These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Auckland Islands, Aucuba, Aude.
a group lying in the Pacific Ocean to the S. of New Zealand. The largest of these islands is about 30 miles long by 15 broad, and is covered with dense vegetation. They are almost entirely uninhabited , belong to the British and are a station for whaling ships.
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a genus of plants belonging to the order cornaceæ, or cornels, The only known species is a japonica, A. those of the laurel in form and mottled with yellow.
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a maritime department in the S. of France; area, 2,438 square miles; mainly covered by hills belonging to the Pyrenees or the Cevennes, and traversed W. to E. by a valley drained by the Aude. The loftier districts are bleak and unproductive; the others tolerably fertile, yielding good crops of grain. The wines, especially white, bear comparison with any. Pop. about 300,000.
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or AUDIMETER, an instrument devised by Professor Hughes, the inventor of the microphone. Originally its object was to measure with precision the sense of hearing. Among gits constituent parts are an induction coil, a microphone key and a telephone. The audiometer has been materially modified, and is now principally used for obtaining a balance of induction from two electric coils acting upon a third one. A scale is provided to show the extent of the movement.
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an invention to assist the hearing of deaf persons, in whom the destroyed. The instrument, made entire this auditory nerve is not entirely ebonite rubber or hard vulcanite, is about the size of a palm leaf fan, with a handle and strings attached to bend it into a curving form, and a small clamp for fixing the string at the handles. The audiphone is pressed by the deaf person using it against his upper front teeth, with the convex side outward; when so placed it communicates the vibrations caused by musical sounds or articulate speech to the organs of hearing.
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an examination into accounts or dealings with money or property, along with vouchers or other documents connected therewith, especially by proper officers, or persons appointed for the purpose. Also the occasion of receiving the rents from the tenants on an estate.
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pertaining to the organs of hearing.
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JOHN JAMES, an American naturalist of French extraction, born near New Orleans, May 4, 1780; was educated in France, and studied painting under David. In 1798 he settled in Pennsylvania, but, having a great love for ornithology, he set out in 1810 with his wife and child, descended the Ohio, and for many years roamed the forests in every direction, drawing the birds which he shot. In 1826 he went to England, exhibited his drawings in Liverpool, Manchester, and Edinbur Edinburgh , and finally published them in an unrivalled work of double-folio size, with 435 colored plates of birds, the size of life ("The Birds of America," 4 vols., 1827-1839), with an accompanying text ("Ornithological Biography"). On his final return to the United States he labored with Dr. Bachman on an illustrated work entitled "The Quadrupeds of America" (1843- 1850, 3 vols.). He died in New York City, June 27, 1851.
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John James (1780-1851), an American naturalist, a native of Louisiana. His parents were French. They sent him to Paris to study drawing. From childhood Audubon was given to hunting birds' nests and to keeping birds as pets. When he returned from Paris he took to an outdoor life. He spent years in what were, at that time, the wildernesses of the Mississippi Valley. He made his headquarters for a time at Henderson, Kentucky. He explored the forests and waterways of the West and South. Sometimes his tramp occupied several months. In 1826 he went to London and published a work called The Birds of America. It contained a description of over one thousand birds with reproductions of drawings colored by his own hand. A complete set of Audubon's Birds in good condition is now worth several hundred dollars. Audubon's memory is preserved by an organization of Audubon societies. Branch associations for the protection and study of birds have been organized in not less than forty states of the Union. See Bird 2026 Editor's Note: Audubon's Birds of America is now one of the most valuable books on earth — a complete copy sold for more than $11 million. But his reputation has darkened: he enslaved people and opposed abolition, prompting the National Audubon Society in 2023 to debate, and some chapters to drop, his name from the cause of bird protection he inspired. (Ed: BR 2026-06-27)
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BERTHOLD (ou'erbäch), a German novelist, born at Nordstetten, Württemberg, Feb. 28, 1812; began to write while a student in Heidelberg, and under the pseudonym "THEO- BALD CHAUBER" produced a "Biography of Frederick the Great" (1834-1836). A series of novels from the history of Judaism, under the collective title "The Ghetto," of which "Spinoza" (1837) and "Poet and Merchant" (1839) were printed in separate editions, was followed by a translation of Spinoza, with a critical biography (1841); and by "The Educated Citizen: a Book for the Thinking Human Mind" (1842). His next work, "Black Forest Village Stories" (1843), was translated into nearly all European languages and established his fame. To this class of tales belong also "The Professor's Lady" (1847); "Joseph in the Snow" (1860); "After Thirty Years" (1876). "On the Heights" (1865) constituted the crowning success of his literary career. was followed by the "Villa on the Rhine" (1868) and "The Head Forester" (1879). He died at Cannes, France, Feb. 8, 1882. AUERSTÄDT (ou'er-stedt), a village in the Prussian province of Saxony, 10 miles W. of Naumburg. It is famous for the great battle which took place there Oct. 14, 1806, between the French under Davoust, and the Prussian army under Duke Charles of Brunswick, which ended in a great victory for the former. Napoleon, who had, on the same day, defeated the main army of Frederick William II. at Jena, made Davoust Duke of Auerstädt.
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ow'er-bak, Berthold (1812-1882), a German novelist and poet. He was of Hebrew parentage and was born at Nordstetten, Wurtemberg. He began writing while a student at Heidelberg, but won little attention until some years later, when he published Village Tales of the Black Forest , which made him famous. These stories have been translated into nearly all European languages. On the Heights is Auerbach's masterpiece. Brigitta is also a popular story.
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