These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Gorse, Goschen, Goslar.
a thorny shrub of the pea family, also called furze and whin. Gorse grows abundantly on the hills of northern England and Scotland. It is a bushy plant, two to four feet high, with narrow, dark, evergreen-like leaves, and a wealth of two-lipped yellow flowers. Scott, Stevenson, and other writers of Scottish adventure make much of hiding in the whin. This is the plant from which the gooseberry or gorseberry is named. See Broom ; Gooseberry
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GEORGE JOACHIM (gō' shen), an English statesman; born in London, England, Aug. 10, 1831. He was educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford. In 1863 he entered Parliament as a Liberal for the city of London. When Lord Russell, after Palmerston's death, reorganized the Liberal ministry, Goschen vice-president he appointed of the Board of Trade, in November, 1865. In the following January the latter tered the cabinet as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. When Gladstone became prime minister in 1868, Goschen took office as president of the poor-law board and in 1871 the head of the admiralty, which post he retained till the fall of the Gladstone ministry in 1874. His next public work was the regulation, the in conjunction with Joubert, of Egyptian finances (1876). In 1878 he represented Great Britain at the International Monetary Conference held at Paris, and two years afterward, as ambassador extraordinary to the Porte, enforced on Turkey the fulfillment toward Greece of the treaty of Berlin. He strenuously opposed home rule; in 1887- 1892 was Unionist Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in 1888 converted part of the national debt. In 1895-1896, as First Lord of the Admiralty, he made provision for increasing the navy. He published "Foreign Exchanges" (16th edition, 1894), besides addresses, pamphlets, books on education, etc.; and was Lord Rector of Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities. He sat for London 1863- 1880; Ripon 1880-1885; East Edinburgh 1885-1886, and St. George's, 1887-1886. He died in 1907.
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SIR WILLIAM ED- WARD, an English diplomat, born in London, in 1847. He was educated at Rugby and entered the diplomatic service in 1869. He served successively in various capacities at Buenos Aires, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Peking, Copenhagen, Washington, and St. Petersburg. From 1898 to 1900 he was Ambassador at Belgrade and filled the same post at Copenhagen from 1900 to 1905. After three years of service as Ambassador at Vienna, he was in 1908 made Ambassador to Germany. He occupied this post at the outbreak of the World War, and took part in vain efforts to persuade the German Government to refrain from hostile measures.
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a city and county-seat of Elkhart co., Ind.; on the Elkhart river and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroads; 25 Chicago miles S. E. of South Bend. It manufactures wool, rubber goods, condensed flour, and farmmilk, furniture, iron, flour, ing implements; has a court house, high school, several churches, Goshen College, library, a National bank, daily and a weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 8,514; (1920) 9,525.
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a village and county-seat of Orange co., N. Y., on the Erie, and the Lehigh and New England railroads: 59 miles N. W. of New York. It carries on a large trade in cheese and butter, which are widely celebrated for their excellence. It contains a court house, waterworks, churches, 2 National banks, and several weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 5,149; (1920) 5,016. GOSHAWK
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an ancient town of Hanover, on the N. slope of the Harz Mountains, 27 miles S. E. of Hildesheim. It was at one time a free imperial city, and the residence of the emperors; has several noteworthy old buildings, as the called "Zwinger," walls 23 tower feet thick, the late Romanesque Church Neuwerk, of the 12th century, and the Frankenberger Church (1108, restored 1880), both with ancient frescoes; the emperor's house, built in 1050 by Henry III., the dwelling-house of the emperors till the middle of the 13th century, the meeting place of more than 20 imperial diets, restored in 1867-1880; the town house, built in 1136-1184; and the Kaiserworth an old building containing statues of eight emperors. To the S. of the town is the Rammelsberg, a mountain formerly very rich in silver, gold, copper, lead, sulphur, and green vitriol. The mines have been worked since 968. Goslar was founded by Henry I. in 920. About 1350 it joined the Hanseatic League. Its ancient prosperity began to depart from it in the middle of the 16th century; and it suffered severely in the Thirty Years' War. In 1802 it ceased to be a free imperial town and fell to Prussia, to whom it again returned in 1866, after having in the meantime belonged to Westphalia (from 1807) and Hanover (from 1816). Here were born Henry IV. and Marshal Saxe. The Wordsworths were here in 1798. Pop. about 18,000.
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an orthorhombic, white, reddish, bluish, transparent or translucent, brittle mineral of vitreous luster and nauseous taste. Called aslo gallitzenite.
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a word used as the English equivalent of the Greek evangelion, or rather euaggelion, a good or joyful message. In the New Testament it denotes primarily the glad tidings respecting the Messiah and His kingdom-this was emphatically the Gospel (Anglo-Saxon, gôdspell, good tidings). It was quite naturally employed as a common title for the historical accounts which record the facts that constitute the basis of Christianity.
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a markettown and seaport of Englan England, county of Hants, on the W. shore of Portsmouth harbor, and directly opposite Portsmouth, with which it is connected by a floating bridge. There are an extensive iron foundry for the manufacture of anchors and chain cables, naval powder magazines, barracks, the Royal Clarence victualing yard, which contains a brewery, a biscuit-baking establishment, and numerous storehouses and Haslar Hospital. Pop. (1917) 34,000.
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a fine, filmy cobweb, such as may be seen in stubble fields or on low bushes. It is spun by a small spider. In the calm, clear weather of autumn, gossamer films may be seen floating in the air. It is said that, by clinging to its gossamer, the minute spider is carried miles and miles. The term is applied to a variety of fine gauze, much used for veiling, also to any light fabric. It is also applied, inappropriately, however, to thin water-proofing material from which ladies' rain cloaks are made. See Spider
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