These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bole, Bolero, Boletus.
a brownish, yellowish, or reddish colored unctuous clay. It contains more or less oxide of iron, which is the coloring matter in it; there is besides about 24 per cent. of water. Dana ranks it as a variety of halloysite, but considers that some of the specimens belong to other varieties.
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a national dance of Spain and Spanish America, usually accompanied with the castanets, and the zither or guitar, and sometimes with the voice. The dance is intended to represent a love story.
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a genus of fungi belonging to the order hymenomycetæ or agaricallæ. It may be distinguished at a glance from agaricus, by having the under surface of the cap or pileus full of pores, in place of its being divided in a radiated manner, as agaricus is, into lamallæ or gills. Several species, boletus edulis, B. granulatus and B. subtomentosus, are eatable. Other spe ies are poisonous. They grow on the ground or on the trunks of old trees.
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ANNE (bō'len or bul-ān'), second wife of Henry VIII. of England, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk, born, according to some accounts, in 1507, but more probably about 1501. She attended Mary, sister of Henry, on her marriage with Louis XII., to France, as lady of honor, returning to England about 1523, and becoming lady of honor to Queen Catherine. The king, who soon grew passionately enamored of her, without waiting for the official completion of his divorce from Catherine, married Anne in January, 1533, having previously created her Marchioness of Pembroke. When her pregnancy revealed the secret, Cranmer declared the first marriage void and the second valid, and Anne was crowned at Westminster with unparalleled splendor. On Sept. 7, 1533, she became the mother of Elizabeth. She was speedily, how- 00000000000000 0000000000000000000000000. ANNE BOLEYN ever, in turn supplanted by her own lady of honor, Jane Seymour. Suspicions of infidelity were alleged against her, and, in 1536, the Queen was brought before a jury of peers on a charge of treason and adultery, and found guilty. She was beheaded May 19, 1536.
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a name given to those meteoric stones or aerolites that explode on coming in contact with the atmosphere.
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HENRY OF, a Duke of Hereford, afterward HENRY IV. (q. v.) of England. He figures in Shakespeare's plays, "Richard II." and "Henry IV."
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HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT, an English statesman and political writer, born in 1678. He became Secretary of War in 1704; resigned in 1707; but, in 1710, he was again one of the ministry. For the next four years he assisted in governing the country, and by the treaty of Utrecht, in April, 1713, brought the war with France to a close. In 1712 he was created Viscount Bolingbroke; and, in 1714, Queen Anne died. This was a fatal blow to Bolingbroke, who had quarreled with his old friend Harley, the Earl of Oxford, and been commissioned to form a new cabinet. He was compelled to make his escape to France. On the accession of George I., he was impeached by Walpole, at the bar of the House of Lords. Meanwhile he had entered the service of Charles Stuart, the Pretender, who appointed him his Prime Minister, but who, after his return from Scotland, dismissed him. In 1723 he was permitted to return to England, but he was not readmitted to the House of Lords. This excited his animosity, and he began to write against the ministry, which led to the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole. He resided in France from 1735 until his father's death enabled him to take possession of the family estates at Battersea. Here he passed the remainder of his days, employing his time in writing on nonpolitical subjects. He died in 1751.
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the largest state of Venezuela, South America, comprising that portion of Venezuela which lies S. of the Orinoco and Apure rivers; area, 88,701 square miles; pop. about 70,000.
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the most serious pest of cotton in the United States , a species of weevil which deposits its eggs in the "squares" or young buds of the cotton plant. It first appeared in Texas from Mexico in 1892, and since then has steadily extended its domain until this now covers practically the entire cotton belt of the southern states. The annual damage to the cotton crop is estimated at from eight to ten million dollars, but a much larger figure would be necessary to cover the losses due to reduction in plantings. All efforts thus far to exterminate the weevil have been unsuccessful, although certain measures have been partially effective in reducing its
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a short, broad, lance-shaped weapon; used by the Filipinos in their operations against the American troops. The blade is about 18 inches in length by nearly 3 inches in breadth at its broadest dimension. It tapers from the middle toward the haft as well as toward the point, making it strongly resemble the ancient short sword. It is not doubleedged, however, but tapers from a thick back to an extremely keen edge.
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French traitor, executed at Vincennes, France, April 17, 1918. His real name was Paul Bolo. He lived a shady life in Paris, with no apparent means of support, except a pension received from his brother, Monsignor Bolo, an eminent French prelate. After the war had begun, however, Bolo Pasha suddenly seemed to be in possession of large funds and entered upon an expensive mode of living. He went to America, and, as it was later shown, was in close relations with Von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador to the United States. The activities of Bolo and his sudden accession to wealth had aroused the suspicions of friends of the Allied cause, both in America and in France, with the result that he was shadowed and ultimately arrested as a traitor. His trial was a sensational one. The evidence was overwhelming and Bolo was condemned to death.
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an Italian school of painting, founded in the 14th century, probably by Franco. The great master of the school was Francesco Francia, a contemporary of Raphael, celebrated for the purity and serenity of his Madonnas. The Caracci, who painted the frescoes of the Farnese Palace, were the leaders of the later school.
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