Each of these 10 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 cleft in the mountain chain which formerly constituted the frontier between Turkish Macedonia and Bulgaria, through which runs the River Struma, and which constituted one of the gateways into Bulgaria by which the Allied troops advanced into Bulgaria during their successful offensive, in September, 1918.
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a town and fortress in Macedonia, held by the Bulgarians against the British contingent of the in Galicia; on a river of the same name;
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SIMEON, an American journalist and writer; born at Vitebsk, Russia, in 1879. While still a boy he removed to the United States and graduated from Columbia University in 1900. In 1906 he became an editorial writer for the New York "Evening Post," and was also literary editor of that paper. His essays were published in several volumes, including "The Patient Observer" (1914). (1911); "Post - Impressions" Other books are: "Belshazzar Court" (1914); a novel, "Professor Latimer's Progress" (1918); and "Little Journeys to Paris" (1918).
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a bar in a frame having equal and opposite forces applied to its ends, acting inward and producing upon it a state of compression. Spec Specifically: (1) A diagonal timber which acts as a post or brace to support a principal rafter or purlin. Its lower end is stepped into a tie beam, or on a shoulder of a king or queen post. (2) A brace between joists.
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FRIEDRICH GEORG WIL- HELM, a German astronomer; born in Altona, Holstein, April 15, 1793. His whole life was devoted to astronomy in the service of the Russian Government; from 1813 to 1820 observer and Professor Extraordinary of Astronomy in the University of Dorpat; from 1820 to 1838 Professor of Astronomy and director of the same observatory; and from 1839 to 1864 director of the new Imperial Observatory at Pulkova, near Petrograd. His great work in astronomy was the observation and publication of the great Dorpat catalogue of double-stars, generally known as the "Mensuræ Micrometricæ," and denoted by the letter Σ and the "Positiones Mediæ," or results of the meridian observations of the same stars, this catalogue being generally denoted by the letters > [PM]. These catalogues have served as the model for all similar work since. The rest of his life was given to the foundation and organization of the great observatory at Pulkova. He died Nov. 23, 1864.
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or STRYI World War. It was at this point that the Allies invaded Bulgaria proper, on September 25, 1918, as part of the general advance, begun a week before, which terminated in the complete collapse of the Bulgarian resistance, and proved the beginning of the end of the war as a whole.
or STRYI was the scene of a great conflagration in April, 1886, which destroyed over 600 houses and most of the public buildings. The chief manufactures are leather goods and matches. Pop. 33,400.
or STRYI, a town of Austria,
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a stream in Eastern Galicia, joining the Dniester near Stanislaw, along whose banks severe fighting alo took place between the Germans and Russians during the World War. During the summer of 1915 the German- Austrian armies had made a sweeping advance and compelled the whole Russian front to fall back. Toward the end of their retreat the Russians suddenly developed unexpected resistance along the Strypa, having been reinforced in this region. While the troops in other sectors of the Eastern front settled down into trench life as the winter months came on, the Russians along the Strypa continued their activities dur during the cold months, inflicting heavy and continuous losses on the Germans, and prepared the way for the general Russian offensive, which began the following summer.
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Gilbert (1755-1828), an American portrait painter. He was born at Narragansett, Rhode Island . At the age of thirteen he began painting portraits without instruction. In 1770 a friend took him to England, but dying, left Stuart to return to America in poverty. He managed to scrape together some money by painting portraits and went again to England where he remained during the Revolutionary war. None the less he retained his American patriotism. In 1792 he returned to America with the avowed purpose of linking his name with that of the Father of his Country by painting the portrait of Washington. He established his studio in New York , Philadelphia, Washington, and Boston successively. He painted portraits of the first five presidents, and of Edward Everett, John Jay, Jacob Astor, Judge Story, W. E. Channing, the Quincys, and Admiral Perry. While in England he portrayed George III, George IV, and other members of the royal family, as well as Mrs. Siddons, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Benjamin West. His most noted portrait, that of Washington, is owned by the Boston Athenaeum.
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William (1825-), a noted British historian. He was graduated at Oxford in 1848. Much of his subsequent life is connected in one capacity or another with the University of Oxford. Stubbs was an untiring student of the early history of England. He dug into the records of Canterbury and into the chronicles of the reigns of the earlier kings. He published numerous works. His reputation rested chiefly on The Constitutional History of England in It s Origin and Development. Another important piece of work was an edition of Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History. To American students Stubbs is the historian of the English constitution.
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HUDSON, an American clergyman and explorer; born in England, in 1863. In 1885 he removed to the United States, and in 1892 graduated from the theological department of the University of the South. He was appointed a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1892, and served as rector of several churches in Texas. In 1904 he was appointed archdeacon of the Yukon. He was interested in mountain climbing and exploration, and on June 7, 1913, with three companions, reached the summit of Mount McKinley, being the first to perform this feat. This was followed by other explorations in Alaska. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London, and was a member of other scientific societies. He wrote "Ascent of Denali (Mount Mc- Kinley)" (1914); "Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog-Sled" (1914); "Voyages on the Yukon and its Tributaries" (1917); "A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast" (1920). He died in 1920.
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