Battle Of Bull Run
Bull Run, Battle Of. Thirty-five Miles From Washington, On A Little Creek Known As Bull The Union And Confederate Troops Met On Sunday, July 21, 1861, In The First Battle Of The Civil War. The News Of The Resulting Defeat Of The Union Troops, As It Flashed Over The Wires ...
Battle Of Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill, Battle Of. When General Wash Ington Was Told That There Had Been A Battle At Bunker Hill He Immediately Asked : " Did The Militia Fight?" On Being Told That They Had Fought He Remarked : "then The Liberties Of The Country Are Safe." By That One Sentence ...
Beauty And Mystery In
Beauty And Mystery In Butterflyland A Joy To Be A Child Or A Butterfly On A Happy Day Of Sunshine And Merry Winds! While A Bee Is All Busyness Because There Is So Much To Do Putting Away Honey For The Winter, The Butterflies Haven't A Care In The World. ...
Belgium Brussels
Brussels, Belgium. Fittingly Called "a Little Paris," Brussels, The Capital Of Belgium, Is One Of The Most Beautiful And Charming Of European Cities. It Is A Center Of Art And Fashion, Of Industry And Com Merce, A Modern Well-kept City With Many Fine New Buildings And Other Public Improvements, Yet ...
Bruges
Bruges (bruzh), Belgium. Quaintest Of The Many Old Flemish Towns Is Bruges, Which Lies 55 Miles North West Of Brussels And About Eight Miles From The North Sea. It Is Intersected And Surrounded By Many Canals, Which Connect It With Zeebrugge Its Seaport, With Ostend, And With Many Other Places. ...
Buckeye
Buckeye. So Handsome And Rapid Of Growth Is The Buckeye Tree That In Spite Of A Very Disagreeable Odor Exhaled By The Bark And Leaves, It Has Been Adopted As An Ornamental Shade Tree In All Sections Where It Will Grow. The Trees Are Unusually Tall, With Slender Branches, And ...
Buckwheat
Buckwheat. When The First Frosty Days Of Autumn Come, How Delicious Are The Fresh Buckwheat Cakes, Dripping With Golden Maple Syrup And Flanked With Spicy Sausages! The Buckwheat Flour With Which The Cakes Are Made Comes From The Seed Of The Buckwheat Plant, Which Is A Native Of Asia, But ...
Buddha
Bud'dha (about 568-488 B.c.). More Than 500 Years Before Christ Was Born—and At About The Same Time When Confucius Was Founding The Religion Of The Chinese—a Hindu Prince Named Siddhattha Gotama Became So Famed In Far-off India For His Holiness And Tender-hearted Love For All Creatures That He Was Called ...
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires A'rez), Argentina. If You Follow The Golden Highways Of The World's Commerce, You Will Find Yourself Before Long Sailing Up The Wide Mouth Of The Rio De La Plata, From The East Coast Of South America, And Docking 165 Miles From The Sea In The Harbor Of Buenos ...
Buffalo
Buffalo. The True Buffaloes—which Must Be Care Fully Distinguished From Our American " Buffalo" Or Bison—are Natives Of India And Central And South Ern Africa. The Indian Buffalo Is Still To Be Found In Wild Herds, Though As A Rule It Is Domes Ticated. It Is Larger And More Powerful ...
Bulgaria
Bulgaria. A Land Of Contrasts Is Bulgaria. Sofia, The Capital, Is Situated In About The Same Lati Tude As Chicago, And Like That City It Has A Cold Winter. But In Summer Sofia Is The Center Of A Smiling Land Of Sunshine And Flowers. Crocuses, Are Provided By Putting In ...
Bunting
Bunting. Several Small North Ameri Can Birds Of The Large Finch Family Are Sometimes Called Buntings, Though The Name Is Perhaps Better Reserved For A Genus Of European Birds Between Finches And Starlings, Such As The Corn Bunting, Reed Bunting, And Ortolan. The Ortolans Are Highly Esteemed As A Table ...
Burma
Burma (bar'ma). A Noisy Good-natured Struggle For Right-of-way Begins The Moment The Big Bazaar Boat's Gangplank Settles Into The Oozy Mud Of The Irrawaddy River, The " Grand Trunk Road" Of Burma. Some Want To Get On, Some To Get Off, This Floating Department Store That Ties Up At Every ...
Butter
Butter. Who Was The First Butter-maker? Perhaps He Was An Arab Who, After A Journey On Camel Back, Opened The Skin Bags Of Milk Which He Had Brought With Him And Discovered Rich Yellow Masses Of Butter Floating On Top. Jolting Cream In Skin Bags Or Gourds, Carried On The ...
Buttercup
Buttercup. Tilted By The Breeze These Bright Little Wild Flowers Flash And Sparkle In The Sunlight, Lending To Our Meadows A Daz Zling Golden Glory. Shakespeare Speaks Of Them As" Cuckoo Buds Of Yellow Hue" That "do Paint The Meadows With De Light." They Bloom In Field And On Road ...
Butterflies And Moths
Butterflies And Moths. A Poet Has Prettily Called Butterflies "stemless Floating Flowers." Scientists Know Them As A Large Group Of Insects, Which With Their Cousins The Moths Make Up The Order Lepidoptera, Mean Ing "scale Wings." They Are So Named Because The Wings Of Both Butterflies And Moths, As Well ...
Butternut
Butternut. This Native American Tree, Some Times Called The White Walnut, Bears An Oblong Nut Covered With A Thin Husk Or Hull And Having A Sweet Oily Kernel Which Is Very Palatable. The Half-grown Fruit Is Often Used Also For Pickling. Little Attention Is Paid To The Cultivation Of The ...
Buttons
Buttons. We Count The Buttons On Our Coats To The Old Rhyme— Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggarman, Thief, Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief. Even Though The Fortune Which They Foretell May Not Come True, Buttons Are Nevertheless A Very Interesting Subject For Study. In Early Times, Clothes Were Fastened With Pins, ...
Buzzard
Buzzard. The Turkey-buzzard Is The Scavenger Of The South. He Works For Just His Board And His Whole Family Help Him ; And They Are Protected By Law And Given The Freedom Of The Town And Country. In Some Southern Cit Ies These Birds, Which Are Related To The Vulture, ...
Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire. For More Than A Thousand Years After Rome, " The Eternal City," Had Fallen Before The Hordes Of Northern Barbarians, The Byzan Tine Empire, With Its Capital At Constantinople, Stood As A Bulwark Protecting Europe From Similar Or Worse Floods Of Invasion From The East. There The Learning ...
Christian Routs Apollyon
Christian Routs Apollyon "for Half A Day They Fought. Apollyon Struck His Sword From His Hand And Pressed Him Almost To Death, But Christian Got His Sword Again And Struck Apollyon Such A Blow That He Spread His Dragon's Wings And Flew Away." Wherein Dwelt Hobgoblins, Satyrs, And Dragons Of ...
Edmund 1729 1797 Burke
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797). In The Stormy Days Before The American Revolution, During A Bitter Debate In The English Parliament Over The Question Of Taxing The American Colonies, One Of The Members Of The House Of Commons Hotly Asked : " Should Not America Belong To This Country?" A Calm Clear ...
George Gordon Byron
Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824). From His Cradle The Famous Lord Byron, One Of England's Greatest Poets, Was Marked Out For Unhappiness. Though He Was The Scion Of Two Noble Families—one Scotch, One English—he Enjoyed Few Days In The 36 Years Of His Eventful Life, Crowded With Adventures And Sensational ...
Hungary Budapest
Budapest, Hungary. Few Capitals Of The World Typify The Life Of The Country As Budapest Typifies The Life Of Hungary. As Paris Is Sometimes Said To Be France, Budapest May With Even Greater Truth Be Said To Be Hungary. In It Centers The Political, Commercial, Industrial, And Intellectual Life Of ...
James
James The 15th President Of The United States Was A Man Who Held Almost Every Honor Which The American People Could Give Him, And Yet He Retired From Public Life Under A Cloud Of Deserved Rebuke, Such As Has Seldom Fallen Upon A President Of Our Country. He Once Referred ...
John 1628 1688 Bunyan
Bunyan, John (1628-1688). To The Puritan Children Of Former Days, Pil Grim's Progress' Had All The Adventurous Action And Romance Of A Fairy Tale, And Was At The Same Time A Sound Religious Allegory. Its Author Was Born Near Bed Ford, England, And Like His Father Was Brought Up To ...
John 1837 1921 Burroughs
Burroughs, John (1837-1921). Once John Bur Roughs, The Famous Essayist Who Wrote So Much About Nature, Was Asked To Write To A Class Of Children Who Were Studying Rhetoric. This, Among Other Things, Was What He Wrote: " I Think I Have Got More Help As An Author From Going ...
Luther 1849 Burbank
Burbank, Luther (1849- ). In Fairy Stories We Read Of Magic Wands With Which Rags Are Turned Into Satin Garments And Rocks Into Precious Stones. The Modern Magic Wand Is Science; And One Of The Most Famous Of Scientific Conjurers Is Luther Bur Bank, Who Turns Weeds Into Beautiful Flowers ...
Ny Buffalo
Buffalo, N.y. The "queen City Of The Lakes" Is The Second Largest City In New York State And The 12th Largest In The United States. It Is Situated At The Outlet• Of The Niagara River And The Buffalo River, At The Eastern End Of Lake Erie, And Has About Ten ...
Robert 1812 1889 Browning
Browning, Robert (1812-1889). Although He " Has Been Called "the Scholar's Poet," And Not Without Good Reason, No Poet Was More Intensely Alive And Human Than Robert Browning, Nor Felt More Keenly The Joy Of Life And Living. Browning's Life Was Happily Free From Poverty. His Father, A Man Of ...
Robert Bruce
Bruce, Robert, King Of Scotland A Fugitive Lay On A Bed Of Straw, Heart-sick With Dis Couragement. Idly He Watched A Spider Hanging From Its Web And Trying To Swing Itself From One Beam To Another Of The Wretched Cottage Roof. Six Times The Spider Tried And Failed. " If ...
Rumania Bucharest
Bucharest', Rumania. "the City Of Joy" Is, According To A Legend, The Meaning Of The Name Of This Rumanian Capital, Which Is Situated About 30 Miles North Of The Danube River. Present Day Inhabitants, However, Prefer To Call Their City "the Paris Of The East," Because Of Its Wide Avenues ...
The Lions At The
The Lions At The Gate "timorous And Mistrust Warned Him Of Roaring Lions Before The Gate, But Christian Went On. When He Came To The Lions They Were Chained, And Watchful, The Porter, Called Him To Keep In The Middle Of The Path And Have No Fear." Difficulty, And Midway ...
The Story Of Pilgrims
The Story Of Pilgrims Progress. John Bunyan "dreamed A Dream." In This He Saw A Man Named Christian Who, Although He Was A Good Man, Was Much Troubled In His Mind Because Of Certain Things That He Read In The Bible. It Seemed To Him That His Sins Were So ...
Tubers Bulbs
Bulbs, Tubers, And Rootstocks. Among The Earliest Of The Spring Flowers Which Make Our Gardens And Public Parks Beautiful Are The Gor Geous Tulips, Crocuses, And Hyacinths, Which Boldly Thrust Their Leaves Above The Ground And Often Burst Into Splendid Blossom Before The Snows Have Entirely Vanished Before The Mild ...
William Cullen 1794 1878 Bryant
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878). In 1811 A 17-year-old Boy Of Cummington, Mass., Was Musing One Day About The Great Facts Of Life And Death. His Musings Naturally Fell Into Metrical Form, For He Had Been Writing Verses Before He Donned Long Trousers. Later His Father, A Country Doctor, Sent The ...
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan, William Jennings (1860– ). Although He Was Three Times Defeated For The Presidency Of The United States, William Jennings Bryan Molded Public Opinion As Few Of Our Presidents Have Done. For Many Years He Was The Leader Of The Democratic Party, And It Was His Influence That Won The ...