These 6 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Eylau, Eyre.
A common chisel or pointed bar with an eye forged at the opposite end--a useful implement in a foundry. Eye-bolt is an ordinary bolt with a round or oval eye at one end to receive a hook, rope, or chain. Bolts of this class may be put to an infinite variety of uses in the foundry, if general arrangements for lifting cores, flasks, etc., are made favorable to their adoption. A welded ring in the eye changes it into a ring-bolt.
Only in The Encyclopedia of Founding
In the time of Queen Elizabeth there came among the cattle of Ireland a disease whereby they grew blind. The witches to whose malevolence this evil was attributed were called eye-biters, and many of them were executed. F
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A circular disk of iron containing a central sheet of mica, usually placed opposite to each tuyere, on the wind-box of the cupola; its object being to permit a view of the inside through the transparent mica. It works on a pivot, so that if necessary it may be moved aside and access had to the inside of the cupola if it is desired to remove any accumulated slag from the tuyere. See CUPOLA; SLAG; TUYERE; WIND-BOX.
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a town of 3,600 inhabitants, 23 miles S. of Königsberg by rail. Here Napoleon encountered the allies-Russians and Prussians-under Bennigsen, Feb. 8, 1807. Darkness came on while the contest was still undecided; but as Napoleon had a considerable force of fresh troops close at hand, the allies retired during the night on Königsberg. Their loss is estimated at about 20,000; that of the French is set down at 10,000, but must have been considerably greater. The place is called Preussisch-Eylau, to distinguish it from Deutsch-Eylau, a town of about 5,000 inhabitants, 89 miles N. E. of Bromberg.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) EDWARD JOHN (ar), an colonial gover- Australian explorer and nor; born in August, 1815. He emigrated to Australia at the age of 17. In 1840 he failed in an attempt to explore the region between South and Western Australia, though he discovered Lake Torrens. He accomplished the task in 1841. In 1846 he became lieutenant-governor of New Zealand, and in 1854 of St. Vincent in the West Indies. In 1864 he was appointed governor of Jamaica, disturbances broke where in 1865 negro out. The outbreak was suppressed with rigid severity. A commission sent to inquire, found that Eyre had acted unjustly in one case and he was recalled. On his return he was prosecuted by a committee of whom John Stuart Mill was the most prominent; Thomas Carlyle, Charles
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BOOK OF Kingsley, and Sir R. Murchison promoted the Eyre defense fund. The prosecutions could not, however, be sustained; government and eventually in 1872 the refunded to Eyre the costs of his defense. He died Dec. 1, 1901. EYRE, LAKE, a salt lake of South Australia, lying due N. of Spencer Gulf, at a depression of 38 feet, and with an area of 3,706 square miles. Except in the season of rains, this lake is generally a mere salt marsh. It was discovered in 1840 by Eyre. EZEKIEL, one of the greater prophets, to whom is attributed one of the larger of the Old Testament, prophetic books the visions and utterances which it conexpressly attributed, in the tains being work itself, to Ezekiel. He was the son of Buzi, a priest (i: 3). He was carried captive, in the time of Jehoiachin, 595 B. C., about 11 years before the destruction of Jerusalem under Zedekiah (xl: 1). There is no direct quotation from Ezekiel in the New Testament, but there are a few allusions to his utterances, especially in the Book of Revelations. The genuineness and authenticity of the prophecies of Ezekiel have not been seriously impugned either in the Jewish or Christian Church.
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