The Compendium

1.Birds

Scarlet Tanager

Indigo Bunting

Bobolink

Ovenbird

Eastern Bluebird

Cedar Waxwing

Wood Thrush

American Robin

Marsh Wren

Red-eyed Vireo

Northern Cardinal

Blue-Winged Warbler

Red-Winged Blackbird

Song Sparrow

Chimney Swift

House Sparrow

Blue Jay

Field Sparrow

Purple Martin

Great Crested Flycatcher

Northern Flicker

Eastern Meadowlark

American Redstart

2.Rocks, Gems, and Minerals

Moonstone (bluish sheen)

Lapis-Lazuli  (deep blue and smooth)

Topaz  (yellow or pink)

Amethyst  (purple, jagged)

Olivine  (various greens)

Jasper  (purplish)

Banded Agate  (Mexican stone, with rainbow-colored stripes)

Eye Agate (eye-shaped colored circle patterns, from Brazil)

Carnelian  (smooth pink)

Fire Opal  (red gem from Mexico)

Turquoise  (bluish rock)

Anthracite 

Bituminous (shiny black)

3.Butterflies and Moths

Hackberry Emperor

Red Admiral

Meadow Fritillary

Spangled Fritillary

Cloudless Sulphur  (bright yellow-orange)

Pink-Edged Sulphur

Giant Swallowtail

Spicebush Swallowtail

Red-spotted Purple

Gorgon Copper

Banded Hairstreak

Sylvan Hairstreak

Great Purple Hairstreak

Metalmark

Daggerwing

Willow Tentmaker

Luna Moth

Darling Underwing

Checkerspot

black witch

rose-touched green

silver-spotted ghost moth

micro moths

fiery skipper

funereal dusky wing

eyed brown

black swallowtail

little metalmark

field crescent 

Olympia marble

4.Egyptian Gods and Goddessses

Horus  (“lord of the sky”)

Re  (sun god of Heliopolis)

Osiris  (god of the Egyptian underworld)

Ta-Bitjet  (scorpion goddess in spells against poisonous bites)

Seth (god of chaos)

Sakhmet  (lioness goddess)

Mafdet (panther goddess with power over snakes and scorpions)

Anat (warrior goddess)

Andjety

Nut (sky goddess)

Sobek (crocodile god)

Tasenetnofret

Anubis

Apis

6.Kinds of Bridges

Arch Bridge

Moon Bridge 

Cavity Wall Viaduct

Beam Bridge

Box Girder Bridge

Cable-stayed Bridge

Cantilever Bridge

Continuous Span Bridge

Plate Girder Bridge

Segmental Bridge

Self-anchored- Suspension

Trestle Bridge

Tubular Bridge

Bridge to Nowhere

Rainbow Bridge

Bridge of Gold

Bridges of Cane

Bifrost

7.Occupations

machinist

marine surveyor

architect 

aircraft examiner

metal fabricator

astronaut

building inspector

crane operator

court reporter

die cutter operator

electric meter installer 

export agent

farm equipment mechanic

farm hand

fashion consultant

fire inspector

fire investigator

fish hatchery specialist

glass blower

green house manager

horticulturist

vintner

industrial designer

radiologic technician

rail yard engineer

quarry worker

rail yard engineer

power plant operator

probation officer

clairvoyant

ship pilot

septic tank servicer 

textile bleaching and dying machine operator

locksmith

weather observer

watch repairer

urban planner

tool grinders and sharpeners

tool and die maker

land surveyor

lathe operator

8.Herbs and flowers used for remedies and healing

angelica

winter cherries

camomile 

mountain mint

knotgrass

juniper

columbine

asphodel 

prickly asparagus

henbane

moonwort

motherwort

mandrake

sweet marjoram

quince tree

water flag

hemlock

eyebright 

bitter sweet

blue-bottle

wood sorrel

winter-rocket

winter-cress

rattle grass

wind marjoram

sassafras

tamarisk

fennel

honeysuckle

jasmine

11.Types of Glue

Albumin Glue

Bone Glue

Ceramic Adhesive

Contact Cement

Epoxy Adhesive

Fish Glue

Hot Melt Glue

Neoprene Adhesive

Rabbit-skin Glue

Soybean Glue

Tapioca Glue

Rice Glue

Water-Phase Epoxy 

Vinyl Adhesive

12.Trees 

banyan 

linden 

cypress

sycamore

poplar

hawthorne 

honey locust

shagbark hickory

paper birch

yellow birch 

Eastern hemlock

American Hornbeam

American larch

quaking aspen

13.Tallest Buildings in the World

Petronas Tower

Shanghai Tower

Tuntex Sky Tower

Mercury City Tower

Pearl River Tower

Tomorrow Square

Millennium Tower

Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel

Zifeng Tower

Princess Tower

The Marina Torch

The Pinnacle

Tuntex Sky

Chrysler Building

14.Bugs

centipede

water bug

stick bug

june bug

scarab beetle

katydid

praying mantis

cicada

cricket

locust

grasshopper

boll weevil

termite

ant

dragonfly 

damsel fly

millipede

jerusalem cricket

15.Colors

blue

azure

yellow

yellow-orange

etc.

blue-gray

blue-green

red-orange

violet

lavender

magenta

violet

celadon

green

17.Kinds of Fruit

amonds

apples apricots

berberries

cherries

chestnuts

cranberries

currants

figs

gooseberries

grapes

medlars

mulberries

nectaries

nuts and filberts

peaches

pears

pine-apples

plums

quinces

raspberries

strawberries

walnuts

18.Kinds of Ships

fire ship

light ship

cargo ship

barque

brigantine

trireme

catboat

galleon

schooner

clipper

19.Some Places

junk yard

factory

scrap yard

power plant

garden

orchard

train station

airport

prison

jail

slaughterhouse

haunted house

casino

ziggurat
rock quarry
crematorium
motel
hotel
truck-stop
courtyard

20. Section Headings from the Table of Contents of Abbott’s Home-book of Wonders in Nature, Science and Arts

mountains

subterranean wonders

mines, metals, gems, etc.

phenomena of the ocean

cataracts and cascades

springs and wells

bituminous and other lakes

atmospherical phenom-ena

buried cities

earthquakes

natural bridges

precipices and promontories

wide and inhospitable deserts

wonders of art

the Holy Land

miscellaneous wonders

  1. 21.Military Ranks

colonel 

lieutenant 

general 

admiral 

major 

master sergeant

technical sergeant

staff sergeant

airman

seaman apprentice

fleet admiral

rear admiral

vice admiral

brigadier general

  1. 23.Clocks

Lantern Clock

Crown Wheel

quartz clock

anchor escapement

astronomical clock

atomic clock

balloon clock

bedpost clock

solar and sidereal clock

flying-pendulum clock

self-winding synchronizing 

24. Glass

ice plate

crackle glass

baccarat

enamelled glass

opaque stems

vetro-di-trina

witch ball

air twist

aventurine 

25. Underworld Slang from A Dictionary of the Underworld, British and American, by Eric Partridge

crimp sham governor

crimson rambler

to decorate the mahogany

freshwater mariner

Graystone College

pearl diver

silkworm

cabbage hat
Bughouse Square
bedroom of stars
across the bubble
Adam and Eve on a raft
blink-fencer
the Blind Beak
Mr. Block
block-house
block-of-ice mob
blocks
chive-fencer
the clock racket
blow a cloud
green pill
green ashes
do a star pitch
white thimble
summer cabbage
sucking bamboo

26. Machines Appliances & Mechanical Movements

horizontal conveyor

friction pulley

registering wind vane

anemometer 

wind force register

timber creosoting-     apparatus 

stump-pulling machine

pipe-bending machine

ore pulverizer

molding machine

ore sampler

flour-packing machine

oar roasting furnace

pantanemone windmill

oil crusher

water motor

water-pressure regulator

gigantic wheel

worm gear hoist

electric hammer

electric soldering copper

electric transformer

gravity feed furnace

gas-fired forge

flocking machine

coal-handling plant

I beam trolley 

crank pin lathe

sounding machine

flexible ball-joint

27. Fables of La Fontaine

Grasshopper and the Ant

The Rooster and the Pearl

The Bird Stuck by an Arrow

The Peacock Complains to Juno

The Stag and the Vine

A Saying of Socrates

The Sun and the Frogs

The Farmer and the Snake

The Master’s Eye

The Dog that Dropped His Prey for Its Shadow

The Dream of the Man In the Land in the Great Mogul

Smoked Eel

A Kiss Returned

The Ear-Maker and the 

Mold-Mender

The Bear & Two Friends

The Heron

The Lion Holds Court

The Head and Tail of 

the Snake

28. Tales From Ovid

The Four Ages

Io and Jove

Syrinx

Narcissus and Echo

Actaeon 

Aurora and Memnon

Cephalus

The Myrmidons 

Semele

Tiresias 

Pentheus

Europa and Jove

29. The I Ching

Taming Power of the Small

Approach

Biting Through

Preponderance of the Great

Splitting Apart

The Abysmal (Water)

The Clinging, Fire

The Arousing (Thunder)

Keeping Still, Mountain

The Joyous, Lake

The Marrying Maiden

Inner Truth

The Yarrow-Stalk Oracle

The Coin Oracle

Darkening of the Light

Treading

Following

Grace

Coming to Meet

The Caldron

Revolution (Molting)

Oppression (Exhaustion)

30. Seashells

red abalone

pink abalone

black abalone

keyhole limpet 

giant keyhole limpet

Atlantic Plate limpet

Goliath conch

rooster conch

Indo-Pacific Miter

blood-sucker miter

bean margin shell

bough cone

textile cone

distant cone

soldier cone

marble cone

tessellate cone

Hebrew cone

bubble cone

zoned cone

pontifical cone

geography cone

tiger auger

eyed auger

nebulose auger

flame auger

shiny auger

wing oyster

pearl oyster

white hammer oyster

giant clam

sanguine clam

common paper nautilus

chambered nautilus

32. Tempering Color for Steel

faint yellow

very pale yellow

pale straw-yellow

dark yellow

spotted red-brown

brown-purple

Red-visible at night

red-visible at twilight

red-visible in daylight

red-visible in sunlight

yellow-white

electric arc light

dark red

full purple

full blue

deep straw-yellow

33. Nymphs

naiads 

nereids

hamadryads

Hesperides

Oreads

Oceanids

Maenads

Alseides 

land nymphs 

celestial nymphs

water nymphs

etc.

34. Spices

curry

cinnamon 

nutmeg

anise

basil 

cardamom

clove

chicory

chives

fennel 

dill 

ginger

licorice

oregano

sassafras

sorrel 

paprika

sumac

saffron 

sage

thyme

water-pepper

wild thyme

black cumin

coriander

tumeric

garam masala

woodruff

sumac

summer savory

winter savory

wasabi

szechuan pepper

35. Math

topology

trigonometry

Boolean algebra

group theory

ring theory

linear algebra

q-analogs

number theory

field theory

abstract algebra

homological algebra

harmonic analysis

variational analysis 

circle bundle

bundle theorum

centered trochoid

Carlyle circle

parabola

Trisectrix

Folium of Descartes

Unit Hyperbola

Sinusoidal spiral

Fermat’s spiral

Fractal curve

36. Cities 

Shanghai

Karachi

Beijing

Lagos

Tianjin

Jakarta

Lahore

Lima

Chongqing

Tehran

Om

Hong Kong

Baghdad

New Taipei City

Rawalpindi 

Pyongyang

Peshawar

Addis Ababa

37. Ghost Towns

False River, LA

Taft, LA

Anchor, LA

Sinepuxent, MD

Childs, MN

Lude, MN

Shell City

Bookwalter, NE

Violet, NE

Unit, NE

New Home, NE

Ong’s Hat, NJ

Love Canal, NY

Aurelia, ND

Blue Ball, OH

Utopia, OH

Wasp, TN

Bessemer, WY

Dome, AZ

Ray, AZ

Signal, AZ

Total Wreck, AZ

White Cloud, KS

Four Houses, KS

Centropolis, KS

Empire City, KS

Octagon City, KS

Basil, KS

Fact, KS

38. Manhattan Restaurants in the 1970s

Oak Room

Original Joe’s

Rainbow Room

Twenty One Club

Delmonico’s

Hong Kong Inn

Flower Drum

King of the Sea

Black Angus

Swiss Pavilion 

Sea Fare of the Aegean 

Apertivo

Chalet Suisse

Copter Club

Danny’s Hide-a-Way

Jade Palace

Giambelli 50th Street

Forum of the 12 Caesars 

Doriental

Rattazzi

Press Box

Top of the Sixes

Tony’s Wife

Mercurio

Manny Wolf

40. Haiku Poets

Basho

Ishu

Sodo

Sampu

Onitsura

Chiyo-ni

Rogetsu

Oshu

Shosei

Hosei

Issa

Shiki

Buson

Moritake

Kubutsu

Otsuji

41. Cigarette Brands

Benson & Hedges

Camel

Cavanders

Chancellor

Charms

Cleopatra

Craven A

Crystal

Djarum Black

Djarum Coklat

Djarum Super

Gold Flake

Fixation

Hits Mild

Hope 

Jazy Mild

June

KOOL

Lark

Lips

Lucky Strike

Mighty

MayPole

Moments

Mondial

Newport

North Pole

Pall Mall

Sweet Afton

X Mild

Wismilak

42 Flowers

Green willow

jasmine

lily 

acacia

aloe

amaryllis

anemone

apple blossom

arbutus

aster

azalea

balm

balsam

begonia

box

buttercup

celandine

china aster

cowslip

columbine

dahlia

crocus

dandelion

geranium

heliotrope

hollyhock

violet

sweet pea

larkspur

lily of the valley

marigold

chrysanthemum 

primrose

delphinium

narcissus

snowdrop

43. Miracles

Hair a talisman

Idols shattered

Gideon’s strategem

Chains fall off

Chasm filled up

Cloaks used for rafts

Cloudy pillar

Compacts with Satan

Dearth forestalled

Cornelius the centurion

Cross in the sky

Fire innocuous

Fire quenched

Post-prophetic intuition

Fish miracles

Head carried post decapitation

Food multiplied

Sea obeys saints

Locusts

Relics curative

Seven candlesticks

Water supplied

Veronica 

Vicarious suffering

Antediluvian longevity

Changelings

Fire a test

Fasts observed by infants

Glass and pottery miracles

Hands sent from Heaven

Fruitful Harvests

Fountain becomes a river

Music heard at death

Thoughts discerned

44. Perfume-making

lemon grass

Melissa oil

indian verbena oil

vetiver

citronella

oil of ginger grass

oil of palmarosa

oil of geranium

frangipani

opopanax resin

oil of orange

Florentine sword lily

perfumery

oil of anise

oil of bitter almonds

sugar

vanillin

oxide of tin

bergamot

camomile

oil of lilac

oil of jasmine

oil of lavender

oil of magnolia

oil of mint

oil of nutmeg

oil of meadowsweet

oil of violet

45. Chapter Titles from Frazer’s Golden Bough

The King of the Wood

Contagious Magic

Magical Control of Rain

of the Sun

of the Wind

The Worship of Trees

The Influence of Sexes

on Vegetation

Departmental Kings of Nature

Magicians as Kings

The Perils of the Soul

Taboos on Intercourse w/ Strangers

The Worship of the Oak

Kings Killed

Burying the Carnival

The Whitsuntide Mummers

Bringing in Summer

Battle of Summer & Winter

The Magic Spring

The Corn-mother &

the Corn-Maiden

The Corn-Mother in

Many Lands

Songs of the Corn-Reapers

Killing the Corn-spirit

Corn-spirit as a Hare 

as a Cat

as a Goat

The Transference to Inanimate Objects

Not to Touch the Earth

Not to See the Sun

The Seclusion of Girls

The Fire-festivals in General

The Lenten Fires

The Midsummer Fires

The Need-fire

The Midwinter Fires

The Fire Festival

The Burning of Effigies in the Fires

The Burning of Men and Animals in the Fires

External Soul in Inanimate Things

External Soul in Plants

The Golden Bough

Farewell to Nemi

46. Science Fiction Films of the 70’s

Doomsday Machine

Doomwatch

You are a Widow, Sir

Quest for Love

Silent Running 

The Boy who Turned Yellow

Space Amoeba

No Blade of Grass

The Happiness Cage

The Thing w/ Two Heads

The Day of the Dolphin

Beyond Atlantis

Idaho Transfer

The Neptune Factor

Sleeper

Soylent Green

Westworld

Phase IV

Zardoz

Bug

Land That Time Forgot

The Super Inframan

In the Dust of the Stars

Man who Fell to Earth

Futureworld

The Glitterball

Empire of the Ants

A Nice Plate of Spinach

Polygon

Space Battleship Yamato

Flying Toward the Future

Island of the Fishermen

47. Poems from the Oxford Sausage

The Cushion Plot

On a Beauty w/ Ill Qualities

Epigram occasioned by a supposed extraordinary

phenomenon in Midwifery

Ode to Horror

A Pipe of Tobacco

Pleasure of Being out of Debt

Monody Mongers

On Lopping Lime Trees

49. Seasonal Index: Spring

Spring begins

The long day

Light of spring

Halo of the moon

The haze

Heat-waves

The Water of spring

Spring sea

Apprentice’s Holiday

Kites

Doll Festival 

Silkworms

Tea-picking

The ebb-tide shell-gathering

Skylarks

Pheasants

Cats in Love

Willow trees

Peach blossoms

Grasses of spring

50. Seasonal Index: Autumn/Winter

The autumn sea

Cranes

Earthworms

Willow leaves

Vines

Harvesting

The Fulling-Block

The winter garden

The dried up waterfall

Icicles

Turnips

Sea-slugs

51. Comic Book Drugs

Rocket pills

Grendel

Mayfly

Anabolus Serum

Cortexin

Delirium

Fear Gas

Hairballs

Lazarus Pit

Soul 

Sharp

Super-Plastic Liquid

Velocity 9/10

Vitamin 2X

Infinity formula

Toad juice

Nuclear cigarettes

Senzu beans

Terrigin mists

Dream sand

Devil fruit

Darkshots

54. Titles of African Pulp Novels

No Condition is Permanent 

Rosemary and the Taxi Driver

Beware and be Wise

Man Has No Rest in His Live

Drunkards Believe Bar As Heaven

Miss Comfort’s Heart Cries for Tonny’s Love

Beware of Harlot’s and Many Friends

Saturday Night Disappointment

Why Harlots Hate Married Men

How to Avoid Corner Corner Love and Win Good Love From Girls

55. Saints

Edward the Confessor

Erasmus

Crispin and Crispinian

Hugh of Cluny

John Chrystostum

Madeleine Sophie Barat

John of the Cross

Odilia 

Odo of Cluny

Oswald of Northumbria

Hilarian

Ursula

Valentine

Rose of Lima

56. Nuts

almond

brazil nut

candlenut

cashew

Chilean hazelnut

macadamia

malabar chestut

pecan

pine nut

pistachio

walnut

57. Epic Poems

The Light of Asia

Titanomachy

Beowulf

Orlando Furioso

Henriade

Aeneid

Epigoniad

Leonidas

Iliad 

Orlando Inamorata

Cursor Mundi

Morgante

Troy Book

Mahabharata 

Ramayana

Catalogue of Women

Shield of Heracles

Astronomia

58. Busby Berkeley Movies

Night World

She Had to Say Yes

Wonder Bar

Footlight Parade

Roman Scandals

Fashions of 1934

Comet Over Broadway

Forty Little Mothers

Cabin in the Sky

Million Dollar Mermaid

Billy Rose’s Jumbo

42nd Street

59. Tang Dynasty Poets

Li Jiao

Su Weidoa

Cui Rong

Du Shenyan

Yang Jion 

Lu Zhaolin

Wang Wei

Pei Di

Du Fu

Li Bai

Zhang Ji

60. Wig Terms

machine-stitched weft

hand tied lace wig

ventilated wig

hairpiece

standard cap

memory cap

mono-top wig

velvet front

virgin Russian hair

cyberhair

remy human hair

frosted color

synthetic hair blend

honeycomb wefting

bleached knots

integration system

glass loops 

hair enhancer

pinking shears

pre-styled wig

vacuum base wig

lace tape

61. Titles From Percy’s Reliques

Little John Nobody

Jane Shore

Young Waters

The Sturdy Rock

Corydon’s Doleful Knell

The Willow Tree

The Frantic Lady

The Lunatic Lover

Glasergion

Child Waters

Constant Penelope

The Children in the Wood

St. George & the Dragon

Love will Find the Way Out

Valentine and Ursine

As ye Came From the Holy Land

My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is

63. Poker Games and Variants

stud horse poker

Oxford stud

High Chicago

Follow the Queen

Chinese Poker

Guts

Billabong

Shanghai

64. Grasses

panic grass

maize 

sorghum

pampas grass

finger millet

bamboo

wild rice

barley 

oats

quaking grass

common reed

foxtail millet

65. Tea Houses

Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Tea House

EasyWay

Jo-an

Lollicup Coffee & Tea

Lyons Corner House

Dabang

Plain of Six Glaciers Tea House

Tealuxe

Willow Tearooms

Wistaria Tea House

The Orchard

ABC Tea Shops

Shiatzy Chen

Argo Tea

Dushanbe Tea House

66. Materials for Making Porcelain and Types

feldspar

ball clay

glass

bone ash

steatite 

quartz

petuntse

alabaster

soft paste

hard paste

bone china

67. Curiosities

Omens

The Two Apothecaries

Great African Serpent

Passage of the Alps by Hannibal

On the bite of the tarantula

Description of a stone-eater

68. Automata

Flying dove

artificial spider

hydraulic clock

flute player

chess player

machine that talks

lady at her pianoforte

James Watson the Musician

musical clock

automaton duck

69. Interesting Experiments From Endless Amusements

Red fire of the theaters

To the tumbling egg

Cement for Glass

Beautiful Star-like Crystals

The Three Haloes

The Magical Tea-spoon

Sympathetic Ink

Green Fire

Well of Fire

Green Color Extracted from Coffee Berries

Water-proof Cloth

Metallic Vegetation

Dr. Wollaston’s Ice Apparatus

Effects of Heat on the Ruby

Light Produced by Sugar

To Paint Gold Flowers on Silk

The Green Tint on Plants 

Easy Method of Silvering Ivory

Solar Microscope

Artificial Rainbows

Effects of Burning Mirrors

To Paint the Glasses for Magic Lanterns

Artificial Jewels

The Unsinkable Dress

Manufacture of Mosaic at Rome

Chinese Paints

Music of Light

Bees

The Invisible Girl

The Chick in Ovo

Painting in Milk

Golden Inks

The Electrical Star

The Electrical Coin

Electrical Chime

Thunder House

Electric eel

Method of Receiving Electrical Shock From a Cat

The Hydro-Pneumatic Apparatus

Shortening Ropes by Wetting them

The Electrical Kiss

New Method of Congealing Water

70. from One Hundred Wonders of the World in Nature and Art

Clouds of locusts

termites or white ants

mammoth trees

meteors and shooting stars

the Greenland whale

pythons and boas

whirlpools

Depth of the sea

coral islands

ice islands and icebergs

aurora borealis 

the mirage

specter of the Brocken

African lakes

salt lakes

man

the Geyser of Iceland

71. Palaces

The Vatican

The Tuileries 

Versailles

The Alhambra

The Escorial 

Windsor Castle

Tower of London

72. “Remarkable Inventions”

the telescope

the microscope

telegraphy

the electric light

lighthouses

the diving bell

aerostations

railways

tubular bridges

channel tunnels

steamships

ironclads

73. Chapters and Subheadings from Strength of Materials

Elastic Stress and Strain

Mechanical Properties of Metals

Resilience and Fluctuating Stress

Theory of Bending

Stresses in Beams

Deflection of Beams

Built-in and Continuous Beams

Direct and Bending Stresses

Twisting 

Pipes, Cylinders, and Discs

Flat Plates

Vibrations and Critical Speeds

Testing Machines, Apparatus and Methods

Typical Testing Machines

Tension Tests

Oval, Square, and Rectangular Plates

Transverse Curvature

Thin Cylindrical Shell

Oval Sections

Wire Wound Tubes

Struts and Tie Rods

Simple Chain Links

74. Books About Airships

Airships Past & Present

Wonderful Balloon Ascents

The Airship Boys’, Ocean Flyer, or, 

New York to London in Twelve Hours

My Life and Balloon Experiences

The Dominion of the Air

Peck’s Bad Boy in an Airship

The Aerial Age

The Air Ship Boys, or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure

Building an Airship at Silver Fox Farm

Peck’s Uncle Ike & the Red-headed Boy

75. Chapters and List of Illustrations from Factories and Great Industries

Industrial Revolution

The Factory System

Spinning

Weaving

The Wool Industry 

Linen and Silk

Paper Making

How the State Protects

the Workers

Great Manufacturing Towns

76. Meadows 

wildflower meadow

transitional meadow

perpetual meadow

hay meadow

pasture

heathland

moorland

wood pasture

grassland

uncut hay meadow

montane hay meadow 

orchard meadow

artificially grazed meadow

artificial beehives

abandoned meadow

alpine meadow

coastal meadow

desert meadow

prairie

wet meadow

semi-leland

flood meadow

seagrass meadow

water-meadow

tapestry lawn

flower meadow

montane meadow

77. Some Words Occurring in Canto 1 of George Darley’s Nepenthe

unpavilioned throne

brook-shaded banks

glassily tinkling

every bee-cup

tinkling

black lusters

incessant 

rough brocade

humming beds of thyme

humorous grasshopper

saffron knots

hot gray

lofty sloping leas

hill’s huge diadem

gigantic gem

prostrate seas

lithe shell

world-broad well

glassing the great sun

small rainbow

golden ashes

deep blue underworld

shapening by degrees

by sun and starlight bird 

Hurry me, Nymphs!

hawthorn way

meek willows

tinsel moss

Now, sweet nymphs

embracing vines

blushing chronicle

thrilling hand

wild-bee ever bides

the green flood

Syrian wave

Drowner’s ear

Lost Youth!

81. Aquatic Plants

kelp

seaweed

seagrass

red algae

coral

sea lettuce

water lily

duckweed

floating heart

lotus

water hyacinth

water caltrop

Chinese water chestnut

water spinach

watercress

Indian lotus

83. Dream Books Carried by Winmore Products Mahopac, NY

Winmore Record Book

Success Dream Book by Prof. De Herbert

Lucky Star Dream Book by Prof. Konje

Fu Futtam Dream Book

Numerical 3-5-7 Dream Book

Prince Ali Dream Book

H.P. Dream Bk.

Pick’em Dream Book

Stella’s H.P.

Raja Rabo’s Rundown and Workout

Rajah Rabo’s 5 Star (Blue) Dream Bk.

Lucky Lucille’s Gold Bk.

Madame Fu-Fu’s 

Dream Book

84. Calls to Action in North Korean Propaganda Slogans, 2015

Turn ours into a country of mushrooms by making mushroom cultivation scientific, intensive, and industrialized

Make fruits cascade down and their sweet aroma fill the air on the sea of apple trees at the foot of Choi Pass

Be constantly on the alert without a moment’s relaxation

Build a fairyland for the people by dint of science

Go beyond the cutting edge

Build ‘gold mountains’ and ‘treasure mountains’ with brilliant scientific and technological achievements

Make country overflow with rice by boosting cereal production

Grow vegetables extensively in greenhouses

Plant a large number of flowering and cover plants so that no land is left bare

Add brilliance youth

Create prototype units in all sectors and effect joint innovations

Hold dear and add brilliance to our own things

“The more books we read, the earlier the country prospers; the less books we read, the later the country prospers.”

Forward toward a bright future, filled with confidence and optimism

Make the whole country resound louder with the song We Are the Happiest in the World

Read the minds of producers before measuring the quality of their products

Launch more cutting-edge sci-tech satellites and applications satellites of our style

Raise the level of modernization and scientification in weather survey and forecast

86. Occupations from Mayhew’s London Labour

costermonger

flower girl

running patterer

ham sandwich seller

prostitute

street seller of small wares, tape, cotton, etc.

seller of nutmeg-graters

bird-duffers

dredgers

pure-finders

mud-lark

river-finder

street clown

harp player

exhibitor of birds & mice

omnibus conductors

Fantoccini Man

87. Crabs

blue crab

calico crab

fiddler crab

ghost crab

green shore crab

Jonah crab

kelp crab

lady crab

mole crab

oyster pea crab

pea crab

purple shore crab

red cancer crab

89. What the narrator is reading on a chilly November afternoon in Poe’s “The Angel of the Odd”

Glover’s “Leonidas”

Wilkie’s “Epigoniad”

Lamartine’s “Pilgrimage”

Barlow’s “Columbiad”

Tuckermann’s “Sicily”

Griswold’s “Curiosities”

90. Contents of Brewer’s Reader’s Handbook
Animals admitted into paradise

Animals with human speech

Children of precocious genius

Dying words of historic characters

Elastic tents, ships, horses, and carpets

End of the World

An endless tale

Omens of evil averted

Snow Kings

Street nomenclature

Wind sold

Women changed to men

Women made of flowers

Wooden horse of Troy

91. Industrial Buildings and Structures

water tower

coal tipple

cooling tower

grain elevator

coal bunker

coke oven

oil refinery

blast furnace

gas tank

storage silo

92. Seasonal Index: Summer

billowing clouds

the short night

clear water

summer river

festival

banners

song of the planters

silver fish

melons

cutting barley 

rank grass

burdock

tiger moths

under the trees

the summer grove

the young leaves

93. Discontinued Candy and Gum

Abba-Zaba chocolate

Adams Sour gums

Alpine White candy bar

Bit-O-Licorice

Big Pay candy bar

Black Cat bubble gum

Black Cow suckers

Black Licorice Dollars

Bub’s Daddy bubble gum ropes

Cherry Clan

Candy Lipstick

Chum Gum

Dazzle Candy Bar

Dynamints

Ice Cream gum

Space Food Sticks

94. Some Books in Leonardo Da Vinci’s Possession When He Left Milan

Book on Arithmetic

Flowers of Virtue

Pliny

Lives of Philosophers

The Bible

Lapidary

On Warfare

Quadriregio

Morgante

The Epistles of Ovid

Sphere

The Jests of Poggio

Chiromancy

Formulary of Letters

On the Immortality of the Soul

Petrarch

Donatus Latin Syntax

96. Companies Present at Mayor’s Feast in Guildhall, London 1525

mercers

grocers

drapers

fishmongers

goldsmiths

skinners

vintners

ironmongers

merchant-haberdashers

salters

dyers

leathersellers

pewterers

cutlers

chiruurgeons

founders

barbers

broiderers

bowyers

fletchers

cordwainers

painter-stainers

masons

plumbers

carpenters

97. Restaurants in New York’s Chinatown

August Gatherings

Jaya 888

Prosperity Dumpling

 Lobster Boat

Sweet Bring

Nice Restaurant

Sunrise 27

East Boat Restaurant

Super Taste

Lung Moon Bakery

Red Egg

Amazing 66

Hop Kee

Golden Unicorn

Delight 28

Bo-Ky

Golden Sand

Dimes

Mr. Ming’s Cafe

Oriental Garden

Ping’s Seafood

Nha Trang

HK Wonton Garden

Hua Ji Pork Chop

Spicy Village

Hand-pulled Noodle Q

98. Science Fiction Stories

The Beetle Horde

Things Pass By

The World-Thinker

Gray Lensman

The Stolen Dormouse

To the Stars

The Beast Plants

In the Days of the Steam Wars

Electronic Lifestyle

Ancient Engines

Odd John

Pipe Dream

Creatures of Light

Mr. Yellow Jacket

Seed

Fragments of a Hologram Rose

Peace on Earth

Earth is But a Star

Make Room! Make Room!

The Darker Drink

An Egg a Month From All Over

The Human Operators

A Rose for Ecclesiastes

In the Still Waters

Isles of the Blest

City of the Living Flame

The Thought-Men of Mercury

Pebble in the Sky

Slan

99. Table of Contents for General Information Section of the Pocket Ref

holidays

season and clock dates

signs of the zodiac

flowers of each month

birthstones

anniversary names

proof reading marks

plastic recycling symbols

paper sizes

Greek Alphabet

phonetic alphabet

Morse code

semaphore alphabet

“Ten” radio codes

military rank and grade

chili pepper hotness scale

bed sizes

clothing sizes—USA vs. European

Consanguinity Table

climate data in US cities

major world airports

lost credit card phone #

car rental

state information: flower, bird, and admit dates

100. Enumeration of the Cries of Some Street Sellers from Lane’s Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians

“O how sweet the little offspring of the river!”

“The tirmis of the Imbabeh surpassed the almond!”

“God make them easy of sale! O limes!”

“O consoler of the embarrassed! O pips!”

“For a nail! O sweetmeat!”

“Honey! O oranges! Honey!”

“Sycamore-figs! O grapes!”

“Odors of paradise! O flowers of the henna!”

“The work of the bull! O maidens!”

101. An Assortment of Chapter Titles from an Assortment of Books

The Atmosphere of Venus

Serpent-Charmers

Climbers with Sweet-Scented Flowers

The New Jerusalem

Reproductions, Fakes, and Forgeries

Dotted Prints

The Fortified Wines

Chimney Swift

A Fair Captive From the Sky

Harvest Home

Our Maying 

The Suburbs Without the Walls

Shorebirds

103. Soft Drinks in India

Appy Fizz

Banta

Boss Cola

Bovanto

Campa Cola

Citra

Chinar Fruit Beer

Cloud 9

Delhi Daredevils

Duke’s Lemonade

Duke’s Mangola

Fruit Jump

Ganga Sagar

God Spot

shell vessel from Pottery and Porcelian marryat

Butterfliesscan from compendiu numbers 200, etc.

scan of compendium 210- etc.

Physics bookLoteria book

Milk of ParadiseDevises Choisies

dandelions book of studies in plant formHistory of porcelainKircher lily sea monsterExpedition to EarthKircher Big Heads

Weird vessel:clock schottGaspar Schott perpetual motionZimmermanvessels from Eastlakebaroque building GurlittON this day in 1776de bryIfcodex escurialensis grotesques 2

246. Alexander Pope Describes His Grotto in a Letter to Edward Blount, esq., June 2, 1725.

You shew your self a just man and a friend in those guesses and suppositions you make at the possible reasons of my silence ; every one of which is a true one. As to forgetfulness of you or yours, I allure you the promiscuous conversations of the town serve only to put me in mind of better, and more quiet, to be had in a corner of the world (undisturb’d, innocent, serene, and sensible) with such as you. Let no access of any distrust make you think of me differently in a cloudy day from what you do in the most sunshiny weather. Let the young ladies be assured I make nothing new in my gardens without wishing to see the print of their fairy steps in every part of ’em. I have put the last hand to my works of this kind, in happily finishing the subterraneous way and grotto : I there found a spring of the clearest water, which sails in a perpetual rill, that ecchoes thro’ the cavern day and night. From the river Thames, you see thro’ my arch up a walk of the wilderness, to a kind of open Temple, wholly compos’d of shells in the rustic manner ; and from that distance under the temple you look down thro’ a sloping arcade of trees, and fee the sails on the river passing suddenly and vanishing, as thro’ a perspective glass.
When you shut the doors of this grotto, it becomes on the instant, from a luminous room, a Camera obscura ; on the walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats, are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations : and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene ; it is finished with shells interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms ; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand point ed rays glitter and are reflected over the place. There are connected to this grotto by a narrower passage two porches, one to wards the river of smooth stones full of light, and open ; the other toward the Garden, shadow’d with trees, rough with shells, flints, and iron- ore. The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place. It wants nothing to compleat it but a good statue with an inscription, like that beautiful antique one which you know I am so fond of….

perpetual motion for compendium web

182. Sentences in Which John Evelyn Uses the word “Artificial” to Describe Things Seen on His Travels, from His Diary

We returned to the Hague, and went to visit the Hoff, or Prince’s Court, with the adjoining gardens full of ornament, close walks, statues, marbles, grots, fountains, and artificial music.
The next day, we were entertained at a kind of tavern, called the Briloft, appertaining to a rich Anabaptist, where, in the upper rooms of the house were divers pretty waterworks, rising 108 feet from the ground. Here were many quaint devices, fountains, artificial music, noises of beasts, and chirping of birds; but what pleased me most was a large pendant candlestick, branching into several sockets, furnished all with ordinary candles to appearance, out of the wicks spouting out streams of water, instead of flames.
Here is a stately heronry, divers springs of water, artificial cascades, rocks, grots; one whereof is composed of the extravagant roots of trees, cunningly built and hung together with wires.
From hence, we were led into the Menage, and out of that into a most sweet and delicious garden, where was another grot of more neat and costly materials, full of noble statues, and entertaining us with artificial music; but the hedge of water, in form of lattice-work, which the fountaineer caused to ascend out of the earth by degrees, exceedingly pleased and surprised me; for thus, with a pervious wall, or rather a palisade hedge of water, was the whole parterre environed.
Here is a shop called Noah’s Ark, where are sold all curiosities, natural or artificial, Indian or European, for luxury or use, as cabinets, shells, ivory, porcelain, dried fishes, insects, birds, pictures, and a thousand exotic extravagances.
I finished this day with a walk in the great garden of the Tuileries, rarely contrived for privacy, shade, or company, by groves, plantations of tall trees, especially that in the middle, being of elms, the other of mulberries; and that labyrinth of cypresses; not omitting the noble hedges of pomegranates, fountains, fish-ponds, and an aviary; but, above all, the artificial echo, redoubling the words so distinctly; and, as it is never without some fair nymph singing to its grateful returns; standing at one of the focuses, which is under a tree, or little cabinet of hedges, the voice seems to descend from the clouds; at another, as if it was underground.
At the further part of this walk is that plentiful, though artificial cascade, which rolls down a very steep declivity, and over the marble steps and basins, with an astonishing noise and fury; each basin hath a jetto in it, flowing like sheets of transparent glass, especially that which rises over the great shell of lead, from whence it glides silently down a channel through the middle of a spacious gravel walk, terminating in a grotto.
Under this, is made an artificial grot, wherein are curious rocks, hydraulic organs, and all sorts of singing birds, moving and chirping by force of the water, with several other pageants and surprising inventions.
In another garden, is a noble aviary, the birds artificial, and singing till an owl appears, on which they suddenly change their notes.
He had, above in his lodgings and gallery, variety of shadows, dials, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical, and magical curiosities, a way-wiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic, and other sections, a balance on a demi-circle; most of them of his own, and that prodigious young scholar Mr. Christopher Wren; who presented me with a piece of white marble, which he had stained with a lively red, very deep, as beautiful as if it had been natural.

automaton bird from griswold

26. Machines Appliances & Mechanical Movements

horizontal conveyor
friction pulley
registering wind vane
anemometer
wind force register
timber creosoting apparatus
stump-pulling machine
pipe-bending machine
ore pulverizer
molding machine
ore sampler
flour-packing machine
oar roasting furnace
pantanemone windmill
oil crusher
water motor
water-pressure regulator
gigantic wheel
worm gear hoist
electric hammer
electric soldering copper
electric transformer
gravity feed furnace
gas-fired forge
flocking machine
coal-handling plant
I beam trolley
crank pin lathe
sounding machine
flexible ball-joint

202. Description of “Clocks in the Form of Chariots” from Samuel Griswold Goodrich’s Peter Parley’s Book of Curiosities, Natural and Artificial

Two very remarkable clocks were made a few years ago since, and sent as presents from the East India Company to the Emperor of China.

They are in the form of chariots. In one of them, a lady is placed leaning her right arm upon a part of the vehicle, under which is a clock of curious workmanship, little larger than a shilling. This strikes and repeats, and goes eight days. Upon the lady’s finger sits a beautiful bird, set with diamonds and rubies, with its wings expanded in a flying posture. The body of this bird is not the bigness of the sixteenth part of an inch.
Over the lady’s head , supported by a small fluted pillar, no bigger than a quill, are two umbrellas. Under the largest of these a bell is fixed, at a considerable distance from the clock, and seeming to have no connection with it. From this, however, a communication is secretly conveyed to a hammer, that regularly strikes the hour. At the feet of the lady is a gold dog, before which, from the point of the chariot, are two birds, fixed on spring. Their wings and feathers are set with stones of various colours, and appear as if flying away with the chariot. A boy that lays hold of the chariot behind seems also to push it forward. The whole is of gold, most curiously executed, and set with rubies and pearls.

188. Questions About Clouds from Pepper’s Peterson’s Familiar Science, Or, The Scientific Explanation of Common Things

What are clouds?
Why are clouds higher on a fine day?
Why do clouds float so readily into the air?
What countries are most cloudy?
What produces the great variety in the shape of clouds?
What clouds assume the most fantastic shapes
What effect have winds on the shape of clouds?
What are the general colors of the clouds?
Why are the last clouds of evening generally of a red tinge?
Why are morning clouds generally of a red tinge?
What regulates the motion of the clouds?
What are the uses of clouds?
What is the cause of a red sunset?

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