These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Budaun, Buddhism, Buddlea.
a town of India in a district of the same name, United provinces, consisting of an old and a new town, the former partly surrounded by ancient ramparts. There is a handsome mosque, American mission, etc. Pop. 39,000.
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ESOTERIC. See THEOS- OPHY.
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or BUDDLEIA, a genus of plants belonging to the order scrophulariaceæ (figworts). The species are evergreen or deciduous shrubs from this country, Africa or Asia. B. neemda is one of the most beautiful plants in India. B. globosa, from Chile, is also highly ornamental. Fully 60 species of buddlea are known.
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a seaport town of Asiatic Turkey, on the N. shore of the Gulf of Kos, about 96 miles S. of Smyrna. It is the site of the ancient Halicarnassus, the birthplace of Herodotus and Dionysius. Pop. about 6,000. BUDWEIS (böd-vis', Czech BUDE JOVICE), a town of Bohemia, Czecho- Slovakia, on the navigable Moldau, 77 miles S. of Prague. It has a cathedral detached belfry dating from a about 1550, manufactures of stoneware, machines, lead pencils, beer, saltpeter; and trade in grain, wood, coals, and salt. Pop. about 45,000. In the neighborhood is Schloss Frauenberg (1840-1847), the seat of Prince Schwarzenberg.
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CLARENCE CLOUGH, an American editor and author, born at Laona, Chautauqua co., N. Y., July 29, He was connected with the New York " Tribune " from 1875 to 1881; 1881-1914 successively assistant, associate, and advisory editor of Century Magazine "; edited in conjunction with Robert Underwood Johnson, "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" (4 vols., 1887).
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DON CARLOS, an American military officer, born near Lowell, 0., March 23, 1818. He was graduated at West Point, in 1841, and served in the Mexican War. When the Civil War broke out he was adjutant-general of the regular army, and was made a Brigadier- General of Volunteers and attached to the Army of the Potomac. In November, 1861, he succeeded Gen. W. T. Sherman in command of the Department of the Ohio. He resigned from the volunteer service on May 23, 1864, and on June 1, following, also resigned his commission in the regular army. He was President of the Green River (Ky.) Iron Works from 1865 to 1870, when he engaged in coal mining. From 1885 to 1890 he served as United States Pension Agent at Louisville. He died near Rockport, Ky., Nov. 19, 1898.
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French BONAIRE (bwāni-rā), a West Indian island, 60 miles from the coast of Venezuela, and 30 E. of Curaçao, like which it belongs to the Dutch. It produces timber, cattle, cochineal, and salt. Area, 95 square miles; pop. about 7,000.
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a village of Mexico, 7 miles S. of Saltillo, where, on Feb. 22- 23, 1847, some 5,000 United States troops, under Taylor, defeated 20,000 Mexicans under Santa Anna.
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the largest province of Argentina. It has an area of 117,- 807 square miles. The southern part is crossed by two mountain chains. With this exception the province consists of an extensive plain, for the most part treeless. The coasts are low and sandy. The chief rivers are the Paraná and the Rio Salado. The chief industry of the province is cattle-raising and the growing of cereals, and the interest in the former was greatly stimulated by the demand of meat products as a result of the World War. Wheat growing has developed in the province in recent years. There are over 3,000 miles of railway. Through its geographical position the province controls the foreign commerce of Argentina. The chief exports are wool, beef, and other animal products. The province is independent of the central government in its administration. The capital l is is La Plata. Pop. of the province in 1918 was 2,290,102.
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According to Wierius, a demon of the second class. He has naturally the form of a star, and is gifted with a knowledge of philosophy and of the virtues of medicinal herbs. He gives domestic feliticy and health to the sick. He has charge over fifteen legions.
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A device for polishing or reducing metals. Emery buffs are round or square sticks on which emery paper or cloth is glued. They are used to reduce the surfaces of metal. Fig. 43 illustrates a ring buff used for polishing the inside of rings, preferably used on a polishing lathe.
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a strong oil leather, prepared from the hide of the buffalo, elk or ox. Formerly it was largely used for armor. It was said to be pistol-shot proof, and capable of turning the edge of a sword. It was tanned soft and white. Its place is now filled by the leather of cow skins for a common, and of the buffalo or bison of this country for a superior, article. It is still, however, much used in the saber, knapsack, ASIATIC WATER BUFFALO and cartridge box belts of armies, as well as occasionally to cover the buffers and buff wheels of the cutler, lapidary, and polisher.
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American. See Bison Gayal or East Indian ox. the buffalo family Yak. Buffalo
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WILLIAM FREDERICK.
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a cushion or mechanical apparatus formed with a strong spring, to deaden the concussion between a body in motion and one at rest. Buffers are chiefly applied to railroad carriages, there being two at each end.
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GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COUNT DE, a French naturalist, born in Montbard, Burgundy, Sept. 7, 1707. In 1739 he was appointed Superintendent of the Royal Garden at Paris (now the Jardin des Plantes) and devoted himself to the great work on "Natural History." It is now obsolete and of small scientific value, but it for long had an extraordinary popularity. After an assiduous labor of 10 years the three first volumes were published, and between 1749 and 1767 twelve others, which comprehended the theory of the earth, the nature of animals, and the history of man and the mammalia. The nine following volumes, which appeared from 1770 to 1783, contain the history of birds. The five volumes on minerals were published from 1783 to 1788. Of the seven supplementary volumes, of which the last did not appear until after his death in 1788, the fifth formed an independent whole, the most celebrated of all his works. ks. It contains his "Epochs of Nature," in which the author gives a second theory of the earth, very different from that which he had traced in the first volumes, though he assumes at the commencement the air of merely defending and developing the former. His works were translated into almost every European language. He died in Paris, April 16, 1788.
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