East Youngstown
a village of Ohio, in Mahoning co. It is on the Balti more and Ohio railroad, and on the Mahoning river. Its chief industry is the manufacture of iron. Pop. (1910) 4,972; (1920) 11,237.
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These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as East Youngstown, Eastbourne, Easter Island.
Eastbourne
a favorite English watering place, especially for the wealthier classes, in the Rape of Pevensey, midway between Brighton and . Hastings, and 66 miles S. of London Pop. (1918) 48,784.
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Easter Island
a lonely Pacific islet in lat. 27° 8' S., and lon. 109° 24' W.; discovered by Roggeveen on Easter day, 1722, visited in 1773 by Captain Cook; is 47 square miles in area; entirely volcanic, with many extinct craters rising more than 1,000 feet; and is fertile, but with little water. Sheep and cattle grazing was started by a French house in Tahiti, after the departure in 1878 of the missionaries, with 300 natives, for the Gambian Archipelago, 500 having been shipped to Tahiti four years earlier. The natives still left are fair Polynesians; between 1860 and 1882 they dwindled from 3,000 to 150, as well from polyandry as from emigration. They have little to say as to the origin of the picturesque remains that have made Easter Island famous. These include over 500 rude stone statues or busts, possibly portraits of famous persons, not idols, varying from 3 feet high to 70. The There are besides 100 stone houses, with painted interiors and (undeciphered) incised tablets. Most of the natives were carried off in 1863 by the Peruvians to work guano. The island has been, since 1888, a Chilean convict station.
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Eastern Church
the Greek Church which formerly had its chief seat at Co Constantinople, and for its chief ruler the patriarch of that capital, as distinguished from the Western Church which had its metropolis at Rome and was ruled by the papacy.
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Eastern Empire
the empire which had its metropolis at Constantinople, as distinguished from the Western one which had its capital at Rome. The name did not begin with the building of Co Constantinople; it arose when, hen, in A. D. 394 394 , Valentinian, himself ruling ruling at the capital just mentioned, made his brother Valens Emperor of the East. It came still more into use when the final separation between the East and the West took place in A. D. 395. The Eastern Empire is held to have continued till 1453, when its chief city was captured by the Turks and became the Turkish capital. It is sometimes called the Lower Empire, implying that it was later in time than its more celebrated predecessor, to which, however, the name Higher is not applied.
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Eastern Star
an auxiliary order or secret society to which Free Masons and the wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, and widows of Masons are eligible. The first chapter was organized in New York in 1868. There are now twenty-eight grand chapters in as many states and over 100,000 members. The emblem of the order is a five-pointed star. See Masonry
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Easthampton
a town of Massachusetts, in Hampshire co. It includes three villages and is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and the Boston and Maine railroads. Its industries include a dyeing plant and manufactories of rubber goods, buttons, shoe webs, cotton goods, felt, yarn, etc. It is the seat of Williston Seminary and has a public library and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 8,524; (1920) 11,261.
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Eastlake
SIR CHARLES LOCK, an English artist, and critic and his torian of art; born in Plymouth, Nov. 17, 1793. His paintings were noteworthy; and in such books as "Materials for a History of Oil Painting" (1847-1869) and "History of the Gothic Revival" (1871), he manifested taste and discrimination. He died in Pisa, Italy, Dec. 14, 1865.
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Eastman
CHARLES ALEXANDER (OHIYESA), an American physician, born at Redwood Falls, Minn., in 1858. He He gradwas the son of Sioux Indians. uated from Dartmouth College in 1887, and after studying medicine became Government physician at the Pine Ridge Agency, serving until 1893. He was Indian secretary of the Y. M. C. A. from 1894 to 1897, and was in charge of the field work of that organization among the Indians. From 1897 to 1900 he was attorney for the Santee Sioux Indians at Washington, and from 1903 to 1909 held revise Sioux family an appointment to He married in 1891 Elaine names. Goodale, poet. He wrote several books on Indian life and customs. These include "Indian Boyhood" (1902); "Old Indian Days" (1907); "The Soul the Indian" (1911); "The Indian To-day" of (1915); "Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains" (1918). He also lectured on Indian life and history.
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Eastman (II)
ELAINE GOODALE, an American writer; born at Mt. Washington, Mass., in 1863. She was educated privately. She early began writing verse which attracted considerable notice. From 1883 to 1891 she was a teacher and supervisor of Indian schools. In the latter year she married Charles A. Eastman. Her writings, chiefly poetry, include "Apple Blossoms" (1878); "Little Brother o' Dreams" (1910); "Indian Legends Re-told" (1919). She was a freq requent contributor to papers and magazines on Indian subjects.
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Easton
a city and county-seat of Northampton co., Pa.; on the Delaware and Lehigh rivers; the Delaware, Morris, and Lehigh canals; the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Hudson River and the Lackawanna railroads; 67 miles N. of Philadelphia. It has extensive water power and shipping facilities, and contains the shops of the Lehigh Valley railroad, railway supply, chemical, hosiery, machine pumps, stores, blast furnaces, woolen goods, and other manufactories. The city has electric and gas lighting plants, electric street railroads, ilroads, connecting with Bethlehem and Allentow Allentown, 3 National and several private banks, high school, public library, old ladies' and children's home, daily and weekly newspapers, and is the seat of LAFAYETTE COLLEGE (q. v.). Pop. (1910) 28,523; (1920) 33,813.
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Easton
a town of Massachusetts, in Bristol co. It is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. It includes several villages. There are important manufactures of shovels, foundry products, hardware, wire goods, automobiles, etc. The city has a public library and a number of fine buildings, gifts of the Ames family. Pop. (1910) 5,139; (1920) 5,041.
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