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in Jewish history, the wife of Joakim, the tribe of Judah. She followed her husband to Babylon as a captive. Two elders or judges of Israel endeavored to seduce her, and, failing in their object, they accused her of adultery. She was condemned to death; but Daniel obtained a reversal of the sentence and succeeded in establishing her innocence. This is stated to have occurred in Babylon about 600 b. c.
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the principal watershed of the river of the same name, an affluent of Cook Inlet, Alaska. Area, about 8,000 square miles. The timber resources of the region are of importance and certain sections of it are also well suited for agriculture and stock raising. Part of the government railway between Cook Inlet and Fairbanks traverses the region.
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in zoölogy, a sub-section of colubrine snakes, having the fangs situated at the back of the jaw behind the common teeth. Head usually covered with shield-like plates. Some are known to be harmless, others are reputed poisonous, though it is doubtful if they really are so. Families Homalopsidæ, Dipsadidæ, and Dendrophidæ.
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the temporary cessation of the outward signs and of some of the functions of life.
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a railway in which the carriage is suspended from an elevated track, one carriage on each side of a single track, so as to balance, or suspended between two tracks.
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in anatomy, the longitudinal ligament of the liver. In botany, a very delicate thread descending from the foramen of an ovule into the quintine, and bearing at its extremity a globule which is the nascent embryo. It develops from the upper of two cells in a fertilized ovule, of which the lower one becomes the embryo. The suspensor is sometimes long, as in Boraginacex, Cruciferæ, etc., etc., etc or short as in Graminaceæ, Polygonaceæ, etc. Called also the suspensory cord, the pro-embryo, and by Dutrochet the hypostasis. In surgery, a suspensory bandage.
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a river of the United States, formed by two branches, an E. or N. branch, 250 miles long from Lake Otsego in New York, and a W. branch, 200 miles from the W. slope of the Alleghanies, which unite at Northumberland in Pennsylvania. The united stream flows S. and S. E., and after a course of 150 miles reaches the head of Chesapeake Bay at Port Deposit, Md. It is a wide but shallow stream, nowhere navigable to any extent, except in the spring.
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a maritime county, of southeast England. Area, 1,458 sq. miles; pop. about 700,000. The Downs supply pasturage for a famous breed of sheep. Agriculture and cattle raising are the principal industries of the county. The chief rivers are the Arun, Adur, and Ouse. The South Downs, stretching across the county from west to east, end about 20 miles east of Brighton in the lofty cliff of Beachy Head. The district of the Weald is very fertile and richly wooded. West of Brighton, along the coast to the Hampshire border, and in the southeast of the county rich marsh provide superb pasturage. There are gypsum beds near Netherfield, large railway works at Brighton, and important fisheries in many of the coast towns. Capital, Chichester.
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GEORGE, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born in Buckinghamshire, England, March 25, 1862. He received an academy education and was graduated from the law school of the Uni- TACNA-ARICA DISPUTE. A protocol was signed July 15, 1922, providing for arbitration of the unfulfilled clauses of the treaty of 1883 (see p. 42) by the President of the United States: (1) The latter to determine first of all whether the original treaty clause providing for a plebiscite in the disputed provinces should still be carried out under the altered conditions; (2) in case of an affirmative answer being given, the President to prescribe the rules governing the voting; (3) in case he decides against the plebiscite, a new conference between Chile and Peru to be called. Ratifications of the protocol were exchanged in Washington early in 1923.
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a county of north Scotland. Area, 2,028 sq. miles; pop. about 20,000. The majority of the inhabitants speak Gaelic. The county has a coast line of some 60 miles with rugged shores in the northwest and flat shores in the east. Although extensive moors are to be found throughout the county and although the southern and central portions are mountainous, the eastern parts are very fertile. The principal elevations are Ben More (3,273 ft.) and Ben Clibrigg (3,154 ft.); the chief rivers are the Oikel and the Shin. Coal, marble, limestone, granite, etc., are found and there are important salmon and herring fisheries. Capital , Dornoch.
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GEORGE Suggestion plays an important part in almost every field of life, in education, in religion, in art, in law and government, and not least in medicine, where the weakness and submissiveness of the patient on one hand and the confidence felt in the physician on the other are both highly favorable to the ready reception of skillfully introduced suggestions. Hypnotism (q. v.) is simply the extreme case of artificial suggestibility. (See also AUTOSUGGESTION.)
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HOWARD, a United States Senator from West Virginia, born near Kirkwood, wood, Mo., in 1865. He graduated from Westminster College College in 1889, and studied law at George Washington University. After serving as editor for several papers, he became connected with the Davis-Elkins coal and railroad interests in West Virginia. He later went into business on his own account, and became president of several important industrial concerns. He served as a member of the West Virginia State Senate, from 1908 to 1912, and was in the United States Congress from 1913 to 1917. In 1916 he was elected to the United States Senate.
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a person who follows an army and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, or the like. The sutlers attached to regiments in the French army are called vivandiers.
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ADOLPH HEINRICH JOSEPH, an American mining engineer; born in Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, April 29, 1830; came to the United States in 1850 and settled in San There he engaged in business till 1860, Francisco, Cal. when he conceived the plan of the great " Sutro tunnel," as a means of developing the Comstock mine in Nevada. He interested capitalists in the project and work was begun on the tunnel in 1869. His contract with the mine-owners called for $2.00 royalty on every ton of ore taken from the mines. When the work was completed in 1879 interest in the tunnel; went to San Franhe sold out his cisco, invested in real estate, and soon became one of the wealthiest men on the Pacific slope. He was a donor of large sums of money to public founder of the Sutro Library, of San institutions; Francisco, and mayor of that cit hat city in 1894. After his death there, Aug. 8, 1898, his will, in which he bequeathed nearly his whole fortune to the city, was contested and broken.
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