Mock Platinum
A factitious platinum is produced by mixing 5 zinc with 8 brass. For composition of brass, see BRASS. Mock Silver is a white-metal alloy, ordinarily used by jewellers, etc. If 3.53 of silver be alloyed with 11.71 copper and 2.4 of platinum, the composition will have about the same specific gravity as the pure metal. Packfong, or tutenag, another imitation, is composed of: copper 40.4, zinc 25.4, and nickel 31.6. German tutania: tin 48, antimony 4, copper 1. See SILVER ALLOYS; IMITATION SILVER.
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Modelling
The art of designing or copying works of art in clay, for the purpose of obtaining moulds in which they may be cast in plaster or metal. The fingers, aided by a few implements of metal or wood,--usually both,--are the only tools required for fashioning the clay. Ordinarily, the common potters'-clay will serve this purpose; but for designs which occupy a lengthened period to produce, it is mixed with other ingredients to keep it in a moist condition. The support of a figure in modelling is of great importance, requiring in some instances a skeleton of wood or iron supports on which to work the clay. When the model is complete, a plaster impression of the same is taken in sections, which are then placed together in precisely the same position as they occupied on the model; the space originally occupied by the model is now filled with plaster, and when the cast is well set the mould is carefully taken off, exposing a finished cast of the model. This is a much better plan than that of the ancient sculptors, who simply dried the clay model; but clay cracks and shrinks in drying, therefore plaster-casts from the models are best. See FOUNDING OF STATUES; MODELLING-CLAY.
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Modelling-clay
Common potters'-clay mixed with water will answer for inferior work; for work of superior quality dry clay may be brought to the right consistency with glycerine; but for models requiring considerable time for their completion, and to avoid the repeated moistening to which they must be subjected, it is best to use a clay composed of: clay 3, sulphur 6, oxide of zinc 1, fatty acids 2, fats 10. First saponify the zinc-white with oleic acid, which then mix with the other fatty acids; add sulphur in flowers, and the clay in dry powder. See OILS; ZINC; POTTERY.
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Modern Babylon, The
The. See London
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Modern Woodmen of America
a fraternal insurance order. It was founded in 1883. The insurance of members at actual cost is a prominent feature. The scandals connected with the management of the large old-line insurance companies gave the Woodmen an additional impulse. According to the report of the secretary for October 1, 1909, there were at that date 13,870 local camps and 1,059,221 members in good standing. The number of members to whom pensions were paid during the preceding September was 9,333. One hundred and eight new camps were chartered in the month named.
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Modesto
a city of California, the county-seat of Stanislaus co. It is on the Tuolumne river and the Southern Pacific railroad. The city has an extensive trade in grain, fruit, wool, livestock, dairy products, etc., and is the center of a productive agricultural region which has been developed by irrigation. The notable buildings include a court house, a public library, and a county hospital. Pop. (1910) 4,034; (1920) 9,241.
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Modica
an inland town of Sicily, 45 miles S. W. of Syracuse, with trade in fruit, oil, wine, and grain. Pop. of commune, about 56,000.
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Modjeska
HELENA (mod-jes'kä), a Polish actress; born in Cracow, Poland, Oct. 12, 1844. She began to act in a traveling company in 1861. Four years later she made a great name at Cracow, and from 1868 to 1876 was the first actress of Warsaw. In 1877 she triumphed as Adrienne Lecouvreur at San Francisco and rose to the first rank as an emotional actress. She was especially famous as Camille, Rosalind, and Beatrice. She died April 8, 1909.
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Modocs
an Indian tribe of northern California, which in 1872, after firing on the United States forces, retreated to the neighboring lava beds, and there defended themselves desperately till June, 1873, killing or wounding 132 of the troops. Their chief, Captain Jack, and three others were hanged. About 200 are domiciled on the Klemath Reservation, Oregon.
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Modulus of Elasticity
The measure of the elastic force of any substance, expressed by the ratio of a pressure on a given unit of the substance to the accompanying compression. Webster.
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Moeller
HENRY, ecclesiastic; born in Cincinnati, O., in 1849; graduated from St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati, in 1869; became student in Rome, attaining degree of D. D. in 1876. Was then attached to St. Patrick's, Bellefontaine, for a year, and was for two years professor at Mount St. Mary's. Appointed chancellor of the archdiocese of Cincinnati, continuing continuing till 1900, becoming coadjutor-archbishop, with title see of Areopolis, in 1903. Became archbishop of Cincinnati in 1904, receiving pallium greatly developed diocese.
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Moen
a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, at the S. E. end of Zealand. It is 20 miles in length. Pop. about 2,300. MERIS (mē'ris) LAKE, the ancient Greek name of a sheet of water in Egypt, now in the province of Fayum, about 50 miles S. W. of Cairo; extreme length from N. E. to S. W., 35 miles.
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Moeris, Lake
Lake. See Fayum
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Moero
or MERU (mā'rō) LAKE, a body of water lying S. W. of Tanganyika in Belgian Kongo. Discovered by Livingstone in 1868. Rhodesia was founded on its eastern shore in 1892.
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Moffat
. See Livingstone; David
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Mogador
or SUEIRA (swā'rä), a seaport in the French zone of Morocco. It is the best built town in the empire, having been laid out in 1760 by a French engineer. The exports include almonds, olive oil, wool, goat-skins, hair. The manufactures are brass trays, daggers, furniture of arar wood, woolen cloth, etc. Pop. about 20,000. MOHÁCS (mō'häch), a town and important river-port of Hungary, province of Baranya, on the Danube river. On Aug. 29, 1526, the Turks, under Solyman the Magnificent, completely defeated the Hungarians, who lost 22,000 men. Pop. about 18,000.
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Mohammed VI, Moore & Mccarl
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) Mohammed VI SULTAN OF TURKEY, declared deposed by the Turkish National Assembly at Angora, which abolished the Sultanate November 1, 1922. On November 16, he was accused of treason and ordered to be placed on trial. Fled from Constantinople on a British warship, taking refuge first in Malta and afterwards at Mecca, where the Arabs continued to regard him as Caliph. Moore JOHN BASSETT, appointed American representative and chairman of the International Commission to revise the laws of warfare, 1922-23. Mccarl J. R. vented lynchings. Among those saved were four women, three of whom were white and one colored. Of the twentyeight persons lynched, twenty-six were negroes and two were white. Nine States
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