The Circle of Knowledge: A Classified, Simplified, Visualized Book of Answers

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When the little drop of rain fell, he didn’t know in the least what was going to happen. For a minute or two he felt quite frightened. Then he suddenly found himself rolling dow...

3-1/3 is 1/30 6-1/4 is 1/16 8-1/3 is 1/12 12-1/2 is 1/8 16-2/3 is 1/6 18-3/4 is 3/16 20 is 1/5 25 is 1/4 31-1/4 is 5/16 33-1/3 is 1/3 37-1/2 is 3/8 40 is 2/5 41-2/3 is 5/12 43-3...

Cut several disks into thirds and have children practice on cutting, so that they will be able to make the three parts of each disk equal. Frequently children will find pleasure...

The decay of old Roman virtue became at the same time apparent in the great increase of luxury. This displayed itself in houses, villas, pleasure gardens, fish ponds, dress, foo...

=Achilles= (_a-kill´ẽz_).--The great hero of the Iliad. He was the son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidones, and the Nereid Thetis. His mother, wishing to make him immortal, plunge...

KINGS COLLEGE (1441), founded by Henry VI., is the finest building in the University. The chapel is the finest specimen of perpendicular Gothic existing. The roof, unsupported b...

The parks have an aggregate area of one thousand two hundred acres. Besides the Green are the parks at East Rock (three hundred and sixty feet high) and West Rock (four hundred...

=Corn= (_Zea mays_). Indian corn, or maize is a product native to America, an annual, and is the most important member of the grass family. It is America’s foremost cereal, with...

=Nightingale= (_Daulias luscinia_).--The common nightingale is well known as the finest of songsters. It is rather larger than the hedge-sparrow, with about the same proportiona...

=Hercules= (_her´kū-lēz_); called Heracles (_hē´ra-klēz_) by the Greeks.--The most celebrated hero of antiquity, noted especially for his Twelve Labors. He was the son of Jupite...

=Leopard= (_Felis pardus_).--Now generally supposed to be identical with the panther. The leopard is at home in Africa, from Algeria to Cape Colony; it is also found in Asia, fr...

THE VIA DOLOROSA, or Way of the Cross, possesses a number of places of much interest, even if partly legendary. Among them the place where Christ is said to have pronounced the...

=Danaus= (_dan´a-us_).--Son of Belus and twin-brother of Ægyptus (see “Ægyptus”). Lynceus, son of Belus, whose life was spared by Hypermnestra, avenged the death of his brothers...

BAGDAD RAILROAD.--The most important step in the industrial progress of Turkey in modern times is the concession for the construction of the Bagdad Railroad, which, when complet...

The greater part of south India is occupied by the wide tableland of the Deccan. The name _ghat_ was originally applied by the natives to the passes in the outer slopes of the r...

Fifteen such heroes are named in the Book of Judges, from which book it will be seen how various were the enemies with which they had to contend. Their period shows a regular al...

=Trout=, a name applied to various members of the Salmon family. The Common or Brown Trout (_Salmo fario_) varies greatly in appearance, not only with individuals but at differe...

To the west of China lies India, also drained by two great rivers, the Indus and the Ganges, which rise among the slopes of the Himalayas and flow in different directions to the...

On the west side of City Hall Square, opposite the City Hall, is the enormous Broad Street Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The waiting-room contains a large allegorical re...

Snakes, like lizards, are very commonly colored in such a way that they may harmonize with their surroundings. A good many poisonous forms, on the other hand, advertise their da...

=Kangaroo= (_Macropus giganteus_).--The fur of the kangaroo is greyish brown, somewhat lighter on the sides, while the lower parts are whitish. Its body is six feet long, and it...

Darius is credited with the establishment of highroads and swift postal communication between the provinces and the court. The kings of Persia resided in the winter at Susa, a w...

=Lemures.=--The specters or spirits of the dead. They were said to wander about at night, as specters, and to torment and frighten the living. In order to propitiate them the Ro...

In internal affairs the tendency during the following centuries was to more and more centralize rule on the part of the Romans. The Emperor Hadrian attempted to improve the cond...

=Sequoia=, a genus of trees named after a remarkable Cherokee Indian (otherwise George Guess), who gave his tribe a written alphabet of eighty-six characters, and died in New Me...

=Alexandria=, the third capital of Egypt, was founded by Alexander the Great in the autumn of the year 332 B. C. It was situated originally on the low tract of land which separa...

The government was that of an aristocratic republic under the form of a monarchy. There were two kings, whose powers were nominally those of high priests, judges, and leaders in...

The “Samnite wars” were succeeded by a short but brisk war, designated in Roman history “the war with Pyrrhus and the Greeks in Italy.” Pyrrhus was an able and enterprising Gree...

GERMAN COACH.--Colors bay, brown or black. Height sixteen to sixteen and one-half hands. Weight 1350 to 1450 pounds. Deep, round body, well proportioned, close ribs, neck long a...

The globe is divided into zones of 15 degrees or one hour breadth, the Greenwich meridian being in the center of the zero zone. Thus Belgium and Holland (since 1892) keep Greenw...

=Atreus= (_ā´trūs_).--Son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and brother of Thyestes. By his first wife, Cleola, he was the father of Plisthenes, and by his second--Aërope, widow of his...

The flamingoes are birds of powerful flight, and fly like geese in strings or wedge-shaped flocks. They also swim in deep water, but the legs are too long to be well adapted for...

=Production and Industry.=--The vegetation of Mexico has the same wide range as the climate. In the lowlands dye woods and valuable timbers abound in the virgin forests, as well...

This unsociable bird is as swift and wild as it is shy and cunning. It can be easily recognized at a distance by its long tail and short wings. When hunting for prey it flies, a...

The harbor, which is in Lake Washington and is four miles long and two miles wide, admits the largest vessels at all times. As the terminal of two transcontinental railroads and...

The invoice value of 48 bottles is 48 × 90 cents = $43.20 Tare and leakage are 7% of $43.20 = $ 3.024 -------- Value on which duty is paid $40.176

=Squirrel= (_Sciurus vulgaris_).--In the summer the squirrel is brownish red on the upper parts and white on the lower parts; in the winter, brown red and light grey mixed. The...

=Rivals, The.=--A comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, produced at Covent Garden, London, in 1775, and described by Hazlitt as “a play of even more action and incident, but of l...

=Lady of Lyons, The.=--A drama, by Lord Lytton, in which Pauline Deschappelles, daughter of a Lyonese merchant, rejects the suits of Beauseant, Glavis, and Claude Melnotte, who...

The _brain_, which fills the head, consists of two parts: the _Cerebrum_, or greater brain, and the _Cerebellum_, or lesser brain, placed behind and below the larger one. From t...

The chief park of Cincinnati is Eden Park, which lies on the hills to the east and affords fine views of the city and river. It contains the Art Museum, a storage reservoir of t...

One of the earliest industrial applications of electricity was to the driving of street cars. The first electric railway was installed by Siemens, of Berlin, in 1882; and the sy...

BROWN-SWISS.--Weight for cows 1200 pounds and bulls 1800 pounds. Colors shade from light to dark chestnut brown. Light tuft of hair between horns, on inside of ears, and a narro...

=Semele= (_sem´el-ē_).--Daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and mother, by Jupiter, of Bacchus. Juno, actuated by jealousy, persuaded her to ask Jupiter to appear before her in his...

The second law is rather less easy to understand. The _radius vector_ is the line joining the sun to the planet at any moment; if we suppose the sun to be at the focus S, and P...

The peoples are of Turkish origin and include the Tartars of Kazan; the Nogai Tartars of the Crimea in the south, and the Kirgiz on the Caspian. The Bashkirs, Chuvash, and other...

No. 1 Broadway, to the left, is the Washington Building, which is adjoined by the Bowling Green Building (sixteen stories), designed by English architects. Other conspicuous bus...

=Medea= (_mē-dē´ä_).--A play by Euripides. The _Medea_ came out in 431 B. C. along with the poet’s _Philoctetes_, _Dictys_, and the satiric _Reapers_ (the last was early lost)....

=Oldbuck, Jonathan.=--_Antiquary_, Scott. The character whose whimsies gave name to the novel. He is represented as devoted to the study and accumulation of old coins, medals, a...

THE NIEDERWALD, opposite Bingen, is the great National Monument commemorating the restoration of the German Empire in 1870-71. It stands 740 feet above the river, and consists o...

Henceforward Athens was a subordinate power. Sparta was, for a time, supreme; a Spartan garrison held the Acropolis; Alcibiades, who might have restored Athens, was assassinated...

=Piers Plowman= (_pērs plou´man_).--A satirical poem of the fourteenth century. The hero falls asleep, like John Bunyan, on the Malvern hills, and has different visions, which h...

The focus of the city is the circular Monument Place, from which four wide avenues run diagonally to the four corners of the city. The other streets, many of them one hundred fe...

The early struggles for supremacy among the city states seem to have been confined to the lower valley of the Tigris and Euphrates; but about 4000 B. C. a mighty conqueror, Luga...

The population of the country must have been large at the earliest period, as one hundred thousand men were employed in the construction of the Great Pyramid alone during the fo...

October 5, General Harrison forced General Proctor to retreat into Canada, and October 5 at the battle of the Thames routed the British and their Indian allies. Tecumseh was kil...

On the west, Austria embraces nearly half of the great mass of the Alps between the plateau of Bavaria and the plain of Lombardy, the mountain and valley scenery of Tyrol and Sa...

=Callipolis= (_ka-lip´o-lis_).--_Battle of Alcazar_, George Peele. A character in the _Battle of Alcazar_, used by Sir Walter Scott and others as a synonym for lady-love, sweeth...

=NORWAY= (Norweg. _Norge_), the western division of the Scandinavian peninsula, is one thousand one hundred and sixty miles in length (coast-line three thousand miles) and varie...

CLASS IV. =Batrachia= (Gr., _batrachos_, a frog), or Amphibia (Gr., _amphibios_, having a double life).--Animals that can exist for a considerable time on dry land or in water....

Westminster Abbey, one of the finest specimens of the pointed style in Great Britain, dates from the reign of Henry III. and Edward I. It adjoins the Houses of Parliament, is fi...

In 1888 Emperor William I. died, and the premature death, after a reign of three months, of the beloved Crown Prince, who succeeded him as Frederick III., disappointed the hopes...

=Hop-o’-my-Thumb.=--A character in the tales of the nursery. Tom Thumb and Hop-o’-my-Thumb are not the same, although they are often confounded. Tom Thumb was the son of peasant...

It is the chief town and ecclesiastical capital of the State of Utah, and is situated on the river Jordan, eleven miles from Great Salt Lake. It is built at the base of the Wasa...

=Nymphæ= (_nim´fē_), or =Nymphs=.--Lesser female divinities supposed by the Greeks to dwell in the sea, springs, rivers, grottoes, trees and mountains. They had distinctive name...

=Fool’s Parsley or Dog’s Parsley= (_Aethusa Cynapium_) is a common weed, growing in gardens, fields, and also on rubbish. It is easily mistaken for parsley. As it is very poison...

=Ants= (_Formicidae_).--These familiar and intelligent diminutive creatures are perhaps the most interesting of all insects, owing to the extraordinary way in which they have be...

=Skeleton in Armor, The.=--A lyric by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, suggested to him while riding on the seashore at Newport. A year or two previous a skeleton had been dug up at...

=Production and Industry.=--The common products are wheat, rye, oats, barley, potatoes, cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, and butter. Its manufactures are, for the most part, for hom...

=Production and Industry.=--The minerals are very considerable and valuable, comprising gold, silver, iron, diamonds, topazes, and other precious stones. Its forests are immense...

=Gargery= (_gar´jer-i_), =Mrs. Joe.=--_Great Expectations_, Dickens. Pip’s sister. A virago, who kept her husband and Pip in constant awe. Joe Gargery, a blacksmith, married to...

=Evangeline.=--The title and heroine of a tale in hexameter verse by Longfellow, in two parts. Evangeline was the daughter of Benedict Bellefontaine, the richest farmer of Acadi...

Concise, explanatory paragraphs concerning Famous Books, Poems and Dramas; Literary Characters, Plots and Scenes; Pen Names of Famous Writers; Soubriquets and Nicknames; Literar...

The Sorbonne, the seat of the Paris faculties of letters, science, and Protestant theology, has been rebuilt and increased in size. The Sorbonne contains lecture-halls and class...

=Beech= (_Fagus_), a genus containing about sixteen species. The trees have smooth, silver-grey trunks, egg-shaped leaves like leather, and blossoms at the base of the leaves. T...

=Parhelion= (_pär-hēl´yŭn_ or _hē´lĭ-ŏn_).--A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes op...

The Eastern Empire attained its acme in the sixth century, during the reign of Justinian, A.D. 527-565. It was he who built the great Church of Saint Sophia at Constantinople, n...

=Cities.=--In January, 1917, three cities of the United States, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, had a population of over one million. St. Louis, Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore...

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=Coral-polyps= are closely related to sea-anemones, but differ from them by secreting a hard, limy skeleton in the base of the body. They are either simple or compound. The well...

CATHEDRAL AND MONASTERY OF ST. ALEXANDER NEVSKY is at the extreme east end of the Nevsky Prospect. The buildings cover much ground, and include twelve churches, the monastery, a...

WYANDOTTE.--General purpose, for both meat and eggs. Eight standard varieties, white, buff, black, silver, golden, silver penciled, partridge and Columbian. A bird of curves, ba...

Alcuin, a native of northern England and an earnest student and teacher, became the chief intellectual light in the court of Charlemagne. John Scotus Erigena wrote, among other...

=Naples= (Ital. Napoli _nä´pō-lē´_).--The capital of the province of Naples has a lovely situation within the bend of Naples Bay, spreading from the foreshore back upon wooded h...

=Perseus= (_per´sūs_).--Son of Jupiter and Danaë (_q.v._). His most heroic deed was the slaying of the Gorgon Medusa, which he accomplished in the following manner: With the aid...

=Assyrians= (_a-sir´i-äns_).--The Assyrian is an ancient language extinct for at least two thousand years. No people today can claim pure physical descent from this stock. The a...

THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN is situated about or within the antarctic circle. The great Southern Ocean is that part of the ocean which surrounds the world between the latitude of 40 deg...

Throughout the upper part of the great cañon the walls are from four thousand to seven thousand feet in height, and are often nearly perpendicular. Frequently they are terraced...

=Apocalypse.=--The Greek name of the last book of the Testament, termed in English _Revelation_. It has been generally attributed to the Apostle St. John, but some wholly reject...

=Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno=--Ovid (_rār´a av´iss in ter´rīs nī-grō´kwe sim-ill´im-a sig´no_).--A rare bird on the earth, and very like a black swan: _i. e._,...

=Cacao= (_Theobroma cacao_), a small tree, native to Mexico, Central America and the north of South America, is cultivated also in Brazil, Guiana, Trinidad and Grenada. It has l...

=Drank, Drunk.=--“He was very thirsty, and drunk eagerly.” Say “drank.” “He has drank three glasses of soda water.” Say “has drunk.” “Drunken,” the ancient form of the participl...

=Currant= (_Ribes rubrum_), is an important shrub, bearing red, black and white fruit. Its branches are not prickly; its leaves have three to five lobes, greenish-yellow blossom...

Boston was settled in 1630 by a party of Puritans from Salem. A memorable massacre occurred here in 1770, and in 1773 several cargoes of English tea were thrown overboard in the...

=Emphasis, or Inversion=, adds greatly to the precision as well as vigor of style when temperately used. That is, when the _predicate_ or _object_ are much more impressive or me...

is a percentage paid for buying or selling real estate, goods, etc. A consignment is a quantity of goods, sent to an agent, broker or commission merchant, for sale. The consigno...

=Coningsby= (_kon´ingz-bi_).--A novel by B. Disraeli. The characters are meant for portraits: thus, “Rigby” represents Croker; “Monmouth,” Lord Hertford; “Eskdale,” Lowther; “Or...

Louis XI. (1461-1483), the son and successor of Charles VII., annexed Burgundy and Picardy, and acquired Anjou, Maine, Provence, and the counties of Rousillon and Cerdagne; and...

Historically, the Thames is unsurpassed by any river of the world. A slight rise surrounded by marsh on the left bank formed the first point suitable for bridging a strategic si...

1. THE ALGONQUIAN (including thirty-six tribes) originally distributed along the Atlantic Coast from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia as far south as North Carolina, and throughout...

=History.=--Spain was originally occupied by Iberian tribes (akin to the present Basque inhabitants of the north), who were partially overlaid by invading Celts. The Carthaginia...

=News, or the Newspaper “Story,”= is another very important form of narrative. The newspaper is the great popular educator of the day, and in its columns are found not only exce...

=esprit de corps= (_es prē d kôr´_), the spirit of honor, loyalty, or enthusiasm in an individual working for the good of a common body, society, or association, as a college cl...

Sometimes a subdued, shaded light will sooth a nervous child’s excited brain and so induce sleep. A child who wakes in terror in a pitchdark room may for years be nervous about...

Two of them stand out conspicuous among the great rivers of the world: the Ho, Hoang-ho, or Yellow River, and the Chiang, or Yang-tze-kiang. They rise not far from each other am...

The chiefs of the conspiracy were Caius Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus. Both had received great favors from Cæsar; but they thought they had not been honored enough, and they...

All the subsequent emperors, without exception, connected themselves by marriage with German families. The wife and successor of Peter III., Catherine II., daughter of the Princ...

=Fieri facias= (_fī´erī fas´i-ass_).--Cause it to be done. Usually written _fi. fa._ The title of a writ of execution issued to give effect to the judgment of a court of justice.

=Don Quixote= (_dōn kē-hō´tā_).--A celebrated Spanish romance by Cervantes. Don Quixote is represented as “a gaunt country gentleman of La Mancha, full of genuine Castilian hono...

=sal´picon= (French pron. _säl-pē-kô_N´).--A ragoût or rich compound of chopped meat or fish and vegetables with savory sauce, used as a separate dish, as a garnish, to stuff me...

=Utopia= (_ū-tö´pi-ä_).--The name of an imaginary island described in the celebrated work of Sir Thomas More, in which was found the utmost perfection in laws, politics, and soc...

=Location and Extent.=--France occupies the narrowest part of the great western peninsula of the European continent between the Mediterranean on the one side, and the Bay of Bis...

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=ROUMANIA=, a kingdom in southeast Europe, lies mainly between the Carpathians, the Purth, and the Danube (the Dobruja being south of the Danube). It includes the strip added fr...

Again, the heating power of the Sun in each hemisphere is greatest at the period of the longest days, because of its greater altitude in the heavens; and least at the period of...

The next process is to wind as much as possible off the cocoons into hanks. In Europe and in some Oriental towns this is done with improved machinery in factories called filatur...

At some periods of the year there are so many shooting stars that they appear like a shower of fire. On November 14th this happens, the shower being greatest every thirty-three...

=898-922.=--Charles the Simple (879-929); son of Louis the Stammerer; Charles III. (or IV.) was deposed, and died in prison in 929; he married Edgiva, daughter of Edward the Eld...

If a dish is cooked, or served, or made, with anything as an ingredient or garnish, the dish may be said to be “_à la_” that substance. So it may be possible to ascertain the me...

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Of the new streets the most important are the Via Venti Settembre, the Via Cavour, and the Via Nazionale. The older foreign quarter lay at the foot of the Pincian, around the Pi...

Pegasus, the winged horse, sprang from the blood of the frightful Gorgon, Medusa, whom Perseus had slain not long before he rescued Andromeda from the sea-monster. According to...

=non vender la pelle dell ´orse prima di pigliarlo= (It.), (_nōn vān dār lä pel lā dāl lōr´ sā prē mä dē pē lyär´lō´_), don’t sell the bearskin before you have caught the bear.

=Interrogation Point [?].=--The interrogation point is used for marking all questions. When the question consists of several parts, or when several questions are contained in on...

The principle of internal combustion, as used in gas and oil engines, has also been applied to the turbine with marked success, and has done much to solve the all-important prob...

=Lithium= is the metallic base of the Alkali lithia. The metal is of a white, silvery appearance, and is much harder than sodium or potassium, but softer than lead. It is the li...

=braise= (_brāz_), or =braisé= (_brā-zā´_).--A piece of braised meat, or a dish prepared by braising; also a preparation mixed and prepared of various ingredients in or with whi...

Because it has a _long distance_ to travel. Lightning travels nearly a _million_ times faster than thunder; if, therefore, the thunder has _a great distance to come_, it will no...

Most of the country was subsequently part of the Holy Roman Empire; and in 1273 a Swiss noble, Rudolf of Hapsburg in Aargau, became German emperor. Soon after his death (in 1291...

Several theories as to the origin of coal have been put forth from time to time. The one now generally accepted is that the rank and luxuriant vegetation which prevailed during...

The simplest way of classification is into the following nine orders, though specialists recognize a much larger number: (1) Wingless insects (_Aptera_); (2) Straight-winged Ins...

In 1901 the English Admiralty gave orders to the firm of Vickers, Maxim & Sons, of Barrow, to construct five of the _Holland_ type and subsequently several were constructed for...

=Rise Under the Hapsburgs.=--In 1156 the mark was raised to a duchy; and after coming into the possession of the House of Hapsburg in 1282, it began its period of growth toward...

=Results=: The Spartans tear down the walls of Piræus and Athens. Athens loses her foreign possessions and fleet but becomes an independent ally of Sparta. Sparta is now supreme...

In many words, “there would be pedantry in scrupulously avoiding the short and easier sounds which the organs are inclined to adopt.” For instance, _cab´bage_ in common conversa...

WHAT IS STARCH? -- HOW MANUFACTURED? -- COMPOSITION OF WHEAT FLOUR -- ACIDS -- ALKALIES -- SULPHURIC, NITRIC, AND MURIATIC ACIDS -- SULPHURETTED HYDROGEN -- TANNING OF HIDES TO...

RESULTS: After the overthrow of the radical Hussites (Taborites) by the conservative Hussites (Calixtines) in the battle of Lipan a Catholic reaction set in which culminated in...

Culture is further stimulated in the large towns by public libraries, learned societies, museums, art galleries, and observatories, whilst musical knowledge and appreciation dif...

The minerals are chiefly coal, silver, nickel, gold, copper, iron, asbestos, lead, salt, mineral oils and gypsum. Gold is or has been worked in Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario,...

HOW TO SPEAK CORRECT ENGLISH -- FUNDAMENTAL RULES -- THE ORGAN OF SPEECH -- VOWELS -- CONSONANTS -- TABLE OF CONSONANTS -- RULES OF PRONUNCIATION -- COMMON ERRORS IN PRONUNCIATI...

=Name= =Location= =Height (feet)= =Altar= Ecuador 17,710 =Antisana= Ecuador 19,335 =Asosan= Japan 5,630 =Cayambi= Ecuador 19,255 =Chimborazo= Ecuador 21,424 =Copiapo= Chile 19,7...

=World About A. D. 1800.=--In Europe France holds about the same position till near the close of the century, when the Revolution breaks out, and the republic makes large access...

=Venus= (_vē´nus_); called by the Greeks =Aphrodite= (_af-ro-dī´tē_)--_i. e._ “sea-foam.”--The goddess of love and beauty. She was supposed to have sprung from the foam of the s...

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The vast central area of the Russian lowland has almost everywhere the same character, _woods and marshes_ alternating with cultivated land, affording a superfluity of grain, wh...

=IV. The Judicial Department.= =IV. Judicial Departments=, or Courts of Law. JUDGES OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS _Privy Council._--The Judicial Com- _Appointed_ by the President...

=Struggle of England and France for America.=--The first serious struggle for possession occurred in the middle of the eighteenth century, when the English, moving westward, met...

The development of American literature may be treated under three distinctly marked periods: (1) a colonial or ante-revolutionary period (1620-1775), during which the literature...

The smallest diameter of the earth is that measured from pole to pole along the axis of rotation; this is 7,899.6 miles, or about 500,000,000 inches. The greatest diameters are...

Valleys descending the slopes of mountains are formed in the same manner. The gathering drops make the rill, and the rill its little furrow; rills combine into rivulets, and riv...

Italics and bold face in the printed work have been transcribed as _italics_ and =bold face=, respectively. Fractions are given as, for example, 1/2 and 1-1/2. D^R represents a...

If a person says he was at a certain place at 2 o’clock, he must say forenoon or afternoon, so we will know which half of the day he means. If it was 2 o’clock in the morning he...

_Humulus_ (hop): Perennial herb. Middle Europe, Siberia, Levant, Asia Minor, Japan, North America, foot-hills of Rocky Mountains, and along upper Arkansas River, Missouri and Mi...

=Products and Industries.=--The islands have a very beautiful flora, including many ornamental plants. The great feature of the vegetation is the intermixture of tropical growth...

(1) In the last sentence _what_ is equivalent to _that which_ or the _thing which_. It differs from the other relative pronouns in that _its antecedent is never expressed_, it b...

The living plants may be divided into two grand divisions--Flowering Plants and Flowerless Plants--with five main subdivisions, according to the complexity and structure of thei...

The _Alpha_-rays have a velocity of from 1.56 × 10₉ centimeters per second (radium) to 2.25 × 10₉ centimeters per second (thorium); they are particles of helium carrying a doubl...

On February 15, 1898, the United States battleship _Maine_ was destroyed in Havana harbor, and many believed this to have been the work of the Spaniards. Thereupon a congress wa...

Pope was the most brilliant and impressive of the new writers. His _Essay on Man_ and his _Essay on Criticism_ enshrined many old philosophical truths in epigrammatic form. The...

_How Elected._--The several steps in _How Designated._--The King’s legal the election of the President are: title rests upon the Act of Settle- ment, in 1701, under William III....

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The greater part of the land on the earth’s surface is grouped into two great _hemispheres_, the Old and the New World. The former and far larger of these consists of Eurasia in...

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+---------------+------------+---------+--------+-----------------------+ | =Common and | |=Lbs. per|=Sow per| =Conditions and Uses= | | Botanical | =Region of | bushel | acre |...

CHIEF HISTORICAL PEOPLES: EGYPTIANS -- BABYLONIANS -- ASSYRIANS -- HEBREWS -- PHŒNICIANS -- MEDES AND PERSIANS -- HINDUS -- GREEKS -- ROMANS -- PROGRESS OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY...

=UDO=--This fine salad vegetable comes from Japan, is similar to asparagus, and much easier to grow. It has a fresh taste like lettuce with an agreeable flavor. There are numero...

================+=====+======+====+====+=========+=====+=====+=====+======= STATE OR | | | | | ONIONS | | | | TERRITORY | | | | +----+----+ | | | | HER-| HUN- |MIL-|OATS| On-| O...

New buildings for the National Museum, on the Mall between Ninth and Twelfth Streets, and the new one million five hundred thousand dollar marble building of the Department of A...

+--------+-------+------- =Name, Lineage or Basis of Accession and | =Period|=Birth=|=Death= Cause of Death= |of Rule=| | ---------------------------------------------+--------+...

===========+==========+===================== | | INHABITANTS CONTINENTAL| AREA IN +-------------+------- DIVISIONS | SQUARE | | PER | MILES | NUMBER |SQUARE | | | MILE ---------...

This plant is remarkable for its beauty, and grows to a height of twenty to thirty-five feet. It was long popularly supposed to bloom only once in a century; hence the name. Tho...

=Perfumes.=--Much importance attaches to the use of perfumes by both ancient and modern civilized nations. But all the ancient nations who had attained to civilization, were add...

Lakes are of different kinds. Some are mere tanks which receive the first outpourings of springs, others consist of basins or reservoirs which occur in the line of a river’s cou...

=====+======================+======================+====================== DATE | STATE OR TERRITORY | SETTLEMENT | CAPITALS AND OF | ORIGIN AND | WHERE, WHEN, BY WHOM | POPULAT...

In the narrow belt called the variables, between the regions of the north and south trade-winds, rain is almost incessant, accompanied by thunder and lightning. In many parts of...

=======+=============+=========+===============+=========+=============== =Terms=| =Name= | =Elected|=Residence When|=Age When| =Term of | | Presi- | Elected= | Inaugu- | Office...

The study of the Human Body involves numerous other branches of science, and, as a whole, is the most complex and intricate of all the sciences. To explain its structure and wor...

In Brazil and other parts of South America the preponderance of importations was from the negroid stock of the equator, whose dialects and physical traits are allied to those of...

Palladium 888 Percentage and Its Business Applications 870 Bank Discount 873 Commission 871 Exchange 874 Profit and Loss 871 Promissory Notes 872 Stocks and Bonds 876 Taxes and...

=The Union Successes in the Southwest.=--But the serious campaigning did not begin until January, 1862. Then the whole line west of the Alleghanies (made up of the armies of Ohi...

+----------+---------+-----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+ | =Race= | =Stock= | =Group= | =Peoples and | =Estimated | =Races | | | | | Tribes= | Total |Represen...

EXAMPLE: An open tank made of iron 1/4 inch thick, is 4 feet long, 2 feet 6 inches broad, and 2 feet deep, outside measurement. Assuming that iron weighs 7.8 times as much as wa...

Evidence is, however, that it is not always possible to draw any clear line between the Old and New Stone Ages. In one respect the former was towards its close even in advance o...

+-----------------+-----------------+-------+---------------------------+ | =Name and | =Time to Plant= |=Class=|=How to Plant and Care for=| | Variety= | | | | +---------------...

_Powers and Duties._--Has power to _Powers and Duties._--May originate, originate and, with the advice and and, in concurrence with the Senate, consent of the Bundesrath, to ena...

+--------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------+ | =Common and Botanical | =Color, Height and |=Kind of Soil and| | Name; Hints on | Time in Bloom= | L...

+---------------------+-----+-----+-----+-------------+-----------------+ | NAMES AND LINEAGE |Began|Years|L’gth| DEATH | CHARACTER | | OF SOVEREIGNS | to | of | of | | | | |Rei...

+-----------------+-------------------------+--------------------------+ |=Name of Mineral=| =Varieties= | =Remarks= | +-----------------+-------------------------+-------------...

+------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | =Cen-| =Religion and Moral| =Fine Arts= | =Government= | | tu- | Reform= | | | | ries=| | | | | |Founde...

+------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | =Cen-| =Literature= | =Philosophy and | =Science= | | tu- | | Education= | | | ries=| | | | | | Poets,...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =Eastern Empire= | =Saracen Empire= | =Persia= | +-------+---------------------+-----------...

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | =THE MIDDLE COLONIES= | +------------------------------------------------------------------------...

+---------------------+----------------+---------------+------------------+ | NAMES AND LINEAGE | PRINCIPAL | CHIEF | EVENTS OF | | OF SOVEREIGNS | STATESMEN | WARRIORS | REIGN...

==================+======================+============================ AUTHOR AND DATES | REPRESENTATIVE WORKS | LITERARY CHARACTERISTICS ------------------+--------------------...

+-----------------+-----------------+-------+---------------------------+ | =Name and | =Time to Plant= |=Class=|=How to Plant and Care for=| | Variety= | | | | +---------------...

From 1879 to the present time Irish agitation has been for Great Britain a source of serious disquiet. In 1882 Mr. Gladstone adopted a policy of conciliation, but the murder of...

+-------+---------------+-----------------+----------------+----------------+ |=B. C.=| =Carthage= | =Rome= | =Macedonia= | =Greek States= | +-------+---------------+-----------...

+-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ |=A. D.=| =Germany= | =Austria- | =Russia= | =Turkey and | | | | Hungary= | | Balkans, China,| | |...

Yellowstone Park includes within its borders the largest geysers in the world. There are about seventy in all, included in six groups or geyser basins. Norris, Upper, Middle and...

Walnut 142 Walrus 205 Wanderoo 194 War of the Austrian Succession 696 War of 1812 638 War of Greek Independence 697 War of Italian Liberation 697 War of the Holy Roman Empire 69...

+-------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |=B. C.=| =The Roman Empire--In Europe, Asia and Africa--Under Augustus : | | Cæsar, Emperor= : +--...

Dacian War 694 Dagger 733 Dahlia 148 Damascus 364 Danish America 579 Danish Kings of England 472, 473 Danish War 697 Danish West Indies 579 Danube, The 453 Chief Towns of 454 De...

HYBRID TEAS.--These possess the freedom of growth of the foregoing with much of the delicacy of flowers for which Tea-scented Roses are admired. The most satisfactory for the ge...

+-------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------+ |=Life Ages | =Rock Systems= | =Series of | =Forms of Life= | |of the Earth=| | Rock Strata= | | +-----...

Cabbage 130 Cacao 138 Fruit or Pods 136 Cactus 173, 174, 175 Cæsar: And Cleopatra 397 Antony’s Oration 298 Assassination of 397 Conspiracy against 397 Dictator of Rome 396 Rival...

Haddock 226 Hague, The 557 National Monument of Holland 557 Palace in the Wood 557 Halibut 227 Halos 101, 102 Hamilcar 390 Hammurabi, Great Period of 354 Hannibal, Causes of His...

Ladybug 234 Lake: Champlain 76, 584 Como 76, 512 Erie 583 Garda 512 George 76 Huron 583 Lucerne 76 Lugano 76, 77, 512 Maggiore 76, 512 Merom 362 Michigan 583 Ontario 583 Superio...

+-------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+ |=Dates=| =Spanish Explorers and Rulers= | =Portuguese Explorers and | | | | Rulers= | +-------+-----...

Pachyderms 203 Pacific Islands, Famous Mountains of 75, 76 Pacific Ocean 84 Pagodas, of China 680 Painting, Egyptian 349 Palestine 358 Babylonian Captivity 360 Bethlehem 364 Can...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=B. C.=| =Babylonia= | =Border Peoples= | | | (_Heb._ Shinar) | (East of Babylonia) | +-------+---------------------+-----...

RESULTS: Reorganization of the Balkan states. Albania was made independent under an international commission of control; Crete was ceded to Greece; Macedonia was divided among G...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=B. C.=| =Seleucid Empire= | =Palestine= : =Egypt= | +-------+---------------------+----------------...

=A= PAGE Abbreviations 725-731 Abu-Simbel 342, 349 Abydos 349 Accent, Marks of 713 Of Words 713 Accounts, Laws Concerning 875 Achæan League 382 Acropolis, of Athens 378 Adjutant...

+--------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------+ | =Common and Botanical | =Color, Height and |=Kind of Soil and| | Name; Hints on | Time in Bloom= | L...

Rabbit 199, 254 Raccoon 197 Races and Peoples: Comparative Classification 293 Estimated Population of 293 Geographical Distribution of 275, 276 How Classified 274 Man and the Hu...

Sable 197 Sacred Wars of Greece 380 Sahara 99 Saint Denis 483 Saint Lawrence River, Description of 582 Saint Louis 621 Eads Bridge 622 History 622 Public Buildings and Monuments...

+-------+---------------------+-------------------------------------------+ |=A. D.=| =Britain= | =Western Part of the Roman Empire= | | | | =Spain= | =Gaul (Franks)= | +-------...

+------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | =Cen-|=Religion and Moral | =Government= | =Literature= | | tu- | Reform= | | | | ries=| | | | | |Found...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=B. C.=| =Carthage= | =Rome= | =China-Japan-India= | +-------+---------------------+----------------...

Galago 192 Gallic War 694 Ganges 685 Garden of the Gods 584 Garnet 110 Gauls: Invasion of Italy 693 Of Northern Italian Peninsula 386 Gayal 201, 252 Gazelle 201 Gecko 222 Gems 1...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =United States= | =Spain and Portugal=| =Great Britain= | +-------+---------------------+--...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=B. C.=: =Roman Empire= | =Parthia= |=China, Japan, India=| +-------+---------------------+---------...

Tables: American Literature 778-779 Campaigns and Battles of the American Revolution 636 English Literature 769-770 Identification of Minerals 104, 105, 106, 107 Planting for Ga...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =Britain= | =Spain and Portugal=| =Holland= | +-------+---------------------+--------------...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =Spain, Portugal= | =Britain= | =France= | +-------+---------------------+-----------------...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=B. C.=| =Hebrews= | =Babylonia-Assyria= | =Persians= | +-------+---------------------+-------------...

+-------+-------------------------------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =Franks and Germans= | =Italy and Church= | +-------+--------------------------------------...

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | =THE SOUTHERN COLONIES= | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=B. C.=| =Rome= | =Greeks= | =Egypt= | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+--------...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=B. C.=| =Egypt= | =Hebrews= : =Persia= | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+-----...

+-------+---------------------------------+----------------+----------------+ |=A. D.=| =Eastern Empire= | =Persia= | =China, India, | | | | | Japan= | +-------+----------------...

+-------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------+ |=Life Ages | =Rock Systems= | =Series of | =Characteristic | |of the Earth=| | Rock Strata= | Rocks= |...

Babel, Tower of 354 Baboon 192 Babylon, City of 354 Taken by Alexander the Great 381 Under Belshazzar 357 Babylonia 353 Architecture 357 Art of 357 Civilization of 353, 357 Conq...

+-----------------------------+-------+----------------+-------------+ | |=Length| | =Area of | | =RIVER= | in | =Emptying Into=| Drainage in | | |Miles= | |Square Miles,| | | |...

+-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ |=A. D.=| =Germany= | =Prussia and | =Russia= | =Ottomans, | | | | Poland= | | India, Japan, | | |...

+-----------------+--------------+-------------+-----------------------+ |=Name of Mineral=| =Color= | =Streak= | =Cleavage or | | | | | Fracture= | +-----------------+---------...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =Holland, Belgium, | =France= | =Italy and Church= | | | Switzerland, | | | | | Scandinavia...

+-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ |=A. D.=| =Germany= | =Prussia and | =Russia= | =Ottomans, | | | | Poland= | | China, India, | | |...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =Britain= | =France= | =Germany= | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =France= | =Italy and Church= | =Scandinavia, Hol- | | | | | land, Belgium, | | | | | Switz...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =United States= | =Spain and Portugal=| =Great Britain= | +-------+---------------------+--...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =United States= | =Great Britain= | =Spain and Portugal=| +-------+---------------------+--...

+-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ |=A. D.=| =France= | =Italy and | =Holland= | =Scandinavia= | | | | Church= | | | +-------+--------...

+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------+-------------+ |=Name of Mineral=| =Crystallization and | =Tenacity |=Diaphaneity=| | | Occurrence= | etc.= | | +------...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =Italy= | =Church= | =Scandinavia and | | | | | Slavs= | +-------+---------------------+---...

Names of Days 868 Of Months 868 Napoleon Bonaparte 491 Napoleon at the Burning of Moscow 294 Napoleonic Wars 697 Narration 738 Narwhal 207 Nashville 605 Educational Center 605 M...

+-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ |=A. D.=|=Scandinavia and|=Eastern Empire=| =Saracens= | =China, Japan, | | | Russia= | | | India=...

+-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ |=A. D.=| =Poland, | =Scandinavia | =Ottoman Empire| =China, Japan, | | | Prussia, | and Russia= |...

+-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ |=A. D.=| =Spain= |=Eastern Empire=| =Saracens= | =China, Japan, | | | | | | India= | +-------+----...

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =United States= : =Britain= | =Spain and Portugal=| +-------+---------------------+--------...

+------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | =Cen-| =Fine Arts= | =Philosophy and | =Science and | | tu- | | Education= | Industry= | | ries=| | | |...

Fables 820-847 Fairmount Park 615 Falcons 209 Famous Books 782 _et seq._ Famous Mountains 72, 73, 74, 75, 76 Name and Location of 74, 75, 76 Of Africa 76 Of Asia 75, 76 Of Briti...

+-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ |=A. D.=| =The German Confederation= | =Russia= |=Turkey, Greece,| | +----------------+------------...