These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Badenweiler, Badge, Badger Dog.
a watering place in the republic of Baden, near Mülheim. Its mineral springs are now rated among the indifferent waters, and it is of interest chiefly for the ruins of Roman baths that were discovered in 1847. The foundation of the town is referred to the time of Hadrian, and the remains of the vapor baths, of which there are excellent specimens, are supposed to be of the same period.
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a distinctive device, emblem, mark, honorary decoration, or special cognizance, used originally to identify a knight or distinguish his followers.
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a long-bodied, shortlegged dog, with rather large pendulous ears, usually short-haired, black, and with yellow extremities; often called by its German name, dachshund.
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. See Wisconsin
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a region N. of Herat, Afghanistan, comprising the country between the Murghab and the Harirud rivers, as far N. as the edge of the desert. It lies just to the S. of the boundary line between Afghanistan and the Russian territories, as defined in 1887.
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the name of the person in whose garments Napoleon II. escaped from the fortress of Ham in 1846; afterward a nickname for Napoleon III.
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a popular game, closely resembling lawn tennis, played with battledore and shuttlecock on a rectangular portion of a lawn. The ground is divided crosswise by a strip of net, not less than three inches wide, suspended from poles at a height of five feet. As in lawn ten tennis, the ground on either side of the net is divided lengthwise into right and left courts. The first player, standing on a specified part of his right court, must strike the shuttlecock so as to fall across the net into the back section of the right court opposite. The opponent strikes it back, then it is returned by the first player, and so on till the first player misses the shuttlecock. After the first stroke, it suffices that the shuttlecock be sent across the net, if it does not fly beyond the boundaries.
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a peak of the main Himalaya range, in Garhwal district, Northwestern Provinces, India; 23,210 feet above the sea. On one of its shoulders, at an elevation of 10,400 feet, stands a celebrated temple of Vishnu, which some years attracts as many as 50,000 pilgrims.
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KARL, a German publisher, born in 1801; originator of a celebrated series of guidebooks for travelers. He died in 1859.
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bad'ek-er, Carl (1801-1859), a Leipsic publisher. He is the originator of a celebrated series of guide books still published in his name. The various volumes describe London, Norway and Sweden, Paris, Switzerland, Central Italy, the Rhine, Lower Egypt, etc. They are printed on thin paper with flexible red binding recognizable at a glance. The traveler armed with a "Baedeker" has a mine of information relative to expense, routes of traveling, location of restaurants, hotels, walks, bridle paths, bicycle roads, plans of cities, cab fares, omnibus lines, museums, galleries, excursions, boat routes, scenery, antiquities, industries, and a thousand and one points of information that save asking questions. While indispensable to the traveler, they are most valuable volumes also for a school library. 2026 Editor's Note: 'A Baedeker' became the very word for a travel guidebook. The name took a dark turn in 1942, when Nazi Germany launched the ' Baedeker Blitz ' — bombing historic English cities like Bath and York, reportedly chosen for their three stars in the Baedeker guide, in reprisal for raids on German towns. (Ed: BR 2026-07-20)
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LEO HENDRIK, an American chemist, born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1863. He graduated from the University of Ghent and studied electrochemistry in Germany. After being a member of the faculty of several universities in Belgium, he came to the United States in 1889. He founded a company for the manufacture of photographic papers which he had invented, the best known of which was called Velox. From 1889 he was engaged in research mechanical work and was consulting chemist for many important industrial concerns. He invented bakelite, a chemical substance replacing hard rubber and amber. He was a member of the Naval Consulting Board from 1915 to 1920, and also was a member of many chemical societies, both in the United States and abroad. He took out many patents in the United States and abroad on subjects of organic chemistry, electric insulation, etc., and contributed much to chemical magazines on chemical subjects.
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A demon cited in the Grand Grimoire (q.v.), and head of the infernal powers. It is with him that Wierius commences his inventory of the famous Pseudonomarchia Daemonum. He alludes to Bael as the first monarch of hell, and says that his estates are situated on the eastern regions thereof. He has three heads, one, that of a crab, another that of a cat, and the third that of a man. Sixty-six legions obey him.
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ADOLF VON (bã'yer), a German chemist, born in Berlin, Oct. 31, 1835; became Professor of Chemistry at Strasburg in 1872, and at Munich, in 1875, succeeding Liebig at Munich. He made many important discoveries in organic chemistry, especially cerulein, eosin and indol, and discovered a process of making artificial indigo. In 1905 he was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry. He died in 1917.
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a town, Spain, in Andalusia, 22 miles E. N. E. from Jaën. Pop. about 17,500. The principal edifices are the cathedral, the university (now suppressed), and the old monastery of St. Philip de Neri.
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a shallow Arctic gulf or passage, lying between Greenland and the ice covered islands of northeastern America. Its greatest width is about 500 miles. It was discovered by navigators in 1616, who hoped to find a passage through it to the Pacific. This sea was the favorite resort of whalers and seal catchers for more than two centuries. These animals are of late becoming too scarce for profitable pursuit. The sea is closed to navigation by ice during the greater part of the year. This, however, affords little cause for regret as there can be no occasion for its ever becoming a pathway of commerce.
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