These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Cubit, Cubitt, Cuckoo.
a Roman measure of length supposed to equal the length of the fore-arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was 12 Roman feet (17/½ English inches). The English cubit is 1½ English feet. The cubit of Scripture is generally estimated at 22 inches.
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SIR WILLIAM, an English engineer; born in Dilham, Norfolk, in 1785, was a miller, cabinet-maker, and millwright until 1812, when he became a chief-engineer. In 1823 he joined the Institution of Civil Engineers. The im- German minister was given his pass-provement of the Severn and of Boulogne port, the Bute docks at Cardiff, and the water-works for Berlin are among his works. He also invented the treadmill, and constructed the South- Eastern railway; and for his services in connection with the erection of the Great Exhibition buildings he was knighted in 1851. He died Oct. 13, 1861.
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a genus of common bush-birds in Africa, India, and through the Malayan Archipelago to Australia. The hindtoe is prolonged into a very long spur. Their call is loud and in some cases apparently ventriloquistic.
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a well known bird. The head and upper parts are of dark ash, the throat, the under side of the neck and fore part of the breast of a paler ash or brown, the rest of the breast and the belly white, with transverse undulating black lines, the quill feathers with white on their inner webs, the tail ash, white, and black commingled, feet yellow; length, 14 inches. The cuckoo forces foster-parentage on other species of birds. CUCKOO FLOWER or LADY'S- SMOCK (Cardamina pratensis), a common and pretty meadow plant, order Cruciferæ, with pale lilac or white flowers. C. pratensis is abundant in Great Britan and is found in swamps N. of New York.
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or Ruminants, an order of quadrupeds. All ruminants have a singular faculty of chewing the cud. They gather their food, chiefly grasses, herbs, or twigs, hastily. Ruminants have four stomachs. In swallowing they are able to admit food into either stomach at will. The first stomach is called the paunch. It receives vegetable matter, bruised at a first chewing. From the paunch food passes into the second or honeycomb bag, a small globular stomach, which seizes the food, moistens it, and presses it into little pellets or cuds. After gathering food for a time, the animal lies down or stands at rest, and raises these cuds into its mouth, and chews them in great apparent contentment. Food thus re-chewed descends into the third stomach, from which it proceeds to the fourth stomach, where true digestion takes place. In the young ruminants the fourth stomach is the largest of the four, so long as they continue to live on milk. The paunch is developed by pasturage. By chewing the cud an ox extracts about ten or twelve per cent more food from dry hay than a horse does. Cud chewers are divided into four families. 1. The ox family. a. Domestic cattle. b. The goat kind. c. The sheep kind. d. The antelopes. 2. The giraffe family. 3. The deer family. 4. The camel family.
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or KUDALUR, an important town in South Arcot, Madras, India, on the Gadelain and Pounaiyar rivers, about 125 miles S. of Madras. The river admits vessels to within about a mile from the town's limits and the harbor is the largest in South Arcot. The industries are cotton and carpet, sugar, paper, and oil. There is a fort and temple, and the environs are picturesque. Pop. about 60,000.
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or KADAPA, a district Madras. The district, of which the area and town of Hindustan, presidency of is 8,745 square miles, is traversed N. to S. by the Eastern Ghauts, and watered by the Pennar and its affluents. The forests contain much valuable timber, the minerals include iron ore, lead, copand per, diamonds, etc. Agriculture is in a flourishing condition, grain, cotton, and indigo being largely grown. Pop. about 1,355,000. The town lies on a small river of same name, an affluent of the Pennar, 140 miles N. W. Madras. It exports indigo and cotton.
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a city of Ecuador, on the Rio Paute, 190 miles S. S. W. of Quito; on a fertile tableland, 8,469 feet above the sea, and enjoys a perpetual spring, with a mean temperature of 58° F. Its streets are wide, and several canals intersect the town; the principal buildings are the cathedral and high school. There is some trade in cheese and grain, and manufactures of hats, woolens, earthenware, and candied fruits. Pop. about 30,000. CUERNAVÁCA (kwār-nä-vä'kä), capital of the Mexican State Morelos, lies in a lovely and fruitful valley, about 40 miles S. of Mexico City. It has a church built by Cortes, an agricultural school, and refineries of sugar and brandy. Pop. 13,000. Near by is the famed teocalli of Xochicalco, with five terraces.
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pertaining to Cufa, a town founded by Omar I., in A. D. 637, the ruins of the Parthian capital Ctesiphon having been largely used for the purpose; also relating to inscriptions and coins bearing the kinji or Cufic writing, or old Arabic.
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CÉSAR Russian composer. He was born at Vilna, ANTONOVITCH, a Russia his father having been one of Napoleon's , in 1835, and is of French descent, officers, rs, left behind wounded during the retreat from Moscow. He was educated at School of Engineering, Petrograd. He the High School, Vilna, and at the became a teacher and taught fortification in the three military academies; published two manuals and many articles and rose to the rank of General of Engineering. In 1864 he became a musical critic and wrote for many Russian and French papers. His literary works include: "La Musique en Russie"; "La Romance Russe"; "L'Anneau des Nibelungen"; and more than 700 articles. His musical works include the operas: "The Mandarin's Son"; "William Ratcliffe"; "Angelo"; "Le Filibustier"; "Le Sarrazin"; "Mademoiselle Fifi"; "Le Prisonnier du Caucase"; "La Fille du Capitaine"; "Un Festin Pendant la Peste"; "Le Palladin de Neige"; "Matteo Falcone"; "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge"; "Le Chat Botté"; and many smaller pieces. He died on March 14, 1918.
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