Each of these 19 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.
CHRISTINE, a Swedish operatic singer; born in Wexiö, Sweden, in 1843; was educated in Sweden and France; made her début at Paris in "La Traviata" in 1864; and in London, where she appeared in 1867, soon took rank as one of the foremost soprano singers. She repeatedly visited the United States. She married (1872) M. Rouzand (who died in 1882), and in 1887 Count de Miranda, when she retired.
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a game with nine pins or pieces of wood set on end, at which a ball is rolled for throwing them down.
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an American shrub of the rose family. It is related closely to the meadowsweet and the steeple-bush. The name is derived from the layers and shreds into which the old bark separates, giving the stem a ragged appearance. The leaves are palmate. The flowers are white. The purple pods are conspicuous and ornamental. The nine-bark adapts itself readily to lawns.
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a treaty-port of China; province of Che-keang; stands in a fertile plain; 16 miles from the mouth of the Takia (Ning-po) river, and about 100 miles S. of Shanghai. It is surrounded by a wall 25 feet high and 16 feet thick, and contains numerous temples, colleges, etc., chief among them the temple of the Queen Heaven, founded in the 12th century, but the present building, elaborately and richly ornamented, dates from 1680. The inhabitants make sedge hats and mats, grow cotton, catch cuttle fish, and carry on an active trade, especially in the export of silk goods, raw cotton, and green tea. Pop. about 670,000.
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A son of Belus . He built Nineveh and founded the Assyrian monarchy, of which he was the first sovereign, B. C. 2059. He married Semiramis , whose husband had destroyed himself through fear of Ninus. He reigned fifty-two years.
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the capital of the French department of Deux-Sèvres; on the Sèvre- Niortaise river; 43 miles N. E. of La Rochelle and 109 S. W. of Tours. An important railway junction, it has an old castle, a city hall (1530), a fine public garden, and the 16th-century church of Notre Dame, with a spire 246 feet high. The dressing of leather and the manufacture of gloves are the leading industries. Niort in the 14th century was held for 18 years by the English. It was the birthplace of Madame de Maintenon. Pop. about 23,000.
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a lake in the province of Ontario, Canada; 30 miles N. W. of Lake Superior, with which it is connected by the Nipigon river; is about 70 miles long, but its deeply indented coast line measures 580 miles; greatest depth 540 feet. The lake is studded with hundreds of islands.
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a lake in the province of Ontario, Canada; N. E. of Lake Huron, into which (Georgian Bay) it drains through French river (55 miles); is about 50 by 28 miles.
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town in Yaracuy, Venezuela, 40 miles S. W. of Valencia. Region is fertile, coffee, sugar, tobacco, cocoa being abundant. Considerable cattle breeding, and some mining. Pop. about 11,000.
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nir-va'na, in Buddhist philosophy, the ultimate state or condition into which the soul enters after it has been perfected by the long processes of metempsychosis or transmigration. Karma is the active earthly life of struggle, and may continue for thousands of years, but at the end of Karma is "Nirvana the Blest." The word Nirvana means a blowing out, and the Buddhist conception seems to be of a condition equivalent to extinction. It is "freedom from the pang of earthly existence."
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the chief town and commercial center of southern Serbia; in a vinegrowing district; 130 miles S. E. of Belgrade; is the seat of a Greek bishop; and has a fairly strong citadel (1737). The place played a conspicuous part in when the Turkish it was occupied wars from by Serbia 1375 to. Here on the Sept. Turks 23., At 1689 the, the outbreak Austrians of the defeated World War the Serbian Government was porarily transferred to Nish. It Powers captured when by the they forces overran of Serbia the Central in winter of 1915. See WORLD WAR. about 25,000.
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a town of Persia; capiof tal the province e of the same name: 53 miles W. of Meshed, in a beautiful and fertile valley; was the birthplace and contains the grave of Omar Khayyám. Pop. about 15,000.
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King of Megara and father of Scylla. Scylla, having fallen in love with Minos when he was besieging Megara, pulled out the purple hair which grew on the top of her father's head, and on which his life depended. Nisus thereupon died, and Minos, getting possession of the city, ordered Scylla to be drowned in the Saronic Gulf. Scylla, the daughter of Nisus, is sometimes confounded by the poets with Scylla, the daughter of Phorcus.
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or NITRE, an orthorhombic mineral occurring in crusts, silky fibers, acicular crystals, or diffused through certain soils. Composition: Nitric acid, 53.4; potash potash, 46.6 =100, corresponding to the formula, KNO.. In pharmacy it is exhibited in small doses as a refrigerant and diuretic, and in large doses as a vascular sedative in fever, especially in that of acute rheumatism. It has been found useful also in dropsy.
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a salt of nitric acid.
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lunar caustic; symbol, AgNO3; prepared by dissolving silver in nitric acid. It crystallizes in colorless trimetric crystals, which dissolve in one part of cold water, and melt at 198° C. It is extensively used in photography and medicine.
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Chile saltpeter; symbol NaNO3. Occurs abundantly as a natural product in Chile. Its use is as a fertilizer.
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a compound of nitrogen with phosphorus, boron, silicon, and the metals, e. g., boron nitride, BN.
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the changing nitrogenous organic matter or ammonia of compounds into nitrates under certain conditions. First, the temperature must be suitable, for at about 5° C. the process is stopped; but with a rise of temperature there is a proportionate increase of work-commencing at about 12° C. till 37° is reached, which is the "optimum" temperature, and from this onward there is a diminution of action until the "maximum" temperature of 55° C. is reached, when nitrification ceases. These bacteroids are annihilated at a temperature of 90° C., although the same result will follow drying even at a much lower temperature. The second condition is the presence of oxygen; and the third is the presence of a salifiable base, such as lime, potash, soda, etc., without which nitrification cannot proceed. Under these conditions nitrification goes on in every fertile soil, the atmospheric nitrogen, nitrogenous organic matter, or ammonia compounds being converted, in the presence of lime or potash, into the corresponding nitrates of lime or potash; and from these nitric compounds plants derive the most or all of their nitrogen.
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