Each of these 15 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 city of British India, the capital of a district of Bengal. It has several important educational institutions and has manufactories of carpets and cloth. In the neighborhood are important saltpeter mines. Pop. about 50,000.
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in ancient geography, a promontory of Ionia, in Asia Minor, opposite the island of Samos, where the Persian army under Tigranes was defeated at this Ionian city of Asia Minor, by the Greeks, under Leotychides, King of Sparta, and Xanthippus, in September, 479 b. c.
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A town of Argolis said to have been built by Perseus . It received its name from Mycene, a nymph of Laconia. It was taken and destroyed by the Argives.
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inflammation of spinal cord; the (1) acute, (2) by ramollissement, (3) by undefined suppuration, (4) by abscess.
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inflammation of the covering inflammation, infection is generally the of the heart. In cases of acute Myocarditis is a malady seccause. ondary to diphtheria, typ let fever, spinal yphoid fever, scarmeningitis, variola, erysipelas, malaria, rheumatism, and influenza. Chronic myocarditis results from sclerosis of the coronary arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle.
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near or short sight, a defect of the eye, produced generally by too great convexity of the cornea or crystalline lens, causing the focus to be placed not on the cornea, but in front of it. It occurs in early life from too Letters"; the eyes on minute objects, as great use of the print in a book corrected, especially doubly by imperfect - concave light spec-. 1893), ( tacles. As a with the advance rule the defect diminishes
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sweet gale; bog-myrtle; the typical and only genus of the order Myricacex.
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HERBERT, American and publisher; born at Arlington, Mass., editor Aug. 20 , 1860. Educated at Mass. Agricultural College and at Boston. Many years president of the Phelps Publishing Co. and editor of " Farm and Home," Springfield, Mass. President of the Orange Judd Company and director of their farm papers: "Northern Farmstead," Minn.; "Southern Farmer ," Atlanta; "American Agriculturist," New York, and "New England Homestead," Springfield, Mass. Has built the Myrick Building, field, Mass. Has lectured extensively on Springagricultural subjects. Author of technical books on agriculture. Has published "Co-operative Finance" (1912); "Federal Loan System" (1916). MYRISTIC ACID. C13H27COOH curs in the form of trimyristin C3H6 . Oc- (C14H27O2) 8, in the oil of the cocoanut, nutmeg, quince seeds, and in butter and wool fat. It may be prepared artificially by melting stearolic acid with It crystallizes in needles with a melting point of 53.8° C.
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in Greek mythology, one of the followers whom Achilles led from Phthia to the Trojan war. According to one version of the myth, Zeus deceived Eurymedusa, daughter of Cleitus, in the form of an ant, murmex, and became the father of Myrmidon, the eponym of the Myrmidons. The Homeric poems exhibit the Myrmidons as warriors who cannot act except at the bidding of Achilles.
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An Achaean race in Phthiotis in Thessaly, whom Achilles ruled over, and who accompanied this hero to Troy. Mytilene or Mitylene. The chief city of Lesbos.
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in Grecian legend, a warlike people of Thessaly. They were the descendants of Myrmidon, a reputed son of Zeus. The name means ants. According to one version Zeus created the Myrmidons by transforming ants into men. Their warriors accompanied Achilles to the siege of Troy. The fidelity of these men to their leader was such that the term myrmidons has become a synonym for those who follow and execute commands without question or scruple. Thus the newspaper writer calls policemen, sheriffs, and other officers, "myrmidons of the law."
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a celebrated Greek sculptor; born in Eleutheræ, Bœotia, about 480 B. C. He was a pupil of Ageladas, and the rival of Polycletus. He worked in marble, wood, and metal, and especially distinguished himself by his skillful representations of animals. His most admired work was the bronze figure of a "Cow Lowing," which was still extant at Athens in the time of Cicero.
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a district of ancient Asia Minor, having the Propontis (Sea of Marmora) on the N., the Ægean on the W., Lydia on the S., and Bithynia and Phrygia on the E. The Troad (Land of Troy) was one of its subdivisions.
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in general, a fiction framed unconsciously, not a willful falsehood. Such myths arose most copiously cop in the infancy of nations, but they do so yet, especially among young people or the uneducated, there being the closest analogy between the mind of early man and that of a child or of an untaught person. 29 od nitiw hatsuπou τo bovitob) stato to anal to sotto od tiboulga bas sledvo lo leemid Metofonsistori total od na sitalarini to entit oxidation of 024-084 eswted basmalt behnat has own solo boiroq end dotat nood oval aumentootatь И Inisalo oddo bo adibaswo090.2 bre esinio sildog palsuada Jom ni
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or MIHIR (mi-her'), the sacred being enthroned in the sun whom the Ghebers worship.
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