Africa And America
Africa And America. Great Britain In Egypt And The Sudan.— The Interest Of Modern Europe In Egypt Was First Stirred By Napoleon's Romantic Campaign There In 1798. French Interest Survived During The First Half Of The 19th Century, And In 1869 A French Engineer, Ferdinand De Lesseps, Com Pleted The ...
Ala Wilsons Raid From
Wilson's Raid From Chicka Saw To Selma, Ala., And Macon, Ga. After The Defeat Of Hood's Army At Nash Ville (q.v.) 15-16 Dec. 1864, Gen. James Li Wilson Proceeded To Complete The Organization Of A Cavalry Corps, With Which It Was Proposed To Overrun The South And Destroy Its Railroads ...
Ation A Lism
Ation A Lism. All Of The Motives Leading To Overseas Ex Pansion Have Been Powerfully Advanced And Given New Energy By The Industrial Revolution Of The 18th And 19th Centuries, Which Has Fur Nished The Perfected Mechanism Of Modern Ex Pansion And Has Greatly Augmented The Eco Nomic Motives For ...
Duke Of Aquitaine And
William Ix, Duke Of Aquitaine And Cot•sr Or Poems:. The First Great Provencal Poet: H. 1071; D. 1127. He Appears To Have Led A 'very Licentious Life, Which Is Constantly Re Flected In His Poems. His Poetical Work Is Of Special Interest As It Stands At The Beginning Of The ...
Glutton Wolverine
Wolverine, Glutton, Or Car Cajou, A Carnivorous Mammal (gulo Luscus), Of The Weasel Family (masttlichr) But Differing Greatly In Appearance From The Lit And Slender Weasels Typical Of That Family. E Wolverine Is A Short, Thick, Heavily-buih Animal About Two And One-half Feet Long, Whose Short Legs, Sub-plantigrade Feet And ...
Great Brttain
Great Brttain — Foreign Policy In India; India. 4. Modems Imperialism In The Far East —the Western Intrusion In Chica.—of All The Devel Opments In Modern Imperialism That Which Will Probably Possess The Greatest Significance For The Future Of World History Is The Establishment Of Contact Between Western Civilization And ...
Hitman College
Hitman College, Located At Walla Wash. It Was Founded By Cushing Ells 1 Emorial To Marcus Whitman (q ) It I14`, Artered In 1859 As Whitman Seminary, S Not Open To Students Till 1866; In 1882 Were Extended, The Standard Raised A Acharter Obtained In 1883 By Which The ...• ...
Hymnss Atic
Hymns's' Atic Puss; Hydraulic Ram; Power Transmission; Pumps And Pumping Ma Chinery. Hydraulic In The Hydraulic Lifts Or Elevators, The Admission And Discharge Valves Are Worked By Band At The Will Of The Operator, But In The Engines The Mechanism Betimes The Valves Automatically And Period Ically, Thus Converting, The ...
Impounding And Distribution Of
Calliction, Impounding And Distribution Of Water Supplies. In The Collection, Impounding And Distribu Tion Of Water For Water-supply Purposes, A Few Systems Will Suffice To Illustrate How Many Operate. As Already Stated, Many Communities Obtain Their Supply From Ground Waters By Means Of Wells And Spri. Batavia In The East ...
Litulature Yak
Litulature. Yak, The Native Name For The Wild Ox (hos Grionniens) Of The Mountainous Regions Of Tibet. There Are Two Races: The Wild Yak, Generally Black, Which Is Found Near The Snow Line, Descending Into The Valleys In Winter, And A Domesticated Race, Usually Half-breeds, Of Various Colors, Black And ...
M Esopota M Ia
M Esopota M Ia. Great Britain And Russia In Western Asia— The History Of Persia In Modern Times Has Been One Of The Most Revolting On Record, The Government Not Being One In Which Tyranny Was Tempered By Assassination, But One In Which Tyranny Reveled In Assassination And Massacre. It ...
Machinery
Machinery Em Braces The Various Machines Employed To Re Duce The Timber As Cut In The Forests Into Lum Ber, Shingles, Doors, Sashes, Moldings, Veneers, Barrels, Buckets And The Endless Variety Of Wooden Objects And Contrivances Used For In Dustrial Purposes. As The Woods Upon Which They Arc Used Vary ...
N C Wilmington
Wilmington, N. C., City, Port Of Entry, County-seat Of New Hanover County, On The Cape Fear River, 30 Miles From The Ocean Bar And Yet Its Harbor Is Of Fresh Water; And On The Atlantic Coast Line And The Seaboard Air Line Railroads. It Was First Settled In 1730 And ...
N C Winston
Winston, N. C. See Wirtstort-stazg. N. C., Twin City, County-seat Of Forsyth County, On The Nor Folk And Western And The Southern Railroads, 115 Miles North Of Raleigh And 28 Miles West Of Greensboro. Winston And Salem Have In Dependent Municipalities, But As They Are One Commercially And Industrially, They ...
N Y Watertown
Watertown, N. Y. City, County-seat Of Jefferson County, On The Black River, About 10 Miles From Its Entrance To Black River Bay, An Arm Of Lake Ontario, And On The New York Central Railroad (saint Lawrence And Ontario Divisions), About 80 Miles Northwest Of Utica And 73 Miles North Of ...
N Y White Plains
White Plains, N. Y., Village, County Seat Of Westchester County, On The Harlem Di Vivicm Of The New York Central And Hudson River Railroad, About 20 Miles From The Cen Tral Part Of New York City. It Has Several Manufactories And Has Grown Rapidly As A Residential Suburb. It Has ...
Purification Of Water Supplies
Purification Of Water Supplies. This Is So Important That It Must Be Considered At Some Length And Under Several Subheadings. Enough Has Al Ready Been Said To Show That Nearly All Waters In Their Natural Or Raw State Are Unsuitable For Potable Uses, Hut Most Unpolluted Surface Waters May Be ...
Relations With Japan
Relations With ; Japan — Diplomatic Rela Tions With ; Russia And The War. 5. Latin America In Modern Imperialism.— On Account Of Its Original Settlement By Span Ish, Portuguese And French, The American Con Tinent And Adjacent Islands From The Southern Boundary Of The United States To Cape Horn ...
Sir Wentworth
Wentworth, Sir John, English Colo Nial Governor Of New Hampshire. And After Ward Of Nova Scotia: B. Portsmouth, N. H.. 9 Aug. 1737; D. Halifax, N. S., 8 April 1820. He Was A Nephew Of Benning Wentworth (q.v.). He Was Graduated At Harvard In 1755, Being A Classmate Of John ...
Sir Wilson
Wilson, Sir William James Erasmus, English Surgeon And Philanthropist: H. London, 25 Nov. 1809; D. Westgate-on-sea, Kent, 8 Aug. 1884. He Went Through A Course Of Hospital Practice In Paris, Where He Became Known To Cuvier And Geoffroy De Saint Hilaire, Later At Tached Himself To The Aldersgate School Of ...
Steel
Steel Brass Expansion Of The Brass Portion Causing The Bar To Curve Upward. If Cold Was Applied Instead Of Heat The Bar Would Be Deflected In The Op Posite Direction (as Shown In Figure 4). Figure 5 Shows A Watch Balance, In Which The Arms And The Inner Portion Of ...
Waste Lands
Waste Lands, Uncultivated And Un Profitable Tracts In Populous And Cultivated Countries. The Term Waste Lands Is Not Employed With Reference To Land Not Reduced To Cultiva Tion In Countries Only Partially Settled. There Is A Large Extent Of Waste Lands Even In The British Islands. Of The 77,800000 Acres ...
Wastes
Wastes, City, Disposal Of. The Public Wastes Of A City May Be Grouped Into Three Classes: (1) Sewage; (2) City Refuse; (3) Trade Refuse. The First Class Is Specifically Treated Under The Title Seweaage. The Third Class Con Sists Of Such Material As Earth From Excavations, Refuse From Building Operations, ...
Watchmaking
Watchmaking, Modern. It Is An Ac Cepted Fact Of Borological History That The Port Able Mechanism From Which Has Been Evolved The Modern Pocket Watch Had Its Origin In Ger Many. And Until The Last Half Of The 19th Cen Tury The Watchmaking Industry Was Confined To A Few European ...
Water Beetles
Water-beetles, The Numerous Species Of Beetles Which Inhabit Water. A Common Mode Of Life Does Not Indicate Blood Relation Ship, And The Various Aquatic Beetles Belong To A Number Of Quite Distinct Families. Besides Those Which Are Aquatic Throughout Their Lives Quite A Large Number Of Beetles Live In Or ...
Water Color Painting
Water-color Painting, In Contra Distinction To Oil Painting, The Use Of Water Gen Erally Interfused With Gum Arabic As A Vehicle For Applying Colors, Very Often Transparently, To A White Surface. Anciently, There Were Three Distinct Methods Of Water-color Painting, And These Were Known As Tempera, Encaustic And Fresco. Tempera, ...
Water Gaps
Water Gaps. See Delawarz Want Gee; Stream Pinner; Trellised Drainage A Mixture Of Gases Produced By The Action Of Steam On Incandescent Carbon. The Carbon First Decomposes The Steam, Forming Hydrogen And Carbon Dioxide, And The Latter Gas Then Combines With More Carbon To Form The Inflammable Carbon Monoxide. Thus ...
Water Glass
Water Glass, A Substance Which, When Solid, Resembles Glass, But Is Slowly Soluble In Boiling Water, Although It Remains Unaffected By Ordinary Atmospheric Changes. It Consists Of Soluble Silicates Of Potash Or Soda, Or A Mixture Of Both. The Soda Glass Has The Formula, Nat0.3sios A Substance Of This Kind ...
Water Hemlock
Water-hemlock, Deadly Poisonous Plants (cicala) Of The Carrot Family, Known Also By Many Other Names, Such As Beaver Poison, Spotted Parsley, Muskrat-weed And Musquash-root, The Latter Names Being Borrowed From The Muskrat, Which Inhabits Such Swamps As The Cicala Affects; And The Odor Of The Roots Of Curtain Species Of ...
Water Laws
Water Laws, The Body Of Legislative Enactment And Legal Decisions Governing The Rights To The Use Of Water. In Comparison Inds The Laws Concerning Ownership Of Land And Of Other Property The Water Laws, Par Ticularly In The United States, Are Extremety Complicated. There Is A Great Amount Of Law ...
Water Meter
Water Meter, A Mechanism By Which The Quantity Of Water Or Any Other Liquid Flow Ing Through Pipes Is Measured And Recorded Automatically. They Are Of Three General Types — The 'positive,' The 'inferential' And The •pro Portional* Meters. Positive Meters Measure The Actual Volume Of The Water, By The ...
Water Motor
Water Motor. In Its Broadest Sense The Term Is Applicable To All Forms Of Machines Or Systems Of Machinery Operated By Water Un Der The Force Of Gravity, Or In Other Words, By Sshich The Energy Inherent In A Natural Water Fall Is Utilized To Perform Mechanical Work. There Are ...
Water Power
Water Power. Water Power Is De Rived From The Conversion Of The Energy Of Fall Ing Water Into Mechanical Work. If A Volume Of Water Having A Weight Tv In Pounds Is Situ Ated At A Height It In Feet Above A Plane Of Reference, It Possesses A Potential Energy ...
Or Barm Yeast
Yeast, Or Barm, Is A Micro-organism Of The Vegetable Kingdom And Belongs In The Order Of The Gymnoascerr To The Family Of The Saccisaramycetes, Of Which There Are Three Classes, Namely, Monospora, Saccharoonyces And Schisosaccharomyces. The Main Charac Teristic Of The First Class, As Its Name Indicates, Is That It ...
Or By Products Waste
Waste, Or By-products. Waste Is That Portion Of Raw Material Used In :my Specific Manufacture Which Is In The Proses : Rendered Useless For That Particular Line. Wwever, The Name Is Sometimes Retained Long After A Sub Stance, At One Time Of Little Or No Value, Has Been Utilized As ...
Or Elthams Land Ing
West Point, Or Eltham's Land Ing (va.), Engagement At. When Yorktown (q.v.) Was Abandoned, 4 May 1862, It Was Intended Y General Mcclellan That Franklin's Division, Followed By Sedgwick's, Porter's And Richard Son's, Should Be Moved In Transports Up York River To A Place Opposite West Point And, Strik Ing ...
Or Ground H00 Woodchuck
Woodchuck, Or Ground-h00, As American Marmot (arctmnyi Or Alamota Ononax), 18 To 24 Inches Long, Grizzled Above And Chestnut Red Below, The Feet And Tail Black Ish. It Is Found From Hudson Bay To South Carolina, And West To The Neighborhood Of The Rocky Mountains, Several Distinct Sub-species And Varieties ...
Or Huron Wyandot
Wyandot, Or Huron (english Adap Tation Of The French Ottendat, Or Hollandale, Later Written Gurntiotle, From The Native Name Gendai, Signifying, They Are Is Landers'). A Tribe Composed Of The Rem Nants Of Several Politically Lodependent Iroquoian Tribes ' • • • Rs Whose Political Integrity Was Ciestroyea Oy The ...
Or New Windsor Windsor
Windsor, Or New Windsor, Eng Land, A Town In Berkshire, On The Thames, 21 Miles By Rail West Of London. Windsor And Eton (q.v.) Practically Form One Town, Which Is Chiefly Interesting On Account Of The Castle And Park, A Favorite Residence Of The English Sovereigns Since The Time Of ...
Or Parks Zoological Gardens
Zoological Gardens, Or Parks. Places For The Keeping And Attractive Display Of Living Animals, Where They May Live As Far As Possible, In The Open Air And Under Natural Conditions; A Zoological Garden Thus Differs From A Menagerie, As That Term Is Now Under Stood, In That In The Latter ...
Or Squeteague Weakfish
Weakfish, Or Squeteague, A Spiny-rayed Fish Of The Genus Cynoscion And Family It Has No Teeth On The Vomer Or Palate Bones, But Numerous Ones In The Jaws, Which Are Weakly In Structure; The Air-bladder Has A Horn On Each Side Projecting Forward. The Genus Is Chiefly American, With About ...
Or Summer Duce Wood
Wood Duck, Or Summer Duce. The Most Beautiful Of American Docks (at: Span). The Bill Is Very High At The Base. Than The Head; Nail Very Large And Much Hooked; Head Crested; Tail Abort, Shaped. The Bead And Crest Are Metallic Green, Glossed On The Sides With Line Through The ...
Or Whaling
Whaling, Or The Pursuit Of Whales As An Industry, Existed In The North Atlantic Ocean At A Remote Period. There Are Obscure Refer Cam To It In Norwegian And English History As Early As The Beginning Of The 10th Century. Is The 11th Century The Basques Pursued The North Atlantic ...
Or Widu Kind Wittekind
Wittekind, Or Widu Kind, Saxon Leader In The Struggle With Charlemagne: D. About 807. He Came Of A Noble Westphalian House, And First Appears At The Head Of The Saxon Expedition Against The Westphalian Fortress Of Eresburg In 1774. Charlemagne's Return From Lombardy Drove Him Across The Weser, And Instead ...
Or Wigeon Widgeon
Widgeon, Or Wigeon, A Of The Genus Widgeons Hate A Short Bill, Rounded At The Tip, With A Strong, Broad Nail, And The Upper Lamellae Prominent; Wings Long And Pointed; Tail, Moderate And Wedge Shaped There Are About 10 Species In Various Parts Of The World. They Arc Found On ...
Or Wigton Wigtown
Wigtown, Or Wigton, County Form Ing The Southwest Corner Of Scotland; Bounded West By The North Channel, North By Ayrshire, Cast By The Stcwartry Of Kirkcudbright And The Solvay Firth, And South By The Irish Sea. The Extent From Cast To West Is About 33 Miles, From North To South ...
Or Wilprith Wilfrid
Wilfrid, Or Wilprith, Saint, Anglo Saxon Prelate: H. About 634; D. Oundle. North Amptonshire, 709. He Studied At Lindisfarne. Became A Monk, And In 653 Accompanied Bene Dict Biscop To Rome In Order To Obtain An Authoritative Answer To The Question Of The Proper Time For Celebrating F.aster. On His ...
Or Wych Witch
Witch, Or Wych, Elm, The Common Broad-leaved Elm (camas Glabra) Of England And Scotland, Which Does Not Grow To So Large Dimensions As The Field Elm; Nevertheless At Selborne, Gilbert White Measured A Witch Elm Which, Seven Feet From The Ground, Was Eight Feet In Diameter. It Is A Tree ...
Or Wycliff Wickliff
Wickliff, Or Wycliff, John, English Reformer: B. Sprcswcll, Yorkshire, Probably About 13.30; D. Lutterworth, 31 Dec. 1384. He Studied At Balliol College, Oxford. Of Which He Became Master Between 1356 And 1361, In Which Later Year He Was Appointed By His College To The Living Of Fillingham, In Lincolnshire. About ...