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.
RHOADES STANSBURY, an American physician; born in Indiana, Pa., July 8, 1841; was graduated at Washington and Jefferson College in 1862, and at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1865. He was major of volunteers and surgeon in the army during the American- Spanish War. His publications include many contributions on surgery and medicine. He died in 1906.
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in ordinary language, the act of sewing; the line along which two things are joined, united, or sewed together, so as to form a seam, or something resembling a seam. Technically, in anatomy, the immovable junction of two parts by their margins; as, the sutures of the skull, i. e., the lines of junction of the bones of which the skull is composed. Various types of suture exist, as the serrated or dentated suture, the squamous or scaly suture, and the harmonic suture or harmonia. Arranged according to their situation, there are coronal, frontal, fronto-parietal, occipito-parietal, and many other sutures. In botany, the line formed by the cohesion of two parts. If the suture formed by the carpellary leaves in a pistil face the center of a it face the perianth, the dorsal suture. The former corresponds to the margin, and the latter to the midrib of the carpellary leaf. In entomology, the line formed by the meeting of the elytra of a beetle when they are confluent. In surgery, the uniting of the lips or edges of a wound by stitching. In zoölogy, the outlines of the septa in the Tetrabranchiata, from their resemblance to the sutures of the skull. When these outlines are folded, the elevations are called saddles, and the intervening depressions lobes.
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a province of Lithuania, bounded W. by Eastern Prussia, S. by Grodno, and separated by the Niemen on the N. from Kovno, on the E. from Wilna; area, 4,844 square miles; pop. about 718,000. The surface is mountainous in the W. and S., and one-eighth is in swamp. Timber and grain are produced. Suwalki, the capital, is situated on the Hancza, 65 miles S. W. of Kovno. It was captured by the Germans in 1915. Pop. about 31,000.
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a river in southern Georgia, in the Okefinokee Swamp, which flows in a winding, generally S. S. W. course through Florida into the Gulf of Mexico.
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a group of three low wooded islands in the Pacific, about 450 miles N. N. W. of Cook or Hervey Islands, and about the same distance E. of Samoa. Annexed to Great Britain in 1889. Pop. about 120.
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in feudalism, a lord paramount; either the king, as original holder of the realm , or his immediate vassals, as grantors in turn to subvassals.
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HENRY, an American educator, born at San José, Cal., in 1875. He was educated at Leland Stanford University and at Columbia . From 1902 to 1907 he was an instructor and assistant professor of education at Leland Stanford University; from 1907 to 1909 adjunct professor of elementary education , and from 1909 to 1915 professor of philosophy of education at Columbia University; since May, 1915, president of the University of Washington. During the World War he served as chairman of the Washington State Council of Defense, Wage Umpire of the National War Labor Board, rd , and adviser of the War Labor Policy Board. He was a member of many educational societies, lectured extensively, contributed many articles to educational magazines and in came editor of the "Riverside Educational Monographs." 409 be-
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a religious symbol used by early races of Aryan stock_from Scandinavia to Persia and India. It consists of a Greek cross , either inclosed in a circle the circumference of which passes through its extremities or with its arms bent back, and was intended to represent the sun, being found invariably associated with the worship of Aryan sun gods (Apollo, Odin). Similar devices occur in the monumental remains of the ancient Mexicans and Peruvians , and on objects exhumed from the prehistoric burial mounds of the United States.
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a fortress in Finland; sometimes called " the Gibraltar of the North," protects the harbor and town of Helsingfors, from which it is 3 miles distant. The fortifications were planned and first prepared by Count Ehrensvärd in 1849, and there are an arsenal, docks, slips, and a monument to the "father" of the fortress. The fortifications were betrayed into the hands of the Russians by the Swedish commandant in 1808. It was captured by Finnish forces after the Russian revolution of 1917. Pop. about 1,000.
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JOHAN SEVERIN, a Swedish composer; born in Christiania, Norway, Sept. 30, 1840. He studied at Leipsic, Paris, and in Italy, conducted concerts in his native town and in 1883 became master of the Chapel Royal, Copenhagen. His works comprise symphonies, an overture, and quartets, quintets, and concertos for strings.
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OTTO, a Norwegian explorer, born in the District of Helgeland, in 1855. At the age of 17 he began his career at sea, and for a time commanded a merchant vessel. In 1888 he joined Nansen's expedition to Greenland, and in 1893 started with that explorer to the North Pole as commander of the Fram. He remained with this ship when it was abandoned by Nansen in 1895, and reached Norway by drifting through the ice in the years following. From 1898 to 1902 he led another expedition in the Fram in an attempt to circumnavigate Greenland. This he found impossible, but continued his explorations, and made discoveries of great value. These included Heiberg and Ringnes Land. In 1914 and 1915 he commanded an expedition for the relief of missing Arctic explorers. He wrote "New Land: Four Years in the Arctic Regions" (1904).
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A substitute for a brush; a hemp contrivance for holding and delivering water, made either by wrapping one end of a piece of rope and combing out the rest, or from new hemp, which needs only to be wrapped at the end. Large ones serve to moisten joints, etc.; small ones are useful to hold in the hand, and by a gentle pressure cause a fine stream of water to flow upon an edge, etc. Swabs are extremely useful for spreading blackening upon dry-sand moulds made from soft friable sands, as they do not tear up the surface in the manner a bristle brush invariably does. Dealers supply good swabs at a price slightly in excess of what the best hemp costs.
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