These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bilbilis, Bile, Bilge.
an old Iberian city of Spain, 2 miles E. of the modern town of Calatayud, in the province of Saragossa, chiefly celebrated as the birthplace of the poet Martial, but also famed for its highly tempered steel blades.
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an animal fluid secreted by the liver. It is collected from venous and not from arterial blood. It is a viscid, transparent liquid of a very deep yellow or greenish color, darkening by exposure to the air. Its odor is disagreeable; its taste nauseous and bitter. It has an alkaline reaction. When the bile is elaborated in the liver, it is received from the secreting vessels by very minute tubes, which, uniting, form the hepatic duct. The bile is conveyed into the gall bladder by means of the cystic, or into the duodenum by the choledoch duct; that which makes its way into the former receptacle is called the cystic bile, and that which enters the latter the hepatic bile. Cystic bile is deeper in color and more viscid, pungent, and bitter than hepatic bile. One main use of bile is to convert chyme into chyle as one step in the process of digestion.
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a tract of north Africa, lying between the S. declivity of Atlas and the Great Desert, noted for the production of date-palms.
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the breadth of a ship's bottom, or that part of her floor which approaches to a horizontal direction, on which she would rest if aground. Bilge water, water which enters a ship and lies upon her bilge or bottom. Bilge ways, planks of timber placed under a vessel's bilge on the building slip to support her while launching. BILHARZIA (distomum or gynæcophorus hæmatobius), a parasitic flat worm in the fluke or trematode order, and belonging either to the same genus as the common liver fluke (D. hepaticum), or to one very closely related. In all other trematodes the sexes are united, the animals are hermaphrodite, but here a grooved canal, formed from two folds of skin on the ventral surface of the larger male, contains the female. Pairs thus united are found in the portal and other vessels in the abdominal region, both in men and monkeys. They are especially abundant in boys, and cause hæmaturia and other troubles. They occur from Egypt southward to the Cape. It is said that half of the Fellah and Copt population of Egypt suffer from this parasite. The embryos are ciliated, but the life history is not known.
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a concretion which forms in the gall bladder or bile ducts; gall stone. It is generally composed of a peculiar crystalline fatty matter which has been called cholesterine.
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a financial agent or money dealer, who discounts or negotiates bills of exchange , promissory notes, etc.
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Josh. See Shaw ; Henry W
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JOSH. See SHAW, HENRY WHEELER.
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a city of Montana, the the Yellowstone river and on the Northcounty-seat of Yellowstone co. It is on Burlington and Missouri railroads. It is ern Pacific, the Great Northern , and the the center of an important stock-raising district and has been for several years one of the largest inland wool markets of the United States. There are flour and lumber mills, beet sugar factories, foundries , brick yards, and other indusbuildings, including a public library, tries. The city ty has many handsome opera house, a city hall, and a court 15,100. house. Pop. (1910) 10,031 ; (1920) ican surgeon and librarian, born in Swit-
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JOHN SHAW, an Amerzerland co., Ind., April 12, 1839; was graduated at Miami University, in 1857, and the Ohio Medical College, in 1860; II-Cyc was demonstrator of anatomy in the last institution, in 1860-1861; entered the Union army as an Assistant Surgeon, in 1861; was promoted to Lieutenant- Colonel and Deputy Surgeon General, June 6, 1864; and was retired, Oct. 1, 1895. He was Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania, in 1893- 1896; and in the last year was appointed Director of the New York Public Library (Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations). After the close of the war Dr. Billings took charge of the library in the Surgeon- General's Office; reorganized the United States Marine Hospital Service; was Vice-President of the National Board of Health, in 1879-1882; and had charge of the compilation of vital and social statis. tics in the Eleventh Census (1890, et seq.). He was a member of a large number of American and foreign scientific societies, and his numerous publications include "Principles of Ventilation and Heating," "Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army" (14 vols.), and "The National Medical Dictionary" (2 vols.); "Some Library Problems of Tomorrow" (1902); "Physiological Aspect of the Library Question" (1903). He died in 1913.
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in English notation 1,000,- 000 times 1,000,000, and in England it is written 1,000,000,000,000, i. e., with twice as many ciphers as 1,000,000 has. In the United States and in France the notation is different, the word billion signifying only 1,000 millions, written 1,000,- 000,000.
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a Dutch East Indian island between Banca and the S. W. of Borneo, of an irregular, sub-quadrangular form, about 40 miles across. It produces iron and tin, and exports sago, cocoanuts, pepper, tortoise shell, trepang, edible birds' nests, etc. It was ceded to the British in 1812 by the Sultan of Palembang, but in 1824 it was given up to the Dutch. Pop. about 60,000.
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an alloy of copper and silver, in which the former predominates, used in some countries for coins of low value, the object being to avoid the bulkiness of pure copper coin.
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a town of the Sahara, central Africa, situated in 18° 40′ N. lat., 14° E. long., on an oasis called the Wady Kewar. It is the capital of the Tibu country, important as a resting-place of caravans crossing the desert, but is a poor place.
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a city in Harrison co., Miss., on Biloxi Bay, opening into the Gulf of Mexico, and the Louisville and Nashville railroad; 80 miles N. E. of New Orleans. It is principally engaged in the canning of oysters, fish, fruit and vegetables, and has also considerable manufacturing and shipping interests. Biloxi is the site of the first settlement made near the Mississippi by white men, under the direction of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, in 1699. The city has electric lights, artesian waterworks, over 25 miles of shell roads, and an iron lighthouse with a light 62 above the sea level; and is a popufeet lar summer and winter resort. Pop. (1910) 7,988; (1920) 10,937.
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