Identifier: colliersnewencyc03newy (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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calledjy him Pachypodes, or Pachypoda. In1841 Professor Owen gave them the namewhich they still retain, Dinosauria. Hux-ley places them as one of two sub-ordersunder his order Oinithoscelida, and thusdefines them: Cervical vertebrae short,femur as long as or longer than the tibia.Huxley divides them into three families:the Megalosauridse, the Sceiidosauridse,and the Iguanodontidse. Ohio Valley and the erection of forts tosecure the W. frontier against theFrench. He was one of the most earnestsupporters of the French and IndianWar, which began about 1753 and lasted10 years. He died in Clifton, England,Aug. 1, 1770. DIOCESE, the territorial district orportion of the Church forming thespiritual jurisdiction of a bishop. Evenas early as the New Testament historywe find some plain indications of therise of the diocesan system, in the casesrespectively of James, Bishop of Jerusa-lem; Timothy, Bishop of Ephesus; Titus,of Crete; to whom may be added theangels or bishops of the Seven Churches
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DINOSAUR DINOTHERIUM, or DINOTHERE, agenus of fossil mammals belonging to theorder Proboscidea (Kaup, Huxley, andothers), or to the order Cetacea, and thesub-order Sirenia (Blainville, Pictet,Carpenter, Dallas, and others), The D.giganteum, of which the entire skull andlower jaws were found in Miocene sandat Eppelsheim on the Rhine by Klip-stein, and were described by Kaup, wasapparently larger than the elephant. Itstusks, which projected from the lowerjaw, curved downward, and were usedby the animal, which was semi-aquatic,to support its head on the shore. It isbelieved that it had a short, flexibletrunk. DINWIDDIE, ROBERT, a Britishofficial and ieutenant-governor of Vir-ginia in 1752-1758; born in Scotland,about 1690. During his official careerhe recommended the annexation of the in Asia. The name of diocese was notgiven till the beginning of the 4th cen-tury. Previous to that period they weredenominated parochia. DIOCLETIAN C. VALERIUS DIO-CLETIANUS (surnamed Jovius), a manof mean

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