Each of these 13 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 town in Russia, capital of the province of the same name, in eastern Russia. It is situated at the juncture of the rivers Volga and Samara, 550 miles southeast of Moscow. It is the center of an extensive grain producing region and its chief industry before the World War was flour milling. Pop. about 145,000. The province has an area of 59,000 square miles, and about 4,000,000 inhabitants, many of whom are descendants of German colonists.
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a seaport of Java, 255 miles E. of Batavia, the principal port for the trade of Middle Java. Since 1873 it has been connected with Jokjokarta and Surabaya by railway. The European quarters have all the appearance of a typical Dutch town. The more important buildings are a military hospital, the city hall, and Christian churches and schools. A fort and a coast battery provide defense for the town. The river is silted up at its mouth; but a canal, constructed in 1879, serves as a harbor. The roadstead is exposed exposed dur during the W. monsoon. Pop. (1918) 106,852.
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a river of France and Belgium; a tributary of the Meuse, which it enters at Namur; length 110 miles, great part of which is useful for navigation.
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a people of ancient Italy, that inhabited the country between Apulia on the E. and Latium and Campania on the W.; a brave and warlike nation, they distinguished themselves by their implacable hatred of the Romans, with whom from their earliest existence as a people they waged a perpetual hostility. They were, however, ultimately compelled to succumb before the growing power of Rome, and after a succession of disasters were finally exterminated about 290 b. C. Their capital city was called Samnium, or Samnis. The term Samnites was subsequently applied to an order of Roman gladiators, so named because accoutred and armed in the fashion of the ancient nation of Samnites.
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(See Slavs .) St. Martin was never married, but he appears to have exercised a most extraordinary fascination over women: Samothracian Mysteries : (See Greece .) and in fact divers scandalous stories are told in this relation, Samovile: (See Slavs.) some of them implicating various courtly dames of the Samoyeds: (See Siberia .) French nobility of the Empire. As a philosopher St. Martin found a host of disciples among his contemporaries, these gradually forming themselves almost into a distinct sect, and, as observed before, acquiring the name of "Martinistes." What, then, was the teaching of their leader ? and what the nature of the tenets promulgated in his voluminous writings? It is difficult to give an epitome in
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a genus of plants, order Primulaceæ. They are herbs with alternate leaves, and flowers corymbose or racemose. S. valerandi, the water pimpernel, found in wet, gravelly places throughout the world, is one foot high, and has small, white flowers, the corolla of which is twice the length of the calyx.
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now SAMO, an island in the Grecian Archipelago, near the coast of Asia Minor; 45 miles S. W. of Smyrna, formerly belonging to Turkey, and now a possession of Greece; area, 180 square miles. It has a mountainous surface, partly covered with pine forests; several fertile and well-watered valleys; produces corn, fruit, and excellent wine; and has several valuable minerals, including argentiferous lead, iron, and marble. The principal town is Vathy, with a good harbor on the N. E. side of the island. The principal exports are raisins, skins, wine, and oil; imports, grain, colonial produce, and woven fabrics. Samos was inhabited in antiquity by Ionian Greeks, and had an important position among the Greek communities as early as the 7th century b. c. In the latter half of the 6th century it was in a specially flourishing condition under Polycrates, and subsequently was under the domination of Athens. In 84 B. c. it was united with the Roman province of Asia. In 1550 it was co uered by the Turks. It now occupies an exceptional position, having been erected into a tributary principality of the Sublime Porte în 1832, the ruler being a Greek prince. During the Balkan War of 1912 the Greeks seized the island. Pop. about 69,000.
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the capital till A. D. 17 of the Syrian kingdom of Commagene, on the Euphrates, 130 miles N. N. E. of Aleppo. It was the birthplace of Lucian and of Paul of Samosata.
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or SAMOTHRAKI, an island in the N. of the Ægean Sea, belonging to Turkey, about 14 miles long by 8 miles broad. It has a very mountainous surface, one of its summits exceeding 5,000 feet. Its chief products are corn and oil. The island is of interest as being in antiquity the principal seat of the worship of the CABURI, and celebrated for its religious mysteries. It is interesting also as being visited by St. Paul in the course of his second missionary journey (Acts xvi. 11). Recent archæological researches have produced valuable results.
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a Russian tea apparatus, the water in which is boiled by means of hot coals contained in an iron tube, and then poured over the tea.
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or SAMOIEDES, a people of Ural-Altaic stock, inhabiting the shores of the Arctic Ocean, both in Europe and Asia, from the Yenisei to the White Sea. They consist of two main ६ groups, a S. resembling the Tartars, and a N. and more degraded group. They are nomadic, and live chiefly by fishing, hunting, and keeping reindeer. They are of small stature, have a flat, round, and broad face, thick lips, wide nose, little beard, black hair in small quantity. Their religion is fetishism, though they have an idea of a great divinity; they are extremely superstitious, and generally peaceable. The reindeer supplies them with food, clothing, tents, utensils, etc. They number about 17,000.
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an article of food consisting of maize, broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and often eaten with milk; a dish borrowed from the aborigines of the United States.
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the Crithmum maritimum, an umbelliferous plant, very succulent, pale green, with bi-triternate leaves and lanceolate fleshy leaflets. It grows wild along the sea-coast of Europe, and where it abounds it is used by the inhabitants as a pickle, or an ingredient in salads, or as a potherb.
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