Book/Printed Material The National encyclopedia for the home, school and library ... Vol. VI, MON-PRA
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Image 1 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 2 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
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Image 3 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
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Image 4 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
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Image 5 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
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Image 7 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA THE NATIONAL V* ENCYCLOPEDIA FOR THE HOME, SCHOOL AND LIBRARY VOL. VI. CHICAGO NATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA COMPANY 1923- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 8 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA j\l COPYRIGHT 1923 EDUCATOR PRESS MADE IN U. S. A. NOV i 9 1923 ©CU739887 M- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 9 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MONTEREY—MONTEVIDEO ployments, and soon grow masculine, seemingly much coarser than their hus¬ bands.. The methods of agriculture are primitive. The men go armed. The inhab¬ itants live in villages. Houses are built...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 10 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MONTEZUMA—MONTREAL The port is visited by steamers of British, German, French and Spanish lines. The population of Montevideo City in 1920 was 361,950. See Uruguay. Montezuma. See Cortez. Montfort, Simon de. See...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 11 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MONTS Commerce, Dominion Square, and such hotels as the Ritz-Carleton, Hotel j !ace Viger, Windsor and Queen’s. Schools, Churches, Charitable In¬ stitutions. Montreal is one of the great¬ est educational centers in...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 12 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOODY—MOON became converted to Protestantism and at¬ tached himself to King Henry IV. In 1603 the king made him governor of the French Company of Canada which was given ex¬ clusive fur...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 13 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA jfv®* THE MOON This h a pholograpk of ike Moot, ai ieeo ikrougk ihe telescope of ike Yerltei Observatory- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 14 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 15 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOONSHINER—MOORE site the sun, and we see it full in the face and speak of a full moon. As Tennyson puts it, The silver sickle of that month Became her golden shield....- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 16 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOORS—MOOSE pistols were loaded with sahpeter. How¬ ever that may be, neither of the participants was hurt and they became excellent friends thereafter. Lalla Rookh is a society rendering in verse of...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 17 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOOSEJAW—MOQUI palm is sixteen inches wide and is over two inches thick. The total spread at the wid¬ est point is seventy-eight and one-half inches. The hair of the moose is of...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 18 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MORAINE—MORAVIA as they should be called, are cutting doors and windows through the walls. The principal industry of Hopi land is agriculture. The soil is sandy and dry. There is no water...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 19 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MORDANT—MORGAN Holland, and elsewhere. About 1740 they began to settle in Pennsylvania. They were aided by a Count Zinzendorf. They plant¬ ed a large number of villages. Bethlehem was, and still is,...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 20 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MORGAN—MORMONS distinguished himself as a daring raider, able as were few other men to strike a swift blow and get away unharmed. In 1862 he had command of a cavalry force under...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 21 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MORNING GLORY purporting to be a translation of the in¬ scriptions on certain golden plates shown to him by an angel as early as 1823. The plates were never made public, but...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 22 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOROCCO beautiful garden morning glories, now ad¬ vertised by seedsmen, are mostly from J apan. The morning glory is raised easily. Seeds soaked a few hours in warm water before planting have...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 23 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MORPHEUS—MORRIS Exports $50,000,000 Miles of railway. 814 Teachers in public schools. 793 Pupils enrolled 24,059 See Fez Timbuctoo. Morpheus, in Roman mythology, the god of dreams. Fie was the son of Somnus,...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 24 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MORRIS—MORRIS political satires to the press. His literary style was very forceful and eloquent, and he composed many of the state docu¬ ments of the time. In 1888 Roosevelt published his life...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 25 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MORRIS PLAN BANKS—MORRISTOWN tury. Other poetical writings are The Aeneid of Virgil Done into English Verse and 7 he Odyssey of Homer Done into Eng¬ lish V erse. In 1863 Morris began...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 26 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MORS—MORTE D’ARTHUR Mors, in Roman mythology, the god of death. He was a son of Nox, night, and twin brother of Somnus, sleep. Another account makes him the son of Tellus, the...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 27 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MORTGAGE—MORTON translations from the French romances of the life and death of the British King Arthur. Little is known of Malory. He is believed to have been a Welshman and to have...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 28 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MORTON—MOSAIC Democratic candidate for governor in 1866 and 1881, but was defeated each time. Mr. Morton was Secretary of Agriculture in President Cleveland’s cabinet during 1893- 97. Upon the advent of W....- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 29 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOSBY—MOSCOW work now in the British Museum is about three-eighths of an inch square. It was evidently a part of a ring. It is ornamented with the sacred hawk. Every feather on...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 30 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOSELEY—MOSELLE tural innovations in all buildings except churches. These retain their typically Russian aspect. The Kremlin was for many years the seat of Russian political and religious life. In its early days...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 31 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOSENTHAL—MOSES Mosenthal, Joseph 1834 -96), an American musician of German descent, was born at Cassel, Germany. For twenty- seven years he played the organ in Calvary Church, New York. He was also...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 32 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOSQUE-MOSQUITO his sepulcher unto this day.” Moses had forty years of mental training at the court of Egypt, forty years on the Midian plains, where, w T ith Nature as a teacher,...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 33 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOSQUITO is slender, the legs are long, the wings are narrow and fringed with hair. The mouth parts are protruded into a firm, slender, overly-long bill or proboscis. So far as ob¬...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 34 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOSSES—MOTH Mosses, lowly green flowerless plants often carpeting the ground or upholstering old logs. They have no true roots. Mosses may be known by tiny spore cases rising like street lamps from...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 35 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOTHER CAREY’S CHICKEN—MOTLEY forester, tiger-moth, web-worm, tent cater¬ pillar, yellow-bear, footman, window¬ winged, sphynx, tobacco-worm, hog-cater¬ pillar, silkworm, royal, regal, imperial, oak- worm, and luna are some of the suggestive terms used...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 36 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOTOR—MOUND BIRDS in the North American for October, 1 845, and marks the beginning of his historical work. He began about this time to collect material for a history of Holland, in...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 37 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOUND BUILDERS—MOUNT CARMEL Australia. They are about as large as an ordinary barnyard fowl. They have stout legs and large feet. They inhabit the bush and scrub, usually near water, and go...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 38 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOUNT CLEMENS—MOUNT VERNON coal is the most important item in Mount Carmel’s commerce. In the city are fac¬ tories for the production of lumber, wag¬ ons, cement building blocks, knit goods, silk,...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 39 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOUSE Maine, a guest chamber; Maryland, Miss Custis’ room; Massachusetts, the library; Michigan, the old tomb; Minnesota, an upper chamber; Missouri, the garden wall; New Jersey, Lafayette’s room; New York, banquet hall;...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923
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Image 40 of Vol. VI, MON-PRA MOUSE TOWER—MOVING PICTURES away a store of seeds and nuts. It is ex¬ ceedingly timid and not infrequently dies of fear when taken in the hand. In win¬ ter it makes tunnels...- Contributor: Stanford, Harold Melvin
- Date: 1923