Each of these 11 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 vertical division between the lights of windows, screens, etc., in Gothic architecture. Mullions are rarely found earlier than the Early English style. The term is also applied to the division between the panels in wainscotting.
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Miss. See Craik ; Dinah Maria Mulock
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or MOOLTAN (möl-tän'), a city of India, in the Punjab, the chief city and capital of a district of same name; 4 miles from the Chenab; partly surrounded by a wall, and overlooked by a fortress of some strength occupied by European troops. The streets are mostly narrow and tortuous. It is one of the most ancient cities in India, and is the center of a large trade. Pop. about 100,000.
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in arithmetic and algebra, a number which contains another number an exact number of times without any remainder; thus, 20 is a multiple of 5. Common multiple of two or more numbers: In arithmetic, any number which contains each of these numbers an exact number of times without any remainder; as, 30 is a common multiple is the smallest number which will do this; thus, 24 is a common multiple of 3 and 4, but 12 is their least common multiple. Multiple point of a curve: In geometry, a point in which two or more branches of a curve intersect each other. The analytical characteristic of a multiple point of a curve is, that at it the first differential co-efficient of the ordinate must have two or more values.
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. See Arithmetic
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mun-chaw'sen, Baron (1720-1797), a German soldier. He was a native of Hanover. As a soldier he was a harum-scarum, dare-devil sort of fellow, getting into no end of scrapes. He served in the Turkish campaign of 1737-9. He had a wonderful faculty of telling tales of personal adventure in which a lively imagination was allowed full play. Many of these stories he drew from ancient volumes. His Table Talk and Wondrous Tales were compiled by an acquaintance under the title of Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. His surprising adventures rival those of Swift's Gulliver. There is his tale of a night's lodging, for instance. Traveling through a snowy waste, he sought an inn far into the night. At last, in utter weariness, he tied his saddle horse to a stake, as he supposed. Then, wrapping his military cloak about him, he lay down on the snow to sleep. When he awoke in the morning he lay on the bare ground. The snow had melted. His faithful steed hung by the halter from the village steeple sixty feet above the earth. The Baron was equal to the emergency. Drawing his pistol he cut the halter strap with a well directed bullet. His horse slid to the ground uninjured and the veracious traveler continued his journey.
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a city and county-seat of Delaware co., Ind.; on the White river, and on the Lake Erie and Western; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Chesapeake and Ohio of Indiana, the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis and the Central Indiana railroads; 53 miles N. E. of Indianapolis. It contains the Muncie Normal In Normal Institute, high schools, hospital, public library, street railroad and electric light plants, several National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has a pulp mill, a number of large glass works and automobile works, several iron and steel works. Pop. (1910) 24,005; (1920) 36,524.
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Madame Klara Muller (1814-1873), a German novelist who wrote under the pen name of Luise Muhlbach. She was born at Neubrandenburg. She was married to Theodor Mundt, himself an author, in 1839. Madame Mundt was the author of a large number of historical novels. They are without special literary merit, but display considerable descriptive power and are so entertaining that they have done much, in England and America, as well as in Germany, to interest young people in the various historical characters which are presented. Among them may be mentioned Marie Antoinette and Her Son, Joseph II and his Court, Queen Hortense, Frederick the Great and His Court, Henry VIII and His Court.
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or MONGOOSE, Herpestes , common in many griseus, an ichneumon, non parts of India, and closely akin to the Egyptian species, H. ichneumon. The mungoos is a weasel-like animal, tawny yellowish-gray, the head with reddish and yellow rings, the colors so disposed as to produce an iron-gray hue. Length of body 16 or 17 inches, of tail 14. It kills numerous birds, sucking their blood and leaving the body uneaten.
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MICHAEL (mönkäche), a Hungarian painter, whose real surname was LIEB; born in Munkacs, Hungary, Oct. 10, 1846. He went as a turner's apprentice to Vienna, and studied painting there, at Munich, and at Düsseldorf, and in 1872 settled in Paris. He visited New York in 1886. Except a few portraits, his works are nearly all "Tragedy of Errors" (1889); "Derring- The best-known exgenre pictures. amples of his work are "Milton Dictating 'Paradise Lost' to His Daughters," "Christ before Pilate," "Crucifixion," and "Mozart's Last Moments." He died in Bonn, Germany, May 1, 1900. EDWARD, CHARLES MUNROE, chemist; born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1849, he graduated from Harvard in 1871, acting as assistant in chemistry till 1874. He was professor in chemistry at the U. S. Naval Academy from 1874 to 1876, and chemist to the torpedo corps, U. S. Naval Torpedo Station and War College 1886-1892. Became dean of faculty at George Washington University in 1893, president of American Chemical Society in 1898, and special agent of J. S. Census Bureau 1905 and 1910. In 1911 he published "A Primer on Explosives for Coal Miners."
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moon-ka'che, Michael (1846-1900), a modern Hungarian painter. He was the son of a peasant named Lieb, and was trained as a carpenter. but took lessons from a strolling artist and adopted the name of his native village, Munkacs, as a surname. His early paintings were so far successful that he was able to study at Munich and later at Dusseldorf. His first great success was The Last Day of a Condemned Man, which he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1870. He then took up his residence in the French capital. Some of his lighter pieces are Going to School, The Kitchen Politician, The Butter Woman, and The Pawn Shop. Some of his most famous paintings are owned in America. Milton in his Blindness Dictating Paradise Lost hangs in the Lenox Library, New York . John Wanamaker of Philadelphia paid $120,000 for Christ Before Pilate, and with princely generosity permitted it to be exhibited from city to city for the good it might do. It is considered a masterly work. The Last Moments of Mozart was purchased by General Russell Alger of Detroit for $50,000. It is too early for a final estimate, but Munkacsy bids fair to have a place among the noted painters of the world. See Painting
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