These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Fort Lee, Fort Madison, Fort Scott.
a borough of New Jersey, in Bergen co. It is connected by ferry with New York City. Several important moving picture studios are located here. It has the Institute of the Holy Angels. During the Revolutionary War one of the forts defending the Hudson was situated here. Pop. (1910) 4,474; (1920) 5,761.
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a city of Iowa, the county-seat of Lee co. It is on the Missouri river, and on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads. Its industries include pork packing, railroad shops, grain elevators, cement works, flour and saw mills, farm-implement works, button works, etc. It is the seat of the State penitentiary and has a public library, two hospitals, and several parks. Pop. (1910) 8,900; (1920) 12,066.
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a city of Kansas, the county-seat of Bourbon county. It is on the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and the railroads. It is also on Missouri Pacific the Marmaton river. It is the center of important deposits of coal, cement, clay, zinc, and lead. The industries include foundry and machine shops, flour mills, cement works, and manufactures of harness, medicines, etc. Pop. (1910) 10,463; ) 10,693. (1920
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a city of Arkansas, one of the county-seats of Sebastian co. It is at the junction of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers, and is on the St. Louis Cenand San Francisco, the Arkansas tral, the Midland Valley, the Kansas City Southern, the Fort Smith and Western, and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroads. It is an important wholesale jobbing center for the surrounding country, and has a large trade in coal, cotton, lumber, etc. Its industries include saw and planing mills, iron and steel mills, and manufactures of , brooms, stoves, overalls, refrigerators the etc. The river is spanned within city limits by four steel bridges. It has a United States court house and post office, a high school, a public library, a city park, several hospitals, and a na- 23,975 tional cem cemetery. Pop. (1910) ; (1920) 28,870.
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a city and countyseat of Allen co., Ind.; at the confluence of the St. Mary and St. Joseph rivers, and on the Wabash, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Lake Erie and Western, the Grand Rapids and Indiana, the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville, and other railroads; 43 miles S. W. of Defiance, O. It is built on a high plateau, covers an area of about 10 square miles, and is popularly known as Summit City. Here are a United States Government building, several county buildings, Concordia College (Luth.), and several other educational institutions, Hope and St. Joseph Hospitals. Fort Wayne has street railroads, electric lights, sewerage system, improved waterworks, several National banks, and numerous daily, weekly, and indusmonthly periodicals. Among the tries are extensive railroad, machine and repair shops which occupy many acres, flour mills, knitting mills, oil-tank works, and packing houses. The French visited this locality about 1700, and shortly afterward a trading post named Fort Miami was founded. The English constructed a fort near the place in 1760. General Wayne located a government post here in 1794. Pop. (1910) 63,933; (1920) 86,549.
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a city of Canada, in the Thunder Bay District, in the Province of Ontario. It is on the Kaministiquia river, at its entrance into excellent Lake Superior. The city has harbor facilities and carries on a large lake traffic. It is the head of lake naviengation on Lake Superior and is the trance of the wheat fields of western Canada. It has repair shops of the Grand Trunk Pacific, Canadian Pacific, . Its and Canadian Northern railroads industries include flour mills, stove and car-wheel works, machine-shop, foundries, shipbuilding, brickyards, breweries, etc. The city has a large number of grain elevators. There is a number of fine public buildings including a city hall, a court house, hospitals, parks, a library, and a collegiate institute. Pop. (1920) about 20,000.
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a river of Scotland, rising on the E. side of Ben Lomond, in Stirlingshire. After a sinuous course E. past Aberfoyle, Stirling, and Alloa, it unites with an arm of the sea called the Firth of Forth. Its chief affluents are the Teith, Allan, and Devon . The Firth at its mouth is 35 or 40 miles wide, from Fife Ness on the N., to St. Abb's Head on the S. shore, both washed by the German Ocean. It contains several islands, of which the chief are Inchgarvie, Inchcolm, Inchkeith, the Bass, and the Isle of May; the largest of these is but a few miles in circuit . Lighthouses are erected on Inchkeith and on the Isle of May. The Forth possesses many good harbors, and St. Margaret's Hope, above Queen's Ferry, is one of the safest roadsteads in the island . Length of river, including its "links," 180 miles.
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a remarkable work in engineering, spanning the Firth of Forth in Scotland ; completed and formally opened on March 4, 1890. The construction was begun early in 1883, and the total cost up to the time of completion may be given in round numbers as $16,000,000. Total length, upward of 1½ miles; cantilever arms projection (outer), 680 feet; depth of cantilevers 42 over piers, 342 feet; depth at ends, 41 feet; distance apart of lower members at piers, 120 feet; struts, largest diameter, 8 feet; ties , greatest length, 327 feet; central girder, span, 350 feet; central girder, depth at center, 51 feet; central girder, depth at end ends, 41 feet; total amount of steel in bri bridge, over 50,000 tons, height of cantilever pier (masonry) above water , 209 feet. The designers of the bridge were Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker.
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A powerful deity among the ancients, daughter of Oceanus, according to Homer, or one of the Parcae, according to Pindar. She was the goddess of Fortune, and bestowed riches or poverty on mankind. Fortunatae or -orum Insulae (The Islands of the Blessed). The early Greeks, as we learn from Homer, placed the Elysian Fields, into which favored heroes passed without dying, at the extremity of the earth, near the river Oceanus. In poems later than Homer an island is spoken of as their abode; and though its position was of course indefinite, the poets, and the geographers who followed them, placed it beyond the Pillars of Hercules . Hence, when certain islands were discovered in the ocean, off the west coast of Africa, the name of Fortunatae Insulae was applied to them. They are now called the Canary and Madeira islands. or 2026 Editor's Note: In Roman iconography, Fortuna was frequently depicted with a ship's rudder, a wheel, or a horn of plenty. The deity's popularity persisted through the Middle Ages and Renaissance largely due to the late antique author Boethius, who framed her as a personification of the hidden will of God. (Ed: BR 2026-06-01)
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