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a town of Upper Austria, on the river Traun, amid magnificent Alpine scenery. It is the chief town of the district called the Salzkammergut. The situation of Ischl, and the saline baths established in 1822, attract 4,000 or 5,000 visitors annually. Pop. about 30,000.
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the typical genus of the family Ischyromyidæ. It is known only by a North American fossil rodent, I. typus, described by Leidy from remains found by Hayden in Miocene deposits in the "Bad Lands" of Wyoming. It resembles the musk rat, but has closer affinity to the squirrels, and certain resemblances to the beavers. ISÈRE (ē-zār), a department in the S. E. of France, round which on the N. and W. flows the river Rhone. It was formed out of the ancient province of Dauphiné; area, 3,200 square miles. Mont du Midi, on the S. E. border, rises to 13,088 feet. The chief river, besides the Rhone, is its left-hand tributary, the Isère, which, rising in the Alps at an altitude of 7,540 feet, flows S. W. to join the Rhone above Valence, after a total course of 180 miles (102 navigable). The products include wheat, wine, stone fruits, medicinal plants, and hemp. Cheese is made; and silkworms are reared. The department is rich in mineral products; iron, coal, and turf are worked, and to a less extent marble, slates, and gypsum. The industrial acity is considerable, particularly in the tivity manufacture of iron and steel goods, gloves, silk stuffs, cloth, linen, paper, straw hats, liqueur, etc. Pop. about 560,000.
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a manufacturing town of Prussian Westphalia. The calamine mines are celebrated. In the neighborhood is the Dechen stalactite cave, discovered in 1868. Pop. about 30,- 000.
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a son and successor of Saul. Abner, Saul's kinsman and general, so managed that Ishbosheth was acknowledged king at Mahanaim by the greatest part of Israel, while David reigned at Hebron over Judah. Involved in a long and unsuccessful war against David, and abandoned by Abner, he was assassinated.
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a town in Siberia, important as a trade center. It is the oldest of Siberian towns. A river and a territory adjacent likewise bear the name. son of
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a Abraham, by Hagar, who on the birth of Isaac, son of Sarah, was sent forth from his father's house with his mother. After dwelling in the desert for a long time, he became a great hunter and mighty warrior. The Arabs regarded Ishmael as the father of their nation, and the author of their language. He lived 137 years. or
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ISMAELITES, Mohammedan sect
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a city in Marquette co., Mich., on the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic and the Lake Superior and Ishpeming railroads; 15 miles W. of Marquette. It is the mining trade center for the great Marquette iron range, one of the most noted in the Lake Superior region, and the mining district of Ishpeming contains many of the most productive mines in the State. In the district also are valuable veins of gold, silver, and marble. The general offices of the Lake Superior and Ishpeming railroad are located here, and besides the mines and iron works there are manufactories of boilers, wagons and sleighs, machinery, and worked lumber. The city has trolley connection with Negaunee, a National bank, public library, water supply from Lake Superior, several weekly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 12,448; (1920) 10,500.
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an island of Argyllshire, Scotland. Deeply indented on the S. by Loch Andail (12 by by 8 miles), Islay has a maximum length and breadth of 252 and 19 miles, and an area of 246 square miles. It contains several small freshwater lakes, and attains a height of 1,444 feet. ISLE OF FRANCE. See MAURITIUS.
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with the exception of the Isle of Man the largest island in the English seas, lies off the S. coast of the kingdom, separated from Hampshire by the Solent, a channel mainly ranging between 2 and 4 miles in breadth. Its extreme length, E. to W. from the Foreland to the Needles, is about 23 miles, and its extreme breadth, N. to S., Cowes to . The late Queen Victoria had a residence St. Catharine's Point, is about 13 miles on the Isle of Wight. The area is calculated at 145 square miles, but was formerly estimated at much more.
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a Canadian island in the St. Lawrence river above Montreal Island, and between Lake of Two Mountains and Lake St. Louis.
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an island belonging to Michigan, in Lake Superior, 45 miles long, 9 miles wide; area, 229 square miles. The shores are generally rocky and broken. There are extensive veins of native copper, many of which have been worked in prehistoric times, as they are still.
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LORD OF THE, a title borne by a race of Scotch chiefs. ISMAELIANS.
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a originating in the 1st century of the Hegira, and deriving its name from Ishmael or Ismael, one of Ali's descendants. From the 8th to the 12th century they were powerful in the East, and distributed themselves over Irak, Syria, Persia, and Egypt.
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or See ISHMAELITES.
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a town and river port in Russian Bessarabia; on the N. bank of the Kilia branch of the Danube, 48 miles from its mouth. Formerly a Turkish fortress, it was taken and destroyed by Suwaroff in December, 1790; came into possession of Russia in 1812; was assigned to Moldavia by the treaty of Paris, 1856, its fortifications being razed; and was transferred to Russia again by the Berlin Congress of 1878. It has an active trade in corn, wool, tallow, and hides. Pop. about 37,000.
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celebrated for the facility with which a Khedive of Egypt, son of Ibrahim he used his native tongue, though the Pasha and grandson of Mehemet Ali; born in Cairo, in 1830. He was made commandant of the army in 1862, and succeeded Said Pasha as viceroy in 1863. In 1867 he acquired from the Porte the title of Khedive. His lavish expenditures not only greatly encumbered his own estate, but embarrassed all the people of Egypt. He took an active interest in the building of the Suez Canal, but under his mismanagement the country became so involved in debt that he was forced to abdicate. This he did, his son taking his place. Not being allowed by the Sultan to go to Constantinople, he made his home at Naples and various other places for many years, but finally died in Constantinople, March 2, 1895.
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