Book/Printed Material The National encyclopedia for the home, school and library ... Vol. IV, FRO-JON
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Image 1 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 2 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON Copyright lY.’. p, ——U- n COEXRIGHT DEPOSfT.- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
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Image 7 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON THE NATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA FOR THE HOME, SCHOOL AND LIBRARY VOL. IV. 1 3 CHICAGO NATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA COMPANY 1923- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 8 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON COPYRIGHT 1933 EDUCATOR PRESS MADE IN U. S. A. NOV IS 1923 ©ClA75 9887 I- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 9 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON FROSTBITE—FRXJIT locality keeps in heat and prevents a frost. A fog from a river or lake answers the purpose, and certain localities favored in this respect are famous for fruit. Garden¬ ers...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 10 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON FUCHSIA—FUGITIVE SLAVE LAWS fruits throughout the year, while from the Gulf States strawberries and other fruits go into the North long before the begin¬ ning of spring. The United States an¬ nually...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 11 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON FUJIYAMA—FULLER ported the “Omnibus Bill,” a bill forbid¬ ding the sale of slaves in the District of Columbia, and a third bill providing for the capture and return of fugitive slaves. All...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 12 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON FULLING—FUR withdrew from active politics. Four years later President Cleveland tendered him the position of chief justice which he held until his death. Fulling, in the manufacture of textiles, the process of...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 13 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON Russian sable. Common weasel European Polecat Ferret Wmm *®sne am Pine marten. White-breasted marten. FURBEARING ANIMALS- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 14 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON European badger. Fisher. Glutton. FURBEARING ANIMALS- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 15 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON FUR fur. Like down, fur is also a non-conduct¬ or of water. Although fur-bearing ani¬ mals remain under water for a considerable length of time, the moisture does not reach the skin....- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 16 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON FURIES—FURNACE BLAST in the curing of the skins. The effect of the heat and butter is to render the skins soft, supple, and glossy. Only a few pelts, from ten to fifteen,...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 17 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON Hall chair. Bench. Center table Arm chair. Arm chair. Arm chair. Cabinet. Parlor chair. MODERN GERMAN FURNITURE.- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 18 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON FURNITURE Furniture, the movables required for use or ornament in a house, office, or place of assembly. In an older sense the term was applied to almost any outfit, as the trappings...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 19 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON FURZE—FUJIYAMA Furze. See Gorse. Fusion. See Melting. Fustian, fus chan, formerly a costly textile of linen and wool, woven with a pile, or heavily napped. It was in use during the thirteenth...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 20 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON G Gabardine, a long, loose, coarse cloak, with or without sleeves and a hood. It was an outdoor garment worn by peasants and workmen and by Jews. The laws of the Middle...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 21 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GADSDEN—GAGE more commonly called horseflies in this country. The term is improperly applied to many botflies. Gadflies have wonderful powers of flight, being able to keep up with the swiftest quadruped without...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 22 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GAIL HAMILTON—GALAPAGOS regiment of provincial troops and com¬ manded at the siege of Ticonderoga under Amherst. Amherst made him governor- general of Montreal in 1760, and from 1763 to 1 772 General...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 23 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GALATEA—GALESBURG any other country. The tortoise of these islands is noted. It reaches a weight com¬ monly of 200 pounds, sometimes twice that. Its flesh is much esteemed for food. It is...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 24 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GALILEE—GALILEO from New York was the rendezvous and rallying point for “free-soilers” during the Kansas-Nebraska struggle over the negro slavery issue. Here, on the grounds of Knox College, took place the famous...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 25 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GALILEO we must remember that this was the first field glass or telescope ever used. The Venetians sent Galileo back to Padua loaded with honors and fixed his salary at a princely...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 26 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON 1. Galls on elm leaf caused by plant-lice. 2. Purse-gall on elm leaf caused by plant-lice. 3, Twisted gall on poplar leaf. 4. Rose-gall caused by gall fly. 5. Galls on rose...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 27 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GALL—GALLEY pected in that day when all religious teaching was intolerant. See Astronomy; Copernicus; Tele¬ scope; Ptolemy. Gall, an unnatural vegetable scale, swelling, or tubercle. Galls occur on the leaves, stems, twigs,...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 28 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GALLI-CURCI—GALSWORTHY Sometimes several tiers of great oars on each side, and to a bench beside each oar were chained, more likely than not, four or five slaves or convicts. The treatment which...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 29 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GALT—GALVANOMETER The Foundation. His best known novels are The Island Pharisees, The Man of Property, The Country House, The Patri¬ cian, The Forsyte Saga, The Dark Flower, Villa Rubein, Awakening, Beyond, The...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 30 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GALVESTON or other conductor through which a cur¬ rent of electricity is passing be brought near a freely suspended magnetic needle, the latter betrays a tendency to swing around and place itself...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 31 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GAMA, VASCO DA—GAME January 50° lower. The annual rainfall is about 46 inches. Population in 1920, 44,255. See Texas Banana. Gama, ga ma, Vasco da (1460-1524), a Portuguese navigator. He was of...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 32 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GAMES is known in England as poaching. It is still treated as a serious offense. In Amer¬ ica more liberal views have prevailed. Game of all sorts has been considered the rightful...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 33 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GANANOQUE—GANGES b. Individual competitive games, such as croquet, tennis, golf, hare and hounds. c. Team games, including baseball, foot¬ ball, cricket, hockey, and basket-ball. Under the head of quiet games, the number...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 34 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GANGRENE—GANYMEDE The valley of the Ganges is one of great fertility, and supports an enormous popula¬ tion. The people live chiefly on rice, which they plant in the alluvial mud, in their...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 35 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GARBAGE—GARFIELD beauty. Even the gods envied him. Fi¬ nally Zeus, in the disguise of an eagle, snatched the lad from the midst of his play¬ fellows on Mount Ida and carried him...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 36 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GARFISH-GARIBALDI er of a president to have her home in the White House. James worked with his mother, attended district school, drove mules and worked on a canal boat, worked his way...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 37 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GARLAND—GARONNE ship, conspiring with the young men of Genoa, fighting the battles of Uraguay, raising cattle on the Pampas, defending the barricades of Rome, fleeing from peas¬ ant hut to hut in...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 38 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GARRICK—GARY yond Toulouse. The Garonne is subject to overflows; one inundation occurred in 1875, when damage to the amount of $17,- 000.000 was caused. Garrick, David (1717-1779), an emi¬ nent English actor....- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 39 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GAS ENGINES—GAS, ILLUMINATING ficial. He was born at Wheaton, Ill., edu¬ cated at Wheaton College and at the Uni¬ versity of Chicago, admitted to the Illinois bar in 1867, and was mayor...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 40 of Vol. IV, FRO-JON GAS, ILLUMINATING scope or else with the lower rim in a tank of water. This cylinder stands in a circu¬ lar frame. Cords from the cylinder run over pulleys and are weighted...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923