Brush Turkey
a large gregarious species of bird, talegalla lathami. It is an inhabitant of Australia. It makes its nest in large mounds of brushwood, which it collects, and from which it takes its name.
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Single-source entries: B (154)
These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Brush Turkey, Brushes, Brussels Sprouts.
Brushes
These implements are now made in infinite variety for foundry purposes. Among the number may be noticed the soft bristles for moulders' ordinary use; blackening brushes of special manufacture for coating vertical moulds; flat English bristle for loam and dry-sand blackening; flat camel's-hair for distributing dry lead on green moulds, as well as for the finer classes of loam and dry-sand finishing, and steel-wire hand-brushes for cleaning castings. An improved steel-wire brush is a rotary, one that may be revolved by power.
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Brussels Sprouts
the small sprouts or heads, each a perfect cabbage in miniature, springing from the stalks of a species of cabbage. They were originally brought from Belgium.
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Brussiloff
ALEXEI ALEXEIE- VITCH, a Russian General, born in Kutais, Russian Caucasus, in 1853. He entered the profession of arms as a lieutenant of cavalry, and had a reputation in the army for his daring horsemanship. He served with distinction in the Russo- Turkish War, 1877-1878. In 1911 he was stationed in Podolia, as the commander of an army corps. When the World War broke out he invaded Galicia and achieved some remarkable victories. In April, 1916, he succeeded General Ivanoff as commander of the southwestern group of armies, and in June of that year defeated the Teutonic forces overwhelmingly in Volhynia and Galicia, capturing great numbers of prisoners and immense supplies of material and munitions. After the deposition of the Czar, the Russian armies began to disintegrate under the influence of the Bolshevist propaganda, and despite herculean attempts on Brussiloff's part to retain discipline, he was unable to resist the inevitable. He was made Commander-in-Chief of all the Russian armies, during the brief spell of Kerensky's control. Soon afterward the Russian front collapsed, and negotiations were entered into looking toward a separate peace between Russia and the Central Powers. For a long period after this little was heard of Brussiloff, and there were reports that he had died; but in 1920 he was Commander-in-Chief of the Red armies engaged in the Polish campaigns.
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Brutus
Lucius Junius, a legendary Roman leader, about 500 B. C. Many stories are related of him. According to the first, he was sent with the two sons of King Tarquin to consult the oracle of Delphi in Greece. Their business done, the oracle was asked, "Which of us shall be king of Rome?" "He that kisses his mother first was the ready reply. Accordingly when they landed, the two sons of the king sped away, each eager to salute the queen mother first; but Brutus, with more wit, pretended to stumble, and pressed his lips to mother earth. Tarquin, the king, having insulted Lucretia, the peerless wife of an honored citizen, Brutus joined a band of patriots to drive the Tarquins from power. This accomplished, a republic was declared, and he was elected first consul. When Brutus found that his two sons were engaged in a treasonable conspiracy to bring the Tarquins back, he gave orders that the lictors should proceed to do their duty just as though his boys were the sons of a man not in authority. They were accordingly put to death before their father left the Senate chamber. When at length the Tarquins marched upon Rome, Brutus led a body of Roman citizens. He and one of the sons, who in former days visited the oracle, met in personal combat; each plunged his sword into the other. Both fell. The Romans conquered the followers of Tarquin and gave Brutus a magnificent burial.
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Brutus
DECIMUS JUNIUS, a Roman soldier, served under Julius Cæsar in Gaul, and was afterward commander of his fleet, but, like his relative, Marcus Junius Brutus, joined in the assassination of Cæsar. He was afterward, for a short time, successful in opposing Antony, but was deserted by his soldiers in Gaul and betrayed into the hands of his opponent, who put him others, and slew him on the Ides of to death in 43 B. c.
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Brutus (LUCIUS JUNIUS an ancient Roman)
LUCIUS JUNIUS, an ancient Roman hero, son of Marcus Junius, murderers, who fled from Rome, MARCUS JUNIUS BRUTUS by the daughter of the elder Tarquin. He saved his life from the persecutions of Tarquin the Proud by feigning himself insane, whence his name Brutus (stupid). On the suicide of Lucretia, however, he threw off the mask, and headed the revolt against the Tarquins. Having secured their banishment, he proposed to abolish the regal dignity and introduce a free government, with the result that he was elected to the consulship, in which capacity he condemned his own sons to death for conspiring to restore the monarchy. He fell in battle 509 b. c.
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Bryant
WILLIAM CULLEN, an American poet, born in Cummington, Mass., Nov. 3, 1794. After two years in Williams College, he turned his attention to law. But in early youth he produced "Thanatopsis," and some of his best lyrics "To a Waterfowl," "The Yellow Violet," etc. In 1829 he became editorin-chief of the New York "Evening Post." His books include "Letters of a Traveler" (1855); "Letters from Spain" (1859); "Letters from the East" (1869); and a "Popular History of the United States," with S. H. Gay (4 vols., 1878- 1882). His "Poems" appeared in New York in 1832. This was followed by "The Fountain and Other Poems" (1842), and "The White-Footed Deer and Other Poems" (1844). His first complete edition was issued in Philadelphia in 1846. In his old age Bryant began a translation of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," in blank verse; and his last great poem was "The Flood of Years," a noble pendant to "Thanatopsis." He died in New York, June 12, 1878.
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Bryce
LLOYD, an American editor and novelist, born in Long Island, N. Y., in 1852. He was editor of the "North American Review" from 1889 to 1896. His works are "Paradise," "A Dream of Conquest," "The Romance of an Alter Ego," "Friends in Exile," "The Literary Duet," etc. He died in 1917.
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