These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Gilboa, Gilder, Gildersleeve.
a chain of hills between 500 and 600 feet high, overhanging the site of the ancient city of Jezreel, and ris rising between the fertile plain of Esdraelon on the W. and the green valley of the Jordan on the E. It is memorable as the scene of the defeat and death of King Saul and his three sons at the hands of the Philistines.
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JEANNETTE LEONARD, an American literary critic and editor, born in Flushing, L. I., N. Y., 1849. She was first associated with her brother, Richard Watson Gilder, in the editorial management of "Scribner's Monthly," now known as the "Century Magazine." Later she also became associated with another brother, Joseph B. Gilder, as editor of "The Critic," after which, in 1906, she became connected with "Put- Vol. IV-Cyc-U nam's Magazine." She wrote "Pen Portraits of Literary Women" (1887); "Essays from The Critic" (1882); "Authors at Home" (1889); "Autobiog- Tomboy" (1900); "The raphy of a Tomboy at Work" (1904); and other collections and compilations. In 1909 she established and edited "The Reader," a guide for book buyers. She died in 1916.
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RICHARD WATSON, an "American editor; born in Bordentown, N. J., Feb. 8, 1844; received a private school education; served with the Union army during the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863; was connected with the daily newspaper press and monthly periodicals till 1881, when he became editor-in-chief of "The Century." His publications, chiefly in poetry, include "The New Day"; "The Celestial Two Worlds"; Passion"; "Lyrics"; "T s": " "The Great Remembrance"; "In Palestine"; etc. He died Nov. 18, 1909.
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BASIL LANNEAU, an American classical scholar; born in Charleston, S. C., Oct. 23, 1831; gradstudied uated at Princeton in 1849, and in Germany for several years. He was professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Virginia from 1856 to 1876, when he was appointed Professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins University. He is the founder and editor of the "American Journal of Philology." Among his works are: "Persius" (1875); "Justin Martyr" (1875); "Odes of Pindar." He has published ed a Latin grammar and a volume of "Essays and Studies"; "Hellas and Hesperia" (1909); and with C. W. Miller "S " Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes” (1900-1911); "Creed of the Old South" (1915).
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a mountainous district on the E. side of the Jordan, bounded by the Hieromax (Yarmuk), Arabia, Moab and Ammon, and the Jordan. The district was given to the tribes of Manasseh, Reuben, because of the multi- Gad, and and tude of their cattle, and as a frontier land which was exposed to invasion. There is mention of Gilead in Gen. xxxvii. Ramoth (Es-Salt), Jabesh, and Jazer are three of the cities mentioned in Scripture.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities 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) an ancient city near the Jordan, where the Israelites passed the river into Caanan, where they were circumcised and held the first Passover after leaving the desert (Joshua iv: 19). Here rested the tabernacle, till removed to Shiloh; here Samuel held court as judge of Israel, and here Saul was crowned. It is frequently mentioned in the Bible; a school of the prophets was established here (II Kings iv: 38), yet it afterward became a seat of heathen worship (Amos iv: 4). Josephus places it within 2 miles of Jericho, but no traces of it are at this day extant.
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or GILGIT (gil-git'), a valley and district in Kashmir, India, on the S. slope of the Hindu Kúsh, and watered by the Gilgit, or Yasm, a tributary of the Indus.
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an American flowering plant allied to phlox and the garden sweet william . Numerous species are found on the plains and in the mountains as far west as the Pacific coast. Gilias vary greatly from low matted plants clinging to the crevices of a mountain slope to tall, imposing meadow plants. The gilia of the west corresponds to the phlox of the east.
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DAVID, SIR a Scotch astronomer; born in Aberdeen, June 12, 1843; educated at Marischal College. He was chief of staff of Lord Lindsay's observatory, founded in 1870; in charge of Lindsay's expedition to Mauritius in 1874 to observe the transit of Venus and the opposition of Juno, by means of the heliometer, for the determination of the solar parallax. He determined the longitudes of Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Aden, Bombay, Seychelles, Reunion, Mauritius, and Rodriguez by cable and chronometers, and measured the first base-line for the Egyptian triangulation at the request of the khedive. In 1877 he was in charge of the expedition to Ascension to observe the opposition of Mars for parallax; and in 1879 appointed director of the Cape Observatory. In 1896-1897, he made the first geodetic survey of Natal, Cape Colony, and Rhodesia. He introduced cataloguing the stars by photographs. Wrote "History of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope" (1913). He died in 1914.
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a net suspended in a stream, having meshes which allow the heads of the fish to pass, and which catch in the gills to prevent the fish from detaching itself.
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in ichthyology, one of the rudimentary gills constituted by sacs, occurring in the myxinoids and lampreys. A gill of the ordinary fishes is the homologue, not of a single gill sac, but of the continuous halves of two of them.
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a variety of the common trout, in which the coats of the stomach are said to be thickened like the gizzard of birds by feeding on shell-fish.
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ST. (san zhēl), a town in the department of Gard, France, 12 miles S. S. W. of Beaucaire. Its territory produces a strong red wine, which is exported.
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WILLIAM, an American playwright; born in Hartford, Conn., July 24, 1855. He is the author of several successful plays, in many of which he has assumed the leading parts. Among his best-known productions are: "The Professor" (1881); "Esmeralda" (1881), with Mrs. F. H. Burnett; "The Private Secretary"; "Held by the Enemy" (1886); "A Legal Wreck" (1888); "Too Much Johnson" (1895); and "Secret Ser- "Sherlock vice" (1896); "Sherlock Holmes"; "Clarice"; etc.
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