Cabinda
a Portuguese seaport and territory, N. of the mouth of the Kongo river. The town carries on a considerable trade, and its people are noted for their shipbuilding and other handicrafts. Pop. about 10,000.
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These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Cabinda, Cable, Caboose.
Cable
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) GEORGE WASHINGTON, an American novelist; born in New Orleans, La., Oct. 12, 1844. After the Civil War he began to contribute sketches to newspapers, and afterward published stories in magazines. Among his published books are: "Old Creole Days," "The Grandissimes," "Madame Delphine," "Dr. Sevier," "The Creoles of Louisiana," "The Silent South," "John March, Southerner," "Bonaventure," "Strange, True Stories of Louisiana," "The Busy Man's Bible," "The Negro Question," "Strong Hearts," "Gideon's Band," "Lovers of Louisiana," etc.
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Caboose
ka-boos', a Dutch name for the ship's kitchen or cookroom. In the United States the name is applied to the car in which the conductor, brakeman, and other employes of a freight train ride. Each crew has its own caboose. It is fitted up frequently with bunks for sleeping, and provided with facilities for cooking or, at least, warming food. When long distance trains reach the end of a crew's run the caboose is switched off into the yard, and the caboose of the new crew put in its place for the next run. The caboose is fitted usually with a sort of observation tower from which to watch the progress of the train, and from which access may be gained through a window to the roof of the car. For real sightseeing a ride in this tower is ahead of a seat in an observation car. See Railways
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Cabot
John, an Italian navigator. Little is known of his birthplace or the place of his death. He was in the employ of the English government with headquarters at Bristol where his son Sebastian, also a celebrated navigator, was born. In 1497 John and his son Sebastian sailed west-ward from Bristol in a single vessel. June 24, 1497, they discovered the coast of Newfoundland, or, as others think, of Labrador, and followed it south for a distance of 300 leagues as far as Florida. The English exchequer of the period records a gift $50 "to him that found the new Isle." On the following year they revisited the coast of North America . They were the first to raise a flag on the American mainland. Their voyages are the basis on which English title to territory in the New World rested. Among the odd stories told by the sailors was one to the effect that the codfish on the banks of Newfoundland were so thick that they retarded the ships. Sebastian's part in the voyages of 1497 and 1498 has been disputed. His journeys, it is said, were all taken with his pen within the safe precincts of his father's house at Bristol. See Bristol
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Cabot (GEORGE an American statesman)
GEORGE, an American statesman; born in Salem, Mass., Dec. 3, 1751; educated at Harvard College. In 1791 he became United States Senator for Massachusetts, a post which he held for five years-a steadfast friend throughout of the Washington administration. He yielded essential aid to Hamilton in perfecting his financial system. In 1814 galvanized or coated with a preservative he was chosen a delegate to the memoelected president of that assembly. He died in Boston, April 18, 1823.
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Cabral
a Portuguese navigator, the discoverer of Brazil. He lived about 1460-1526. On the successful return of Vasco da Gama from India, Cabral was sent out to follow up the discovery. He set out from Lisbon, March 9, 1500. It was his intention to round the Cape of Good Hope , but he kept too far out in the Atlantic, and was carried by a current upon the coast of Brazil April 22, 1500. This will not seem strange if we recall that the eastern coast of Brazil is less than seventeen degrees west of the African coast, and that the route was as yet largely guess-work. Cabral took possession of the coast in the name of Portugal and sent back one of his ships with tidings. This was the basis of Portuguese claims in the New World. Continuing his voyage around Cape of Good Hope, Cabral lost four ships in a storm; yet finally reached Calicut (whence calico), India, where he erected a fort. Cabral entered into treaties with various native princes and loaded his ships with cargoes of spices, then a fortune. He returned to Lisbon July 23, 1501. His subsequent life is unknown.
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Cabrera
a ), a small Spanish island, one of the Balearic Isles. The chief chief industry of the inhabitants, consisting only of a few hundred, is fishing.
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Cacapon
or GREAT CACAPON, a river in West Virginia. It flows nearly N. W. through Hampshire and Morgan counties, and enters the Potomac about 5 miles from Berkeley Springs. Its length is about 140 miles. CÁCERES (kä'thā-rās), the second largest province of Spain, in the N. of Estremadura, owned chiefly by large proprietors, and mostly devoted to cattle-raising; the N. half is a good wine country. The area is 7,667 square miles, and the population about 425,000. The , 1 capital Cáceres, 45 miles N. of Merida by rail, is famous for its bacon and sausages, and has a bull-ring of granite, dye-works, and manufactures of the Castra Cæcilia of the Romans, by woolens, crockery, and rope. It was whom it was founded in 74 B. C.; and here the allied forces defeated the rearguard of the Duke of Berwick, April 7, 1706. Pop. about 17,500.
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Cachalot
a cetacean of the family Balænidæ. It is the Physeter macrocephalus, called also the sperm or spermaceti whale. The male is from 46 to 60, or even 70 feet long; the female from 30 to 35. It is black, becoming whitish below. The cachalots feed chiefly on squids or cuttle-fishes. They are gregarious, and go in schools, sometimes with as many as 500 or 600 individuals. There are two kinds-female schools and schools of males not fully grown. With each female school are from one to three large bulls, or, as the whalers call them, schoolmasters. The cachalot inhabits the northern seas, but straggles through a great part of the ocean.
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