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SHREVEPORT , a See also:city and the See also:capital of See also:Caddo See also:Parish, See also:Louisiana, U.S.A., on the Red See also:river, in the N.W. See also:part of the See also:state, near the See also:Texas border. Pop. (189o) 11,979; (1900) 16,013, of whom 8532 were negroes; (1910, See also:census) 28,015. It is the second city of the state in See also:population. It is served by the See also:Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific, the See also:Houston & Shreveport, the See also:Kansas City See also:Southern, the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis & See also:South-Western, the Louisiana Railway & See also:Navigation See also:Company, the Texas & Pacific (See also:main See also:line and two branches), the Louisiana & See also:Arkansas, the Kansas City Southern, and the See also:Missouri, Kansas & Texas See also:railways and by boats on the Red river. In the city are the State Charity See also:Hospital (1872), the T. E. Schumpert Memorial Hospital (1910), the See also:Genevieve Orphanage (1899) and the Shreveport Training School (1908). Owing to its situation and excellent transportation facilities the city has a large See also:trade. The surrounding See also:country is a See also:rich agricultural region, mainly devoted to the See also:production of See also:cotton, for which Shreveport is the See also:principal See also:shipping point. Live-stock and See also:cattle products are trade items of importance. The situation of the city (about 170M. See also:east of See also:Dallas, and some-what farther from Little See also:Rock, Houston, and New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans) makes it a natural centre of wholesale trade of varied See also:character, and the development since 1906 of the important Caddo oil and See also:gas See also:fields See also:north of the city has added greatly to its See also:industrial prominence. The city contains planing See also:mills, cotton gins, compresses and cotton-See also:seed oil mills, See also:machine and railway shops, and See also:ice and See also:molasses factories. In 1905 its factory product was valued at $2,921,923 (87.8% more than in 1900). Shreve-See also:port was settled about 1835, incorporated as a See also:town in 1839, and chartered as a city in 1871. It was named in See also:honour of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Miller Shreve (1785-1854), a native of New See also:Jersey, who in 1815 ascended the See also:Mississippi and the See also:Ohio See also:rivers to See also:Louisville in the " Enterprise," the first See also:steam See also:vessel to make this trip, introduced improvements in the steamboat, and in 1826-1841 had See also:charge of the improvement of western rivers, removing during this See also:period the See also:great Red river raft. After the See also:capture of See also:Baton See also:Rouge, the state capital, and New Orleans by the Unionists in 1862, Shreveport was occupied by the Confederate officials of the state. In the See also:spring of 1863 and again in that
of 1864 it was the See also:objective of combined See also:naval and See also:land expedi- I variant of that See also:species, which it closely resembles in See also:external tions made by the See also:Union forces up the Red river under command See also:form, but the third upper incisor is shorter, or not longer than of See also:Admiral See also:David D. See also:Porter and See also:General N. P. See also:Banks, the , the next following tooth, whereas in S. araneus it is longer, and Confederate See also:commander in Louisiana being General See also:Richard the length of the forearm and See also:foot is less in the former species than in the latter.
Both these shrews live in the neighbourhood of See also:woods, making their nests under the roots of trees or in any slight depression, occasionally even in the midst of open fields, inhabiting the disused burrows of See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-mice. Owing to their small See also:size, dark See also:colour, rapid movements and nocturnal habits, they easily See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape observation. They seek their See also:food, which consists of See also:insects, grubs, See also:worms and slugs, under dead leaves, fallen trees and in grassy places. They are pugnacious, and if two or more are confined together in a limited space they invariably fight fiercely, the fallen becoming the food of the victorious. They are also exceedingly voracious, and soon See also:die if deprived of food; and it is probably to insufficiency of food in the See also:early dry autumnal See also:season that the mortality among them at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time is due. The breeding-season extends from the end of See also:April to the beginning of See also:August, and five to seven, more rarely ten,
about the size of a See also:mouse, which it somewhat resembles in the shape of its See also:body, tail and feet. But here the resemblance ends, for, unlike the mouse, it possesses a See also:long and slender muzzle, with prominent nostrils, which project far beyond the See also:lower See also:lip; the small eyes are almost concealed by the See also:fur; the ears are wide, See also:short and provided internally with a pair of deep folds, capable when laid forwards of closing the entrance; the tail, which is slightly shorter than the body, is quadrangular in See also:section and clothed more or less densely with moderately long hairs, terminating in a short tuft, but in old individuals almost naked; the feet are five-toed, the toes terminating in slender, pointed claws. The dentition is very See also:peculiar and characteristic: there are in all See also:thirty-two See also:teeth, tipped with deep See also:crimson; of which twelve belong to the lower See also:jaw; of the remaining twenty ten occupy each See also:side of the upper jaw, and of these the first three are incisors. The first incisor is large, with a long anterior canine-like See also:cusp and a small posterior one; then follow two small single-cusped teeth; which are succeeded by three similar progressively smaller teeth, the first being a canine and the other two premolars; the next, a premolar, is large and multi-cuspid, and this is f allowed by three molars, of which the third is small with a triangular See also:crown. In the lower jaw there are anteriorly three teeth corresponding to the seven anterior teeth above, of which the first is almost See also:horizontal in direction, with its upper See also:surface marked by three notches, which receive the points of the three upper front teeth; then follow two small
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The See also:Common See also:Shrew (Sorex araneus).
teeth and three molars. The body is clothed with closely set fur, soft and dense, varying in colour from See also:light reddish to dark See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown above; the under surface of both body and tail being greyish; the basal four-fifths of all the hairs above and beneath are dark bluish See also:grey. On each side of the body, about one-third of the distance between the See also:elbow and the See also:knee, is a gland covered by two rows of coarse inbent hairs, which secretes a fluid with an unpleasant cheesy odour, and which is protective, rendering the creature secure against the attacks of predaceous animals.
The lesser or pigmy shrew (S. minutus) is not so abundant in See also:England and See also:Scotland, but common in See also:Ireland, where the other species is unknown. It appears at first sight to be a diminutive
See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor, with General E. See also:Kirby See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith in charge of the entire trans-Mississippi . See also:department. In 1863 Shreveport was not seriously threatened. In 1864 when the Federals were within two See also:marches of the city they were worsted by Taylor at See also:Mansfield (on the 8th of April); on the next See also:day the Confederates in their turn met with a demoralizing repulse at Pleasant See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill.
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