I M Migration To
I M Migration To. Emigrgs, A-me-gre, A French Term For Those Who Have Been Compelled To Leave Their Country On Account Of Religious Persecutions, As Did The Huguenot, For Instance, In The 17th Cen Tury, Or For Some Other Causes. The Term, However, Is Now Most Commonly Applied To Those ...
Irrational Resolvents
Irrational Resolvents. Up To The Present We Have Considered The Effect On The Galoisian Group Of An Equation, Of Adjoining Roots Of Rational Resolvents To The Cur Rent Domain Of Rationality. In Many Investiga Tions It Is Important To Consider The Adjunction Of Roots Of Equations Which May Not Be ...
Kx
(kx Ei)±2.712, Where K Is The Capacity Of, The Charged Condenser In Farads, And E Is The Charged Electromotive Force In Volts. It Can Be Shown That The Charge Of A Condenser Rests On Opposite Sides Of The Dielectric, And That In Charging The Condenser As Much Electricity Leaves Plate ...
M Ep
M=-- E.p. ( X We—(h-1-13) X Wh). Which Will Give The Weight In Pounds Per Indi Cated Horse Power Per Hour. M.e.p. Represents The Mean Effective Pressure, Which In The Case Of A Multiple-expansion Engine Is The Combined Mean Effective Pressure Referred To The Cylinder In Question. For Example: In ...
Meroe
Meroe. Language And Of The Differ Ent Dialects Spoken In Modern Abyssinia, The Amharic And The Tigre Are The Most Remark Able. The Former Of These Shows Little Affinity With The Ancient Language Of The Country, The Gee; Or The Ethiopic Properly So Called, Which Since The Beginning Of The ...
N J Elizabeth
Elizabeth, N. J., City, County-seat Of Union County, On Newark Bay And The Arthur Kill, And On The Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley, Baltimore And Ohio, Philadelphia And Reading And New Jersey Central Railroads, 14 Miles Southwest Of New York. Elizabeth Has A Good Harbor Admitting Vessels Of 25 Feet Draught. Coal ...
N Y Elmira
Elmira, N. Y., City, County-seat Of Che Fining County, On Both Sides Of The Chemung River, And On The Delaware And Lackawanna, The Lehigh Valley, The Northern Central And The Erie Railways; 100 Miles Southeast Of Roch Ester, 149 Miles East-southeast Of Buffalo, And 46 Miles South-southwest Of Ithaca. Among ...
Net And Cabinet Government
Net And Cabinet Government; Executive). All Other Federal Offices Are Filled By Appoint Ment, Which Is Subject Only To The Restrictions And Limitations Of Custom Or Congressional En Actments. Appointive Offices May He Held By Women, Minors Or Aliens. See Appointments To Office; Tenure Of Office. State.— The States Quite ...
Netism
Netism. The Electric Door-bell.— This Is Perhaps The Best Known And One Of The Simplest Methods Of Electric Signaling In Its Operation It Em Ploys A Primary Battery, A Push Button At The Door, A Vibrating Bell Within The House, And A Wire Connecting The Push Button And The Bell. ...
Non Dramatic Poetry
Non-dramatic Poetry. Elizabethan Poetry Is The Product Of The Renaissance,— The Flowering Of The English Stock Under The Fertilizing Power Of European Thought. English Literature At All Points—in Alfred's Time, In Eliza Beth's, In The 18th And 19th Centures, — Has Owed Its Great Moments To Foreign Inspiration, But This ...
Phcebe And Cherub Essex
Essex, Phcebe And Cherub, Battle Of The, In The War Of 1812. On 28 Oct. 1812, The Essex, Under Capt. David Porter (q.v.), Passed The Delaware Capes And Ran South To Meet The Constitution, But Failing In This Contin Ued Her Voyage And On 12 December, A Little South Of ...
Poetry And Prose
Poetry And Prose Poetry.—the First, The Most Popular, And The Most Prolific Poets Of The Period Were Alfred Tennyson And Robert Browning. Three Main Interests May Be Observed In Their Work And That Of Their Contemporaries And Successors. The Ideal Interest In Humanity, Best Represented In The Preceding Epoch By ...
Powers And Influence Of
Powers And Influence Of The Municipal Executive. Growth Of The Mayor's Powers.— In The Government Of The Borough During Colonial Times The Executive And Legislative Functions Were Not Separate. The Council Was The Sole Governing Body And The Presiding Officer Was Called Mayor. He Was Merely A Member Of The ...
Powers And Influences Of
Powers And Influences Of The State Executive. Organization Of The State Executive.— Unlike The National Government, Where The Chief Responsibility Is Concentrated In The Hands Of A Single Individual The Executive Power And Responsibility In The Gtates Are Divided Between The Chief Executive And A Number Of Other State Officers, ...
Principal Events Of The
Principal Events Of The 18th Century. 1701. Frederick (h) Elector Of Brandenburg Is Crowned First King Of Prussia, 18 Jan. 1702. Anne, Queen Of Great Britain, Begins Her Reign. 1703. St. Petersburg Is Founded By Peter The Great. 1704. Battle Of Blenheim. 1707. The Union Of Scotland With England Is ...
Prose
Prose. Elizabethan Prose Has Neither The Sig Nificance Nor The Splendor Of Elizabethan Poetry. The Greatest Masters, Sidney, Lyly, Hooker, Have No Supreme Interest Of Matter Or Style; And Bacon Belongs In Spirit To Another Age With Other Ideals And Another Ethos. But The Shaping Of English Speech As An ...
Rational Rfsolvents
Rational Rfsolvents. Let Ip(xo, Xn) Be A Rational Function Of T.he Roots Of Ttexn-fal-1- +an= 0, (i) Whose Group For The Domain R Is G. Let 0 Belong To A Subgroup H Of G Of Index R. Then On Applying The Substitutions Of G To A It Will Take On ...
Relations Of The National
Relations Of The National Executive And The Judiciary. Conflicts Often Arise In The Relations Of The Executive And Judiciary, Due Chiefly To The Adop Tion Of The Doctrine Of Separation Of Powers And The Fact That Unconstitutional Actions And Laws Are Referred To The Courts For Determina Tion. This Conflict ...
Relations Of The National
Relations Of The National Executive And Congress. Separation Of Powers.— When The Con Stitution Was Framed The Lielief Prevailed That The Executive, Legislative And Executive Depart Ments Of Government Should Be Separate And In Dependent, But Nevertheless This Separation Was Subject To Some Modifications In The Constitu Tion As Adopted ...
Saint Ephrem Ephraem Syrus
Ephraem Syrus, Saint Ephrem, Or Ephram (the Syrian), Syrian Theologian: B. Nisibis, Mesopo Tamia, About 306; D. Edessa, Mesopotamia, 373. He Lived In Nisibis Till 363 And Played An Im Portant Part In Defending His Native City Against The Various Sieges To Which The Persians Sub Mitted It. When The ...
Some P1roperties Of The
Some P1roperties Of The Galoisian Group G. Since The Group G Of An Equation (tort -1-atxn-1 + ... +an= 0 (i) Is Unique For A Given Domain Of Rationality R, It Follows; 1° That The Group Is Independent Of The Particular Ts I-valued Function We Take; 2° That We Get ...
Strength Of Materials
Strength Of Materials). The Longitudinal Strain E Is Always Accom Panied By A Strain E' Of The Transverse Dimen Sions; For A Given Material E'=cre Where A Is Constant For Isotropy. Thus If A Rod Receives A Longitudinal Strain E The Strain Of Any Straight Line In A Cross-section Is ...
Terms Of And Qualifications
Terms Of And Qualifications For Office. Federal.— Presidents Are Elected For Four Years, Senators For Six Years And Representa Tives For Two Years. Article Vi, ¶ 3 Of The Constitution Requires That Senators And Repre Sentatives, Members Of State Legislatures And All Executive And Judicial Officers, State And National, "shall ...
The Drama
The Drama. At The Beginning Of The Reign Of Elizabeth The Conflict Between Medimvalism And Humanism Was Rife In The Drama As In Other Forms Of Literature. For The Preceding Half Cen Tury There Had Been A Confusion Of Types; Miracle, Morality, Interlude, And Farce Existing Side By Side And ...
The Galoisian Resolvent And
The Galoisian Resolvent And Group. Construction Of N I-valued Functions; In Determinants.— Let F (x)=--asxn-1- . . . +an=0 Be An Equation Whose Solution Is To Be Effected. The First Thing To Do Is To Choose A Domain Of Rationality R. As Already Remarked, The Nature Of R Depends Partly ...
The Principles Of Action
The Principles Of Action. Action In Elocution Is That Part Of Delivery Which Addresses Itself To The Eye. The Main Principles Of Gesture And Position, The Common Property Of Students Of Expression Since The Days Of The Ancient Greeks, Were Set Forth In The Thironomia,) A Voluminous Work Of A ...
The Solution Of The
The Solution Of The Quintic. We Have Seen That The Equation Of Fifth De Gree Q=0 Whose Group Is The Symmetric Group Cannot Be Solved By Means Of Radicals, I.e., By Resolvents Of The Type X In On Adjoin Ing (xi—xi) (x,—x.) (xi—x.) (xr—xi) (24---v4) (x1-x.) (x.-x.) The Square Root ...
Theory Of Equation S
Theory Of Equation S ; G Aloi S' T H Eory ) . Moreover, Even If The Reduction To Quadratures Can Be Effected, Such A Reduction Is, Properly Spealdng, The Beginning And Not The End Of The Investigation. For It Does Not Suffice To Give A Formal Indication Of The ...
Tries
Tries. A Similar Type Of Furnace Answers For The Manufacture Of Phosphorus; The Materials Sup Plied Are Phosphoric Acid And Coke. The Phos Phorus Comes Out As A Vapor And Is Caught In A Flue And Condensed. Both Calcium Carbide And Phosphorus May Be Made Continuously, By Pro Viding Means ...
Trotherapeutics
Trotherapeutics. Wimshurst's Infiuence Machine.— This Machine, Due To Mr. James Winishurst, Is One Of The Most Efficient And Reliable Of The Induc Tion Electric Machines. It Consists Of Two Glass. Discs, Which In Practice Have Varied In Size From 141a Inches To 7 Feet In Diameter. These Discs Suitably Mounted ...
Volt
Volt. A Unit Of Electric Prefigure Or Current-driving Electric Force, Theoretically Derived, By, Electromagnetic Principles. From The Centimeter-grammar. Second System Of Units. Practically, The International Volt Is A Certain Fraction Of The Electromotive Force Of A Standard Type Of Voltaic Cell At A Standard Temperature. Voltmeter.— An Electrical Measuring Instrument ...
Voting
Voting. Modern Electoral Qualifications.— Most Cf The States Have Uniform Laws For Electors Of Every Officer To Be Elected In The State, Though This Statement Must Be Qualified As To Those States Which Permit Women To Vote In The Election Of School Boards Or Committees, Or Which Allow Women Who ...
Wet Batteries
Wet Batteries. Wet Batteries Are Divided Into One-liquid Bat Teries And Two-liquid Batteries. The Former Are Those Which Contain One Homogeneous Elec Trolyte; The Latter Have Two Distinct Electro Lytes, And The Cell Is Usually Divided Into Two Parts By A Porous Cup Which Contains One Of The Metallic Electrodes ...
Yelizavetpol
Yelizavetpol. Russia, (1) Government Of Transcaucasia, Asiatic Russia; Area 16,991 Square Miles; Pop. 1,098,000, Of Whom About Per Cent Are Azerbaijan Tartars, 30 Per Cent Armenians And The Balance Kurds, Russians, Etc. It Is Bounded On The North By Tiflis, Daghestan And Zakataly, East By Baku, South By Persia And ...
Or Aipyornis Epiornis
Epiornis, Or Aipyornis, An Extinct Ratite Bird Of .madagascar (eepyornis Maxi Mus), Interesting Not Only For Iself, But Because Its Remains Appear To Have Formed The Basis For The Arabic Tale Of The Gigantic Roc. It Was Much Like An Ostrich In Size And Structure, Except For The Massiveness Of ...
Or Air Plant Epiphyte
Epiphyte, Or Air-plant, A Plant Attached To A Tree Or Other Support, Or Ganic Or Inorganic, Living Or Dead, But From Which It Obtains No Nutriment. The Term Air Plant Has Been Popularly Applied Because These Plants Are Typically Neither Parasitic, Saprophytic Nor Terrestrial, But Depend Upon The Dust Which ...
Or Denudation Erosion
Erosion, Or Denudation, The Proc Ess Of Slow Removal In Air Or Water Of The Products Of Rock Decay Whereby The Surface Features Of The Earth Are Obliterated. It In Cludes The Destructive Work Of Winds, Of Streams, Of Glaciers And Of The Ocean. Its Various Aspects May Be Considered ...
Or Electric Machine
Electric Machine, Or Dynamo Static Machine (now Extensively Employed In Therapeutics), For Exciting Electricity By Fric Tion Or By Static Electric Induction, As Distin Guished From Dynamo Electric Machines In Which Electricity Is Excited By Cutting Magnetic Lines Of Force. The Excitation Of Electricity By Friction Was Observed By The ...
Or Electrotherapeutics
Electrotherapeutics, Or The Treatment Of Disease By Electricity, Began To Be A Science With The Work Of Duchenne Of Bou Logne. Working Chiefly With A Faradic Current He Determined The Motor Points Of The Various Muscles Or The Places Upon The Skin Where The Application Of The Current Produces Contrac ...
Or Equites Equestrian Order
Equestrian Order, Or Equites, The Order Of Knights In Ancient Rome (latin Ordo Equester). The Et-mites Or Lcnights Orig Inally Formed The Cavalry Of The Army. They Are Said By Livy To Have Been Instituted By Romulus? Who Selected 300 Of Them From The Three Pnncipal Tribes, Naming Them "celeres, ...
Or Era Epoch
Epoch, Or Era (gr. Brox0, Epoche, Epoch, Pause). In History, A Fixed Point Of Time, Commonly Selected On Account Of Some Remark Able Event By Which It Has Been Distinguished, And Which Is Made The Beginning Or Determining Point Of A Particular Year From Which All Other Years, Whether Preceding ...
Or Escurial Escorial
Escorial, Or Escurial, A Royal Pal Ace Of Spain, Distant From Madrid About 24 Miles (by Rail 32 Miles) In A Northwesterly Direction And Situated On The Acclivity Of The Sierra De Guadarrama, The Range Of Mountains Which Divide New From Old Castile. The Escorial Combines A Monastery, A Church ...
Or Hadassah Esther
Esther, Or Hadassah (heb. Myrtle; Babylonian, Ishtar), The Name Of A Jewish Maiden, Chosen By Xerxes To Be His Queen. She Was One Of The Heroines Of Hebrew History And Maintained The Rights Of Her Nation At The Court Of The King Of Persia. Esther Gave Her Name To The ...
Or Hawking Falconry
Falconry, Or Hawking, The Employ Ment Of Falcons In The Chase. This Sport Is Of Oriental Origin, And Has Been Practised In The East Since Before The Days Of Any Record — In China At Least 2,000 Years Before Christ; And It Was Probably Followed At That Date All Over ...
Or Jetna Etna
Etna, Or Jetna, A Volcano In The Eastern Part Of The Province Of Catania, On The Island Of Sicily, And The Largest Active Volcano In Europe And The Highest Mountain In Italy. Directly North Is The Valley Of Alcantara, On The West And South, The Valley Of Simeto, And On ...
Or The Chan Nel
English Channel, Or The Chan Nel (rom. Mare Britannicus, French La Manche), An Arm Of The Atlantic Ocean Ex Tending Into The West Coast Of Europe To The Strait Of Dover, By Which It Is Connected With The North Sea. The Land Bodies Senarated By This Channel Are England And ...