These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Amarillo, Amarna Letters, Amata.
a city of Texas, in Potter co. It is on the Fort Worth and Denver City, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Gulf, the Pecos and Northern Texas, and the Southern Kansas and Texas railroads. It has important agricultural and manufacturing interests. Pop. (1910) 9,957; (1920) 15,494.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) a series of letters written on clay tablets discovered in 1887 in the village of Telel-Amarna in Egypt. The letters when deciphered were found to include the correspondence carried on between the Egyptian sovereign and his officers in other countries, about 1400 b. c. With three exceptions they are written in the cuneiform character. The letters throw invaluable light on conditions in Babylon, Egypt, Palestine, and other countries at that time. order of AMARYLLIDACEÆ, an plants in the narcissal alliance of the class endogens. The representatives of the order in the English flora are narcissus, gelanthus, and leucojum. Beautiful as they are, most of them have poisonous bulbs. The Hottentots are said to dip the heads of their arrows in the viscid juice of the bulbs of hæmianthus toxicarius and some allied species. Several are emetic, having a principle in their composition like that of the squill. Oporanthus luteus is purgative, alströmeria salsilla diaphoretic and diuretic, and amaryllis ornata astringent. A kind of arrowroot prepared in Chile from alströmeria pallida and other species. A liquor called pulque is made from the wild agave of Mexico.
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Wife of King Latinus and mother of Lavinia, opposed Lavinia being given in marriage to Aeneas , because she had already promised her to Turnus When she heard that Turnus had fallen in battle she hung herself.mobet Amazonés or Amazonides. A nation of famous women who lived near the river Thermodon in Cappadocia . All their lives were employed in wars and manly exercises. They founded an extensive empire in Asia Minor along the shores of the Euxine.
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a family of Cremona, in the 16th and 17th centuries, famous for their violins, which are at the present time valued very highly on account of their tone. The founder of the violin works at Cremona was ANDREA
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who died 1577. His sons, AN- TONIO, born about 1555, and GIROLAMO (1556-1630), brought to the business still greater fame. In 1595, the famous violin which was designed for Henry IV. and is still in existence, was made by them. Girolamo's son, NICCOLO, born in 1596, brought the brilliancy of the Cremona violin to the highest perfection. He was the teacher of Stradivarius and Andrea Guarnerius. He died April 12, 1684.
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PASQUALE, an Italian baritone singer, born in Naples in 1878. He studied music in Naples Conservatory and made his first appearance at the Bellini Theater. He made an instant success and within a few years had become one of the leading baritone singers. He sang in German and South American theaters and in 1909 he became a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York, appearing in each successive season from that date. He also toured the country as a concert singer and became widely and favorably known.
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a disease of the eye, arising from impaired sensibility of the retina. Amaurosis arises from inflammation or turgescence of the retina, from derangement of the digestive organs, from exercise of the eye on minute objects, and from injury or disease of the fifth nerve or its branches, or from injury of the eye itself.
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a legendary nation of female warriors, reputed to live somewhere in Asia Minor . The men were left at home in a domestic capacity. The women cut off the right breast that it might not interfere with the use of the bow, and went to war. Under their queen, Penthesilea, they marched to the relief of Troy. The battles of the Amazons were a favorite subject with the Greek sculptor. It is not considered complimentary to call a woman an Amazon--too masculine. In pacifying their African possession of Dahomey, the French encountered really formidable forces of women warriors. They are spoken of as the Amazons of Dahomey. 2026 Editor's Note: The article's sneer — that 'Amazon' is no compliment to a woman — has not aged well. Archaeology has since found real armed female warriors buried with their weapons in the Scythian steppes , the probable seed of the legend; and 'Amazon' now names a river, the world's largest retailer, and Wonder Woman's warrior nation. (Ed: BR 2026-07-19)
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For cementing amber and meerschaum, make a thick cream of finely powdered quicklime and white of egg, apply with a camel's hair brush, dry slowly and scrape off surplus after thoroughly dry.
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a bony fish, found in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and interesting as illustrating in the rudimentary condition of its eyes the effects of darkness and consequent disuse. It only measures a few inches in length, is colorless its small eyes covered by the skin. It seems , and has able, however, to hear acutely, and the wrinkles of skin on its head are regarded as special feeling organs. Wholly blind fishes are found only in the unsunned ocean depths.
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GEORGE D', a French Cardinal, and Minister of State, born in 1460. He became successively Bishop of Montauban, Archbishop of Narbonne, and of Rouen. Louis XII. made him He reformed the Prime Minister. Church, remitted the people's burdens, and conscientiously labored to promote the public happiness. Died in 1510.
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a French_town in the department ent of Indre-et-Loire, on the Loire, 15 miles by rail E. of Tours. It lies in a region rich in vineyards. The town is memorable for the Huguenot conspiracy (1560), which cost the lives of 1,200 Protestants, and as the place whence was issued the Edict of Amboise (1563), conceding certain privileges to the Huguenots. The castle of Amboise, from 1431, was a frequent residence of the Valois kings; the birth and death place of Charles VIII. Pop. about 5,000.
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