These 20 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Babylonian Captivity, Babylonian Literature, Baccarat.
a term usually applied to the deportation of the two tribes of the kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nabuchadnezzar, 585 B. C. The duration of this captivity is usually reckoned 70 years, though, strictly speaking, it lasted only 56 years. A great part of the 10 tribes of Israel had been previously taken captive to Assyria.
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a town of France, in the department of Meurtheet-Moselle, having the most important plate glass works in France. Pop. of commune about 7,500.
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feasts in honor of Bacchus, or Dionysos, characterized by licentiousness and revelry, and celebrated in ancient Athens. The Bacchantes of both sexes were clothed in fawn-skins, crowned with ivy, and bore in their hands thyrsi, that is, spears entwined with ivy. These feasts passed from the Greeks to the Romans, who abolished them in B. c. 186.
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a river of northern Italy, rises in the Alps, passes through the towns of Vicenza and Padua, and enters the Adriatic near Chioggia, after a course of about 90 miles.
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a Greek poet, a native of Julis, a town on the island of Cos. He was a cousin of the still more famous lyric poet Simonides, with whom he remained for some time at the court of Hiero and Sicily. He traveled also in the Peloponnesus. He is said to have been a rival of Pindar. He flourished about 470 b. c. In 1895 a well-preserved text of his poems was discovered and published, and Bacchylides has now taken a permanent place as a master of Greek verse.
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a term applied to those trees that bear berries. They are of four kinds: (1) Such as bear a caliculate, or naked berry; the flower and calix both falling off together, and leaving the berry bare; as the sassafras trees. (2) Such as have a naked monospermous fruit; that is, containing in it only one seed; as the arbutes. (3) Such as have but polyspermous fruit; that is, containing two or more kernels or seeds within it; as the jesminum, ligustrum. (4) Such as have their fruit composed of many acini, or round, soft balls, set close together, like a bunch of grapes; as the uva marina.
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IRVING, an American novelist, born in Pierpont, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1859. He was graduated at St. Lawrence University in 1879 and became a reporter of the Brooklyn "Times." Subsequently he established a newspaper syndicate. His novels include "The Master of Silence"; "The Unbidden Guest"; "Eben Holden"; "The Master" (1908); "The Light in the Clearing" (1916); "A 66 Man for the Ages" (1920).
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Addison Irving (1859-), an American novelist and journalist. He is a native of New York state. He received his education at St. Lawrence University. He began his journalistic work as a reporter of the Brooklyn Times. He is the author of a number of novels, the most popular of which are Eben Holden and D'ri and I.
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the double flowering buttercup (ranunculus acris), with white or yellow blossoms, common in gardens.
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or BATJAN, one of the Molucca Islands, immediately S. of the equator, S. W. of Gilolo; area, 914 square miles. Pop. about 15,000. It is ruled by a native Sultan under the Dutch.
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a genus of microscopic algæ belonging to the class diatomacex, the siliceous remains of which abound in Cretaceous, Tertiary, and more recent geological deposits.
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a name given to certain filiform bacteria present in the blood and tissues in malignant pustule, typhus, tuberculosis, and many other diseases. See BACTERIA.
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a name for the Great Fish River of northern Canada, discovered by Capt. Back in 1834 and by him traced down to its mouth under great difficulties.
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TRUMAN JAY, an American educator, born in Milan, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1842; was graduated at the University of Rochester in 1864; and became President of the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y. His publications include "Great English Writers," "Outlines of English Literature," and a revised edition of Shaw's "History of English Literature." He died March 24, 1908.
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a town in the of island Luzon, Philippine Islands; 30 miles N. W. of Manila; was the capital of the Philippines during the British invasion in 1762, when the Spaniards feared a bombardment and seizure of Manila; and was a scene of military activity in the American operations against the Filipino insurgents in 1899. Pop. about 15,000.
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JOSEPHINE DODGE DAS- KAM, American authoress, born in Stamford, Conn., Feb. 17, 1876. She graduated from Smith College in 1898 at the head of her class. She has been a prolific writer of books and magazine articles, and is especially happy in her studies of juvenile and adolescent types.
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LEONARD, an American clergyman, born in Detroit, Mich., Feb. 19, 1802; educated at Yale and Andover. In 1825 he became pastor of the First Congregational Church in New Haven. He was Professor of Didactic Theology in Yale (1866-1871). He was an active opponent of slavery. In 1847 he joined with Drs. Storrs and Thompson to found the New York "Independent." ." He published "Views and Reviews" (1840); "Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays" (1846), and "Genesis of the New England Churches." He died in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 24, 1881.
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ROBERT, an American financier and public official, born in Boston in 1860. He graduated from Harvard University in 1880 and entered the banking house of Lee, Higginson & Co. in Boston in 1881. In 1894 he became a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, remaining until 1903. From 1905 to 1909 he was Assistant ships. The inter-colonial duties were Secretary of State and for three months in the latter year was Secretary of State, succeeding Elihu Root. He was ambassador to France from 1909 to 1912. During the World War was a major in the United States Reserves and served with the staff of General Pershing. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1916. He died in 1919.
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ROGER, an English monk, and one of the most profound and original thinkers of his day, was born about 1214, near Ilchester, Somersetshire. He studied at Oxford and Paris. About 1250 he entered the order of Franciscans, but incurring the distrust of his ecclesiastical superiors was sent to Paris and there confined for 10 years without books or writing materials. He was thus punished because of extraordinary discoveries in science which ignorant minds attributed to magic. This opinion was countenanced by the jealousy and hatred of the monks of his fraternity. Having been set at liberty he enjoyed a brief space of quiet while Clement IV. was Pope; but in 1278 he was again thrown into prison, where he remained for at least 10 years. Of the close of his life little is known. His most important work is his "Opus Majus," where he discusses the relation of philosophy to religion, and then treats of language, metaphysics, optics, and experimental science. He was undoubtedly the earliest philosophical experimentalist in Britain; he made signal advances in optics; was an excellent chemist, and intimately acquainted with geography and astronomy, as appears by his discovery of the errors of the calendar and their causes. He died in Oxford, in 1294.
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