Halifax_2
Halifax. A Town And County Borough In The West Riding Of Yorkshire, England, On The Hebble, Seven Miles Southwest Of Bradford (map: England, E 3). It Has Exceptional Facilities For Water And Railway Transportation, Which Con Tribute To The Importance Of Its Woolen And Cot Ton Industries. It Also Has ...
Henry 1839 96 George
George, Henry (1839-96). An American Economist, Born In Philadelphia, Pa. When Four Teen Years Old He Was Forced To Leave School, And To Seek Work In Order To Support Himself. After Shipping As Foremast Boy On A Vessel Bound For Melbourne And Calcutta, He Learned The Printer's Trade, And In ...
Henry Dilwood 1801 60gilpin
Gilpin, Henry Dilwood ( 1801-60). An American Lawyer. He Was Born In Lancaster, England, Where His Father, Joshua Gilpin. A Philadelphia Manufacturer And Author, Was Liv Ing At The Time. He Was Educated In England Up To 1816, When He Removed To America, And Graduated At The University Of Pennsylvania ...
Hieiviogloibin
Hie'iviogloibin (from Gk. Alpa, Haima, Blood + Lat. Plobus, Ball). An Important Sub Stance Found In Red Blood-corpuscles, And Hav Ing The Property Of Readily Taking Up Oxygen From The Air, And Just As Readily Giving It Up To The Tissues Of The Body. The Chemical Na Ture Of Haemoglobin ...
Hiram Ulysses Simpson 1822
Grant, (hiram) Ulysses Simpson (1822 85). A Celebrated American General, And The Eighteenth President Of The United States. He Was Born At Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, April 27, 1822, And Was The Eldest Child Of Jesse R. Grant, A Tanner And Farmer, And Hannah Simpson Grant. On His Father's ...
Histopigal Development
Histopigal Development. In 1078 The Abb6 D'hantefeuille Invented An Engine In Which The Explosive Power Of Gunpowder Was Employed To Drive A Piston In A Cylinder. This Was The Pro Totype Of The Modern Gas-engine. Two Years Later The Eminent Dutch Physicist Christian Huygens Devised A Similar Gunpowder Engine. No ...
History
History. The Existence Of Inflammable Gases Issuing From The Earth Has Been Known From Very Early Times. In 1659 Thomas Shirley Communi Cated To The Royal Society A Paper Describing Experiments On A Gas Issuing From A Well Near Wigan In Lancashire, And Resulting In His Opinion From The Decomposition ...
History
History. Georgia Was Originally Part Of The Vast Domain Of The Cherokee And Creek Indians, The Successors Of A Superior Race, Whose Ruined Mounds Still Exist. De Soto, In 1540, Penetrated Its Interior, And Ribault, In 1562, Visited Its Coast. Though Included In The Grant To The Carolina Proprietors, The ...
History Of Geography
History Of Geography. The History Of Geography Falls Naturally Into Two Divisions, The First Of Which Records The Development Of Ideas Regarding The Shape And Size Of The Earth, While The Second Deals With The Gradual Increase Of Definite Information About The Actual Facts Of Land And Water Dis Tribution. ...
History Of Normative Grammar
History Of Normative Grammar. Until The Nineteenth Century The History Of Grammar Is Confined To The Normative Type. Only With The Introduction Into Europe Of The Knowledge Of Sanskrit Did The Impulse Come To Study Language Comparatively And Historically. The Few Attempts Made Along Those Lines Before Had All Proved ...
History_10
History. The Island Of Haiti Was Discovered By Columbus In 1492. In 1496 Bartholomew Columbus Founded Santo Domingo, The First Euro Pean Town In The New World. The Natives, Who Were Very Numerous, Were Quickly Exterminated By Their Relentless Taskmasters, And Negroes Were Imported From Africa To Take Their Place ...
History_2
History. Although It Was Shown By Fontana, In 1780, That A Combustible Gas Could Be Formed By The Reaction Between Steam And Incandescent Carbon At High Temperatures, Which Is The Basis Of All Water-gas Manufacture, And Between 1823 And 1858 Many Patents Were Taken Out Aim Ing To Take Advantage ...
History_3
History. The Use Of Natural Gas In China And Persia Is Said To Date Back To A Very Remote Period. In The United States General Washing Ton Is Said To Have Visited A Burning Spring On The Great Kanawha River, Near The Present Site Of Charleston, W. Va.; But The ...
History_4
History. German Colonization On The East Coast Of Africa Began In 1884, When An Expedi Tion Sent By The German Colonization Society (established In The Same Year) Secured By Treaty The Territories Of Useguha, Nguru, Usagara, And Ukanii. In 1885 The German East African Com Pany Came Into Existence, And ...
History_5
History. The History Of Germany May Be Said To Begin With The Year 843, When, By The Treaty Of Ver Dun, The Vast Empire Of Charles The Great Was Divided Into Three Parts Among His Grandsons. (for The Earlier Periods, See Germania; Franks; Charles The Great; Carolingians, Etc.) In The ...
History_6
History. For Brief Treatments Of German His Tory, Consult: Henderson, A Short History Of Germany (new York, 1901), A Product Of Modern Critical Scholarship. Bryce, The Holy Roman Empire (new York And London, 1892), Is A Lumi Nous Essay That Must Be Studied To Understand The Political Development Of Germany ...
History_7
History. Greenland Is Supposed To Have Been First Seen By Northmen Early In The Tenth Century. The Norseman, Erik The Red, Voyaged Along The Coasts In 985, And Gave The Country Its Name. Soon Thereafter A Settlement Was Made Under His Leadership; Then Christianity Was Introduced. Early In The Twelfth ...
History_8
History. Extensive Ruins Of Cities, Temples, And Aqueducts Found In All Parts Of Guatemala Testify To The Existence Of A Highly Developed People Before The Advent Of Europeans. The Most Careful Study Of These Ancient Remains, However, Has As Yet Failed To Reveal Anything Of The History Of This Prehistoric ...
History_9
History. The Coast Of Guiana Was Firstvisited In 1499 And 1500 By Ojeda, Vespucci, And Pinzon. The Spaniards Planted A Few Settlements In The Region, None Of Which Seem To Have Had Any Long Existence. Missionaries Visited The Interior During The Sixteenth Century. The Tales Of El Dorado Aroused Interest ...
Hocks Of The Earths
Hocks Of The Earth's Crust. Minerals, Com Bined In Various Ways, Form Rocks. Sometimes The Combination:4 Are According To Definite Chem Ical Laws; But Rocks Are Usually Mere Aggregates Of Several Minerals. A Three-fold Division Of The Rocks May He Made As Follows: Igneous, Or Those Derived From A Molten ...
Horace 1811 72 Greeley
Greeley, Horace (1811-72). An Eminent American Journalist, Born In Amherst, N. H., February 3, 1811, Of Scotch-irish Ancestry. His Father, Zaccheus Greeley, Was A Farmer Whose Unfertile Acres Kept Him Poor. Horace's Early Education Was Limited. In 1826 He Entered The Office Of The Northern Spectator At East Poultney, Vt., ...
Hydrography
Hydrography. The Sea, Including The Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, And Antarctic Oceans, With Many Great Gulfs And Bays, Covers 72 Per Cent. Of The Earth's Surface. Of These The Pacific Is Far The Largest, Comprising Much More Than Half The Water Surface Of The Globe. The Average Depth Of The ...
Hydrography_2
Hydrography. With The Exception Of The Southeastern Part Of Germany, Through Which The Danube Flows To The East, All The Rivers Belong To The Baltic And The North Sea Basins. The Rhine Is The Only River Which Binds Together The Three Great Topographic Forms—the High Alps, The German Highlands, And ...
Hydrography_3
Hydrography. The Water Parting Is Situated Much Nearer The West Than The East Coast, With The Result That The Larger Number Of Rivers Flow To The East; With The Exception Of The Western Severn, The Eastern Rivers Are The Longest, And Their Basins Larger Than The Western Basins. As The ...
Hyper Geometry
Hyper-geometry. Generalization Has Led Geome Ters To Imagine Other Spaces Than That In Which We Live, And To Seek The Properties Of Figures Ex Isting In Space Of More Than Three Dimensions. The Result Has Been The Building Up Of A Geometry Of Hyper-space Or Of N Dimensions. Reasoning In ...
I Synoptic
I. Synoptic Pam.em. Our First Three Gospels Present Such Striking Identities In Their Order Of Narrative, And, In Their Use Of Word, Phrase, And Continued Statement, And At The Same Time Such Striking Differences In These Respects, That We Are Compelled To Ask What Theory Of Their Origin Will Account ...
I The Foundation
I. The Foundation. The Fundamental Ele Ment Of The Reformation Was The Spiritual Change Of Regeneration, Out Of Which Sprang The Con Ception Of Justification. This Was `by Faith' Be Cause It Had Come In The Midst Of An Experience Of Real And Living Contact With God. The Nicene Foundation ...
Imitation Gems
Imitation Gems. Imitation Gems May Be Di Vided Into Two Classes—namely, Mineral Sub Stitutes And Doublets, And Gems Made From Sub Stances Treated By Chemical Means. The First Class Includes Quartz, White Brazilian Topaz, And The Colorless Varieties Of Beryl, Emerald, Sapphire, And Zircon, Which Have Been Sold As Diamonds. ...
Inflection
Inflection. Nouns.—of The Eight Original In Do-european Cases, The Greek Has Preserved Five: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, And Voc Ative. The Locative, Instrumental, And Ablative Cases Are Preserved Only In A Few Adverbial Forms, Their Functions Being Performed By The Genitive And The Dative. There Are Three Declensions Of Nouns, ...
Interior Of The Lithosphere
Interior Of The Lithosphere. Early Geol Ogists Considered The Interior Of The Earth To Be Molten, Basing Their Conclusion Upon A Number Of Facts Pointing To A High Temperature For The Interior. The Numerous Hot Springs Indicate Heated Conditions Below The Surface; All Deep Borings And Mines Show A Rise ...
Italy
Italy. We Can Speak Of A Gothic Age But Not Of A Gothic Style In Italy, For The Italians Never Mastered Or Cared To Master The Principles Underlying Gothic Construction, But Adopted At Their Good Pleasure, And With Modifications To Suit Their Genius, A Good Proportion Of Gothic Forms. The ...
Italy_2
Italy. The School Of Pisa Was The First To Achieve The Revival Of Sculpture In Italy, In The Person Of Niccolcr Pisano (c. 1206-1280). Though Belonging To The Gothic Epoch, His Sculptures Owe All Their Inspiration To The Antique, Forming A Sort Of Proto-renaissance. (see Renaissance Art.) His Son Giovanni ...
Jakod Ludwig Karl 1785 1863
Grimm, Jakod Ludwig Karl ( 1785-1863). An Eminent German Philologist And Antiquary, Born January 4, 1785, At Hanau, In Hesse-cassel. He Was Educated In Philology And Law At Mar Burg, And Afterwards Visited Paris, Where He Pur Sued A Variety Of Studies, And Cultivated His Taste For Mediaeval Literature. On ...
James 1757 1815 Gillray
Gillray, James (1757-1815). An English Caricaturist. He Was Born In London, July, 1757, Of Irish Descent, But Little Is Known Of Him Until He Became A Student Of The Royal Academy, Where He Made A Special Study Of Art Designs. His First Engraved Works Were Two Plates Pub Lished In ...
James 1821 72 Hadley
Hadley, James (1821-72). A Distinguished Linguist And Classical Scholar, Born At Fairfield. N. Y. An Accident In Boyhood Made Him Hope Lessly Lame, And Deprived Him Of All Hope Of An Active Life. He Graduated From Yale_ College, First In His Class, In 1842, And In 1844 He Was Made ...
James Abram 1831 81 Garfield
Garfield, James Abram (1831-81). Twentieth President Of The United States. He Was Born At Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, November 19, 1831 ; Was Early Left Fatherless, And Spent His Youth In Alternate Periods Of Study At School And Hard Manual Work For His'own Sup Port. He Worked On A Farm; ...
James Gibbons
Gibbons, James (1834— ). An American Roman Catholic Prelate And Cardinal. He Was Born In Baltimore July 23, 1834, And Re Ceived His Early Education In Ireland, The Former Home Of His Family, To Which He Was Taken In Infancy. Returning To Maryland At The Age Of Seventeen, He Pursued ...
James Melville 1811 65gilliss
Gilliss, James Melville ( 1811-65 ) . An American Astronomer, Born In Georgetown, D. C. He Became A Midshipman In The Navy In 1827. He Procured Leave Of Absence In 1833, Spent A Year In Scientific Study At The University Of Vir Ginia, And Continued His Studies In Paris. Return ...
Jay 1836 92 Gould
Gould, Jay (1836-92) . An American Cap Italist, Born In Roxbury, Delaware County, N. Y. He Passed His Boyhood On His Father's Farm, And Was Educated At Hobart Academy. In 1852 He Entered A Hardware Store Which His Father Had Established, But Although He Did Not Neglect The Business, His ...
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De
Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte- (1648-1717). A French Writer On Mystical Subjects. She Was Born Of Noble Parents At Montargis, April 13, 1648. She Wished To En Ter A Convent, But Her Parents Prevailed Upon Her When Not Quite Sixteen To Marry Jacques De In Motte-guyon, The Son ...
Jenghis Genghis
Genghis, Jenghis, Or Zingis Khan, Jen'gis Kan {1162-1227). A Celebrated Conqueror, Originally Known As Temujin, The Title Genghis Khan Merely Signifying Great Khan Or Ruler. He Was Born At Deylun Yeldak, Near The Northern Bend Of The Hwang-ho, In Mongolia, Being The Son Of Yesuka Bahadur, A Mongol Chief Who ...
Joh N Graham
Graham, Joh N, Viscount Dundee ( C.1649 89), Oftenest Spoken Of As Claverhouse. The Eldest Son Of Sir William Graham Of Claver House, Head Of The Branch Of The Noble Family Of Montrose, In Forfarshire. He Entered Saint Andrews University In 1665, Served In The French Army From 1668 Till ...
Johann Melchior 1717 86goeze
Goeze, Johann Melchior ( 1717-86). A German Lutheran Clergyman, Bibliographer, And Controversialist, Born At Halberstadt (province Of Saxony, Prussia). Educated At Jena And Halle, He Became Pastor Of The Church Of The Holy Spirit At Magdeburg In 1750, And, In 1755, Chief Pastor Of Saint Catherine's Church At Ham Burg. ...
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Vox (1749 1832). The Greatest German Writer And One Of The Greatest Of The World, Excelling In Every Lit Erary Genre, Distinguished In Many Branches Of Science And In Literary And Artistic Criticism. He Was Born In Frankfort-on-the-main, August 28, 1749. Both His Parentage And The Place ...
John 1732 97 Glover
Glover, John (1732-97). An American Soldier, Prominent In The Revolutionary War, Born In Salem, Mass. He Removed To Marblehead When Very Young, Was A Shoemaker For A Time, And Afterwards Engaged In The Fishing Business. In February, 1773, He Was Chosen Colonel Of A Militia Regiment Which Upon The Outbreak ...
John 1790 1866 Gibson
Gibson, John (1790-1866). An English Sculptor. He Was Born At Gyffin, Near Conway, North Wales, And At An Early Age Was Appren Ticed To A Cabinet-maker In Liverpool. When Sixteen Years Old He Was Employed In The Marble Works Of Francis, At Liverpool, Where His Talents Gained Him The Patronage ...
John Goodwin
Goodwin, John (c.1594-1665). An Eminent Puritan Divine. He Was Born In The County Of Norfolk About 1594, Graduated At Queen's Col Lege, Cambridge, And Obtained A Fellowship There In 1617. Having Married, He Gave Up His Fellow Ship And Took Orders, Officiating In Various Places In The County With Much ...
John Green
Green, John Rtenano (1837-83). An Frin- Lish Historian. His Education, Except Some Two Or Three Years Of Private Instruction, Was Received In His Native City, Oxford, At Magdalen College School, And At Jesus College, Where He Graduated In 1859. His Interests Were Historica,1 Rather Than Scholastic. Religious, And Raised In ...
John Taylor 1753 1828 Gilman
Gilman, John Taylor (1753-1828). An American Political Leader, Governor Of New Hampshire For Fourteen Terms. He Was Born At Exeter, N. H., The Son Of Nicholas Gilman, A Rev Olutionary Leader, And A Brother Of United States Senator Nicholas Gilman (1755-1814). He Was Educated At Exeter. The Day Following The ...
Joseph 1636 80 Glanvill
Glanvill, Joseph ( 1636-80). An English Divine, Born At Plymouth. He Graduated At Exeter College, Oxford, In 1655, Took The Degree Of M.a. At Lincoln College In 1658, And Became Chaplain•to Francis Rous, Provost Of Eton. After The Restoration He Conformed, And In 1660 Became Rector Of A Little Church ...
Joseph 1731 1803 Galloway
Galloway, Joseph (1731-1803). An American Lawyer And Pamphleteer, Prominent As A Loyalist During The Revolutionary War. He Was Born In Kent County, Md., But Early Re Moved To Philadelphia. Almost Continuously From 1757 To 1774 He Was A Member Of The Penn Sylvania Assembly, And For Twelve Years Was Speaker ...
Joseph Halevy
Halevy, Joseph (1827—). A French Ori Entalist, Born At Adrianople, Turkey. Lie Studied At Jewish Colleges In Adrianople And Bucharest, And Attracted Some Attention By His Hebrew Verse. In 1868 He Was Commissioned By The Alliance Israelite Itniverselle To Study Conditions Among The Falashes Of Abyssinia, And In 1869-70, Under ...
Joshua Reed 1795 1864giddings
Giddings, Joshua Reed ( 1795-1864). An Eminent American Legislator, Prominent As A `constitutional' Abolitionist In The Anti-slavery Struggle. He Was Born At Tioga Point, Pa., Oc Tober 6, 1795. His Early Life Was Spent In Canan Daigua, N. Y., Until His Parents Removed To Ashtabula County, Ohio, Where He Afterwards ...
Judaii Halevi
Halevi, Judaii. A Jewish Poet And Scholar Of The Eleventh And Twelfth Centuries. See Judah Haltvy, Aluvef„tacques Francois Fro :mental ( 1799-1862). A Celebrated French Dra Matic Composer, Born In Paris, Of Jewish Parentage. After A Little Preparatory Study He Entered The Solfege Class Of The Paris Conservatory In 1809. ...
Karl Friedrich 1816 56gerhardt
Gerhardt, Karl Friedrich ( 1816-56). An Eminent French Chemist, Born At Strassburg. At The Age Of Fifteen He Was Sent To The Polytechnic School At Carlsruhe, Where His Attendance At Walchner's Lectures First Awakened In His Mind A Taste For Chemistry. After Two Years He Re Moved To Leipzig, Where ...
Karl Gegenbaur
Gegenbaur, Karl (1826—). A German Comparative Anatomist. He Was Born In Wilrz Burg, Germany, And Studied Medicine In Wttrz Burg, Where He Was A Pupil Of Kiihiker And Of Virchow; Received The Degree Of M.d., And Was Afterwards Privat-docent From 1853 To 1855. In The Latter Year He Became Professor ...
Kenner 1828 79 Garrard
Garrard, Kenner (1828-79). An Ameri Can Soldier, Born In Cincinnati, Ohio. He Gradu Ated At West Point In 1851, Was On Frontier Duty And Topographical Duty For The Most Part Until 1861, Was Captured In April, 1861, By Texan Troops, And Was On Parole Until Exchanged In August, 1862. From ...
Koff 1 798 1883
Koff ( 1 798-1883 ) , A Cousin Of The Preceding, En Tered The Diplomatic Service And Became One Of The Most Skillful And Influential Diplomats In Europe. Ile Was An Attach6 In The Suite Of Count Nesselrode At The Congresses Of Laibach And Ve Rona, Secretary Of The Russian ...
Lade
Lade, Garde, Niels Wilhelm ( 1817-90). A Distinguished Danish Musician And Composer, And The Recognized Founder Of The Scandinavian School Of Music. He Was Born At Copenhagen, The Only Child Of A Cabinet And Instrument Maker, Whose Trade The Son Was Required To Adopt. Within A Few Months, However, The ...
Lake Geneva
Geneva, Lake (fr. Lac Leman, The Lacus Lemanus Of The Romans). A Crescent-shaped Lake, The Largest In Switzerland, Extending Around The Northern Part Of The French Depart Ment Of Haute-savoie, And With Its West, North, And East Shores Bordering The Cantons Of Geneva, Vaud, And Valais (map: Switzerland, A 2). ...
Language
Language. It Is A Very Prevalent Impression Among English-speaking People That The Language Of The Gypsies Is A Simple Jargon Or Cant. Noth Ing Could Be Further From The Truth. The Broken Dialect Of The English Gypsies, Indeed, Is A Stranga Mixture Of English And Romani, In Which The Grammar ...
Latin History
Latin History. The Conquests Of Alexander The Great (n.c. 330) And The Consequent Spread Of The Greek Language Over A- Great Part Of Asia Led To The Gradual Abandonment Of The Other Dialects And The Adoption Of Attic As The Language Of The Whole Greek World. Thus Arose The 'common' ...
Les Gueux
Gueux, Les, La Gi.c. (fr., Beggars). The Name Assumed By The Confederated Nobles Who Opposed The Tyrannical Policy Of Philip Ii. Of Spain In The Low Countries, And Brought About The Revolt Which Separated The Northern Prov Inces From Spain. Philip Having Followed Up His Previous Policy Of Bigotry And ...
Louts Malesuerbes 1805 77 Goldsborough
Golds'borough, Louts Malesuerbes (1805-77). An American Naval Officer, Horn At Washington, D. C. He Was Appointed A Mid Shipman In The Navy In 1812, When Only Seven Years Old, But Did Not Enter Upon Active Duty Until 1816. He Served On The Mediterranean And Pacific Stations, And Was Promoted A ...
Ludovic Halevy
Halevy, Ludovic, (1834— ). A French Dramatist, Born In Paris. He Achieved Great Popularity During The Second Empire For Work In Collaboration With Henri Meilhac (q.v.) In Light Comedy, And By Writing Offenbach's Most Popular Librettos. Their First Great Suc Cess Was Ha Belle Helene (1865), Followed By Ilarbe Bleue ...
Lution
Lution. The Habits Of Animals Play An Important Part In Evolution. A Study Of The Habits Or Mode Of Life Peculiar To This Or That Animal, I.e. Wheth Er It Has Creeping, Leaping, Flying, Burrowing, Or Mining Habits, Is Receiving At This Time Much At Tention. The Habits Of An ...
Manipulation
Manipulation. The Curious Viscosity Assumed By Molten Glass Has Already Been Referred To. While In This Condition It May Be Gathered Up In A Soft Mass On The End Of A Stick, And, If The Stick Be A Tube, The Lump May Be Distended, By Blowing Through The Tube, Into ...
Manuel De Godoy
Godoy, Manuel De, Duke Of Alcudia (1767-1851). A Spanish Statesman. Ile Was Born At Badajos, And At The Age Of Twenty Entered The King's Bodyguard At Madrid, Where His Personal Attractions Gained Him The Favor Of Charles Iv., And Of His Queen, Maria Luisa. Ile Became Lieu Tenant-general And Duke ...
Manufacture
Manufacture. In The Manufacture Of Gun Powder Great Care Is Necessary, Especially In The Selection Of The Ingredients. The Potassium Ni Trate, Or Nitre, As Obtained Commercially, Con Tains Potassium. And Sodium Chlorides And Sul Phates, Sand, And Organic Matter Amounting To Nearly Five Per Cent. For The Removal Of ...
Manufactures
Manufactures. Because Of Its Industrial Im Portance, Georgia Has Long Been Known As The `empire State Of The South,' And Has Played A Leading Rale In The Recent Industrial Awakening Of That Section. A Number Of Conditions Favor The Growth Of Manufacturing Interests, Chief Of Which Is The Great Annual ...
Manufactures
Manufactures. The Industrial Progress Of Germany Has Been So Marked In The Last Quar Ter Of A Century As To Make That Country Second Only In All Europe To Great Britain As A Manu Facturing State. In 1895 More Than 20,000,000 People, Or 39.1 Per Cent. Of The' Entire Population, ...
Manufactures And Commerce
Manufactures And Commerce. The Manufac Turing Industries Are Only Slightly Developed, And Are Confined Chiefly To The Production Of Blankets, Coarse Cloth, Straw Hats, Ponchos Or Cloaks, Wood En And Earthen Wares, Tobacco Products, And Leather Goods. The Transportation Facilities Are Far From Adequate. In Many Parts Of The Coun ...
Marl 181178 Gutzkow
Gutzkow, Marl (1811.78). A Dis Tinguished German Novelist And Dramatist, Born In Berlin. Ile Studied Theology And Philosophy In Berlin And Early Contributed To Literary Journals. He Subsequently Studied Law And Political Sci Ences At Heidelberg And Munich. Hut Devoted Him Self Exclusively To Literature. His Early Fiction Is Satirically ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft . An English Miscellaneous Writer. She Was Born At Hoxton, Near London, April 27, 1759, And Was Of Irish Descent. Her Mother Died In 1780, And Owing To The Brutality Of Her Father, Mary And Her Sisters Were Compelled To Leave His House. Mary Earned Her Living ...
Mathematical Geography
Mathematical Geography. The Form Of The Earth Is Spherical, With A Slight Flattening At The Poles. Its Equatorial Diameter Is 7926 And Its Polar Diameter 7900 Miles, The Differ Ence Between Them, 26 Miles, Measuring The Eccen Tricity. This Flattening Of The Earth At The Poles Is A Necessary Consequence ...
Mechanical Gilding
Mechanical Gilding Consists Of Applying Gold Leaf Directly To A Surface Which Has Been Pre Viously Prepared By The 'application Of A Size. The Gold Leaf, Being Placed On The Size While It Is Only Partially Dry, Adheres. Various Forms Of Gold Leaf, And Various Substitutes As Well, Are Used ...
Metamorphism
Metamorphism. The Phenomena Of Mountain Building And Igneous Activity Are Favorable To That Alteration Of Rocks Which Is Included Under The Term Metamorphism. Heat, Heated Water, And Great Pressure Are Effective In Changing The Char Acter Of Rocks. This Alteration May Be Local, Through Contact With Intruded Masses Of Igneous ...
Method Of Normative Grammar
Method Of Normative Grammar. While Nor Mative Grammars Vary Somewhat According To The Special Requirements Of The Languages Of Which They Treat, Or According To The Class Of Readers To Whom They Are Addressed, They Should Be Written In General According To A Uniform Out Line. The Comprehensive Definition Of ...
Methods Of Application
Methods Of Application. The Apparatus Needed To Obtain The Mist-like Spray Referred To Above Are Nozzles, Hose, And A Force-pump. The Nozzles Are The Most Important Part Of The Ma Chine. Those Of The `vermorel' Type Are Con Sidered The Most Satisfactory For Short Range, And The Mcgowan For Long.. ...
Mikhail Glinka
Glinka, Mikhail Iva:cm-um (1804-57). A Celebrated Russian Composer Of The Early Mod Em School. He Was Born At Mikhail, Near Smo Lensk, Of Aristocratic Parents, And Consequently Received The Education Of A Young Noble Of The Period. His Earlier Musical Teachers Were Bohm (violin), Carl Mayer (theory And Pianoforte), And ...
Minerals And Mining
Minerals And Mining. Great Britain Has Been Favored Above Other European Countries In The Possession Of Abundant Resources Of The Two Minerals—coal And Iron—which Are Most Essen Tial To A Varied And Extensive Industrial Develop Ment. The Industrial History Of The Nation And Its Present Position And Outlook Are, Therefore, ...
Mining
:mining. The Mining Interests Are Of Great Im Portance, Giving Employment To Over 570,000 Per Sons Annually. Germany Is The Third Largest Coal And Iron Producing Country In The World, Standing Next To The United States And Great Britain. The Export Coal Trade Is Steadily In Creasing. The Total Yield ...
Mining And Uses
Mining And Uses. The Methods Used For Drill Ing Gas-wells Are The Same As Those Employed For Sinking Oil-wells (q.v.). When The Gas Is First Struck The Pressure Has In Rare Cases Been Sufficiently Great To Blow Out The String Of Drill Ing Tools Weighing Over 1000 Pounds. As Soon ...
Mode Of Occurrence
Mode Of Occurrence. Natural Gas Is Found Most Often In Sandstone And Shale, But May Also Occur In Limestone. Two Types Of Accumulation May Be Recognized, Viz.: In Impervious Rocks, Such As Shales And Limestones, And In Porous Rocks, Such As Sandstone. The Former Type Or Shale Gas Usually Forms ...
Modern Exploration
Exploration, Modern. This Revival Is Associ Ated With The Name Of Prince Henry Of Portugal, Known As 'the Navigator.' Prince Henry Devoted All His Time And Resources, From 1418 Until His Death In 1460, To Fostering Maritime Exploration, With The Results Detailed In The Article On Africa, Under History. Of ...