These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Forecastle, Foreign Wars, Forelands.
a short deck placed in front of a ship above the upper deck. It is generally terminated at each end, in ships of war, by a breastwork, the foremast part reaching to the beak-head, and the after portion reaching to the fore-chains. This part of a ship used to be very much elevated in former times, for the accommodation of archers and cross-bowmen; whence the term forecastle.
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MILITARY ORDER OF, a hereditary, patriotic organization formed in New York in 1894. During the first year it was known as the Military and Naval Order of the United States, but the name was changed to its present one in 1895. The foreign wars referred to are the War of the Revolution, the War with Tripoli, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the War with Spain and the objects are to preserve the names of those engaged in them and collect the records. The members include Veteran Companions, consisting of commissioned officers of the army, navy, and marine corps, who took part in the wars, and Hereditary Companions, descendants of commissioned officers who so participated. When the World War broke out the State commanderies numbered 20, and the membership was over 1,500.
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NORTH and SOUTH, two headlands on the S. E. coast of England, and on the E. seaboard of the county of Kent: the first, or North Foreland, forms the N. E. angle of the county; it projects into the sea in the form of a bastion, and consists of chalky cliffs nearly 200 feet in height. A lighthouse of the first class, having a fixed light elevated 340 feet above the level of the sea, was erected on this promontory in 1688. The South Foreland, about 16 miles S. of the former, consists also of chalky cliffs, and has two lighthouses, with fixed lights, erected upon it, to warn ships coming from the S. of their approach to the Goodwin Sands. The North Foreland is made, by Act of Parliament, the S. E. extremity of the port of London.
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or PREDESTI- NATION, according to the Calvinistic view, the predestination before the foundation of the world of some to eternal life and others to eternal death. In the authorized version of the Scriptures, the word foreordination does not appear at all, and the word foreordain does not occur in this sense, but ordain does: "And as as were ordained to eternal life believed" (Acts xiii: 48); "Who were of old ordained to this condemnation" (Jude 4, 13).
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a borough of Pennsylvania, in Susquehanna co. It is on the Delaware and Hudson, the Erie, and the New York, Ontario, and Western railroads. Its chief industries are coal mining and the manufacture of silk. It is also the center of an important agri- agr cultural region. Pop. (1910) 5,749; (1920) 6,004.
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a city of Illinois, in Cook co. It is 4 miles beyond the city limits of Chicago. It is on the Chicago Great Western, the Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago Terminal, and the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroads. It is also on the Des Plaines river. The town is a suburb of Chicago, and within its borders are several cemeteries. Pop. (1910) 6,594; (1920) 10,768.
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INDEPENDENT ORDER OF, a benevolent and fraternal organization founded at Newark, N. J., in 1874 and reorganized in 1881. The order has members throughout the United States and Canada, with branches in Great Britain, France, Norway, Australia, and India. The responsibility for government is vested in a supreme court which sits in Toronto, Can., while high courts attend to the affairs of the order in the different States of the Union and in countries where branches exist. The number of members is now about 260,000, and the disbursements have amounted to over $50,000,000. In the United States there are a high court, and about 4,200 subordinate courts.
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AMER- ICAN. An association organized in 1882 and incorporated in 1897, having among its purposes the promotion of a businesslike use of the forest resources of the United States, the advancement of legislation to that end and the inauguration of forest administration by the Federal Government and States, and the diffusion of knowledge in respect to the conservation and utilization of forests. As a result of its work committees have investigated forest conditions and issued reports of great value in forest renewal and management. The members number over 5,000. The headquarters are in Washington, D. C., and there a magazine, "American Forestry," is issued each month.
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or ANGUS, a maritime county of Scotland, in the east midland division. It has an area of 873 square miles. The surface is for the most part irregular and intersected with hills. It is an agricultural and stockraising county. Its chief industries are the manufacture of jute and linen. Pop. about 285,000. The capital is Forfar.
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in English law, is a punishment annexed to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of real property, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and it goes to the party injured, as a recompense for the wrong which either he alone or the public with him has sustained. Forfeitures are either civil or criminal. Civil forfeiture takes place when some alienation is made contrary to law, as in mortmain; or when a particular tenant aliens for a larger estate than he himself has, as when a tenant for life makes a conveyance in fee. Forfeiture for criminal causes takes place in treason or felony, and for one or two other offenses. Forfeiture by alienation is almost unknown in the United States, and the just principle prevails that the conveyance by the tenant operates only on the interest which he possessed, and does not affect the remainder man or reversioner. Constitution and laws of the Under the United States, forfeiture for crimes is nearly abolished; and when it occurs, the State recovers only the title which the owner had. An estate may be forfeited by a breach or non-performance of a condition annexed to the estate, either expressed in the deed at its original creation, or implied by law, from a principle of natural reason.
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