These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Assignee, Assignment, Assiniboia.
a person appointed by another to transact some business, or exercise some particular privilege or power. Formerly the persons appointed under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of the bankrupt on behalf of the creditors, were so called, but now trustees, or receivers.
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. See Bankruptcy
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the smallest of the four districts into which a portion of the Northwest Territories of Canada was divided in 1882. It lay immediately to the W. of Manitoba, with Saskatchewan and Alberta as its N. and W. boundaries. It was intersected by the Saskatchewan (South Branch) and the Qu'Appelle rivers. It was abolished in 1905, and is now included in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Area, 89,535 square miles. Regina, on the Canadian Pacific railway, was the capital.
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a river of Canada, which flows through Manitoba and joins the Red river at Winnipeg, about 40 miles above the entrance of the latter into Lake Winnipeg, after a somewhat circuitous course of about 500 miles from the W. and N. W. Steamers ply on it for over 300 miles. The river derives its name from Assiniboine, a branch of the Sioux Indians.
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a town in Italy, in the province of Umbria, 20 miles N. of Spoleto, the see of a bishop, and famous as the birthplace of St. Francis d'Assisi. The splendid church built over the chapel where the saint received his first impulse to devotion is one of the finest remains of medieval Gothic architecture. Pop. about 20,000.
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a term chiefly used in England to signify the sessions of the courts held at Westminister prior to Magna Charta, but thereafter held annually in every county. Twelve judges, who are members of the highest courts in England, twice in every year perform a circuit into all the counties into which the kingdom is divided, to hold these assizes, at which both civil and criminal cases are decided. ASSOCIATED PRESS. Organization for gathering and distributing news. ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS. See Psy-
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phrase commonly used to designate a loose form of international co-operation, in distinction from any covenanted agree ment to co-operate by stated methods or in order to accomplish stated ends. More particularly, the plan of independent conferences largely advocated in America as an alternative to the covenant of the League of Nations. The several treaties signed as the result of the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament contain a number of agreements on the part of the nations participating in that conference to confer again at future periods, either at certain specified times or in case of certain exigencies arising. Thus, a new naval conference of the five powers signing the naval treaty is to be held at the expiration of eight years to consider any changes that may then be deemed necessary; and should any of the powers move to terminate the treaty, it is agreed that they they all shall meet again. again By the Four-Power Treaty the contracting parties are to meet in conference in case of disputes arising among themselves, while in case of outside aggression occurring, they agree to communicate with one another in order to arrive at an understanding of the most efficient measures to be taken, jointly or separately, to meet the needs of the situation. Several international boards and commissions are established under the conference treaties, and it is provided that the nations shall confer on the coming report of the Rules of War Commission. (See WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.)
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in poetry, a term used when the terminating words of lines have the same vowel sound, but make no proper rhyme.
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(also ESWAN; the ancient Syene), is the southernmost city of Egypt proper, on the right bank of the Nile. There are some remains of the ancient city. In the neighborhood are the famous granite quarries from which so many of the huge obelisks and colossal statues were cut to adorn the temples and palaces of ancient Egypt. It is from Syene that this kind of granite came to be known as syenite. Pop. about 17,500. ASSOUAN DAM. Its construction was begun in February, 1899. It was formally opened Dec. 8, 1902. This dam accomplished more for the promotion of agriculture along the banks of the Nile in Egypt than anything attempted in centuries. The dam formed a reservoir containing one million tons of water. It had 180 sluice openings. The water thrown back up-country brought 300,000 additional acres under cultivation. In 1907-1912, the dam was raised 16½ feet, more than doubling the water supply.
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. See Literature
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a genus of ganoid fishes named on account of the starry color of its scales.
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a genus of cryptogamous plants , allied to calamites, belonging to the order equisetaceæ . All are fossil, and belong to the carboniferous period. Their name was given on account of the starry appear ance of the verticillate foliage. Their stems were articulated and branched, and it is now known that the termed volkmannia constituted their fructification.
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WILLIAM BACKHOUSE, an American capitalist, born in New York City, Sept. 19, 1792; eldest son of John Jacob Astor; was associated with his father in business; increased the family fortune to $45,000,000; and gave $550,- 000 to the Astor Library. He died in New York, Nov. 24, 1875.
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JOHN JACOB, an American merchant, born in Waldorf , Germany, July 17, 1763. In 1783 he came to the United States and engaged in buying furs from the Indians and selling them to dealers. His success in the fur business led him to become the owner of a number of vessels in which he shipped furs to London and brought merchandise therefrom. In furtherance of a scheme for becoming independent of the Hudson Bay Company and establishing a thoroughly American system of fur trading, he sent out expeditions to open up intercourse with the Indians on the Pacific coast, by which the present city of Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia river in Oregon was planted in 1811. An interesting outline of his projects in this connection is given in Washington Irving's "Astoria." Mr. Astor acquired large wealth, invested heavily in real estate in New York City ; and at his death left a fortune estimated at $20,000,000, and the sum of $400,000, with which to found a public library in New York City. He died March 29, 1848.
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