Adamantios Coraes
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Adephaga
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Alexander Cooper
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Alexandre Colin
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Angelo Di Costanzo
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Anna Botsford Comstock
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Anthony Collins
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Anthony Comstock
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Arcangelo Corelli
Corelli, Arcangelo 0653-1713), Italian Violin Player And Composer, Holds An Honoured Place In Musical History In Both Capacities. Of His Life Little Is Known Except That He Travelled Widely About Europe And Was Everywhere Held In The Highest Esteem. The Style Of Execution Introduced By Corelli And Preserved By His ...
Archibald Constable
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Architecture Indonesian And Farther
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Arthur Collier
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Arthur Holly Compton
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Arthur James Cook
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Artificial Corundum
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Artificial Silk
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Athanase Josue Coquerel
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Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel
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August Conrady
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Auguste Isidore Auguste Marie
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Aulus Cremutius Cordus
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Baron
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Bartolommeo Colleoni
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Battle Of Coroneia
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Battle Of Coronel
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Belisario Corenzio
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Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant
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Benoit Constant Coquelin
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Bernhard Von Cotta
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Bibliocraphy W M
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Book Of Common Order
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Book Of Concord
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British Companies Abroad
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Byzantine And Romanesque Architecture
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Calvin Coolidge
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Cape Comorin
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Carl August Peter Cornelius
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Caterina Cornaro
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Cesare Correnti
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Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham
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Charles Colle
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Charles Conder
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Charles Cornwallis Cornwallis
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Charles Cottet
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Charles Cotton
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Charles Henry Cooper
Cooper, Charles Henry English Antiquary, Was Born At Great Marlow, On March 20 I8o8, And Died At Cambridge On March 21 1866. He Was Borough Coroner And Then Town Clerk Of Cambridge. His Earliest Production, A New Guide To The University And Town Of Cambridge, Was Pub Lished Anonymously In ...
Charles Theodore Henri De
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Chemistry Of Animal Pigments
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Christopher Columbus
Columbus, Christopher (c. 1446 Or (in Spanish, Cristobal Colon), Was The Eldest Son Of Domenico Colombo And Suzanna Fontanarossa, And Was Probably Born At Genoa, The Exact Date Of His Birth Being Uncertain. According To The Life Of Columbus By His Son Ferdinand (a Statement Sup Ported By Las Casas), ...
Club Of The Cordeliers
Cordeliers, Club Of The, Or Society Of The Friends Of The Rights Of Man And Of The Citizen, A Popular Society Of The French Revolution. It Was Formed By The Members Of The District Of The Cordeliers, When The Constituent Assembly Suppressed The 6o Districts Of Paris To Replace Them ...
Cod
Cod*, A Town Of Matanzas Province, Cuba, On The Railway Between Matanzas And Santa Clara, And The Centre Of A Rich Sugar Planting Country. Population (19o7) 7,124; 1919 Census 8,o46. ...
Col Legno
Col Legno (it.), "with The Wood," A Direction In Music Signifying That The Notes So Marked Are To Be Played, Not In The Usual Way, But By Striking The Strings With The Stick Of The Bow. ...
Coleman Du Pont Road
Coleman Du Pont Road, One Of The Most Remark Able Highways In The United States, Conceived And Built At His Own Expense And Presented As A Gift To The State Of Delaware By Senator Coleman Du Pont. It Runs From Wilmington, Del. To The Maryland-delaware State Line At Selbyville, A ...
Colemanite
Colemanite, A Hydrous Calcium Borate Found In Cali Fornia As Monoclinic Crystals It Contains 5o•9% Of Boron Trioxide, And Is An Important Source Of Commercial Borates And Boracic Acid. Beautifully Developed Crystals, Up To Two Or Three Inches In Length, Encrust Cavities In Compact, White Colemanite They Are Colourless And ...
Colenso
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Coleoptera
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Coleraine
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Coleus
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Colic
Colic, A Term In Medicine Used Outside England For Any Paroxysmal Abdominal Pain, But Generally Limited In England To A Sudden Sharp Pain Having Its Origin In The Pelvis Of The Kidney, The Ureter, Gall-bladder, Bile-ducts Or Intestine. There Is A Ten Dency, However, To Restrict Use Of The Word ...
Colima
Colima, A Small Pacific Coast State Of Mexico, Lying Between Jalisco On The N.w. And N., And Michoacan On The E. Including The Revilla Gigedo Islands Its Area Is Only 2,010 Sq.m., Which Thus Makes It The Second Smallest Of The Mexican States. Pop. (1930) 61,923. The Larger Part Of ...
Colima_2
Colima, A City Of Mexico And Capital Of A State Of The Same Name, S70m. (direct) W. By S. Of Mexico City And About 36m. Inland From The Pacific Coast. Pop. (1930) 21,117. Colima Is Pic Turesquely Situated On The Colima River, In A Large Fertile Valley About 1,65oft. Above ...
Collar
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Collateral
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Collatia
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Collation
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Collectivism
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Collector
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College
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Colleter
Colleter, A Botanical Term For The Gum-secreting Hairs On The Buds Of Certain Plants. ...
Collimator
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Collingswood
Collingswood, A Borough Of Camden County (n.j.), U.s.a., 3m. S.e. Of.camden On The Pennsylvania Railroad. It Has Some Manufactures, Including Loom Works And Printing, But Is Primarily A Suburban Residence Town, With A Population Of 8,714 In 192o, And 12,723 (federal Census) In 193o. A Commission Form Of Government Was ...
Collingwood
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Collingwood_2
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Collinsville
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Collodion
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Colloids
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Collotype
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Collusion
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Colmar
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Colne
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Cologne
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Colombes
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Colombey
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Colombia
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Colombo
Colombo, The Capital And Principal Seaport Of Ceylon, Situated On The West Coast. (pop., 1921, 244,163.) Situated Near The Mouth Of The Kelani River, The Environs Of The Town Are Low Lying, And Wide Areas Are Liable To Inundations Against Which Con Siderable Protective Works Have Of Late Years Been ...
Colon I
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Colon
Colon, The Second City Of The Republic Of Panama, And The Northern Gateway To The Panama Canal. The American Town Of Cristobal, Which Is Within The Canal Zone, Adjoins Colon And Is Virtually A Part Of It. The Great Port Works And Docks Built By The American Government At Cristobal ...
Colonel
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Colonial Style
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Colonization
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Colonna
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Colonnade
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Colony
Colony, A Term Denoting The Settlement Of The Subjects Of A State Beyond Its Territorial Limits. It Is Applied By Usage To A Group Of The Subjects Of One Sovereign State Living Within The Bounds Of Another, And, In This Sense, Most Of The European Coun Tries Have "colonies" In ...
Colophon
Colophon, A Final Paragraph In Some Manuscripts And Many Early Printed Books (see Book), Giving Particulars As To Authorship, Date And Place Of Production, And Sometimes Express Ing The Thankfulness Of The Author, Scribe Or Printer On The Com Pletion Of His Task. Thus The Guillermus, Who Made A Famous ...
Coloquintida Or Bitter Ap
Colocynth, Coloquintida Or Bitter Ap Ple, Citrullus Colocynthis, A Plant Of The Family Cucurbitaceae. The Flowers Are Unisexual; The Male Blossoms Have Five Istamens With Sinuous Anthers, The Female Have Reniform Stigmas, And An Ovary With Three Large Fleshy Placentas. The Fruit Is Round, And About The Size Of An ...
Colorado Desert
Colorado Desert, A Name Applied To That Arid Re Gion Of South-eastern California Which Extends From San Gor Gonio Pass South-eastward To The Gulf Of California, And Includes The Depression (248.7 Ft. Below Sea Level) Known As "salton Sink." It Is Separated From The Mohave Desert (q.v.) By The San ...
Colorado National Monument
Colorado National Monument, A Tract Of 13,883 Ac. In Central Colorado, U.s.a., Near The West Boundary, Set Apart By The Government As A Reservation In 1911. It Is Notable For Its Enormous Sandstone Monoliths Which Have Been Grotesquely Formed By Erosion. One Of The Largest Of These Is Independence Rock; ...
Colorado Potato Beetle
Colorado Potato Beetle, A Chrysomelid Beetle (leptinotarsa Decemlineata, Say), Native To The Western United States. This Leaf-beetle, First Named And Described By Say In 1824, Fed Originally On A Wild Solanaceous Plant, Solanurn Rostra Tum, Abounding In The Rocky Mountain Region. With The Westward Advance Of Civilization, The Cultivation Of ...
Colorado River
Colorado River, A Stream In The South Of The Argen Tine Republic. It Has Its Sources On The Eastern Slopes Of The Andes In The Latitude Of The Chilean Volcano Tinguiririca (about 48' S.), And Pursues A General East-south-east Course To The Atlantic, Where It Discharges Through Several Channels Of ...
Colorado River_2
Colorado River. The Colorado River And Its Upper Tributaries Rise In The Mountains Of Wyoming, Colorado And Utah, Where Precipitation, Especially In The Form Of Snow, Is Heavy. Including The Green River, The Colorado River Is About 1,7oom. Long. Its Drainage Basin Covers 244,000sq.m. Or . Of The Area Of ...