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Page 148 - 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 - ... The Kongo River country has a rapidly growing trade with the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. 1 In spite of the density of its population, Belgium is almost the only country of Europe which year by year increases the total number of its inhabitants by immigration. CHAPTER IX. THE KINGDOM OF ITALY. ITALY is a great peninsula, projecting from Central Europe southward into the Mediterranean Sea. The Apennines Mountains extend through its entire length. Flowing...
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 - The industries, which the first act of our first administration sought to encourage, now give remunerative employment to more people than inhabited the republic at the beginning of Washington's presidency. The grand total of their annual output of nine thousand millions of dollars in value, places the United States first among the manufacturing countries of the earth.
Page 63 - North and the marvelous industrial development of the new and free South have obliterated the evidences of destruction and made the war a memory, and have stimulated production until our annual surplus nearly equals that of England, France, and Germany combined. The teeming millions of Asia till the patient soil and work the shuttle and loom as their fathers have done for ages; modern Europe has felt the influence and received the benefit of the incalculable multiplication of force by inventive...
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 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 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.