Each of these 8 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 white, largegrained and considerably translucent marble, called by the Greeks lychintes, from lychnos = light, because quarried by lamplight. It was the most celebrated statuary marble of antiquity, and was found in the island of Paros, also in Naxos and Tenos. The celebrated statues of the Venus de Medicis, the Venus Capitolini, etc., are made of this marble.
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A cheap imitation of the pure metal. See OREIDE; TOMBAC. Parisian White Metal is composed of copper 69.8, zinc 5.5, cadmium 4.7, nickel 19.8. See WHITE ALLOYS.
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Mungo (1771-1806), an African explorer. He was born near Selkirk, Scotland, on the banks of the Yarrow. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was fond of tramping and had a liking for natural history. In 1792 he received an appointment as a medical officer on one of the East India Company's lines plying to Sumatra. He pleased Sir Joseph Banks and other scientific men of Great Britain by bringing home a number of plants and eight fishes new to science. In 1795 he received from the African Association of London a coveted commission to explore Senegambia. He was the first modern European to reach the Niger, a river of which much was heard and nothing known. His privations, adventures, encounters with the lion, hippopotamus, and gorilla, and descriptions of the natives, rivers, and jungles were given to the public in 1799 in a famous volume, Travels in the Interior of Africa. It was long a favorite book of adventure and ran through many editions. In 1803 he again set out, this time with a government commission, to trace the Niger to its ultimate source. He ascended the river for over one thousand miles. At the village of Boussa, above Timbuctoo, he fell into a contest with hostile natives. He and his entire party, with the exception of one attendant, were killed or drowned. His name is linked with that of Livingstone, not only as a great explorer, but as a scientific observer as well.
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Sir Horatio Gilbert (1862-), a Canadian novelist, known usually as Gilbert Parker. He was born in Ontario and received his education in Toronto. Soon after leaving college he went to Australia, where he became associate editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. He began to write plays, but produced nothing of note for some time. He traveled widely and in 1892 began to publish novels. The Seats of the Mighty, The Trespasser, The Stolen Bonds, The Battle of the Strong, and The Right of Way are among his best known books.
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Theodore (1810-1860), a Massachusetts clergyman. He was born in Lexington. He took his degree at Harvard College, studying chiefly at home. In 1837 he accepted the pastorate of the Roxbury Unitarian church. His discourses were of so radical a nature that even the Unitarians, then recently separated from the Congregationalists, looked askance at him. He was never formally expelled from the Unitarian church. He always claimed to be a member of it, but, as a matter of fact, he was for twenty years an independent clergyman and lecturer. His first independent charge was what was known as the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society of Boston. It met in the Melodeon and in the Music Hall. He was one of the most popular preachers in the city. An audience of 3,000 gathered frequently to hear him of a Sunday morning. He was also a favorite public lecturer. He took an active part in the anti-slavery agitation of the day. His name is connected with those of Garrison and Wendell Phillips. He took a personal interest in runaway slaves and openly aided their escape. He was hated thoroughly by the people of the South. He was for a number of years editor of the Massachusetts Quarterly Review. He left several volumes of his sermons and other works, including Historic America and Views of Religion.
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a city and countyseat of Wood co., W. Va., on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Little Kanawha, and on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Little Kanawha railroads; 96 miles S. W. of Wheeling. The Ohio river is crossed here by a railroad bridge constructed in 1869-1871. It is 17/½ miles long and has six spans. Here are waterworks, a high school, Academy of the Visitation, a seminary, United States Government building, electric light and street railroad plants, National and State banks and daily and weekly newspapers. Its manufactories include lumber mills, barrel factories, machine shops, iron foundries, veneer and panel works, furniture factories, and an oil refinery. The assessed valuation is over $6,000,000. Pop. (1910) 17,842; (1920) 20,050.
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CHARLES HENRY, an American clergyman and reformer; born in Framingham, Mass., April 17, 1842. He was graduated at Amherst College in 1866; studied theology in Germany. After 1880 he was pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, retiring in 1917. In 1891, as president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, he began his attack on the police department of New York City, and was prominent in the Lexow investigation which followed. His writings include: "The Blind Man's Creed" (1883): "Three Gates on a Side" (1887); "Our Fight with Tammany" (1895); "The Sunny Side of Christianity" (1901); "A Little Lower Than the Angels" (1909).
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FRANCIS, an American historian; born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 16, 1823; was graduated at Harvard in 1844; studied law for two years; then traveled in Europe; and returned to explore the Rocky Mountains. The hardships he endured among the Dakota Indians seriously injured his health, yet in spite of this and defective sight Parkman worked his way to recognition as a historical writer on the period of rise and fall of the French dominion in America. He paid many visits to France to examine archives. His books are "The California and Oregon Trail" (1849); "The Conspiracy of Pontiac" (1851); "Pioneers of France in the New World" (1865); "The Book of Roses" (1866); "Jesuits in North America" (1867); "Discovery of the Great West" (1869); "The Old Régime in Canada" (1874); "Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV." (1877); and "Montcalm and Wolfe" (1884). He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 8, 1893.
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