These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bleriot, Blesbok, Blessed Thistle.
Louis, the first person to cross the English Channel by means of an aero-plane. See Airship 2026 Editor's Note: The flight this single line records — 25 July 1909, Calais to Dover in 37 minutes — changed strategy as much as transport. British newspapers grasped it at once: as one put it, Britain was no longer an island . Within five years aircraft were crossing the Channel armed. (Ed: BR 2026-06-15)
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an antelope of south Africa with a white marked face, a general purplish chocolate color, and a saddle of a bluish color; found in great numbers in the late Boer republics in south Africa and much hunted.
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the English name of several thistles. (1) Cnicus benedictus, formerly called Centaurea benedicta. Both the English name and the Latin specific appellation refer to the fact that formerly it was believed to destroy intestinal worms, to cure fevers, the plague, and even the most stubborn ulcers and cancers, an opinion for which there seems to have been no foundation whatever. (2) Carduus benedictus ["United States Pharmacopæia"], the blessed thistle of modern medicine, in which it has an honorable place as a tonic and diaphoretic. (3) Carthamus lanatus is also in some localities called the blessed thistle.
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MARGARET, COUNTESS OF, an Irish author, born near Clonmel, Sept. 1, 1789. She was the daughter of Edmund Power, an improvident man of good family, and at the age of 15 was married to a Captain Farmer, who died in 1817; and a few months after his death his widow married Charles John Gardiner, Earl of Blessington. In 1822 the they went abroad, residing there till the Earl's death in 1829, when Lady Blessington took up her abode in Gore House, Kensington. Her residence became the fashionable resort for all the celebrities of the time. She contributed to the "New Monthly Magazine," "Conversations with Lord Byron"; wrote numerous novels, including "The Belle of a Season," and the "Victims of Society"; and acted as editor for several years of "Heath's Book of Beauty," the "Keepsake," and the "Gems of Beauty." She died in Paris, June 4, 1849.
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STEEN STEENSEN (blich'er), a Danish poet and novelist, born in Viborg in 1782. His first work was a translation of "Ossian" (2 vols., 1807-1809), and his first original poems appeared in 1814, but attracted little notice. He quickly won a national reputation with his novels, and in 1842 appeared his masterpiece of novel writing, "The Knitting Room," a collection of short stories in the Jutland dialect. He died in 1848. BLIGHIA (named after Captain Bligh), a genus of plants belonging to the order sapindaceæ (soapworts). B. sapida is the ash leaved akee tree. Blighia is now considered only a synonym of cupania.
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a diseased state of cultivated plants, especially cereals and grasses.
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the Indian name of the fruit of averrhoa bilimbi, a small tree, family oxalidaceæ, called also cucumber tree, the fruit being acid and resembling a small cucumber. The carambola belongs to the same genus.
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KARL (blint), a German author and revolutionist, born at Mannheim, Sept. 4, 1826; studied law at Heidelberg. For his share in the risings in south Germany in 1848 he was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, but while being taken to Mainz was liberated by the populace. After the reaction had again triumphed over the Continent, Blind found an asylum first in Belgium, and afterward in England, where he took an active part in Democratic propaganda. An enthusiastic advocate of German freedom and unity, he promoted the Schleswig-Holstein movement. As an author he has written on politics, history, and mythology, including lives of Ledru- Rollin, Deák, Freiligrath. He died May 31, 1907.
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MATHILDE, a German-English poet, born in Mannheim, March 21, 1847; went to England in 1849, and won fame by her writings, "The Prophecy of St. Oran, and Other Poems" (London, 1881); "Life of George Eliot" (1883); "Madame Roland" (1886); "The Heather on Fire," a tale (1886); "Ascent of Man" (1889); "Dramas in Miniature" (1892); "Songs and Sonnets" (1893), and "Birds of Passage" (1895). She died in London, Nov. 26, 1896.
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the name of several species of fish, family amblyopsidæ, inhabiting the American cave streams. The They are all small, the largest not exceeding five inches. In the typical species (amblyopsis spelæus) of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, the eyes are reduced to a useless rudiment hidden under the skin, the body is translucent and colorless, and the head and body are covered with numerous rows of sensitive papillæ, which form very delicate organs of touch. BLIND WORM (so called from the small size of its eyes), the English name of a reptile, the anguis fragilis, formerly considered a serpent, but now classed with the most aberrant of the lizards. It is more commonly called the slow worm. It is not venomous. It feeds on slugs.
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The Afritans of the Shari River in Central America were wont to blindfold a corpse before burying it, to prevent it from returning to haunt the survivors.
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CORNELIUS NEWTON, an American merchant, born in Fall River, Mass., Jan. 26, 1833; was educated in New Orleans; engaged first in commission business, in Boston, and became head of the dry goods commission house of Bliss, Fabyan & Co., New York City, in 1881. He was a member of the Pan- American Conference; Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee in 1877-1878; and Treasurer of the National Republican Committee in 1892 and 1896; declined to be a candidate for Governor of New York in 1884 and 1891; and was Secretary of the Interior Department in President McKinley's cabinet in 1897-1898. Treasurer National Republican Committec, 1900 and 1904. He died in 1911.
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DANIEL, an American missionary, born in Georgia, Vt., Aug. 17, 1823; was graduated at Amherst College in 1852, and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1855; was ordained a Congregational minister, Oct. 17, 1855; engaged in missionary work in Syria in 1855-1862; and in 1866 became President of the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut. His publications include "Mental Philosophy" and "National Philosophy," both in Arabic. President Syrian Protestant College (1902). Ho died in Beirut, Syria, 1916.
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