These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Columbide, Columbine, Columbine.
a family of birds, the typical one of the sub-order columbacei. The bill is moderate and compressed, having at its base a soft skin in which the nostrils are placed. The feet have three divided toes before and one behind,
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. See Harlequin
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a popular name for Aquilegia vulgaris or other species of the genus Aquilegia. The common columbine has drooping purplish-blue flowers with five flat sepals; five petals, with long spurs, often curved; five follicles, the root-leaves twice or thrice ternate, the others singly ternate. The word is also applied to a female character in the Italian comedy, the "Daughter of Cassandra," and the mythic Harlequin, and to the female dancer in the English pantomime. COLUMBITE. A mineral containing iron, columbium, and usually manganese and tantalum. Its formula is commonly given as (Fe, Mn) (Cb, Ta)2O3. Occurs as brown or black in color; specific gravity opaque orthorhombic crystals, dark about 6.0. The mineral is found in Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, North Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, and in Norway, and is of interest because the element Columbium was first discovered in it by C. Hatchett, in 1802, the name being given because the mineral in which the metal was found came from America.
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a city of Nebraska, the county-seat of Platte co. It is on the Union Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroads, and on the Loup river. There are flour mills, foundry, shoe factory, and other industries. The city has a hospital and a public library. Pop. (1910) 5,014; (1920) 5,410.
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a city and county-seat of Muscogee co., Ga.; on the E. bank of the Chattahoochee rive river; on the boundary line between Georgia and Alabama; and on the Central of Georgia, the Southern, and the Seaboard Air Line; 100 miles S. W. of Macon. It is connected by steamship lines with Appalachicola, Fla. On account of its large and important manufacturing interests it is known as the "Lowell of the South." The city is regularly laid out with an excellent street system. Columbus is one of the leading cotton manufacturing cities in the South. It uses over 100,000 bales of cotton for manufactures annually. In addition there are manufactories of cotton-seed oil, barrels, agricultural machinery, fertilizers, etc. The city has several National banks, newspapers, public library, conservatory of music, and other public institutions. The noteworthy buildings are the Court House, Georgia Home Insurance Co., Bank of Columbus, Garrard Building, and numerous churches. Four handsome bridges connect Columbus with its suburbs in Alabama. History. -Columbus was laid out in 1828; incorporated as a city in 1829; and captured by the Federal forces, April 16, 1865. Pop. (1910) 20,554; (1920) 31,125.
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a city, and county-seat of Lowndes co., Miss.; on the Mobile and Ohio and Southern railroads and the Tombigbee river; 150 miles S. E. of Memphis and the same distance N. E. of Jackson. It is the farming trade center of the country; it is the seat of the State Industrial Institute and College, Franklin Academy, and the State bank, Court House, several weekly and semiweekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 8,988; (1920) 10,501.
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a city of Indiana, the county-seat of Bartholomew co. It is on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, tance. Area, 16½ square miles. Chicago and St. Louis railroads, and on the White river. It is an important manufacturing city. Among the industries are the making of tanned leather, threshing and saw-mill machinery, gasoline engines, flour, flour, furniture, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,813; (1920) 8,990.
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in military tactics, a formation of troops drawn up in deep files, showing a small front; as distinguished from line, which is extended in front and thin in depth. They are said to be close or open, according to the intervals between the battalions, regiments, etc., of which they are composed. Sometimes the name column is given to a small army, especially when actively engaged.
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a pillar, shaft, or solid body of considerably greater length than thickness, standing upright, and generally serving to support some superincumbent mass. It is the principal part in the ancient orders of architecture. There are five orders of architecture, each having CORINTHIAN COLUMN respects differs from the Roman Doric, which is an imitation of it. It was short, powerful, and massive, and very simple in character. Its height was between seven and eight diameters. The Ionic column was distinguished by its volutes, and was nine diameters in height. The Co- 709 TUSCAN COLUMN rinthian, which was 10 diameters high, was adorned with leaves, etc., and was noted for its lightness and richness of decoration. Of these the Doric and Ionic were the earliest and oftenest employed in Greek architecture. The Corinthian was preferred by the Romans. The parts of a column are the plinth, the torus, the shaft, the astragal, the neck, the ovato, the abacus. Above these rose the entablature. ع DORIC COLUMN
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one of the two imaginary great circles of the celestial sphere intersecting the poles of the world; one passing through the equinoctial points of IONIC COLUMN Aries and Libra and the pole of the equator; and the other through the solstitial points of Cancer and Capricorn, and the poles both of the ecliptic and equator. For this reason the first is called the equinoctial, and the second the solstitial Colure. The name is supposed to have been given to them because a portion of these circles is always concealed from view under the horizon.
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SIR SIDNEY, an English critic; born in Norwood, England, June 18, 1845. He became professor of fine arts at Cambridge in 1873. He was keeper of prints and drawings, British Museum (1884-1912). He wrote "Life of Landor" (1881); "Keats" (1887); "Early History of English Engraving" (1905); and edited Edinburgh edition of Stevenson's works; "John Keats, His Life and Poetry" (1917). He was knighted in 1911.
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GEORGE PAR- TRIDGE, an American naval officer, born in Norwich, Vt., in 1847. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1869. Prior to that time he had served in the navy in the Civil War. He was commissioned ensign in 1870 and rose through the various grades, becoming captain in 1905. He was retired at his own request as rear-admiral in 1907, after 45 years of service. He was advanced five numbers in grade for conspicuous service at the battle of Manila Bay. He filled nearly every capacity in the naval service, both on shore and at sea.
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