Book/Printed Material The world book; organized knowledge in story and picture, Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR
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Image 1 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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- Date: 1917
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Image 3 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR IIP A*. «V P o y w 5 v vV fc .A *V ,\y a* SS o av a ‘V w A A A a o Wre® A- V rr.• 4 r»…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 4 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 5 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 6 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 7 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF M. Y. O’SHEA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON, WISCONSIN EDITOR ELLSWORTH D. FOSTER ASSOCIATE EDITOR NEW PRACTICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY; AUTHOR OF CYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT EDITOR FOR CANADA GEORGE…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 8 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR 0GDK 7c KNOWLEDGE UAfl STORY AND PICTURE SEP -4 1917 ©CI.A4733B3 *~Vt f Copyright: 1917: Hanson-B611ows Publishing Company- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 9 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR /f*] LEMBERG, Icm bcrK, a city of Austria- Hungary, and capital of the crownland of Galicia, is situated on the River Peltew, 365 v miles northeast of Vienna. It is fourth in…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 10 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LE MOINE 3378 LEMON their destination; if, however, a large body of water appears before them they plunge in and meet death by drowning. LE MOINE, lemoyn or IcmwhaN Sir James MacPherson…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 11 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEMUR 3379 LENS and hot lemonade is highly valued for break¬ ing up a cold. Lemon juice will restore the color to cloth discolored by alkali stains; its efficacy in removing such…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 12 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LENS 3380 LENTIL When a ray of light passes through a lens it is bent towards the thickest part. Accord¬ ingly, light rays passed through a convex lens LENSES The six forms…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 13 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEO 3381 LEO many varieties. It thrives best in light, diy soil, as rich soil yields few pods. The Euro¬ pean countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea and Egypt and Western Asia…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 14 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEO 3382 LEON cardinal. When Pope Pius IX died in 1878 he was elected his successor at the age of 68. His reign was a most notable one in the history of…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 15 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEONARDO DA VINCI LEOPOLD ou S3 woolens, saddlery and gold and silver embroid¬ ery. The Mexican Central Railway serves the town. Population, 1910, 57,700. LEONARDO DA VINCI. See Vinci, Leo¬ nardo DA.…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 16 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEPIDOPTERA 3384 LEPROvSY LEPIDOPTERA, lep i dop te ra, from two Greek words, lepis, meaning scale, and pteron, meaning wing, is that order of insects which includes the butterflies and the moths.…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 17 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LESAGE 3385 LESSEPS The colony on Culion is the largest in the world, and has 8,000 lepers within its limits. Until the establishment of the colony these lepers were living unhygienically and…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 18 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LESSER ANTILLES 3386 LETTERS Following that action a company was formed to begin actual work. De Lesseps was ap¬ pointed to direct the construction and was also made president of the company.…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 19 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LETTER WRITING 3387 LETTER WRITING and possessing much of the charm of spoken conversation. The term epistle is sometimes applied to more formal productions which are written in letter style, but which…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 20 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LETTER WRITING 3388 LETTER WRITING 2. Clearness of Expression Depends upon Clearness of Thought. As one thinks so will one speak or write. Letters containing long, involved sentences are tiresome to read…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 21 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LETTER WRITING 3389 LETTER WRITING another person. These directions do not ap¬ pear in the address. A period should follow abbreviations, and a comma should separate town and state when written on…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 22 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LETTS 3390 LETTUCE cian may be addressed as Doctor, or the abbre¬ viation M. D. may follow the name, as, Dr. Henry Johnson, or Henry Johnson, M. D., but only one title…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 23 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEUTZE 3391 LEVEL plant them into the outdoor field. The older plants send up a brittle stock filled with a milky, bitter fluid, which bears pale yellow flowers. Though this vegetable is…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 24 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEVER 3392 LEVER has a bubble of air in a glass tube containing alcohol or some other spirit. The tube is slightly curved upward toward its center, so when the instrument is…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 25 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEVER 3393 LEVITES class, the power travels a shorter space than the weight, and must be greater. Examples are sugar tongs (double lever) and the fore¬ arm. In the latter case, the…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 26 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEVITICUS 3394 LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION of Aaron Numbers XVIII, 1-7), while the Levites discharged inferior duties about the Temple. They are seldom mentioned in the New Testament. LEVITICUS, le vit i…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 27 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 3395 LEWISTON following April, and the expedition pressed on. In September, 1805, the Rocky Mountains were crossed, and the Pacific Ocean came in sight on November 7. After…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 28 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEWISTOWN 3396 LEXINGTON pie (Federal estimate); in 1910 it had 26,247. Three-fifths of the people are foreign born; among these French predominate. Androscoggin Valley, in which Lewiston is located, is a fertile,…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 29 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LEYDEN 3397 LEYDEN JAR fort, the capital, ninety miles southeast of Louisville and eighty miles south of Cincin¬ nati. The Louisville Nashville, the Chesa¬ peake Ohio, and the Cincinnati, New Orleans Texas…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 30 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LHASA 3398 LIBERAL PARTY Leyden jar has a definite capacity, depending on the thickness and quality of the glass and the surface of the tin foil; the charge of elec¬ tricity is…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 31 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LIBERAL REPUBLICAN PARTY 3399 LIBERIA William E. Gladstone was the greatest Liberal leader; later worthy successors have been Jo¬ seph Chamberlain, Lord Rosebery, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, H. H. Asquith and David Lloyd…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 32 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LIBERTY 3400 LIBERTY BELL trading and military life to agriculture, coffee being the only product that is cultivated ex¬ tensively. Therefore, as the only source of in¬ come is customs duties, the…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 33 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LIBERTY CAP 3401 LIBERTY PARTY was first cast in England and the inscription put upon it by order of the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania in },752. It broke in ringing…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 34 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LIBRA 3402 LIBRARY the Northern states as a local organization, but it was finally absorbed by the Republican party in 1856. See Political Parties in the United States. LI BRA, a Latin…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 35 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR 1 V LIBRARY 3403 LIBRARY Franklin, who tells the story of its inception in his famous autobiography, and who is called the “Father of the Circulating Library.” This was a subscription library…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 36 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LIBRARY 3404 LIBRARY most intricate of these specialties is that of the classification of books, that is, their grouping by subjects, and the application of some plan of numbering or notation indicating…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 37 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 3105 LICENSE such as have not been brought together else¬ where. Its printed books number 250,000 vol¬ umes and its manuscripts over 40,000. c.b.r. See the articles Reading and…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 38 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LICHENS 3406 LICK OBSERVATORY favor the abolition of the liquor traffic. See Local Option; Prohibition. LICHENS, li kenz, strange and beautiful flowerless plant formations which, needing no soil, grow on and adorn…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 39 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LICORICE 3407 LIEBIG is an intricate device for recording earthquake disturbances. The site was selected on account of its clear atmosphere, and here many notable eclipses have been observed. In 1892 at…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
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Image 40 of Vol. 5, LEMBERG-NEW YEAR LIECHTENSTEIN 3408 LIEUTENANT methods of analysis. His Chemical Letters, published in 1852, have been translated into nearly a dozen languages and are among the most valuable contributions to chemical litera¬ ture written…- Contributor: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent) - Foster, Ellsworth D. - Locke, George Herbert
- Date: 1917
About this Item
Title
- The world book; organized knowledge in story and picture,
Names
- O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed
- Foster, Ellsworth D. ed.
- Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed.
Created / Published
- Chicago, New York [etc.] Hanson-Roach-Fowler company, 1917-18.
Headings
- - Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Notes
- - Paged continuously
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 8 v. illus., (incl. ports., music) plates (part col.) maps, diagrs., 25 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- AE5 .W55
Library of Congress Control Number
- 17003736
OCLC Number
- 16737279
Online Format
- online text
- image