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a city of North Carolina, the county seat of Iredell co. It is on the Southern railway. Its industries include furniture factor factories, cotton mills, flour mills, tanneries, foundries, tobacco factories, and ironworks. It is the seat of the Statesville Female College and Long's Sanitarium. Pop. (1910) 4,599; (1920) 7,895.
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in botany, sea-lavender; the typical genus of Staticeæ. Perennial herbs, with radical leaves, and unilateral spikes on a panicled scape; calyx funnel-shaped, plaited, dry, and membranous; petals united at the base, bearing the stamens. Known species 50 or 60, from the sea shores in Western Asia and other parts of the North Temperate zone. S. caroliniana, the marsh rosemary of this country, has narrow, obovate leaves on long petioles, and bluish-purple flowers. It is one of the most powerful astringents derived from the vegetable kingdom. It has been given with much success in Cynanche maligna, aphthæ of the jaws, etc.
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briefly, the dynamics of equilibrium, as kinetics is the dynamics of motion. In modern phraseology they are said to make up together the science of dynamics, since both deal with the effects of forces. According to Newton's first and second laws of motion, change of motion in a given mass indicates the existence of a force which is E in the direction in which the change of motion occurs, and is measured by the product of the mass into the rate of this change, or what is called the acceleration. Thus, a falling stone of mass suffers a constant acceleration g second; hence the force pulling it , i. e., its weight, is measured by product Mg. While the stone is descending, the problem is one of kinetics; but when it reaches the surface of the the earth its motion relatively relatively to the earth ceases, there is no acceleration, and the problem becomes statical. Every kinetical problem may be reduced to a statical problem by introducing into the material system forces whose effects will balance the various accelerations to which the different parts of the system are subject.
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the hall of the "Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of the Stationers of the City of London." The Company was incorporated in 1557, and had till the passing of the Copyright Act in 1842 an absolute monopoly, as all printers were obliged to serve an apprenticeship to a member of the Company, pany, every publication, from a Bible to a ballad, was required to be "Entered at Stationers' Hall." This registration is no longer compulsory, but the practice of registering is still useful in making good claims of copyright. The series of registers of books entered for publication, commencing in 1554, is of enormous value in the history of English literature. A transcript of these from 1554 to 1640 was published by Professor Arber in five volumes. See COPYRIGHT.
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a collection of facts, arranged and classified, respecting the condition of a people in a state or community, or of a class of people, their health, longevity, domestic economy, their social, moral, intellectual, physical and economical condition, resources, etc., especially those facts which can be stated in numbers or tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement. Also, that department of political science which classifies, arranges, and discusses statistical facts. The Italians were the first to recognize the importance of statistics. The earliest English work on the subject was Graunt's "Observations on the Bills of Mortality," published in 1661. The first International Statistical Congress was held at Brussels in 1853. In every civilized country the science of statistics now forms the basis of most inquiries regarding the condition of the people, Cyc-Vol. IX and no important legislation is attempted without reference, direct or indirect, to the facts which it tabulates.
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A Roman surname of Jupiter , describing him as staying the Romans in their flight from an enemy, and generally as preserving the existing order of things.
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A bronze composed of copper 9 and tin 1 is sometimes employed for statuary, but large statues are seldom cast of these two metals alone. For this reason it would be more correct to call the several alloys statuary brass. A brass used by the Egyptians consisted of brass 2, copper 1. Grecian and Roman, brass was an alloy of brass 2, copper 1, silver 1/20, lead 1/10. The French sculptor Kellar, 1669, used copper 326.43, tin 25.35, zinc 4.21, lead 1. Modern alloys are composed chiefly of copper 2, brass 1. For general artistic purposes more zinc and tin are added, as they answer as well, are more easily worked, and are cheaper. See STATUE-FOUNDING.
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a law proceeding from the government of a State; the written will of the legislature solemnly expressed according to the forms necessary to constitute it the law of the State. A statute which contravenes a provision of the constitution of a State by whose legislature it was enacted, or of the United States Constitution, is void. Statutes are either public or private (in the latter case affecting an individual or a company); but the term is usually restricted to public acts of a general and permanent character. Statutes are said to be declaratory of the law as it stood before their passing; remedial, to correct defects in the common law; and penal, imposing prohibitions and penalties. The term statute is commonly applied to the acts of a legislative body consisting of representatives. In monarchies not having representative bodies, the laws of the sovereign are called edicts, decrees, ordinances, rescripts, etc.
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a celebrated waterfall of Switzerland. The name signifies dust brook. It is situated in the immediate vicinity of Lauterbrunnen, eight miles south of Interlaken. Some twenty rivulets from the melting snows and mists on the shoulder of the Jungfrau fall from the rocky heights here. The best known of these is the Staubbach. It falls from a projecting rock 980 feet in height, six times the height of Niagara, compared to which, it is, of course a mere cupful. It falls so far that the greater part of the water is converted into mist before it reaches the ground and is wafted by the winds over the meadows far and near. Seen in the morning sunlight it has the appearance of a transparent silvery veil swung to and fro by the wind. Not infrequently it is tinted with all the hues of the rainbow. At times the volume of water, like that of Minnehaha, is somewhat disappointing. See Waterfall
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