These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Itch, Ithamar, Ithome.
a popular name for scabies; a disease arising from the irritation produced by the presence in the parts affected of the itch mite and its ova. The animal burrows chiefly between the fingers, on the front of the forearm, on the abdomen, and the inside of the thighs. The disease chiefly assails uncleanly people. It is very common among the natives of India and other Orientals.
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a city and county-seat of Tompkins co., N. Y.; on both sides of Cayuga Lake, and on the Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, and the Central New York Southern railroads, and the State Barge Canal; 70 miles S. E. of Rochester. It derives water power from Fall creek; has a number of beautiful cascades in its vicinity; and manufactories of glass, typewriters, drop forgings, calendar clocks, firearms, salt, and other commodities. The cit city is best known as LL UNIVERSITY (q. v.) v.) the seat of CORNELL and the Cascadilla Preparatory School; and also as a po popular summer resort. There are National banks, trolley connection with East Ithaca, large farming trade with Tompkins, Tioga, Cortland, and Seneca counties. Pop. (1909) 14, 802; (1920) 17,204.
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now THIAKI, one of the Ionian Islands, on the W. of Greece, between the mainland and Cephalonia, 17 miles long, and not above 4 broad. It is rugged and uneven, and divided into two nearly equal parts connected by a narrow isthmus. The inhabitants are industrious agriculturists and mariners, and build and fit out a considerable number of vessels. They seem to be of pure Greek race, and the women are famed for their beauty. Ithaca was the royal seat of Ulysses, and is minutely described in the Odyssey. Schliemann made important excavations, and identified several sites mentioned by Homer. Vathi, the modern capital, trades largely in oil, wine, raisins, and currants. Pop. of Island, 12,000.
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the fourth son of Aaron, consecrated to the priesthood. His posterity took charge of the tabernacle in the wilderness. Some of this line, namely, Eli, Ahitub, Ahiah, Ahimelech, and Abiathar, held the office of high priest, but under Solomon it reverted to the family of Eleazar.
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a mountain of Greece, in Messenia, 25 miles N. W. of Kalamata, 3,865 feet high. On its S. slope are the remains of a village, which in ancient Greece was the stronghold of the Messenians against the Lacedemonians. The first Messenian war ended with the fall of Ithome, 724 b. c.
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in classic Greek fable, the son of Deucalion and King of Thessaly, reported to have discovered the fusion of metals, and the art of coining money.
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AUGUSTIN DE (ē-tör'be-dā), a Mexican soldier; born in Valadolid, Mexico, in 1783. On the breaki_g out of the revolutionary troubles in ed the royalist party and Mexico, he joined displayed such valor and ability that in 1815 he rose to the chief command of the army, but latterly went over to the other side, quickly bore down all opposition, and became so popular that he proclaimed himself Emperor of Mexico in 1822. His reign was full of trouble, and came to an end in less than a year, by his abdication. Congress granted him a yearly pension on condition of his leaving the country, and he resided in Leghorn about a year, when he made an attempt to recover the crown. He landed with but a single attendant, and was arrested and shot, in Padilla, July 19, 1824. His grandson his heir by the unfortunate Emperor was adopted as Maximilian.
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e-toor-be'da, Don Augustin (1783-1824), an emperor of Mexico. He was a native of Valladolid, Mexico. His father was a Spanish nobleman, his mother a rich creole. When the Mexicans first attempted to throw off Spanish rule the Spanish viceroy put Iturbide in command of the militia; but, instead of putting down the rebellion, Iturbide carried the militia over to the Mexican side. In 1822 the Mexicans made him their emperor and passed a law providing that his son should succeed him. The new emperor was too despotic, however, to suit the Mexicans, or perhaps they chafed under any autocratic government. In less than a year Iturbide was banished and went to Leghorn, Italy, to reside, with a pension from the Mexican Congress of $25,000 a year. A few months later he went to London. In 1824 he sailed for Mexico to recover his lost sovereignty. He landed July 14, and issued a proclamation that he would govern in accordance with the constitution and usages of England. July 17 he was arrested, and July 19 he was shot as a disturber of the public peace. The Mexicans settled a pension on his family.
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A son of Tereus, king of Thrace, and Procne, daughter of Pandion, king of Athens . He was killed by his mother when he was six years old, and served up to his father to be eaten by him. He was changed into a pheasant, his mother into a swallow, and his father into an owl.
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In Ultonian romance, the King of the Wee Folk. One day he boasted of the might of his strong man Glower, who could hew down a thistle at one blow. His bard Eisirt retorted that beyond the sea, there existed a race of giants, any one of whom could annihilate a whole battalion of the Wee Folk. Challenged to prove his words, Eisirt brought Creda, King Fergus' dwarf and bard. He then dared Iubdan to go to Fergus' palace and taste the king's porridge. Iubdan, and Bebo, his queen, arrived at the palace at midnight, but in trying to get at the porridge so as to taste and be away before daybreak, Iubdan fell in. He was found in the pot next morning by the scullions, and he and Bebo were taken before Fergus, who after a while released them in exchange for a pair of water shoes, wearing which a man could go over or under water as freely as on land.
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a novel by Walter Scott. It was written about 1819, when the famous "Wizard of the North" was at his best, and appeared in print the following year. The tale combines romance and adventure. The scene is laid in England in the days of Richard I. The plot is one of the greenwood, archery, Saxon outlawry, Norman oppression, tournament, castle storming, and orderly battle. Gurth, the swineherd; Wamba, the jester; Brian de Bois-Guilbert, the knight templar; Locksley, the green-coated outlaw; Friar Tuck , the fat monk; sturdy Cedric, the Saxon; haughty Front de Boeuf; Richard Coeur de Lion , disguised as the Black Knight, are leading characters. Ivanhoe, the discredited Saxon son, is the hero; but Rebecca, a Jewish maiden, is the noblest of all. Ivanhoe is Scott's most famous novel.
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