The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with Large Additions, 14 tomasHarry Thurston Peck Dodd, Mead, 1899 |
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... American species has simple leaves . Only one species , the WOOD STRAWBERRY , ( F. vesca ) , is truly a native of Britain . It is common in woods and thickets . Its fruit is small , but of delicious flavor . Another species , the ...
... American species has simple leaves . Only one species , the WOOD STRAWBERRY , ( F. vesca ) , is truly a native of Britain . It is common in woods and thickets . Its fruit is small , but of delicious flavor . Another species , the ...
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... American invention and their use is gradually extending abroad . The goods are pressed and blocked into shape at the rate of four a minute , by another machine of American origin . The total value of the straw goods manufactured in the ...
... American invention and their use is gradually extending abroad . The goods are pressed and blocked into shape at the rate of four a minute , by another machine of American origin . The total value of the straw goods manufactured in the ...
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... American committee on the revision of the Bible . He died in 1894 . STRONG , JAMES H. , b . Canandaigua , N. Y. , 1814 ; son of Judge Elisha B .; entered the navy as midshipman , 1829 ; served in the Mexican war ; commander , 1861 ...
... American committee on the revision of the Bible . He died in 1894 . STRONG , JAMES H. , b . Canandaigua , N. Y. , 1814 ; son of Judge Elisha B .; entered the navy as midshipman , 1829 ; served in the Mexican war ; commander , 1861 ...
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... American Journal of Science he contributed 22 papers between 1818 and 1845 . To the Mathematical Diary , published at New York and edited at first by Dr. Robert Adrian and afterward by James Ryan , he also contributed . To the ...
... American Journal of Science he contributed 22 papers between 1818 and 1845 . To the Mathematical Diary , published at New York and edited at first by Dr. Robert Adrian and afterward by James Ryan , he also contributed . To the ...
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... American painter , was b . at Narragansett , Rhode Island , in 1755. In his boyhood , he went to Edinburgh with a Scotch painter named Alexander , with whom he studied his art ; but his master dying , he worked his passage home , and ...
... American painter , was b . at Narragansett , Rhode Island , in 1755. In his boyhood , he went to Edinburgh with a Scotch painter named Alexander , with whom he studied his art ; but his master dying , he worked his passage home , and ...
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