Each of these 10 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 cognomen in many Roman gentes, signified a person who had a slight cast in the eye. Pagasae or Pagasa. A town of Thessaly, on the coast of Magnesia. It was the port of Iolcos, and afterwards of Pherae, and is celebrated in mythology as the place where Jason built the ship Argo. Palaemon or Palemon. A sea deity, son of Athamas and Ino. His original name was Melicerta. He assumed the name of Palaemon after being changed into a sea deity by Neptune.
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JOSÉ ANTONIO, one of the founders of South American independence; born of Indian parents near Acarigua, Venezuela, in 1790. He entered the patriot army in 1810, rose to general of division in 1819, and took a leading part in the battle of Carabobo, which secured the independence of Colombia in 1821. At first he acted in concert with Bolivar, but in 1829 he placed himself at the head of the revolution which culminated in the independence of Venezuela, of which he was the first president. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States. He died in exile in New York, May 7, 1873.
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a heathen, an idolater; one who worships idols or false gods (applied to one who is not a Christian, a Jew, or a Mohammedan). The last use of the word dates from the 4th century. Trench says that the first use of the word in this sense is in an edict of the Emperor Valentinian A. D. 368. When Christianity was first preached, the cities were quicker to embrace the faith than the villages and the word paganus = a villager became synonymous with heathen.
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the state or condition of a pagan; heathenism; the worship of idols or false gods, used specially of that of ancient Rome. In Germany the term is applied to tendencies in the Christian church, deemed polytheistic. GE, a youth attached to the service
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David (1810-1848), a New England educator. Born at Epping, New Hampshire . He was educated on a farm and at the district school, supplemented by two years at Hampton Academy. Mr. Page taught district schools and was an instructor in an academy. He attracted attention at teachers' meetings and formed an attachment for Horace Mann. In 1844 Mr. Page was appointed principal of the Albany State Normal School . This was the first school for teachers as far west as the Hudson Valley. Mr. Page was much harassed by the unwise, not to say ignorant, opposition of New York politicians. His contribution to education is The Theory and Practice of Teaching, one of the earliest and still one of the best works of the kind that has appeared in this country.
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Thomas Nelson (1853-), an American author. He was a native of Virginia and received his education at Washington and Lee University and at the University of Virginia. He studied law and practiced for a time, but, after his first volume of poems was published in 1883, he devoted himself to literature. These poems were in the negro dialect and the volume was entitled Befo' de War. Page's short stories are graceful, pathetic, and humorous. Among them Marse Chan and Meh Lady are best known. They are collected in a volume entitled In Ole Virginia. Elsket and Red Rock are longer stories that have won a deserved popularity.
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a harbor in the island of Tutuila, Samoa. It is a long L-shaped expanse of water, extending mostly in mostly in an E. and W. direction, and surrounded by tall, almost precipitous cliffs, that run up into peaks from 2,000 to 3,000 feet high. The harbor was ceded to the United States for a naval and coaling station, first in 1872, and afterward confirmed by a treaty signed in Washington, Jan. 17, 1878, and ratifications exchanged on Feb. 13 of the same year, by which the United States was given the right to establish at that harbor a station for coaling, naval supplies, freedom of trade, commercial treatment, etc. This harbor was occupied by the United historic sang States in 1898. Tutuila, the island on whose coast this harbor is located, has a population of about 6,000, area 77 square miles, while Upolu has an area of 340 square miles, and Savaii 659 square miles. The Ge German and British governments withdrew their claims to this island in favor of the United States.
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the temple of an idol in India. They belong both to antiquity and modern times. Some are wonderfully large and magnificent. They consist of one or more quadrangular courts with towers at the corners, surrounded by a wall. Large pyramids nids rising in stages cover the entrance, behind which extend colonnades. Inside the courts are lustral pools, colonnades, and large halls, called Tschultris, which are used to lodge pilwith grims cupolas in. Small surmounting side temples the accessory appear the N. of Bombay, with an area of buildings. Behind the first often finally, a the second chief and a third, in which, temple stands. The 235,000. most celebrated is that of Juggernaut, in the island of Ramisseram, completed toward the end of the 12th century. Also a coin of gold or silver, current in Hindustan, and varying in value in different localities from $2 to $2.25. Its value, when made of gold, by weight is equivalent to about $1.80 of American standard gold coinage.
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a group of mammals, genus Paradoxurus, family Viverridæ (civets and genets), inhabiting Asia. The peculiar masked paguma (P. eastern larvatus) has a white streak down the forehead and nose, and a white circle round the eyes, which give it the appearance of wearing an artificial mask.
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a state on the E. coast of the Malay Peninsula; area, 14,000 square miles, pop; about 85,000. By the treaty concluded between Great Britain and the Sultan of Pahang in 1888 the control of the foreign relations of that state was conveyed red to the government of the Straits Settlements; and Pahang is now practically a dependency of that colony. In 1895 it was united with the Malay Federation. Capital, Kuala Lipis.
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