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 small dog resembling somewhat the shepherd dog. The spitz is a native of Pomeramia. The word spitz is German, meaning a point, and has reference to the sharp-pointed muzzle of the dog. The Pomeranian name is spitzhund.
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EDWARD ANTHONY, an American physician, born in New York, in 1876. He was educated in the College of the City of New York and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. From 1904 to 1906 he was demonstrator of anatomy; from 1906 to 1914 professor of general anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; acting also from 1911 to 1914 as director of the Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy, Philadelphia. In the latter year he began the private practice of medicine in New York, specializing in nervous and mental diseases. He has made exhaustive studies of the brains of eminent men, as well as those of criminals. He was a member of several scientific societies, and during the World War served with the Medical Reserve Corps, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
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A variety of double chronograph in which there are two center-seconds hands.
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AINSWORTH RAND, an American librarian; born in Gilmanton, N. H., Sept. 12, 1825. He was a journalist to 1861, when appointed chief assistant librarian of the Congressional Library, and was librarian in 1864-1897, when he became again chief assistant. He was famed for a comprehensive and accurate knowledge of books and their contents, and besides many essays and articles on historical, literary, and scientific subjects for the current journals published: "The American Almanac," for several years; and, with others, edited "Library of Choice Literature" (10 vols. Philadelphia, 1881-1888); "Library of Wit and Humor" (1884); and "A Practical Manual of Parliamentary Rules" (1884); and wrote "A Book for All Readers" (1900). He died Aug. 11, 1908.
HARRIET PRESCOTT, an American author; born in Calais, Me., April 3, 1835; was graduated at the Putnam Free School, Newburyport, Mass., in 1852. In 1859 she published "In a Cellar" in the "Atlantic Monthly." This story made her reputation, and thereafter she became a regular contributor to the chief periodicals of the country. Among her publications are:
HARRIET PRESCOTT 33 "Sir Rohan's Ghost"; "The Amber Gods, and Other Stories"; "New England Legends"; "Hester Stanley and St. Marks"; "A Master Spirit"; "Old Washington" (1906); etc. She died on Aug. 15, 1921.
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Ainsworth Rand (1825-), a noted American librarian. Spofford is a native of New Hampshire . He was for years a bookseller and publisher in Cincinnati. Prior to the Civil War he was associate editor of the Cincinnati Daily Commercial, a position which he resigned to become assistant librarian of Congress. Later he acted as librarian-in-chief. Mr. Spofford is known in the world of letters as a compiler rather than an author. Among the pieces of work credited to him are catalogs of the Congressional Library, Annual American Almanac, Library of Choice Literature (ten volumes), Library of Wit and Humor (five volumes), and other works of less note.
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an archiepiscopal city of ancient Umbria in the middle of Italy; on a rocky hill, 75 miles N. E. of Rome. It is commanded by a citadel which dates from the days of the Goths, and has a fine cathedral, built in the time of the Lombard dukes, and containing fine frescoes by Lippo Lippi. The churches of St. Domen Domenico, St. Peter, St. Gregory, and St. Nicholas present interesting architectural features. Water is brought to the city by a 7th century aqueduct, 270 feet high and 680 long. The ancient Spoletium had its origin in a Roman colony planted here about 240 B. C.; Hannibal was repulsed in an assault he made on the town (217 b. c.) after the battle of Lake Trasimene. Under the Lombards it became the capital of an independent duchy, and its of Central dukes ruled over great part Italy. Having been united to Tuscany, it was bequeathed by the Countess Matilda to the Pope (1115). Pop. commune, about 26,000; town, about 10,000.
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in ichthyology, the genus Polyodon. In ornithology, any individual of the genus Platalea; specifically P. leucorodia, the white spoonbill, found over the greater part of Europe and Asia and the N. of Africa. The adult male is about 32 inches long; plumage white with pale pink tinge; at the junction of the neck with the breast there is a band of buffy yellow; the naked skin on the SPOONBILL throat is yellow; eggs and feet black; bill about eight inches long, very much flattened and grooved at the base, the expanded portion yellow, the rest black. There is a white occipital crest in both sexes. The spoonbill possesses no power of modulating its voice. The windpipe is bent on itself, like the figure 8, the coils applied to each other and held in place by a thin membrane. This peculiarity does not exist in young birds. The roseate spoonbill (P. ajaja), a native of the United States, has rose-colored plumage.
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JOHN COIT, a United States Senator from Wisconsin, born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., in 1843. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1864. He fought in the Civil War, and rose to the rank of major. In 1867 he was admitted to the bar and for many years practiced in Wisconsin. He served as a member of the State Assembly in 1872, and in 1885 was elected to the United States Senate, serving until 1891. He was re-elected in 1897 and retained his seat until 1907, when he resigned to take up the practice of law in New York City. He was greatly distinguished as a lawyer and as an authority on international law. During his service in the Senate, he was recognized as one of its strongest members. In 1898 he was a member of the British-American Joint High Commission. He died in 1919.
CHARLES HORACE, an American educator, born in Charleston, N. H., in 1858. He was educated at Norwich University. From 1879 to 1889 he was instructor in various preparatory and from 1891 to 1904, instructor of mathematics at the Manual Training School of Washington University. In 1904 he became president of Norwich University, Northfield, Vt., retiring in 1915, being made president emeritus in the following year.
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