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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.

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 ...

... land is well cultivated, and the husbandry on the royal domains and the large estates especially so. The pastures on the banks of the Elbe yield cattle of excellent quality. The forests are well stocked with game, such as deer and wild boar, and the open coun ...

... he stomodaeum; 5<i, 56, epithelio-muscular cells from the tentacle in different states of contraction; sc, an epithelio-muscular cell from the endoderm, containing a symbiotic zooxanthella ; 6, a ganglion cell from the ectoderm of the peristome. (After O. and ...

... in Peru. The principal use of anthracite is as a smokeless fuel. In the eastern United States, it is largely employed as domestic fuel, usually in close stoves or furnaces, as well as for steam purposes, since, unlike that from South Wales, it does not decrepi ...

... utions, however, continued, and in 1902 they led to a great exodus of Jews. The United States addressed a strong remonstrance to the Rumanian government, but the condition of the Jews was in no way improved. Their emancipation was in 1908 as far off as ever, a ...

... ttle natural wood remains in the county, but plantations flourish on the great estates, and orchards have proved successful. The linen manufacture is the most important industry. Cotton-spinning by jennies was first introduced by Robert Joy and Thomas M'Cabe o ...

... was active and prosperous. Its envoy, in explaining the importance of Antwerp, states that there was as much business done there in a fortnight as in Venice throughout the year. The religious troubles that marked the second half of the i6th century broke out ...

... er, and the word itself, when used at all, is applied, more particularly in the United States and in Scotland, to those who in England are called " pharmaceutical chemists." The Apothecaries' Society of London is one of the corporations of that city, and both ...

... umerous " zoological stations " which have sprung up, chiefly in Europe and the United States, but also in the British colonies and Japan, often endeavour to unite these two aims, and have in many cases become centres of experimental work in problems relating ...

ARBOR DAY, the name applied in the United States of America to a day appointed for the public planting of trees (see ARBOUR). Originating, or at least being first successfully put into operation, in Nebraska in 1872 through the instrumentality of J. Sterling M ...

... is monopolized by the arboretum. Of the more specialized public arboreta in the United Kingdom the next to Kew are those in the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh and the Glasnevin Garden in Dublin. The collection of trees in the Botanic Garden at Cambridge is ...

... eglected, but is now more common wherever the political conditions, e.g. in the United States, Great Britain and France, arc favourable. The disciplinary powers of the archbishop, on the other hand, can scarcely be said to survive. The right to hold a visitati ...

... ther he had gone to avoid his creditors, and, having entrusted the care of his estates to his son, died in London. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, ist marquess and Sth earl of Argyll (1607-1661), eldest son of Archibald, 7th earl, by his first wife, Lady Anne Douglas, dau ...

... reat political influence. In 1801-1802 and again in 1804 he was a member of the United States Senate. From 1804 to 1810 he was the United States minister to France, and in March 1806 he was joined with James Bowdoin as a special minister to treat through Franc ...

... itement or recklessness as not to care what results might follow from his acts. United States. — The same general principles apply to this crime in American law. In some states by statute the intent to injure or defraud must be shown, e.g. when the property is ...

... he elc-mentary forces, or of the elementary substances and their compounds. The united powers of the whole human race could not create a new property of matter in general, or of any one of its species. We can only take advantage for our purposes of the propert ...

... e the loosened fibres are sorted. The process varies in different mills. In the United States asbestos is worked only to a very limited extent. An amphibole-asbestos is obtained from Sail Mountain, Georgia; and asbestos has also been worked in the serpentine o ...

... 47-1814) and Francis Asbury superintendents or " bishops " of the church in the United States. Dr Coke was ordained at Bristol, England, in September, and in the following December, in a conference of the churches in America at Baltimore, he ordained and conse ...

... shed by its more pointed leaves; it is a native of most parts of Canada and the United States, extending northwards as far as Great Slave Lake. The wood is soft and neither strong nor durable; it burns better in the green state than that of most trees, and is ...

... received considerable notice from early travellers, and Diodorus the historian states that the inhabitants of the surrounding parts were accustomed to collect it for use in Egypt for embalming. In common with other forms of bitumen, asphalt is very widely dis ...

ASPIROZ, MANUEL DE (1836-1005), Mexican statesman and diplomatist, was born at Puebla, and educated at the university of Mexico, where he took his degree in "i&sS- He took part in the war against the emperor Maximilian, and in 1867, on the establishment of the ...

... 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 ...

... very partisans, and was named in honour of their leader, David Rice Atchison, a United States senator. The city was quickly surpassed by Leavenworth in commercial importance, and during the Kansas struggle was never of great political importance. Its first cit ...

... of sport upon leaving his native soil, and the development of athletic* in the United States and the British colonies has kept step with that of 'he mother-land. Upon the continent of Europe sport* have occupied a more or less prominent place in the life of t ...

... mont (189 acres), the site of the Piedmont Exposition of 1887 and of the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895; the Grant, given to the city by L. P. Grant, an Atlanta railroad builder, in 1882, and subsequently enlarged by the city (in its south- ...

... Atlantic City is the largest and most popular all-the-year-round resort in the United States, and has numerous fine hotels. The city extends for 3 m. along a low sandy island (Absecon Beach), 10 m. long by j m. wide, separated from the mainland by a narrow st ...

... ements, in the manufacture of which Auburn ranked fifth among the cities of the United States. There are a number of grey and blue limestone quarries, one of which is owned and operated by the municipality. Settled soon after the close of the War of Independen ...

... option of a purchaser when it amounts to fraud, the weight of authority in the United States is in favour of the view that an owner may, without notice, employ a person to bid for him, if he does so with no other purpose than to prevent a sacrifice of the pro ...

... ritain and America, devoting his leisure to expeditions to various parts of the United States and Canada for the purpose of collecting new material. In 1842 he bought an estate on the Hudson, now Audubon Park in New York City. In 1844 he published in America a ...

... dential suburb and winter resort, in which there are a country club and a large United States arsenal, established in 1831. Broad Street is the principal thoroughfare of Augusta, and Greene Street, with a park in the centre and flanking rows of oa*ks and elms, ...

... -> or about twice the size of England and Wales together. Austria is one of the states which constitute the Austro-Hungarian (Habsburg) monarchy (see AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: History), and is also called Cisleithania, from the fact that it contains the portion of that ...

EINHORN. DAVIO (1809-1879), leader of the Jewish reform movement in the United States of America, was born in Bavaria. He was a supporter of the principles of Abraham Geigcr (q.v.), and while still in Germany advocated the introduction of prayers in the vernac ...

... ings is provided for by Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Acts of 1838 and 1851. In the United States, the old English action of ejectment was adopted to a very limited extent, and where it was so adopted has often been superseded, as in Connecticut, by a single actio ...

... 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 ...

... ollege, and was the first distinctively collegiate institution for women in the United States, and the first, apparently, to grant degrees to women. The most widely known institution in the city is the Elmira reformatory, a state prison for first offenders bet ...

... , fluorspar and cassiterite; but they were mostly of rather pale colour. In the United States, emerald has occasionally been found, and fine crystals have been obtained from the workings for hiddenite at Stonypoint, Alexander county, N.C. Many virtues were for ...

... ry is said to vary from 37 to 57%. Emery is worked at several localities in the United States, especially near Chester, in Hampden county, Mass., where it is associated with peridotites. The corundum and magnetite are regarded by Dr J. H. Pratt as basic segreg ...

... dominium; and by other Dutch jurists. But in modern times it is chiefly in the United States of America that the doctrine of eminent domain has received its application, and it is chiefly to American law that the following remarks refer (see also the article ...