Fukuoka
a city of Japan, on the north coast of Kiushiu. It has a number of important buildings, including a castle, and has a public garden. Pop. about 85,000.
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These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Fukuoka, Fullam, Fuller.
Fullam
or FULHAM (from Fulham, a suburb of London, England, which was a notorious resort of blacklegs in the reign of Queen Elizabeth), false dice.
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Fuller
Margaret. See Ossoli
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Fuller
SARAH MARGARET. See OSSOLI, MARCHIONESS D'.
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Fuller
MELVILLE WESTON, an American jurist; born in Augusta, Me., Feb. 11, 1833; was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1853; admitted to the bar in 1855; settled in Chicago, Ill., in 1856; and practiced there till 1888. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Conventions of 1864, 1872, 1876, and 1880; and was appointed chief-justice of the United States Supreme Court April 30, 1888. In 1904-1905 Gr Great Britain appointed him a commissioner to arbitrate at the Hague Court the case of the French flag at Muscat. He died in 1910.
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Fuller (HENRY BLAKE an American author)
HENRY BLAKE, an American author; born, of New England blood, in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 9, 1857. He was inmercantile career, but tended for a entered literature with "The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vari" (new ed. 1892), and "The Châtelaine of La Trinité" (1892). He next wrote "The Cliff Dwellers" (1893), and "With the Procession" (1895), "The Puppet-Booth" (1896), "From the Other Side" (1898), short stories; "The Last Refuge" (1900); "Waldo Trench and Others" (1908).
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Fuller (THOMAS an English his torian)
THOMAS, an English his torian; born in June, 1608. He was a presbyter of the Established Church and a prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral. He was a voluminous writer. His works include: "David's Heinous Sin" (1631), a poem; "History of the Holy War" (1639); "A Pisgah Sight of Palestine" (1650); "Church History of Britain" (1655). The one work for which he is now esteemed is "The Worthies of England" (folio, 1662). He died in London, England, Aug. 16, 1661.
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Fuller's Earth
in mineralogy, smectite; an argillaceous earth, used by fullers to absorb the oil or grease with which woolen cloth has been treated during previous manufacture. Also kaolinite. In geology, a stratum belonging to the Lower Oölite, in some instances, lyin ing certain loca localities, just below the Great Oölite, while in others it is wholly absent. Its characteristic fossil is an oyster (Ostrea acuminata). In all about 60 mollusca are found in the fuller's earth, 50 being lamellibranchiate bivalves, 10 brachiopoda, three gasteropods, and seven or eight cephalopoda.
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Fulton (City of Missouri)
a city of Missouri, the county-seat of Callaway co. It is on the Chicago and Alton railroad. The city is the center of an important agricultural and stock-raising region and of coal and fire clay deposits. Its industries include the manufacture of flour, fire brick, and overalls. It is the seat of the State School for the Deaf, State Hospital No. 1, an insane asylum, Westminster College, Synodical College, Conservatory of Music, and William Woods College. Pop. (1910) 5,228; (1920) 5,595.
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Fulton (City of New York in Oswego co)
a city of New York, in Oswego co. It is on the Oswego river, the Oswego canal, and the New York Central, the Lackawanna, and the New York, Ontario, and Western railroads. The city has an important trade in milk and tobacco, and has manufactures of chocolate, flour, woolen goods, paper, pulp, cutlery, paper-mill machinery, motor boats, etc. It has a public library and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 10,480; (1920) 13,043.
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Fulton, Robert
Robert (1765-1815), the earliest builder of a successful steamboat. He was a native of Pennsylvania. In 1786 he went to England to study portrait painting. After a few years he turned his attention to engineering and inventions. He acquainted himself with the latest attempts at steam navigation in England and France. He is credited with the invention of the torpedo, which he vainly endeavored to bring to the attention of Napoleon. In 1806 he returned to America full of his new ideas, and began experimenting in the application of steam to the propelling of boats. In 1807 his steamboat, the Clermont, made the trip successfully from New York to Albany, and ran with regularity for some time thereafter on the Hudson River . This was the beginning of permanent steamboat navigation on the rivers of the United States . See Steamboat ; Fitch ; Hudson
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Funchal
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) the capital and seaport of the island of Madeira, in the center of a large bay on the S. coast. It is irregularly built; the streets are narrow, winding, ill-paved, and dirty. An old castle, which commands the roads, stands on the top of a steep, black rock, called Loo Rock, surrounded by the sea at high water. The entire produce of the island, consisting mostly of wine and sweetmeats, is exported from Funchal. Pop. about 20,000, among whom are many 1 2 امساله 1. Fly Mushroom 2. Sulphur Tuft English, French, Portuguese, and mulatto and negro freedmen. See MADEIRA.
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Funck-Brentano
THEOPHILE (fönk-bren-tä nö), a French philosophical and critical writer; born in Luxemburg, Aug. 20, 1830. His thorough studies in law and medicine imparted to his philosophical writings an exactitude of thought and inspired a special stress on method, as in "New Thoughts and Maxims" (1858); "Exact Thought in Philosophy" (1869); "Greek Sophists and Contemporary English Sophists" (1879); "The French Sophists" (1905).
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Function
in physiology, the proper of any organ in the office animal or vegetable economy. Thus the function of the lachrymal gland is to secrete tears; of the liver, to secrete bile; of the stomach, gastric juice, the fluid to digest the food. The three most important of all the functions, as those of the heart, lungs, and brain, are called the vital functions, from being necessary for the support of the living body. In mathematics, one quantity is said to be a function of another, or of several others, when its value depends on those of the latter. Thus the area of a triangle is a function of its three sides, and y=a+bx+cx² is a function of a, b, c, and x. Functions receive distinctive names according to the nature of the dependence above referred to. Thus the function above written is said to be an algebraical function of x, since y is obtainable from a by the performance of a limited and definite number of algebraical operations. Log x, sin x, a", on the other hand, are said to be transcendental functions of a, and for obvious reasons receive the distinctive names of logarithmic, trigonometrical and exponential functions.
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