These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Kail, Kailas, Kaiser.
capital of the Chinese int inundation province of Honan, near the S. bank of the Hoangho, where the great inundation occurred in 1887, long the chief settlement of the Jews in China. Pop., about by act of Parliament, and proclamation 200,000.
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the coal region in Chih-li, China; 75 miles N. E. of Tien-tsin, near the Lan-ho river, with railway connection with Hokow and with Tien-tsin via Taku. walled a (kir-wän'), KAIRWAN town of Tunis. It contains about 50 ecclesiastical structures, of which the mosque of Okba, who founded Kairwan about 670, is one of the most sacred of Islam. Outside the city, to the N. W., is the mosque of the Companion-i. e., of the Prophet; this and other sacred tombs have rendered Kairwan-i. e., caravan or resting-place-the Mecca or sacred city of northern Africa. As such, it has been jealously guarded from de filement by the presence of Jews and for the most part of Christian travelers; but it was entered and explored by the French in 1881. Kairwan makes copper vessels, potash, carpets, and articles in leather. Pop. about 25,000. (ki-zär-ē'ä) (ancient KAISARIAH Mazaca), a town of Asiatic Turkey, province Karamania, on the Karasa, a tributary of the Euphrates. It is a considerable place and the emporium of an extensive trade. Cotton is grown in great quantities in the vicinity. Manufactures, cotton fabrics and morocco leather. Pop. about 25,000. (ki"zär-ē-hind'), KAISAR-I-HIND Hindustani for Empress of India, the title conferred on Queen Victoria in 1876 KAKABIKKA at Delhi. d proclamat
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or KALE, the name given in England and Scotland to a variety of the Brassica oleracea, differing from the cabbage in the open heads of its leaves, which are used as "greens" and as food for cattle. There are many varieties, the leaves being sometimes green, sometimes reddish-brown, sometimes purplish in color, and plain, waved, curled, or laciniated in form. Usually a biennial plant; it is sometimes perennial, as in the variety known as Milan kale (chou de Milan). It is variously known as borecole, winter greens, German greens, and Scotch kale.
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a sacred mountain of the Hindus in the Himalayas, near the sources of the Indus and Sutlej; height, 20,226 feet. KAINITE, a hydrous sulphate of potash and magnesia, found along with beds of rock-salt, especially in Germany and Austria. It is valuable for the production of double sulphate of potash and magnesia, and is used as a manure.
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an emperor; the title of the former Emperor of Germany. He was called Kaiser because by Dioemperor: or of Germ cletian's arrangement certain provinces ecause by near the Danube, which came into posrtain prov session of the German empire in 1438, came into were anciently assigned to a Cæsar. In This ancient title of the German emperor was revived, when, in 1871, King William III. of Prussia at the successful con- German en 1, King W clusion of the Franco-Prussian War, was successf proclaimed Emperor of Germany. The ssian We last Kaiser Wilhelm II. was forced to Germany abdicate in November, 1918, when the was fo German Republic was proclaimed and is 1918, wh now (1920) an exile in Holland. oclaimed Folland KAISERSLAUTERN (kī'zers-loutern), or LAUTERN, a town of the (ki Palatinate. An important Bavarian town manufacturing place; the chief manufactures being tissues, yarn, sewing and echie other machines, ultramarine, furniture, beer, bricks, etc., and there are ironrn, se rine, works, steam sawmills, and railway shops. Frederick I. built a castle here in 1152 (destroyed by the French in 1713); and near by the French repuba the lican armies were defeated in 1793 and ic 1794. Pop. about 55,000. ed in
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the N. section of southeastern New Guinea; declared a German protectorate in 1884; area, estimated 70,000 square miles; pop, about 100,000. The administration was transferred from the New Guinea Company to the imperial government, April 1, 1899. Gold has been found in the Bismarck Mountains. Captured by Australian troops Sept. 25, 1914.
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a Prussian town on the Rhine, 10 miles below Düsseldorf, the seat of the deaconesses' house, founded by Pastor Fliedner; OΣ pop. about 3,000. KAISER WILHELM CANAL. See KIEL CANAL.
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ancient an town in the Punjab, India, 93 miles N. N. W. from Delhi. It is connected traditionally with the monkey-god Hanuman, and is called in Sanskrit Kapisthala, the "abode of monkeys." It has saltpeter refineries, and manufactures lac ornaments and toys. It became British in 1843.
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a remarkable cataract of British North America, in the Kaministiquia river, just before it enters Lake Superior. It has a fall of 130 feet over a mica slate rock. KAKEMONOS (-kē'-) Japanese name for paintings on paper or silk, having a rod at bottom like a map, and hung similarly on a wall.
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or CACODYL, in chemistry, an organo-metallic base, containing arsenic. It is prepared from its chloride by the action of zinc. It is a thin, transparent, colorless liquid, resembling arsenietted hydrogen in smell. It is very innd flammable, and when poured into oxygen, chlorine, or the air, it inflames.
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in Hindu mythology, Siva in one of his manifestations; some- (1910) times used for Time. (See KALEE.) Also one of the names of Yama, regent of the dead; hence, sometimes death it- 1 institutio led in 1857 self. aptist Cha
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a malady the symptoms 19: Profes of which include fever and sores, existing in an epidemic form in Asia and ats, 288; north Africa, and showing a high deathrate. In one of its forms it is known as "Oriental Sore." The parasite has The leave only been discovered in recent years, as an app Leishman describing it in 1903. ation.
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a town in Rumania, on the left bank of the Danube, about 1 mile E. of Widdin, on the opposite bank. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1853- 1854 it was twice unsuccessfully attacked by the Russians. Since Rumania became an independent kingdom it has made rapid progress.
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or KALIHARI, a desert region in central South Africa, N. of Owing to the Orange river; a large tract of which the incura is included in the British protectorate of their mu Bechuanaland. An abundant supply of uced and watermelons and some remarkable varieare now ties of tubers, together with large herds vation, Ord of antelopes and other game, provide ample subsistence to the bushmen and in Sla Bakalahari inhabiting this barren region. nus.
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