These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Kunnoj, Kunthia, Kunz.
a formerly important town of British India, capital of the pergunnah of the same name, in the district of Furruckabad. At present the place is little more than an expanse of ruins. Kunnoj was formerly one of the greatest Indian cities.
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a genus of palms, tribe Areceæ. It is found in New Granada, the Indians of which use the reedy stems as tubes through which to blow their poisoned arrows. The juice of the tree is used as a remedy for snake bites.
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GEORGE FREDERICK, an American gem expert; born in New York City, Sept. 29, 1856; was educated at Cooper Union, receiving an honorary A. M. at Columbia University; 3rd vicepresident of Tiffany & Co. since 1879. He States became Geological a special ical Survey agent in of 1883 the; United was in charge of the department of mines the Omaha, Atlanta, World's Columbian at and Paris Expositions the New York Mineralogical; was president Club of vice - president of the American Institute and of " Gems Mining and Engineers Precious, Stones etc. Author of America "; annual reports on the of North " Production of Precious Stones Resources of the United, " States in " Mineral and over 200 papers on gems and, " etc., minerals orated in by magazines France, Germany and reviews, and. Dec- Japan. KUPFERSCHIEFER er), one of the series of strata which make up the " Dyas " type of the Permian shef ' System as it is developed in Germany of population give 1,500,000 to . The bed consists of black bituminous shale, about two feet thick, abundantly charged with well-preserved remains of various fish, coniferous leaves, fruits, etc.
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or KURA (ancient Cyrus or Kûros), a river of western Asia, rising in the mountains W. of Kars, flowing through the Russian governments of Tiflis, Elizabethpol, and Baku, and falling into the Caspian Sea, after a course of between 500 and 600 miles.
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(kö-ram'), a river rising in Afghanistan near the N. end of the W. Suliman range, and flowing through British territory into the Indus near Isakhel.
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a chain of islands in the North Pacific, extending S. W. to N. E. from Japan to Kamchatka, and belonging to Japan; area, about 5,000 square miles. The whole chain is of volcanic origin, and there are many active volcanoes, one of which is from 12,000 to 15,000 feet high. The population is very scanty.
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term applied by a Warburton to that kind of hieroglyphic writing in which the principal circumstance in the subject stands for the whole. Thus a battle was depicted by two hands, one holding a shield and the other a bow; an insurrection by an ; a siege, by a scaling ladder, and so on. armed man casting arrows KURLAND. See COURLAND. when vast quantities of goods are dis-
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or JAPAN CURRENT, column of red sandstone, erected at the Gulf Stream of the Pacific; is the Delhi, India, to commemorate the victory offspring of the great equatorial current, gained by the Mussulmans over the flows past Formosa, Japan, the Kuriles, Rajputs in 1193. This conquest gained the Aleutian Islands, and thence bends for them the sovereignty of the Punjab. S. to California. It is much inferior The column is 50 feet in diameter at the to the Gulf Stream, both in volume and base and 13 at the top. Its face is high temperature. covered with inscriptions from the Koran. KURSHOUMLIA or KURSUMLIJA, a village in the province of Toplica, on Top the town a
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TAMESADA, COUNT, posed of, the chief being cotton, silk, and Japanese general; born at Sago, Japan, go, Japan, woolen fabrics, sugar, tea, leather, received a March 16, 1844. Having received a horses, etc. The province of Kursk, in thorough military training, he first disthe middle of south Russia, contains tinguished himself in the war with China with China 17,931 square miles, three-fourths fertile in 1894, when he was entrusted with the ed with the arable land (black earth). Pop. about mobilization of the army, and afterward 3,000,000. with a field command, being present at present the capture of Wei-hai-wei. He attained
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ALEXEI NICOLAIimpregnated with minerals. Invalids EVITCH (kur-ō-pat'kin), Russian a frequent the place in large numbers. statesman and soldier; born in 1849. He was educated at the Cadet Corps
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a noted legendary hero of Inthe rank of general in 1903, and was pae dia, the contests of whose descendants made a baron in 1895, and a count in count form the subject of two great Indian 1907. In the war with Russia he gained he gained epics. the first victory on land at the Yalu the Yaln
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a mission station of the river on May 1, 1904, and by his tactics his tactic London Missionary Society in Bechuanasubsequent to that battle effected the ffected the land, au ut 130 miles N. W. from Kimisolation of Port Arthur. In the later the later berley. I was for many years the scene battles at Liaoyang, the Shaho, and Shaho, and of the labors of Dr. Moffat and Living- Mukden he held important divisional divisionsi er of the member of the stone. commands. He is a Japanese council of war.
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a resort in Japan where are numerous hot springs
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on the river Toplica, 35 miles S. W. of Nish, W. of Tigris river, in Mesopotamia, where the Siberia. It is sustained largely by agrichannel Shatt-el-Hai leaves the Tigris at Nasiriyeh culture and has a population of 2,000. in and on of and flows to the Euphrates , Some heavy fighting occurred the reputed site of the Garden of Eden. around the village during the invasion of Scene of fighting in World War, the the Austro-Germans in the World War. World British defeating the Turks and entering the town Aug. 29, 1915. However, April
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in Hindu mythology, the god of wealth. He resided In the splendid palace of Alaka, on Mount Meru, and is borne through the sky by four attendants on a radiant car given to him by Brahma. He has no temples dedicated to him, and no altars. On his head is a richly ornamented crown, and two of his four hands hold closed flowers of the lotus.
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