These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Dothan, Doto, Dottered.
a city of Alabama, the county-seat of Houston co. It is on the Atlantic Coast Line, the Central of Georgia, and the Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay railroads. It has important compressed cotton and fertilizer interests and manufactures of sashes and doors, ice, cotton-oil, and lumber. There are a library and other public buildings . Pop. (1910) 7,016; (1920 ) 10,034.
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one of the Nereids.
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a species of plover which breeds in the N. of Europe , and returns to the S. for the winter. In Scotland it appears in April and leaves in August, the young being hatched in July. It is found all over Europe and northern Asia. Several species are represented in the United States, including the goldenplover, the kill-deer , and piping-plover.
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FORT, one of the outlying strongholds of Verdun, to whose capture the Germans devoted their main efforts during 1916 and 1917, their final failure signalizing their loss of the war. Fort Douaumont was termed by the Germans "the main pillar of the Verdun defenses," and had been captured by them in the last week of February, 1916. The fort was retaken by the Allied troops on May 22, 1916, only to be lost again two days later. On Oct. 24, 1916, the French recaptured it, after a furious engagement lasting several days. FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY DOUAY or DOUAI, an ancient French town, department of Le Nord, 108 miles N. by E. from Paris. Douay is the seat of a university, and possesses a good public library, containing upward of 36,- 000 000 volumes. Pop. about 36,000.
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doo-a', or Douai, one of the oldest cities in France. It is situated in the northeastern part of France in Calais county. It is a picturesque, odd city, with an old parish church, marketplace, town hall, and belfry. It is noted in history as the refuge of English Catholics. An English-speaking university was maintained here by them. Printing presses afforded facilities for publishing Catholic books in the English language. The Douay Bible, the English Bible of the Catholic church, was published here in 1609. At the time of the French Revolution the college and presses were driven out and were reestablished near Durham, England.
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the English version of the Bible translated by the students of the Roman Catholic college at Douay, under the auspices of Cardinal Allen, the founder of that seat of education. The work was published at Douay in 1609, about two years before the appearance of King James' authorized Protestant Bible. The Douay version contains the Old Testament only. only, a translation of the New having been sent forth from the press at Rheims as early as A. D. 1582. The Douay version is the only English one which has obtained the sanction of the Pope.
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or BASE, the largest of the stringed instruments played with silver, which the debtor may choose to a bow. Its invention is attributed to Gaspar di Salo, 1580. It is made with three or four strings. The strings are usually tuned a fourth apart to the notes F, B, E, when three strings are employed, with the addition of the lower E, when there are four strings.
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the deepest-toned instrument of the bassoon family; also called contra-fagotto. It stands in the same relation to a bassoon as the doublebass does to the violoncello; that is to say, its sounds are actually an octave below those indicated. Its compass is from B flat below CCC to tenor F. The great masters have written for it largely. Haydn gives it an important part in several of his works, as do also Spohr, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn.
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a descriptive term applied to textiles produced by uniting two distinct webs during the process of weaving. This is done by interlacing some of the warp threads of one web into the other web at regular intervals, thus fastening them together securely. A variety of double cloth is produced to fulfil various purposes. A cheaper material may be used for the lower or back web, thus producing a heavy cloth at less expense. A cloth of great bulk and thickness may be produced for overcoats and cloakings, which is more pliable and has a finer surface than could be produced by heavy yarns in a single cloth. Two-faced fabrics such as the plaid lined cloth so popular for golf capes and children's coats are produced in this way. A variety of fancy effects may be obtained by double weaving. Double-pile cloth has a pile on each side. If the pile is cut the fabric is called double plush.
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a mental condition in which two personalities entirely separate from one another are developed in one person. This morbid condition is shown to extreme in Stevenson's classic, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." While such antithesis of character is seldom met with in one person, yet psychologists have noted that when two personalities are in one body the two are in frequent contradiction to each other. The memory of what one personality has done is non-existent in the other. Dr. Prince possessed of Boston found a woman who possess three developed personalities, besides four which were but partially developed His explanation is that the subconscious life holds several potential personalities which are destroyed or developed in our conscious existence. Other psychologists are disposed to explain it as a physical condition existing in the nervous system or exaggerated motor automatism.
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A form of the lever escapement in which a separate roller is employed for the guard action.
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A dial having two sinks, one for the hour and another for the seconds hand.
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(See Magic.)
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Sometimes termed a change-hook and ram's-horn. The latter name is suggestive of its shape, which consist of two hooks, turned outwards, forged to a third one immediately underneath, which is central and turned at right angles to the double hooks above. It is used for passing loads that are slung on the lower hook, from one crane to another, by simply inserting the block-hook of another crane into the idle-hook and hoisting until it is lifted free of the other. Down-gate, or "down-runner," sometimes termed an "upright," is the runner immediately connected with the runner basin, and leads to the casting direct, or by means of draw-gates, etc. See DRAW-RUNNER; UPRIGHT-RUNNER; GATES.
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