These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Lamia, Laminaria, Laminated Pipe.
a city in Greece, located near the head of the gulf of Lamia and not far distant from the famous pass of Thermopylæ. The modern town cone mosques and gartains some picturesque mosques and gardens. The most important industry is portant industry is Ms. Pop. approxithe raising of camels. Pop. approximately, 9,000. ), a genus of al-
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a genus of alof the family La gals, the typical one of the family Laminaridæ, or the order Laminariacex. der Laminariaceæ. In place of leaves there is a plane rib- Here is a plane ribless expa expansion. The stem is either naked stem is either naked stalks of young stalks of fringed. The or young saccharina, called L. digitata and L. saccharina, called tangles, are eaten. The first of The first of are most valued of these with L. bulbosa are most valued of anufacture. L. sacthe genus for kelp manufacture. L. saccharina is used as an imperfect hygroan imperfect hygrometer. It is administered in India in mistered in India in syphilis. So are L. goiter, scrofula, and syphilis. So are L. bracteata and the large Australian speange Australian species, L. potatorum.
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water, sewer, or IFE, water, sewer, or gas pipe made of thicknesses of veneer Thicknesses of veneer or scale board successively wrapped to essively wrapped to obtain thickness and strength. Each And strength. Each layer is thoroughly saturated with assaturated with asphalt, and the grain of alternate layers of alterneto layers passes in transverse directions, so as to directions, to as to secure an intimate bond and a line of hond and a line of resistance to disruption in any direction, on in any direction, lengthwise, oblique, or across the pipe across the pipe circumference. The veneer is someis sometimes made to alternate with fabric or fabric or an adhesive composition.
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a gold- CHINE & goldbeater's rolling-mill for reducing the infor reducing the ingot of gold to such a thickness that a a thickness that a Ish 6½ grains. The square inch will weigh 6½ grains. The ingot weighs two ounces, and is threenees, and is threebroad. The rollers quarters of an inch broad. The rollers and extend the ingot are of hard steel, and extend the ingot to a ribbon. The gold is frequently anold is frequently annealed during the process. process. the arrangement of
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the arrangement of rocks in thin layers or laminæ, the conor lamine, the condition of a large proportion proportion of the earth's ortion of the earth's strata. Shale deposits exhibit this structs exhibit this strucing frequently easily ture very plainly, being frequently easily separable into the thin laminæ in which in laminse in which they were originally deposited. The deposited. The laminæ indicate interruption in the supon in the supply of the materials, which may have may have been occasioned by successive tides, by des, by frequent or periodical floods, or by the by the carrying medium having access to a suping a supply of different material, passing, e. g., 6 6. 9. from mud to sand, and back again to again to mud.
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a name given to the first given to the first day of August, though the origin of the cribs of the ity, it is the term is involved in obscurity. It is the day of the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula, Peter ac Vincula, or St. Peter in Bonds, which was insti- Lich was instituted in 317, and, according to some aurding to nome authorities, received its title from the Dititle from the Di- LÄMMERGEIER vine commission to Peter, "Feed my lambs." Others state that it is a corruption of the Saxon Loaf-mass, because an annual feast was then celebrated to return thanks for the first-fruits of corn. LÄMMERGEIER (lem-mer-gi'er) (Gypaetos barbatus), a large bird of prey, also called the bearded vulture or bearded griffin. The full-grown bird is of a shining brownish-black color on the upper parts, with a white stripe along the shaft of each feather; the head is whitish, with black stripes at the eyes; the neck and underpart of the body are rusty yellow. It is the largest bird of prey in the Old World, measuring almost 4 feet high when sitting, nearly 5 feet in length, and from 9 to 10 feet in expanse of wing. Though by no means brave, it is bold and rapacious, swooping down on hares, lambs, young goats, chamois, etc. Once common in the Alps, it is now very rare, but occurs not infrequently in Sardinia, the Pyrenees, North African mountains, and the Himalayas.
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or LAMMERMUIR (-mür') HILLS, a range of Scotch hills stretching in a generally E. direction from S. E. Midlothian to the German Ocean at St. Abb's Head, and forming part of the boundary between Berwick and Haddington shires. Highest summit Lammer Law, 1,733 feet.
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DANIEL SCOTT, an American executive officer; born in Cortlandville, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1851; was educated at Union College and engaged in journalism; private secretary to President Cleveland in 1885-1889 and Secretary of War 1893-1897, then vice-president of Northern Pacific R. R. Co., died 1905.
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THOMAS WILLIAM, an American banker and philanthropist, born at Claverack, N. Y., in 1870. He graduated from Harvard University in 1892. After some time spent in newspaper work he became secretary and treasurer of the Bankers Trust Co., New Trust Co. York. In 1911 he was made a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and was a director in many important financial institutions. During the World War he rendered efficient service both in the United States and in France as an official of the Red Cross. He also acted as financial adviser in Paris during the session of the Peace Conference. LA MOTTE-FOUQUÉ FRIEDRICH, BARON DE, a German (-fö-kā'), author; born in Brandenburg, Feb. 12, 1777. Entering the army, he served in the campaign of the Rhine, and fought the French for the liberty of Germany in the beginning of the 19th century. His first works appeared under the name of "Pellegrin"; which contributed to fan the flame of patriotic ardor which led his countrymen to final victory. Leaving the army in 1831, he removed to Halle, where he delivered lectures on poetry and history. "Undine" gained him a world-wide reputation. Among his other works are "Sintram," a fairy tale; "As- Knight"; and the poems, "Siglauga lauga's urd," "Corona," "Bertrand du Guesclin," etc. He died in Berlin, Jan. 23, 1843. an. 23, 1848,
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