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.
homicide with malice aforethought; the unlawful killing of a human being by a person of sound mind, with premeditated malice. Murder is divided into various degrees, such as murder in the first degree, which is punishable by death in most of the States of the Union, and lesser degrees punishable by various terms of imprisonment. The crime is modified in law also by the terms manslaughter and homicide.
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VICTOR, American politician and editor; born at Burlingame, Kan., in 1871, he engaged, after a public school education, in the newspaper business, and from 1894 to 1903 was manag, ing editor of the "Wichita Daily Eagle." He was elected to Congress in 1903 and re-elected in 1905 and retained his seat till 1915. In the latter part of his term he passed from being a Republican to being a Progressive, sive, and in 1914 represented Kansas Progressives as candidate for the U. S. Senate, being defeated by Charles Curtis, Republican. He has been member of the Federal Trade Commission at Washington since 1917, and was appointed member of the Meat Commission of the Government in April, 1918.
JOSEPH BALLARD, Rear-Admiral U. S. N.; born in Hartford, Conn., 1851; graduated from the United States Naval Academy, then served for four years at the North and South Atlantic stations. Entered the coast survey department of the Navy, 1875-1879; instructor of physics at the U. S. Naval Academy, 1880-1883; during the Spanish- American War he served as executive officer on the "Panther." Attained rank of Rear-Admiral in 1909, and was placed in charge of the New York Navy Yard. Commanded the Asiatic fleet, 1911-1912. Has contributed to magazines and is the author of "Notes on Electricity and Magnetism."
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A celebrated Roman, who invaded the dominions of Mithridates , at first with success, but afterward he met with defeat. He was honored with a triumph on his return to Rome. Musae (The Muses). The goddesses who presided over poetry, music, dancing, and all the liberal arts. They were daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne , and were nine in number, Clio, Euterpe, Thalia , Melpomene , Terpsichore , Erato, Polyhymnia, Calliope, and Urania.
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plural MURICES, in zoölogy, the typical genus of the family Muricida. It is of world-wide distribution, and 180 species are known. M. tenuispina is popularly known as Venus's comb.
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MARY NOAILLES, pseudonym CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK, an donym American novelist; born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 24, 1850. She wrote: "In the Tennessee Mountains," (1884); "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains" (1885); "In the Clouds" (1886); "The Amulet" (1906); "The Raid of the Guerilla" (1912); "The Story of Duciehurst" (1914).
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mur'free, Mary Noailles (1850-), an American novelist, better known by her pen name of Charles Egbert Craddock. She was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her early years were passed in her native town. She spent many summers in the mountains, where material was collected for her novels. Her first short story was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1878. For some years, until she chose to make herself known, it was believed that her work was that of a masculine writer. In the Tennessee Mountains, The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain, and Down the Ravine are Miss Murfree's best known stories. Others worthy of mention are Where the Battle Was Fought, In the Clouds, The Young Mountaineers, and The Bushwhackers.
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a city and countyseat of Rutherford co., Tenn.; on the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis railroad; 32 miles S. E. of Nashville. It is in a cotton and agricultural region. Here are a court house, National banks, Soule College (Meth.), Middle Tennessee State Normal School, and the Tennessee College for Young Ladies, and several weekly newspapers. The city has carriage shops, planing mill, sawmills, manufactory of red cedar goods, machine shops, cotton-gin works, and a large trade in cattle and cotton, cotton, flour mill, etc. In 1819-1826 it was the capital of Tennessee. Close by the bloody battle of Stone river was fought on Dec. 21, 1862, and Jan. 2, 1863, between Generals Rosecrans and Bragg; the Confederate army was compelled to retreat, but the on both sides were nearly equal. Pop. (1910) 4,679; (1920) 5,367.
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HENRI (mür-zhār'), a French author; born in Paris, France, March 24, 1822. He lived a life of extreme privation; formed an informal club or society of unconventional young artists and authors similarly situated which was named "Bohemia," and his associates "Bohemians"-a name famous in general literary history. He contributed a great mass of "copy" to numerous periodicals, and at last made a reputation by his "Scenes from Bohemian Life." He also published two volumes of poetry, "Ballads and Fancies" and "Winter Nights"; and wrote dramas for the Luxembourg theater, and tales, etc., for the "Revue des Deux Mondes." He died in Paris, Jan. 28, 1861.
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a river that rises in the mountains N. E. of Herat in Afghanistan, flows N. W., and loses itself in the desert of Turkestan beyond Merv.
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hydrochloric acid. Moscow protesting, the people of the A solution of hydrogen chloride gas, HCI, in water. Hydrogen chloride is a colorless gas, with a pungent, irritating odor, having a specific gravity of 1.2596, compared with air as 1. It can be manufactured by decomposing common salt with sulphuric acid, but is now produced very largely as a by-product in the manufacture of salt cake (sodium sulphate). The strongest acid made contains 40 per cent. of hydrogen chloride. Its applications are numerous: it is used in the production of chlorine; the manufacture of various chlorides; for purifying animal and vegetable carbons; for extracting phosphates from bones; for preparing carbonic acid; in the coal-tar color industry, and for many other useful purposes.
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or Peninsula, that section of the Arctic shore stretching from the frontier of Russia with Norway to Cape Svyatoff, on the White Sea, including a distance of about 250 miles. An inward sweep of the Gulf Stream washes the shore, keeping it free of ice the year round, though the White Sea, to the southward, is icebound six months of the year. This region assumed unusual importance during the latter part of the war, after the participation of Russia had been ended by the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, in the early months of 1918. As the only point on Russia's limited sea-coast open to receiving supplies from her allies by sea, large supplies of munitions and foodstuffs had been landed here. In the spring of 1918 the Germans, moving through Finland, attempted to advance in this direction, with the intent to seize these supplies. The Allies immediately landed troops on the coast. The Soviet Government in region precipitated an uprising in favor of Allied intervention and established the Provisional Government of North Russia. More Allied troops, and later Americans, were landed and established a base from which a military campaign against the Soviet troops was waged for more than a year afterward.
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