These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Alias, Alibi, Alibi.
in law, a term used to indicate the various names under which a person who attempts to conceal his true name and pass under a fictitious one is ascertained to have passed during the successive stages of his career.
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al'i-bi, a Latin word meaning elsewhere. In law, to prove an alibi is to show that the accused was elsewhere when the crime was committed. An alibi is, of course, absolute proof of innocence. It must be confessed, however, that an alibi is established not infrequently by false testimony, with the purpose of clearing a criminal whose case is otherwise desperate. 2026 Editor's Note: The article's confidence that an alibi is 'absolute proof of innocence' reads differently now: cell-phone location records, surveillance cameras and DNA can make or break one in ways no 1910 court imagined. In everyday speech the word has also drifted to mean any excuse at all. (Ed: BR 2026-07-17)
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in law, a plea that the person accused of having committed a crime was elsewhere at the time when the breach of the law occurred. If he substantiate this, he is said to prove an alibi.
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a seaport of Spain; capital of the province of Alicante; the ancient Lucentum. It is situated at the foot of a cliff 850 feet high, which is crowned by the Fort of Santa Barbara. It has one of the best harbors on the Mediterranean, and carries on a considerable trade, exporting wine, fruit, esparto grass, etc. It was bombarded in 1873 by two vessels sent out by Cartagena insurgents. Pop. (1917), province, 502,607; city, 53,088.
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JAMES MAURICE.
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a popular story for children by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), a clergyman of Oxford, England. The story was published in 1865. "What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" Alice asks, at the outset; and the book recounting her adventures is certainly full of delightful pictures and amazing conversations. It is a humorous tale of a little girl who follows a remarkable rabbit--with a watch in his waistcoat pocket--to a land where she soon "gets used to queer things happening." Sometimes rhymes are introduced in the "conversations," although the words do not always "come the same as they used to do," How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale. See Carroll ; Lewis 2026 Editor's Note: One of the most-translated books in the world — over 170 languages — never out of print, and filmed again and again. Its phrases (' down the rabbit hole ,' 'mad as a hatter,' 'off with their heads') are everyday English, and Carroll, a mathematician, laced it with logic jokes scholars still unpick. (Ed: BR 2026-06-06)
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an allowance granted a wife out of her husband's income on account of a separation or divorce. When it appears just, the court has power to grant alimony, pending a suit for separation. At the conclusion of a suit favorable to the wife, the court may grant permanent alimony. There is no law fixing the amount of alimony; but the court is supposed to take the husband's ability to pay, and the family scale of expenditure, into account. In case of temporary alimony, a fifth of the husband's income is considered a liberal allowance, and is granted, lest otherwise the wife may have no means of bringing a just action at law. A study of decisions shows that permanent alimony is fixed frequently at from a third to a half of the husband's income, being highest where the wife assumes the maintenance of children. In case of wealth the alimony may be large, yet not reach so large a share of the defendant's income. In case of inability to pay, or want of merit on the part of the plaintiff wife, the court may at its discretion grant nominal, or even no, alimony. See Divorce 2026 Editor's Note: Alimony law was upended after this: no-fault divorce (from 1970) and gender equality made it payable by either spouse, not just husbands, and many states have curtailed or abolished the 'permanent' alimony this entry assumes in favor of time-limited support. (Ed: BR 2026-06-29)
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in law, the allowance, awarded out of her husband's estate, to which a wife is entitled on separation or divorce. Jurisdiction in this matter in England is conferred upon a court of divorce. In the United States it is vested in the courts of equity. Alimony may be granted by the court during litigation, or at the conclusion of the suit, when it is called permanent. The former enables the wife to pursue the litigation, whether proceedings have been brought by or against her. The amount granted lies within the discretion of the court. Permanent alimony is a periodical allowance, awarded to the wife if the termination of the suit is favorable to her. By a writ of ne exeat (let him not depart), the court can prevent the husband from leaving the State without leaving sufficient security for payment. If the husband should remove to another State the wife can enforce her claim in the Federal courts.
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OSCAR JOSEF, a Swedish historian, born in 1846; professor in the University of Upsala. He instructed the Princess Victoria of Baden, afterward Crown Princess of Sweden, in Swedish history and literature. In 1888 he became a member of the Upper Chamber of the Parliament. He has written many monographs on the history of Sweden. Died Dec. 31, 1900, in Stockholm.
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SIR ARCHIBALD, a Scottish historian, born at Kenley, Shropshire, Dec. 29, 1792. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, and was ad- Un mitted to the bar in 1814. His principal work, a "History of Europe," covering the period from 1789 to 1815, was translated into the leading languages of Europe. He died at Glasgow, May 23, 1867.
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the coloring matter used in the dyeing of Turkey red, exists in the madder root as a glucoside, which, when boiled with acids or alkalies, gives glucose and alizarin. But in 1869 Græbe and Liebermann discovered a method of manufacturing it from the coal-tar product anthracene. The manufacture of alizarin is now one of the most important branches of the coaltar coloring industry. or ALCAHEST, the
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