Stilbite
a mineral of a shining pearly luster, of a white color, or white shaded with gray, yellow, or red. It has been associated with zeolite, and called foliated zeolite and radiated zeolite.
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Each of these 9 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.
Stiles
CHARLES WARDELL, an American zoologist, born at Spring Valley, in 1867. He attended the Wesleyan University in 1885-6, and later_studied . In 1891 in Germany and in France he became connected with the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, and from 1902 was consulting zoologist. He was professor of zoology for the United States Public Health Service, from 1902, and was assistant surgeon-general of this service, from 1919. He also occиpied chairs of zoölogy in several universities, including Georgetown, and Johns Hopkins. He was a member of many international commissions on chemical subjects, and was a member of many scientific societies. He was the author of many books on diseases of cattle and kindred subjects, and was an authority on hookworm and other obscure diseases.
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Stilicho
FLAVIUS, a Vandal of great genius and bravery, who distinguished_himself at the declining period of the Roman empire, was advanced to the highest dignities of the state by Theodosius the Great, and married Serena, the emperor's adopted daughter, besides being intrusted in 394 with the guardianship of his two sons, Arcadius and Honorius. On the division of the empire, Stilicho became virtual governor of the West, in the character of first minister to Honorius, while the same power in the East was exercised by Rufinus, under Arcadius, the other emperor. The military genius of Stilicho, after this period, was exhibited in the reduction of Africa which had been led into a revolt by Eutropius the successor of Rufinus at the Eastern court, and subsequently in the great contests with Alaric and Radagaisus. In the year 403 he routed the former near Verona, and in 406 put the hosts of the latter to flight and killed their commander. While Stilicho lived he sustained the fortunes of the Roman name, but he was accused of having a secret understanding with Alaric, and was treacherously put to death in 408. The wives and children of 30,000 Germans who were in his service were massacred at the same time.
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Stilicho, Flavius
Flavius (359-408), a celebrated Roman general and statesman. His father was a Vandal chief who had entered the service of the emperor Valens. Stilicho rose to high rank in the army through his military ability, and, when he had satisfactorily performed an important mission to Persia, the Emperor Theodosius the Great gave him his niece in marriage and made him commander-in-chief of the Roman army. On the death of Theodosius the empire was left to his two young sons, Arcadius to rule in the east and Honorius in the west. Rufinus, who had been minister of Theodosius and the enemy of Stilicho, was guardian of Arcadius, while Honorius was intrusted to the care of Stilicho. Rufinus instigated the Visigoths, under their king, Alaric, to an invasion of Greece while Stilicho at once set out for Constantinople and destroyed his rival in 395. He drove Alaric out of Greece in 396, and four years later repulsed him from northern Italy. Stilicho was accused of forming an alliance with Alaric, in the hope of being able to introduce his own family to the imperial succession. Historians differ as to the truth of this accusation, but, at all events, Stilicho was obliged to flee from Rome. He sought refuge at Ravenna, but was taken by Honorius and put to death.
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Still, John
John (1543-1607), an English prelate. He was educated at Cambridge and was bishop of Bath and Wells from 1593 to 1607. He is supposed to have been the author of Gammer Gurton's Needle, which was long considered the first English comedy. As a matter of fact Ralph Roister Doister preceded it. Gammer Gurton's Needle was printed in 1575. It was acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1566.
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Stillingea
a genus of Hippotaneæ. Milky trees or shrubs with alternate leaves, on petioles which have two glands at the apex; flowers monœcious, the males usually in crowded terminal spikes, with a bi-glandular bract at the base; calyx cup-shaped; stamens two, with their filaments united at the base; female solitary; calyx tridentate or trifid; stigmas three, simple; ovary threecelled; fruit capsular, globose, with three cells, each one-seeded. From the tropics of Asia and America. S. sebifera is the Chinese tallow tree. The root of S. sylvatica is considered in the Carolinas and Florida to be a remedy for syphilis.
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Stillman
WILLIAM JAMES, an American artist, journalist, author, and traveler; bor born in Schenectady, N. Y., June 1, 1828; was graduated at Union College in 1848; began egan life as an artist; founded and edited the "Crayon," an art journal in New York. He was for many years a correspondent of the London "Times" and the New York "Evening Post," and was especially conversant with the affairs of Greece; he was consul-general to Crete, 1865-1869. His published works are: "The Acropolis of Athens" (1870); "The Cretan Insurrection" (1874); "Herzegovina and the Late Uprising" (1877); "On the Track of Ulysses" (1887); "Reminiscences of a Journalist." He died in Frimley Green, Surrey, near London, England, July 6, 1901.
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Stillwater
a city and county seat of Washington co., Minn.; on St. Croix lake and river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern, Northern Pacific, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads; 18 miles N. E. of St. Paul. Stillwater contains the State penitentiary, public library, a high school, two convents, hospital, street railroad and electric light plants, waterworks, National and savings banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. It has flour mills, carriage factories, machine shops, elevators, foundries, etc. Pop. (1910) 10,198; (1920) 7,735.
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Stilts
a pair of poles or props used in walking to raise the feet some distance above the ground. Each stilt is provided with a strap or stirrup for the foot. In use, the stilts are managed somewhat like a pair of crutches, one under each arm. Few boys have not at some time had an ambition to make a pair of stilts and stalk around on them. The shepherds of a district known as the Landes in France are experts in the use of stilts which they strap to their legs, leaving the arms free to handle the crook.
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