These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Custis, Custozza, Cutch.
GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKE, an American writer; born in Mt. Airy, Md., April 30, 1781; was the adopted son of George Washington. He wrote "Recollections of George Washington" (1860), and several plays and orations. He died at Arlington House, Fairfax co., Va., Oct. 10, 1857.
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a village 10 miles S. W. of Verona, where the Italians have twice been utterly defeated by the Austrians. On July 23-25, 1848, Charles Albert was routed after severe fighting by Radetzky with a smaller force, and forced to retreat behind the Mincio; and on June 24, 1866, Victor Emmanuel with 130,000 men was defeated by the Archduke Albert with 75,000 men.
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a state in the W. of India, lying to the S. of Sind; under British protection; area, 6,500 square miles. During the rainy season it is wholly insulated by water, the vast salt morass of the Rann separating it on the N. and E. from Sind and the Guicowar's dominions. Its S. side is formed by the Gulf of Cutch, and on the W. it has the violent volcanic action. The date is the only fruit which thrives, and the principal exports are cotton and horses. The Rann of Cutch, a morass, covers about 9,000 square miles, and is dry during the greater part of the year. Pop. of the state about 525,000.
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ST., a celebrated father of the early English Church; born, 9,000, encamped on the Little Big Horn, cording to tradition, near Melrose, about 635. He became a monk, and in 664 was appointed prior of Melrose, which after some years he quitted to take a similar charge in the monastery of Lindisfarne. Still seeking a more ascetic life, Cuthbert then retired to the desolate isle of Farne. Here the fame of his holiness attracted many great visitors, and he was at last persuaded to accept the bishopric of Hexham, which he, however, resigned two years after, again retiring to his hermitage in the island of Farne, where he died in 687. The anniversary of his death was a great festival in the English Church.
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A sharp, curved tool for carving gates in the sand. Some are made exclusively for this purpose in steel or brass; others are merely a sharp-edged piece of tin or copper-plate that may be bent to any desirable shape. At best, such tools as "gate cutters" can only be called a make-shift; the cleaner and more artistic method of forming gates is to ram them along with the pattern. See GATES.
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MARY STEWART (DOUBLEDAY), an American novelist and short-story writer; born in New York City in 1851. While still a girl, she wrote verse for "Lippincott's." In 1875 she married Charles W. Cutting. Her most important novels were: "Little Stories of Married Life" (1902); "The Wayfarers" (1908); "Just for Two" (1909); "The Lovers of Sanna" (1912); "Re "Refractory Husbands" (1913).
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R(OBERT) FULTON, an American financier; born in New York City in 1852. He graduated from Columbia in the class of 1871, and later entered the field of municipal reform in New York City. In 1892 he became president of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, and in 1899 he was elected president of the New York Trade School Association, a position he still holds. He has also contributed largely to the support of the Bureau of Municipal Research in New York City.
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The result of violent attrition of molten metal on unprotected and unsuitably prepared mould surfaces. When, because of dampness, steam forms more rapidly than it can escape through the vents, it forces its way through the surface and lifts a portion of the mould's skin with it, forming a scab at that place. This by some is improperly termed a "cut" place. Cutting means a forced displacement of the surface caused by undue abrasion, or impact. The former happens when a large quantity of metal is urged over a surface not sufficiently unyielding in its nature to resist it successfully; the latter when such surfaces are subjected to a fall of metal high enough to break them. See SCABBED CASTINGS; CURRENT; GATES; RUNNERS.
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a low stool, the stool Arabian Sea. The country is subject to of repentance, a seat formerly set apart in Presbyterian churches in Scotland, on which offenders against chastity were exhibited before the congregation and submitted to the minister's rebukes before they were readmitted to church privileges. GEORGES CHRÉTIEN
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CHARLES, a French composer. He received his musical education at the Conservatoire de Paris under Professor Massenet. After having attained his degree of bachelor he made his entry into the Conservatoire and his training under Massenet was followed by his first operetta, "Avant-hier Matin," composed in collaboration with Tristar Bernard in 1905. It was played in Paris at the Capucines. His other works include: "La Carte Forcée," "Son Petit Frère," "Les Rendez-vous strasbourgeois," "Afgar," "Les Muscadines," "La Reine s'amuse," "Sappho," "Lilac Domino," "Florabelle," "La Fausse Ingénue. CUYABÁ, the capital of the Brazilian state of Matto Grosso, occupies pretty nearly the center of South America. It stands on the left bank of the Cuyabá river, 980 miles N. W. of Rio de Janeiro. Founded by gold-diggers in 1719, and wrecked by an earthquake in 1746, it is now a well-built place, with a cathedral and 14,500 inhabitants (1917). It can be reached by the rivers Paraná and Paraguay, a voyage of 2,500 miles from Buenos Aires.
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THEODORE LEDYARD, an American clergyman; born in Aurora, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1822. He was graduated at Princeton College in 1841 and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1846. From 1860 he was pastor of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, resigning to devote his time to literary and reform work. He has written "Newly Enlisted," "Christianity in the Home," etc. He died Feb. 26, 1909.
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or KUYP, JACOB GERRITSZ, a Dutch painter; commonly called the Old Cuyp; born in Dordrecht, Netherlands, in 1575. Jacob Cuyp's representations of cows and sheep, battles and encampments, are clever, but his fame rests principally on his excellent portraits. His coloring is warm and transparent; his manner free and spirited. Cuyp was one of the four founders of the Guild of St. Luke at Dordrecht, and died after 1649. ALBERT CUYP, Jacob's son, was also born in Dordrecht, in 1620. He excelled in the painting of cattle grazing or reposing, wintry landscapes, horsemarkets, hunts, camps, and cavalryfights; and in rendering effects of warm golden sunlight he is without a rival. During his lifetime and long after, Albert's pictures were held in little estimation. England is particularly rich in his works, the National Gallery possessing eight of his subjects. He died in Dordrecht, in 1691. BENJAMIN CUYP, a nephew of Albert, was born in Dordrecht, in 1608, and became a member of the guild there in 1631. He painted Biblical pieces of country life. His best works are in the manner of Teniers.
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