These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Blue Pill, Blue Point, Blue Ridge.
a pill made by rubbing two ounces of mernorthward, also called the skip mack-cury with three of confection of roses till the globules disappear, and then adding one of licorice root to form a mass. It is given when the secretion of the liver is defective as a purgative.
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the S. extremity of Patchogue Bay, Long Island, N. Y., which lends its name to the well known oysters-blue points.
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the most easterly range of the Allegheny Mountains. It forms the continuation of the chain called South Mountain in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It is known as the Blue Ridge till it crosses the James river; thence to North Carolina as Allegheny Mountains; and in North Carolina again as Blue Ridge.
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or BLUE TITMOUSE, a bird, called also blue tomtit, blue cap, blue bonnet, hick mall, billy biter and ox eye. It is the parus cæruleus of Linnæus. It has the upper part of the head light blue, encircled with white; a band around the neck and the spaces before and behind the eye of a duller blue; back light, yellowish green, the lower parts pale, grayish yellow; the middle of the breast dull blue. The male is more brightly colored than the female. It builds its nest in the chink of a wall, under eaves or thatch, or in a hole of a tree, and lays from 6 to 8 eggs of a reddish color.
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or Bluecoat School. See Christ'S Hospital
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a city of West Virginia in Mercer co. It is on the Norfolk and Western railroad. It is an important industrial center and has railway shops, flour mills, and several wholesale houses. The city is the distributing center for the Pocahontas coal fields. It is the seat of the State Normal School and has two sanitariums, an opera house, a Federal building, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 11,188; (1920) 15,282.
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town, seaport, and capital of the former Mosquito Indian Reservation; now the department of Zelaya, Nicaragua, on the Atlantic coast near the mouth of the Bluefields river, and 165 miles E. of Managua. The reservation lies along the Atlantic coast extending S. almost to Greytown. For many years Great Britain maintained a protectorate over the reservation, which at one time belonged to Honduras. In 1893, No , when the war broke out between Nicaragua and Honduras, the United States Government sent a war vessel to Bluefields to protect the large American commercial interests there. Early in the following year Nicaragua took possession of the town and proclaimed martial law. Chief Clarence protested to Great Britain against the usurpation of his rights and British war vessels were sent to the reservation and re-established Clarence in authority. During 1893-1896 the reservation and its capital were the subjects of much controversy between the United States, Great Britain, Nicaragua, and the natives of the reservation. Pop. about 5,000.
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A soft blue stone, sometimes used for reducing brass and gold before polishing. It must not be confounded with blue vitriol, sometimes called bluestone.
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or Harry, a nickname given to Henry VIII of England. See Henry Viii
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a city of Indiana, the county-seat of Wells co. It is on the Lake Erie and Western, the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City, and other railroads, and on the Wabash river. It is the center of an important agricultural region and has a large trade in grain. Its industries include foundry and machine shops, a piano factory, manufactures of barrels, clay pottery, tile, etc. Pop. (1910) 4,987; (1920) 5,391.
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The changing of the color of steel by heat.
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ROBERT, a German Liberal leader, born in very humble circumstances at Cologne, Nov. 10, 1807; was secretary and treasurer of a theater at Cologne, and subsequently at Leipsic, until 1847, when he established himself as bookseller and publisher. His leisure was devoted to literature and politics, and in 1840 he founded at Leipsic the Schiller Society, which celebrated the poet's anniversary, as a festival in honor of political liberty. When the revolutionary movement broke out in 1848, Blum was one of its most energetic leaders. He was elected one of the Vice- Presidents of the Provisional Parliament at Frankfort, and as such_ruled that turbulent assembly. In the National Assembly he became leader of the left, and was one of the bearers of a congratulatory address from the Left to the people of Vienna, when they rose in October. At Vienna he joined the insurgents, was arrested, and was shot on Nov. 9, 1848. BLÜMLISALP (blüm'les-älp), a group of mountain peaks in the Bernese Oberland in the S. of Switzerland, S. W. of the Jungfrau. The highest peak, the Blümlisalphorn, is about 12,000 feet in altitude.
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WILFRID SCAWEN, an Irish poet, born at Crabbet Park, Sussex, in 1840. He was attaché of legation at The Hague, Athens, Madrid, Buenos Ayres, and elsewhere. He supported Arabi' Pasha in the revolt in Egypt in 1881; and was imprisoned in 1888 for his insurrectionary actions in Ireland. He is author of "Sonnets and Songs by Proteus" (London, 1875); "The Love Sonnets of Proteus" (1881; new ed. 1885); "Ideas About India" (1885); and "Esther:" Young Man's Tragedy" a (1895). "Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt" (1907); "Gordon at Khartoum" (1911); "The Land War in Ireland" (1912); "Complete Works" (1914).
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JOHANN KASPAR (blöntsh'lē), a Swiss jurist and statesman, born in Zurich, March 7, 1808; became professor in the newly founded university in that city in 1833. He took an active part in the political struggles that divided his country. In 1839 he led the Conservatives. He was a Councilor of State, and became a member of the Government and of the Federal Directory, and afterward worked for the formation of a moderate Liberal Conservative party in Switzerland. In 1848 he went to Munich as Professor of Civil and International Law. There he published his "Allgemeines Staatsrecht" (5th ed., 1876), on which his reputation as a jurisconsult chiefly rest. In 1861 he removed to Heidelberg University, and became a Privy Councilor of Baden, actively forwarding all Liberal measures in the state. He acted several times as president of the Protestantenverein, and died after delivering a speech at the synod of Baden at Karlsruhe, Oct. 21, 1881. He was the author of valuable histories of Zurich and of the Swiss Confederation, and of a number of works on law.
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