These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Day Lily, Dayton, Daytona.
minute circular spots on the nucleus of a sun-spot, darker than the rest of the nucleus, and of tubular supposed to be the months of tubu orifices penetrating to unknown depths. They were first observed by the astronomer whose name they bear.
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capital of Yukon territory, Canada; in the gold region of the Klondike. It is on the E. side of the Yukon river, 575 miles from Juneau. It was founded by Joseph Ladue, a miner, who 1896. built the first house here, Sept. 1, Dawson is the center of the Klondike gold region, and has grown from a mining camp into a prosperous town, with important commercial interests. It is a port of call for steamships from June to October. Pop. (1911) 3,015. (WILL-
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WILLIAM JAMES, a clergyman and writer, born at Towcester, England, in 1854. He was educated at Didsbury College, Manchester. In 1875 he was ordained Wesleyan minister. He served in several pastorates in England until 1905, when he moved to the United States, becoming pastor of the 1st Presbyterian Church. He lectured widely on literary and historical subjects. He wrote "Makers of English Poetry" (1890); "Makers of English Prose" (1899); "Quest of the Simple Life" (1903); "A Soldier of the Future" of Courage" (1911); (1908); "The Book "The Father of a Soldier" (1917); and "Chalmers Comes Back" (1919). He poems. also wrote several volumes of
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HOLMAN FRANCIS, an American writer, born in Vassalboro, Me., in 1865. He graduated from Colby College in 1887, and for many years was engaged in newspaper work in New England. He was a frequent contributor, both of prose and poetry, to magazines, and wrote many novels, including "Rainy Day Railroad War" (1906); "Old King Spruce" (1910); "Blow the Man Down" (1916); "The Rider of the King Log" (1919). He also wrote several plays and published volumes of verse.
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WILLIAM RUFUS, resigned from the Supreme Court, November 14, 1922, to act as American representative on the German-American Mixed Claims Commission.
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the popular name for a genus of lilies (Hemerocallis), a native of temperate Asia and eastern Europe, two species of which (H. flava and H. fulva) are grown in gardens. They have long radical leaves, and a branched few-flowered scape, with large, handsome blossoms, the segments of which are united into a tube.
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a city of Kentucky, in Campbell co. It is on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and on the Ohio river. There are manufactures of watch cases and pianos. The city contains the Speers Memo Memorial Hospital, and other public buildings. Pop. gs. Pop. (1910) 6,979; especially a dealister deacon (1920) 7,646.
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a city of Florida, in Volusia co. It is on the Atlantic Ocean, the Halifax river, the Jacksonville-Miami canal, and the Florida East Coast railroad. It is also on the line of the Florida Coastal Island Navigation Company. In recent years it has become a popular summer and winter resort. It has excellent hotels, a library, and an Elks' Home. The principal industries are the growing of oranges and straworanges berries, and fishing. Pop. (1910) 3,082; (1920) 5,445.
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EDMONDO. AMICIS. DEAN (literally, a head or chief of 10 men), in the Church of England, an ecclesiastical dignitary in cathedral and collegiate churches, and the head of a chapter, originally said to consist of 10 canons or prebendaries; whence the origin of the term. The presiding head of the faculty in some of the English and Scottish universities. In the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, an officer deputed to compel the attendance of students at prayers in the chapels of the colleges, and generally, to supervise their conduct at religious service. In the United States the several schools of medicine, law, etc., connected with the universities frequently appoint a dean, whose functions vary with the requirements of his particular institution. The dean of a faculty is its registrar or secretary.
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deh kon-dol', Augustin Pyrame (1778-1841), a noted French botanist. He was born at Geneva and educated first for the law, then for medicine. It is noticeable that the botanists of the eighteenth century approached their favorite science by way of medicine. De Candolle was wont to excuse himself for leaving medicine by saying, "If I make a mistake in naming a plant, I can set it right." Influential friends wondered that a man of his talents should spend his time running about France gathering plants. After holding various positions De Candolle settled down in a professorship at Geneva, where he accumulated a large herbarium and wrote several botanical treatises. He named many plants new to science. De Candolle was a close reader of Linnaeus' works, but adopted the classification of Ray and Jussieu.
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CAMILLE, a Swiss statesman and former president of the Republic. He was born in the canton of Vaud, 1862, and received his education in the cantonal schools. As a young man he engaged in politics, attaching himself to the Radical Democrat party. He soon distinguished himself by his political ability and took a fore- . most position at the head of his party of the Fed- In 1912 he became member eral Council; later he became head of was the War Department. Finally be Council elected President of the Federal of Switzerland for 1916.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, American clergyman and writer; an born in Charlestown, Mass., July 10, 1831. Included in his many publications are: "The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen" (1869); "The Moabite Stone" (1870); and "The Rector of Roxburgh," a novel under the pen-name of "William Hickling" (1873). He became president (1884) of the first branch of the "White Cross Society," of which he was the organizer. He died in 1904.
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LEE, an American in- He received his technical education at the Sheffield Scientific School (Yale ), from which he graduated in 1896, then devoted Yale. He was one of the pioneers in the three years to postgraduate work at development of wireless telegraphy in this country. In 1919 he had taken out phony, the most important one of which 120 patents on radio telegraphy and teleis the Audion, a detector and amplifier , service possible. In 1907 he became vicewhich made transcontinental telephone president of the Radio Telephone Co. and of the De Forest Radio Telephone Co. American lawyer and philanthropist, DE FOREST, ROBERT WEEKS, an born in New York City in 1848. He graduated from Yale in 1870 and from the Columbia Law School in 1872. After studying abroad he was admitted to the bar in 1871 and engaged in the practice of law, first with his father and afterward with his sons. He was a director in many financial institutions and was prominently identified with charitable work in New York City. He was president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1913. In 1900 he was chairman of the New York State Tenement House Commission and in 1903 was president of the National Conference of Charities and Correction of Atlanta. He was vicepresident of the American Red Cross.
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