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Page 144 - In addition to these the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, in the West Indies, are also subject to Denmark.
Page 12 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 127 - ... square miles, is about equal to that of Colorado. Italy is situated in the same latitude as the New England States, but its climate is drier and much warmer. The chief agricultural products are grain, fruits, olives, hemp, flax, and cotton. The more fertile areas frequently produce several field-crops in the year. Silk-culture is carried to a higher degree of perfection than in any other country except China, the mulberry-tree being carefully cultivated in many sections of the country. Grapes...
Page 173 - Sodium-22, with a naif-life of more than two and one-half years, has also been used as a radioactive tracer. The other isotopes have very short half-lives. Properties. Sodium is a light metal with a silvery color. It is so soft that it can easily be cut with a knife and is quite malleable and ductile. The metal has a low melting point of 97.8°C (208°F) and a boiling point of 882°C (1619.6°F). At 20°C (68°F) it has a specific gravity of 0.971— a little less than that of water -and a specific...
Page 63 - One-half of all the railroads, and one-quarter of all the telegraph lines of the world within our borders, testify to the volume, variety, and value of an internal commerce which makes these States, if need be, independent and self-supporting. These hundred years of development under favoring political conditions have brought the sum of our national wealth to a figure which is past the results of a thousand years for the mother-land, herself otherwise the richest of modern empires.
Page 63 - One-half the total mileage of all the railroads, and one-quarter of all the telegraph lines of the world within our borders, testify to the volume, variety, and value of an internal commerce which makes these States, if need be, independent and self-supporting. These...
Page 11 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The curve which bounds the circle is called the circumference Any portion of the circumference is called an arc.
Page 81 - ... little practical importance to her, except as regards the navigation of that part of it which at the time of the treaty was in the possession of Spain. Spain then held Louisiana, lying on both sides of the river south of the thirty-first degree ; but, having been afterward transferred to France, it came into the possession of the United States by the treaty of Paris, April 30, 1803. There are various provisions in the acts and laws of the United States to secure the free navigation of the Mississippi...
Page 64 - Napoleonic wars; and yet, only two hundred and sixty-nine years after the little band of Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, our people, numbering less than one-fifteenth of the inhabitants of the globe, do one-third of its mining, one-fourth of its manufacturing, one-fifth of its agriculture, and own one-sixth of its wealth.
Page 15 - September 23. be no such changes ; but, since it is inclined, revolution turns one hemisphere toward the sun for a time, then away from it. These annual changes recur so regularly that, in all the time of human history, there has been no noticeable change. SUGGESTIONS.