These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Jehu, Jelliffe, Jelly Fish.
the 10th King of residence of the Emperor King of Israel; had i been commander in the army of Jehoram, Israel; had his king, whom he shot with of China. the army of Jehoram, an arrow, and put shot with an arrow, to death 70 of Ahab's children,
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Sir Jamsetjee (1783-1859), a Bombay merchant. A story runs to the effect that he began mercantile life when a small lad with half a dozen empty bottles, which he sold for enough to purchase seven, etc. By energy and thrift he accumulated a fortune. He was not a Hindu; he belonged to the sect of Parsees, or Fire Worshipers , but was a man of broad charity. He presented the public an immense hospital at Bombay, and established a school for the education of poor Parsee children. He built roads and established inns for travelers. Among other public works, the expense of which was borne by him, was a causeway connecting the island on which Bombay was situated with the mainland. Although a native of India, he ranks with the world's renowned millionaires who have risen from poverty to wealth, and who have known how to use that wealth to good purpose. The gifts made by him without reference to nationality or creed amount to $1,500,000. Queen Victoria knighted him, and in 1857 made him a baronet. A statute in his honor was erected in the town hall of Bombay.
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A Sufi poet of the thirteenth century, A.D. He teaches the Sufi doctrine that the chief end of man is so to emancipate himself from human thoughts and wishes, human needs and the outward impressions of the senses, that he may become a mere mirror for the Deity. So refined an essence does his mind become that it is as nearly as possible nothing; yet while in this state it can, by a union with the Divine Essence, mysteriously become the All. In his teachings he declares that names and words must not be taken for the things they represent:- "Names thou mayst know; go, seek the truth they name Search not the brook, but heaven, for the moon."
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SMITH ELY, an American neurologist, born in New York City , in 1866. He graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1886 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York , in 1889. He took post graduate courses in Europe in 1903 and was appointed visiting neurologist at the City Hospital, New York. From 1903 to 1907, he was professor of mental diseases at Fordham University. He was also lecturer and professor of medical colleges and hospitals in New York. He became known as one of the leading experts in mental diseases. He paid special attention to psychoanalysis and became an authority on that subject. He was a member of many medical societies. He wrote "Morphology and Histology of Plants" (1899); "Outlines of Pharmacognosy" (1904). He also edited and translated the works of many foreign writers on medical subjects , and contributed many articles on psycho-analysis and other topics to medical magazines.
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a name for bell-shaped or disk-like marine Hydrozoa, for the most part active swimmers. One set, known as Acraspeda or Acalephæ, are usually large, a giant specimen of Cyanea, had a bell 7½ feet across, and tentacles 120 feet long. Beset with myriads of stinging cells , these "blubbers" often make bathers more than uncomfortable. The common Aurelia is a well-known representative, while the exceptional Lucernarians have a more or less sedentary life attached to sea-weeds and other objects. Included among the craspedote hydrozoa, are the Trachymedusæ, of which Geryonia is a good great number of type. Finally, medusoid forms, usually small in size, very closely resemble the Trachymedusæ, but differ both from them and from the Acraspeda in being the liberated sexual "persons" of hydroid or zoöphyte colonies. a
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jel'i-bi, Mrs., in Dickens' Bleak House , a woman so absorbed in charitable work and in foreign missions as to neglect her own household. She spends her time in planning and arranging for emigration to Borrioboola-gha while her own children are neglected and unhappy.
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a village in the Belgian province of Hainault. Here the French Republicans under Dumouriez, on Nov. 6, 1792, defeated the Austrians, which victory placed Belgium in the power of the French. The village stands on one of the richest coalfields of Belgium, and manufactures stoneware, glass, and chemicals. Pop. about 15,000. The village was occupied by the Germans in 1914. It was one of the last places recovered by ered by 1918.
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also or Östersund, a län or province of
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also bounded on the W. by Norway. län or province of very mountainous, and only a small the W. hy Norway. of the land is under cultivation. ous, and only a small are numerous forests and large is under cultivation. The entire area covers 19,712 us forests and large miles. Pop. about 200,000. area covers 19,712 200,000.
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. See Genghis Khan
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John Edward (1838-), an English author. He was born at Bangalore, India. He received his education at McGill University, Canada, and at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a liberal and has written books and pamphlets on political subjects. His works include Lord Bantam, Little Hodge, A Paladin of Fortune, Jobson's Enemies, and the one which made him famous, Ginx's Baby, His Birth and Misfortunes. It is a satire on the management of pauperism in England, including the national poor laws and also the administration of sectarian charitable institutions. It was published in 1871 and exerted a marked influence upon social reforms.
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a town of Cent Africa, on the Niger, and on the road a town of Central from Sego to in 1558. ger, and on the r Timbuctoo, from which it is distant about an anatomibucioo, from which 280 miles. It is a place of considerable , zoological 10 miles. It is a pl collections, commercial importance, and in the shops may mmercial importar be seen printed muslins, scarlet volumes, may be seen prin cloth, hardware goods, and other articles On Oct. 14, hoth, hardware goo of British manufacture. Pop. about men) under of British manuf 10,000. here by 10,000. Bonaparte
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