These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Monmouthshire, Mono Lake, Monochord.
county in England, formerly part of Wales, bounded on the S. by the Bristol Channel. Area, 545 square miles; mountainous, and watered by by the Usk, Wye, and Monnow. Has large collieries, and agricultural products include wheat and barley. Welsh still largely spoken. Capital, Monmouth; chief city, Newport. Pop. about 400,000.
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a "sink," or lake, of Mono co., Cal., on the E. slope of the Sierra Nevada, about 12 miles S. W. of Aurora; nearly circular in outline; area about 200 square miles. It receives several large streams, but has no apparent outlet. The waters are strongly alkaline, and contain no fish; but a species of insect deposit their ova on the surface in such immense quantities that they sometimes appear like small islands. Insects and eggs are dried and eaten by the Digger Indians.
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in music, an ancient instrument with one string which was played as a guitar; it grew into a manichord, in which numerous strings were played by quills. Also a single string streched across a board or soundboard, General Washington, having overtaken under which a movable bridge can be moved at pleasure. By placing under the string a diagram of the proportionate lengths of string required for the production of just intervals, the ear can be trained. The results obtained from it were called the harmonical canon. It is said to have been invented by Pythagoras.
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a painting executed in a single color, but relieved by light and shade. A drawing in chiaro-oscuro is a monochrome, whether in black and white, or in any color and white. The silhouette is not a monochrome, though executed in a single color.
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in mineralogy and crystallography, having two of the axial intersections rectangular and one oblique; having the lateral axes at right angles to one another, one of them, moreover, being oblique to the vertical axis and the other at right angles to it.
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a column or block formed of a single stone; the term is applied to such erections as the obelisks of Egypt. One at Baalbek, Syria, measures 70-21-14 ft.
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madness or derangement of the mind with regard to one subject only.
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the fact or principle of having only one_metal as a standard for coinage. See BIMETALLISM.
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a river which rises in West Virginia and flows N. to Pittsburgh, where it unites with the Allegheny to form the Ohio.
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a city in Washington co., Pa., on the Monongahela river, and on the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, and the Pennsylvania railroads; 21 miles S. of Pittsburgh. It is in a coal, natural gas, and petroleum region, and has electric lights, daily and weekly newspapers, and several private banks. It was the first city in the United States to engage in the manufacture of carborundum. Other industries include foundry and machine shop products, paper, flour, and planing mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,598; (1920) 8,688. (-pet'ā-lus), in botany, having the petals united together MONOPETALOUS into one piece by their edges.
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a town of southern Italy, on the Adriatic, 43 miles N. W. of Brindisi, with a cathedral, ancient walls, and a castle built in 1552 by Charles V. Pop. about 25,000
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a transportation system which utilizes but a single rail. Experiments have been along two distinct lines-the type in which the car runs upon a single rail, but in which auxiliary guide rails of wheels are used, and the type which maintains its equilibrium by use of the gyroscope. Various models of the former type have been designed, in some of which the track is laid on the ground, in others the track is suspended. These systems have been used largely as novelties at various amusement parks or expositions. Three names which stand out prominently in the development of the gyroscope type are Louis Brenan, an Englishman, Paul Froelich, a German, and a Russian named Schelowsky. While this has never operated to any extent, in 1909 a model of the Brenan car, 14 feet long, with a carrying capacity of forty passengers, went through a series of tests before the Royal Society. The car was run on a circular Societ track 220 yards in circumference, and its equilibrium was able to maintain while in motion in spite of the efforts of its forty passengers to overturn it. This car weighed twenty-two tons, and power for both locomotive and for the gyroscopes was supplied by a gasoline motor. The gyroscope apparatus weighed less MONOTHEISM than 5 per cent. of the total weight of the car.
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the term usually employed to denote a belief in the unity of the Godhead, or belief in and worship of one God. It is thus the opposite of polytheism.
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a machine for type setting and casting, used principally in large newspaper offices. The work is first done by a kind of typewriter, on a roll of paper which, instead of receiving the impression of letters, is assailed by a series of punches which drive neat little holes through it. The roll of paper steadily revolves and then winds itself on another spool. When this is full it is fastened in another small machine, a lever is pressed and almost instantly a glistening type appears and is followed by others, till a line of type is formed. A metal arm picks up this line and places it in the galley, and when the latter is filled it is ready for the printer. Each type is made on the spot. The machine produces automatically a perfect justification, or spacing, and one operator can attend to 10 machines, each doing the 6,893; (1920) 11,573. work of three compositors.
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a city of Sicily, 5 miles S. W. of Palermo. The "royal mount," from which it gets its name, is 1,231 feet high, and on it stands the famous cruciform Norman cathedral (1176), which measures 333 by 132 feet, and within is entirely covered with mosaics. Pop. about 20,000.
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GENERAL SIR CHARLES, British army officer; born Jan. 15, 1860. Commander-in-Chief, India, since 1916; entered the army in 1876. Captain 1880, major 1898, lieutenant-colonel 1903, colonel 1903, lieutenant - general 1915, general Gen. B. F. 1917. Frontier Served Force, with India, the Northwestern Department 1879-1880 ( medal headquarters Department and 2 clasps); South Africa, 1899-1900 The Nationals ( Queen's medal); commanded 13th In- the close of fantry Brigade, Dublin, 1907-1912. Second Division, Aldershot, 1914. Commandthere. ed the 3d British Army in France in 1915. Appointed to Chief Command at the Dardanelles, Oct. 15 to January, 1916. It was General Monro who decided that the Allied Expeditionary Force should abandon the enterprise and evacuate the straits, which began in December and was carried out successfully without loss of life. On the resignation of Marshal French, General Monro succeeded Sir Douglas Haig to the command of the 1st British Army in France in February, 1916.
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