1 Major
Major, (1) In Nucric, A Term Applied To Imperfect Concords, But Chiefly To The Interval Of The Third. It Also Denotes That One Of The Two Modern Modes In Which The Third Is Four Semitones Above The Tonic Or Key Note. (2) In Military Science, The Major Is A Field ...
10 Education
10. Education. The Early History C Education In Mexico Is Particularly Interest* In 1529, The College Of San Juan De Lena Was Established In The Capital And Threw Is Doors Opea To Spaniards And Indians Alike The First University Was Opened In 1553 Special Permission Of The King Of Spain. ...
11 Religion
11. Religion. There Is Complete Sep Ration Of Church And State In Mexico (,na And The Reforms Made In The Cents Tion In 1917 Reaffirm With Great Emphags Fact That The Church, Of Whatever Creed Denomination, Is Constantly Under The Co Strict Government Inspection And That Ecclesiastical Buildings, Lands And ...
12 Mythology
12. Mythology. Prior To The Euro Pean Occupation Mexico And Central America Were Inhabited By Races Possessing A Long His Tory And A Semi-historical Mythology, Manifold In Its Ramifications And Rich In Its Internal De Velopment. Within This Mythology Was The Very Heart Of Those Nations And Peoples, For Round ...
14 Architecture
14. Architecture. Mexico Was By Far The Most Im Portant Of The Spanish Colonies Of The Mother Country, Which Lavished Upon Her All The Care A Mother Bestows Upon A Favorite Daughter. The Fabulous Wealth Poured Into Spain From Over Seas She Dispensed With A Liberal Hand In Beautifying The ...
15 Ethnology
15. Ethnology. Ethnologically Mex Ico Is One Of The Most Interesting Of The Coun Tries Of The Western World. Within Her Bound Aries Are Represented All The Really Great Cul Tured Races Of North America. Her Territory Forms The Bridge Of The Continents Over Which Surged Backward And Forward For ...
16 Literature
16. Literature. All The Cultured An. Most Of The Semi-cultured Races Of America, It Eluding The Warlike Red-man Of The North, Had Passion For Oratory And Story-telling, Fen Bearers Of Formal Literature. The Aztecs. Tbi Mayas And Other More Civilized Nations Of Mei. Ico Had, Years Before The Conquest. Evolve. ...
17 History
17. History. Pre-conquest Period.— The History Of Mexico Divides Itself Into Three Parts: Aboriginal Mexico Under The Domination Of Its Native Indian Rulers, From The Border Land Of Prehistoric Times To 1521; Spanish Oc Cupation From 1521 To 1821 And Independent Mexico From 1821 To The Present. A Score Of ...
18 Diplomatic Relations Of
18. Diplomatic Relations Of The United States With Mexico. Early Relations Were Largely Determined First By The Mississippi Question And Later By The Failure To Define The Western Limits Of Louisiana In The Treaty Of 1803 And Consequent Friction With Spain After 1805. The American Government Viewed With Sympathy The ...
2 Minerals And Mineral
2. Minerals And Mineral Pro Duction. For Three Centuries Mexico Was The Greatest Of Silver Producing Countries; From The Single Camp Of Guanajuato Came One-fifth Of The Silver Mined During That Period; And For One Straight Century The Same Camp Gave To The World Two-fifths Of Its Silver. Yet To ...
3 Agriculture And Stock
3. Agriculture And Stock Rais Ing. In Normal Times The Chief Agrientra Product Of Mexico Is Indian Corn, Which Is Rit Ued At From $80,000,000 To $100,000,000 A Fez Yet, Owing To The Unscientific Methods Of C-ultir, Tion Still In Use, It Often Happens That Corn Etio Is Not Grown ...
4 Commerce
4. Commerce. The Efforts Of The Vari Ous Governments Of Mexico Since 1876 Have Been Steadily Directed Toward The Encourage Ment And Extension Of The Commerce And In Dustries Of The Country, External And Internal. This Has Been Done In The Face Of Many And Great Difficulties. At The Beginning ...
5 Manufactures
5. Manufactures. Mexico Is A Manu Facturing Country In The Very Primitive Sense Of The Word; For Literally The Greater Part Of Her Manufactured Products Are Made Either Wholly By Hand, By Individual Tradesmen Each Working On His Own Account, Or In Small Shops Where The Machinery Used Is Employed ...
6 Transportation And Com
6. Transportation And Com Munication. Before The White Man Had Set Foot In Mexico The Various Nations Then Occupying What Is Now The Mexican Republk Had Built Many Well-paved Roads And Innumer Able Mountain Trails, In All Probability Better Than The Trails Of To-day, If We Are To Judge Them ...
8 Government
8. Government. The Constitution Of Mexico Is Based Upon That Of The United States Which It Very Much Resembles. The Republic Is Formed Of Free And Sovereign States Which, For Administrative Matters Concerning The In Terests Of The Nation As A Whole, Are United Under A Federal Government. In Virtue ...
9 Army And Navy
9. Army And Navy. Owing •to The Many Revolutions And Upheavals Through Which Mexico Has Passed Since It Became An Independ Ent Country In 1821, The Armed Forces Of The Republic Have Twn A Constently Varying Quasi Tity., At The Time Of The Collapse Of The Maxi Milian •empire In ...
And The Propagation Of
And The Propagation Of Disease). The Para Site Develops After Its Introduction Into The Blood And, According To The Individual Type That Is Introduced, Certain Variations In The Develop Mental History Of The Disease Result. The Para Sites Themselves, Which Are Thought To Be Low Forms Of Animal Life, Protozoa, ...
Anuscripts
Anuscripts, N Lurninated, Are Those Whose Text Is Heightened And Brightened By Vignettes And Other Decorations In Colors, Gold And Silver. The Verb To Illuminate First Occurs In The Beginning Of The 18th Century; And Means To Decorate An Initial Letter, A Word, Or A Text Of A Manuscript With ...
Area Of Plane Figures
Area Of Plane Figures. The Area A Of A Rectangle, The Lengths Of Two Adjacent Sides Of Which Are B And C Respectively, Is A= Bc. (x) The Area A Of The Triangle Abc (fig. 5) Is Fhb, (xi) A---ibc Sin A, (xii) A S(s—a') (s—b) (s— C), (xiii) Sin ...
Boundaries 1 Area
1. Area, Boundaries, Etc. Mex Ico's Total Area Is 767,326 Square Miles, And Its Boundaries Are The United States On The North, Guatemala And Belize On The Southeast, The Pacific Ocean On The South And West, And The Gulf Of Mexico And The Caribbean Sea On The East. Its Coast ...
Ch4 Methane
Methane, Ch4, Also Known• In The Im Pure State As Marsh Gas, Or Firedamp, Is Found In Large Quantities In The Gases Evolved From Petroleum Wells, Oil Springs And Mud Volcanoes. It Is Present In Stagnant Pools (hence The Name Marsh Gas) And In Certain Localities Where Or Ganic Matter ...
Characters
Characters. In The Following Account Of The More Im Portant Mythological Characters Most Fre Quently Met With In Literature Relating To Mexico, The Territory In Which Each Plays His Part Is, Unless Otherwise Stated, The Land Of The Nahuas. Bacabs.— In The Mythology Of Yucatan The Bacabs, The Upholders Of ...
China
China. For A Considerable Time Prior To 1891, When The First Sod Was Turned For The Construction Of The Great Siberian Railroad, The Russian Gov Ernment Was Anxious To Secure Control Of This Territory. When Japan In 1895 Occupied The Liao-tung Peninsula Of Manchuria And Began To Fortify Port Arthur ...
E Mademoiselle De La
Mademoiselle De La Sei Glier,e, Sa'glyar, Novel By Jules Sandeau (q.v.), Published In 1848 And Dramatized In 1851. Madero, Francisco Indalecio, President Of Mexico: B. San Pedro, Coahuila, 18 Oct. 1873: D. Mexico City, 23 Feb. 1913. He Came Of A Wealthy Family And Was A Grandson Of A Former ...
Food Acts
Food Acts. Meat-packing May Ap Propriately Be Considered Under Three Heads, Namely, Preparation And Disposal Of Fresh (un Salted) Meats; Curing And Preservation Of Meats By Salting, Smoking And The Like, As Is Usually Practised With Hog Hams, Bacon, Etc., And Pres Ervation Of Meats By Hermetically Sealing In Tin ...
France
France, An Island Colony Of Great Britain, In The Indian Ocean, 500 Miles East Of Madagascar And 9,500 Miles From England. It Is Of An Oval Form, About 40 Miles In Length From Northeast To Southwest, And 25 Miles In Breadth; Area, 720 Square Miles. There Are Numerous Capes And ...
Grades
Grades Weights Bulk Choice 80-120 Lbs. 90-100 Lbs. Good 70-130 • 75-95 Medium 60-160 • 65-80 • Light And Common • • Heavy And Split 150-350 • 160-200 • Veal Only 10 To 20 Per Cent Of The Supply Of Dressed Calves Are Cut Up In The Whole Sale Trade, ...
H V Boynton
H. V. Boynton. Mclennan, John Cunningham, Cana Dian Physicist: B. Ingersoll, Ontario, 14 April 1867. He Was Educated At The Universities Of Toronto And Cambridge. From 1899 He Was Connected With The Faculty In Physics At Toronto, And Since 1907 He Has Been Professor Of Physics And Director Of The ...
I Banking And Finance
I. Banking And Finance. The Mexican People Have Long Shown A Capacity For Finance. In Pre-columbian The Financial Arrangements Of The Aztec Empire Were Com Plicated And Extensive; And The Keeping Of The Accounts Of The Tribute Rolls Was In Itself A Mat Ter That Required More Than Ordinary Executive ...
Inch Worm Measuring Worm
Measuring Worm, Inch Worm, Looper, Or Span-worm, A Caterpillar Of Any Species Of Moth Of The Superfamily Geosnetrida, The Creatures Are Characterized By The Presence Of Only Two Pairs Of Abdominal Legs, One Upon The Ninth, The Other Upon The Anal Segment, And By Their Peculiar Form Of Loco Motion, ...
James J Walsh
James J. Walsh, Author Of
Joh N Son
Son, Joh N. Mclaren, William Edward, American Bishop: B. Geneva, Ontario County, N. Y., 15 Dec. 1831: D. New York, 19 Feb. 1905. He Was Graduated At Jefferson College, 1851, Ordained To The Presbyterian Ministry, 1860, And Entered That Of The Protestant Episcopal Church In 1872. Three Years Later He ...
John Hubert Cornyn
John Hubert Cornyn, National University Of Mexico. 13. Art. Pre-columbian Art.— When Cortes First Visited The Shores Of Mexico In 1519, He Was Surprised At The Skill Displayed By The Indian Artists, Who Rapidly Drew Excellent Sketches Of His Ships, His Men, With Their Cloth Ing, Their Arms And Their ...
Leander Mccormick Observamory
Leander Mccormick Observamory. Mccormick Theological Sem Inary, In Chicago, Ill.; Opened In 1830 Under The Auspices Of The Presbyterians, As A Depart Ment Of Hanover Academy, At Hanover, Ind. Ten Years After Its Opening The School Was Re Moved To New Albany, Ind. Cyrus Ft Mc Cormick (q.v.) Offered The ...
Length Of Lines
Length Of Lines. The Circumference Of A Circle Is Equal To The Diameter Multiplied By 3.14159265358979323846264338328 . . . . . This Constant Is Usually Denoted By The Greek Letter M (pi) And Is Approximately Equal To 3+, Or 3.1416. Use The First If An Error Of One Two-thou Sandth ...
Mabilleau
Mabilleau, Leopold, French Econo Mist: B. Beaulieu (indre Et Loire), 1856. After Teaching In A Number Of Institutions He Be Came In 1906 Professor At The National Con Servatory Of Arts. He Held Many Positions For The Improvement Of Social Conditions And Lec Tured In The United States On Social ...
Mabinogion
Mabinogion, Tnab-t-n6'g1-6n, The, The Name Generally But Incorrectly Applied To All Mediaeval Welsh Stories. Of The General Title Which Lady Charlotte Guest's English Version (1838-49) Has Made Familiar, John Rhys Gives An Explanation. 'an Idea Prevails," Says Principal Rhys, "that Any Welsh Tale Of Respectable Antiquity May Be Called A ...
Mably
Mably, Gabriel Bonnot De, Lion-ci De Mi-ble, French Ecclesiastic And Pub Licist: B. Grenoble, 14 March 1709; D. Paris, 23 April 1785. His Family Aame Was Bonnot. Like His Younger Brother, The Philosopher Condillac (q.v.), He Was Destined For The Church, And After Studying At The Seminary Of Saint Sulpice ...
Mabuse
Mabuse, Ian, Flemish Painter: B. Mauberge, Hainault, In 1472; D. Antwerp, 1 Oct. 1552. His Real Name Was Jean Gossart (or Gossaert). When He Became A Member Of The Guild Of Saint Luke At Antwerp In 1503, He Signed The Register As Jennyn Van Henegouwe (john Of Hainault). He Signed ...
Macadam
Macadam, A Modern System Of Road Making Invented By J. L. Macadam (q.v.), Which Consists In Forming The Roads Out Of Hard Materials Such As Granite, Or Basalt Broken Into Pieces, None Of Which Are Too Large To Pass Through An Iron Ring 2% Inches In Diameter, And Then Deposited ...