These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Durant, Durazzo, Duress.
a city of Colorado, the county-seat of La Plata co. It is on the Las Animas river, and on the Denver and Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Southern railroads. The city is a commercial center for southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. There are smelting and reduction works, flour mills, and a packing plant. The city has a public library and other public buildings.
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a state of Mexico, with an area of 38,009 square miles. It is for the most part high and dry plateau and is traversed in the northern part by the Sierra Madre mountains. The soil in general is good and produces wheat, vegetables, sugar cane, and cotton. Corn, tobacco, and grapes are also grown. The principal industry of the state is mining, and its silver mines have been famous from colonial times. Iron and steel are also mined near the city of Durango. Manufacturing has made some progress in recent years. There are soap and candle factories, tanneries, and pottery works. Pop. about 500,000. The capital is Durango. DURANGO (also (also called Guadiana and Ciudad de Victoria), a town of Mexico, on a dry plateau, 6,700 feet above sealevel, 500 miles N. W. of the City of Mexico. It is handsomely built, with a cathedral, a former Jesuit college, a theater, and a mint, and the town now has tramways and telephones. Pop. about 33,000.
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E(DWARD) DANA, an American statistician and public official, born in Romeo, Mich., in 1871. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1893, and took post-graduate courses at Cornell University. From 1895 to 1897 he was legislative librarian of the New York State Library, and in 1898-1899 was assistant professor of administration and finance at Leland Stanford, Jr., University. From 1900 to 1902 he was secretary of the United States Industrial Commission. After filling several posts in the government service he was deputy commissioner of corporations from 1907 to 1909. From the latter year to 1913 he was director of the United States Census. He was professor of statistics and agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota from 1913. He wrote extensively on financial matters, and his published writings include "Finances of New York City" (1898); and "The Trust Problem" (1915). He also contributed many articles on economical and political subjects to economic journals. From 1917 he was assistant head of the Meat Division of the United States Food Administration, at Chicago.
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a city of Oklahoma, the of Bryan co. It is on the county-seat county-seat , Missouri Oklahoma, and Gulf, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, and the St. Louis and San Francisco railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural industry. There are flour and oil mills. The city is the seat of a Presbyterian college, and the Southeastern State Normal School. Pop. (1910) 5,330; (1920) 7,340.
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HENRY FOWLE, an American philanthropist; born in Hanover, N. H., Feb. 20, 1822. He was graduated from Harvard in 1842 and became a lawyer, changing his name from Henry Welles Smith to H. F. Durant. He practiced with great success at the bar, but on the death of his only son abandoned his profession and devoted his energies to philanthropy. He founded Wellesley College (opened in 1875), and was successful as a lay preacher. He died in Wellesley, Mass., Oct. 3, 1881.
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a port of Albania, built on the rocky peninsula of of Pelu, in the Adriatic, 50 miles S. Scutari. It is a decayed place with a ruined citadel; but the harbor is the most important of middle Albania. Durazzo is the ancient Epidamnos, founded about 625 b. C. by Corcyræans and Corinthians. It became a great and popиlous city, but was much harassed by the party strifes, which ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War. Under the Romans it was called Dyrrachium (whence its modern name), and became the principal landing-place for those sailing from Brundusium in Italy to Greece; and the great military road to the Hellespont began here. The town was captured by the Austrians Feb. 28, 1916. June 3, 1917, the Italians set up a provisional government here. Pop. about 5,000.
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in law, a condition that may be either physical, that is, by actual confinement or restraint of liberty, or moral, that is, by threats or menaces, duress per minas; in either case the overt act must be to compel a person to do some act, as to execute a deed or commit an offense: in such case the act is invalid and excusable. Thus, if a man is violently assaulted, and has no other possible means of escaping death, he is permitted to kill his assailant; for here the law of nature and self-defense, its primary canon, has made him his own protector.
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dur'um, an English county and cathedral town. One traveling northward passes through Durham midway from York to Edinburgh. The county possesses the most extensive coal measures in England. Newcastle, at the mouth of the Tyne, is the port of export, whence the proverbial expression for uselessness--to carry coals to Newcastle. The Durham breed of domestic cattle originated here. Durham city is noted for its ancient cathedral, founded, it is believed, by Malcolm of Scotland in 1093. This cathedral is one of the great edifices of England. Durham was one of the early seats of English culture. See York ; Canterbury
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an ancient city and parliamentary borough in England, capital of the county of the same name, on the river Wear, which is crossed here by four bridges, 14 miles S. of Newcastle. The principal public buildings (now appropriated to the buildings are the ancient castle (now uses of the university), the cathedral, and other churches, the town hall, county prison, and the grammar school. The educational institutions comprise the university, the grammar school, training school for school-mistresses, and other schools. There are manufactures of carpeting and mustard. The cathedral occupies a height overlooking the Wear. The larger portion of it is Norman in style, with insertions in all the English styles. Three magnificent and elaborately ornamented towers spring up from the body of the building, one from the center 212 feet high, and two together from the W. end, each 143 feet high; the entire length is 420 feet. It was founded by William de Carilephe and Malcolm, King of Scotland, in 1093. Pop. about 15,000.
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