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.
a town of Chile, capital of the province of Talca, on the Claro, connected by rail with Santiago; has manufactures of ponchos; area of province. 3,864 square miles; pop. (1918) 131,071. Pop. of capital, 42,563.
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a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1859. The scene of the story is laid partly in London and partly in Paris, at the time just preceding and during the French Revolution . In this novel, contrary to his usual custom, Dickens depends more upon character drawing. The story is intensely dramatic, and also contains many fine descriptive passages. It displays less of humor than any other of Dickens' novels.
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a city of Alabama, the county-seat of Talladega co. It is on the Southern, the Birmingham and Atlanta, and the Louisville and Nashville railroads. It is an important educational center and the seat of the State schools for the deaf, dumb, and blind, Talladega College, and the Alabama Synodical College for Young Ladies. Its industries include cotton and cottonseed oil mills, chemical plants, hosiery factories, fertilizer factories. Pop. (1910) 5,854; (1920) 6,546.
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a city, capital of the State of Florida, and county-seat of and Peninsula railroads; 194 miles E. of Mobile, Ala. Here are the State Normal, Agricultural and Industrial Institute for Colored Pupils, State Seminary, several libraries, artesian water plants, a street railroad, National and State banks, and a number of weekly newspapers. Tallahassee is in a fruit-growing and farming section. It has cotton, cigar and ice factories, and railroad conan struction and repair shops, and on of nearly assessed property valuation of $1,000,000. Pop. (1910) 5,018; (1920) 5,637.
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a river in northern Mis Mississippi which unites at Greenwood with the Yallobusha to form the Yazoo river. It is about 240 miles long and is navigable for 100 miles. a river running
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CLAY, an American public official, born in Ionia co., Mich., in 1874. He was educated at Michigan Agricultural College, the University of Colorado, and the University of Michigan. the From 1895 to 1902 he taught in public schools. Beginning the practice of law in 1905 at Rhyolite, Nev., he became interested in politics, and from 1908 to 1912 was a member of the Nevada Senate, from 1910 to 1911 chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Nevada and in 1912 an unsuccessful candidate for Congress. In April, 1913, he was appointed chief law officer of the reclamation service, and in June of the same year commissioner of the general land office.
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JOSEPH FRANÇOIS (tälmä'), a French actor; born in Paris, France, Jan. 15, 1763. He was educated at Mazarin College, and afterward went to London with his father, a dentist; studied in the hospitals there, and on returning to Paris was apprenticed to a dentist. He had been on the stage, however, both in London and Paris, and made his professional début Nov. 21, 1787, at the Comédie Française. He founded, with a few others, the theater afterward known as the Théatre de la République. He won his fame as a tragedian, but made many improvements in the naturalness of stage productions. He P wrote "Memoirs of Lekain, and Reflections on that Actor and the Theatric Art" (1825), which was republished in 1856 under a slightly different title. His own "Memoirs" were edited by Alexandre Dumas (1856). He died in Paris Oct. 19, 1826.
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THOMAS DE WITT, an American clergyman; born in Bound Brook, N. J., Jan. 7, 1832; was graduated at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1856; and ordained pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in Belleville, N. J., in the same year. He was pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1869-1894, during which time this well-known place of worship was three times destroyed by fire. Feeling himself unable to build another church edifice, he resigned his charge and spent some time in Europe; becoming on his return associate and later Cyc-Vol. IX full pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C. He held this charge till 1899, when he resigned in order to apply himself wholly to literary work. He was for many years the editor of the "Christian Herald" and was the author of "Crumbs Swept Up," "Woman: Her Powers and Privileges"; "From Manger to Throne"; "Every-Day Religion"; etc. He died in Washington, D. C., April 12, 1902.
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small or lower-case letters, italics, script, etc. From their size they receive the following names, from brilliant, which, ch, however, is rarely used, to English, the largest used in ordinary book work: Brilliant, diamond, pearl, ruby, nonpareil, minion, brevier. bourgeois, long primer, small pica, pica, Eng lish. The different sizes are now, however, named by the "point" system, as 5point, 5/2-point, 6-point, etc. Types are made by casting (which is now done by machinery), y), the letter being first cut on the end of a steel punch, and the punch then driven into a piece of copper, which forms the matrix or bottom of the mold intended to produce the letter. A fount or font is a complete assortment of any given kind of type, the number of each letter being in proportion to the frequence of its occurrence in printed matter, thus: 8,000 9,000 n... a. b.. 2,000 0.... 8,000 4,000 p.... 2,400 c. d. 5,000 q.. 600 14,000 r.. 7,000 e. 8,000 3,000 s... f.. 2,000 t.... 10,000 4,500 h. 6,000 u.. 1,500 9,000 v. i. 2,500 500 w k. 800 x.. 500 2,500 5,000 y.. 1. m. 300 3,000z.. A complete font of type, including Roman and Italic, with capitals, figures, points, and signs, consists of 226 different characters.
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in geology, a sloping heap of rocky fragments broken off from the face of a steep rock by the action of the weather, and accumulating at its base So called from its resemblance to a talus in fortification. In surgery, a variety of club-foot, in which the heel rests on the ground, and the toes are drawn toward the leg.
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a borough in Schuylkill co., Pa.; on the Little Schuylkill river, and on the Philadelphia and Reading, and the Central of New Jersey railroads; 40 miles N. of Reading. Here are a high school, waterworks, electric lights, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has large coal interests, flour, powder, and planing mills, machine shops, and several foundries. Pop. (1910) 9,462; (1920) 12,363.
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