Each of these 11 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.
an Arabic title equivalent to noble, borne by the descendants of Mo . It descends both in the male hammed this and female line. Those who possess turbans rank are distinguished by green being the color of the and veils, green Prophet. The title is applied specifically . to the chief magistrate of Mecca
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or SHERIFF MOOR, a place in Scotland, in the parish of Dunblane, in Perthshire. Here an indecisive battle was fought between the troops of George I. under the Duke of Argyle, and of the a rebel force of the adherents Stuarts under the Earl of Mar, in 1715.
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an act of the United States Congress, approved July 14, 1890. It was the culmination of a long disagreement between the two Houses over a financial policy, neither side being disposed to yield. This bill was supported by Senator Sherman and others as a compromise measure. It instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to buy silver bullion to the amount of 4,500,000 ounces a month, and to issue Treasury notes in payment. Though the bill was approved , the financial policy continued to be a disturbing question and arguments favoring a repeal were presented at almost every opportunity. The business dep depression of the summer of 1893 was believed to be a consequence of the bill, and President Cleveland summoned Congress to convene in special session, Aug. 7. A bill to repeal the silver-purchasing proviso of the Sherman Act passed the House Aug. 28. In the Senate, the Voorhees bill was presented as a substitute , its provisions being a repeal of the silver-purchasing clause, but affirming bimetallism as a National policy. After a protracted contest the Voorhees bill passed the Senate, Oct. 30. It was concurred in by the House Nov. 1, and the President approved it the same day.
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CHARLES HITCHCOCK, an American lawyer, born in Washington, D. C., in 1867. He was educated at Yale University and practiced law in New York, from 1891 to 1909. From 1909 to 1911 he was United States Minister to Argentina. He resumed practice of law in 1912. Besides taking an active part in politics, he was president of the Yale Law School Alumni ; chairman of the Committee on Foreig Foreign Relations of the National Chamber of Commerce; trustee of St. Luke's Hospital , Tokio, Japan; of the American College for Girls, Constantinople, Turkey; of New York University, as well as of a number of numerous societies and clubs. He originated a series of international interuniversity track meets in 1894. During the World War he served as adjutant-general , with the rank of brigadier-general, in charge of the United States draft . He published "Stained Glass Tours in France " (1908); "Stained Glass Tours in England" (1909); "Stained Glass Tours in Italy" (1913); "French Memories of Eighteenth Century America" (1915); " Modernizing the Monroe Doctrine" (1916 ); "Have We a Far- Eastern Policy?" (1920 ).
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royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, celebrated for the exploits of Robin Hood and his followers.
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JANE, an American educator, born at Franklin, Ohio. She was educated at the universities of Jena, Zürich, Michigan, Paris, and Berlin, receiving the degree of A.M. and Ph.D. from the latter institution , in 1902. From 1882 to 1895 she was principal of the Franklin, Ohio, high school; from 1889 to 1891 instructor of English, and from 1892 to 1894, dean of Oxford College; from 1895 to 1899 , principal of the Acad emy for Young Women , Jacksonville, Ill .; from 1903 to 1904, professor of English philosophy and dean of women, Illinois College, Jacksonville , Ill.; and from 1905 to 1917, professor of English and president of Oxford (Ohio) College for Women. Besides contributing letters of travel and editorial articles to newspapers, she published "The Ile of Ladies" (1902).
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a very small variety of the horse, with flowing maner and tails, peculiar to Shetland. SHIBBOLETH (properly Shibboleth, Hebrew, "ear or corn," or "stream"), the test word used by the Gileadites under Jephthah after their victory over the Ephraimites, recorded in Judges xii. 6. The latter could not pronounce the sh, and, by saying sibboleth, betrayed themselves, and were slaughtered at the ford. All those Hebrew names in the Old Testament which commence with the sh have now, through the inability of the Septuagint to render this sound in Greek, become familiar to us, through the versions that flowed from it, as beginning with the is fishing. Cod, ling, tusk, saithe or coal simple s-e. g., Simon, Samaria, Solomon, Saul, etc. The word shibboleth is still used to mean a test of opinions and manners.
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LOCH, a fresh-water lake in Scotland, on the boundary between Inverness-shire and Argyleshire. It is about 15 miles long, but extremely narrow. It discharges by the river Shiel, which flows 3 miles N. W. to the sea at Loch Moidart.
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an important trading town and capital of a district in the N. of Sind, India, 18 miles W. of the Indus, on the railway leading to Quetta and Pishin. Before the opening of this railway it was a place of very considerable commercial importance, owing to its situation on one of the principal routes between India and Khorassan-viz.: that by the Bolan Pass. It occupies a very low site, the adjacent country being often inundated, but the soil is extremely fertile and yields heavy crops of grain and fruits. Carpets, coarse cottons, furniture, baskets, etc., are made in the town. Pop. about 54,000.
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a river of Eastern Siberia; rises in the Trans-Baikal region, among the Yablonoi mountains, and after a N. E. course of 260 miles falls into the Amur, a little beyond Ust Strelka. It is navigable for boats to the foot of the Yablonoi mountains, and is historically interesting as the "point of departure" for the Russians in their conquests on the Lower Amur.
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a town of Japan, , at the S. W. extremit extremity of the main island and the W. entrance to the Inland Sea; declared a seaport open to foreign traders in 1890. The batteries and a part of the town itself were destroyed during a bombardment by a combined English, French, Dutch, and American fleet in 1864. Here the peace between China and Japan was negotiated after the war of 1894. Pop. (1918) 67,866.
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