These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Belvidere, Bemidji, Bemis Heights.
a city of Illinois, the It is on the county-seat of Boone co. Kiswaukee river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. It is the center of a fertile agricultural region and has manufactures of sewing machines, safety razors, bicycles, automobiles, boilers, etc. There is a public library, a park, an opera house, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 7,253; (1920) 7,804.
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a city of Minnesota, the It is on the county-seat of Beltrami co. Great Northern, and Minneapolis, Red Lake, and Manitoba, and other railroads. On account of its beautiful situation on a lake, it is a popular summer resort. It has a State normal school, Federal ral building, public library, and other public lic buildings. Lumbering is the chief in- quette. dustry. Pop. (1910) 5,099; (1920) 7,086.
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a village in Saratoga co., N. Y., on the Hudson river, famous as the scene of the first battle of of Stillwater, Sept. 19, 1777.
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a Gaelic word meaning mountain. Ben-Ledi, mentioned by Scott in his Lady of the Lake, means the same as Mount Ledi. There are a number of Bens in the Scottish Highlands. Ben-Lawers on Loch Tay is 3,984 feet in height. Ben-More in Perthshire is 3,083 feet in height. Scott speaks of Ben-An. Ben-Nevis in Inverness-shire is 4,406 feet high. It is the highest elevation in Great Britain . Its summit commands a magnificent view of the north of Scotland from sea to sea. Ben-Lomond, on the eastern coast of Loch Lomond, is the most celebrated mountain in Scotland. It rises to an elevation of 3,192 feet above the sea level. Its summit, four miles from the boat landing at Rowardennan, commands a panoramic view of southern Scotland. Its southeastern side is a sheer precipice 3,000 feet in height. The slopes of Ben-Lomond present a great variety of vegetation and have long been a botanical collecting ground for the students of the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. 2026 Editor's Note: Ben Nevis , given here as 4,406 feet, is now surveyed at 4,413 — and remains the highest point in the British Isles, climbed by well over 100,000 people a year. Its summit holds the ruins of a Victorian weather observatory, and the mountain's north face is one of Britain's great winter-climbing grounds. (Ed: BR 2026-07-06)
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a song written by Thomas Dunn English in 1842. The poem was written at the request of N. P. Willis. Set to the music of an old German air by Nelson Kneass, it became popular both in England and America. It had, however, been partially forgotten when its effective use in Du Maurier's Trilby called it again into favor. Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown? In the old churchyard, in the valley, Ben Bolt, In a corner obscure and alone; They have fitted a slab of the granite so gray, And sweet Alice lies under the stone.
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a mountain in Perth shire, Scotland, flanking the N. W. shore of Loch Tay. It is rich in Alpine plants, and there is a magnificent view from its summit, which is, with the cairn at the top, 4,004 feet high.
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a mountain (2,875 feet) of Perthshire, Scotland, 4½ miles W. by N. of Callander. A jubilee cairn was erected on it in 1887.
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the most lofty mountain in Great Britain, in Invernessshire, immediately E. of Fort William and the opening of the Caledonian canal, at the S. W. extermity of Glenmore. It rises to the height of 4,406 feet, and in clear weather yields a most extensive prospect. observatory was established on its An summit in May, 1881, by the Scottish Meteorological Society.
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the seed of moringa pterygosperma, the ben tree of India, yielding the valuable oil of ben.
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JOHN, an English admiral, born in 1650 at Shrewsbury. His skill and valor, displayed during an action with a Barbary pirate at the head of a superior force, gained him a captaincy Rear-Admiral in in the Royal navy. 1700, he had his leg carried away by a chain-shot during an engagement with the French Commodore, Du Casse, in 1702, and he died in Jamaica, in 1702.
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in law, the seat which judges or magistrates occupy officially in a court of justice; also the judges or magistrates sitting together to try cases. The Court of King's bench (named, when a female sovereign is on the throne, the Court of Queen's Bench) formerly was one of the three chief courts in England. The judicial business of the Great Council of the nation coming to be transacted in the King's palace, the court which attended to it was called that of the Aula Regis, viz., of the King's palace. It gradually separated into threethe Courts of King's Bench, of Common Pleas, and of the Exchequer. From its very outset it was a court of record. Its separate existence was abolished by the judicature act of 1873, and now it is the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Judicature. In engineering, a bench is a horizontal ledge on the side of a cutting; an embankment or parapet, a berme, a ban-
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a warrant issued by the court before which an indictment has been found to arrest the accused, that he may appear and find bail for his appearance at the trial. It is used extensively in the United States to bring into court persons who have neglected to obey an order of court, such as delinquent jurymen.
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A moulder, whose work being of a light description, can perform all the operations required for producing it in small wooden or iron flasks, standing up to his work at a suitably provided bench. See SNAPMOULDER.
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A short wooden rammer used by the bench-moulder. It has just space sufficient between the butt and peen ends for the hand to grasp it. It is common for the moulder to use one in each hand.
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or BENKULEN, a seaport on the W. coast of Sumatra Island, Dutch East Indies; capital of a residency of the same name. It was founded in 1685 by the English and ceded to the Dutch in 1824. Area of residency, 9,433 square miles; pop. of residency about 225,000; of town about 12,000.
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