These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Hunan, Hundred Days, Huneker.
a province of China, with an area of 83,380 square miles. It is traversed by important rivers, chief of which is the Kiangsi. The soil for the most part is fertile, and the agricultural products are tea, rice, hemp, and tobacco. Hunan is one of the largest tea-growing regions of China. There are valuable mines of coal and other metals. The population of the province is about 24,000,000. The capital is Changsha.
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the period between March 20, 1815, the day on which Napoleon I. entered Paris after his escape from Elba, and June 29 of the same year, when he left it finally.
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in avoirdupois weights , a weight containing by the legal standard in England 112 pounds. In the United States it is 100 pound avoirdupois. It is subdivided into four quarters. It is usually written cwt. Twenty hundred weights make one ton. An English long hundred-weight is 180 pounds. HUNDSRÜCK, an extensive and mountainous district of Rhenish Prussia, thickly wooded, and rising, at intervals, to a height of 3,000 feet. It lies between the Moselle and the Nahe, and joins the mountain chain of the Vosges.
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JAMES GIBBONS, an American critic and writer; born in Philadelphia in 1860. He was educated in the public schools and studied law in Philadelphia. He afterward studied music in Paris and for ten years was a teacher of piano at the National Conservatory of New York. He served as dramatic critic for several New York papers, including the "Sun" and the "Times." He wrote "The Man and His Music" (1900); " Egoists-A Book of Supermen" (1909 ); "The Pathos of Distance" (1913); "Unicorns " (1917). He died Feb. 9, 1921. HUNGARY. See AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
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1922 cording to recent tests made by the Chicago Commission on Ventilation and accepted as standard by ventilating engineers, human comfort under ordinary conditions of house circulation in winter requires a relative humidity of about 36 per cent at a temperature of 70 degrees. With higher temperatures the same degree of humidity becomes increasingly uncomfortable; and, conversely, a higher degree of humidity makes a lower temperature possible without discomfort within the range of ordinary indoor temperatures. In public halls where crowds are assembled the air becomes rapidly saturated if there is not proper ventilation, owing to the moisture given off by lungs and sweat glands, and this, more than any lack of oxygen or accumulation of carbon dioxide in the air, is the cause of the stuffiness commonly found in such places. Humidity is also of great importance in many industries, especially in those employing drying processes. Both absolute and relative humidity are measured by instruments called hygrometers. (q. v.)
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1922. The death of ex- Emperor Charles, April 1, 1922, transferred the allegiance of the Hungarian Legitimists to his eldest son, Prince Otto, who was formally proclaimed by the party to be rightful king of Hungary in a manifesto of October 3, 1922. Ex- Empress Zita, invited by King Alfonso of Spain to take up her residence in Madrid, notified Regent Horthy that she regarded herself as queen of Hungary and would devote herself to the cause of regaining the throne for her son. The first National Assembly was dissolved February 16, 1922, without having drawn up any constitution or determined any election law. An edict was thereupon issued by the government abolishing universal suffrage and replacing ng the secret ballot by open polling with the object of perpetuating the existing regime and checking the growth of radicalism. Subsequent elections (May 28-June 1) resulted in a large majority for the Horthy Regency, the Legitimists winning but a few seats, while the Labor Party won 25 seats in spite of oppressive measures directed against it. The end of the year was marked by the rise of a strong Fascista movement similar to that of Italy. Hungary was admitted to the League of Nations, September 18, 1922. I STATES, 1922-23.)
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a kind of turpentine procured from Pinus Pumilio, the mountain pine of Hungary. HUNGARY a WATER, water consisting of dilute alcohol aromadistilled tized with the tops of flowers of rosemary or other aromatic substances, used as a perfume; so called because first made for the use of a queen of Hungary. HUNGER. See FASTING.
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a town of Berkshire, England; partly also in Wiltshire; on the Kennet river, 26 miles W. S. W. of Reading. It is a hunting center, and a favorite resort of anglers. In the town hall (1870) is preserved a horn given to the town by John of Gaunt in 1362.
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MRS. MARGARET (HAMILTON ARGLES) ("The Duchess"), an Irish novelist; born about 1855. The daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she was left a widow with a young family to support, whereupon she took to literature. She wrote: "Phyllis" (1877); " Molly Bawn" (18 (1878);" Fairy Lillian" ( 1879); "Beauty's Daugh- ; " Airy ters" (1880); "Mrs. Geoffrey" (1881); "Faith and Unfaith" (1881); "Portia" (1882); " Rosmoyne" (1883); "O Tender Dolores" (1885); "In Durance Vile" (1885); "Lady Branksmere" (1886); "A Modern Circe" (1887); "The Duch- "Lady Valworth's Diamonds" (1886); ess" (1887); " Undercurrents" (1888); "Hon. Mrs. Vereker" (1888). She died in Bandon, Cork co., Jan. 24, 1897. land, in Cork, 16 miles W. N. W. of
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a mountain of Ire- Bantry. On the top of the mountain is series of cascades, one falling nearly 700 feet. a lake, whence the waters descend in a nomadic Scythian tribes which devas-
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JAMES HENRY LEIGH, an English poet and essayist; born in Southgate, Middlesex, England, Oct. 19, 1784. He was the personal friend of Byron, Shelley, Hazlitt, Lamb, and Coleridge. In 1811 he was tried and acquitted for some remarks on the subject of flogging in the army, published in the "Examiner," a journal which he had founded. He was afterwards sentenced, with his brother, to a fine of $2,500 and two years' imprisonment for an alleged libel against the prince regent. Offers to remit these penalties on a promise to refrain from similar expressions for the future were firmly rejected. "The Story of Rimini" is his longest and perhaps his best known poem; and among his miscellaneous works may be mentioned his autobiography, and his essays, entitled "Men, Women, and Books"; "Imagination and "; etc. He Fancy"; "Wit and Humor died in Putney, England, Aug. 28, 1859.
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