Me Tit Eom Of
Me Tit Eom: Of Exmatexer. Most Of The Modern Critics Of Natural Selection Eontend That The Raw Material Of Which It Is Said To Stand In Need Is Supplied By That Influence Of The Condi Tions Of Life Which We Are Accustomed To Slim Up 'under The General Word 'experience.' ...
Metal
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Military Bridges And Docks
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Military Cadet
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Mineral
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Modern Works In Bronze
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Montgomery 1813 83 Blair
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Mouse Brunswick
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Municipal Expenditures Government
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Muscular System
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Musical Bethlehem
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Naval Cadet
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Nervous System
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Nicholas 1636 1711
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Nining
Nining. Mining Is The Principal Industry Of The Province. Placer Mining For Gold Was Car Ried On Extensively As Early As 1857 Along The Fraser River And Its Tributaries. In 1863 The Output Reached $3,900,000. A Large Part Being Obtained From The Northern Interior, About The Headwaters Of The Fraser. ...
Ole Bornemann 1810 80 Bull
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Operation An
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Orestes Augustus 1803 76brownson
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Painting
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Parks
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Patitology
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Paul 1824 So Broca
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Paul Bourget
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Paul Emile 1802 70 Botta
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Paving Bricks
Paving-bricks Are Coming Into Use In The United States With Great Rapidity. Clay For Paving-brick Should Stand Vitrification. Or. More Properly, Semi-nitrification. Without Losing Its Shape; But It Need Not Be A Fire-clay. Shale Is Much Used For The Purpose. Paving-hricks Are Often Repressed. The Finished Product Should Lie Tough, ...
Peter 1565 1622 Biard
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Phonetic Character
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Pierre 1698 175s Bougtjer
Bougtjer, Pierre (1698-175s). A French Mathematician And Physicist, The Founder Of Photometry. He Was Born At Croisic, In Bretagne, And Studied In The Jesuit College At Vannes. In 1713 He Succeeded His Father As Professor Of Hydrography In Croisie, Whence He Removed To A Similar Office In Havre In 1730. ...
Pierre Jean Oforges 1757
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Pierre Paul Franbrazza
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Piston Blowers
Piston Blowers. The Chinese Bellows Is One Of The Earliest And Simplest Forms Of Piston Blowers. It Consists Of A Square Chamber Of Wood, With A Close-fitting Piston, Which, When Drawn Back, Sucks Air In Through A Flap Valve Like The Ordinary Bellows-valve, And When Pushed Forward Compresses This Air ...
Plant Breeding
Plant Breeding. The Variation In Plants May Be Due To Natural Causes, As Environment, Etc., Or It May Be The Result Of Design On The Part Of Man, In Which Case It Is Secured By Artificially Crossing Two Or More Races Or Varieties. The Natural Ten Dency To Be Unlike ...
Plosives
Plosives. Modern Blasting Operations May He Divided Into Three Classes: (1) Small-shot Blasting. In Which Comparatively Small Volumes Of Rock Are Moved At A Single Blast ; (2) Blasting By Mines, In Which Large Masses Of Rock Are Broken Up By A Single Heavy Blast; And (3) Surface-blasting, In Which ...
Population
Population. No Census Has Been Taken In Bolivia Since 1854, When The Population Was 2,326.126, Of Whom The Whites And Mestizos Num Bered Only 634.000. The Population Has Prac Tieally Remained Stationary Since Then, Now Being Estimated At 2.500,000, Including Whites, Mainly Of Spanish Origin, Mestizos, And Indians. The Last ...
Population_2
Population. In 1901 The Inhabitants Of Bur Ma, Mostly Native, Numbered 9.:221,161, The In Crease Being Over Is Per Cent. Since 1891. The Original Burman Are Believed To Have De Scended Southward From Tibet. The Tribe Of Rama, Or Burma, Settled On The Northern Irra Waddy. Whore They Came Into ...
Preston S3iitii 1819 57brooks
Brooks, Preston S3iitii ( 1819-57) . An American Politician, Notorious For His Assault On Charles Sumner, In The United States Senate Chamber, In 1856. He Was Born In Edgefield District, S. C.; Graduated At South Carolina Col Lege In 1839; Was Admitted To The Bar In 1843; Was Elected To ...
Production Agriculture
Agriculture, Production, And In Dustny. Agriculture, Notwithstanding The Fa Vorable Natural Conditions, Is Utterly Neglected. The Land, Though Held Partly By Whites, Is Culti Vated Chiefly By The Indians. The Methods Em• Ployed Are Extremely Primitive, Most Of The Work Being Clone By Hand. The Chief Importance Of Lies In ...
Reproduction And Metamorphosis
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Richard 1757 1824 Brothers
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Robert 1274 1329 Bruce
Bruce, Robert (1274-1329). Liberator Of Scotland. And King Of That Country From 1306 To 1329. He Was The Grandson Of Robert Bruce, The Competitor Of Edward Baliol For The Throne In 1290, And Was Born July 11, 1274. In The Early Part Of His Career Lie Seems To Have Been ...
Robert 1577 1640 Burton
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Robert 1627 01 Boyle
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Robert 1812 1889 Browning
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Robert Browne
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Robert Wilhelm 1811 99 Bunsen
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Sacred Canticle
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Saint 1030 1101 Bruno
Bruno, Saint (1030-1101). The Founder Of The Carthusian Order Of Monks. He Was Born In Cologne. And Received His Earliest Education In The School Attached To The Collegiate Church Of Saint Cunibert. In That City. Subsequently Lie Studied In Rheims, Where He Distinguished Him So Greatly That Bishop Gervasius Appointed ...
Saint 1303 73 Bridget
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Saint 680 755 Boniface
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Saiwel 1813 85 Birch
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Samuel 1612 80 Butler
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Sandstones
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Sculpture
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Sebastian 1475 1557 Cabot
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Second Bull Run
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Self Raising Flours
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Single Entry
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Stonelaying
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Stricture
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Suspension Bridges
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Technology And Chemistry
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The American Bison
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The Red
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The Residence Town
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The White Blood Cells
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Thomas 1618 80 Blood
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Thomas 1635 1710 Betterton
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Thomas 1778 1820 Brown
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Or Betle Betel
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Or Biblical Arthieology Bible
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Or Blue Racer Blacksnake
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Or Bosphortjs Bosporus
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Or Boy Buoy
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Or Bretagne Brittany
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Or Brunehaut Brunhilda
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Or Huniblebee Bumblebee
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The Boy Andthe
Boy And The Mantle, The. A Ballad, Among Those Collected By Bishop Percy, Which Relates That A Youth Once Eame To King Arthur's Court, Bearing A Cloak Which, He Said, Only Such Wives Could Wear As Had Always Been Faithful. It Fell To The Possession Of Sir Craddock, Whose Wife ...
The Brethren Ofthe
Brethren Of The Lord, The. A Term Which Occurs But Once In The New Testament (i. Cor. Ix. 5: "have We No Right To Lead About A Wife That Is A Believer, Even Ns The Rest Of The Apostles And The Brethren Of The Lord And Cephas?"), Though The Phrase ...
The Laws Of The
Bretts And Scots, The Laws Of The. The Name Given, In The Thirteenth Century, To A Code Of Primitive Laws In Use Among The Celtic Tribes In Scotland. The 'scots' Were The Celtic People Dwelling In The Western And More Mann Tainous Districts North Of The Forth And The Clyde, ...