These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Holmes, Holocaine, Holocaust.
(ELIAS) BURTON, an American traveler and lecturer; born in Chicago in 1870. He received an academic education. In 1890 he delivered his first lecture in Chicago, which was followed by a series of lectures on travel. He visited many times practically every civilized country in the world, gathering material for his lectures. Moving pictures taken by him became one of the most prominent features in the moving picture theaters in the country.
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JOHN HAYNES, an American clergyman and writer; born in Philadelphia in 1879. He graduated from Harvard University in 1902 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1904. After serving as pastor in Dorchester, Mass., he succeeded Minot J. Savage as pastor of the Church of the Messiah, New York City. He wrote much on theological and economical subjects. Following the entrance of the United States into the war his writings in favor of pacifism were severely criticized. He wrote "The Revolutionary Function of the Modern Church" (1912); "Marriage and Divorce" (1913).
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JOSEPH AUSTIN, American geologist; born in Laurens, S. C., in 1859. He graduated from Cornell University in 1881 and from that year until 1891 was professor of geology at the University of North Carolina. He was geologist of that State from 1891 to 1904. From 1904 to 1907 he was in charge of the Geological Survey laboratories for testing fuels and structural materials at St. Louis, Mo. When the Bureau of Mines was organized in 1910 he was appointed director and held that position until his death in 1915. MRS. MARY HOLMES, JANE (HAWES), an American novelist; born in Brookfield, Mass. A voluminous writer, her works are mostly domestic in character, and have had a large circulation. Among ng them "Tempest are: and Sunshine" (1854); "Lena Rivers" (1856); "Marian Grey" (1863); "Millbank" (1871); "Queenie Hetherton" (1883); etc. She died Oct. 7, 1907.
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OLIVER WENDELL, an American author; born in Cambridge, C Mass., Aug. 29, 1809. He was grad- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES uated at Harvard. He began the study of law, but in a short time relinquished it for that of medicine. In 1839 he became Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth College, N. H., but resigned to devote himself to practice in Boston. In 1847 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy at Harvard. He wrote voluminously both in prose and verse. His chief works, besides several volumes of poems and treatises on medicine, are: "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"; "The Professor at the Breakfast Table"; and "The Poet at the Breakfast Table"; "Elsie Venner"; "The Guardian Angel"; "A 1 Mortal Antipathy"; and memoirs of Motley and Emerson. He died Oct. 7, 1894.
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OLIVER WENDELL, JR., an American jurist; son of Dr. Oliver W. Holmes; born in Boston, Mass., March 8, 1841; was graduated at Harvard College in 1861; served three years in Massachusetts Volunteers in the Civil War, being wounded three times, at Antietam, Marye's Hill, and Fredericksburg; practiced in Boston, Mass.; became Professor of Law in Harvard Law School, 1882; associate justice of Massachusetts Supreme Court, 1882-1899; chief-justice, Aug. 2, 1899; Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, 1902; wrote "The Common Law" (1881); "Speeches"; etc.; Commentaries." and edited "Kent's
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p-diethoxy-diphenylethenyl-amidine, a synthetic drug, used in eye practice, as a local anesthetic. Sometimes known as Phenacaine.
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a sacrifice, the whole of which was consumed by fire, nothing being retained; such sacrifices were practiced by the Jews. The word is now sometimes applied to a general sacrifice of life or slaughter.
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any writing, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly written by the person from whom it bears to proceed. În Scots law a holograph deed is valid without the signatures of witnesses, but in English law every deed, whether holograph or not, must have the names of two witnesses attached to it to render it valid. HOLOPTYCHIUS an extinct genus of ganoid fishes from Devonian and Carboniferous strata, type of a family the members of which are remarkable for their sculptured or wrinkled scales and extraordinary labyrinthine tooth structure.
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HERMANN EDUARD VON, a German-American historian; born in Fellin, Livonia, Russia, June 19, 1841. Coming to the United States in 1866, he engaged in literary work and lecturing; he returned to Europe, becoming professor in the universities of Strassburg (1872) and Freiburg (1874); appointed professor in the University of Chicago (1892). He has written: "Constitutional and Political History of the United States"; "Lives" of John C. Calhoun and John Brown; "Constitutional Law of the United States"; "The French Revolution Tested by Mirabeau's Career"; etc. He died Jan. 20, 1904.
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hol'stin, an ancient duchy of Denmark. In 1866 it was wrested from the Danes and combined with Schleswig to form a province of Prussia. It is a famous dairy district. The celebrated black and white Holstein cattle originated here.
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a princely German family, which includes the royal line of Denmark, the collateral branches of Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and the ducal race of Holstein-Gottorp.
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a duchy of Germany, formerly belonging to Denmark, and now an appanage of the kingdom of Prussia. By decree of Jan. 1, 1869, the duchy of Holstein was united to the duchy of Schleswig, to form the province of Schleswig-Holstein. By the terms of the Peace Treaty of 1919 Denmark regained, through a plebiscite, that northern part of Schleswig-Holstein principally inhabitated by Danes.
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a river which rises in Wythe co., Va., and flowing a tortuous and S. W. course through Smythe Washington counties, enters Tennessee between Hawkins and Powell counties. Thence traversing Granger, Jefferson, and Knox counties, it unites with the Clinch river at Kingston in Roane co., to form the Tennessee river; length, about 200 miles.
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LUTHER EMMETT, an American physician; born in Webster, N. Y., in 1855. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1875 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, in 1880. He served as Professor of Diseases of Children in several New York hospitals. He became widely known as a writer of books on the care of diseases of children. These include "The Care and Feeding of Children" (1894); "Diseases of Infancy and Childhood" (1902).
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