Mohawk
a river in New York, the principal tributary of the Hudson; length about 135 miles.
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These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Mohawk, Mohegan, Mohileff.
Mohegan
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) or MONHEGAN IN- DIANS (-he'gan), a tribe of the Algonquin family who formerly lived on the Thames river in Connecticut. They were at one time united with the Pequots and after the death of Sassacus, the Pequot leader, the remainder of the tribe came under the Mohegan chief. After the death of King Philip in 1676, the Mohegan tribe was the only important one ment du fluor" (1886); "Reproduction in that region. They became scattered, some joining the Brotherton Indians in New York. Only about 100 remain, of mixed white and negro blood, residing near Mohegan, or Norwich, Conn.
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Mohileff
or MOGILEFF (mō-gēlef'), the capital of a province in European Russia; on the Dnieper, 95 miles S. W. of Smolensk. It is the seat of a Greek and a Roman Catholic archbishop, their respective cathedrals dating from 1780 and 1692, and has an old castle, and a town house built in 1679. Tanning is the principal industry; there is also an active trade in cereals, leather, brandy, salt, sugar, fish, timber, etc. The town was burned down by Peter the Great for strategical reasons in 1708. Here July 23, 1812, the French under Davoût defeated the Russians under Bagration. Pop. about 75,000. Area of province 18,514 square miles; pop. 2,551,- 400. Another Mohileff is in Poland, government of Podolia, on the Dneister river. Pop. about 35,000.
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Mohonk Lake
a town in Ulster co., N. Y., 14 miles N. W. of Poughkeepsie. It is situated on the N. end of Lake Mohonk at an elevation of about 1,200 feet. Mohonk Lake is notable for the conferences known as the Lake Mohonk Conference held annually for the consideration of economic and social subjects. It was founded by Albert Keith Smiley, who in 1870 erected a large hotel. The entire tract includes about 5,500 acres.
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Mohr
mor, Karl Friedrich (1806-1879), a German philosopher. He was the son of a prosperous druggist of Coblenz. He studied chemistry at Heidelberg, Berlin, and Bonn. He succeeded his father in business, yet retired in middle life and became a professor of pharmacy in the University of Bonn. He is described as a man of winning manners, fond of music and poetry, devoted to his family. He had the misfortune, however, to antagonize not only the authorities of the church, but leading scientific men. Though one of the foremost scientists of the day, he received little credit from his contemporaries. His name is known now only to the historian of science. As early as 1837 he published a paper, Concerning the Nature of Heat, in which the following remarkable sentences appear: "Besides the fifty-four known chemical elements there is in the physical world one agent only, and this is called energy. It may appear according to circumstances as motion, chemical affinity, cohesion, electricity, light and magnetism, and from any one of these forms it can be transformed into any of the others." This enunciation attracted no attention at the time, but it is now recognized clearly as the doctrine, nothing less, of the conservation of energy.
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Moidore
a Portuguese gold coin used in 1690-1722. Value about $6.50. MOIRÉ (mwä-rā'), silks figured by the peculiar process called "watering." The finest kinds of watered silks are known as moirés antiques. The same process has been applied to woolen fabrics called moreen, which is only an alteration of the word moiré.
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Moire Metallique
Important: Safety Warning This page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. A crystalline appearance of great beauty given to tin-plate by brushing over the heated metal a mixture of 2 parts of nitric acid, 2 of hydrochloric acid, and 4 of water. As soon as the crystals appear the plate is quickly washed, dried, and varnished. See TIN.
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Moissan
HENRI, French chemist; born in 1852. After preparatory educa tion at Paris, where he was born, became a student at Museum of Natural History, joining when 27 staff of School of Pharmacy, tea teaching in toxicology and mineral chemistry departments. In 1900 he became professor at the University of Paris, and in 1906 received the Nobel prize for chemistry. Was awarded the Lacaze prize in 1887 for discoveries in fluorine, and later attracted attention by the claim that he had discovered how to manufacture diamonds. He wrote extensively for magazines and encyclopedias, his other works including: "L'Isoledu diamant" (1893); "Carbure de calcium" (1894); "Etude complète des carbones amorphes et des graphites" (1898); "Classification des éléments" (1904); "Traité de chimie minérale" (1905). Died in 1907.
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Moji
a city of Japan on the island of Kiushiu. In recent years it has grown in importance industrially. There are important coal deposits in the sur. rounding country. Pop. about 75,000. MOKANNA mō-kän'nä) (surname of HAKIM BEN ( EN ALLAH) ("THE VEILED"), the founder of a sect in Khorasan, who first appeared in the 8th century, during the reign of Almahdi, the third Abasside calif. He commenced his career as a soldier. In a fight an arrow pierced one of his eyes, and in order to hide this deformity he henceforth constantly wore a veil. Mokanna set himself up as an incarnation of God. Mokanna found many adherents, and he was able to seize on several fortified places. But Almahdi marched against him, and after a long siege took his stronghold of Kash (720 A. D.), when together with the remnant of his army the veiled one took poison. MOLASSES the brown uncrystallizable syrup obtained in the refining of sugar.
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