These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Japhet, Japonica, Japura.
according to the Hebrew record, the second son of Noah , whose descendants peopled first the N. and W. of Asia, after which they proceeded to occupy the "isles of the Gentiles." The term Japhetic or Japetic was at one time used loosely for peoples of the European stock (nearly as Aryan Semitic and Hamitic (Asiatic and Afriand Indo-European now) as opposed to can).
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a very handsome Japanese plant, a species of the camellia. It has become domesticated in the United States, and is notable for its large red or white flowers.
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an important tributary of the Amazon, rises in Southern Colombia, on the E. side of the Andes, and enters the Amazon opposite Teffe by several arms. Its upper course is broken by many falls, but in the lower part it is navigable for river steamers to nearly lon. 70° W. or almost 500 miles.
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ÉMILE, a Swiss musician. Born 1865 and educated by R. Fuchs, Anton Bruckner, and Leo Delibes. Professor of Harmony at the Conservatoire, Geneva, 1892-1910, principal of Jaques-Dalcroze College at Hellerau-Dresden, 1910-14 , and principal of the Institute Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva, since 1915, and visiting principal of the London School of Dalcroze Eurhythmics. His works include: For soli, chorus, and orchestra , "La Veillée"; "Poème Alpestre"; "Festival Vaudois"; "Fête de Juin"; "Lyric Comedies"; "Janie"; "Sancho Panza"; fragments of an opera, "Le Violon maudit"; Le Bonhomme Jadis"; "Evocation "; "Les Premières Souvenirs."
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a variety of early pear, of fine quality, so called from resembling in color the mineral jargon.
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Mrs., in Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, the owner and exhibitor of "Jarley's Wax Works." She was "a Christian lady, stout and comfortable to look upon, who wore a large bonnet trembling with bows." She traveled through the country in a tidy little caravan displaying her wax works-"the all man, the short man, the old lady who died of dancing at a hundred and thirty-two, the wild boy of the woods, the woman who poisoned fourteen families with pickled walnuts, and other historical characters and interesting but misguided individuals."
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a small town of France, on the Charente, 16 miles from Angoulême. Here the Huguenots defeated by Henry d'Anjou, afterward Henry III., March 13, 1569. The Prince de Condé fell in this battle.
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in botany, Lagerstromia reginæ, common in the Indian peninsula and in Burma . It yields a blood-red wood, which, though soft and open in the grain, is greatly used in In-
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capital of the Russian district of that name; at the junction of the Volga with the Kotorost, 173 miles N. E. of Moscow. The town has broad streets, a fine quay, 2 miles long, beside the Volga, nearly 50 churches, three monasteries, and a theological college ; it is the seat of an archbishop. The staple industry of the place is the manufacture of cotton stuffs; next comes the weaving of linen, wool, and silk. Jaroslav is an important riverport, and does an active trade in corn and textiles. Pop . about 120,000. The town was founded in 1026, and was the capital of an independent principality till 1471, when it fell to Moscow. The district of Jaroslav, with an area of 13,- 723 square miles, pop. about 1,500,000, is industrially important , with spinning and weaving of cotton and flax, and the manufacture of spirits, tobacco, and chemicals.
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a timber tree of Australia, the Eucalyptus marginata (or rostrata), yielding a very durable wood, useful for railway sleepers , jetties, etc., not being liable to the attack of the white ant and the shipworm.
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a seaport of Durham, England; on the Tyne ; 7 miles E. of Newcastle. Its growth from a small colliery village to the thriving town has been due to the construction of its docks (since 1859), and to the establishment of Palmer & Co.'s iron shipbuilding and marine engine works, blast furnaces, iron foundries, gun factory, etc. , which employ many thousands of men. 682 Benedict Biscop founded the Benedictine monastery with which the name of Bede is inseparably associated. Pop. (1918) 33,732. At Jarrow in
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BOOK OF dia for boat-building and for the knees of ships on account of its great durability under water . The native Indian physicians esteem its various parts medicinal, the astringent root being used in thrush, its bark and leaves as purgatives , and its seeds as a narcotic.
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a native State of Chota ress, to whom promised eternal love, Jason was enabled to whom he to a accomplish his several feats Jason was enal Nagpur, in Bengal; area, 1,963 square miles. The country several feats, and turned to Thessaly with the Golden , and re- Fleece and his wife is a tableland, ranging from 2,200 to 3,500 with the Gol Medea. Growing, however, weary of feet in height, wife Medea. Growi her exacting love, and has excellent soil. of her exacting lo Jason divorced Medea and married
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JACQUES (zhäs-mang), a Glauce, the King of Corinth's daughter. Medea and marr Provençal poet; born in Agen, Lot-et- Garonne, France, of Corinth's daught In revenge Medea destroyed her own children by Jason, March 6, 1798. His origin was of destroyed her o and sent to Glauce a poisoned garment the humblest, and he earned his livelihood and sent to Glauce which burned her to death. Jason as a barber. He wrote: which burned her was killed soon after, by a beam "Curl Papers," "Souvenirs," and a narrative killed soon after, by falling on him from the ship Argo, as he slept one poem "Francounetto." He developed im from the ship Ars day on the shore by his beloved vessel the possibilities of the language of ay on the shore by . Provence as a medium of modern literary expression. He died in Agen, Oct.
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or JASHI, the obedience to the commands of the the capital of Moldavia, the N. division of Rumania. capital of The town was oracle, Jason returned to the city of ision of Rumania. almost destroyed by fire in 1827, after Iolchos and demanded the surrender of destroyed by fire which it was rebuilt. The most the throne to him, its rightful possessor; to it was rebuilt. The noticeable secular buildings are the palaces of the this the usurper consented, if cular buildings are the boyars or Rumanian nobles, both Jason would first sail across the Euxine yars or Rumanian noin the city and in its environs. The town has to the kingdom of Colchis, and there city and in its environs. a university with about 40 teachers and punish the perfidious king, Ætes, who aniversity with about 40 170 students. Pop. about 76,000, of had slain a mutual relative. students. Pop. about whom 50,000 are Jews, the 50,000 are Jews, the the od from TAUNFUR the Northy Gunti 569-1573) tectu
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