These 20 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Cantonment, Cantu, Cantwell.
quarters for soldiers. Troops during prolonged operations, when not in close proximity to the enemy, and not in regular camp or bivouac, are often distributed among villages, which are then called cantonments.
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CESARE (kän-tö'), an Italian historian; born in Brivio, Lombardy, Dec. 2, 1805. Imprisoned for political causes in 1833, employed his leisure in writing a historical romance, "Margherita Pusterla" (1838), one of the most successful of modern Italian romances; it gives a graphic picture of prison life. He wrote numerous historical and biographical works; his "Universal History" (35 vols.) has passed through several editions, and has been translated into other la languages. He died near Milan, March 11, 1895.
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JOHN JOSEPH, an American Roman Catholic bishop, born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1874. He was educated at the Sacred Heart College, Crescent, Limerick; and St. Patrick's College, Thurles, Ireland. In 1899 he was ordained priest and in the same year came to the United States, becoming curate in Berkeley, Cal. After holding this office until 1904 he was appointed secretary to the archbishop of San Francisco, and from 1904 to 1914 he was vicar-general of the San Francisco diocese. In the latter year he was consecrated bishop of the diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles, Cal. He was a member of the board of directors of the Extension Society of the University of California.
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or KINTYRE, a peninsula of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Atlantic, forming the division of Argyleshire. It is 40 miles long from the Isthmus of Tarbet to the Mull of Cantyre in the S. W., and has an average breadth of about 7 miles.
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a species of duck, Fuligula or Aythya valisneria. It is a great favorite with huntsmen in the United States. It lives mainly on a CANVAS-BACK DUCK species of wild celery, which makes its flesh a great delicacy. It derives its name from the speckled feathers on the back.
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. See Grand Canyon; Colorado River
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or CANZONE (kän-tsō' na), a short song, in which the music is of much more importance than the words. It is one of the ancient forms of measured melody, and when the older writers employed it, it was usually made the vehicle for the display of skill and contrivance in the treatment of the phrases in fugal imitation. A secondary meaning of the word, scoffing or banter, perhaps accounts for the use of a form in which a musical imitation or mocking was shown. In the early part of the last century the word was used to describe an instrumental composition, similar to the sonata as then known. CAOUTCHOUC (kat'shök or katchök). See RUBBER.
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koo'chook. See Rubber
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in ships, a strong piece of timber placed over the head or upper end of a mast, having in it a round hole to receive the top or top - gallant masts, which are thus kept steady and firm.
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JOSE. (See CUBA.) CAPITAL SHIPS. (See NAVIES.)
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ELECTRICAL, the abil- 1,009 ity of a system of conductors to store 1,300 up electrical energy. The storing up 3,124 is accomplished by condensers, which 70 are used extensively in tel telegraph, tele- 1,948 phone, and radio practice. The unit of 2,858 electrical capacity is the farad (q.v.), 679 the millionth part of which is known as 368 a microfarad. 1,651 4,218 302 2,943
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. See Seven Against Thebes
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a settlement of Great Britain in the Gold Coast Colony, in upper Guinea, 315 miles W. of Lagos. The place lies in a chasm, and as its name implies, is defended by the great castle near the water's edge, and by three small forts on the hills behind, one of which serves as a lighthouse and signal station. Ceded by the Dutch to the English in 1665, Cape Coast Castle, from 1672, was possessed by several British African companies till 1843, when it was taken over by the government. In 1875 it was superseded by Accra as capital of the Gold Coast. The town has a trade in palm oil. There is a telegraph line to Accra, and a road from Cape Coast to Prahsue (75 miles). Pop. about 12,000.
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a river of North Carolina; navigable for steamboats for 120 miles from its mouth. Formed by the junction of the Deep and Haw rivers, its course is generally S. E. till it reaches the Atlantic Ocean.
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the westernmost point of Spain, in the province of Corunna, extending S. W. into the Atlanticulated, lon. 1900 and 21' W. Several naval battles were fought off this cape.
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a city of Cape Girardeau county, Mo.; on the Mississippi river, and on several railroads; 150 miles S. E. of St. Louis. It is the seat of St. Vincent's College and the Southeastern Missouri State Normal School, and has a National bank, several newspapers, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,475; (1920) 10,252.
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a town on the N. coast of Haiti. It has an excellent harbor, but has declined in importance in recent years. Pop. about 30,000.
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a promontory of Greece, forming the S. extremity of the Peloponnesus, in lat. 36° 23′ N., lon. 22° 29' E. The name Tænarum, or Promontorium Tænarium, was applied by the Greeks to the headland, and to the small peninsula N. of it, connected with the per great Taygetic peninsula by a narrow isthmus.
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a cape and center of a rich gold mining region, on the S. face of the peninsular projection of Alaska, which separates Kotzebue Sound on the N. from Bering Sea on the S., and terminates on the W. in Cape Prince of Wales, the extent of the North American continent.
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a promontory near the southern extremity of Africa. Cape Agulhas, 100 miles to the southeast, is the extremity of the continent. Cape of Good Hope is situated in latitude 34 degree 21' S.; longitude 18 degree 30' E. It was discovered in 1487 by the Portuguese navigator, Bartholomew Diaz, and doubled again by Vasco da Gama in 1497. These navigators were exploring the coast in search of a sea route from western Europe to India. Diaz named it "Cape of Storms," but King John of Portugal, who had high hopes of commercial advantage from the new route, insisted on the present name. The promontory follows a curve perhaps thirty miles in length. The very tip is known as Vasco da Gama Hill. Table Mountain , a flat-topped elevation, 3,585 feet high, is about thirty miles from the tip. The name is taken from the flat table-like top, but it is rendered still more appropriate by the mists and clouds which not infrequently spread over the surface and hang over the sides like a table cloth. A British naval station is maintained within the eastern shelter of the Cape. Cape Town nestles at the foot of Table Mountain, fronting a bay that opens to the west. See Vasco Da Gama
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