Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . Life in Eng-land (1898) ; An American at Oxford(1902); The Cave Man (1907); TheEdge (1915). He was secretary of TheDrama Society in New York from 1913to 1916. From 1919 he was editorialwriter of the New York Times. CORCHORUS, the genus 9f plants towhich jute belongs, order Tiliacex (thelime-tree). They are herbs or smallshrubs with serrated leaves and smallyellow flowers. CORCORAN, WILLIAM WILSON, anAmerican banker; born in Georgetown, D. C, Dec. 27, 1798. He engaged in the
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . Life in Eng-land (1898) ; An American at Oxford(1902); The Cave Man (1907); TheEdge (1915). He was secretary of TheDrama Society in New York from 1913to 1916. From 1919 he was editorialwriter of the New York Times. CORCHORUS, the genus 9f plants towhich jute belongs, order Tiliacex (thelime-tree). They are herbs or smallshrubs with serrated leaves and smallyellow flowers. CORCORAN, WILLIAM WILSON, anAmerican banker; born in Georgetown, D. C, Dec. 27, 1798. He engaged in thebanking business and accumulated alarge fortune. His charities are esti-mated to exceed $5,000,000. He foundedthe Corcoran Art Gallery at Washing-ton, where he died Feb. 24, 1888. CORCYRA. See CORFU. CORDAY, or CORDAY DARMANS,MARIE ANNE CHARLOTTE, a youngFrenchwoman who killed the notoriousrevolutionist Marat. She was born inSt. Saturnin, near Seez, in Normandy,in 1768, a granddaughter of the poet,Corneille. Marat appeared to her themaster-spirit of the atrocities perpetratedor threatened, and she determined to rid. CHARLOTTE CORDAY the country of him. She left her home,and on arriving in Paris (July 12, 1793),she went to Marats house, but was notadmitted. On Saturday, the 13th, shepurchased a large knife, and at 7 oclockin the evening procured admittance toMarat. She had obtained this interviewby writing to him that she was from theseat of rebellion, and would put it inhis power to do France a great was in his bath. She, vdth des-perate determination, plunged her knifeinto his bosom, and he instantly was condemned, and guillotined, July17, 1793. CORDELE, a city of Georgia, thecounty-seat of Crisp co. It is on the CORDIACE^ 150 COBELLI Georgia Southern and Florida, the Sea-board Air Line, the Atlanta, Birming-ham and Atlantic, and the Georgia,Southwestern and Gulf railroads. It isthe center of an extensive cotton-giow-ing region, and its manufactures i
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