These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Kobbe, Kobe, Kobold.
GUSTAV, an American auan thor; born in New York, March 4, 1857; was graduated at Columbia University rabia in 1877 and at its Law School in 1879; School and later engaged in newspaper and newssa magazine work. He is author of "The author
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a port of Central Japan; on Central Japan; on the W. shore of the Gulf of Ozaka, about Gulf of Ozaka, about 20 miles S. of that city. Pop. about 500,ity. Pop, about 500- 000. The foreign settlement is finely settlement is finely laid out, and the town is one of the most wh is one of the mont attractive and prosperous in Japan. It perous in Japan. It has been open to foreign trade since foreign trade since direct communication 1868. Kobe has direct communication with Great Britain, Germany, Canada, In, Germany, Canada, and Australia.
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a spirit, differing from the eit, differing from the specter in never having been a living having been a living human creature. It is the German cor- It is the German correspondent of the English goblin, of English goblin, of which it is probably the origin. From ly the origin. From it the metal cobalt derives its name. The erives its name. The kobold is said to be connected with a be connected with a house or family, and always to appear and always to appear In the mines they are in human shape. In the mines they are believed to appear, sometimes in the T, sometimes in the form of a blue flame, sometimes in that ne, sometimes in that of a dwarfish child, and to point out rich and to point out rich veins.
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a star of the third magnir of the third magnitude in Ursa Minor, "The Little Bear," or, "The Little Bear," and which in the time of Ptolemy was the me of Ptolemy was the actual pole-star.
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DE "Wag- (188 ner's Life and Works" (1890); “My (1890); "My Rosary and Other Poems" (1896); "New 896); "New oem York and Its Environs"; "Signora" Environs"; "Signora" (1906); "Wagner and His Isolde" and His Isolde Appreciate Music" (1905), "How to Appreciate Music" (1906); "Modern Women" (1916). He Vomen" (1916). He died in 1918.
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CHARLES PAUL DE (kōk), LES PAUL DE (kök), a French novelist and playwright; born and playwright; born
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PAUL HENRI DE, a French novelist and playwright , son of Charles Paul; born in Paris Paris, France, April 25, 1819. He followed closely in his father's footsteps, producing numerous novels and plays , which however, never enjoyed the same popularity. Titles of some of his novels are: "The King of the Students and the Queen of the Grisettes" (1844); " Kisses Accursed" (1860); "Absinthe Drinkers" (1863); "The New Manon" (1864 ); "Mademoiselle Croquemitaine" (1871). He died in Limeil, April 14, 1892.
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DE in Passy, France, May 21, 1794. He wrote a great number of novels that showed humor and observation describing Parisian lower class life of his time, and were emphatically realistic. Among the most popular were: "Georgette" (1820); "Gustave" (1821 ); "Monsieur Dupont" (1824); "Wife, Husband, and Lover" (1829); "The Man with Three Pairs of Trousers " (1840); "A Woman with Three Faces " (1859); "The Millionaire" (1867). He wrote also popular songs. He died in Paris, Aug. 29, 1871.
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PAUL, captain of the merchant submarine "Deutschland" which crossed the Atlantic from Germany and arrived at Baltimore on July 10, 1916, with a cargo of dyestuffs. While in the United States he was interviewed by newspapermen, was even the recipient of vaudeville offers, was welcomed by mayor of Baltimore and officials. On August 2 he sailed on the return voyage, later making a second voyage and putting in at New London, Conn.
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a town in the province of Kai, Japan , located about 80 miles from Tokyo. The town has progressed rapidly in recent years having many buildings of the European style. The industries are silk-weaving, the polishing of rock-crystals found in the quarries nearby, and the making of wine. Population, about 50,000.
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the son of Levi and father of the Kohathites, who was appointed to carry the ark and the sacred utensils of the tabernacle during the journeyings of the Israelites in the desert. (Ex. vi: 16- 24; Num. iv: 4-15). KOH-I-NUR. See DIAMOND.
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. See Diamond
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the turnip-stemmed cabbage, a variety of cabbage having a turnip-like protuberance on the stem just above the ground, which is the most edible part of the plant.
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or KUKU-NOR, a lake province of Kan-su, fills a depression surrounded by mountains, and lies, according to Prjevalsky, 12,097 feet above the level of the sea. exquisitely blue in color, cover 66 miles Its very salt waters , by 40. It contains five islands, one with a Buddhist monastery.
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city and county-seat of Howard co., Ind.; on the Wildcat river and at the intersection of several important railroad systems; 54 miles N. of Indianapolis. It is the farming trade center for a region within a radius of nearly 20 miles; is the principal city in the natural gas area of Indiana; and is principally engaged in agriculture, stockraising, lumbering and manufacturing. It has a driven well water system, electric lights and street railroads, National and savings banks, the County Asylum and Orphans ' Home, a public park of about 40 acres, public library, and high 30,067. schools. Pop. (1910) 17,010; (1920) of Tibet, near the frontier of the Chinese
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a genus of Celastraceӕ. K. zeylanica is a tree with a pale-colored bark, found in the West Indies and in seeds, which is used for burning in lamps, Ceylon. An oil is expressed from its etc. the wood of an Indian tree, Lepidostachys
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or COCUS WOOD, Roxburghii , which belongs to a very small natural order, Scepaceæ. It is imported into Great Britain in logs of six or eight inches in diameter, having the heartwood of a rich deep brown color and very hard; and is much used in the manufacture of flutes and other musical instruments. worthy of notice as the extreme N. town
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