These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Gillingham, Gillmore, Gilman.
a town of Dorsetshire, England, on the Stour, 22 miles W. of Salisbury. It is the center of a fruitgrowing district. Near it are the "Pen Pits," thought variously to be quarry holes or prehistoric dwellings.
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QUINCY ADAMS, an American military officer; born in Black River, Lorair. co., O., Fe Feb. 28, 1825; graduated at West Point in 1849. He was promoted captain in 1861, and Brigadier-General of volunteers early in 1862. He displayed skill as an engineer by the capture of Fort Pulaski in April, 1862, and was appointed commander of Department of the South in June, 1863. He made a successful attack on Morris Island in July, 1863, began to bombard Fort Sumter and Charleston in August, and took Fort Wagner in September; Fort Sumter was reduced to a ruinous condition, dut its garrison continued to hold it till Feb. 17, 1865. General Gillmore commanded the 10th Corps near Richmond in 1864, and was brevetted Major-General U. S. A., in 1865. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 7, 1888.
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INEZ HAYNES, an American author, born of American parents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1873; received her common school education in Boston, then took a special course in Radcliffe College, from 1897 to 1900. She was first married to Rufus Hamilton Gillmore, and later to William H. Irwin. Together with Maud Wood Park she founded the National College of the Equal Suffrage League. She is the author of "June Jeopardy" (1908); "Maida's Little Shop" (1910); "Phoebe and Ernest" (1910); "Janey" (1911); "Phoebe, Ernest and Cupid" (1912); "Angel Island" (1914); "The Ollivant Orphans" (1915); "The Lady of Kingdoms" (1917); "The Happy Years" (1919), and many short stories published in American magazines.
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NICHOLAS PAINE, educator; born in Quincy, Ill., Ill., Dec. 21, 1849; was graduated at Harvard Divinity School in 1871; editor of the Boston "Literary World" in 1888-1895; then became Professor of Sociology and Ethics in the Meadville Theological School. His publications include "Profit-Sharing Between Employer and Employee"; "Socialism and the American Spirit." He died in 1912.
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CHARLOTTE PERKINS, an American lecturer and writer, born in Hartford, Conn., 1860. In 1890 she began lecturing on ethics, economics and sociology, and especially on the place of women in the social structure. She is one of the chief exponents of modern feminism. Since 1909 she has edited and published "The Forerunner," a magazine dedicated to women and economics. She was the author of; "Women and Economics" (1898); "In This Our World 15 (verse, 1898); "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1899); "Concerning Children" (1900); "The Home; Its Work and Influence" (1903); "Human Work" (1904); "What Diantha Did" (1910); "The Man Made World" (1910); ); "The Crux" (1911); "Moving the Mountain" (1911).
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DANIEL COIT, an Amerieducator; can born in Norwich, Conn., " July 6, 1831; was graduated at Yale College in 1852; Professor of Physical and Political Geography in Yale in 1856- 1872; president of the University of California in 1872-1875. When Johns Hopkins University was founded in Baltimore, Md., in 1875, he was elected its first president and served in that capacity till 1901, when he resigned and became editor-in-chief of the revised edition of the "International Cyclopædia." In 1896-1897 he was a member of the commission to settle the boundary line between Venezula and British Guiana. His publications include "Life of James Monroe"; "University Problems"; "Introduction" to DeTocqueville's Democracy in America," etc. In 1901 Gilman was elected president of the Carnegie Institute at Washington. He died on Oct. 18, 1908.
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Patrick Sarsfield (1829-1892), an Irish-American bandmaster. He was born near Dublin, Ireland. At the age of eighteen he went to Boston, and soon after organized Gilmore's Band. He arranged the Peace Jubilee in Boston in 1819 and the World's Jubilee in 1872. He composed military and dance music. Columbia, intended as a national hymn, is his most noted composition.
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or JILOLO (jē-lōlō), an island of the Molucca group in the Indian Archipelago; area 6,500 square miles. It is of singular form, consisting of four peninsulas, radiating from a common center, and having large bays between. It is rugged and mountainous. The principal productions are sago, cocoanuts, uts, spices, fruits, edible birds'-nests, horses cattle , and sheep. The original inhabitants, called Alfoories, have been gradually pressed into the interior by the Malays.
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a variety of asphalt found as a deposit in Utah, stated to be the purest bitumen occurring naturally. Its color is a brilliant, lustrous black, but on exposure to air it breaks down into a brown powder. Specific gravity, 1.067. Soluble in alcohol, turpentine and carbon bisulphide. Used in the manufacture of varnishes, and for insulating and waterproofing.
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A contrivance for securing free motion and suspension of a ship's chronometer, compass, etc., so that it may not be affected by the motion of the ship. It is virtually a universal joint. It was invented by Cardan and first applied to timepieces by Huyghens. GODDARD, LUTHER. One of the earliest manufacturers of American watches. In 1809 he opened a small shop in Shrewsbury, Mass., and commenced to manufacture watches of the verge pattern, as shown in Fig. 151, in somewhat larger quantities than had been attempted before. He could not compete in price, however, with the cheap foreign watches which were then being imported in large quantities, and accordingly he retired from the business in 1817, having manufactured about 500 watches. This was the greatest number of watches ever made by any one manufacturer in America up to this time.
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jin'jer, a well known spice or flavoring. The common ginger plant is found in both the East and the West Indies . Thick, fleshy, root-stocks, the size of a man's finger, send up leafy, reed-like stems to a height of two or three feet; also leafless flowering stalks which bear conical spikes of white, purple-lipped flowers. The ginger of commerce is obtained from the root-stocks, either by drying the root whole, or by scraping and washing. The former plan yields what is known as black ginger; the latter, white ginger. The best article is known as Jamaica ginger, sold usually in the form of fluid extract. It comes from the island of that name. It is difficult to procure pure ground ginger. Ginger beer is made from ginger, sugar and lemons, cream of tartar , etc. Gingerbread is a familiar sweet bread. Oil of ginger is used as a remedy to allay pain. Preserved ginger is a popular confection. It is imported from China in fancy jars. To prepare it the young root-stocks are boiled in sirup. American wholesalers import over 400,000 pounds of ginger annually. See Spice Ginger. Flower stem. Blossom. Calyx
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