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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stronomy at the Uni-versity of the Pacific. He was appointedastronomer at the Lick Observatory in1895, and has to his credit the discoveryof about three thousand double stars. Hewas awarded prizes and medals by manyAmerican and foreign scientific societies.He was editor of Publications of the he executed were busts of Mme. Mod-jeska, Augustus Thomas, William H.Taft, Henry Roger Wolcott, and others.He also designed many important monu-ments, including the McKinley Monu-ment in Golden Gate Park in San Fran-cisco, the Bret Harte Monument in SanFrancisco, etc. He was awarded manymedals for his work and became secre-tary of the National Sculpture Society,and a member of many American andforeign societies relating to art andsculpture. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (axla-shap-el)(German Aachen), the capital of a dis-trict in Rhenish Prussia. Pop. about175,000. Aix-la-Chapelle is the center ofa valuable coal district, and of numerousthriving manufactories, especially forspinning and weaving woolen fabricSj
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THE CATHEDRAL AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE Astronomical Societies of the Pacific,and contributed much to astronomicaland other scientific journals. AITKEN, ROBERT INGERSOLL, anAmerican sculptor; born in San Fran-cisco and was professor of sculpture atpublic schools, studied art at the MarkHopkins Institute of Art in San Fran-cisco and was professor of scupture atthis institution from 1901 to 1904. Heshowed remarkable talent in the makingof portrait busts. Among those which and for needle and pin making. Thereare also immense manufactures of ma-chinery, bells, glass buttons, chemicalsand cigars. The city is rich in histori-cal associations. It emerged from histor-ical obscurity about the time of Pepin;and Charlemagne founded its world-widecelebrity. Whether it was his birthplaceis doubtful, but in 814 it became hisgrave. In 796 he had rebuilt the impe-ria) palace, as well as the chapel in whichPepin had celebrated Christmas in 765.The present town-house was built in 1353 AIX-LES-BAINS 82 AJAX on

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