These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Germersheim, Germinal, Germination.
a town of the Bavarian Palatinate, occupying a marshy site on the left bank of the Rhine, & miles fe in the aspires Founded in 1276, it fell into hands of the French in 1644, 1674, and 1688; and in 1793 the Austrians here defeated the French.
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the 7th month of the first French republican calendar, March 21-April 19.
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sprouting, the formation of a plantlet. Three conditions are requisite--moisture, warmth, and oxygen. Moisture softens the coverings of the seed, relaxes the embryo, and dissolves and renders available the plant food stored by nature in the seed. Air supplies oxygen. Warmth stimulates vital action, just how cannot be known until we know what life is. The temperature requisite to promote germination varies for different seeds. Some seeds sprout at the temperature of ice water; others require a temperature of 60 deg. F. to start. Wheat, the hardiest of our cereals, sprouts at a temperature of 36 deg. F. Experience has found that the germination of wheat, rye, oats, and flax goes forward most rapidly at a temperature of from 77 deg. to 87 deg. F., and that corn and pumpkin seeds sprout best at 92 deg. to 101 deg. F. Corn that will sprout in three days at 65 deg. F. requires 11 days at 51 deg. F. Oats that sprout in two days at 65 deg. F. require 7 days at a temperature of 41 deg. F. Many seeds, especially oily seeds like mustard, may lie in the ground for years without sprouting; but, once started, it is desirable that the growth be not checked by a change of conditions, as a checked plantlet is likely to be a stunted plantlet. See Seed ; Agriculture
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a city and capital of the province of Gero Gerona, Spain; 65 miles N. E. of Barcelona. It contains a beautiful Gothic cathedral of the 14th and 15th centuries. The inhabitants carry on the manufacture of paper, corkcutting, spinning, and weaving. The town was formerly a place of great strength, and has undergone several notable sieges, particularly in 1653, 1684, 1694, 1706, and 1809, on each occasion by the French. Pop. (1918) of province 330,153; of city,
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je-ron'i-mo, an Apache chieftain. He came into notice before the Civil War as the daring and wily leader of a band of Apaches who were the scourge of Arizona and New Mexico . In 1886 he and his followers were penned up in the mountains by General Crook and were forced to surrender, but escaped while on their way to a reservation and took up their old trade of burning and plundering. Finally General Miles trailed Geronimo and his braves from canon to canon and, between starving and fighting, forced them to give up. A number of the prominent Apaches were sent to Fort Pickens. Later Geronimo was held a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he died in 1908. Geronimo ranks with Red Jacket and Tecumseh as a shrewd, fearless, determined foe of the white. His name is a synonym for atrocity.
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a number of of Sparta who, with the and kings, had State. They before they had attained the stated 60 years at. 20 Their and 32 number. is vari-
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KATHARINE FULLER- TON, an American writer, born in Brockton, Mass., in 1879. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1900. She was on the faculty of Bryn Mawr from 1901 to 1910. Her published writings include "Vain Oblations" (1914); "The Great Tradition" (1915); "Modes and Morals" (esconsays) (1919). She was a frequent tributor of stories, essays, and verse to
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PETER GOELET, a United States Senator, born in New York, 1879; graduated from Harvard , 1901; began a law practice, 1906, in Providence, R. I.; was a member of the Representative Council of Newport, R. I., 1912; delegate to the National Democratic Conventions of 1912 and 1916. He was elected to Congress from the 2d R. I. District for the term 1913-1915, and to the United States Senate for for the term 1917-1923.
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ELBRIDGE, an American orary professor. He now became an statesman; born in Marblehead, Mass., July 17, 1744; was a member of the Continental Congress in 1776-1780 and 1783- 1785; delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1789; member of Congress from Massachusetts, in 1789-1793 ; commissioner to France in 1797-1798; governor of Massachusetts in 1810-1812; and Vice-President of the United States in 1813-1814. It was during his term as governor that an unsatisfactory redistricting of the State took place, in which he was supposed to have taken part , whence arose the term "gerrymander ," now generally applied to the process of so arranging electoral districts as to give a majority of Congressmen, or State Legislators, as the case may be, to the party having the minority in the total popular vote of the State. He died in Washington, D. C., Nov. 23, 1814 .
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a department in S. W. France, separated by Landes from the Bay of Biscay; area, 2,425 square miles; capital, capital, Auch. There are parallel lines of hills in the S., separated by fan-shaped valleys which expand as they extend toward the plains in the N. The Gers and other principal rivers are tributaries of the Garonne and Adour. One-half of the surface is devoted to agriculture, and nearly a sixth to vineyards. Wine is produced in considerable quantity; a great part of it being converted into Armagnac brandy. Pop. about 222,000.
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The learned and pious chancellor of the University of Paris, who died in 1429. He was the author of the Examination of Spirits, which contained rules for distinguishing true revelations from false; and of Astrology Reformed, which had a great success.
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A sorceress of the town of Préchac in Gascogny, who confessed about the year 1608 that when a sorceress returning from the Sabbath was killed on the way, the devil was in the habit of taking her shape and making her reappear and die in her own dwelling so as to preserve her good reputation. But if he who had killed her had a wax candle about him, and made with it the sign of the cross on the body of the witch, the devil could not Ghost with all his strength remove her, and so was forced to leave her there.
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