BARON GEORGE STEPHEN, born in Dufftown, Scotland, in 1829, son of William Stephen. hen. He went to Canada in 1850 and succeeded in the dry-goods business, and became successively director, vice-president, and president of the Bank of Montreal. He also turned his attention to railroad development, and co-operated in completing the Canadian Pacific railway, of which he was the head from 1881 till 1888. He was made a baronet in 1886 and a baron in 1891. In 1887 he gave $500,000 toward the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal.
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a popular name for the smaller species of the genus Mus, the larger ones being called rats. The common mouse is dusky-gray above, ashy underneath; the tail being about as long as the body. The field mouse, which is reddish-gray above, white underneath, is larger; and has the tail shorter than the body. The harvest mouse is very small, the body being colored above like a squirrel; beneath it is white, with a line between the colors. By shrew mouse is meant the common shrew, sorex vulgaris; the short-tailed field mouse is arvicola agrestis.
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a watch tower on a quartz rock in the Rhine River near Bingen. The date of the erection of this tower is not known certainly, but it is said by some authorities to have been built by Bishop Siegfried in the twelfth century as a tollhouse. An old tradition connects the tower with Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz, who lived some 200 years before the time of Siegfried. The story runs that Hatto was devoured by mice in this tower as a punishment for his cruelty in burning a barn filled with people whom he had caught stealing grain in time of famine. It is possible that the name Mouse Tower, Mausethurm in the German, is a corruption of Mauththurm, or toll tower, and that the legend arose from the fact that the duty collected on corn was especially unpopular. Another explanation of the name is that it came from the German word musen, to spy, the tower having been used as a watch tower. The story has been kept alive by Southey's ballad of Bishop Hatto.
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Mousing-hook A hook with some contrivance for preventing the hook, ring, or link resting therein from slipping out. Mushet's Crucibles See CRUCIBLES. Music-metal Tin 65.8, antimony 8, copper 26, iron 3.2. The common alloy is tin 80, copper 20. See BRASS; COPPER; ALLOYS.
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the cavity containing the organs of tas taste, mastication, and insalivation. In fortifications, the outer or widest part of an embrasure; the narrow part being the neck. Also the part of a trench most remote from the besieged place.
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A term usually applied to the mechanism of a watch or clock, independent of a case.
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A metal box with glass sides, for holding watch movements while timing, etc., before casing. In the Rockford box, shown in Fig. 239, stem wind movements can be wound without fingering or exposure to dust.
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