These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Atavism, Atbara, Atchison.
in biology, the tendency to reproduce the ancestral type in animals or plants which have become considerably modified by breeding or cultivation; the reversion of a descendant to some peculiarity of a more or less remote ancestor.
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the most northerly tributary of the Nile. It rises in the Abyssinian highlands, receives several large tributaries, and enters the Nile about 18° N.
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city and county-seat of Atchison co., Kan.; on the Missouri river and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, the Burlington, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and the Missouri Pacific railroads; 25 miles N. by N. W. of Leavenworth. The city is an important commercial center, by reason of its excellent river and extensive railroad facilities. It exports largely grain, flour, live stock, and dressed meats, and has many important manufacturing establishments. There are gas, electric light, sewer, water and electric railway plants; several public parks; a noteworthy bridge across the Missouri river; an attractive Union depôt; National banks; and daily, weekly and monthly periodicals. Atchison is the seat of the State Soldiers' Orphans' Home, of Midland College (Lutheran) and St. Benedict's College (Roman Catholic), and has a public library, public high and graded schools, and a number of high graded private schools. Pop. (1910) 16,429; (1920) 12,630.
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a genus of South American monkeys, of the division with long prehensile tails, to which the name Sapajou is sometimes collectively applied. The English name of spidermonkey is sometimes used as a generic designation; the fore-limbs are either destitute of a thumb or have a rudimentary one. ATELLANÆ FABULE (at-el-an'ē[i] fab'ö-lē[i], called also Oscan plays), a kind of light interlude, in ancient Rome, performed, not by the regular actors, but by freeborn young Romans; it originated from the ancient Atella, a city of the Oscans.
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a linguistic stock of North American Indians, extending from British North America and Alaska to Mexico, who derive their name from Lake Athabasca in British North America. The locations of this Indian family are best given under three groups: Northern, Pacific and South- (1) The Northern group includes ern. all the Athabascan tribes of Alaska and British North America, among which are the Ah - tena, K'naiakhotana, Kutchin, Kaiyvh - khotana, Koyu - khotana, Montagnais, Una-khotana, Montoguards, and Takulli. (2) The Pacific group consists of the tribes inhabiting the present States of Washington, Oregon, and California, to which regions they migrated upon the advent of the white man. Among the tribes of this division are Chasta Costa, Kaltserea tunne, Hupa, Chetco, Cheto, Kenesti, Kenesti Kwatami, Kwalhiokwa, Micikqwutme, Mikono tunne, Owilapsh, Qwinctunnetun, Teceme, ceme, Naltunne, Saiaz, Tcetlestcan tunne, Tolowa, Glatakanai, Yukitce, and Tutu. (3) The Southern group, which is the best known, is composed of the various Apache, Navajo and Lipan tribes, who inhabit Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. The number of these Indians is about 30,000.
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a formulary or confession of faith, said to have been drawn up by Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, in the 4th century, to justify himself against the calumnies of his Arian enemies. It was famous in the 6th century and commented upon, together with the Lord's Prayer and Apostles' Creed, by Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers. It was not, however, then styled the Athanasian Creed, but simply the Catholic Faith. The Sabellians considered the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as one in person; this was "confounding the persons": the Arians considered them as differing in essence; this was "dividing the substance"; and against these two errors was the creed originally framed. This creed was used in France about the year 850; was received in Spain about 100 years later, and in Germany about the same time. It was both said and sung in England in the 10th century; was commonly used in Italy at the expiration of that century, an and at Rome a little later. This creed is appointed to be read in the Church of England.
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ST. (ath-a-nā'shē-us), one of the fathers of the Christian Church, born at Alexandria about 296 A. D. He distinguished himself by his eloquence at the Synod of Nice (325), where his efforts were instrumental in securing the acceptance of the Nicene Creed. The creed which bears his name was supposed to have been formulated by him, but the term Athanasian was not applied to it until some centuries after his death. He became Patriarch of Alexandria in 328, being afterward deposed and reinstated five times. His chief works, including "Orations Against the Arians " and " Festal Letters, " appeared in an English translation by Archibald Robertson ( New York York, , 1892). He died in Alexandria, May 2, 373. the
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This occult hill is surrounded by mist excepting the southern side, which is clear. It has a well, which is four paces in breadth, from which an azure vapour ascends, which is drawn up by the warm sun. The bottom of the well is covered with red arsenic. Near it is a basin filled with fire from which rises a livid flame odourless and smokeless, and never higher or lower than the edge of the basin. Also there are two black stone reservoirs, in one of which the wind is kept, and in the other the rain. In extreme drought the rain-cistern is opened and clouds escape, which water the whole country. The term is also employed to denote moral and philosophical alchemy.
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fourth of the Indian Vedas.
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literally, disbelief. in a God, if such an attainment is possible; or, more loosely, doubt of the existence of a God; practically, a denial that anything can be known about the supernatural, supposing it to exist. Among the Greeks atheism consisted in a denial or non-recognition of the gods of the state. The atheism of the 18th century was a protest against the persecution of fanaticism; and, like its predecessors, put forward little or nothing to replace the system it attempted to destroy. The atheism of the 19th century may be taken to include every philosophic system which rejects the notion of a personal Creator; in this sense it ranks as a genus, of which Atomism, Pantheism, Positivism, etc., are species. Strictly, it is the doctrine that sees in matter the sole principle of the universe.
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