Cumaean Sibyl
. See Sibyl
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These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Cumaean Sibyl, Cumberland, Cumberland.
Cumberland
a river of the United and States which runs through Kentucky Tennessee into the Ohio, having a course of about 600 miles, navigable for steam- . boats to Nashville, nearly 200 miles
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Cumberland
WILLIAM AUGUS- TUS, DUKE OF, third son of George ; born in 1721. At the II. of England wounded battle of Dettingen he was when fighting at the side of his father, at Fontenoy, and though unsuccessful where he had the command of the allied army, he rose in reputation by somewhat subduing the insurrection in brutally by the landing of Scotland caused in 1745. In 1747 Charles Edward Stuart Cumberland was defeated by Marshal the Saxe at Lafeld, and in 1757 he lost battle of Hastenbeck, against D'Estrées, and concluded the convention at Closterseven, by which 40,000 English soldiers were disarmed and disbanded, and Hanover placed at the mercy of the French. He then retired in disgrace from his public office, and took no active part in affairs. He died in 1765.
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Cumberland (City and countyseat)
a city and countyseat of Allegany co., Md.; on the Potomac river, the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and the Baltimore and Ohio, the Cumberland and Pennsylvania, the Western miles S. E. of Maryland railroads; 150 Pittsburgh. It is a great railroad point Cumberland and the trade center for the It is the and George's Creek coal district. second city in population and importance academy in the State, and has a Catholic extenand convent, a house of Capuchins, , tanneries, sive paper mills, glass works planing steel and iron mills, flour and . There mills, and railroad repair shops State and are 4 National and several savings banks, daily and weekly newssyspapers, numerous churches, a Holly private tem of waterworks, public and . (1910) schools, high school, etc. Pop 21,839; (1920) 29,837.
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Cumberland (City of Rhode Isis on the land)
a city of Rhode Isis on the land, in Providence co. It Blackstone river, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. In of the neighborhood are granite quarries include importance. Its manufactures silk, and worsted horseshoes, cotton, goods, and women's clothing. The town Cistercian Trappist contains the only monastery in New England: Pop. . (1910) 10,107; (1920) 10,077
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Cumberland (RICHARD an Engessayist)
RICHARD, an Engessayist, and lish dramatist, novelist, ; born poet, grandson of Richard Bentley 1732. Of good at Cambridge, Feb. 19, prospects, he was family and the highest in public discredited and impoverished service, and made literature a profession. His comedies, "The West Indian," "The "The Jew," and Wheel of Fortune," are an epit- "The Fashionable Lover," ome of the culture of the time; as are his essays, collected under the title of ." He wrote "Anecdotes Theserver of Eminent Painters in Spain," "Memoirs" (1806). He died in Tunbridge Wells, May 7, 1811.
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Cumberland Island
a peninsula (so-called), of Baffin Land, extending into Davis Strait.
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Cumberland Mountains
in Tennessee, part of a range of the Appalachian system, rarely exceeding 2,000 feet in height.
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Cumberland Presbyterians
a religious denomination which sprang up in 1810 in the State of Kentucky, in consequence of a dispute between the presbytery of Cumberland in that State, and the Kentucky Synod of the Presbyterian Church in America, concerning the ordination of persons who had not passed through the usual educational curriculum, but whose services the presbytery regarded as demanded for the ministry by the exigencies of the time. In 1916 the church had 1,317 organizations with 72,056 members; 969 Sunday Schools with 6,618 teachers, and 53,431 pupils. Their form of government is Presbyterian, though they have added a system of itinerating like the Methodists. In doctrine they approach Arminianism, denying unconditional election and predestination, and they believe in the universality of the atonement.
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Cumberland Road
a great national highway. It was projected in 1806 in Jefferson's administration on the model of the great Roman roads. It was intended at first to run from Baltimore to the Ohio and was afterward extended. Between 1806 and 1840 the general government expended nearly $7,000,000 in laying out, grading, building bridges, and macadamizing. The road ran from Baltimore westward through Fredericksburg, Cumberland, and Wheeling; through Ohio to Vandalia, Indiana-800 miles in all-where further construction was abandoned as unnecessary on account of the building of railways. The various portions of the road have been surrendered by the general government to the counties through which it passes. Though now almost forgotten, the Cumberland road was one of the most famous stage roads the world has ever seen. A ride on the top of a coach, bowling swiftly through the mountains of western Maryland and what is now West Virginia , is described by travelers as a trip not easily forgotten. See Road
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Cumberland University
a coeducational institution in Lebanon, Tenn.; organized in 1842, under the auspices of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 21; students, 225; number of graduates, 4,386; president, Andrew B. Buchanan.
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Cumbria
an ancient British principality, comprising, besides part of Cumberland, the Scotch districts Galloway, Kyle, Carrick, Cunningham, and Strathclyde, its capital being Alcluyd or Dumbarton. It was possibly at one time the chief seat of the power of Arthur, and in the 6th century was an important and powerful kingdom. It speedily, however, fell under Saxon domination, and early in the 11th century was given by Edmund of Wessex to Malcolm of Scotland to be held as a fief of the crown of England. The name still survives in Cumberland.
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Cumbrian Mountains
a range of hills, England, occupying part of the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland and North Lancashire. The mountains rise with steep acclivities, inclosing in some part narrow but well-cultivated valleys with numerous picturesque lakes; this being the English "Lake Country," so much frequented by tourists.
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Cummin
. See Anise Cuneiform (ku-ne'1-form) Writing, a primitive system of writing in use among the Chaldeans, Babylonians, and Assyrians. The name is derived from the Latin word cuneus, meaning wedge, and has reference to the triangular shape of the characters. The writer impressed his characters with a stylus on soft clay tablets which were afterward kiln baked. If stone was the material, the characters were necessarily cut with the chisel. For some account of the enormous number of tablets found in the ruins of ancient cities, see BABYLON.
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