These 21 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Iago, Ialysus, Iambic.
i-a'go, in Shakespeare's tragedy of Othello, the ancient or standard-bearer of Othello the Moor. The servant is jealous of the master's rank and power. He persuades Othello of the unfaithfulness of his wife Desdemona, and thus is the cause of the tragic death of all three, Othello, Desdemona, and himself.
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a Rhodes, founded by the Phœnicians. Its 1300 B. C. history goes back to about . and it is alluded to by Pindar
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in one short prosody a foot consisting of one unaccented and one long syllable, or The iambic meter and one accented. having been originally, according to satirical poems Aristotle, employed in , came to be used as the term "iambics" equivalent to a satire or lampoon.
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a mythology, a Iphis; one of girl of Crete, who married the Nereides. the Oceanides; one of IAN MACLAREN. See WATSON, JOHN. LANTHINA (i-an'the-nä), in zoölogy, mollusks, the violet snail; a genus of family Haliotidæ. The shell is thin, translucent, trochiform; the aperture a large head, four-sided; the animal with and an muzzle-shaped, with a tentacle eye-pedicel on each side, but no actual eye. Four species are known, all recent, the Coral from the Atlantic Ocean and in nearly Sea. Ianthina fragilis is found the every sea, and has helped to extend on its range of other species parasitic shell.
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A mystic name said by Clement of Alexandria to have been worn on their persons by the initiates of the Mysteries of Serapis. It is said to embody the symbols of the two generative principles. lehthyomancy: Divination by the inspection of the entrails of fish.
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regarded by of the the ancient Greeks as the father and human race, son of Uranus and Ge, , is supfather of Atlas and Prometheus posed to be the Japheth of Genesis. In astronomy, the name given to the earth or outside satellite of Saturn, discovered . It revolves in 1671 by J. D. Cassini round Saturn in a period of about 7912 days.
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a city of Africa in Nigeria. The chief industry is agriculture. Pop. is about 150,000.
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or IBAQUE (ē-bägä), a town of the Republic of Colombia, department of Tolima, about 70 miles W. 25,000. of Bogota. Pop. about
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a name vaguely applied to Brit- Proish East Africa or the East African tectorate,
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in ancient geography: (1) A fertile district and Caspian in Asia, between the Euxine of a plain surseas, which consisted modern rounded by mountains, a part of name of Georgia. (2) An ancient Spain, from its river, the Ibērus (Ebro). the most The Iberi or Iberians, probably the ancient European nation, formed Gaul, basis of the population of Italy, Portugal). Their Spain, and Lusitania ( Basque. The language still lives in the Celts, who entered the country later, intermingled with them, the conwere Celtiberians. joined people being called
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a short, swarthy, long-skulled race of western Europe. The name was given by the Greeks to the ancient inhabitants of Spain. Over most of southern Europe they preceded the Celts, by whom they were, in many districts, driven to the mountains or absorbed. They left their name in the Iberian peninsula--comprising Spain and Portugal. They are believed to have been related to the Berbers of northern Africa. They are now represented in relatively unmixed blood, by the Basques and the Corsicans. The Welsh are believed to contain a considerable element of Iberian blood. It has been suggested that the Aquitani of Caesar's Gallic War were Iberians. Recent writers group Romans, Greeks, and sometimes Celts, with the Iberians. See Basques
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a candy-tuft; a ge- Thlasnus of cruciferous plants, family bitter candy-tuftpidæ. I. amara, the flowers. a plant with white or purplish IBERNIA. See HIBERNIA. 105
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a river of Spain, now the Ebro, which formerly separated the Roman from the Carthaginian possessions in that country; also a river of Iberia, in Asia, flowing from Mount Caucasus into the Koor.
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PIERRE LE MOYNE, SIEUR D' (ē-bā-vel'), a French-Canadian naval and military commander; born in Montreal, July 16, 1661. At the age of 14 he entered the French navy; led an expedition against Schenectady in 1690; was given command of a frigate in 1692; and took Forts Nelson and Bourbon, on Hudson Bay, in 1694 and 1697 respectively. In 1699, by order of the French Government he built Fort Biloxi at the head of the Biloxi Bay, the first post on the Mississippi river. He afterward established other posts in the same region and was preparing to attack the coast of North Carolina, when he died in Havana, Cuba, July 9, 1706.
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a river of Brazil, which rises in the Serra de Santa Anna, province of Rio Grande do Sul, and joins the Uruguay at Yapeyu after a course of 400 miles.
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a very large goatsucker inhabiting South America; sometimes called the grand goat-sucker.
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in Arabian mythology, Satan, and the father of the Sheytans, or devils.
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an Arab traveler and geographer, whose proper name was Abu Abdullah Mohammed; born in Tangiers in 1304. He spent 30 years (1325-1354) of his life in travel. Settling at Fez, in Morocco, in 1354, he wrote the history of his journeys. The course of his travels led him first to Mecca, then to Persia, Mesopotamia, Arabia, the E. coast of Africa, Asia Minor, the Caspian regions, Khwarizm, Bokhara, Afghanistan, and India; thence he proceeded to China by way of Sumatra, and finally came home to Fez in 1349. He died in Fez in 1378.
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African tribes on the shores of the Gulf of Guinea and around the great delta of the river Niger. They speak a language called Ibo, which is akin to the Ewe and the Tshi. The entire population probably approaches 5,000,000. The towns or settlements of Lakoja, Asaba, Akassa, Bonny, are in this region.
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sultan of the Turks, son of Achmet; succeeded his brother Achmet IV. in 1640. He besieged and took the capital of Candia from the Venetians in 1644; but his cruelties and debaucheries were so great that the soldiers strangled him in 1649.
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the son of the caliph Mahadi, brother of Haroun-al-Raschid, and uncle of Amin and Mamon. He was an excellent poet and musician, and the first orator of his time. He was proclaimed caliph at Bagdad, on the death of his nephew Amin, in 817; but Mamon marching from Khorassan to Bagdad with a powerful army, Ibrahim thought it prudent to abdicate the throne. He died in Samara in 839.
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