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 state of Borneo, under British government, extending from Cape Datoo on the W. to the Samarahan river on the E. Area about 42,000 square miles. Coast line about 400 miles. The aboriginal inhabitants, called Dyaks, consist of various wild tribes who in 1844 took for their sovereign an Englishman, SIR JAMES BROOKE (q. v.), through whom the country is chiefly known. Pop. (1917) 600,000. Capital, Kuching.
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FRANCISQUE (sar-sā'), a French author; born in Dourdan, France, Oct. 8, 1828. As dramatic critic for Paris journals he was highly esteemed for his independence of judgment and his wide acquaintance with dramatic literature. He published: "History of the Siege of Paris"; "The Word and the Thing," (1862); "Etienne Moret," (1875); "Recollections of Youth" (1884); "Recollections of Mature Age" (1892); "The Theater" (1893), etc. He died in Paris, May 16, 1899.
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a plant of doubtful affinity, probably a fungus, consisting of minute quadrilateral bodies in fours, or some of four. S. ventriculi was first multiple multiple observed by Goodsir in human vomit.
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plural SARCOMATA, cancerous growth, consisting of connective tissue cells retaining their embryonic condition. Those that remain in this elementary condition are round cells; those which advance one stage further are spindle-shaped; and a third kind originating in the bone, and having large nucleated myeloid cells, are called myeloid. The first is the most malignant.
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plural SARCOPH- AGI, a kind of stone used among the Greeks for making coffins, and so called because it was believed to have the prop. erty of consuming the flesh of dead bodies deposited in it within a few weeks. It was also called "Assos stone," from being found at Assos, a city of Lycia, in Asia Minor. Hence a coffin or tomb of stone; a kind of stone chest used for containing a dead body.
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a semi-precious stone of very variety of chalcedony presenting compact Presenting on a fractured surface a dull horn-like aspect; color, pale yellowish-red, shades of brown, transparent to translucent. It was much esteemed by the ancient gem engravers.
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anciently a town in Lower Dacia, on the site of the modern Bulgarian town of Sofia or Sophia. The town is chiefly celebrated as the place where an ecclesiastical council was held in 343, at which Athanasius defended himself against the Arians.
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a name applied to several kinds of small fish of the family Clupeidæ, the true Mediterranean sardine. The fishing season begins early in June, and is now successful in places along the Atlantic coast and on Puget Sound. The coasts of Norway and Brittany, in wiest France, are the scenes of the the heaviest takes, and the grade of sardines obtained there is superior. As soon as the fishermen notice shoals of the porpoise or flocks of seagulls off shore sail is made immediately, for the sardine is there. In the United States an extensive industry is carried on, especially on the New England coast, in the way of preserving small fish which are sold under the name of sardines. True sardines having been discovered along the coast of California, in recent years, a large business has developed in canning the fish. In 1920 there were 16 factories engaged in this work.
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the capital of ancient Lydia in Asia Minor; stood at the N. foot of Mount Tmolus (5,906 feet), 2½ miles S. of Hermus. Through its market place flowed the Pactolus over sands rich in gold, an allusion in all probability to the wealth of the inhabitants, who wove woolen stuffs and carpets, and organized the traffic between the highlands of the interior and the coast; it was, moreover, the grand and luxurious capital of Cresus, a monarch of fabulous wealth. In spite of the strength of its citadel it was destroyed by the Cimmerian Gauls in the 7th century B. c., by the Athenians in the 6th, by Antiochus the Great in 215 b. c., and by Timur in 1402; besides this it was overwhelmed by earthquakes in the reign of Tiberius. Both Xerxes and Cyrus the Great resided here before setting out on their great expeditions. As Byzantium rose to importance, Sar dis lost the advantages of its situation on the great land route between Persia and Rome, and gradually declined. At the present day there is nothing left at its site, Sart, except a small village and ruin mounds.
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This gem resembles the cornelian, and is an antidote to the onyx. It prevents unpleasant dreams, makes its possessor wealthy, and sharpens the wit.
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The famous French dramatist was a keen student of occultism, and studied spiritualism with Allan Kardec (q.v.). He achieved great facility as a medium for spirit drawings, and many of the examples by his hand are of great merit artistically as well as from an occult point of view. Some of them are reproduced in M. Camille Flammarion's book Mysterious Psychic Forces. (See France .)
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a name applied to large areas of the ocean covered with floating seaweed, Sargassum bacciferum. The best known Sargasso Sea lies in the North Atlantic Ocean, between the Azores and Antilles, its position being determined by the central whirl of the Gulf Stream. It was noticed by Columbus, who recorded on his first voyage of discovery (1492) that his whole course was through masses of these weeds, from Sept. 16 to Oct. 12. There is a smaller Sargasso Sea off the coast of Lower California, in the Pacific Ocean. Another lies between Australia and the Falkland Islands in the Antarctic waters.
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a genus of Algæ. S. bacciferum is the gulf-weed of the Atlantic. Its stems are much employed in South America, under the name of goitresticks, in the treatment of goitre. Their beneficial effects are due to the large proportion of iodine existing in the plant,
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or SERCQ, one of the Channel Islands, situated about 6 miles from Guernsey. It is divided into Great Sark and Little Sark, the connection between these being a narrow neck of land called Coupée; length about 5, and breadth about 3 miles. The island is surrounded by almost inaccessible rocks, and the carriage roads are steep. Fishing is the chief employment; and the manufactures are principally stockings, gloves, etc.
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