These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Debreczin, Debruised, Debs.
a town of Hungary, on the edge of the great central plain, 113 miles E. of Budapest. Its houses are mostly of a single story; the streets broad and unpaved. Among the principal edifices are the Protestant church and college. Chief manufactures are coarse woolens, leather, soap, tobacco-pipes, casks, etc., and a large trade is done in cattle. Debreczin is considered the headquarters of Hungarian Protestantism. Pop. about 85,000.
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in heraldry, an epithet applied to a bend or other ordinary placed over some animal, in such a manner as to appear to restrain its freedom of action.
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EUGENE VICTOR, an American socialist; born in Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 5, 1855. He received a common school education and became a locomotive fireman. He was elected to the Indiana Legislature in 1885 and was later an official of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and, from 1893 to 1897, president of the American Railway Union. He conducted the strike of 1893 in Chicago, and was later sent to jail for contempt, because of his management of the same, though he pleaded innocence of any crime and requested to be tried by a jury and be allowed to summon witnesses in his defense. Since 1897 he has been prominent in the Socialist movement, and in 1900 was the candidate of the Social Democratic party, and in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 of the Socialists, for President of the United States. In 1915 he was appointed Chancellor of the People's College, a working-class institution at Fort Scott, Kan. He was convicted of violating the Espionage Law by opposing the draft laws in 1917, and was sentenced to im- EUGENE V. DEBS prisonment for 20 years. In spite of this he was nominated for the presidency by the Socialist party in 1920.
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that which is due from one person to another; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another; due; obligation; liability. That which any one is obliged to do or to suffer. Debt in law is a species of contract whereby a chose in action, or right to a certain sum of money, is mutually acquired and lost; usually divided into debts of record, debts by special contract, and debts by simple contract. A debt of record is a sum which apears to be due by the evidence of a court of record; such as debt of judgment or recognizance. Debt by specialty is where a sum is acknowledged to be due, or becomes due, by instrument under seal; such as a covenant, bond, etc. Both these species of debts, being contracted by a man for himself and his heirs, attach on his lands and tenements, and bind them in the hands of his heir or devisee. Debt by simple contract is either by parol or
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CLAUDE ACHILLE, French composer, born at St. Germainen-Laye, Aug. 22, 1862. Educated at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the grand prix de Rome in 1884 with a cantata, "L'Enfant Prodigue." From Rome he sent a setting of Rossetti's Blessed Damozel, which was refused by the Institut because of its excessive modernity of style. The rebuff only made him the more determined to adhere to his convictions. His most important compositions are: a "prelude symphonique" to Mallarmé's Afternoon of a Faun; orchestral pieces, "Clouds," "Fêtes," and "Sirens"; settings for poems of Verlaine and Baudelaire; a piano suite, "Images"; and his chief work, a lyric drama on Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande, given at Paris, April 30, 1902, and performed with remarkable success at the Manhattan Opera House, New York, Feb. 19, 1908. Among his other compositions may be mentioned "The Sea," "Spring," "Three Nocturnes," "Prose Lyrics," etc. He died in 1918. DECADE (dek'ad) is sometimes used for the number 10 or for an aggregate of 10. The books of Livy's Roman History are divided into decades. In the French Revolution, decades, each consisting of 10 days, took the place of weeks in the division of the year. The term is now usually applied to an aggregate of 10 years.
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a favorite modern term to express the idea that the successors in some degree are not as strong as the predecessors in the particular department about which an inquiry is made. It is the falling tide from some high-water mark. The word is intentionally of fensive, but its use in the history of art is the least objectionable of all. Thus Grecian art attained its highest point of grandeur about 400 b. c., and all Grecian art of later date, some of it most exquisite in its genius, belongs to the decadent side of Grecian art. There are several periods of decadent art that may be found mentioned in the histories, but the one most discussed of late years is that of the French romancists of all schools. Those of the latter part of the last century are called decadents because they are thought less able, and more sensational than their predecessors.
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a plane geometrical figure of 10 sides. When the sides are equal, the figure is called a regular decagon.
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a transferable picture or pattern, used generally for decoration, as on chinaware. The designs are printed lithographically on thin paper or foil, which is afterward attached face down to a thick porus paper, which serves to support it. It is applied to the surface to be decorated by moistening the film of gum or cement on the back of the design, after which the paper carrier is thoroughly wetted and peeled off, leaving the design behind.
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the Ten Commandments given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. They were first introduced into the liturgy of the Church of England, in the prayerbook of Edward VI., in 1552.
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anything of 10 days' occurrence; also the title given to a collection of tales by Boccaccio, written in 10 parts, each part containing 10 stories, and being supposed to occupy one day in the narration. Boccaccio represents the stories as being told by seven ladies and three gentlemen, who had fled from Florence into the country to escape the fearful plague of 1348, and who had no other means of passing the time.
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