These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Kingstown, Kingwood, Kinkajou.
the commercial capital of Jamaica; on the N. side of a landlocked harbor, the best in the island, and, for its size, one of the best in the world. It was founded in 1693, after the neighboring town of Port Royal had been destroyed by an earthquake. Kingston itself suffered severe losses in life and property as a result of an earthquake in 1907. Pop. about 60,000.
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important English river-port, a parliamentary and and county of itself; municipal borough in the East Riding of Yorkshire on the Humber; here 2 miles wide, and here joined by the Hull. Pop. (1917) 246,- 557. The docks and basins, comprising an area of upward of 200 acres, have been constructed since 1774. Hull was one of the first ports in England to engage in the whale-fishery, an enterprise which has been abandoned; but its fisheries for edible fish employ, in conjunctic with those of Grimsby, large fleets of boats, attended by steam auxiliaries. Hull is a principal steam-packet station, and ocean steamers ply regularly to many of the principal ports of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Russia, Germany, and Scandinavia. Its home trade is also very extensive. It is the great outlet for the woolen and cotton goods of the midentrepôt land counties. It is the chief for German and Scandinavian oversea trade.
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a town of England, County Surrey, on the right bank of the Thames, 12 miles from Hyde Park Corner. Its antiquity is proved by numerous Roman remains found in its vicinity, and the Saxon kings were crowned here from Edward the Elder to Ethelred II. The stone on which the kings were crowned is preserved within an iron inclosure near the market-place. In the neighborhood are Bushy and Richmond parks, and Hampton Court Palace. Pop. (1917) 40,000.
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a watering place in Ireland, noted for its fine harbor. Pop. about 17,000.
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a kind of wood from Brazil called also violet wood. It is used for turning and cabinet work, and is beautifully variegated with violet streaks.
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a genus of carnivorous mammals, family Procionidæ. They have prehensile tails, with which they hang on to trees. They have some affinity to the lemurs, of which are they are the partial representatives in where they occur in South America and in Mexico. The best known species is Cercoleptes caudivolvulus, which is about a foot long, with a tail of 18 inches. It feeds upon fruit, insects, and birds. It is seen in menageries, and is occasionally tamed as a pet.
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a kind of gum, which exudes from certain trees, and is dried without artificial heat. There are four varieties imported into the United States, viz., the East Indian Malabar kino from or Pterocarpus marsupium; Bengal or Butea kino from Butea frondosa; African or Gambia kino from P. erinaceus; and Australian, Botany Bay, or Eucalyptus kino from Eucalyptus rostrata. It consists of dark red angular fragments, rarely larger than a pea. In its general behavior kino closely resembles catechu, and yields by similar treatment the same products. It is administered in medicine as an astringent. Also the insipissated juice of various plants.
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a municipal borough and seaport of County Cork, Ireland. In 1601, 3,000 Spaniards landed at Kinsale in order to fight for the O'Neill confederacy. Here James II. landed on March 12, 1689, and here he re-embarked in July, 1690. In the following October the fort was captured by Marlborough. Pop. about 4,000.
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a kind of open pavilion or summer-house, constructed of wood, straw, etc., and supported on pillars, suron gållars, surrounded by a balustrade. They are used Thly are used in gardens, parks, etc., and in Paris and Paris and other continental cities as depots for the for the sale of papers.
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for over 1,000 years the capi- 1,000 the capital of Japan; situated on a flat plain ated on a flat plain about 26 miles inland from Ozaka. A id. from Ozaka. A high range of hills to the E. separates to the B separates this plain from Lake Biwa, and on these • Biwa, and on these some of the finest temples connected with the city are built. At the N. end are At the N. end are situated in an inclosure, the plain nclosure, the plain wooden buildings where the emperors of the emperonς o Japan dwelt so long in seclusion. The The Honganji temples of the Monto sect of of the Mondo sech of Buddhists, and the center of the Buddhist faith in Japan, center of the Buddrise at the S. end of rise at the S. end of the city. The pottery, porcelain, crapes, ery, porcelain, crapes, velvets, and brocades of Kiōto are highly esteemed; es of Kiōto are highly its embroideries, enamels, and oideries, enamels, and inlaid bronze-works, are marvels of skillare marvels of skillful handicraft. Pop. about 550,000. p. about 550,000.
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a linguistic stock of North ruistic stock of North American Indians of which but one tribe, which but one tribe, the Kiowa, remains. They lived near TI lived near the head waters of the Upper Platte and Flatte and were very aggressive.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) a Turkish people, who in the 11th century were settled in the were settiod in the steppes of Southeast Russia, between ast Russia between the Ural and the Don, N. of the river N. of the river Kuma. After the death of Genghis Genghis Khan, one of his four sons, Batu, con- Batu, conquered (1238-1243) nearly all Central Central and Southern Russia, and founded the founded the great empire of the Golden Horde or the Kipchaks, Golden Horde or the fixing his magnificent camp on magnificent camp on the Volga. The Golden Horde and the E. branch, the White Horde or Eastern Golden Horde and the hite Horde or Eastern Kipchak, were united about 1378; but this join ited about 1878; but this joint empire broken up by Tamerlane in 1390-1395. Out of the was broken up by Out of the fragments were formed the small khan ates of Astrakhan, Kazan, the Crimea, etc., all of eventually ab sorbed by Russia. The modern descendwhich were eventually ab ants moderti descend of the Western Kipchaks are the Tartars of Kazan, Astrakhan, the Cri- Astrakhan, the Orimea, etc.
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