These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bucket Shop, Buckingham Palace, Buckinghamshire.
an office for gambling in fractional lots of stocks, grain, etc., with no delivery of securities or commodities sold or purchased. The operation of bucket shops ops is regulated by law in most cities of the United States.
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a royal palace in London, facing St. James' Park, and the principal London residence of the British ruler.
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a county of England in the south-midland section. It has an area of about 743 square miles, of which over 80 per cent. is cultivated. The chief agricultural products are wheat and oats. Dairying is also an important industry. In the northern part woodland. of the county is considerable There are a few manufacturing industries. The chief rivers are the Thames, the Ouse, the Ousel, the Colle, and Thame. The princip The principal towns are Aylesbury, Buckingham, Slough, and Wycombe. The estimated population in 1917 was 205,164.
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a magnificent and beautiful evergreen tree of the order hamamelideæ, a native of the Himalayas, and growing growing in the island of Sumatra. The timber is not valuable.
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HENRY THOMAS, an English historian, born in Kent, Nov. 24, 1822. At an early age he entered his father's counting house, but at 18, on inheriting his father's fortune, he devoted himself entirely to study. The only thing he allowed to distract him from his more serious pursuits was chess, in which he held a foremost place among contemporary players. His chief work, a philosophic "History of Civilization," of which only two volumes (1858 and 1861) were completed, was characterized by much novel and suggestive thought, and by the bold coordination of a vast store of materials drawn from the most varied sources. He died, while traveling, at Damascus, March 29, 1862.
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metal instruments, consisting of a rim and tongue, used for fastening straps or bands in dress, harness, etc. Both brass and iron are used for them, the chief kinds being called tongue, roller, brace, and gear buckles. The use of buckles, instead of shoe strings, was introduced into England during the reign of Charles II. They soon became very fashionable, attained an enormous size, and were usually made of silver, set with diamonds and other precious stones.
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JAMES MONROE, American Methodist clergyman and editor; born in Rahway, N. J., Dec. 16, 1836. He was educated at Pennington Seminary, Wesleyan University, and at Exeter, N. H. He entered the Methodist ministry in 1858, and speedily attained distinction by his gift of extemporaneous eloquence. He was in great demand as a lecturer. It is as an author and editor, however, that he exerted his greatest influence. He was a powerful force in shaping the policies of his denomination and was noted as a forceful fighter and formidable debater. He edited the chief organ of his denomination, "The Christian Advocate," from 1880 till 1912 with great ability. Among his numerous publications are: "Supposed Miracles," "Midnight Sun," "Cuppand and Nihilist," "Christian Science and Similar Phenomena," "Extemporaneous Oratory," "Constitutional and Parliamentary History of the Methodist Episcopal Church." He died in 1920.
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The seamy, unsightly scars to be seen on some castings when too much slicking and too little venting have been expended on clayey loam or sand. When due attention to these shortcomings fails to work an improvement, it is evidence conclusive that more fire-sand is needed in the facing-sand. See SLICKER; SCABBED CASTINGS; VENTING; RAMMING; FACING-SAND. Buckle-chain. See SWIVEL-CHAIN.
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a coeducational institution in Lewisburg, Pa.; organized in 1849, under the auspices of the Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 39; students, 885; 885; volumes in the library, 40,000; grounds and buil buildings valued at $853,960; productive funds, $561,075; president, Emory W. Hunt, LL. D.
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SIMON BOLIVAR, an American soldier and politician, born in Kentucky in 1823. He was graduated at West Point in 1840, and served in the Mexican War. He rose to distinction in the Confederate army during the Civil War, attaining the rank of Lieutenant- General. In 1896 he was nominated for Vice-President by the Gold Democrats, having previously served a term as Governor of Kentucky. He died in 1914.
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a kind of leaden shot larger than swan-shot. About 160 or 170 of them weigh a pound. They are especially designed to be used in hunting large game.
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the English name of rhamnus, a genus of plants, the typical one of the order rhamnaceæ (rhamnads). The berries of the common species are black, nauseous, and, as the specific name rhamnus catharticus imports, highly cathartic; they afford a yellow dye when unripe, as the bark of the shrub does a green one. They are sold as French berries. The alder buckthorn, again, has dark purple purgative state, dye berries, which, in an unripe and when ripe wool green and yellow, The bark bluish gray, blue, and green. iron, black. Of dyes yellow, and, with berries of the the foreign species, the , are used rock buckthorn, or R. saxatilis or Morocco to dye the Maroquin, leather, yellow, while the leaves of the are used by tea buckthorn, R. thezans, substitute for poor people in China as a known to the tea. The species best is the R. pharmacopeia of this country called cascara purshiana, otherwise sagrada.
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the English of plants name of mylocarpum, a genus ericaceæ (heathbelonging g to the order privet-like buckwheat tree, worts). The , is a native of mylocarpum ligustrinum Georgia.
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a term derived from the ," nearly Greek, "belonging to herdsmen It is espeequal to pastoral, from Latin. kind of pastoral poetry. cially used of a were Theocritus The great bucolic poets , Vergil's "Eclogues" Bion, Moschus; and Bucolica. are sometimes called
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a city of Ohio, the countyis on the Sanseat of Crawford co. It , Sandusky river, and on the Columbus , the Toledo and dusky, and Hocking Ohio Central, the New York Central, and the Pennsylvania railroads. It is which important agricultural lies the center of an fortified Upper Town on a hill; important industries, including the of the foot and stock-raising region. It has also manufacture of clay-working machinery, locomotive cranes, steam shovels, automobile and gas engines, plows, carriages wagons, etc. The city has a handand buildings, a public some park, fine county hospital. Pop. (1910) library, and a 8,122; (1920) 10,425.
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