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.
SIR CHARLES, an dramatist; born in Aylesford, Kent, Eng- English land, in 1639. He is author of the favorite song "Phyllis." He wrote four comedies, among them "The Mulberry Garden" (1686) and two tragedies. He died Aug. 20, 1701.
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a diocese; the seat of episcopal authority; the ju jurisdiction; as, an pal see; the province or jurisdiction of episcoan archbishop; as, an archiepiscopal see; the seat place, or office of the Pope Roman pontiff; as, the Papal See; the or authority of the Pope or court of Rome; as, he was delegated by the See of Rome.
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consists essentially of the young plant or embryo, inclosed in integuments, of which there are usually two. It varies much in form. The outer integument, or seed coat, is termed or episperm. It is usually of a brown or the testa somewhat similar hue, but it frequently assumes other colors. The inner integument is called the tegmen, or endospleura; it is generally of a soft and delicate nature . A third integument, more or less complete, is occasion the surface of the others. The occasionally found on tion of the seed, called the nucleus, or inner porkernel, may either consist of the embryo alone, as in the wallflower and the bean, or of the embryo inclosed in albumen or perisperm, as in the morning-glory. When the nourishing matter, called albumen, is present, the seed is said to be albuminous; when it is absent, to be exalbuminous. The duration of the vitality of seeds is a much discussed question. Few seeds germinate after three or four years. See ALBUMEN: EMBRYO: OVARY: PLACENTA.
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sowing either in drills or broadcast, an operation formerly conducted altogether by hand. Machines are now in use adapted to sowing the finest grass seeds or the most bulky grains and seeds.
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ALAN, an American poet, born in New York in 1888. He was educated at Harvard University and began writing while still an undergraduate student, although little of his work became known then. He went to Paris in 1912. At the outbreak of the World War he enlisted in the Foreign Legion. He tinued to write while serving in the French army and some of his poems, sent to friends in America, gradually found their way into print. The best known of his poems, perhaps, was "I Have a Rendezvous with Death." He died during an engagement at Belloi-en-Santerre, on July 3, 1916. The comparatively small number of his writings which he left were published after his death in two volumes, "Poems" (1917), and "Letters and Diary" (1917).
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JOHN EDWARD BER- NARD, a British public official, born 1868. He was educated at Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar, Inner Templ Temple, in 1897. He joined the army and commanded as colonel the Hampshire Carabineers, serving with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa in 1900-1. He represented in parliament the Isle of Wight, 1900-6, the Abercromby Division of Liverpool, 1906- 10, and since 1910 the Ilkeston Division of Derby. He was Under-Secretary for the colonies 1908-1910; Secretary of State for War 1912-1914, and in 1919 Under-Secretary of State for Air and President of the Air Council.
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LAURENUS CLARK, an American educator; born in Bethel, Conn., Sept. 20, 1837; was graduated at Union College in 1857; studied in the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg; became pastor of the North Congregational Church, Springfield, Mass., in 1863; and Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in Amherst College in 1865. He was chosen president of Smith College in 1873 and president emeritus in 1910.
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a weight in India, formerly varying in different parts of the country, but by an act of the Anglo-Indian Government (Oct. 31, 1871), the seer was adopted as the primary standard of weight, and made equivalent to a kilogramme.
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in antiquity a city of Sicily; situated near the coast, 27 miles W. of Palermo. It was an ally Athens in the Peloponnesian War, became a dependent of Carthage about 400 b. c., and passed under Roman supremacy at There the time of the first Punic War. still remain the ruins of a Greek theater and a Greek temple, the latter being one of the most complete examples extant of Greek architecture. Near the ancient site of Segesta is now the modern town of Catalafimi.
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in comparative anatomy, one of the divisions or rings in the body of an insect, an annelid, a decapod, crustacean, etc. In geometry, a segment is a part cut off from any figure by a line or plane. The segment of a circle is a part of the area of a circle included between a chord and the arc which it subtends. An angle in a segment is the angle contained by any two straight lines drawn from any point in the arc and terminating in the extremities of the chord. Similar segments of circles are those which contain equal angles, or whose arcs contain the same number of degrees. A spherical segment is a portion of a sphere bounded by a secant line and a zone of the surface. If a circular segment be revolved about a radius drawn perpendicular to the chord of the segment, the volume generated is a spherical segment.
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in music, a sign or mark used in notation in connection with repetition. Al segno (to the sign), a direction to return to the sign; dal segno (from the sign), a direction to repeat from the sign.
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an old city of Spain; at the N. foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama; 32 miles N. N. W. of Madrid. It occupies a rocky eminence 3,300 feet above sealevel, is surrounded by ruinous walls with round towers, and consists of narrow uneven streets, with old, quaint, and stately houses, and numerous parish churches and convents. The fortress or castle_is perched on the W. extremity of the rocky height, and was originally Moorish, but has been gradually restored since its destruction by fire in 1862; its towers and windows command magnificent views. The cathedral (1521-1577) is one of the finest specimens of late Gothic in Spain. The grand aqueduct, built in the time of Trajan, is a very fine example of Roman architectural work. It consists of two rows of arches, the one resting on the other, some 2,600 feet long and 102 feet high. Wool scouring and the manufacture of paper, pottery, and cloth are carried on. Segovia was a place of importance during the time of the Romans, and was frequently the residence of the kings of Castile and Leon. The unresisting town was sacked in 1808 by the French. Pop. about 15,000.
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