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# The New Student's Reference Work/Vallejo, Cal.

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​Vallejo (vȧl-yā′hṓ) Cal., a city in Solano County, at the mouth of Napa Creek, which empties into the northeast part of San Pablo Bay. Vallejo is connected by steamship lines with San Francisco (30 miles to the southwest); it is also reached by the Southern Pacific Railroad, as is South Vallejo. Adjacent to both is the Mare Island Navy-Yard (U. S.), which gives employment to about 2,000 men. There is also a quicksilver mine in the vicinity, while the region is a fertile one for farming and fruit-growing. Besides its lumber yards, planing-mills and fish-packing establishments, it has flour-mills, brick-yards, a tannery, beer-bottling works, a cement-works and carbonated water factories. It has a Sailor's Club house, a Home for Orphans, a Carnegie Library and the St. Vincent's Convent and school. Founded in 1851, the city was designed at one time as the capital of the state and here for a couple of years (1851-3) were held the annual session of the state legislature. Population 11,340.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Vallombrosa

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​Vallombro′sa, a celebrated abbey of Tuscany, situated among the Apennines in a valley surrounded with forests of fir, beech and chestnut trees. Here an Order of Benedictine monks was founded about the middle of the 11th century, who were called Vallombrosians from the name of the site. This monastery was suppressed in 1863, and its buildings used for a royal academy of forestry, but it is still much visited by artists and tourists.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Valparaiso

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# The New Student's Reference Work/Valparaiso, Ind.

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​Valparaiso, Ind., county-seat of Porter County, 44 miles southeast of Chicago, Ill., is on the Fort Wayne, Grand Trunk and "Nickel Plate" railroads. It is in a fertile farming district, and trades largely in agricultural productions. The chief manufactures consist of dairy-products, machine-shop goods and mica-paint. The town has been made well-known by Northern Indiana Normal School. This was founded in 1874 by Henry Brown for those who can not avail themselves of courses in regular colleges. It has over 5,000 students of both sexes, who obtain board, lodging and higher education for about $125 a year. The secret of the low prices lies in the elimination of the middleman and the purchase of food in enormous quantities at wholesale rates. The college has seven acres of gardens cultivated mainly by the students, and these are housed almost as economically as they are fed. For 22 cents a day students obtain good lodging and excellent meals. From the profits on board, lodging and teaching this school has acquired 50 acres of land, bought or built nine substantial buildings, earned and saved nearly $1,000,000 and formed a faculty of 162 instructors. Common-sense ideas are put to use in the educational work. The institution has $200,000 of productive funds, and in 1907 its income was $295,000. There is a library of 12,000 volumes. The population of the city in 1910 was 6,987.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Vampire

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​Vam′pire, according to a superstitious belief, which still prevails in some European ​a ghost which comes out of the grave at night and sucks the blood of men and women. In the mythology of the ancient Greeks beings of a similar nature existed, called the Lamias. These were beautiful women who allured youths to their embrace in order to feed on their flesh and blood. During the middle ages there was a prevailing belief that all persons who died under the ban of the church were sent forth by the devil at night to destroy other people; and it was thought that the only way to escape these vampires was by digging up their unwashed corpses and burying them.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Valladolid (Spain)

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​Valladolid (väl′yȧ-thṓ-lḗth′), a famous city of Spain, at one time capital of the whole country and still capital of the province of Valladolid, stands on the left bank of the Pisuerga, 150 miles northwest of Madrid by railway. It is 2,000 feet above the level of the sea, and has a healthful climate, the air being pure and genial and the sky generally cloudless. As Valladolid was the residence of the court prior to its removal to Madrid in the 16th century, it contains many large and decayed dwellings, although many new mansions have been erected and the streets have been paved, enlarged and multiplied. There are a noted university, founded in 1346, a palace and an unfinished cathedral. Here Ferdinand and Isabella were married and here Columbus died. The city communicates with the Atlantic Ocean by the Douro and with various portions of Spain by canal and railway. Population 68,789.
# The Nightingale (Andersen)

English-language translations of Nattergalen include:
* "The Nightingale" in Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1888), translated by Mrs. Henry H. B. Paull
* "The Nightingale" in The Yellow Fairy Book (1894), edited by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford
* "The Nightingale" in The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1899), translated by Mary Howitt, illustrated by Helen Stratton
* "The Nightingale" in Fairy Tales and Stories (1900), translated by H. L. Brækstad, illustrated by H. Tegner
* "The Nightingale" in Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1913), translated by unknown translator, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
* "The Nightingale" in Fairy Tales and Other Stories (1914), translated by W. A. Craigie and J. K. Craigie
* "The Nightingale" in Fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen (1914), translated by unknown translator, illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker
* "The Nightingale" Stories from Hans Andersen with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Hodder and Stoughton. 1910.
* "The Nightingale" Edmund Dulac's picture-book for the French Red Cross. Hodder and Stoughton. c. 1914.
# The Nightingale and the Bat

Perry index 48; also known as The Bat and the Songbird and The Cage-Bird and the Bat
* "A Nightingale and a Bat", translated by Roger L'Estrange, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
* "The Cage-Bird and the Bat", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)
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# The Nightmare Lake

There is a lake in distant Zan, Beyond the wonted haunts of man, Where broods alone in a hideous state A spirit dead and desolate; A spirit ancient and unholy, Heavy with fearsome melancholy, Which from the waters dull and dense Draws vapors cursed with pestilence. Around the banks, a mire of clay, Sprawl things offensive in decay, And curious birds that reach that shore Are seen by mortals nevermore. Here shines by day the searing sun On glassy wastes beheld by none, And here by night pale moonbeams flow Into the deeps that yawn below. In nightmares only is it told What scenes beneath those beams unfold; What scenes, too old for human sight, Lie sunken there in endless night; For in those depths there only pace The shadows of a voiceless race. One midnight, redolent of ill, I saw that lake, asleep and still; While in the lurid sky there rode A gibbous moon that glow’d and glow’d. I saw the stretching marshy shore, And the foul things those marshes bore: Lizards and snakes convuls’d and dying; Ravens and vampires putrefying; All these, and hov’ring o’er the dead, Narcophagi that on them fed. And as the dreadful moon climb’d high, Fright’ning the stars from out the sky, I saw the lake’s dull water glow Till sunken things appear’d below. There shone unnumber’d fathoms down, The tow’rs of a forgotten town; The tarnish’d domes and mossy walls; Weed-tangled spires and empty halls; Deserted fanes and vaults of dread, And streets of gold uncoveted. These I beheld, and saw beside A horde of shapeless shadows glide; A noxious horde which to my glance Seem’d moving in a hideous dance Round slimy sepulchres that lay Beside a never-travell’d way. Straight from those tombs a heaving rose That vex’d the waters’ dull repose, While lethal shades of upper space Howl’d at the moon’s sardonic face. Then sank the lake within its bed, Suck’d down to caverns of the dead, Till from the reeking, new-stript earth Curl’d foetid fumes of noisome birth. About the city, nigh uncover’d, The monstrous dancing shadows hover’d, When lo! there oped with sudden stir The portal of each sepulchre! No ear may learn, no tongue may tell What nameless horror then befell. I see that lake—that moon agrin— That city and the things within— Waking, I pray that on that shore The nightmare lake may sink no more!
# The Nile

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It flows through old hush'd Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream; And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands, —
Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands
That roam'd through the young earth, the glory extreme
Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam.
The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands.
Then comes a mightier silence, stern and strong,
As of a world left empty of its throng,
And the void weighs on us; and then we wake,
And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along
'Twixt villages, and think how we shall take
Our own calm journey on for human sake.
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# The Nightingale (Coleridge)

The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in April 1798. Originally included in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, which he published with William Wordsworth, the poem disputes the traditional idea that nightingales are connected to the idea of melancholy. Instead, the nightingale represents to Coleridge the experience of nature. Midway through the poem, the narrator stops discussing the nightingale in order to describe a mysterious female and a gothic scene. After the narrator is returned to his original train of thought by the nightingale's song, he recalls a moment when he took his crying son out to see the moon, which immediately filled the child with joy. Warning: template has been deprecated.
* "The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem" in Lyrical Ballads (1798)
* "The Nightingale" in Lyrical Ballads Volume I (1800)
* "The Nightingale" in Sibylline Leaves (1817)
# The Nightingale and the Glow-worm

* "The Nightingale and Glow-worm", in The Poetical Works of William Cowper (1870), edited by William Benham
* "The Nightingale and the Glow-worm" in Poems That Every Child Should Know (1904)
* "The Nightingale and the Glow-worm" in An argosy of fables (1921)
# The Nightingale at Great Barr

Published posthumously, in: John Kilbourn - His Writing; source: http://rspb-walsall.org.uk/kilbourn/
The sun is chambered in the distant west, And night has spread her robes across the sky; Nature is silent in expectancy, And over all things lies the hush of rest.
The stars above their faithful sentry keep; I listen for the music of the spheres, Said to re-echo through the eternal years, But every earthly sound and whisper sleep.
But hark! From out of the shadows comes a song, So strangely sweet, that never was there wrought such music out of human life or thought, Nor earth's darkness do such notes belong.
The song is heard; the singer hides from sight; Hath not God promised music in the night?
# The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art

The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art (simplified Chinese: 九章算术; traditional Chinese: 九章算術; pinyin: Jiǔzhāng Suànshù) is a Chinese mathematics book, composed by several generations of scholars from the 10th century BCE to the 2nd century CE. It is among the earliest known Chinese mathematical texts.
English-language translations of 九章算術 include:
* Yoshio Mikami: "Arithmetic in Nine Sections" (abridged), in The Development of Mathematics in China and Japan (1912).
* Florian Cajori: "Arithmetic in Nine Sections" (highly abridged), in A History of Mathematics, Second Edition (1919).
* Lam Lay Yong (1936–): "Jiu Zhang Suanshu: An Overview" (abridged), in Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 1-51. (1994) Copyrighted in the United States until 2091
* Shen Kangshen, The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art (unabridged with Liu Hui's commentary and original commentary), Oxford University Press 1999. Copyrighted in the United States until 2091
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# The New International Encyclopædia/Weber, Wilhelm

Edition of 1905. See also Wilhelm Eduard Weber on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
WEBER, Wilhelm (1804-91). A German physicist. He was born at Wittenberg, and was educated at Halle. In 1825, in association with his brother, Ernst Heinrich Weber, he published Die Wellenlehre. He became assistant professor of physics at Halle in 1827, and professor at Göttingen in 1831. He was one of the seven professors of Göttingen who were removed in 1837 for having protested against the violation of the Constitution. He held the chair of physics at Leipzig, 1843-49. when he was restored to his former position at Göttingen. While living in that city he became acquainted with Gauss, and in 1833 they jointly devised an electro-magnetic telegraph. They also founded the Magnetic Union and made many observations on terrestrial magnetism. An important achievement of Weber's is the introduction of the absolute system of electrical units modeled on the work of Gauss, who first devised such a system of units in his experiments in magnetism. Weber determined the value of the practical units in absolute measure and at the International Electrical Congress held at Paris in 1881 his system with certain modifications was adopted and the volt, ampere, coulomb, and farad were defined. Weber's works were published by the Göttingen Academy of Science in 1892. A biographical sketch entitled Wilhelm Weber, by Heinrich Weber, was published at Berlin in 1893.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Weighing Machine

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​WEIGHING MACHINE. A contrivance for ascertaining the weight of objects. The most common form of weighing machine is the platform scale, in which a small known weight at one end of multiplying beams is made to balance a heavy unknown weight at the other end. The principle of the unequal beam balance is simply the principle of the lever (see Lever; Balance), and as applied to scales it may be illustrated by the accompanying diagram. Here we have the beam hinged at l and m and attached by a rod no to the scale beam oq. At jkrs is a U-shaped lever hinged to fixed pivots at j and k and to the lever lnm at r and s. If now we let the broken lines a, b, c, d represent a stiff platform, which is carried on the two levers by means of standards at e, f, g, and h, we have represented all the principal operating parts of the ordinary platform scale. To understand the mode of operation, assume that a load is placed upon the platform a, b, c, d. This load is conveyed to the system of levers by the standards e, f, g, and h, and depresses them so that they exert a pull downward on the rod no and the short arm of the lever op. This pull is balanced by sliding the weight w along the lever or scale beam oq, which is so graduated into pounds and fractions that the weight of the article on the platform is read at a glance. It is now plain that we have only to vary the number of levers and relative lengths of the arms of these levers to secure almost any multiplication of the weight that we please. In ordinary platform scales a weight w of 1 pound balances a load of 100 pounds on the platform. But this ratio is increased to 1 to 500 or to 1 to 1000 in scales for weighing loaded wagons and cars. The arrangement of levers shown in the accompanying diagram is a common one, but there are many others in use, each of which is adapted to some particular direction or use of the scale.
DIAGRAM OF PLATFORM SCALE.
Some scales work automatically, taking material from a large hopper, weighing out a certain amount and discharging it and then repeating the operation. Such contrivances are used for bagging sugar, coffee, etc., and for weighing out coal for sale. Scales are built which have a capacity for weighing very heavy loads; examples of these are railway car and locomotive scales, cattle scales with a capacity of weighing from 20 to 200 head of cattle, and grain scales of 500 bushels capacity and more. A scale designed for weighing heavy guns at the Watervliet Arsenal, Troy, N. Y., has a capacity for weighing 300,000 pounds on a platform 12 × 15 feet, or a capacity of nearly 1700 pounds per square foot. Besides scales operating on the principle of the balance, there are weighing machines which operate by compressing a coiled spring or by twisting a bar of metal. The spring scale is a very common device, and in the form of a dynamometer for registering the pull of locomotives is made with very large capacities. For the most part, however, spring scales are of small capacity. They are not as accurate as balance scales. See Spring Balance.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Weber, Theodor

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WEBER, Theodor (1836—). A German Old Catholic bishop. He was born at Zülpich, studied at Bonn, Munich, and Breslau, and became a priest
in 1860. He was made professor of philosophy at Breslau in 1872. He was active in the Old Catholic movement from its beginning, and in 1890 removed to Bonn and was appointed vicar-general by Bishop Reinkens. Five years later he was consecrated assistant bishop, and on Reinkens's death in 1896 he succeeded him as bishop. He has written much in relation to the Old Catholic movement and in philosophy and metaphysics.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Wei-hei-wei

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​WEI-HAI-WEI, wā′hī′wā′. A port on the north coast of the promontory of Shan-tung, China, about 40 miles east of Chi-fu (q.v.), and about the same distance west of Yung-ching-hien, near the extreme end of the promontory (Map: China, F 4). It is situated on a moderately large bay with a small island in its mouth which protects the harbor from all sides except one. It was fortified by the Chinese in 1883-85, was made a naval station, and an arsenal was established. In 1895 the Japanese captured it from the landward side. It was evacuated in 1898, and shortly thereafter leased by Great Britain to be held by her so long as Russia should hold Port Arthur, on the opposite coast. With the concession went a strip of land ten miles wide, lying east of 121° 40′ E., and covering an area of about 285 square miles. Population, about 125,000, all under British rule. Only Chinese and British war vessels may enter the harbor.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Weber, Max Maria von

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WEBER, Max Maria von (1822-81). A German civil engineer, son of the composer Karl Maria von Weber. He was born in Dresden and received his early training in the schools of that city. Part of his experience was gained under Brunel and Stephenson in England. In 1850 he entered the civil service of his native kingdom. In 1870 he went to Vienna, where he did much toward the extension of Austrian railways. In 1878 he was called in a similar capacity to Berlin. Outside of his oflicial duties Weber found time for considerable writing, in the line of general literature as well as on technical matters. Among his works may be cited: Schule des Eisenbahnwesens (1857); Karl Maria von Weber; ein Lebensbild (1864-66); Die Praxis des baues und Betriebs der Sekundärbahnen (1873); Nationalität und Eisenbahnpolitik (1876); and the posthumous Vom rollenden Flügelrad (published by M. Jähns, with biography, 1882).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Weckerlin, Jean Baptiste Théodore

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WECKERLIN, Ger. pron. vĕk'ẽr-lḗn, Fr. pron. vắ'kâr'lăN', Jean Baptiste Théodore (1821—). A French musician, born at Gebweiler, Alsace. In 1844 he began his musical career, studying singing with Ponchard and composition with Halévy at the Paris Conservatory. In 1847 he brought out his heroic symphony Roland. In 1853 Weckerlin was most successful in the production of a one-act comic opera, L'organiste dans l'embarras. In 1869 he was appointed assistant librarian to the Conservatory. In 1863 he produced his comic opera Die dreifach Hochzeit im Bäsethal, and in 1879 Der verhäxt Herbst. These were both in Alsatian dialect. In 1877 he brought out the one-act opera Après Fontenoy. In 1876 he became Félicien David's successor as librarian at the Conservatory and published in 1885 a biographical catalogue. Later he became librarian of the ‘Société des Compositeurs.’ Among his works are: an oratorio, Le jugement dernier; the cantatas, L'Aurore and Paix, charité, grandeur (1866); the ‘ode-symphonie’ Les poèmes de la
mer, for solo, chorus, and orchestra (1860); L'Inde (1873); and La fête d'Alexandre, in the same year. His Histoire de l'instrumentation depuis le seizième siècle jusqu'à l'époque actuelle won the gold medal of the Académie in 1875. He has gained great renown as a composer of choral works.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Weight

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​WEIGHT. See Matter.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Weckherlin, Georg Rudolph

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WECKHERLIN, vĕk'hẽr-lḗn, Georg Rudolph (1584-1653). A German poet. He was born at Stuttgart, studied jurisprudence at the University of Tübingen, and entered the diplomatic service of Württemberg. After serving as secretary to Duke John Frederick (1614-c.20) he removed to England, where he served (1624-41) as an Under-Secretary of State. At the outbreak of the Civil War he chose the side of Parliament and from 1644 to 1649 held the position of ‘secretary for foreign tongues.’ Upon his retirement he was succeeded by John Milton, and in 1652 was appointed assistant to the latter, but continued in office only a few months and died in London the following year. Weckherlin's German poems are for the most part imitated from the works of the French Pleiade, especially from Ronsard, or from English writers like Samuel Daniel. He ranks as foremost of the poets before Opitz who tried to introduce Renaissance forms and feelings into German verse. His lyrics are poetic in tone, though hard and unwieldy in form. His chief English poems are “Triumphal Shows Set Forth Lately at Stuttgart” (1616) and “Panegyricke to Lord Hay, Viscount of Doncaster” (1619). His collected poems were edited by H. Fischer (Stuttgart, 1893-95). Consult: Fischer, as above; Cong, Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Schriften R. Weckherlins ( Ludwigsburg, 1803); Höpfner, Weckherlins Oden und Gesänge (Berlin, 1865); and Bohm, Englands Einfluss auf Weckherlin (Göttingen, 1893).