Bromus
a genus of atte attended by protrusion of the eyeballs, grasses having two unequal glumes and anemia, and palpitation. two herbaceous glumelles, the outer one bifid and with an awn from below the
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These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bromus, Bronchi, Bronchocele.
Bronchi
the two branches or windpipe N. W. of Catania. The lava streams of 1651 and 1843 lie on either side, but the divides in the chest, one going to the district around is fertile, and produces right lung, the other to the left, and wine. Lord Nelson was created Duke of ramifying into innumerable smaller Bronté by the Neapolitan Government in 1799.
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Bronchocele
an indolent tumor on the forepart of the neck caused by enlargement of the thyroid gland, and
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Bronco
. See Mustang
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Broni
a town of northern Italy, extremity. The seeds of B. mollus, or with mineral springs, 11 miles S. E. of soft brome grass, when eaten by man Pavia. Near by is the castle of Broni, animals, produce giddiness, where Prince Eugène obtained a victory and they are said to be fatal to poultry. over the French in 1703. B. secalinus, or smooth rye brome grass, BRONTÉ (bron'te), a town of Sicily, is common in rye and wheat fields. at the W. base of Mt. Etna, 33 miles
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Bronte, Charlotte
bron'te, Charlotte (1816-1855), an English writer. She was one of three sisters, daughters of an English clergyman, and was for a time a governess in Brussels. She wrote four books, The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette, Jane Eyre is celebrated; the rest are forgotten or are of interest simply because they were written by the author of Jane Eyre. It is said that any writer can produce one successful novel, but that only a genius has material for more than one. It is a small collection of fiction that cannot afford a place for Jane Eyre. Miss Bronte was married in 1854 to the Rev. A. B. Nichols, her father's curate. 2026 Editor's Note: "The rest are forgotten" has not held up. Villette is now ranked by many critics above Jane Eyre — George Eliot thought it the finer book — and all four novels stay in print. The sisters published as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell because, as Charlotte wrote, they suspected critics used "a weapon of personality" against women writers. (Ed: BR 2026-07-15)
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Brontosaurus Excelsus
a species of herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and Jurassic periods. It is supposed to have been a hippopotamus-like animal, and to have lived on vegetation in the waters. It was about 60 feet BRONTOSAURUS EXCELSUS long, and 15 feet high at the middle of the body, and, although its body was of this great size, it had one of the smallest heads known among vertebrates.
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Bronx
THE, a borough of Greater New York, lying N. and E. of the borough of Manhattan, between the Hudson river, East river, and Long Island Sound, including City, Riker's , Hunter's, Twin, Hart, High and several adjacent islands; area, 25,270 acres ; pop . (1920) 732,016. The Bronx contains an extensive public park , with a botanical garden of 250 acres, and is the site of the New York Zoological Gardens, See NEW YORK.
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Bronzed Skin
a peculiar discoloration of the skin frequently associated with Addison's disease , which is a disease of the supra-renal capsules. BRONZE WING and BRONZE PI- GEON, names given in the Australian colonies to certain kinds of wild pigeon, on account of the lustrous bronze color with which their wings are variously marked.
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Brooch
a kind of ornament worn on the dress, to which it is attached by a pin stuck through the fabric. They are usually of gold or silver, often worked in highly artistic patterns and set with precious stones. Brooches are of great antiquity, varied in form as much as in modern times, and were formerly worn by men as well as women, especially among the Celtic races.
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Brooke
STOPFORD AUGUSTUS, an English Unitarian preacher, born in Donegal in 1832. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has held important curacies in London, and in 1872 was appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. He subsequently became a Unitarian. He has p published "Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson," "Theology in the English Poets," ," "Primer of English, Literature," and "The Early Life of Jesus." "Treasury of Irish Poetry" (1901); "On ten Plays of Shakespeare" (1905); "Onward Cry" (1911); "Ten More Plays of Shakespeare" (1913). He died in 1916.
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Brooke (RUPERT an English poet)
RUPERT, an English poet and writer. He was born in Rugby in 1877, and was educated at Rugby School and at King's College, Cambridge. For several years he lived in Cambridge and devoted himself chiefly to the writing of poetry. His first volume was published in 1911 and was well received. He showed evidence of unusual talent and was considered one of the leaders of the new school of poetry. At the outbreak of the World War he enlisted, and while engaged in service was taken ill with blood poisoning. He died on April 23, 1915, on board a French hospital ship. A number of poems inspired by the war exhibit remarkable dramatic powers. His collected poems were published in 1915. Other works are "John Webster and Elizabethan Drama" (1916); "Letters from America" (1916); "Lithuania," a drama in one act (1916).
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Brooke (SIR JAMES Rajah of Sarawak)
SIR JAMES, Rajah of Sarawak, was born in Benares, India, April 29, 1803. In 1838, having gone to Borneo, he assisted the Sultan of Brunei (the nominal ruler of the island) in suppressing a revolt. For his services he was made Rajah and Governor of Sarawak, a district on the N. W. coast of the island, and, being established in the Government, he endeavored to induce the Dyak natives to abandon their irregular and piratical mode of life and to turn themselves to agriculture and commerce; and his efforts to introduce civilization were crowned with wonderful success. He was made a K. C. Bein 1847, and was appointed Governor of Labuan. He died in Devonshire, England, June 11, 1868.
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Brookhart
SMITH W., United States Senator from Iowa, was born in Scotland County, Missouri , February 2, 1869. He received his early education in the district schools, afterwards graduating from the Blo Bloomfield , Iowa, High School and the Southern Iowa Normal School. He was a teacher for a time , but law-offices. He later practiced law, having studied at home and in various law-offices. served in the Spanish-American War, on the Mexican border, and in the World War. In 1920 he made a strong run for the Republican nomination to the U. S. Senate on a platform of opposition to the Esch-Cummins Railway Act, and in 1922 gained the nomination and was elected by a large majority in spite of the opposition of many party leaders. BULGARIA. Following the World War the management of affairs was mostly in the hands of the agrarian party, with bitter opposition on the part of the bourgeois elements in the cities, particularly in Sofia. Conditions unfavorable to the economic restoration of the country led in 1922 to a demand from the Reparation Commission for control of the national resources and revenues in return for a three years' postponement of reparations payments, but Bulgaria refused to comply with the demand. A conscript labor law, adopted July 13, 1921, made all men between the ages of 20 and 50 and women between 16 and 50 liable to take part pa in public work for a certain period every C 1922-23.)
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