Each of these 12 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.
STANIS- LAUS II., the last King of Poland, son of Count Stanislaus Poniatowski; born in STANISLAUS II. Wolczyn, Lithuania, Jan. 17, 1732. Sent by Augustus III. of Poland on a mission to St. Petersburg, he became a favorite with the grand-princess (afterward the
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STAN- ISLAUS I., King of Poland, afterward Duke of Lorraine and Bar; born in Lemberg, Galicia, Oct. 20, 1677. His father was grand treasurer to the Polish crown, and he himself was voivode of Posen, when he was recommended to the Warsaw assembly by Charles XII. of Sweden as a candidate for the vacant throne of Poland. He was accordingly elected and crowned (1705), but after the disastrous battle of Poltava (1709), when his patron Charles XII. was defeated, he had to flee from Poland. He found refuge in France ultimately, where his daughter Maria became wife to Louis XV. Assisted by the French king he sought to establish his claim to the throne of Poland in 1733, but, opposed by by the united powers of Saxony and Russia, he had again to retire into France, where he held possession of the duchies of Lorraine and Bar until his death. His writings were published under the title of "Works of the Beneficent Philosopher" (1765). He died Feb. 23, 1766.
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PENRHYN (PENRYHN STANLEY ADAMSON), an American portrait painter, born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1877. He came to the United States in 1891 and studied art at Paris and London. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1904, and in 1908 opened a studio in New York. He built the Hotel des Artistes in New York City, the largest studio building in the United States, and was president of the Hotel des Artistes, Inc. He wrote two plays "Instinct" (1912), and "The End of the Hunting" (1915). Besides his portrait work, he was especially well known for his frequent cover designs for many of the most prominent magazines.
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a cataract, and also a trading station, on the Kongo, 1,413 miles from the mouth of the river. Stanley Falls Station is at the head of navigation for good-sized vessels, and is in the heart of equatorial Africa. Here is an important entrepot of the African International Association.
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a lake-like expansion of the Kongo, 250 square miles in
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or YABLONOI, a mountain chain in the N. E. of Asia, which forms the boundary between Siberia and Manchuria, skirts the Sea of Okhotsk, and is continued though with gradually diminishing height, to the shores of Bering Strait. The whole length of the chain has been estimated at 3,000 miles. The E. part is often distinctively called Yablonoi. This mountain range gives rise to the rivers Amur and Anadir on its. S. and E. side, and to the Yenisei, Lena, Indighirka, and Kolyma on the N. and W. side.
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Edwin M. (1814-1869), an American statesman. He was born at Steubenville, Ohio. He studied at Kenyon College. He was admitted to the bar in 1836. Twenty years later, after practicing in his native town and in Pittsburg, he opened an office in Washington, D. C. Lincoln made Stanton his secretary of war in 1862, a position which he held until forced out by a disagreement with President Johnson. President Grant appointed him a justice of the supreme court, but he did not live to discharge the duties of the office.
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Elizabeth Cady (1815-1892). A leading advocate of woman suffrage . Elizabeth Cady was the daughter of a New York lawyer, a member of Congress. She was born at Johnstown, and was educated in a local academy. She married Henry B. Stanton, a pronounced abolitionist. While in England attending an anti-slavery meeting, Mrs. Stanton become acquainted with Lucretia Mott. The first woman suffragist convention held in America was called to order by Mrs. Stanton at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Mrs. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were co-workers in reform movements. Mrs. Stanton's acknowledged social grace and pleasing qualities as a speaker and presiding officer gave her a large place in women's orzanizations. See Anthony ; Willard ; Woman Suffrage
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EDWARD, an American editor, born in Augusta, Me., in 1841. He was educated at Bowdoin College, from which he also received an honorary degree in 1894. From 1867 to 1882 he was assistant editor, and from 1882 to 1883, editor of the Boston "Daily Advertiser." From 1887 to 1911 he was managing editor of the "Youth's Companion." He acted as special agent on several of the United States manufacturing censuses, was a trustee of Bowdoin College, and a member and recording secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He wrote, besides many articles for domestic and foreign reviews and for many other periodicals: "History of Presidential Elections" (1884); "History of the Presidency" (1898 Controversies" (1903); "James Gillespie Blaine" (1905); etc.
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a number of lines or verses regularly adjusted to each other, and properly ending in a full point or pause; a part of a poem ordinarily containing every variety of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring, whether like or unlike in measure. A stanza is variously termed terzina, quartetto, sestina, ottava, etc., according as it consists of three, four, six, eight, etc., lines.
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the modern form of the Anglo-Saxon word stapel, meaning a heap, or regularly piled up accumulation, of goods; hence a place where goods are stored up for sale. In the Middle Ages, when the term was in common use, a staple meant both the trading town for particular commodities and the commodities that were wont to be exposed for sale there.
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lists of catalogues of the stars arranged according to their positions, generally their right ascensions and declinations, though some of the early catalogues were arranged according to the positions in ۱ latitude and longitude. The early catalogues, and those accompanying uranometries, are arranged in constellations, and then in the order of position under each constellation. This system was of course fit only for the few stars visible with the naked eye. Modern catalogues resulting from accurate determinations of position give the places to hundredths of a second of time and tenths of a second of arc. Such catalogues also give the precession of each star in right ascension and declination, in order to reduce the position to any desired epoch, for the places of the stars are always changing, or rather the co-ordinate plane to which they are referred is always shifting its position on account of the precession of the equinoxes. The epoch of a star catalogue is the date to which its places refer, and is always taken as the beginning of some year, generally some decade or quarter of a century.
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