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.
the study of earthquakes. Though seismology can scarcely be said to have existed before the early part of the 19th century, it has a rapidly growing bibliography, and is accumulating a store of facts and observations on which generalizations may be based. See EARTHQUAKE.
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or HAMOON, LAKE, a large, irregularly shaped, shallow lake or swamp in the W. of Afghanistan, close to the frontier of the Persian province of Khorassan, a division of which province (mainly steppe) is named Seistan after it. The lake is not a single expanse of water, but is divided into three depressions. A great part of the area is generally dry; but, as the basin has no outlet, t, when the Helmund and its other feeders are in flood this lake regularly overflows its boundaries, fertilizing large tracts of country.
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ÆLIUS, the son of a Roman knight, and noted as the favorite of Tiberius, was born at Vulsinii in Etruria. most important. (1) SELEUCIA ON THE He was commander of the prætorian bands, acquired the confidence of Tiberius, and aimed at the supreme power. He contrived to remove all the members of the imperial family who stood between him and power, but having awakened the suspicion of Tiberius he was executed in A. D. 31.
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a double hyposulphite of gold and sodium, used in photography for toning positive paper-proofs.
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John (1584-1654), a learned English jurist, antiquary, and author. He was born at Salvington, Sussex, and died at London. He studied at Hart's Hall, Oxford, and was afterward called to the bar of the Inner Temple. He established a large practice, but made a greater reputation as a scholar and writer than as a lawyer. His first work of importance related to the civil government of Britain previous to the Norman conquest. Other works were Titles of Honour, Concerning the Syrian Gods, History of Tithes, and Table Talk. The last is his best known work.
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a distinctive name given to the measures passed by the United States Congress in 1917, providing for the drafting of men of military age into the armed forces, for service in the World War. See UNITED
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se-le'ne, in Greek mythology, the goddess of the moon. She was the daughter of Hyperion and Thea. Selene was confounded to some extent with Artemis, and with Diana of the Romans. See Diana
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a name used by some mineralogists for all species of gypsum, by others applied to the crystallized forms only.
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THOMAS OLIVER, an American naval officer; born in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 6, 1836; son of rear admiral of same name, graduated at U. S. Naval Academy in 1854, and promoted lieutenant in 1860. During the Civil War he was serving on board the "Cumberland" when she was sunk by the "Merrimac" in Hampton Roads in 1862; Cairo," which commanded the ironclad " was blown up on the Yazoo river; had charge of a battery at the capture of Vicksburg; participated in both attacks on Fort Fisher, and commanded several vessels in the Mississippi fleet. He was promoted commander in 1869 and had charge of the surveys for the canal across the Isthmus of Darien in 1869-1874; was a member of the International Congress at Paris in 1876 and in 1896 was protired. moted rear admiral. He was retired, Feb. 6, 1898.
H(ARRY) GORDON, an American merchant, born in Ripon, public school Wis., in 1858. He received a employ of education and, entering the ad- Field, Leiter & Co. in 1879, he was vanced until he became a partner of Marshall Field & Co., and manager of the his interretail store. In 1904 he sold ests and retired, and afterward engaged the firm in business in Ch Chicago under name of H. G. Selfridge S & Co. In 1906 he organized in London, Selfridge & Co., Ltd., and in 1909 built and opened one of the largest retail stores in Europe. Commerce." He wrote "The Romance of
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EDWIN ROBERT AN- DERSON, an American educator; born in New York City, April 25, 1861; was in graduated at Columbia University 1879; then studied abroad; became Professor of Political Economy and Finance at Columbia University in 1891; editor of the Political Science Quarterly. He was a member of New York Mayor's Tax and Finance Committee, 1905; President of Roosevelt's Committee on Statistics and Reorganization, 1908; Chairman of trustees, Bureau of Municipal ipal Research, 1905- President, Am. Science Ass'n and 1910: of National Tax Association. His publications include "Railway Tariffs" (1887); "Finance Statistics of American Commonwealths" (1889); "The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation" (1899); "Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice" (1894); "Essays in Taxation" (1900); "Principles of Economics" (1919).
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surnamed "the Sot," was the son of Solyman I. He ascended the throne in 1566. Among the events of his reign was the subjugation of Cyprus. SELIM III (1761-1808) ascended the throne in 1789. He was embroiled in wars with Austria, Russia, and France. He attempted to organize the Turkish army on European models, but the Janizaries or native troops revolted and the unfortunate Selim was strangled in prison.
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one of the most important founded of the Greek colonies in Sicily, foun probably about 628 B. c. on the S. W. coast of that island. Thucydides mentions its great power and wealth, and the rich treasures of its temples. It was conquered by the Carthaginians in 409, and in 249 destroyed by them. There are still important ruins of ancient Greek temples here.
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an outlying range of the Rocky mountains, in British Columbia, extending S. from about lat. 52° N. to near the United States frontier. The Canadian Pacific railway climbs over the mountains at a point 4,300 feet above the sea.
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Alexander (1673-1723), a Scottish sailor. He gained some reputation as the commander of buccaneering ships. He was neither more nor less than a pirate engaged in preying on the ships of foreign nations. In 1704, owing to a dispute, he was put ashore at his own request on the island of Juan Fernandez and remained there alone for four years. He is popularly believed to be the original of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. His Life and Adventures were published in 1829. He is the subject, also, of the poet Cowper's well known lines beginning: I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute. Selkirk's sea chest and cup are preserved in the Edinburgh Museum of Antiquities. In 1903 his old gun, a flint-lock fowling-piece, was placed in the British Museum . The stock bears his name carved in rude letters, and the date, 1701. See Defoe
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