These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Haakon VII, Haan, Habibullah Khan.
king of Norway, first exclusively Norwegian king since 1380. He was born in 1872, a gra grandson of Christian IX. of Denmark and was called Prince Charles. He married Princess Maud, daughter of Edward VII., in 1896. A son, Olaf, was born in 1903. On the separation of Norway and Sweden he was tendered the Norwegian throne and took the coronation oath Nov. 27, 1905. Crowned at Trondhjem in June, 1906.
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WILLIAM GEORGE, an American soldier, born at Crown Point, H Ind., in 1863. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1889, and in the same year was appointed 2d lieutenant of the 1st Artillery. During the Spanish-American War he acted as captain and acting quartermaster of volunteers, and was honorably discharged from the volunteer service in 1901. In the same year he was appointed captain of the Artillery Corps. He was promoted through the various grades, becoming colonel in 1916. In 1917 he was appointed brigadier-general of the National Army, and commander of the 57th lish hnecca-neck; Old English hring Field Artillery Brigade. He was commander of the 32d Division in January, 1918, having been appointed temporary brigadier-general in the previous year. He was made permanent brigadier-general in 1918. He commanded the 32d Division in three major offensives, the Marne to Vesle, the Oise-Aisne, and the Meuse-Argonne. He commanded the 7th Army Corps, as part of the Army of Occupation in Germany, from November, 1918, to April, 1919. In the latter year he was assigned as assistant chief of Staff and as director of the war plans division. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and the Croix de Guerre. He was promoted to majorgeneral in 1921.
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a former Ameer of Afghanistan, born in Samarkand, 1872, assassinated in Afghanistan, Feb. 24, 1919. His father, Abdur Rahman, was in exile at the time of his birth. On his father's death, in 1901, who meanwhile had been reinstated as Ameer, the young prince ascended the throne. Although previously known as anti-British, he visited India soon after his rise to power, and ever after maintained friendly relations with the British Viceroy. During the World War he maintained strict neutrality, and shortly before his death was arranging an anti- Bolshevik alliance with neighboring rulers of central Asia.
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Queen of the fairies, witches, harpies, furies, and ghosts of the wicked. This definition is according to the statement of Pierre Delancre, in his work on the Inconstancy of Demons.
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the hawk's castle), a small place in the Swiss Canton of Aargau, on the right bank of the Aar. The castle was built about 1027 by_Bishop Werner of Strassburg. Werner II., who died in 1096, is said to have been the first to assume the title of Count of Hapsburg. After the death, about 1232, of Rudolph II., the family divided into two branches, the founder of one of which was Albert IV. In 1273 Rudolph, son of Albert IV., was chosen Emperor of Germany, and from him descended the series of Austrian monarchs, all of the Hapsburg male line, down to Charles IV. inclusive. After that the dynasty, by the marriage of Maria Theresa to Francis Stephen of Lorraine, became the Hapsburg-Lorraine . Francis II., the third of this line, was the last of the so-called "Holy Roman Emperors," this old title being changed by him for that of Emperor of Austria. From the Emperor Rudolph was also descended a Spanish dynasty which began with the Emperor Charles V. ( Charles I. of Spain), and terminated with Charles II. in 1700. The castle of Hapsburg is still to be seen on the Wülpelsberg. In 1881 the Austrians proposed to purchase the castle of Hapsburg and give it as a wedding gift to the Crownprince of Austria; but the people of Aargau refused to hear of the sale.
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a city and countyseat of Bergen co., N. J., on the Hackensack river, and Susquehanna and Western, and the on the New York, New Jersey and New York railroads; 14 miles N. W. of New York City. It is a residential city, but has brick, silk, and other manufacturing interests. There are a court house, public library, public high school, daily and weekly newspapers , gas and electric lights, waterworks , and electric street railways connecting with surrounding towns and cities, and with New York. Hackensack was settled by the Dutch in the latter part of the 17th century, and during the Revolution was occupied in turn by the British and American armies. Pop. (1910) 14,050; (1920) 17,667. an
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JAMES HENRY, American actor; born in New York City, March 15 , 1800. He was particularly successful in impersonating Yankees and Westerners, but was best known by his Falstaff, which he played first about 1832. He wrote "Notes and Comments on Shakespeare " (1863). He died in Jamaica, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1871.
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a parish of Middlesex, England , now forming a suburb of London, and 3 miles N. N. E. of St. Paul's. It was at one time a favorite suburban residence of London citizens. In its earlier and fashionable days it is by some said to have given its name to hackney coaches. See CABS. HACO (hā kō) V., surnamed the Old, King of Norway. He acceded to the throne in 1217, and during his reign Greenland and Iceland were added to Norway . On his way home from Scotland, where he had fought the battle of Largs against Alexander III., he died in the Orkneys, about 1263. See NORWAY.
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(See Haunted Houses .)
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the county-town of Haddingtonshire , Scotland, at the S. base of the Lammermuir Hills, on the Tyne, 17 miles E. of Edinburgh. Its Abbey Church, the Lucerna Laudoniæ or "Lamp of Lothian," is a cruciform Decorated red sandstone pile, with a central tower 90 feet high, and ruinous all but the nave, which serves as the parish church. There are also the county buildings (1833) , the large corn exchange (1854), the town hall (1748-1831), the county lunatic asylum (1866), and a school, the Knox Memorial Institute (1880). Haddington's worthies have been Knox, John Brown and Samuel, his grandson, Samuel Smiles, and Jane Welsh the English endured a great siege by the Ish Carlyle. Here Scotch in 1549. Pop. 4,200. thian, a county of Scotland, in the south- , or East Losquare miles. The southern part coneastern part. It has an area of 267 tains the Lammermuir Hills, which rise to a height of over 1,700 feet. The principal river is the Tyne, which flows in a northeasterly direction across the county into the sea of Tyningham. It has important agricultural interests and is the center of a coal mining region. The chief towns are Haddington, the capital, Dunbar, and North Berwick. Pop. about 45,000.
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