These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Erzgebirge, Erzingan, Esau.
or ORE MOUNTAINS, a chain of European mountains forming a natural boundary between Saxony and Bohemia, nearly 120 miles in length and 25 miles broad. The highest summits, which are on the side of Saxony, rise to 3,800 or 3,900 feet. The mountains are rich in silver, iron, copper, lead, cobalt, arsenic, etc.
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a city of Armenia, formerly capital of a sandjak, in the vilayet of Erzerum, Asiatic Turkey, 86 miles S. E. of Erzerum, a strongly fortified town, situated at an altitude of 3,900 feet, and about a mile from the right bank of the Euphrates, the center of a very fertile plain, where wheat, fruit, ESCALATOR-CLEAT TYPE wines, and cotton are produced in large quantities. Iron and sulphur springs are also abundant in the vicinity. It was the object of a special campaign by the Russian Caucasian Army, which resulted in its capture by the Russians on July 25, 1916. Since the war it has become part of the territory of the new Armenian state. Pop. about 18,000, half being Mohammedans and half Christian Armenians.
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the eldest son of Isaac, and twin brother of Jacob. His name (which signifies rough, hairy) was due to his singular appearance at birth, being "red, and all over like an hairy garment." His story is told in the book of Genesis. He was the progenitor of the Edmonites, who dwelt on Mount Seir.
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an elevator in the form of a moving stairway. It is the most efficient machine for handling people in large numbers when the distance to be traveled is not excessive. The passengers travel on the moving treads and a single large-size escalator will deliver more than 10,000 persons per hour. Its use is principally for department stores, railroad and subway stations, theaters, and for large manufacturing plants where great numbers of employees must be transported quickly between the entrance to the building and the upper floors. They are made reversible for operation in opposite directions during different periods of the day.
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a city and county-seat of Delta co., Mich., on the N. end of Green Bay, at the mouth of the Escanaba river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad; 52 miles N. E. of Marinette. It is the grain and vegetable raising and lumbering center of the county and an important iron-shipping point. It has passenger and freight steamer connections with all the leading ports on the Great Lakes, public high school, St. Joseph's high school, public library, daily and weekly newspapers, and a National bank. Pop. (1910) 13,194; (1920) 13,103.
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The pinion on the escape wheel staff.
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The kind of escapement used also affects the time of vibration; for instance, it is found that, while with the recoil escapement increased motive power and greater arc causes the clock to gain, the contrary effect is produced with the dead-beat escapement. The pendulum error may, therefore, be aggravated or neutralized by the escapement error.
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The angle included in the oscillation of a pendulum or lever from the time one tooth of the escape wheel passes from one pallet to the next.
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in theology , the "doctrine respecting the last things ," which treats of the millennium, the second advent of Christ, the resurrection, judgment, conflagration of the world, and the final state of the dead.
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WOLFRAM VON ( esh'en-bäch), a German mediæval poet; born of a noble family in Eschenbach, near Ansbach, Bavaria, in the second half of the 12th century. He was one of the most prominent minstrels at the was begun in 1563 and finished in 1584, and was intended to serve as a palace, splendid chapel with three naves 320 mausoleum, and monastery. It has a feet long and 320 in height to the top of tomb, is a magnificently decorated octathe cupola. The pantheon, or royal gon chamber 36 feet in diameter by 38 feet in height, in the eight sides of which Its library, previous to the sack by are numerous black marble sarcophagi. French in 1808, contained 30,000 printed and 4,300 MS. volumes , mainly treasures by the of Arabic literature . In 1872 the escurial was struck by lightning and partially burned. ESCALATOR-STEP TYPE court of Hermann, Landgraf of Thuringia; and his epics rank among the greatest German imaginative works. Besides several love songs he wrote "Parcival," "Wilhelm von Orange ," and "Titurel." He died between 1218 and 1225.
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esh'sholts, Johann, (1793-1834), a German naturalist. He was born at Dorpat, and, though he traveled widely, he died there. He was professor of anatomy in the university of his native town. As a physician and naturalist Eschscholtz accompanied the Russian navigator, Kotzebue, in exploring expeditions in the Pacific, 1815-18 and 1823-26. Eschscholtz Bay on the coast of Alaska was named for him. The California state flower, the delicate, yellow-flowered Eschscholtzia, bears his name. Eschscholtz published several volumes, including a Zoological Atlas and a System of Acalephae, the latter being a work on jelly fishes and allied forms.
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city of Prussia, situated on the Inde, eight miles N. E. of Aix-la- Chapelle, in the Rhine province. It is the center of a rich wineproducing region . Following the armistice which concluded the World War, it became part of the territory occupied by the Allied forces as a guarantee of the fulfillment of the provisions Treaty of Peace. ons of the
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a famous monastery of New Castle, Spain, in the province of Madrid. This solitary pile of granite has been called the eighth wonder of the world, and at the time of itsrection surpassed over other build ing of the kind in size and magnificence. It owes its origin, it is said, to an inspired vow made by Philip II. during the battle of St. Quentin, who promised St. Lorenzo that, should victory be granted to him , he would dedicate a monastery to the saint. The escurial Vol. IV-Cyc-D e'lon), a plain extending across Pales-
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PLAIN OF (ez-dratine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan, and drained by the river Kishon. Among its subsidiary valleys are those of Engannin, Taanach, and Megiddo. portant events in Old Testament history. This plain is celebrated for many imphal books, which in the Vulgate and
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