The new practical reference library Volume 3 - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...Orders Of, the name given to organized and duly constituted bodies of knights. The orders of knighthood are of two classes--associations or fraternities possessing property and rights of their own as independent bodies; and merely honorary associations, established by sovereigns within their respective dominions. To the former class belonged the three celebrated religious orders founded during the Crusades--Templars, Hospitalers and Teutonic Knights. (For the costume of a medieval knight, see Dress, color-plate I, Fig. 9.) The other class embraces most of the existing European orders, such as the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Order of the Holy Ghost, the Order of Saint Michael. The chief British orders are the orders of the Garter, the Thistle, Saint Patrick, the Bath, Saint Michael. and Saint George, the Star of India and of the Indian Empire. The various orders have each their appropriate insignia, which generally include a badge or jewel, a collar, a ribbon of a certain color and a star. Knights Hos'pitalers of Saint John. See John, Knights Of Saint. Knights of Labor, a labor organization founded at Philadelphia in 1869. Its operations were secret, but its professed object was the amelioration and protection of the laboring classes. Of late years the membership has largely decreased through internal dissensions and ill-advised strikes, and it has been largely superseded by the American Federation of Labor. Knitting Machine. The first knitting machine was the stocking frame, invented by William Lee of England, in 1589. An improved form of this machine was introduced into the United States early in the eighteenth century, and power was first applied to the knitting machine at Albany, N. Y., in 1831. The most common form of knitting machine now in use is ...

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