Each of these 14 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.
the founder of the Sikh kingdom in the Punjab, India; born in Gujranwala, Nov. 2, 1780. He was the son of a Sikh chief. After the Shah of Afghanistan had given him the provof Lahore, he directed all his energies to the founding of a kingdom which should unite all the Sikh provinces under his own personal rule. He procured from an Afghan prince, as the price of his assistance in war, the famous Koh-inur diamond (see DIAMOND). He died June 27, 1839.
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LOCH, a lake of Perthshire, Scotland, 35 miles N. N. W. of Perth, ch, 11 miles long, and about 1 mile average breadth. It contains two islands and has an outlet for its waters in the Tummel, a tributary of the Tay.
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JOSEPH EUGENE, United States Senator from Louisiana; born in Alexandria, La., in 1858. He re- 867): ceived his education at Union College in New York State. In 1883 he was admitted to the bar in Louisiana, and practiced law until his election as a Democrat to the National House of Representatives in 1899. He represented his district in Congress 13 years until he was elected to the Se Senate, to which body he was re-elected in 1918. Senator Ransdell vigorously opposed the Underwood- Simmons Tariff bill as he considered it unfair to the sugar interests of his State. He was also active in furthering the interests of an American Merchant Marine and for improved waterways.
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THOMAS EDWARD GREENFIELD, an American military officer; born in Norwich, Vt., Nov. 29, the Civil War he was an 1834. Before engineer in Illinois; became a lieutenantin July, 1861; was colonel of volunteers severely wounded at Fort Donelson in commanded a regiment at Shiloh 1862; in April, 1862; was promoted Brigadier- General in January, 1863; served under General Banks in the Red River expedition; and was severely wounded at Sa- Cross-Roads, La., in April, 1864. bine when his wound had healed he joined Sherman's army and took command of a division just before the capture of Atlanta, Sept. 2, 1864. He died in Rome, Ga., Oct. 29, 1864.
in ordinary language, release from captivity or bondage by payment. Also the money paid for the release of a person from captivity, bondage, or slavery, or for the redemption of goods captured by an enemy. Or a price paid or offering made for procuring the pardon of sins, and the redemption of the sinner from the consequences of sin (Mark x: 45). Formerly, atonement, expiation. In feudal law, a sum paid for the pardon of some great offense, and the discharge of the offender; or a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
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a name given by way of reproach to a denomination of Christians which sprang up in 1645. They called RANUNCULACEÆ themselves "Seekers," the members maintaining that they were seeking for the true Church and its ordinances, and the Scriptures, which were lost. The name "Ranters" is also applied to the Primitive Methodists, who formed themselves into a society in 1810, and who were in favor of street preaching. RANUNCULACEÆ, crowfoots; an order of hypogynous exogens. Herbs, rarely shrubs, leaves often much divided, with dilated, half-clasping petioles, often with processes like stipules. stipules. Flowers typically polypetalous, large, gailycolored, sometimes apetalous, but with colored sepals. Found in cold damp places in Europe, North America, etc. They are acrid, and often poisonous. Tribes: Clemateæ, Anemonese, Ranunculeæ, Helleboreæ, and Actæeæ.
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ron da vash, the strain which the Alpine herdsman blows on his alpenhorn when he drives out his herds from the valleys to the higher pastures. The words mean, "chime of the cows." The air is simple and somewhat irregular, but, as it echoes in the mountains, produces a striking and very pleasing effect. Rape of the Lock. See Pope ; Alexander
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familiar in the phrase "not a rap," a counterfeit Irish coin of the time of George I., which passed for a halfpenny, though not really worth a fourth of that value. There was also a small Swiss coin called "rappen," worth a centime.
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two species of Brassica. Summer rape is B. campestris, and winter rape B. napus. Sir J. Hooker regards the latter as a sub-species of the former, and the turnip as another subspecies. B. campestris proper has the root tuberous, the radical leaves hispid. It is the Swedish turnip. B. napus, the rape properly so called, has the root fusiform, and the leaves all glabrous and glaucous. It is cultivated as a salad plant, and is sometimes also used in lieu of greens. Sometimes it is called also cole seed.
in law, carnal knowledge of a woman by force against her will. Consent obtained by duress or threats of murder is nugatory. Rape is a felony punishable with imprisonment for life, or for a term of years, or with death.
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a hard cake formed by pressure of the seeds and husks of rape after the oil has been expressed. It is used for feeding cattle and sheep, and also has a high reputation as a rich manure.
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In the prophecy of Enoch it is said that: Raphael presides over the spirits of men." In the Jewish rabbinical legend of the angelic hierarchies Raphael is the medium through which the power of Tsebaoth, or the Lord of hosts, passes into the sphere of the sun, giving motion, heat and brightness to it.
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in botany, the vascular cord communicating between the nucleus of an ovule and the placenta, when the base of the former is removed from the base of the ovulum.
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needle-shaped transparent bodies, lying either singly or in bundles among the tissue of plants; any Tystalline formation in vegetable cell former commonly consist of oxalate The of lime.
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a light, highly-tempered, edgeless, and finely-pointed weapon of the sword kind used for thrusting. It is about three feet in length, and was long a favorite weapon for duels. Its use now, however, is restricted to occa sions of state ceremonial.
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a river of Virginia, rising in the Blue Ridge of the Allegheny Mountains, receiving the Rapidan (above this point it is sometimes called the North Fork), and flowing about 125 miles S. E. to Chesapeake Bay. It is tidal and navigable to Fred ericksburg. The Rappahannock and the Rapidan were the scenes of some of the most sanguinary battles of the Civil War, at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness.
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