Simmons
FURNIFOLD MCLENDEL, American Senator; born in Jones co., N. C., Jan. 20, 1854. He was admitted to the bar in 1875. In 1887 he was elected as a Democrat to Congress. In 1893 he became Internal Revenue collector for four districts in North Carolina, and acted as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee in six campaigns. In 1901 he was elected to the United States Senate, and again in 1907, 1912, and 1918. From 1913 to 1920 he was chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate.
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Simmons (FRANKLIN an American sculptor)
FRANKLIN, an American sculptor; born in Webster, Me., Jan. 11, 1839; first came into prominence in 1865-1866 when, at Washington, C., he produced several life-size bronze medallions of the members of the cabinet and prominent army and_navy officers. In 1868 he went to Rome, Italy. He has executed over 100 portrait rtrait busts in marble, and numerous public monuments, including statues of General Grant and Roger Williams in the National Capital, busts, etc. and numerous ideal statues, A fine specimen of his work, "The Promised and you in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. He
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Simmons College
a coëducational institution for higher education, at Abilene, Texas, founded in 1891. It is under the control of the Baptist denomination. In 1919 there were 30 instructors and 862 students. President, J. D. Sandafer.
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Simmons College
an institution for the higher education of women, founded in Boston, in 1899, from bequests left by John Simmons, a Boston merchant, who died in 1870. It was opened in 1902. Its courses include household economics, secretarial and library studies, general science, philanthropic work, salesmanship, nursing, etc. There were in 1919 125 instructors and 1,111 students. President, H. LeFavour, Ph.D.
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Simms
WILLIAM GILMORE, an American author; born in Charleston, S. C., April 17, 1806. His publications include: "Atalantis: A Tale of the Sea" (1832), the longest and most noted of his poems; "The Yemassee" (1835; revised ed. 1853); "Castle Dismal" (1845); "The Wigwam and the Cabin; or, Tales of the South" (1845-1846); "The Maroon, and Other Tales" (1855); and "War Poetry of the South" (1867). He died in Charleston, June 11, 1870.
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Simnel
LAMBERT, an impostor who was put forward by a party of malcontent leaders of the York faction early in the reign of Henry VII. He was trained to personate Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, son of the murdered Duke of Clarence. Simnel was crowned at Dublin, and landed with his followers in Lancashire. They were totally defeated near Newark, June 16, 1487, when most of the leaders in the recent rebellion perished. Simnel ended his days as a domestic in the royal service.
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Simon
JULES FRANCOIS, a French statesman; born in Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, Dec. 27, 1814; was a disciple of Victor Cousin, the great French philosopher, and when 25 years of age succeeded him in the chair of philosophy at the Sorbonne. After the revolution of 1848 he was elected to the assembly from the Côtes-du-Nord, taking a seat with the Moderate Left. In March, 1849, he was elected to the Council of State, and resigned his seat as deputy in April, to devote himself to lectures and the editing of "La Liberté de Penser." In 1863 he was elected to the Corps Législatif, where he served till the fall of the empire, when he was placed with Thiers and Gambetta at the head of the provisional government, whose affairs he administered during the siege. From the conclusion of peace in 1871 till the fall of Thiers he was prominent in the Assembly at Bordeaux and at Versailles, and in 1875 was elected a life senator. He was the senior representative of France at the Labor Congress of Berlin convoked by the Emperor William II.; was made permanent secretary of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1882, and from 1875 was a member of the French Academy. He died in Paris, France, June 8, 1896.
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Simon (SIR JOHN Allsebrook a British)
SIR JOHN (Allsebrook), a British lawyer and public official; born in 1873. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Wadham College, Oxford, and and was president of the Oxford Union Society in 1896. He became one SIR JOHN SIMON of the counsel for the British Government in the Alaska Boundary Arbitration in 1903, and chairman of of the Departmental Committee on Street Trading in 1909. In 1910 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace and solicitor-general in 1910-13; attorneygeneral, 1913-15; home secretary, 1915- France, 16; major in the air force in Fr 1917-18.
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Simoom
or Simoon, an Arabic name for the dust storms of Africa and Arabia. Under the intense heat of the noonday sun vast tracts of sand become almost as hot as boiling water, and create atmospheric disturbances not unlike the so-called cyclones of the West. Powerful currents of air catch up and carry along clouds of blinding dust finer than flour. Caravans caught in a simoom are exposed to as great a danger as travelers caught in a blizzard. Usually, the storm lasts but a few minutes or an hour, in which case, the camels lie down on the sand, close their eyes, and nostrils, while their masters cover their heads with shawls and wait for the blast to blow over. Sometimes, however, the simoom lasts for several hours, or even two or three days, in which case entire caravans may be buried beneath sand from which they never rise. See Wind ; Camel ; Sahara
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Simple Pendulum
A purely theoretical Pendulum, having no dimensions except length and no weight except at the center of oscillation. A material point suspended by an ideal line. The nearest approach to a simple pendulum is a heavy weight suspended by a fine silk thread, although this is known as a compound or physical pendulum.
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Simplon Tunnel
a tunnel through the Alps, Alps, os, designed to g give France and Switzerland direct communication by rail with Milan, the greatest distributing point in Italian trade. Work was begun on the tunnel in 1898, and it was completed Feb. 24, 1905. The Simplon tunnel begins in Switzerland near the little town of Brig, in the valley of the Rhône, Canton Wallis, and ends in the valley of the Diveria, on the Italian side near Isella. It is perfectly straight, except for a small curve at the ingress and egress. The tunnel was opened for traffic on Jan. 25, 1906, when the first passenger train passed through.
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