These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Albino, Albion, Albion.
a human being or animal abnormally white, with pinkish eyes. The phenomenon must have struck most people in the case of white mice and white rabbits. A human albino has the skin preternaturally fair. The hairs on the head and body are white , the eyes a pinkish appearance; moreover they are painful when exp exposed to light of even the ordinary intensity.
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Son of Neptune and Amphitrite, came into Britain, where he established a kingdom, and introduced astrology and the art of building ships. Great Britain is called Albion after him. Albis (Elbe). One of the great rivers in Germany, the most easterly which the Romans became acquainted with. 2026 Editor's Note: While this text attributes the name of Great Britain to a son of Neptune, the toponym Albion is actually the oldest known Greek name for the island. The term remains significant in Celtic languages, where names for Scotland such as Alba and Albain share the same root. Explorers later applied the name to the Americas, including Francis Drake's designation of New Albion in modern-day California. (Ed: BR 2026-06-20)
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a village of New York, the county-seat of Orleans co. It is on the New York Central, the Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester railroads and the Erie canal. It has a library, high school, court house, memorial church, and several public institutions. Its industries include a canning factory, cement works, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,016; (1920) 4,683.
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a city of Michigan in Calhoun co. It is on the Michigan Central, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroads, and an electric line running from Kalamazoo to Detroit. It is also on the Kalamazoo river. The city has important manufactures of iron, automobile springs, and other accessories, and agricultural implements; a library, two hospitals, a park, and is the seat of Albion College. Pop. (1910) 5,833; (1920) 8,354.
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the oldest name by which the island of Great Britain was known to the Greeks and Romans. Great Britain and Ireland were known by the general appellation of the Britannic Islands , while the former was designated by the particular name of Albion or Alwion , and the latter by that of Ierne , Iouernia, or Erin. Cæsar does not use the word Albion; his name for England is Britannia. The name of Albion was probably given to England by the Gaels of the opposite coast, who could not fail to be struck with the chalky cliffs that characterize the nearest part of Kent.
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a coeducational institution in Albion, Mich., organized under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported in 1919: Professors and instructors, 24; students, 560; president, Samuel Dickie, LL. D.
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a king of Lombardy, who, after having slain Cunimund, King of the Gepidæ, married his daughter Rosamond. He was slain in 574, by an assassin instigated by his wife.
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a hydrocarbon oil used in medicine to carry remedies to be sprayed into the nose and deeper air passages. It is also used for dressing wounds. It is a petroleum product.
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a coeducational institution for higher learning under the control of the Knight Evangelic Church at Myerstown, Pa. There were in 1919-1920, 232 students and 20 instructors. The library contains about 10,000 volumes. The property is valued at about $150,000, and the income about $30,000 annually. President, Rev. L. C. Hunt, A. D.
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An astrologer of the ninth century, born in Korassan, known principally by his astrological treatise, entitled, Thousands of Years, in which he declares that the world could only have been created when the seven planets were in conjunction in the first degree of the ram, and that the end of the world would take place when these seven planets (the number has now risen to twelve) will be together in the last degree of the fish. Several of Albumazar's treatises on astrology have been printed in Germany , of which one was his Tractus Florum Astrologiæ, Augsburg, 1488. (See Astrology .) ،،
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This word means the white of an egg. It is found as an organic compound in both animal and vegetable substances. Albumen forms the starting-point of all animal tissue, and may be considered the raw material of fibrin, the substance which forms the basis or fibre of muscular tissue. Its composition is: carbon 52.8, oxygen 23.8, hydrogen 7.5, nitrogen 15.7. The most important property of albumen is that of its coagulating or forming a white solid substance by the application of a gentle heat. Hence its use for many purposes in the arts and manufactures. See AGGLUTINATION.
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in chemistry, a name given to certain chemical substances which occur in the animal and vegetable tissues. They are amorphous, and their chemical constitution has not yet been discovered.
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a town and country-seat of Bernalillo co., N. M.; on the Rio Grande and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé and the Santa Fé Pacific railroads; 75 miles S. W. of Santa Fé. It has an elevation of 5,000 feet above sea-level; is an ancient and interesting settlement, divided into the Old and New towns; and is the seat of the University of New Mexico and of a Government school for Indians. The town has extensive railroad shops, a foundry and machine works, a National bank, and large mining, trading, and job (1910) 11,020 bing interests. Pop. ; (1920) 15,157.
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A celebrated lyric poet of Mitylene in Lesbos, about 600 years before the Christian He fled from a battle, and the armor in which he left the field was hung up in the temple of Minerva as a monument of his disgrace. He was enamored of Sappho . era. IOOO CLASSICAL CHARACTERS Of his works only a few fragments remain. 2026 Editor's Note: A contemporary of Sappho , Alcaeus was later included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. Though the text focuses on his military disgrace, he is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza, a complex four-line verse form. (Ed: BR 2026-06-21)
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The universal solvent. (See Alchemy .)
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a former suburb of Lisbon, noted for the signal victory gained there by the Duke of Alva over the Portuguese in 1580.
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