These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Delphinus, Delphos, Delsarte.
(the Dolphin), one of Ptolemy's original 48 constellations, situated between Vulpecula, Pegasus, Equuleus, Aquarius, and Aquila. It has no stars brighter than the third magnitude. The names assigned to its stars Alpha and Beta, Sualocin and Rotanev, are merely reversals of the name ("Nicolaus Venator") of an astronomer's assistant who wished to commemorate himself.
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a city of Ohio, in Allen and Van Wert cos. It is on the Miami and Erie canal, and on the Pennsylvania Company, the Toledo, St. Louis, and Western , the Northern Ohio, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, and the Ohio Electric railroads. There are railroad repair shops, granite works, flour and paper mills, and manufactures of iron products, printing presses, furniture, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,038; (1920) 5,745.
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FRANÇOIS ALEXAN- NICOLAS DRE CHERI (del-sart'), a French educator; born in Solesmes, Dec. 19, 1811. His father, a physician, sent him to Paris to study with a painter on china 1822, but he entered the Conservatory 1825. He attained distinction as a tenor singer in the Opera Comique, suddenly lost his voice, and thereafter applied himself to musical and dramatic instruction, having among his pupils many who afterward achieved operatic and dramatic celebrity. His chief work was the elaboration of a system of dramatic expression . He aimed to make elocution a science . He died in Paris, July 19, 1871.
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the weasel-cat (Priohabiting the vast forests of the E. extremities of Java and Malacca. It is of pale yellowi yellowish-white color, with elegantly-marked stripes and bands of a deep brown civets, but is destitute of a scent-pouch. . It is allied to the
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an Athenian orator, who, from a fishmonger, rose to high places in the republic. He was captured by Philip of Macedon in the battle of Chæronea, but soon set at liberty. He afterward exerted his influence in favor of the Macedonian party at Athens, but, betraying Antipater, he was put to death by Cassander, the son of the latter, 318 b. c.
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a ringleader of a faction, or of the rabble; a popular or factious orator; a party leader; a teacher of sedition. In its original acceptation, this word was considered an honorable designation; but it is now almost invariably used in a bad sense.
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in political economy, demand has reference to the quantity of goods asked for in the market, and supply has reference to the quantity of goods offered. The laws of demand and supply may be thus stated: when the demand exceeds the supply, competition grows stronger among the buyers, and prices rise, and when the demand falls short of the supply, competition grows stronger among the sellers, and prices fall; or thus, falling prices tend to lessen the supply and increase the demand, while rising prices tend to increase the supply and lessen the demand. A rise in prices tends to encourage production, while a fall in prices tends to discourage it. Conversely, consumption is promoted by falling and lessened by rising prices.
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WILLIAM HENRY STEELE, an American educator, born in Hudson, N. Y., in 1863. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1883 and from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1888. He was ordained minister to the Reform Church of America in the same year. After serving as pastor in several churches in New York, he became professor of church history at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1901. In 1906 he was chosen president of Rutgers College.
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a volcanic mountain of Persia, and the highest peak of the Elbruz chain, 45 miles S. of the Caspian Sea, and about 40 miles N. E. of Teheran. Its height is about 19,400 feet, and it bears evidence of having been active during the latest geological (if not within the historic) period.
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or TSANA, a lake of Abyssinia, in a province of the same name in the W. part of that country. It is of irregular form, about 140 miles in circumference, has an elevation of 6,100 feet above the sea, and forms the reservoir of the Blue Nile. DEMEMBRÉ, or DISMEMBERED, a heraldic term to signify that the members of an animal are cut from its body.
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in common parlance, and even in legal language, a word synonymous with insanity. Medically it is applied to those cases of unsound mind which are characterized by a total loss of the faculty of thought, or by such an imbecility of intellect that the ideas are extremely incoherent.
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(dem-e-rä'rä), or DEM- ARARA (dem-a-rä'rä), a division of British Guiana, which derives its name from the river Demarara or Demerara. It extends about 100 miles along the coast, lying on the E. of Essequibo, and on the W. of Berbice. The soil is very fertile, producing abundant crops of sugar, coffee, cotton, rice. Chief town, Georgetown. Pop. of province about 125,000. The river, after a course of about 120 miles, flows into the Atlantic.
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Czar of Russia, commonly called the false Demetrius, was a native of Jaroslav, and a novice in a monastery, where he was tutored by a monk to personate Demetrius, son of the Czar John Vasilowitz, who had been murdered by Boris Gudenow. Having learned his tale, he went into Lithuania, embraced the Roman Catholic religion, and married the daughter of the palatine Sandomir. In 1604 Demetrius entered Russia at the head of a small army, was joined by a number of Russians and Cossacks, and defeated an army sent against him. On the death of Boris, the people strangled his son, and placed Demetrius on the throne, but his partiality to the Poles, and contempt of the Greek religion, occasioned an insurrection, and he was assassinated in 1606, after reigning about 11 months.
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A son of Antigonus and Stratonice, surnamed Poliorcetes, destroyer of towns. At the age of twenty-two he was sent by his father against Ptolemy, who had invaded Syria. He was defeated at Gaza, but soon afterward obtained a victory. The greater part of his life was passed in warfare, his fortunes undergoing many changes. He was distinguished for his fondness of dissipation when in dissolute society, and for military skill and valor in the battlefield. He died B. C. 286.
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