These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Blytheville, Boanerges, Boar.
a city of Arkansas, county-seat of Mississippi It is the co. on the Frisco Lines, the Arkansas Southbattle. ern, and other railroads. It is the center + of an important cotton and agricultural region and has manufactures of hard- species of the genus boa. The specific BOA wood products and lumber. Pop. (1910) 3,849; (1920) 6,447.
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the ficus religiosa, pipal, or sacred fig-tree of India and Ceylon, venerated by the Buddhists and planted near their temples. One specimen at Anuradhapura, in Ceylon, is said to have been planted before 200 b. c. It was greatly shattered by a storm in 1887.
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an enormous snake, said to have been anciently found in India. None, however, are at present known to exist there more than 6 feet long. The spelling bova is from bos, bovis = an ox. Boa is also the name of a genus of serpents, the typical one of the family boidæ. The species are found native only in America, analogous the genus in the East popиlarly confounded with it, namely python, being distinguished from it by the presence of intermaxillary teeth. This word is likewise applied to a long fur tippet or comforter worn by ladies around their necks. BOABDIL (properly Abu-Abdallah, and nicknamed Ez-Zogoiby, "the unlucky"), the last Moorish King of Gra- 6-Vol. II-Cyc nada, dethroned his father, Ab-ul-Hasan, in 1481, and two years later was defeated and taken prisoner by the Castilians near Lucena. He was set free on condition of paying tribute, and returned to Granada to struggle with his father and with his heroic uncle, Ez-Zaghal, for the throne. The fall of Malaga and Baza was but the prelude to the siege of the capital. The spot from which Boabdil looked his last on Granada still bears the last sigh of the Moor." He soon crossed name of el ultimo sospiro del Moro, "the to Africa and flung away his life in
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a Greek word translated in Mark iii: 17, "sons of thunder." It is of doubtful etymology, but is probably the Aramaic pronunciation of Hebrew beni regesh, regesh in Hebrew meaning tumult or uproar, but in Arabic and Aramæan thunder. It is an apgiven by Christ to two of His pellation pellation disciples, the brothers James and John, apparently on account of their fiery zeal.
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the uncastrated male of the swine (sus scrofa), or of any other species of the genus. The wild boar is the male of a swine either aboriginally wild or whose ancestors have escaped from domestication. The common wild boar WILD BOAR is sus scrofa; variety, aper. It is of a brownish black color; but the young are white or fawn colored, with brown stripes. It is wild in Europe, Asia and Africa, living in forests. Sus larvatus is the masked boar.
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a genus of fishes in the carangidæ or horse mackerel family of acanthopterygii or bony fishes with spinous rays. The protrusible mouth presents a resemblance to a hog's snout, as the name suggests. The body has an oval compressed form like that of the related John Dory. The common boar fish (C. aper) is a well-known inhabitant of the Mediterranean, rarely caught on the coasts of England. The eyes are very large, and placed far forward; the body is of a carmine color, lighter below, and with seven transverse orange bands on the back.
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GEORGE DANA, an American clergyman and author, born in Tavoy, British Burma, Aug. 18, 1828; the American Baptist son missionary of the same name. He was educated in the United States, graduating at Brown University in 1852, and at Newton Theological Institution in 1855. He became pastor at Barnwell, S. C.; Rochester, N. Y., and of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. His chief works are "Studies in the Creative We Week"; "Studies in the Model Prayer"; "Epiphanies of the Risen Lord"; "Studies in the Mountain Instruction." He died in 1903.
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RICHARD, an English missionary, born in 1738. He became a member of Wesley's conference in 1763, and volunteered for service in America in 1769. He preached in New York and through the Middle States till 1774, and then, returning to England, continued his itinerant ministry. He is known as one of the founders of Methodism in the United States. He died in Cork, Ireland, Oct. 4, 1782.
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FRANZ (bō'az), a German ethnologist, born in Minden, Westphalia, July 9, 1858; studied at Heidelberg, Bonn, and Kiel Universities, in 1877- 1882; traveled in the Arctic regions in 1883-1884; was assistant in the Royal Ethnographical Museum in Berlin, and privat docent in geography at the Uniin 1885-1886; and teacher of anversity thropology in Clark University, Worcester, Mass., in 1888-1892; Columbia, 1899-1901; curator American Museum Natural History, 1907-1908; President American Anthropological Society, 1910, and N. Y. Academy of Science. He spent much time among various American Indian tribes, and, among other works, has published "Baffin Land" (1885); "The Central Eskimo" (1888); "Indians of British Columbia" (1888-1892); "Mind of Primitive Man" (1911).
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the English name of cancroma, a genus of birds belonging to the sub-family ardeina, or true herons, and especially of the cancroma cochlearia. The bill looks as if formed by two spoons applied to each other on their concave sides. The C. cochlearia is whitish, with the back gray or brown and the belly red; the front is white, behind which is a black cap, changed into a long crest in the adult male. It inhabits the hot and humid parts of South America.
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the English name of the water bugs of the genus notonecta, so backs, called because they swim on their ba thus presenting the appearance of boats.
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an officer on board a ship, whose function it is to take charge of the rigging, cables, cordage, anchors, sails, boats, flags, and ust inspect the rigging stores. He must every morning and keep it in good repair; and must either by himself or by deputy steer the life boat. If on a ship of war he must call the men to their duty by means of a silver whistle given him for the purpose; besides taking into custody those condemned by a court martial, and, either by himself or by deputy, inflict on them the punishment awarded.
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