Each of these 14 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 king of Persia, who succeeded to the throne about the 238th year of the Christian era. He wished to increase his dominions by conquest, but was defeated by Odenatus , who defeated his army with great slaughter. He was assassinated A. D. 273.
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in military language, a term applied in England to officers and men of the Royal Engineers, who were originally organized as a corps of "Sappers and Miners." In the United States the work of the old sappers and miners is now done by the Engineer Corps.
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A piece of flat brass to which a piece of sapphire, previously flattened, is attached by means of shellac. It is used for working upon garnet pallets and other soft stones. The sapphire is ground upon a diamond mill, and its surface rendered coarse, or fine, according to the mill used. A strip of copper and diamantine is sometimes used instead of sapphire files.
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the popular American name of several small woodpeckers.
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the seed of Lecythis ollaria and L. zabucajo trees, plentiful in the forests of the N. of Brazil, and belonging to the natural order Lecythidaceæ. The fruit is urn-shaped, as large as a child's head. Each fruit contains a number of seeds or nuts, as in the case of the allied Brazil nut, but the flavor is finer.
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a city of Oklahoma, the county-seat of Creek co. It is on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad. It is an important industrial center, has railroad shops, large oil refineries, machine shops, glass, mattress, candy and other factories, and is the seat of an Indian mission school. Pop. (1910) 8,283; (1920) 11,634.
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an Arabian or other Mussulman of the early and proselytizing period; a propagator of Mohammedanism in countries lying to the W. of Arabia. It was also applied to any infidel nation against which crusades were preached, such as the Turks.
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sar'a-sens, an Arabic word meaning easterns, orientals. It was applied in the Middle Ages to the Mohammedans, who dwelt in Asia, as contrasted with the Moors, who dwelt in Morocco and occupied Spain. The Saracens had conquered Palestine and occupied Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. See Crusades ; Saladin; Arabs
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a very old city of Spain, the capital of the old kingdom of Aragon, now the capital of a province 6,726 square miles; pop. about 500,000), of the same name (area, on from its suburbs), 176 miles N. E. from the Ebro (which separates the city Madrid. Without being regularly fortified, it is surrounded by an earthen wall and is built throughout of bricks. The houses are seldom above three stories in height; the streets narrow and crooked, except one long and wide one called the Cozo. There are two bridges over the Ebro. The public buildings are numerous-churches, convents, and two cathedrals celebrated throughout Spain. The older one is much resorted to by pilgrims, as it contains a pillar on which the Virgin is said to have descended, and her image believed to have fallen from a university, heaven. The city has founded in 1474; also an academy of fine arts, and other educational institutions. It is a railroad center and its commerce and industries are of importance. It is noted in history for the memorable siege it sustained against the mer French, under Marshals Mortier and , which lasted Lannes and with slight intermission from July 15, 1808, to Feb. 21, 1809, when it finally surrendered, 54,000 of the inhabitants having died, meantime, chiefly of plague. Pop. (1918) 124,998.
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PABLO MARTIN ME- LITON DE SARASATE Y NAVAS- CUES, Spanish violinist; born at Pamplona, March 10, 1844, He want to as servatoire in 1856. He became one of the greatest concert violinists of his time, and no violinist ever traveled more extensively. He composed for the violin romances, fantasias, and transcriptions of Spanish airs and dances. He died in Biarritz in 1908.
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BATTLES OF, in the Revolutionary War, two battles fought 12 miles E. of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Burgoyne led the British in the first, while the Americans were under command of Gates, who had Morgan and Arnold as subordinates. The fight on Sept. 19, 1777, was indecisive. On Oct. 7, 1777, the Americans achieved a splendid victory over the British, the commanders of both armies being the same as in the first engagement. The result was the surrender of Burgoyne and his army, numbering 5,752 men, to the Americans, Oct. 17, 1777. These contests are sometimes called in history the battles of Stillwater and Bemis' Heights. The American victory came at a critical period of the Revolution. It frustrated the British plan for cutting off New England from the other states, enlisted the help of France, altered the policy of Parliament and the King and saved the cause of the patriots. Creasy enumerates it in his "Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World."
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a lake in Saratoga co., N. Y., 4 miles E. of Saratoga Springs. It is about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide.
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a village in Saratoga co., N. Y.; on the Boston and Maine and the Delaware and Hudson railroads; 38 miles N. of Albany. Besides being one of the most fashionable summer resorts in the world, Saratoga is visited by many persons for its medicinal advantages. Here are a large number of mineral springs, now owned by the State of New York, together with a reservation of some 350 acres; some of these are of great celebrity, the water being used not only for local consumption, but bottled in large quantities for exportation. The village contains over 30 hotels, Is, some of great elegance and capable of accommodating more than 1,000 guests each. Here are a Convention Hall, Skidmore School of Arts, Athenæum, several private schools, hospital, armory, National banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. There are manufactures of paper, furniture, machinery, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,693; 13,181.
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a city of Russia, on the Volga; 500 miles S. E. of Moscow. It is a city of broad streets and fine squares, and stands on terraces rising from the river. There are nearly 30 churches; a handsome new cathedral (1825), an old cathedral (1697), and Radistcheff's Museum, sheltering a fine art gallery and a library. Prior to the World War it had manufactures of brandy, liquors, flour, oil, and tobacco. Fishing was prosecuted in the river, and market gardening (especially fruit and the sunflower) in the vicinity. There was an important trade in corn, salt, iron, wooden wares, textiles, and groceries. The city was pillaged by Pugatcheff in 1774 and suffered severely from fire several times during the 19th century. Pop. about 235,500.
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