Each of these 11 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 royal, parliamentary and municipal burgh in Scotland. It is situated in the county of Lanark, on the Clyde, 3 miles S. E. of Glasgow. It figures in Gaelic mediæval history, and to-day is an industrial center with coal mines and iron and steel works. The oldest church goes back to the twelfth century. Pop. about 25,000.
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a widely distributed mineral, occurring mostly in crystals, occasionally massive; crystallization tetragonal; much twinned, by repetition of the same twin often assuming a geniculated appearance; hardness, 6 to 6.5; sp. gr., 4.18 to 4.25; luster, metallic-adamantine; color, red to reddish-brown, yellowishblack; streak, brown; transparent to opaque; fracture, sub-conchoidal to uneven; composition: oxygen, 39; titanium, 61-100, corresponding with the formula TiO2. Dana divides this species : into (1) ordinary, which includes the brownish-red and other shades; sp. gr., 4.18-4.22, and the acicular varieties often inclosed in rock crystal; (2) ferriferous; color black (a) nigrine, (b) ilmenorutile; (3) chromiferous, color grass-green, owing to oxide of chromium. Found distributed in granite, gneiss, mica-schists, and sometimes in granular limestones.
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a city and county-seat of Rutland co., Vt.; on Otter creek, and on the Rutland, the Delaware and Hudson, the Central Vermont, and the Bennington and Rutland railroads; 50 miles S. W. of Montpelier. Here are an English and Classical Institute, the Baxter Memorial Reference Library, Rutland Free Library, State House of Correction, city hospital, court house, United States Government building, the first State Capitol (built in 1784), a State penitentiary; waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National and savings banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It is in a region rich in limestone, and marble has been quarried here since 1830. West Rutland, which was set off from Rutland in 1886, is the center of the marble interest. Besides its marble industry, Rutland has extensive scale works, iron works, and shirt and school furniture factories. In 1784-1804 Rutland was one of the State capitals. During the Revolutionary War it was on the frontier. Pop. (1910) 13,- 546; (1920) 14,954.
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a town in the province of Bari, Italy, 20 miles W. of 1 the city of Bari, famous for its production of potteries, and as a center of a fertile region producing grains and fruit. Pop. about 25,000.
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a chain of mountains in Central Africa, slightly N. of the equator, discovered by Henry Stanley in 1888, when he rescued Emin Pasha. Some of the higher peaks have an altitude of 16,000 feet and are covered by perpetual snow, while many of the valleys are packed with glaciers. The main chain lies two hundred miles west of Victoria Nyanza, between Albert Nyanza and Edward Nyanza, extending into the Belgian Congo.
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Flemish Mystic (1293-1381). It is probable that this mystic derived his name from the village of Ruysbreck, near Brussels, for it was there that he was born in the year 1293. Even as a child he showed distinct religious leanings, and before he was out of his teens he had steeped himself in a wealth of mystical literature. Naturally, then, he decided to espouse the clerical profession, and in 1317 he was duly ordained, while a little later he became vicar of St. Gudule, one of the parishes of Brussels. During his long term of acting in this capacity he
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or RUISDAEL, JAKOB, a Dutch landscape painter; born in Haarlem, Holland, about 1625. In 1648 he was enrolled a member of the guild of St. Luke at Haarlem, and in 1659 was granted the freedom of the city of Amsterdam. His works are very picturesque in detail. He had a fine feeling for the poetic spirit of nature, which he embodies with great skill. His pictures exist in Dresden, Berlin (probably the two best collections), the Louvre, the London National Gallery, Amsterdam, and The Hague. He left a few etchings, which are highly prized. He died in the almshouse of Haarlem, March 14, 1682.
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MICHIEL ADRI- AANSZOON DE, a Dutch naval officer; born in Flushing, Holland, March 24, 1607. From the situation of cabin boy he rose to the rank of captain in the Dutch navy in 1635, and rear-admiral in 1645. He defeated and sunk an Algerine pirate squadron in 1647. He distinguished himself in the war with England and in the service of Denmark. In 1667, sailing up the Thames he destroyed the English shipping and burned several men-of-war. His victories led to the peace of Breda. After fighting the French fleet in the Mediterranean, he retreated to the harbor of Syracuse, Sicily, where he died of his wounds, April 29, 1676.
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NICOLAS VLADIMIRO- VITCH, a Russian soldier, born about 1853. He was educated at a military academy in St. Petersburg, and when but 18 years of age served in the Turkish War in the Grenadier Guards. He was made a colonel at 31 and a majorgeneral at 42. He served as chief of staff in the Second Manchurian Army during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904- 1905. He afterward became a member of the Army Council and commanded an At the outbreak of the army corps. World War he commanded the Russian forces which won a great victory over four Austrian army corps near Lemberg, in September, 1914. În 1915 he commanded the Russian forces near Riga, and his exertions SO undermined his health, that he died in the same year.
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a city and capital of a province of the same name in Central Russia, on the Trubesh, a tributary of the Oka, in the center of a rich agricultural district; has a large trade, more especially in rye. Manufactures include woolens, linens, needles, and leather. Pop. about 41,000. The government has an area of 16,254 square miles, and is wholly drained by the Oka and its tributaries. Cereals of all kinds are produced for export. The principal manufactures are cotton, linen, leather and spirits. Pop. about 2,700,000.
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or RUBINSK, a town in Russia, in the province ince of Jaroslav, on the Volga, at the confluence of the Rybinska. It is the center of the corn trade on the Volga, and commands an extensive commerce, being at the head of the canal and river system uniting the Baltic Sea with the Caspian. Pop. about 32,000.
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