These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Huallaga, Huamalies, Huamanga.
a river of Peru, rising near the Cerro de Pasco, over 14,000 feet above the sea, flowing N. on the E. side of the Central Cordilleras, breaking through the range at the gorge of Chasuta, and entering the Marañon. Its total length is about 650 miles; it is navigable as far as Yurimaguas, above which are falls and rapids.
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or GUA- MALIES (gwä-), a province of Peru, department of Junin, on the W. side of the central ridge of the Andes; area, about 3,870 square miles. Minerals, mercury and silver. There are ruins of 'Academy. His works include: "Ances- ancient Peruvian temples, palaces, and fortresses.
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or GUA- MANGA (gwä-), a city of Peru, capital ince of its of a province own name and of the department of Ayacucho, on a tributary of the Apurimac, about 140 miles N. N. W. of Cuzco. This city was founded by Pizarro in 1539, and in this vicinity, in 1824, Sucre defeated the Spaniards and thereby ended their rule in South America.
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a town of Mexico, State of Tlascala. It was the scene of an engagement, Oct. 9, 1847, between the Mexicans under Santa Ana, and a small force of Americans, in which the former were defeated with considerable loss. HUANACA (wä- NACO (gwä-näkō), a species of the nä'kä), or GUAsame genus with the llama, and alpaca, of which some naturalists sup vicuña, pose it to be the wild found not only on the Andes, but original. It is throughout great part of Patagonia. It is of a reddish-brown color, the ears and hind legs gray.
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a department of Peru, entirely within the Cordilleras; area 8,710 square miles; pop. about 225,000. The climate is cold and raw on the mountains, where sheep, cattle, and llamas are herded, and hot in the deep valleys, where sugar is grown. The chief riches are in the mines, especially of silver and quicksilver. The capital, Huancavelica, pop. about 6,500, is a mining town in the Sierras. Most of the inhabitants work in the famous quicksilver mines close by.
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a department of Peru; area 23,000 square miles; pop. about 150,000. Mining and agriculture are the chief industries. The capital, Huanuco, lies in a valley on the Huallaga, amid plantations of coffee and sugar. Pop. about 7,500.
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the gray or silver cinchona bark imported in the form of quills from around Huanuco in Peru. It is the produce of Cinchona micrantha.
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a Peruvian Inca; born in Cuzco, Peru, about 1490; was absolute despot of his country and made many conquests, and in his will divided the empire between two of his sons; was on the throne when the first Spanish expedition invaded Peru. He died in Tumipampa, Ecuador, in 1523.
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ELBERT, an American novelist; born in Bloomington, Ill., in 1859. His home was in East Aurora, N. Y., where he was proprietor of the famous Roycroft shop, devoted to making de luxe editions of the classics. He was editor of the "Philistine" and wrote "No Enemy but Himself"; "Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great"; "Forbes of Harvard"; "One Day"; "Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women" (1897); "A Message to Garcia" (1898); "The Man of Sorrows" (1904); "Hollyhocks and Golden Glow" (1912). He died on the "Lusitania," May 7, 1915.
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GEORGE ALLEN, an American educator; born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1862. He graduated from Antioch College in 1890. After teaching in the public schools of Ohio for several years, he became professor and principal of the Normal Department of Antioch College. He remained here until 1898 when he became teacher of English at Erasmus Hall School, in Brooklyn. From 1904 to 1906 he was vice-president and dean of Berea College. After occupying chairs in other colleges he was appointed president of the Lincoln Memorial University at Tennessee, in 1910. He was a member of many scientific and economic societies. He wrote "Guide in the Study of Geography" (1896); "The Child and the Bible" (1900); "Men of the Bible" (1903); "Horace Mann" (1910).
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formerly a royal hunting-seat of Saxony, 25 miles E. by S. from Leipsic, built in 1721 by Prince Frederick Augustus, afterward King Augustus III. of Poland. It was much injured during the Seven Years' War; and there Feb. 15, 1763, was signed the treaty by which that war was ended.
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a town of Dharwar in the presidency of Bombay, British India, on a road leading to Karwar on the Malabar coast, 102 miles S. W. It is one of the principal cotton marts in that section of India. Pop. about 70,000. KLEBERRY, an American name whortleberry. for the whortleberry.
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a species of toweling of either cotton or linen, woven with a honeycomb surface and finished either in white or in the natural color. Huckaback or huck, as it is frequently called, is durable and satisfactory on account of its frictional surface. The fine linen qualities are often embroidered and make handsome towels, while the cheaper grades are desirable for rough usage. The name huckaback is supposed to be a corruption of hucksterback, which term in early English times signified "peddler's ware."
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a berry-like fruit containing ten seed-like nutlets. There are several species of huckleberry shrubs bearing fruit very similar to the blueberry. The common huckleberry of the markets is black and without bloom. It grows on much branching shrubs from one to three feet high, found in low places and swamps from Newfoundland to Minnesota, and south along the mountains to Georgia.
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a town of England, in Yorkshire, on the Colne, 15 miles S. W. of Leeds. Manufactures narrow and broad cloths, serges, kerseymeres and various fancy goods. Near it are medicinal springs. A U. S. Consulate is located here. Pop. (1917) 105,818.
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Photographer. (See Spirit Photography .)
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a city and county-seat of Columbia co., N. Y., on the Hudson river, and on the New York Central and Hudson River, the Boston and Albany, and the Albany Southern railroads; 29 miles S. of Albany. It is the trade center of an extensive farming and manufacturing region and has steamship communications with all Hudson river points. Its manufactures include iron ware, woolen goods, cement, bricks, and machinery. It is the seat of the State Home of Refuge for Women, and has electric lights and street railways, public high school, daily and weekly newspapers, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 11,417; (1920) 11,745.
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