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United States

MVP seed record for the Americana 1920 United States article. This article will eventually be one of the best comparison tests because an American encyclopedia has different emphasis than British sources.

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United States

UNITED STATES, THE, the short title usually given to the great federal republic which had its origin in the revolt of the British colonies in North America, when, in the Declaration of Independence, they described themselves as " The Thirteen United States of ...

Vol. 27, pp. 612-735 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Astronomy

... nt of use are the transit instrument andthe meridian circle, which are commonly united in a single instrument, the transit circle (q.v.), known also as the meridian circle. This instrument moves only in the plane of the meridian on a horizontal east and west a ...

Vol. 2, pp. 800-818 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Electricity

... city of different bodies with those of conducting spheres of known diameter and states these capacities in " globular inches," a globular inch being the capacity of a sphere i in. in diameter. Hence his measurements are all directly comparable with modern elec ...

Vol. 9, pp. 179-192 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Energy

... on "the work which may be gained during the mixing of gases." In the preface he states the position that " whenever, then, two gases are allowed to mix without the performance of work, there is dissipation of energy, and an opportunity of doing work at the exp ...

Vol. 9, pp. 398-405 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Engineers, Military

... , and all engineering services connected with them. The cadastral survey of the United Kingdom (called the " Ordnance Survey ") had been entrusted to the engineers as far back as 1784, and absorbed many officers in its execution. In 1772 the formation at Gibra ...

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Telegraph

... r possesses overis of especial value in moist climates (like that of ground the United Kingdom), since the effect of leakage over Uae*' the surface of the damp insulators is much less noticeable when the conducting power of the wire is high than when it is low ...

Vol. 26, pp. 510-540 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Telephone

... n the first patents of Bell, and in a caveat filed by Elisha Gray Liquid *n tne United States patent office only some two trans- hours after Bell's application for a patent — that mitters sounds and spoken words might be transmitted to a of Bell distance by ca ...

Vol. 26, pp. 547-556 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Texas

TEXAS, a south central state of the United States of America, extending from lat. 26° 51' N. to lat. 36° 39' N. and from long. 93° 30' W. to long. 1 06° 30' W. A western projection is bounded N. by New Mexico, but the main portion of the state is bounded N. by ...

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Theatre

... h century. It was completed soon after 340 B.C. under the administration of the statesman and financier Lycurgus. Alterations were made in the stage-buildings in the Hellenistic period, under Nero, and again in the 3rd century A.D. Although the prototype of Gr ...

Vol. 26, pp. 729-738 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Theology

... d on into the West through Augustine, and the so-called Athanasian creed, which states an Augus- Augustinian version of Greek dogma. There is indeed _"f .. j one immense change. Subordinationism is blotted out, ao/s/'n more even than by Athanasius. On these li ...

Vol. 26, pp. 772-785 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Tolstoy, Leo

... acclaimed as Russia's greatest thinker and novelist. Tolstoy went back to his estates with fresh hope and energy, determined to ameliorate the condition of his peasantry and fulfil The the duties of a landlord. Rumours had reached Youthful him at Kazan from t ...

Vol. 26, pp. 1053-1060 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Utah

UTAH,1 one of the Central Western states of the United States of America. It lies between latitudes 37° and 42° N. and between longitudes 32° and 37° W. from Washington (i.e. about 109° i' 34* and 114° i' 34" respectively W. of Greenwich). The state is bounded ...

Vol. 27, pp. 813-818 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Vaccination

... disease of infancy and childhood — like measles at the present day — has in the United Kingdom become a disease mainly of adults. The shifting of age-incidence can only be accounted for by the custom of vaccination in infancy. To this day, when small-pox attac ...

Vol. 27, pp. 831-833 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Venice

... val began, which has been continued and intensified since Venice became part of united Italy. When the railway bridge brought Venice into touch with the mainland and the rest of Europe, it became necessary to do something to reopen the harbour to larger shippi ...

Vol. 27, pp. 995-1006 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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Aristotle

... throughout the Greek world, he condemned the actual constitutions of the Greek states as deviations (jrapeK/3dereis) directed merely to the good of the government; and he contemplated a right constitution (opdfi TroAireta), which might be either a commonwealt ...

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Engineering

... or the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks for internal intercourse and exchange, ...

Vol. 9, pp. 406-406 · ocr-imported-page-aligned

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