These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Balmaceda, Balmoral, Balor.
JOSÉ MANUEL, a Chilean statesman, born in 1840; early distinguished as political orator; a advocated in Co Congress separation of Church and State; as Premier, in 1884, introduced civil marriage; elected President in 1886. A conflict with the Congressional party, provoked by his alleged cruelties and official dishonesty, and advocacy of the claim of Signor Vicuna as his legally elected successor, resulted in Balmaceda's overthrow and suicide in 1891.
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bal-mor'al, originally a special variety of woolen petticoat dyed red, with blue and black stripes around the bottom. When these were worn, the dress skirt was tucked up or looped to display the gay undergarment. The fashion was first adopted by the daughters of Queen Victoria during their residence at Balmoral, Scotland. The meaning of the name Balmoral has been extended to include various articles of dress of unusual strength and weight. Balmoral shoes are stout walking shoes laced in front. George Eliot speaks of "a man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes."
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a mighty King of the Formorians, usually styled "Balor of the Evil Eye," in Irish mythical tales. It was believed that he was able to destroy by means of an angry glance. When his eyelid became heavy with years, it is said that he had it raised by means of ropes and pulleys, so that he might continue to make use of his magical gift : but his grandson, Lugh , the Sun-god, crept near him one day when his eyelid had drooped momentarily, and slew him with a great stone which sank through his eye and brain.
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a kind of resinous oil. There is confusion in the use of the term. The lumberman would be surprised to learn that it is applied to anything but the fragrant, balsam-producing fir tree of his northern woods and swamps. The florist's balsam is the garden touch-me-not. The woodman of Ohio might very possibly sell you a load of resinous poplar as "balsam." Ask a druggist for balsam, and he would be likely to offer a bottle of medicine extracted from a beautiful tree of Peru and Mexico, or else balsam of Tolu from the forests of the Magdalena. Generally speaking, the term applies to a healing, medicinal, resinous oil, and to the several widely different plants producing it. The balsam of the botanist is an herb with alternate leaves, and showy, somewhat clustered, yellow flowers. There are about 220 species, most of which are natives of tropical Asia. They have been introduced into many other countries. Beside being called balsam this herb is also known as jewel-weed, or snap-weed. It grows wild in moist grounds or along brooks or streams from Nova Scotia to Oregon and Alaska, south to Florida and Missouri. The cultivated varieties are of many colors, red, white, or purple, and the flowers are larger than those of the wild species. See Balm Of Gilead
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the common name of succulent plants of the genus impatiens, family balsaminaceæ, having beautiful irregular flowers, cultivated in gardens and greenhouses. Impatiens balsamina, a native of the East Indies, is a common cultivated species. Impatiens noli-metangere, grows wild in Great Britain, but is not native.
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an aromatic, resinous substance, flowing spontaneously or by incision from certain plants. A great variety of substances pass under this name. But in chemistry the term is confined to such vegetable juices as consist of resins mixed with volatile oils, and yield the volatile oil on distillation. The balsams are either liquid or more or less solid; as, for example, the Balm of Gilead, and the balsams of copaiba, Peru, and Tolu. The balsams are used in perfumery, medicine, and the arts.
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One of the demons who possessed a young woman of Laon, Nicole Aubry, in the year 1566. He went to sup with her husband, under the pretext of freeing her from demon-possession, which he did not accomplish. It was observed that at supper he did not drink, which shows that demons are averse to water.
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a term which comprehends the three former Russian governments bordering on the Baltic, viz., Courland, Livonia, Esthonia. Since the European War they are independent states. The Baltic provinces once belonged to Sweden, except Courland, which was a dependency of Poland. They came into the possession of Russia partly in the beginning of the 18th century, through the conquests of Peter the Great, partly under Alexander in 1809. They form, however, a borderland between the Germanic and Slavonic areas, and have been a frequent cause of difficulty between Germany and Russia. In 1905, the Letts and Esthonians revolted against the German land owners and Russian Government, when much property was destroyed. Area 35,614 square miles; pop. about 2,750,000.
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GEORGE CALVERT, LORD, an English colonist, born in Yorkshire about 1580; was for some time Secretary of State to James I., but this post he resigned in 1624 in consequence of having become a Roman Catholic. He retained the confidence of the King, who, in 1625, raised him to the Irish peerage. of land in Newfoundland, but left it, obtain- He had previously obtained a grant ing another patent for Maryland. He died (1632) before the charter was completed, and it was granted to his son, Cecil. BALTIMORE
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BA ORIOLE, BALTIMORE HANG-NEST, or BALTIMORE, a bird of the family sturnidæ (starlings), and the sub-family oriolinæ (orioles). It is the oriolus baltimore of Catesby, now icterus baltimorii. The name Baltimore was applied, because its colors, black and orange, were the same as those on the coat of arms or livery of the Lord Baltimore who was formerly proprietor of Maryland.
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A learned Jesuit who died in 1743. In his Reply to the History of the Oracles of Fontenelle, published in Strasbourg in 1709, he affirmed that the oracles of the ancients were the work of demons, and that they were reduced to silence during the mission of Christ upon the earth.
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a Bavarian city in Upper Franconia, beautifully situated on the banks of the Regnitz, 3 miles above its confluence with the Main, and 33 miles N. of Nuremberg by rail. Set in the midst of vineyards, orchards , and hop-gardens, and founded about 769, from 1007 to 1802 it was the seat of independent prince-bishops. The most noteworthy of its 14 churches is the cat nificent edifice in the Romanesque style, cathedral, a magfounded by the Emperor Henry II. in 1004, and containing the tomb of his Empress Cunigunda. St. Michael's Benedictine Abbey (1009 ) was in 1803 converted into an almshouse . The ruins of the castle of Altenburg, originally the seat of the Counts of Babenberg, are near the town. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the manufacture of beer, cotton, cloth, gloves, tobacco, musical instruments, etc. A large export trade in liquorice and garden seeds is carried on. Albrecht Pfister , one of the earliest printers, was practicing his art at Bamberg in 1461. Pop. about 50,000.
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