These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Cretinism, Creusa, Creuse.
a kind of idiocy prevalent in various Alpine valleys. In most, if not in all cases, the afflicted person has an ugly swelling called a goître on the neck. The mental deficiency varies in degree, being in some cases so great that the unhappy person thus affected is unable to do anything for himself, and cannot even articulate words; in others there are some faint glimmerings of mind.
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cre-u'sa. See Aeneas
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a river and a department in the center of France. The river rises near Féniers, on the N. slope of Mont Odouze, and flows 146 miles N. W. till it falls into the Vienne, a tributary of the Loire, 12 miles N. of Chatellerault. The department has an area of 2,163 square miles. Pop. about 266,000. the French department of Saone-et-Loire,
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LE (krez-ō'), a town in 236 miles S. S. E. of Paris. Situated in the midst of a district rich in coal and iron, it owes its importance to the establishment here in 1837 of the great ironworks of Schneider & Co., which rank among the largest in the world. In normal times over 15,000 men are em- War the number of workers was more ployed. During the World than doubled.
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the national ball game of England. The term is probably related to "crooked," in reference to the shape of the crooked hockey-like bats with which the game was formerly played. The regular match game is played by two elevens. At one time a game of the village green and of the school, cricket has become as professional as baseball in this country. Games are played by clubs in circuits, with immense crowds in attendance. As compared with baseball the game is played with two wickets instead of four bases. The pitcher is called a bowler. The bowler aims to knock down the wicket behind the batsman. A run is made from a wicket to the bowler's crease in front of the other wicket. Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown at Rugby gives a stirring picture of a cricket match. American boys consider the game a trifle tame in comparison with baseball. See Baseball
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the name given to any insects of the genus Acheta, or the tribe Achetina. The antennæ are long and tapering, the wings are laid flat upon the back. When at rest they are folded, but are so long that they project behind the wing-cases. The tail ends in two bristles, besides which the female has an ovipositor. The best known species are the following: The common cricket or house cricket. Its appropriate habitat is the kitchen hearth, where it makes its presence known by its song. The field cricket is found in burrows among stones and sand. The mole cricket has curious mole-like hands or hand-like organs, admirably adapted for digging.
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an act or an omission punishable by law. An offense, however repugnant to a sense of right and wrong, is not a crime until the law makes it so. In the full legal sense a crime is any offense against the law; but violations of local ordinances, subject to fines only, are not regarded usually as crimes. A capital crime is a crime punishable by death. Murder, piracy, and treason are the capital crimes of most governments. Crimes punishable by death and those punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary are ordinarily called felonies. Offenses below the rank of felonies are known as misdemeanors. High crimes are felonies; petty crimes are misdemeanors. See Capital Punishment ; Penitentiary ; Treason ; Arson
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a term denoting the branch of anthropology which deals with crime and criminals, sometimes called "criminal anthropology." The science is largely based on the researches and views of Dr. Cesare Lombroso, born of Jewish stock at Verona in 1836, who, after serving as an army surgeon and ingly concluded at Paris on April 27, holding posts as professor of mental diseases at Pavia and director of a lunatic asylum at Pesaro, was appointed Professor of Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry at Turin. His great work is "The Delinquent Man" (1875), in which his theory of criminology is expounded. The criminologist holds that the congenital habitual criminal is marked by conspicuous physical and mental defects. Arrested cranial development and deformity, heavy jaws, ugly features, and many other minor abnormal physical characters, are associated with moral insensibility, low intelligence, vanity, and irregular emotional peculiarities verging on insanity. The occasional criminal who yields to severe or special temptations is treated as belonging to a wholly distinct category. The acceptance these anthropological views would naturally lead to somewhat sweeping changes in the treatment of criminals, with a view to their reclamation somewhat on the lines of the treatment in use at Elmira. See also BERTILLON SYSTEM. ce of
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crin'o-lin, a stiff lining fabric composed of horsehair and linen. The name is derived from the Latin words crines, hair, and linum, flax. The so-called crinoline of the present day is made frequently of coarse cotton yarns. In finishing, the fabric is heavily sized to take the place of the natural stiffness of the horsehair fabric. Crinoline was first used about the middle of the nineteenth century to stiffen women's skirts. When the fashion of expanding the skirts grew to the exaggeration that demanded hoops or hoop skirts, the word crinoline was retained in the phrase "wearing crinolines," which implied the wearing of hoops.
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a town in Teller co. , Col.; on the Florence and Cripple Creek and the Midland Terminal railroads, 50 miles W. of Colorado Springs. It is the trade center for the Cripple Creek mining district, which was one of the richest gold -mining districts. It has several cyanide mills, smelters and other mining industries , a National bank, and daily and weekly newspapers. It was founded in 1890 , and was nearly destroyed by fire in 1896. Pop. (1910) 6,206; (1920) 2,325.
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in Hindu mythology, an incarnate deity of perfect beauty. King Canza, being informed that a child of the family of Devaci would overturn his throne, gave orders to destroy all the male infants that were born. When Crishna was born, his nurse attempted to poison him, but failed, and the mother and child fled , and were taken care of by a shepherd. As he grew up, his beauty was so divine that all the princesses of Hindustan fell in love with him, and even to the present hour he is the Apollo of India and the "idol of women."
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