These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bedford Cord, Bedford Level, Bedfordshire.
a fabric of either cotton, wool, or worsted, characterized by rounded cords running warpwise of the web. The corded effect is similar to that of corduroy, but is produced by heavy threads instead of a pile. The fabric is neither napped nor sheared. It is used for women's suits, and the worsted Bedford cord is in use for horsemen's trousers.
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an eastern district of England, comprising about 450,000 acres of what is called the Cam- "Fen" country, in the counties of bridge (including the whole of the Isle , Huntingdon of Ely), Suffolk, Norfolk , Northampton, and Lincoln. It was a mere waste of fen and marsh, until the time of Charles I., when, whe in 1634, a charter was granted to Fra Francis, Earl of Bedford, who undertook to drain the level, on condition of being allowed 95,000 acres of the reclaimed land. It now forms one of the most fertile and grainproductive districts in the kingdom.
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a county of England, in the midland group. It has an area of 466 square miles, the greater part of which is meadow and pasture land. The chief industries are stock raising, dairying, and agricultural pursuits. The industries include the manufacture of agricultural implements, lace, and straw goods. The chief towns are Bedford, the capital, Dunstable, and Luton. Pop. about 200,000.
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an island in New York harbor; ceded to the United States Government in 1800; the site of Fort Wood, erected in 1841 and mounted with 77 guns; now the location of Bartholdi's colossal statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World."
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(CHARLES American ornithologist and writer, born ) WILLIAM, an in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1877. He graduated from Columbia University in 1898 and in the following year took post-graduate courses in that institution. In 1902 he was appointed curator of ornithology at the New York Zoological Park and was director also of the British Guiana Zoological Station. He carried on many researches in British Guiana and contributed many articles to scientific and popular magazines. Among his published writings are "Two Bird Lovers in Mexico" (1905); "Our Search for a Wilderness" (1910); "Tropical Wild Life" (1917); "Monograph of the Peasants" (1918); etc. He was a frequent contributor to magazines.
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HENRY WARD, an American clergyman, born in Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 24, 1813. He was the son of Lyman Beecher; graduated from Amherst in 1834; studied in Lane Theological Seminary, near Cincinnati, O.; and began clerical duty as pastor of a church in Lawrenceburg, Ind., removing to Indianapolis in 1839. From 1847 until his death he was Pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn. He was one of the founders of the "Independent" and of the "Christian Union" (now the "Outlook"). He was also a prominent anti-slavery orator, as well as a famous lecturer. Among his numerous publications are "Star Papers; or Experiences of Art and Nature" (1855); "Freedom and War" (1863); "Eyes and Ears" (1864); and a novel, "Norwood, or Village Life in New England" (1867). His "Sermons" were edited by Dr. Lyman Abbott (2 vols., 1868). He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 8, 1887.
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EDWARD, an American clergyman and author, brother of Henry Ward Beecher, born in Easthampton, N. Y., Aug. 27, 1803. He graduated at Yale, studied theology at Andover, and New Haven; was pastor of various Congregational churches, especially the Park Street, Boston (1826-1830), and Salem Street Street , Boston (1844-1855). He was President of Illinois College, Jacksonville (1830-1844), and for some years Professor of Exegesis in the Chicago Theological Seminary. He wrote many religious books, including "The Conflict of Ages" (1853), and "The Concord of Age" (1860). He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 28, 1895.
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LYMAN, an American clergyman, born in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 2, 1775. His ancestors vere Puritans. He graduated from Yale in 1796, and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Easthampton, L. I.; then of a Congregational church in Litchfield, Conn., in 1810; and then of the Hanover Street Congregational Church in Boston, Mass. In 1832 he became President of Lane Theological Seminary, near Cincinnati, O. His influence throughout the country was very great, especially on the questions of temperance and of slavery. His sermon on the death of Alexander Hamilton, in 1804, with his "Remedy for Dueling" (1809), did much toward breaking up the practice of dueling in the United States. His collected "Sermons and Addresses" were published in 1852. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 10, 1863.
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MAX, an English author and artist, born in 1872. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford. His literary career began with contributions to "The Yellow Book." He attracted the attention of Lord Northcliffe and began writing for the latter's papers. Soon he contributed to most of the important English periodicals. He had remarkable talent as a caricaturist and he employed his pencil with great success in depicting the leading figures of English social and political life. His writings display great wit and powers of satire. They include "The Happy Hypocrite"; "The Poet's Corner"; "The Second Childhood of John Bull"; "Zuleika Dobson," a novel. :
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HENRY AUGUSTIN, an American educator, born in Buffalo in 1847. He graduated from Yale University in 1869, and in the following year he was admitted to the bar of New York. He joined the faculty of Yale University as tutor in 1871 and became assistant professor in 1864 and professor of English literature in 1880. He wrote "A Century of American Literature" (1878); "From Chaucer to Tennyson" (1890); "The Ways of Yale" (1895); "Points at Issue" (1904); etc. He was a frequent contributor to the leading magazines and wrote, in addition to those mentioned above, several volumes of verse. BEERSHEBA (now Bir-es-Seba, "the well of the oath"), the place where Abraham made a covenant with Abimelech, and in common speech, representative of the southernmost limit of Palestine, near which it is situated. It is now a mere heap of ruins. BEES" WAX, the wax of bees, used by them for constructing their cells. It is a secretion elaborated within the body of the animal from the saccharine matter of honey, and extruded in plates from beneath the rings of the abdomen.
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