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Title: The World book : organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932 Foster, Ellsworth D Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hanson-Roach-Fowler
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spupils. His principal works were his frescopaintings, usually in series, found in all thelarge cities of Italy. He was a friend of Dante,and his portrait of the poet painted on the wallof the Palace of the Podesta at Florence,recently restored, is one of his most famousworks. Twenty of his smaller paintings areto be foimd in the Florence Academy, two in GIPSY 2497 GIRARD COLLEGE Berlin and four in private collections, whichoriginally formed a series of twenty-six illus-trative of the lives of Christ and Saint Fran-cis—that is, representative of the circumstancesin the two lives which seem to have had certainlikenesses. A mosaic of the Navicella, orChrist saving Saint Peter from the waves, isnow preserved in the portico of Saint PetersChurch at Rome. GIPSY, jipsy. See GiTsy. GIRAFFE, jiraf, or CAMELOPARD, kamdopard, the tallest of all animals, a full-grown male being eighteen feet high, threetimes the height of a tall man. It is foundonly in Africa, and is a shy, forest-loving, cud-
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THE GIRAFFEIn natural position, and when grazing. chewing animal which feeds on grass and leavesof trees. The Swiss naturalist Rutimeyer fit-tingly described it as a most fantastic formof deer. Its great height is due to an extraordinarjlength of neck, in which, however, there arebut seven vertebrae. The body is short andslopes sharplj- down to the tail, which ends in atuft of hair, and to the casual observer it seemsthat the front legs are longer than the hindones; however, the long, slender legs, cloven-hoofed, are all the same length. On the longhead are two ears of moderate size and twoshort, bony projections resembling horns. Theupper lip, which extends far beyond the nos-trils, and the eighteen-inch tongue lend helpin the tearing of twigs and leaves from trees.The nostrils can be closed to guard against157 thorns when feeding, and against blowing sand.The eyes are large, lustrous and appealing,and so placed that the animal can see behindhim, in front and at the sides. Excepting

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