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a name given to two kinds of native green earth used as pigments in painting; one obtained from Monte Baldo, near Verona, the other from the island of Cyprus. The former has much more body than the latter and is very useful in landscape painting in oil colors. It is a siliceous earth colored by the protoxide of iron , of which it contains about 20 per cent. It is not affected by exposure to strong light or impure air.
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a city and countyseat of Vigo co., Ind.; on the Wabash river, and on the Vandalia, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Terre Haute and Southeastern, the Cleveland , Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis , and other railroads; 73 miles W. of Indianapolis. The city is built in a farming section, near the extensive block coal mines of Clay co. It contains the Rose Polytechnic Institute, the State Normal School, St. Mary's Institute (R. C.), Old Ladies' Home, St. Ann's Orphan Asylum, St. Anthony's Hospital (R. C.), Union Home for Invalids, court house, United States Government building, several libraries, National, State, and savings banks, and several daily, weekly and monthly periodicals. The city has waterworks, a sewer system, well paved streets, and street railroad and electric light plants. Terre Haute is an important manufacturing city, having flour and hominy mills, rolling mills, blast furnaces, tool factories, meat-packing establishments, casting works, nail works, paving brick, and other clay works, railroad car shops, and a number of large grain elevators. Pop. (1910) 58,157 ; (1920) 66,083.
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EDWIN HOLLAND, an American diplomatist; born in Brookville, Ind., Nov. 21, 1848; was graduated at De Pauw University in 1871; studied in Europe in 1873-1874; and practiced law in Indianapolis in 1874-1877. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions from Texas in 1880 and 1888; United States minister to Belgium in 1889-1893; conducted the negotiations for the United States with the six powers holding possessions in the Kongo basin and secured from them the "Protocol" of Dec. 22, 1890, granting the United States and its citizens full commercial privileges, etc. He was minister plenipotentiary to negotiate a commercial treaty with the Kongo K Free State in 1891; commissioner to and vice-president of the International Monetary Conference at Brussels in 1892; and was one of the Republican State Committee in 1894-1900. He died July 3, 1900.
a city of Texas, in Kauf- It is on the Texas and Pacific man co. and the Texas Midland railroad. It is the center of an important truck farming, cotton raising, and agricultural region. Its industries include cotton gins , flour mills, canning factory, cotton mills, etc. It is the seat of the North Texas Hospital for the Insane, and a public library, Elks' Home, and a military school for boys. Pop. (1910 ), 7,050; (1920) , 8,349.
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REIGN OF, the term usually applied to the period of the French revolutionary government from the appointment of the revolutionary tribunal and the committee of public safety (April 6, 1793) to the fall of Robespierre (July 27, 1794).
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an island of the Netherlands; 10 miles off the coast of Friesland, between the islands of Vlieland and Ameland. It is about 15 miles lon long by 3 broad, is flat and sandy, and exposed in some parts to inundation. The fisherinhabitants are chiefly pilots and men.
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GERHARD, a German poet; born in Mörs, Germany, Nov. 25, 1697. Among his works are: "The Spiritual Garden" (1729); "Crumbs" Among his religious songs and hymns the more notable are: "Shout, ye Heavens, for Joy," and "Now the Day is Ended." He died in Mühlheim, on the Ruhr, April 3, 1769.
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a name given by Church writers to a class in the Roman Catholic Church who, without entering into the seclusion of a monastery, aspire to practise in ordinary life all the substantial obligations of the scheme of virtue laid down in the Gospel. It was under St. Francis and the mendicant orders generally that the institute of Tertiaries reached its full development. Similar lay associations were organized in connection with the Dominican, Carmelite, and Augustinian, as well as with certain of the more modern orders; and a brotherhood of the same character had already been formed by the Templars. The institute of Tertiaries, properly so called, is quite distinct from that of the lay " "co "confraternities" which exist in connection with the several orders, and the objects of which are very similar.
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a color, as citrine, russet, or olive, produced by the mixture of the two secondary colors. More correctly speaking, they are grays, and are either red-gray, or yellow-gray, when these primaries are in excess, or they are violetgray, orange-gray, or green-gray,_when these secondaries are in excess. In ecclesiastical affairs, a member of a Third Order, whether living in the world or in community. In geology, the third leading division of fossiliferous sedimentary rocks; called also the Cainozoic or Kainozoic. The succession and importance of the Primary (Palæozoic) and the Secondary (Mesozoic) rocks were understood before the nature and extent of the Tertiary were recognized, these last strata being confounded with the superficial alluviums. They were observed to occur in patches (some of fresh-water and others of marine origin) in small areas or basins in the Secondary rocks. The first VI the sour ne properly understood atnoto of Mentions 316 TESTING CLAUSE which the deed consists, the names and designations of the witnesses, the name and designation of the person who penned the deed, and the date and place of signing.
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NIKOLA, an American electrical inventor; born in Smiljan, Austria-Hungary, in 1857; studied engineering in the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; and in 1884 came to the United States, and for several years was employed at Edison's laboratory, near Orange, N. J. He then opened a laboratory of his own. In 1888 he completed his discovery of the rotating magnetic fluid by the invention of the rotary field-motor, the multiphase system of which is used in the 80,000 horse power plant built to transmit the water power of Niagara Falls to Buffalo and other cities. He invented many methods and appliances for the use of electricity, among them the production of efficient light from lamps without filaments, and the production and transmission of power and intelligence without wires. Among his wonderful inventions is that of the electrical oscillator, by which he claimed the electric current can be received from its source and given an intensity which will enable a copper wire to carry 50,000 horse-power across the ocean. In November, 1898, Tesla announced the discovery of, and on May 1, 1900, patented, a method of transmitting electrical energy without wires. Working along the same line Guglielmo Marconi invented his wireless-telegraphy. In 1901 Tesla discovered that the capacof thus opening up a new field for scientific research. In 1906 he was forced into litigation concerning some of his patents, but won his case.
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