Sheldon
CHARLES MONROE, an American clergyman; born in Wellsville, N. Y., Feb. 26, b. 26, 1857; was graduated at Brown University in 1883 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1886; was ordained in the Congregational Church the same year, and became pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Topeka, Kan., in 1899. In 1912 he resigned to become a "minister-at-large." He was recalled to the Central Church in 1915. He edited the Topeka "Capital" for one week in 1900, as a distinctly Christian of Dutch independence; and they appear himself in opposition to the constituted to have been generally adopted by about authorities by refusing to submit to fag- 1634. Formerly every shell was a hollow ging. At Oxford he published anonysphere of cast iron, having a fusehole an inch across, through which the charge was inserted, consisting of pieces of metal and powder to burst the shell. The hole was plugged by a fuse, timed to communicate fire to the charge after the lapse of a certain number of seconds. Since the introduction of rifled ordnance, the shell has become the commonest form of projectile. It has ceased to be spherical, and is usually of cylindrical form and pointed at the end. In the World War vast quantities of large explosive shells were used to blast the way for attacks. See PROJECTILE; ARTILLERY; AMMUNI- TION; EXPLOSIVES.
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Sheldrake
in ornithology, the Tadorna cornuta (or vulpanser) of modern ornithologists; Anas tadorna. It is somewhat larger than an ordinary duck, with a fleshy protuberance at the base of the bill, whence its specific name. It is a very handsome bird; head and upper neck dark, glossy green, broad white collar, below which a broader band of bright SHELDRAKE bay extends from the back across the breast; outer scapulars, primaries, a median abdominal stripe, and a bar on tip of middle tail quills black; inner secondaries and lower tail coverts gray; speculum rich bronze green; rest of plumage white. The female is smaller and less brilliantly colored. It frequents sandy coasts in Europe and North Africa, ranging across Asia to Japan; nesting usually in a rabbit hole. The ruddy sheldrake, T. casarca, is a native of Barbary, south eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Its color is an almost uniform bay, the male with a black ring round the neck. The common sheldrake breeds freely in captivity.
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Shell
in warfare, a modern missile used in bombardments. It is loaded with a powerful explosive, and is designed to burst on striking. The modern shell is of cylindrical shape, perhaps three times as long as wide. The shells used by the Japanese in the siege of Port Arthur were loaded with English lyddite. Each shell was eleven inches in diameter and weighed five hundred pounds. The value of the shell alone was $175. The cost of each discharge, reckoning the shell and the powder with which it was discharged, is placed at $400. They were fired from rifled mortars with a range of seven or eight miles. The favorite position for a battery of mortars is in shelter behind a range of hills out of sight of the object to be bombarded. An observer, with a telephone on the crest of the intervening hill, directs the gunners in finding their range. The charge is so uniform and the management of the gun is rendered so exact by the use of mechanical devices, that, after wasting a shell or two, a battery is expected to land a dozen shells within the space occupied by a battleship, and this without the gunners seeing the object at all. Shells fired in this manner come down literally like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky. See Cannon Marine shells. Conus. Fasciolaria
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Shell-lac
A resinous exudation from the branches of several trees in the tropics. The crude lac is called stick-lac; this is bruised, the fragments of wood removed, and the resin digested in weak carbonate-of-soda solution. The residue is the seed-lac of commerce, which when melted down becomes shell-lac. See RESIN.
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Shelley
HARRY ROWE, an American composer , born at New Haven, Conn., in 1858. He studied music in New York, London, and Paris, and in 1899 became organist of the Fifth Avenue Bapptist Church, New York. His works include symphonies , a symphonic poem, several cantatas, and many songs and pieces for the organ.
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Shelley (MARY GODWIN an English author)
MARY (GODWIN), an English author, second wife of the poet Shelley; bor born in London, Aug. 30, 1797. Her first story, " Frankenstein" (1818); won for her a place among the imaginative writers of England; it was followed by "Valperga ," a historical romance (1823); "The Last Man" (1826); "Lodore" (1835); " Falkner" (1837). She died in London, Feb. 21, 1851.
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Shells
The shells of oysters, clams, etc., and of the eggs of birds, are composed almost wholly of carbonate of lime, cemented by a very small portion of animal gluten; while those of lobsters, crabs, etc., generally consist of only half carbonate of lime, the remainder being animal matter with a small proportion of phosphate. See CARBONATES; LIME
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Shem
one of the three cording to many commentators the elder sons, and acson, of Noah (Gen. v. 32), from whom descended the nations enumerated in Gen x. 22, sq., and who was the progenitor of that great branch of the Noachian family called from him Shemitic or Semitic, to which the Hebrews belong. See SEMITES.
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Shemakha
a town casia, Russia; on the Zagolavan river; in Transcau- 70 miles from Baku; 2,230 feet above the level of the Black Sea. It has numerous ruins of large caravansaries and public buildings; and is the capital , churches, of Shirvan. In February, 1902, it was visited by a great earthquake, in which 4,000 houses were destroyed and 2,000 people perished . Pop. about 23,000. States, which flows N. E. through the
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Shemhamphorash
In the Talmud , the external term representing the hidden word of power, by whose virtues it were possible to create a new world. But it is lost to man, though even sounds approximating to it have a magic power, and can give to him who pronounces them dominion in the spirit-world. Some of the Rabbis say that the word of power contains twelve letters, others, forty-two, and yet others seventy-two; but these are the letters of the divine alphabet, which God created from certain luminous points made by the concentration of the primal universal Light . Shemhamphorash is, in fact, the name of this word.
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