Identifier: colliersnewencyc01newy (find matches)
Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Underwood cr Underzvood THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES AMSTERDAM 155 AMUNDSEN AMSTERDAM, a city of MontgomeryCO., N. Y.; on the Mohawk river and theNew York Central and Hudson river andthe West Shore railroads; 33 miles N.W. of Albany. It is an agricultural re-gion, but is noted for its manufactures,especially of knit goods, carpets, steelsprings, and paper, Pop. (1910) 31,267;(1920) 33,524. AMSTERDAM, UNIVERSITY OF, aninstitution for higher learning in thecity of Amsterdam, Holland, founded in1632. It was reorganized in 1867 andten years later was made the Royal Uni-versity. It has faculties of law, medi-cine, mathematics, science, arts, andtheology, and about 1,100 students. AMULET, anything hung around theneck, placed like a bracelet on the wrist,or otherwise attached to the person, asan imagined preservative against sick-ness, witchcraft, or other evils, amuletswere common in the ancient world, andthey are so yet in nations where igno-rance prevails. AMUNDSEN, ROALD, a polar ex-plorer, b

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