Col
in geography, a depression or pass in a mountain-range. In those parts of the Alps where the French language prevails, the passes are usually named Cols-as the Col de Balme, the Col du Géant, etc.
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These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Col Di Lana, Colberg, Colbert.
Col Di Lana
a pass in the Alps of Trentino captured in a forward attack on the Austrians by the Italians, on April 17, 1916. It was retaken by the Austrians during the drive down the Trentino in May, which was not stopped by the Italians till the middle of the following month at the northern edge of the Val d'Assa and the Asiago basin.
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Colberg
or KOLBERG, a seaport and watering-place of Prussia, in the province of Pomerania, on the Persante, near its mouth in the Baltic, 170 miles N. N. E. of Berlin. The principal church dates from 1316. In 1102 Duke Boleslaus of Poland vainly besieged Colberg, which endured long sieges in the Thirty Years' War, in the Seven Years' War, and again in 1807, when it was most gallantly defended against the French. Colberg has manufactures of woolens, agricultural machines, and spirits; and Pop. salmon and lamprey fisheries. about 25,000.
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Colbert
JEAN BAPTISTE (kōlbār'), Marquis de Seignelay, a French statesman; born in Rheims in 1619. He served his apprenticeship in a woolendraper's shop, and afterward went to Paris, where his talents introduced him to Mazarin, who soon employed him in most important affairs of state. On his death-bed, Mazarin warmly recommended Colbert to Louis XIV., who, in 1661, appointed him controller-general of finances. Colbert's administration became a blessing to France. Order was restored in the finances, the revenue increased. He organized anew the colonies in Canada, Martinique, and St. Domingo, and founded others at Cayenne and Madagascar. Made minister of marine in 1669, he found France with a few old rotten ships; three years later, she had a fleet of 60 ships of the line and 40 Colbert improved the civil frigates. code, introduced a marine code of laws, as well as the so-called Code Noir for the colonies. He did not neglect the arts and sciences. The Academies of Inscriptions, Science, and Architecture were founded by him. In short, Colbert was the patron of industry, commerce, art, science, and literature the founder of a new epoch in France. He died in 1683. His son, also named Jean Baptiste, born in 1651, succeeded his father as minister of marine, and minister of the kin king's household. By his capacity and energy, he raised the French navy to its highest power, and in 1684 he led in person the maritime expedition against Genoa. He died in 1690.
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Colbert, Jean Baptiste
kol-ber, Jean Baptiste (1619-1683), a noted French financier. Under Louis XIV , he was for twenty-two years minister of finance. He found an empty treasury and the public revenues spent two years in advance, with fraud, disorder, and theft rampant. He reduced the rate of interest on the public debt, cut the rate of taxation in two, weeded out incapacity and dishonesty, increased the public income by $5,000,000, paid the enormous expense of two years of foreign war, and filled up the public treasury; yet he died out of favor with the king and his spendthrift court. During his management of the public purse, Colbert was liberal and enlightened in the encouragement of the fine arts and the sciences. At his suggestion the Academies of Sciences, of Architecture, and of Painting, the Royal Library, and the Garden of Plants, were given large grants of money. See Neckar
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Colburn
ZERAH, an American mathematical prodigy; born in Cabot, Vt., Sept. 1, 1804; displayed such remarkable powers of calculation that in 1810 his father left Vermont to exhibit him. At this period he answered correctly such questions as "How many hours in 1811 years?" in 20 seconds. He was shown in Great Britain, and for some time in Paris; from 1816 to 1819 he studied at Westminster School at the expense of the Earl of Bristol. His father died in 1824, and he returned to the United States, where he served as a Methodist preacher for nine years, and from 1835 was Professor of Languages in Norwich University, Vt., where he died March 2, 1840. His remarkable faculty disappeared as he grew to manhood. an Amer-
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Colby
BAINBRIDGE, established a law partnership with ex-President Wilson, March, 1921.
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Colby (BAINBRIDGE ican public)
BAINBRIDGE, ican public official. cial. Born at St. Louis in 1869, he graduated from Williams College in 1890. After fter having completed a law course at Columbia University he took up the practice of law in New York City. He was instrumental in bringing about reforms in the affairs of the Equi- BAINBRIDGE COLBY table Life Assurance Co. In politics he was actively associated with Roosevelt in the founding of the Progressive party in 1912, but in 1916 supported Wilson for the presidency. President Wilson appointed him a member of the United States Shipping Board, and later made him a member of the American mission pain and inflammation in cases of gout to the inter-allied conference in Paris in November of 1917. When Secretary Lansing resigned in the spring of 1920 the President appointed Colby Secretary of State. During his term many important documents laying down the principles of American diplomacy with relation to the peace settlement with Germany and Russia were issued by his department.
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Colby (FRANK MOORE an American editor)
FRANK MOORE, an American editor and essayist; born in Washington, D. C., in 1865. He graduated from Columbia University in 1888. For several years he was acting professor of history at Amherst College and was lecturer in history in Columbia University from 1891 to 1895. From 1895 to 1900 he was professor of economics at the New York University. He was editor of the "New International Encyclopedia" in 1898 and of the "New International Year Book," 1898-1902. He contributed essays and reviews to many periodicals. His published writings include: "Outlines of General History" (1900); "Imaginary Obligations" (1904); "Constrained Attitudes" (1910).
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Colby College
a coeducational institution in Waterville, Me.; founded in 1818, under the auspices of the Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 25; students, 360. President, A. J. Roberts.
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