These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Hilo, Hilprecht, Hilton Head.
a town in the Hawaiian Islands, on Hilo Bay, on the eastern coast of the island of Hawaii. In size and importance it is the second city on the islands. It has a court house, a customhouse, a library, and other public buildings. Its protected harbor has excellent facilities for shipping. There are many American residents. Pop. (1910) 6,745; (1920) 10,431.
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HERMAN VOLRATH, an American educator; born in Germany, July 28, 1859; was graduated at the Ducal Gymnasium, Bernburg, Germany, in 1880; also studied at the University of Leipsic in 1880-1885; became professor of Assyrian and Comparative Semitic Philology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1886. He is a leading authority in cuneiform palæography, having made extensive explorations in Asia Minor, Syria, and Babylonia. Has published works in archæology, history, philology. "Oldest Version of the Babylonian Deluge, Story" (1910).
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an island off the S. E. coast of Beaufort district, S. C.; at the mouth of Broad river. During the Civil War a strong fortification was erected here by the Confederates, called Fort Walker, armed with 20 guns, and garrisoned by a force of 620 men. This fort was attacked Nov. 5, 1861, by a Union fleet under Commodore Dupont , and captured, after a smart action , in which a Confederate flotilla , or "mosquito fleet," under Commodore Tatnall, took part. The National loss was reported at 8 killed and 23 wounded, that of the Confederates, 10 killed and 10 wounded.
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a genus of grallatorial birds, family Recurvirostride, distinguished by the great length of their legs; from which circumstance they are sometimes called stilt birds. One species is found in this country, the black-necked stilt, H. nigricollis (Vieill.). This bird, called in Europe the Long-legged Plover, is 14 inches long . As its conformation would lead us to conclude, it is a bird whose most congenial habitat is morasses , and the low, flat shores of lakes, rivers, and seas .
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a city of Japan, the capital of the province of Harima. It is in the southern part of the island of Hondo. The chief industries are the manufacture of cotton and leather. Pop. about 40,000 .
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JOHN RUSSELL, an English astronomer; born in Nottingham , England, May 12, 1823. In 1840 he obtained a situation in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, where he remained till June , Green 1844. He was then sent as one of the commission appointed to determine the exact longitude of Valentia, and on his return became the observer in Mr. Bishop's Observatory, Regent's Park, London. Here he calculated the orbits and declination of more than 70 planets and comets, noted a number of new movable stars, and between 1847 and 1854 discovered 10 minor planets (see PLANE- TOIDS). In 1851 he obtained from the Academy of Sciences at Paris their Lalande medal; in 1852 the Astronomical Society of London's gold medal pension of $1,000 a year from the British government; in 1853 he undertook the editing of the "Nautical Almanac." He "Astronomical Vocabulary" wrote: (1852); "The Comets" (1852); "The Solar System" (1852); "Descriptive Treatise on Comets" ( 1857). In 1880 he was president of the Royal Astronomical Society. He died in Twickenham, England, Dec. 22, 1895.
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the language spoken in the valley of the Ganges and its tributaries, from the watershed of the Jumna as far down as Rajmahal. It is the legitimate heir of the Sanskrit.
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a district in Lancashire, Lanc England. It has important coal mining and cotton industries. It contains a free grammar school and old parish an church. Pop. about 24,000.
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or IN- DIAN CAUCASUS, a mountain system of Central Asia. It is generally_considered as a continuation of the Himalayas, which it adjoins at the Indus, and then stretches W. till it unites with the Ghur Mountains in North Afghanistan. Its culminating point, in the range of Hindu-Koh, to the N. of Cabul, is far beyond the limit of perpetual snow, but is not supposed to exceed 20,000 feet.
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the system of religious belief held by by the ordinary Hindus, as distinguished from that of the Indian aborigines and the Mussulman and Christian invaders.
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a native of Hindustan proper. The word is also applied to a language which apparently arose from the efforts made by the Hindus and their Mohammedan conquerors to understand each other. It approaches HINDI (q. v.), but has a large admixture of both Persian and Arabic words foreign to India. Hindustani will carry one all over India, but is really the vernacular of the Mohammedans only, and not of the Hindus properly so called. It is sometimes called Urdu or Oordoo. When people speak of the Indian language they mean Hindustani, but the designation is erroneous. There are at least 12 leading Indian languages.
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a town in Plymouth co., Mass., on Massachusetts bay and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 14 miles S. E. of Boston. It is a popular summer resort, with steamship connections with Boston, and has the oldest "Meeting House" in New England, first occupied in 1682. It has a high school, Derby Academy, public library, manufacturing and fishing interests, banks and newspapers. Pop. (1910) 4,965; (1920) 5,604.
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KATHERINE (TY- NAN), an Irish poet and novelist; born in Dublin in 1861. She was educated in a convent and in 1893 she married H. A. Hinkson, after which she resided in London. She was a prolific writer of novels and was also well known as a poet. Among her novels are "Peggy" (1908); "Princess Katherine" (1911); "The Romance of Lady Sarah Lennox" (1913). She published an autobiography entitled "Twenty-five Years." She was one of the chief figures in the Irish literary revival.
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a hybrid, the produce of a stallion and a she-ass. It is smaller and inferior in strength to the mule produced by an ass and a mare, and it is also much less common.
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a seaport of Japan, opened to foreign trade in 1860. It is situated on the island of Hondo, on the Bay of Osaka, 40 miles S. W. of Kioto, with which it has railway communication. The trade with the interior is important, and the exports of tea, copper, fish, silk, etc., large. Pop. with Kobe, about 500,000.
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