Each of these 13 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 Cynocephalus sphinx, a large species from the west of Africa. They are good-tempered and playful when young, but become morose and fierce as they grow older. They bear confinement well, and are common in menageries.
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a species of moth belonging to the family Sphingidae, and deriving its popular supposed resemblance name from a which its caterpillars present when they raise the fore part of their bodies to the "sphinx" of Egyptian celebrity. The sphinx moth is common in some parts of the United States. SPICE ISLANDS. See MOLUCCAS.
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a general name for a number of aromatic and pungent vegetable substances used for flavoring. They are produced almost exclusively in tropical countries. Most of our spices come from the East Indies and the West Indies . Their aroma and strength lie in essential oils which they contain. The seed, fruit, buds, bark, and root-stocks of various plants are used as spices. See special articles on ALLSPICE; CASSIA; CAYENNE PEPPER; CINNAMON; CLOVES; GINGER; MACE; NUTMEG; PIMENTO; PEPPER; OIL; PERFUME, etc. Nutmeg. Spice
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or Moluccas, a group of islands situated in the Malay Archipelago between Celebes and New Guinea . The surface is mountainous. The islands are celebrated for the production of cloves and nutmegs. The islands were discovered and exploited by the Portuguese, but have belonged to the Dutch for three centuries. Area, 43,864 square miles. Population, 400,000.
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aromatic and pungent vegetable substances used as condiments and for flavoring food. They are almost exclusively the productions of tropical countries. In ancient times and throughout the Middle Ages all the spices known in Europe were brought from the East; and Arabia was regarded as the land of spices, but rather because they came through it or were brought by its merchants than because they were produced in it, for they were really derived from farther E. They owe their aroma and pungency chiefly to essential oils which they contain. They are yielded by different parts of plants; some, as pepper, cayenne pepper, pimento, nutmeg, mace, and vanilla, being the fruit or particular parts of the fruit; while some, as ginger, are the root stock; and others, as cinnamon and cassia, are the bark. Tropical America produces some of the spices, being the native region of cayenne pepper, pimento, and vanilla; but the greater number are from the East.
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a genus of dipterous insects, chiefly allied to the forest fly. The genus are parasitical on
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a general name applied to many species of platyrhine or New World monkeys, but more especially to the members of the genus Ateles, which are distinguished by the great relative length, slenderness, and flexibility of their limbs, and by the prehensile power of their tails. A familiar SPIDER MONKEY species is the chameck (A. Chameck), which occurs abundantly in Brazil. The body is about 20 inches, the tail 2 feet long, and the color is a general black. The coaita (A. paniscus), another typical species, has an average length of 12 inches; the tail measures over 2 feet long, and the fur is of a glossy black hue.
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the common name of plants of the genus Tradescantia, one species of which, T. virginica, is cultivated in gardens.
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Writing written backwards, from right to left, so as to be read in a mirror. Automatic writing is frequently done in this way, and it is said that the ability to produce spiegelschrift is often found where there is a natural tendency to automatism. Spirit in Theosophy , is the monad after he has manifested himself in the Spiritual, Intuitional and Mental Worlds in the aspects of Will, Intuition and Intellect respectively, but the term is often used to denote the monad in the aspect of Will only. (See Monad and also the various articles on these Worlds.)
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FRIEDRICH at Stralsund. From the gymnasium there he proceeded in 1847 to the universities successively of Bonn, Berlin, and Greifswald, afterward settling at Leipsic in 1854 as a docent, at Hanover in 1859, and at Berlin in 1862, in the last two places till 1884 as a newspaper editor. His works, of which eight have been translated into English, are some 30 in number, in over 50 volumes, and include: "Klara Vere" (1857); "On the Dunes" (1858); "Enigmatical Natures" (1860); "The Von Hohensteins" (1863); FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGEN "Little Rose of the Court" (1864); "In Rank and File" (1866); "The Village Coquette" (1868); "Hammer and Anvil" (1868); "Ever Onward" (1872); "Ultimo" (1873); "The Freshet" (1876); "Quisisana" (1879-1880); "Angela" (1881); "Uhlenhans" (1884); "Noblesse Oblige" (1888); "A New Pharaoh" (1889); "Susi" (1895); and many dramatic works and much miscellany. He died in 1911.
FRIEDRICH birds, never on quadrupeds. O. avicularia frequently infests the common fowl, the SPIDER FLY blackcock, and other birds. It is greenish-yellow, with smoke-colored wings.
FRIEDRICH, a German novelist; born in Magdeburg, Feb. 24, 1829, but passed all his youth
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A shallow-dished trough of iron, about 2 feet wide and 6 feet long, supported about 10 inches above the floor on four feet, against which the brass moulder leans his small flasks on end for pouring with the crucible. The trough catches whatever may overflow at the gate or spill from the crucible; and, besides this, it serves as a general receptacle for every description of brass-scrap that is made. The contents are sifted from time to time and the scrap remelted.
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the spinal marrow or nervous cord which runs through the backbone, that is to say, through the spinal canal from the brain of every vertebrate. The cord is continuous with the brain. See Nervous System
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the name applied to the paired nerves which arise from the spinal cord, and which are distributed to the various parts of the body. The spinal nerves are so named in contradistinction to the cranial nerves, or those which originate from the brain itself. Thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves arise from the spinal cord of man. They pass from the spinal cord and spine through the intervertebral foramina, or openings between the bodies of the vertebræ. Eight pairs are cervical; 12 are dorsal nerves, also named thoracic; 5 are lumbar, 5 5 sacral, sao and 1 co coccygeal. Each spinal nerve arises by two roots, an anterior and posterior, from the spinal column. The posterior root has a nerve mass or ganglion, which is wanting in the anterior. The fibers of the anterior roots are motor in nature, i. e., impulses travel by these roots outward from the cord or brain to the body. The fibers of the posterior roots are sensory, i. e., impulses are conveyed by these fibers to the cord or brain. The anterior and posterior fibers unite just beyond the nervous ganglion to form a single nerve trunk, in which the two sets of fibers are indistinguishable. See NERVE.
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