These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Gallipolis, Galliwasp, Gallon.
a town of southern Italy, built on a steep insulated rock in the Gulf of Taranto, connected with the mainland by a bridge, and 59 miles by rail S. of Brindisi. The harbor is protected by a mole and fortified. The town contains a handsome cathedral and is remarkable for its oil tanks, excavated in the solid rock, in which olive oil is deposited for exportation. Pop. about 12,000.
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a city of Ohio, the It is on the county-seat of Gallia co. Ohio river, and on the Hocking Valley and the Kanawha and Michigan railroads. It is the center of important coal fields, the greater part of which have not been developed. Its industries include iron and wood working establishments, the manufacture of stoves, flour, ice, brooms, lumber, leather, etc. It is the seat of the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics, and has a public library, a park, and Gallia Academy. Pop. (1910) 5,560; (1920) 6,070.
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a small lizard, family Scincidæ, found in the West Indies. It is an object of terror to the inhabitants, but is really harmless.
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an English measure of capacity for both dry and liquid substances. It contains four quarts. The standard gallon of the United States , the same as the wine gallon, contains 231 cubic inches, and is almost equivalent to a cylinder seven inches in diameter and six inches high. A gallon of water weighed under ordinary conditions at a temperature of 62 deg. F. weighs 8.3389 pounds. See Ton
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an extensive district in the S. W. of Scotland, once somewhat larger, but now entirely entirely comprised in the shire of Wigtown and stewartry of Kirkcudbright. It enjoys a remarkably mild climate, and has long been famous as a pastoral country, its breed of small horses and of large hornless black cattle being well known centuries ago; dairy farming is now the most important industry. The province is about 70 miles in length, by 40 at its utmost breadth, and contains the greatest diversity of scenery-mountain, lake, and stream. There is no mineral wealth and hardly any industry, hence the inhabitants are almost entirely concerned with tilling the soil, sheep and cattle rearing, and fishing. The province province owes its name to the fact that the natives were called Gall-Gael, or foreign Gaels, at first because of their falling under the foreign rule of the Anglians; but as the Picts of Galloway they continued to be known so late as the Battle of the Standard in 1138. Their geographical position had shut them off from their N. congeners, and they continued under their ancient name a distinct people till the 12th century, and preserved their language-which was substantially identical with Gaelic-till the 16th, when it finally disappeared before the Reformation and the use of Lowland Scotch in the parish churches and schools.
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an instrument or apparatus on which criminals are executed by hanging. It is usually constructed of two posts with a cross-beam on the top, from which the criminal is hanged by a rope passing round his neck. In agriculture, the central core of four Indian cornstalks, interlaced diagonally and bound at the intersection, forming a stool or support for cut corn, which is bound around it to form a shock. In printing, the rest for the tympan when open. Also the frame supporting the beam of a steam engine.
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TREBONIANUS, a Roman emperor; the successor of the ill-fated Decius. He is memorable only for the dishonorable peace with the Goths, in permitting them to retain their plunder and captives and promising them a fixed annual tribute, and by a dreadful pestilence in Italy. He was murdered by his own soldiers in 253 or 254 A. D.
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or CAPO DI FARO (kä'pō de fä'rō), the Charybdis of the ancients. It forms the whirlpool on the outside of the harbor of Messina, in the strait separating Italy from Sicily. Opposite, on the Italian coast, is the rock Scylla.
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JOHN, an English writer. Born in 1867, his early writings excited but slight attention. It was not until he turned to modern social problems that his power as a dramatist and novelist was revealed. His novels deal with many phases of English life chiefly for the purpose of satire. Such for example is his first work that attracted attention, "The Island Pharisees" (1904, revised 1908) and later (1906) "The Man of Property." Likewise in his dramas he pays particular attention to the injustices of the present social scheme. "The Silver Box" (1906) is a JOHN GALSWORTHY drama with the theme of the different legal justice for the rich and poor. "Strife" (1909) is written to illustrate the war between capital and labor which features modern society. His most recent work is the drama entitled "The Mob" published in the year in which the World War opened.
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a city of Ontario, Canada, in Waterloo co. It occupies both sides of the Grand river, and is on the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific railroads. The river is spanned by several bridges. The city is important as an industrial center. The manufactured products include edged tools, underwear, agricultural implements, boilers, engines, leather, safes, stoves, etc. The city has four parks, a collegiate institute and a mechanics' institute. It is connected by electric railway with the neighboring towns of Kitchener, Paris, Waterloo, and Brantford. Pop. (1919) 12,434.
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JOHN, a Scotch novelist; born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, May 2, 1779. He was educated in Greenock, and was then placed in the custom house. He remained there till 1804, when he went to London, with an epic poem on the battle of the Largs. After a few years his health began to fail, and he was obliged to seek relief in a more genial climate. At Gibraltar he made the acquaintance of Lord Byron and his se friend Hobhouse, and the three travelers subsequently medicine at the university became fellow-voyagers; but soon after there, and in 1762 was elected Professor from his new friends to Galt separated ated visit Sicily, then Malta, and finally Greece, where he again renewed his acquaintance with Byron. On his return he published with considerable success "Letters from the Levant"; "The Ayrshire Legatees" (1820); "The Annals of his masterpiece; the Parish" (1821), 1), 1822); "The Pro "Sir Andrew Wylie" (1) "( vost" (1822); "The Entail" (1823). He was now busily engaged in the for formation of the Canada Company. He went to Canada in 1826, but three years later returned to England a ruined man, and at once recommenced his literary labors. "Lawrie Todd" His first novel was (1830), which was followed by "Southennan," and a "Life of Lord Byron." In 1834 he published his "Literary Life and Miscellanies." He returned to Scotland, and died in Greenock, April 11, 1839. English
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