These 8 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Great South Bay, Grebe, Greek Literature.
an arm of the Atlantic Ocean on the S. coast of Suffolk co., Long Island, N. Y.; 50 miles long, from 12 to 5 miles wide. Great South miles long, Beach, which is about 35 and has Fire Island Lighthouse on the W. it from the ocean. extremity, separates
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greb, a family of lobe-footed aquatic birds related to the loon, but much smaller. Grebes are famous divers and are able to swim with but the tip of the bill above water. In this way they seem to disappear marvelously. A grebe has the power of paddling so swiftly that, when lifted out of the water by hand, its feet move so rapidly that they form a mere blur, and cannot be distinguished apart. There are six species in North America , three of which are found in the northeastern part of the United States and Canada. They feed largely on fish. Their nests are masses of water-soaked, floating vegetation, built up in shallows or attached to rushes or grass. How eggs can be hatched in so wet a nest is a wonder. The mother grebe carries her young on her back. She uses her long neck in feeding them choice bits of minnows, snails, and tadpoles. When she thinks they should take to the water she gets them out on her wing, and gives them a flip, as from a springboard. The common grebe is also called the piedbilled grebe, dabchick, hell-diver, and water-witch. It is useless to waste powder on a grebe. It dives at the flash, long before shot can reach it. The flesh is as useless as that of the white-billed coot. See Coot ; Loon
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a city of Colorado, the county-seat of Weld co. It is on the Union Pacific, the Denver, Laramie and Northwestern, and the Colorado and Southern railroads, and on the Cache la Poudre river. It is the center of an important agricultural and cattle region. It has a large trade in potatoes, flour, wheat, etc. Its industries include lumber yards, flour mills, and a beet-sugar factory. The city is the seat of the State Teachers' College, and has a public library and two parks. It was the site of the "Greeley Colony," named after Horace Greeley, which was the first agricultural community in Colorado. Pop. (1910) 8,179; (1920) 10,883.
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HORACE, an American journalist; born in Amherst, N. H., Feb. 3, 1811. About 1825, his parents having removed to Vermont, Horace obtained employment as an apprentice in a printice, and in August, 1831, arrived ing office, at New York, where he secured occasional work as a journeyman printer in HORACE GREELEY various offices. In 1834, in partnership with Messrs. Winchester and Gibbett, he started "The New Yorker," a weekly literary journal, which proving unprofitable, was abandoned, and in 1841 he commenced the publication of the New York "Tribune." In 1848 he became a member of the 30th Congress; in 1851 he visited Europe, and was chosen chairman of one of the juries of the Great Exhibition in London. He wrote: "Hints Toward Reforms," "History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension" (1856); "The American Conflict" (1864-1866); "Recollections of a Busy Life" (1868). He ardently supported the Union cause during the Civil War. In 1872 he was nominated by the Democratic party a candidate for the presidency in opposition to General Grant, but he failed to be elected. He died in Pleasantville, Westchester co., N. Y., Nov. 29, 1872.
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ADOLPHUS WASHING- TON, an American Arctic explorer; born in Newburyport, Mass., March 27, 1844. English People" (4 vols. 1877-1880); He served as a volunteer through the war of 1861-1865, and shortly after its conclusion entered the regular army as lieutenant, and in 1868 was placed on the signal service. In 1881 he was selected to conduct the American expedition to the head of Smith Sound, for the purpose of carrying on observations in pursuance of the international scheme arranged at Hamburg in 1879. He and the survivors of his party were rescued in June, 1883, when at the point of perishing from starvation, after spending three winters in the Arctic regions. Lieutenant Lockwood of this expedition traveled to within 396 miles of the geographical pole, the farthest point N. hitherto reached. In 1887 Greely was appointed chief of the signal service, with the rank of a Brigadier-General. In 1906 he was promoted Major-General for completing the Ute campaign. He accomplished a great relief work when 400,000 people in San Francisco were made homeless by the earthquakes. He retired in 1908. He published "Three Years of Arctic Service" (1886). He died in 1920.
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JOHN RICHARD, an English historian; born in Oxford, England, in December, 1837. He was educated at Magdalen College School and at Jesus College, Oxford. He took orders, and was in succession curate and vicar of two East End London parishes. In 1868 he became librarian at Lambeth, and next year he was struck down with consumption, a disease which made any kind of active work thereafter impossible. He published his "Short History of the English People" in 1874. It was the first complete history of England from the social side. The work attained an unparalleled success, as many as 150,000 copies having been sold within 15 years. He wrote also a larger and independent edition of the work as "A History of the "Stray Studies from England and Italy" (1876); "Short Geography of the British Islands" (1879), written in conjunction with his wife; "Making of England" (1882); "The Conquest of England" (1883). In 1879 he received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Edinburgh. He died in Mentone, France, March 7, 1883.
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ANNA KATHARINE, the maiden name and pseudonym of 'MRS. ROHLFS, an American author; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1846. She graduated at Ripley (female) College, Poultney, Vt., 1867. Her novels are detective stories, and enjoy great popularity. "The Leavenworth Case" (1878) is one of her best. Included in her publications are: "Risifi's Daughter" (1866), a dramatic poem; "The Sword of Damocles"; "A Strange Disappearance"; "Hand and Ring"; "The Mill Mystery"; "That Affair Next Door"; "Lost Man's Lane" (1898); "Agatha Webb" (1899); "The Circular Study" (1900); "Dark Hollow" (1914); "Mystery of the Hasty Arrow" (1917), etc.
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