Each of these 9 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
EDWARD, a Czecho-Slovak statesman, one of the delegates at the Paris Peace Conference. He was a student of sociology and a teacher at the Czech University of Prague. He escaped from Bohemia early in the war and joined Thomas Masaryk, later president of Czecho-Slovakia, in the foundation of the Czecho-Slovakian Council. He performed valuable services in the Czecho-Slovakian army and secured recognition of the state by the Allies.
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a city of southern Italy, seat of an archbishop, capital of a province of the same name, between and near the confluence of the Calore and Sabato, 32 miles N. E. of Naples. The modern town is almost entirely constructed out of the ruins of the ancient. Among its most perfect remains of antiquity is the Arch of Trajan, erected about A. D. 114. Near Benevento, in 1266, was fought the great battle ✓ between Charles of Anjou and his rival, Manfred, in which the latter was killed, and his army totally defeated. During the reign of Napoleon I., Bene vento was formed into a principality conferred on Talleyrand. In 1815, 1815, it again reverted to the Pope. In 1860 it was annexed to the kingdom of Italy. Pop. about 25,000.
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ben-gal-en', a name given to several varieties of rep, or rib-woven textiles. A conspicuous thread running warp-wise of a web is called properly a cord.' If it runs weft-wise, or across the web, it is a rib, and the fabric belongs to the class called rep. Bengaline takes its name from a silken fabric made for hundreds of years at Bengal, India. The bengaline of the dry goods trade may be of silk, silk and wool, or silk and cotton. In weaving the rib is produced by a thick, soft, woolen or cotton weft, which is covered almost entirely by the silk warp.
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a district of the Portuguese colony of Angola on the W. coast of South Africa; The country is mountainous in the interior, and. thickly intersected by rivers and streams. Its vegetation is luxuriant, including every description of tropical produce, and animal life is equally abundant. Copper, silver, iron, salt, sulphur , petroleum, and other minerals are found . The natives are mostly rude and barbarous. Pop. over 2,000,000. The capital, also called Benguela, or San Felipe de Benguela, is situated on the coast , on a bay of the Atlantic, in a charming , but very unhealthful, valley . It was founded by the Portuguese in 1617, and was formerly an important center of the slave trade, but has now only a spasmodic trade in ivory, wax, gum, copal, etc. Pop. about 3,600.
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ANDREW ELLICOTT KENNEDY, an American naval officer, born in New York, April 10, 1832; entered the navy in 1847; served in the East India and the Home Squadrons in 1847-1852; attended the United States Naval Academy in 1852-1853; was commissioned Lieutenant in 1855; Lieutenant-Commander in 1862; Commander, 1866; Captain, 1875 ; Commodore, 1885; and Rear-Admiral in 1890, and was retired in 1894. During the Civil War he served in the South Atlantic and West Gulf Blockading Squadrons . In April , 1893, he commanded one of the divisions in the great naval display at New York; in 1894, as commander of a squadron at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , he forced the commander of the insurgents' squadron to raise the blockade of the city and to discontinue firing on American merchant vessels; and in 1898 was naval prize commissioner in Savannah, Ga. He died Aug. 11, 1905.
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a river of Bolivia, South America; formed by the union of all the streams flowing down the eastern Cordillera. It unites with the Mamore on the Brazilian frontier to form the Madeira. Its course is N. to N. E .; length, about 850 miles.
one of the departments of Bolivia, South America . It is in the N. E. part; area, about 40,000 square miles; pop. 107,744; chief town, Trinidad.
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a town of Egypt; on the left bank of the Nile, about 65 miles S. of Cairo. It has the residence of the governor, and manufactures of stuffs, linen and carpets. Pop. about 25,000. The province of Beni Suef, of which it is the capital, has a population of about 400,000.
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a former negro kingdom of west Africa, on the Bight of Benin, extending along the coast on both sides of the Benin riv river, W. of the lower Niger, and to some distance inland. The chief town is Benin (pop. about 10,000 ), situated on the river Benin, one of the mouths of the Niger. Cotton is indige nous, and woven into cloth by the women ,
BIGHT OF and sugar-cane, rice, yams, etc., are grown. The religion is fetichism, and human_sacrifices were formerly numer- There is a considerable trade in ous. palm oil. In February, 1897, the Benin country was included within the Niger Coast Protectorate, and a British Resident was installed in the chief town. It is now included in the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria.
BIGHT OF, part of the Gulf of Guinea, west Africa, which extends into the land between the mouth of the river Volta and that of the Nun.
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JUDAH PHILIP, an American lawyer, born in St. Croix, West Indies, Aug. 11, 1811; was of English parentage and of Jewish faith. He was educated at Yale College; admitted to the bar in New Orleans, in 1832; and elected to the United States Senate in 1852 and 1858. At the beginning of the Civil War, he resigned from the Senate and declared his adhesion to the State of Louisiana. In 1861 he accepted the office of Attorney-General in the Cabinet of Jefferson Davis, and afterward became successively Confederate Secretary of War and Secretary of State. After the war he went to London, England, was admitted to the bar in 1866 and became famous. He wrote a "Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property" (1868). He died in Paris, May 7, 1884.
the youngest son of Jacob and Rachel (Gen. xxxv: 16-18). Rachel died immediately after he was born, and with her last breath named him Ben-oni, the "son of my sorrow"; but Jacob called him Benjamin, "son of my right hand." The tribe of Benjamin, small at first, was almost exterminated exterminated in the days of the Judges, but afterward it greatly increased. On the revolt of the ten tribes, Benjamin adhered to the camp of Judah; and the two tribes ever afterward closely united. King Saul and Saul of Tarsus were both Benjamites.
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