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 species of palm Astrocaryum vulgare, of great importance to mounted with bulbous cupolas of the the Brazilian Indians, who make cordage, bowstrings, fishing nets, etc., from the fine durable fiber consisting of the epidermis of its unexpanded leaves. The name is also given to the fiber thread, and to an oil obtained from the plant.
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a city and capital of a province of the same name in the Argentine Republic; on the Rio Sali, 3 miles from the mountains and 723 miles N. W. of Buenos Ayres, contains some handsome public and private buildings, a normal school, and several saw and flour mills and breweries, and manufactures sugar, leather, and brandy. In the neighborhood are orange groves, sugar plantations, and distilleries. Tucuman was founded in 1564; and here in 1812 Belgrano defeated the Spanish forces, and in 1816 a congress of deputies from the various provinces proclaimed the independence of the La Plata states. Pop. about 100,000. The area of the province is 10,422 square miles; pop. about 350,000.
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a name given to a light, porous, calcareous stone, sometimes having the aspect of a sandstone, at others earthy and inclosing the decomposed remains of vegetable substances; composition, a carbonate of lime; deposited by springs, rivers, and heated waters which have traversed calcareous rocks; sometimes confounded with tuff which is the term specifically applied to a fragmentary deposit sit of a volcanic nature of composed heterogeneous materials.
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a coeducational institution in Medford, Mass.; founded in salist Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 261; students, 1,687; president, H. C. Bumpus, Ph. D.
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any severe, laborious contest. In athletics, a tug of war is a trial of strength in which the opposing sides tug at opposite ends of a rope or cable. The party which is able to draw the other across a boundary line, or which has the advantage at the end of a given time, is adjudged to have won. Participants must engage with bare hands. It is not allowable to knot the rope, to wind it around the hand, or to employ any artificial means of holding on.
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an ancient and important manufacturing town of central Russia, capital of a province of the same name on the Upa, an affluent of the Oka, 110 miles S. of Moscow. Its churches, its arsenal, museum and government offices, and the ancient Kreml are the principal buildings. Before the World War the principal industries were in iron and steel goods, especially the firearms of the great imperial gun factory or private workshops. The Russian army was largely supplied with muskets and small arms from the works of this town. Cutlery, locks, samovars or tea urns, mathematical instruments, harmoniums, and bells were also made in great perfection; the niello work of Tula was famous; and dyeing, tallow melting, and the making of soap, candles, sealing wax, leather, silk, platinum ware, and jewelry was carried on. Pop. (1913) about 140,000. Cyc. 3
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the state university of Louisiana. It is located at New Orleans . The institution was established by act of the state legislature in 1847. In 1884 a bequest of $1,000,000, left by Mr. Paul Tulane for higher education, was placed at the service of the institution, and the legislature prefixed the name Tulane in recognition of the giver. Tulane has the income from funds amounting to $3,000,000. The state votes support annually. The University has several colleges. That of medicine ranks high. Tulane is considered reputable and scholarly. There were in 1909 about 100 professors and 1,300 students.
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Paul (1801-1887), an American merchant. He was a native of Princeton, N. J., and was of French descent. His father was a farmer. Paul received a common school education. In 1822 he opened a store in New Orleans , and amassed a fortune in the mercantile business. He left his property to a board "For the Promotion and Encouragement of Intellectual Education Among the White Young People in the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana." By an arrangement with the state legislature this board took over the State University of Louisiana, which was founded in 1832. The name of the institution was then changed to Tulane University of Louisiana , under which it still prospers. Tulane's gifts amounted in all to $1,100,000. Louisiana has refused to bind itself to support the institution, but, as a matter of fact, liberal appropriations have been made by the state from year to year.
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SERVIUS, the sixth legendary king of Rome, the son of a in house of Tarquinius Pricus, and made king on his death by the arts of his queen, Tanaquil.
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JOHN, a Scotch theologian; born near Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, June 1, 1823, studied at the University of St. Andrews; and in 1844 was licensed as a preacher in the Church of Scotland. After holding for some years a charge in Dundee, he was in 1849 presented to the parish of Kettins in Forfarshire, and in 1854, on the death of Dr. Haldane, was appointed Principal of St. Mary's College, University of St. Andrews. He first attracted notice as a writer in the "British Quarterly" and "North British Review." In 1855 he obtained the second Burnett prize (£600) on the "Being and Attributes of God," and his essay was published under the title "Theism." The most important of his works are "Leaders of the Reformation" (1859); "English Puritanism_and Its Leaders" (1861); "Beginning Life, Chapters for Young Men" (1861); "The Christ of the Gospels, and the Christ of Modern Criticism" (1864); "Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century" (2 vols. 1872); "Religion and Theology, a Sermon for the Times" (1875); "Facts of Religion and of Life" (Sermons) (1876); and "Pascal" (1878). He died at Torquay, Feb. 13, 1886.
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the county-seat of Tulsa co., Okla., about 95 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, on the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe, the Midland Valley, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the St. Louis and San Francisco, and the Tulsa and Sand Springs railroads. There are a high school, a Carnegie library, and handsome parks and boulevards. It is the seat of the Henry Kendall College. Natural gas, coal, and crude oil are found in vast abundance in the vicinity, and the city has become the center of a very prosperous oil producing region. There are also manufactures of brick and tile, sewer pipes, cotton-seed oil, glass, engines, pumps, and other machinery and tools, etc. Oil refining, coal mining, and wheat milling are also carried on extensively. Pop. (1910) 18,182; (1920) 72,075.
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