Trousset encyclopedia

HEBR0N (originally Kirjath-Arba, Arabic El Khulil) city of Palestine, 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) South of Jerusalem; approximately 5 000 inhabitants. It is located partly on the slopes of two hills and partly in the valley of Mamre. At the Southern end of …Read more »

MANOMETER substantive (gr. manos, rare; metron measure.) Physics. Instrument used to measure the stress of gas or vapor: the manometer of a steam engine.
— The force of fluids contained in a closed space is usually expressed in units of atmospheric pressure, called atmosphere, which are equal …Read more »

ISCHIA (formerly Oenaria and Pithecusa), island in Italy, in the Mediterranean, North of the entrance to the Bay of Naples, 69 square kilometers (43 sq. miles). Pop. 24.500. Near its center stands the Epomeo volcano, 800 m above sea level. The latest eruption …Read more »

ROOK substantive, bird that looks very similar to the crow.
— Rooks (corvus fruqilegus, Linn.) are smaller than crows, their bill is longer and sharper. Males are 50 cm (20 in) long ; females, smaller and not quite as …Read more »

ABU SIMBEL A place in lower Nubia on the left bank of the Nile, 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Derr, remarkable for its two Egyptian temples carved in rock. Both have a front wall made of sandstone and interior walls are dug into solid rock. The smaller …Read more »

I0NA or Icolmkill, also known as I or Hy, small island in the Inner Hebrides (Scotland), separated from Mull by a 2 km (1.24 miles) wide channel, called Strait of I or Icolmkill. This island is 5 km (3.11 miles) long and 2.25 km (1.4 miles) wide …Read more »

GENTIAN s. (lat. gentiana; after Gentius, king of Illyria who first made known the medicinal properties of this plant, in the second century BC). Bot. genus in the family Gentianaceae, which includes a large number of species of perennials plants, most of them indigenous.
The Great Yellow Gentian (gentiana lutea), common …Read more »