Additive Complementary Hues
Additive Complementary Hues Wave Lengths, Fa Colors • 0.6562 0.4921 Yellow. Genuine Ultramarine. .6077 .4897 Green-yellow,artificial Ultramarine .5853 .4854 Gamboge. Cobalt Blue. .5739 .4821 Red, Green-blue. .5671 .4645 Orange, Cyan Blue. .5644 .4618 Green, Purple. .5636 .4330 • The Names Do Not Correspond To The Wave Lengths At The Left. ...
Band Contra
Contra,band. Contraband (from Con Tra Batman Or Bandum, Contrary To The Ban Or Edict), Is A Term Applied To Certain Articles Which International Law Allows A Belhgerent To Seize And Confiscate Even When Found On Neutral Vessels, And Which Are Being Transported For The Use Of The Enemy. By Means ...
Bronze
Bronze. The Chemical Symbol For Cop Per Is Cu (cuprum), And The Atomic Weight Of The Metal Is 63.1 If H ----- 1, And 63.6 If 0 = 16. Performs Two Distinct Series Of Salts, Known Respectively As "cuprous° Ind °cupric° Com Pounds, In The Cupric Series The Metal Is ...
Burg
Burg). By Moving Rapidly Down The Valley He Defeated Banks At Winchester (q.v.) And Forced Him Across The Potomac, 26 May. Re Turning, He Defeated Gen. J. C. Fremont At Cross Keys, 8 June, On One Flank And Gen. James Shields At Port Republic, 9 June, On The Other, And ...
C Ongress Of The
C Ongress Of The United States, Sessions Of And Politcal Parties In. In Accordance With The Usage Of The 'annals Of Congress,' The (register Of Debates In Con Gres.s,' The Congressional Globe And The Coil Vot. 7— 33 'greksional Record, We Have Used The Legislative Day For The Termination Of ...
Ccelenterata
Ccelenterata, Se-la-te-reti, A Phylum Of Animals Distinguished From All Others By The Following Aggregate Of Char Acters: Its Members Consist Of Two Layers Of Cells Only, Separated By A Gelatinous Layer, And Exhibit A More Or Less Pronounced Radial Sym Metry. They Possess Peculiar Nematocysts (q.v.) Or Stinging Organs, Which ...
Cceur
Cceur D'algne, Di-lin (fr. ((awl Heart"). (1) A Name Given By The French Voy Ageurs, Traditionally From The Stinginess Of A Chief, To A Tribe Of Indians Of The Salishan Stock, Though With A Dialect Widely Different From The Other Members. Their Own Name Is Skitswish, Which Lewis And Clarke ...
Cincinnati Cleveland
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi Cago And Saint Louis Railway Company, The. This Road, Better Laiown As The °big Four Route,)) Was Chartered In Ohio In 1889 As A Consolidation Of The Cincinnati, In Dianapolis, Saint Louis And Chicago Railway, The Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati And In Dianapolis Railway And The Indianapolis And ...
Civil Rights Bills 1
Civil Rights Bills. 1. An Act To Carry Out The Intention Of The 13th Amend Ment, Prohibiting Slavery— Which It Was Al Leged The Southern States Were Attempting To Nullify By Public And Private Action—and Se Cure The Political Equality Of The Ex-slaves With The Whites. It Provided That All ...
Civil Rights Cases
Civil Rights Cases. These Were Five Test Cases In The United States Supreme Court Of The Constitutionality Of Sections 1 And 2 Of The Second Civil Rights Bill, Described Above ,• Decided In One Group, October Term, 1893, And Reported And Cited Under The Title Above. All Came Up From ...
Civil Service
Civil Service, That Branch Of The Pub Lic Service Which Includes All Executive Offices Not Connected With The Army Or Navy. The Term Is Not Applied To The Direct Representatives Of The People, As The President Of The United States Or The Governor Of A State. Owing To The Complexity ...
Civil Service Reform
Civil Service Reform, The Im Provement Of The Civil Service In Methods Of Appointment, Rules Of Conduct, Etc.; In The United States, The Movement For The Appoint Ment Of Public Servants According To Their Fit Ness For Their Work, Rather Than Their Services To The Party In Power. In The ...
Civilization
Civilization, History Of. Tian. A Sketch Of The Intellectual And Material Achievements Of Humanlcind In Ancient Times ; Of Those Productions Of Man's Mind And Slcill, Which Have Had A Special Influence Upon The Thought And Life Of The World It Is Not Assumed That Dvilization Is Or Can Be ...
Civitali
Civitali, Matteo, Che-ve-tate, Tuscan Sculptor And Architect: B. Lucca, 5 June 1435; D. 12 Oct. 1501. He Followed The Occupation Of A Barber Until About 1470, And Evidently Found Some Time To Study Sculpture. In 1495 He Re Moved To Carrara, The Site Of The Famous Marble Quarries. His First ...
Claim
Claim, A Challenge Of Ownership Of A Thing Which Is Wrongfully Withheld From The Possession Of The Claimant. The Assertion Of Liability Of Some One, To The Party Making It, To Do Some Service Or Pay A Sum Of Money. The Possession Of A Settler Upon Lands Owned By A ...
Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance (lat. Clorus, Clear, + Videre, To See), Defined As The Power Of Perceiv Ing Without The Use Of The Organ Of Vision Or Under Conditions In Which The Organ Of Vision With Its Natural Powers Alone Would Be Useless. It Comprises The Sight Of Things Past, Present Or Future. ...
Clam
Clam. While The Vernacular Name Clam Is Indiscriminately Applied To Any Large Edible Bivalve, It Usually Refers To The Narthern Alone Or Soft-shelled Clam (mya Arenaria), In Dis Tinction From The Round Clam, Hard7shell Clam, Or Quahog (venus Mercenaria), Which Extends From Cape Cod Southward, Though Occasionally Found As Far ...
Clamecy
Clamecy, Kla-mi-se, France, Town In The Departtnent Nievre, 38 Miles Northeast Of Nevers, Left Bank Yonne, At The Mouth Of The Beuvron. It Was Formerly Surrounded By Enor Mous Walls, And Defended By A Castle Which Commanded The Town And Environs. One Of Its Suburbs, Situated On The Opposite Side ...
Clare
Clare, Saint, Or Saint Clara, Ital Ian Nun: B. Assisi, 11 July 1194; D. 11 Aug. 1253. She Was Born Of A Noble Family Of Assisi. When Very Young She Was Attracted By Tile Accounts Of The Work Being Done By Saint Francis (q.v.), A Young Man Of Her Native ...
Clarence
Clarence, Dukes Of, A Title Of English Dukes Whose Origin And Early History Is Identical With That Of The Family Of Clare, Earls Of Glou Cester, Who Are Sometimes Called Earls Of Clare," Of Which "clarence" Is A Later Form. The 1st Duke Of Clarence Was Lionel Of B. Antwerp, ...
Clarendon
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Emit Of, English Statesman : B. Dinton, Wiltshire, 18 Feb. 1609; D. Rouen, France, 9 Dec. 1674. He Com Menced His Political Career In 1640, When He Was Returned To Parliamenf. In This Parliament He Argued In Favor Of A Grant To The King, Which Was Successfully ...
Clarendon_2
Clarendon, George William Fred Erick Villiers, 4t1-1 Earl Of, English States Man: B. 12 Jan. 1800; D. 27 June 1870. By His Mother, Lord Clarendon Was Indirectly Related To The Hydes, The Family Of The Great Earl Of Clarendon, Author Of The 'history Of The Re Bellion.) He Was Educated ...
Clarendon_3
Clarendon, Constitutions Of, A Code Of Laws Limiting The Fields Of Ecclesiastical And Secular Power In The Courts Of England, Adopted In The Reign Of Henry Ii (january 1164), At A Council Of Prelates And Barons Held At The Vil Lage Of Clarendon, In Wiltshire. These Laws, Finally Digested Into ...
Clarissa Harlowe
Clarissa Harlowe. 'clarissa Har Lowe> Is The Novel Upon Which Rests The Fame Of Samuel Richardson. As Originally Pub Lished, It Consists Of Seven Volumes, Which Al), Peared In Instalments; The First Two Volumes In November 1747, The Third And Fourth In April 1748, And The Fifth, Sixth And Seventh ...
Clark
Clark, Champ, American Statesman: B. Lawrenceburgh, Anderson County, Ky., 7 March 1850. In His Own Biography He Gives His Early Life: ((worked As A Hired Hand, Clerked In A Country Store, Edited A Country Newspaper And Finally Practised Law.)) He Was Graduated At Bethany College A.b. 1873, And At The ...
Clark University
Clark University, Worcester, Mass., Founded In 1887 By The Gift Of Jonas Gilman Clark (q.v.), And The Work Of Instruction Began In 1889. At First The Institution Was Devoted Wholly To Post-graduate Work. Those Only Were Admitted As Students Who Had Taken A First Degree And Who Gave Promise Of ...
Clark_2
Clark, Francis Edward, American Cler Gyman: B. Aylmer, Quebec, 12 Sept. 1851. Son Of Charles G. Symmes, He Was Orphaned At Eight Years And Adopted By His Uncle, Rev. E. W. Clark, Whose Name He Assumed. He Was Grad Uated From Dartmouth College In 1873 And Con Tinued His Studies ...
Clark_3
Clark, George Rogers, American Pio Neer: B. Monticello, Va., 19 Nov. 1752; D. Near Louisville, Ky., 13 Feb. 1818. He Studied Sur Veying And At 20 Settled In Ohio, Serving In The Indian Wars Of That Region. In The Spring Of 1775 He Was Employed As Deputy Surveyor Under Captain ...
Clark_4
Clark, William Andrews, American Business Man And Politician : B. Near Connells Ville, Pa., 8 Jan. 1839, Of Scotch-irish Parentage. He Had A Common School Education And Was Preparing For College Which Was Interrupted By The Removal Of His Family To Iowa. In That State He Attended An Academy At ...
Clarke
Clarke, Edward Daniel, English Trav Eler, Antiquary And Mineralogist: B. Willingdon, Sussex, 1769; D. London, 9 March 1822. In 1799 He Started On An Extensive And Laborious Tour Through Denmarlc, Sweden, Lapland, Finland, Russia, Tartary, Circassia, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Greece And Turkey, Returning In 1802 Through Germany And ...
Clarke_2
Clarke, James P., American Public Official And Legislator: B. Yazoo City, Miss., 18 Aug. 1854; D. Little Rock, Ark., 8 Oct. 1916. He Attended The Common Schools Of Yazoo City And Later Obtained A Finished Education By Saving His Earnings As A Printer On The Yazoo Herald. He Studied Law ...
Clarke_3
Clarke, John, American Clergyman: B. Suffolk, England, 8 Oct. 1609; D. Newport, R. I., 26 April 1676. He Was A Physician In London, And Came To Massachusetts Soon After Its First Settlement; But Being One Of The Friends Of Anne Hutchinson, Was Obliged To Flee With Her And Her Associates ...
Classifying Class
Class, Classifying, Classifica Tion. When The Domain Of A Science Com Prehends A Very Great Number Of Objects Which It Is Necessary To Describe, Or Whose Analogies And Differences Require To Be Assigned, It Is Always Useful, And Sometimes Indispensable, To Make A Methodical Distribution Of These Objects, To Group ...
Claude Lorraine
Claude. Lorraine, Klod Lor-raii, Or Lorrain, So-called, French Landscape Painter And Etcher: B. Chamagne In Lorraine, France, 1600; D. Rome, 25 Nov. 1682. His Real Name Was Claude Gelfe: He Was Called Lorraine From The Province In Which He Was Born. When 12 Years Old It Is Said He Went ...
Claudius I
Claudius I, Or, In Full, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germani Cus, 4th Roman Emperor: B. Lyons, 10 A.c.; D. 54 A.d. He Was The Youngest Son Of The Elder Claudius Drusus Nero And Antonia The Younger, The Daughter Of Augustus' Sister. His Early Education Was Left To Women And Slaves; ...
Clausewitz
Clausewitz, Kstrl Von, Prussian Military Officer: B. Burg, 1 June 1780; D. Breslau, 16 Nov. 1831. His Family Settled In Germany At The End Of The Previous Century. He First Saw Service In The Rhine Campaigns Of 1793-94, Receiving His Commission At The Siege Of Mainz. After His Return From ...
Clausius
Clausius, Klow'ze-fis, Rudolf, German Physicist: B. Koslin, Pomerania, 2 Jan. 1822; D. Bonn, 24 Aug. 1888. He Studied At Berlin And Aftenvard Lectured On Natural Philosophy As Privat-docent At Berlin, And As Professor At The Ziirich Polytechnic School. In 1869 He Was Appointed To The Chair Of Natural Philosophy At ...
Clay
Clay, Henry, American Statesman : B. Hanover County, Va., 12 April 1777; D. Wash Ington, D. C., 29 June 1852. Clay Was Born In A Region Of Virginia Which Was Already De Clining And From Which People Were Constantly Emigrating. His Parents Were, However, Well To-do Owners Of Slaves. The ...
Clay Working Machinery
Clay-working Machinery, Ma Chines Designed For The Proper Preparation Of Clay Which Is Subsequently Used In The Manu Facture Of Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Etc., In The Produc Tion Of Which The Importance Of The Proper Preparation Of The Clay Can Scarcely Be Over Estimated. A Great Many Of The Subsequent ...
Clayton Bulwer Treaty
Clayton-bulwer Treaty, A Treaty Existing From 1850 To 1901 Between The United States And Great Britain. It Was An Agreement Designed To Prevent Either Country From Secur Ing Exclusive Rights Over Any Interoceanic Canal Across Nicaragua. (see Panama Canal). Its Origin Represented A Supposed Mutual Withdrawal From Positions Rapidly Generat ...
Cleavage
Cleavage. Many Crystallized Substances When Sharply Struck Or Subjected To Pressure Or Heat Or Other Disturbing Forces Split Into Fragments Boimded By Smooth Plane Surfaces Which Are Patalbel To Crystal Faces Of The Sub Stance. If The Separation Can Be Obtained With Equal Ease In Any Part Of Any Crystal ...
Cleft Palate
Cleft Palate. Cleft Palate Is The Re Sult Of Failure Of Union, In Embryo, Of The Ele Ments Of Which The Palate Is Composed. Cleft Palate, Including The Velum Uvula, Hard Palate And Alveolar Process, With Harelip, Either Single Or Double, Invariably Is Congenital. Defects Of The Palate Resulting From ...
Cleistogamous Flowers
Cleistogamous Flowers (from Gk. Iaelark, Closed, And Yaps', Marriage). In Most Of Our Familiar Plants The Flower Is Open To The Air, So That There Is A Possibility Of Cross-fertilization. Indeed, In Many Plants, Such As The Primrose, The Gentian, Etc., Self-pollination Is Rendered Difficult Or Impossible By The Struc ...
Clelie
Clelie. In (cialie) Madeleine De Scudery Undertook To Do For Parisian Bourgeois Society What She Had Done For The Aristocratic Pricieux In (le Grand Cyrus.' The First Volume Of (clelie) Appeared In 1654, The Tenth And Last In 1660. Together They Count Over 8,000 Pages. The Scene Opens 'in Ancient ...
Clemenceau
Clemenceau, Georges Benjamin Eu Gene, Lcla-m66.-so, French Editor And Statesman: B. Chateau De L'aubraie, Feole, Ven Dee, 28 Sept. 1841. He Studied Medicine At Paris, And Began The Practice Of His Profession There. Before He Was 20 Georges Was Thrown Into Prison For Shouting °vive La Republique P On The ...
Clemens
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, American Humorist; More Generally Known By His Pseudo Nym Mark Twain : B. Florida, Mo., 30 Nov. 1835; D. Redding, Conn., 21 April 1910. He Received Only A Scanty School Education, And In 1843 Became Apprentice To A Printer, Subse Quently Working At This Trade In Philadelphia, ...
Clement Xiv
Clement Xiv (gtovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli), Pope: B. San Arcan Gelo, Near Rimini, Italy, 31 Oct. 1705; D. 22 Sept. 1774. He Was A Franciscan Friar, A Man Of Great Piety And Worth; The Friend And Con Fidant Of Benedict Xiv. He Was Elected Pope In 1769 After A Struggle ...
Clement Of Alexandria
Clement Of Alexandria, Saint (clemens Alexandrinus), Greek Theologian, One Of The Most Eminent And Learned Of The Fathers Of The Church. Very Little, Almost Nothing, Is Known Regarding His Life. The First Mention Of Him By A Writer Living In Or Near His Time Is Made By Eusebius Of Caesarea ...
Clementi
Clementi, Mnzio, Kla-men'te, Italian Pianist And Composer: B. Rome 1752; D. Eves Ham, England, 10 March 1832. He Studied Under A Relative, Buroni, And In 1761 Became H An Organist. E Studied Counterpoint With Carpani And Singing With Santarelli. As Early As His 12th Year He Wrote A Successful Mass ...
Cleopatra
Cleopatra, Kle-ö-pa'tra, The Name Of Several Egyptian Princesses, Of Whom The Most Renowned Was The Eldest Daughter Of Ptolemy Auletes: B. 69 Or 68 }lc.- D. 30 B.c. With Her Eldest Brother Ptolemy She Shared The Throne Of Egypt. Both Were Minors At The Death Of Their Father, And Were ...
Cleopatras Needles
Cleopatra's Needles, Two Obelisks, Formerly At Alexandria, One Of Which Is Now In New York, The Other In London. They Are Made Of Red Syenite, Quarried At The First Cata Ract, And Were Originally Erected By Thothmes Iii In The 40th Year Of His Reign (about 1,460 A.c.) In Front ...
Clermont
Clermont, The, The Name Given By Robert Fulton (q.v.) To The Steamboat In Which He Made His First Trip From New York To Al Bany, 11 Aug. 1807. The Speed Attained Was Only Five Miles Per Hour. Raii, France, Town In The Department Of Puy De-dome, Of Which It Is ...
Cleveland
Cleveland, (stephen) Grover, 22d President Of The United States: B. Caldwell, N. J., 18 March 1837; D. Princeton, N. J., 24 June 1908. Grover Was The Fifth Of A Family Of Nine Children Born To Rev. Richard F. Cleve Land, A Graduatc Of Yale (1824) And Presby Terian Clergyman, And ...
Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio, City And County-seat Of Cuyahoga County. The City Of Cleveland Was Chartered In 1836, 21 Years After Its Incorporation As A Village In 1815; The Original Survey Was Made Under The Superin Tendence Of Moses Cleaveland For The Con Necticut Land Company In 1796. It Is Now The ...
Cliff Dwellers
Cliff-dwellers. This Term, Although Of Broader Application, Means In America That Prehistoric Race That Built The Houses And Vil Lages Whose Ruins Are Found In The Southwest Ern Part Of The United States, And Especially In The Valley Of The Rio San Juan And Its Tribu Taries. This River Rises ...
Climate
Climate (gr. Kalpa, 6a Slope Or Inclina Tion"). The Term Was Used To Denote The Ef Fect Of The Oblique Rays Of The Sun On The Tem Perature Of The Earth And Its Atmosphere. To Day It.is Applied To The Sum Of The Atmospheric Condiuons As Recorded For A Long ...
Climate And Climatic Species
Climate And Climatic Species And Varieties. Although A Half Century Ago It Was Generally Held That Changes Of Climate Have Not Profoundly Affected Organisms, Yet The Recent Detail Study Of Variation Has Shown That Climate Mysitocal Influences Have Been Th*-canses Of Origin Of Probably A Very Large Number Of The ...
Climate In The Treatment
Climate In The Treatment Of Disease. The Relation Of Climate To Health And Disease Is A Definite One And Its Varying Conditions Become 'more Specifically Available In Prophylaxis And Treatment As Knowledge Con Cerning Them Becomes More Exact. Moreover, The Genetic Concept Which Is Gaining Prevalence, Of A Developed Response ...
Clinton
Clinton, De Witt, American Statesman: B. Little Britain, New Windsor, Orange County, N. Y., 2 March 1769; D. Albany, 11 Feb. 1828. His Descent On The Father's Side Was From Eng Lish Ancestors Long Domiciled In Ireland, And On The Mother's Side He Was Of French Extrac Tion. His Education ...
Clive
Clive, Robert, Baron Clive, English Soldier And Statesman: B. Shropshire, 29 Sept. 1725; D. London, 22 Nov. 1774. His Father Ob Tained For Him The Place Of A Writer In The East India Company's Service, And In His 19th Year He Went In That Capacity To Madras. Two Years Later ...
Clock
Clock. All Instruments For The Accurate Measurement Of Time Have Three Parts In Com Mon. One Is A Vibrating Body, Which May Be A Pendulum Swinging Under The Force Of Gravity, Or A Balance Wheel Vibrating On Its Axis Through The Action Of An Elastic Spring. The Second Feature Is ...
Clocks
Clocks, Historical And Celebrated. The Most Ancient Form Of Clock Was The Clepsydra (q.v.) Or Water-clock. The Clepsydra Having Been Developed Into A Device With A Dial And Indicator Operated By The Current Of Water, The Next Improvement Was The Substitution Of A Weight For The Water To Operate The ...
And Strathearn Connaught
Connaught, And Strathearn, Duke Of, Arthur William Patrick Albert, English Prince, Sixth Child And Third Son Of Queen Victoria: B. Buckinkhant Palace, I May 1850. He Entered The Military Academy At Woolwich As A Cadet In 1866; Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 1868; Royal Ar Tillery 1869; Captain, Rifle Brigade, 1871. On ...