Methodist Churches Of The
Methodist Churches Of The World. A Group Of 25 Organized Bodies Which Represent An Evangelical Type Of The Christian Religion, And Which, Rising Under The Wesleys In England, In The 18th Century, Has Been Spread To All Countries And Has Become One Of The Great Christian Communions. History Of English ...
Methyl And Its Derivatives
Methyl And Its Derivatives, Ix Chemistry; This Name Is Given To The Hypo Thetical Radical Ch,, Assumed To Exist In Methylic Alcohol And In Very Many Other Carbon Compounds. Methyl Forms The First Of The Series Of Alcohol Radicals, The General Formula Of Which Is Cnhan+,, And Gives Rise To ...
Metric System
Metric System, The. In The Latter Half Of The 17th Century, The French Astronomer, Jean Picard (1671), And The Dutch Physicist, Christian Huyghens (1673), Proposed As A Standard Unit Of Length That Of A Seconds Pendu Lum At Sea-level On The 45th Degree Of Latitude. This Is Only About Six ...
Metternich
Metternich, Ma'ter-nin, Clair* Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince. 18tw Statesman: H. Coblenz, 15 May 1773: D Lee" 11 June 1859. He Was Educated At Strasltburg; When Only 17 Represented The Westphalian Princes At The Coronation Of Leopold Ii; Settled In Vienna In 1794; And Assured Himself A Place In Diplomacy By ...
Metz
Metz, Mets, Germany; An Itnportant Forti Fied City And Episcopal See 9f Alsace-lorraine, On The Moselle, Which Here Divides Into Several Arms, 79 Miles Northwest Of Strassburg. It Is The Third City Of Alsace-lorraine And Has Four Representatives In The First Chamber Of The Prussian Diet. The Major Part Of ...
Meuse
Meuse, Mez, Or Min, River Which Rises In France In The South Of The Department Haute Marne, And With A Northward Trend Crosses The Northwestern Corner Of The Department Vosges Where Between Bazielles And Noncourt It Has A Subterranean Course Of Three And A Half Miles. It Traverses The Departments ...
Mexican War
Mexican War, The. The Annexation Of Texas In 1845 Laid The Foundation For The War With Mexico. Although Texas Had Been For Many Years Practically Free, And Had Been Recognized By The United States, England, France And Other Countries,. Yet Mexico Still Re Fused To Acknowledge Its Independence. When Therefore ...
Mutton And Lamb
Mutton And Lamb. Mutton And Lamb Are Sold Almost Entirely In A Fresh Or Frozen State. The Bulk Of Supplies, Except Those Frozen, Are Disposed Of Within A Week Or 10 Days After Slaughter. Approximately Two-thirds To Three-fourths Of The Wholesale Supply Of Mutton And Lamb Consists Of Lamb. Classes ...
N H Manchester
Manchester, N. H., City, One Of The County-seats Of Hillsboro County On The Merri Mac River At The Mouth Of The Piscataquog And On Branches Of The Boston And Maine Railroad, About 17 Miles South Of Concord, The Capital Of The State, And 56 Miles North Of Boston. The First ...
N Y Malone
Malone, N. Y., Village, County-seat Of Franklin County, On The Salmon River, And On The New York Central And The Rutland Rail Roads, About 275 Miles North By West Of Albany, And 12 Miles From The Boundary Between The United States And Canada. It Is Situated At The Northern Foot-hills ...
Omit
Omit. As Early As The Beginning Of The 17th Cen Tury The City Of Manila Was Surrounded By A Wall Of Hewn Stone About Three Miles In Circuit. It Contained A College Conducted By The Jesuits, A School For Girls Called The Santa Potenciana, Two Hospitals, One For Spaniards And ...
Pauline Bradford Mackie Kins
Kins, Pauline Bradford Mackie Mckim, Charles Pollen, American Archi Tect: B. Chester County, Pa., 24 Aug. 1847; D. 14 Sept. 1909. He Studied At The Lawrence Scientific School In 1866, At The Beaux-arts Of Paris In 1867-70, And Shortly Afterward Entered Into Partnership With Sanford White And Wil Liam R. ...
Pow Ers And Appliances
Mechanical Movements, Pow Ers And Appliances. The Primary, Fundamental Mechanical Contrivances Are Termed The Mechanical Powers, Seven In Number And All Based On The Principles Of Either The Lever Or The Inclined Plane. The Common Classifi Cation Is The Lever, Wheel And Axle, Cord And Pulley, Toothed Wheels (these Four ...
Pulley
Pulley. Toothed Wheels, Now Commonly Called Gear Wheels, Illustrate Another Type Of Wheel Lever Age. Spur Gears Are Shown In Fig. 8; Here The Smaller Gear-wheel Rotates Twice To Cause One Revolution Of The Large Wheel; Thus A Small Wheel Secures Increased Power At Reduced Speed. In Fig. 9, The ...
Queen Or Mary Stuart
Mary Stuart (mary, Queen Or Soars), Queen Of Scotland: B. Linlithgow Pal Ace, 8 Dec. 1542; D. 8 Feb. 1587 At Fotheringay Castle. The Only Child Of James V Of Scotland And Mary Of Guise, She Was Proclaimed Queen Upon His Death, 14 Dec. 1542, And Was Crowned 9 Sept. ...
Reeks
Reeks, Ireland, A Pictures'que Mountain Range, In County Kerry, Extending For 13% Miles From The Lakes Of Killarney On The East To Lough Carra On The West, And Covering An Area Of 28 Square Miles. It Is The Loftiest Mann Taro Range In Ireland, Culminating In Carmn Tuohill, 3,414 Feet ...
Russo Japanese War
Russo-japanese War). By The Treaty Of Portsmouth, Signed 5 Sept. 1905, Which Con Cluded The War, The Russian Lease Of Port Ar Thur And Talien-wan, And The Southern Ex Tremity Of The Liao-tung Peninsula And The South Manchurian Railway Were Transferred To Japan 22 Dec. 1905. China Gave Official Sanction ...
Sir Macdonald
Macdonald, Sir John Alexander, Ca Nadian Statesman: B. Glasgow, Scotland, 11 Jan. 1815; D. Ottawa, Ontario, 6 June 1891. In Early Youth He Emigrated With His Father To Canada. At 21 He Was A Practising Barrister At Kings Ton, Upper Canada, And In 1844 He Was Elected To The Canadian ...
Sir Mackenzie
Mackenzie, Sir George, Scottish Law Yer: B. Dundee, 1636; D. Westminster, 8 May 1691. He Was A Grandson Of Kenneth, 1st Lord Mackenzie Of Kintail, And A Nephew Of The 1st And 2d Earls Of Seaforth. He Was Educated At The Universities Of Saint Andrew's And Aber Deen And Later ...
Sir Maurice
Maurice, Sir Frederick Barton, Major General, English Soldier: B. 19 Jan. 1871. He Entered The Army In 1892, Rose To Captain In 1899 And Brevet-major In 1900. He Served In The Tirah Campaign 1897-98 And In The South African War, 1899-1900. He Accompanied The First British Expeditionary Force In The ...
Sir Mawson
Mawson, Sir Douglas, Australian Geog Rapher: B. Bradford, Yorkshire, 1882. He Was Educated At Sydney University, Where He Was Graduated Bachelor Of Mining Engineer In 1901. In The Following Year He Was Demonstrator In Chemistry There. In 1903 He Made A Geological Exploration Of The New Hebrides And Lectured At ...
Sir Maxim
Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens, Anglo American Inventor: B. Sangerville, Me., 5 Feb. 1840; D. London, England, 24 Nov. 1916. As A Boy He Received His Early Education In The Country Schools Of Maine. What Little Spare Time He Had After Attending To His Work On The Farm And In His ...
Submarine Mines
Submarine Mines. Neutral Vessels Have A Right To Enter The Ports Of A Belligerent So Long As They Are Not Blockaded And They May Transport Supplies A And Trade With Such Ports, Subject To The Nit Governing Traffic In Contraband Goods. (see Contraband). Whether Neutral Vessels May Any Circumstances Be ...
Surface And Volume Of
Surface And Volume Of Solids. Prism.— This Includes Any Solid Two Of Whose Faces, Known As The Bases, Are Equal Polygons Situated In Parallel Planes And All The Other Faces, The Lateral Faces, Are Parallelograms. Thus In The Following Diagram (fig. 7) The Polygons Abc ... And A'b'c' ... Are ...
Wwi Marie Antoinette
' Marie Antoinette, !wwi In-toi-nee (fr. Ma-re An-twa-net), Queen Of France: B. Vienna, Austria, 2 Nov. 1755; D. Paris, 16 Oct. 1793. She Was The Daughter Of The Emperor Francis I And The Celebrated Maria Theresa. She Left Vienna For Versailles In 1770, When Only 15, To Marry The Young ...
Zoogeography
Zoogeography. Of The Vegetable Products Grown For Food By Far The Most Important Is Rice, The Staple Food Of The Inhabitants; Next In Importance Came Manioc Or Cassava, Sweet Potatoes, Beans, Tomatoes, Ground-nuts And Yams. Ginger, Pepper And Indigo Grow Wild In The Woods; Cotton, Sugarcane, Coffee, Tobacco And Hemp ...
Or Abaca Manila Hemp
Manila Hemp, Or Abaca, Musa It's' Tills. This Species Belongs To The Or Banana Family, The Commercial Fibre Being Rived From The Stalk Or Trunk Of The Wild Tain Of The Philippine Islands, And Is Classed As A Structural Fibre. The Strongest And Best Of Our Hard Cordage Fibres, It ...
Or Black Art Magic
Magic, Or Black Art, Was Formerly The Means Of Producing Supernatural Effects With The Assistance Of Evil Spirits. Doubtless In Very Remote Time Magic And Religion Were Practically One, But The Development Of Mental Ity Brought About A Differentiation. The Funda Mental Fact Was A Strong Belief In What Was ...
Or Bolsheviki Maximalists
Maximalists, Or Bolsheviki, The Name Applied To The Adherents Of The Extreme Socialist Party Which, Headed By Lenine And Trotzky, Overthrew The Provisional Government And The Soviet Leaders In Russia On 7 Nov. 1917. The Words "bolshevik° (sing.), "bol Shevik? (plural) And "bolshevism* Are Not Explanatory Terms And Have Nothing ...
Or Chewing Mastication
Mastication, Or Chewing, The Thorough Subdivision Of Food In The Mouth So That It Can Be Readily Acted Upon By The Gastric Juice And Other Digestive Secretions. The Tongue, Cheeks And Lips Push The Food Material Between The Teeth, And By The Lateral And Up And-down Motions Of The Lower ...
Or Manetho Seben Nyta
Manetho, Or Manetho Seben Nyta, Egyptian Historian: Native Of Seben Nytus, In The Delta And Of The Priestly Order. He Is Believed To Have Lived In The Reigns Of Ptolemy I And Ii And To Have Written In The Reign Of Ptolemy I (323-285 A.c.), Or Of Ptolemy Ii (285-247 ...
Or Marquezas Ormendana
Marquesas, Or Marquezas Or Mendana Lands, Or Les Marquises, Polynesia, An Island Group In The South Pacific Ocean, Lat. To 11° S ; Long. 30' To 141° W., Be Longing To France Since 1842 And Composed Of 12 Islands And Islets Divided Into Two Groups, The Northern And Southern, With ...
Or Mechanism
Mechanism, Or The Mechanical Theory, In Its Most General Significance. Means The Relation Of A Limited Number Of In Variable Substances To Each Other In Such A Way That They Vary In Their Relations According To Invariable Laws. More Specifically It Means The Explanation Of Phenomena By The Universal Laws ...
Or Medineh Medina
Medina, Or Medineh, Ara Bia, The Native Medinah-al-nabi Or City Of The Prophet (also Medinat Rasul Allah, City Of The Apostle Of God), 500 Miles Southeast Of Pales Tine, 250 Miles North Of Mecca And About 110 Miles East Of Yesnbu On The Red Sea. It Is Reached From Damascus ...
Or Medlark Meadow Lark
Meadow-lark, Or Medlark, A Beautiful American Starling (sturnella Morsel), Numerous In Eastern United States As Far West As The High Central Plains, Where It Is Replaced By A Variety (s. Neglecta) Remarkably Different In Song And Some Habits. It Is About 11 Inches Long And Tail Five Inches. The Body ...
Or Moulmein Maulmain
Maulmain, Or Moulmein, Mowl-min', Burma, The Capital Of The Tenasserim Division, And A Seaport Near The Mouth Of The Salwin River, On The Gulf Of Martaban 30 Miles From The Bay Of Bengal. The Town, Com Paratively Modern, Dating From 1826, Is Regu Larly Built On Level Ground Between The ...
Or Mugger Marsh Crocodile
Marsh Crocodile, Or Mugger, The Common Inland Crocodile Of India, Locally Venerated By The Hindus, To Whom It Is Known As "mugger." It Inhabits The Tanks And Marshes Of India And Ceylon, And Suitable Places Westward Almost To The Persian Coast And Eastward Throughout The Malay Peninsula And Islands. It ...
Or Quicksilver Mercury
Mercury, Or Quicksilver, A Me.; Tallic Element Which Has Been Known For Many Centuries And Which Is Distinguished From The Other Metallic Elements By The Fact • That It Is Liquid At Ordinary Temperatures. Mercury Oe Curs Native In The Metallic Form, But By Far The Larger Part Of It ...