Each of these 13 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 former town of Spain, S. of the Ebro, about 3 miles from the coast. It is famous in Roman history; its siege by Hannibal in 219-218 b. c. having given rise to the second Punic War. The site is occupied by the modern town of Murviedro.
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a town of British India, in the Northwest Provinces; 111 miles N. of Delhi; is the station for the hill sanatorium of Masuri. It has an old Rohilla fort, a handsome new mosque, St. Thomas' Church (1858), numerous administrative offices, and government botanical gardens (1817). Pop. about 63,000.
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a common term used by natives of India and Persia in addressing or speaking of Europeans. The feminine form is Sahibah.
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in mineralogy, a name formerly applied to a grayish-green variety of pyroxene from Sala; but now adopted by Dana and others for a group, viz., the lime-magnesia-iron pyroxene. monkey of Brazil.
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The Egyptian name for the spiritual or incorruptible body. It is figured in the Book of the Dead as a lily springing from the Khat or corruptible body.
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the name applied to the weeper- best is made of flax, and combines flexibility with lightness and strength.
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in zoölogy, a genus of Bovidæ, with one species, S. tartarica, from eastern Europe and western Asia. They differ so much from all other antelopes that some naturalists have made them a distinct family. Also, any individual of the genus Saiga. They are about the size of a fallow deer, tawny yellow in summer, and light gray in winter; horns, found only in the male, less than a foot long, slightly lyrate and annulated.
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capital of French Cochin- China; on the Saigon, a branch of the delta of the Mekhong; about 35 miles from the sea. The present town has grown up under French influences since 1861, and with its fine streets and squares and boulevards is one of the handsomest cities of the East. It has a magnificent , a cathedral (1877), governor's palace two higher colleges, an arsenal, floating dock and drydock, administrative offices, and zoological garden. and a botanical Hong Kong. It exports every year rice, chiefly to China, the Philippines, Japan, and the Straits Settlements. The remaining exports include fish, salt, cotton, wood, beans, and hides. Previous to the French occupation (1861) Saigon, though only a collection of common Siamese huts, was the capital of the province of Lower Cochin-China. Pop. (1919) 64,496, principally Chinese, Annamese, and French.
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a strong linen, cotton, or hempen cloth used in making sails. The
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the act of moving on water, or the movement of a ship or vessel impelled by the action of wind on her sails; act of setting sail or beginning a voyage; also, smooth impulsion through the air, as in a balloon; or the aërial passage of a bird. In navigation, the art of directing a ship on a given line laid down on a chart. It is called plane sailing when the chart is constructed on the supposition that the surface of the ocean is an extended plane; and globular sailing, chart is a globular chart, or when the constructed on the hypothesis that the ship being then earth is a sphere, the supposed to be sailing on the arc of a circle. Sailing order, or order of great sailing, is any determinate order preusually served by a squadron of ships. It implied, in the days of sailing fleets, one, two or three parallel columns, but it is at the disposition of the admiral or commodore. Saigon (properly Gia-dinh) is the most SAINFOIN, plant, Onobrychis sati Leguminosæ, a native a of central and southern Europe and part of Asia. It has been in cultivation for centuries for the purpose of supplying fodder for cattle either in the green state or converted into hay. It is a pretty plant with narrow pinnate leaves and long spikes of bright pink flowers; stem 12-2 feet high.
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UNIVERSITY OF, an ancient Scottish university. The university rose out of a school founded by a colony of Scotch-Irish monks from Columcille's foundation at Iona, renewed by Bishop Wardlaw in 1411, and confirmed by a bull of Pope Benedict XIII. Like Oxford in England, it was modeled on the plan of the University of Paris and based its teaching largely on the scriptures and theology. There were three colleges in the 16th ce century: St. Salvator, St. Leonard, and St. Mary, and these, after the Reformation, became the strongholds of Protestantism. In 1579 the colleges were reorganized, so that theology was made the principal study at St. Mary's, while St. Salvator and St. Leonard took over the teaching of philosophy, law and medicine. University College at Dundee was affiliated with Saint Andrew's in 1890. The number of students is (1921) 830.
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a college of Cambridge University, founded in 1473. It is one of the smaller Cambridge colleges, having about 30 scholars. ST. CHARLES, a city and county-seat of St. Charles co., Mo.; on the Misrouri river, the Wabash, and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroads; 22 miles W. of St. Louis. It contains Lindenwood Female College, St. Charles College (M. E. S.), the Convent of the Sacred Heart, electric lights, St. Charles Borromeo and St. Charles Libraries, National and savings banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. An iron railroad and highway bridge, built at a cost of $1,750,000, crosses the river here. In the vicinity are several quarries of limestone. The city has a woolen factory, a large bridge-building plant, flour mills, manufactures of railroad cars, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,437; (1920) 8,503. ST. CHRISTOPHER. See KITT'S, ST.
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a borough of Pennsylvania, in Schuylkill co. It is on the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads. It is the center of an important anthracite coal region and coal mining is the leading industry. Pop. (1910) 5,640; (1920) 6,585. ST. CLAIR, lake in North America, between Lake Huron and Lake Erie, and connected with the former by St. Clair river, with the latter by Detroit river. It is 30 miles long, greatest breadth 24 miles, area 360 square miles. It contains several fine islands. The river St. Clair, which separates Canada and the United States, is about 40 miles long, 1 mile wide, and navigable.
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