These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Legion, Legion, Legislature.
a kind of plait of the straw of bearded wheat cut green and bleached, and used for bonnets and hats. It derives its name from being imported from Leghorn. (A hat made of the plait described is called a Leghorn.) The of a S kind of wheat in question is about 18 tives. inches high. It is grown on poor sandy are soil on the banks of the Arno, between Leghorn and Florence, expressly for tho manufacture into hats.
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a walled city and seaport Italy of on the Mediterranean Sea. Leghorn has an outer and inner harbor and a good roadstead. A lighthouse, 170 feet above sea-level, commands the harbor. Among the chief articles of manufacturing industry are woolen caps, straw hats, glass, paper, soap, starch, rope, leather, etc. Shipbuilding is extensively engaged in. It has besides a large export and import trade. Leghorn was made a free port about the middle of the 16th century, and owes much of its eminence and prosperity to the fostering care of the Medici family and the subsequent rulers of Tuscany. Pop. about 110,000.
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AMERICAN. See AMER- BRICA See AMER- ICAN LEGION.
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a division of the ancient the ancient Roman army, consisting of a number of of a number of men varying at different periods from tferent periods from 2,000 to 6,000. Originally the legion was divided into the legion WAR 15 companies (manipuli), each nies (manipuli) of which contained 60 rank and file, two officersined 60 rank and file called centurions-and one centurions and one standard-bearer (vexillarius). Aftervexillarius)! Afterward it was divided into 10 cohorts, each 10 cohorts, each cohort into three companies (manipuli), (manipuli), and each company into two centuries. centuries.
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a word which, when when applied to the Federal government, refers to the Congress, which is composed on is composed of a Senate and a House of Representaof Representatives. When the States and Territories Territories are referred to it is used to designate the te the legislative branch of the government, ment though in the majority of the States the th es the official title is "general assembly," while assembly," while Northern Reral. It s, corn, ang razed 14 years a aminous exorens of L milen 11,536 feet mar ine and 00. Canal, at Centre industries ps, ston cains or Colleg 1878 an es Moines St. Louis. He served as solicitor-general from 1910 to 1912. tor-general in others the terms "general court" and employed. In of the United States important commis- 1910 to 1912. "legislative assembly" are Legislature is com- He served on several delegate to tant commis all the States the though Pennsylvasions and was United States at Niagara Falls. adelegate to the A. B. C. mediation posed of two houses, Vermont, up to 1836, Fingaza Falls. nia, up to 1790, and The upper house is
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one of the of Northern Italy House. She four fortified towns , Quadrilateral. It has a remained here until 1890. She then reshe She then returned to Germany, where in 1901 Festivals in Salzin 1001 she known as the corn, and silk considerable trade in rice, . were razed by Napoorganized the Mozart was considered one of the Frais in Salzburg. She of her day. The fortifications 14 years later. one of the greatest Wagnerian singers of her day. leon in 1801, but rebuilt
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a pod. Leguminous plants are literally all those whose seeds are borne in a pod; but the term is applied only to the pea family, including peas, beans, pulse, lentils, lupines, clovers, alfalfa or lucern, the peanut, locust, and laburnum. The whole family is valuable. The leaves and stems are good for fodder; the seeds are rich in food material; the roots run deep and pulverize the soil; the leaves take up nitrogen from the air--the same element that makes powder black--and send it down to nodules (colonies of bacteria) in the roots--to be converted into rich plant food. A farm is never impoverished by raising leguminous crops. See Clover ; Pea
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the walled capital of Ladakh, , India; 3 miles from ing himself there . composed two disquimathematics. State of Kashmir 11,538 feet above In the meantime he for a degree at ed two disquithe bank of the Indus, markets of sitions, to qualify himself refused because or a degree at the sea; is one of the chief and Chinese Tur- Leipsic; the degree was he took the docfused because the trade between Tibet and the Punjab of his youth, but in 1666 at Altdorf. He took the dockestan on the one hand Pop. about 4,000. tor's degree in law the Altdorf. He on the other. ce among the reached the highest eminence among languages, history, scholars of his time in philosophy, jurisprudence, polit-
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a river which flows 120 Pennsylvania to Bages, history, miles through Eastern scenery is very divinity, divini science, matheadence, political science, physical in polite letters. His essays ence, mathethe Delaware River. Its is famous for matics, even field of mere eru- His essays picturesque, and the valley anthracite coal. and disquisitions in the the "Acta of mere eruits rich mines of dition are numerous, such as Berolinensia," as the "Acta
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an educainstitution in South tion of his " was . He Works" was tional non-sectarian in 1865; republished in 11 volumes (1884) 14, 1716. (1884). He Bethlehem, Pa.; founded died in Hanover, Nov. 716. ported at the close of 1919: Professors ; students, 1,100; voland instructors, 90 ROBERT ROBERT (les'ter) LEICESTER DUDLEY, EARL OF, an English noble of Queen Elizabeth; born English noble umes in the library, 140,000; productive $450,000; funds, $3,000,000; income, . D. and favorite accession sabeth; bor June 24, 1532, or 1533. On the , Dudley met the accession president, Henry S. Drinker, LL of Elizabeth to the throne winning the Dudisy met
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a borough of Pennsylon the Lehigh Eruditorum," "Miscellanea and in his vol- Berolinensia," vania, in Carbon co. It is "Journal des Savants," ." Among his Coal and Navigation Canal, and on the Central of New uminous "Correspondence writings Among his Lehigh Valley and the include theological and philosophical Goodness, Man's cel writings Jersey railroads. Its industries packing house are: "Essays on God's Evil" (1710); Mess, Man's silk and lace mills, a meat- , stone works, Freedom, and the Origin of Nature and Grace," VAL" (1710); "Principles of a shirt factory, car shops, It contains two parks. and Grace, foundries, etc. 6,102. (1717); "New Essays on the Human Unof Spinoza," Human Understanding"; "Refutation lete ediincomplete of Spinoza," Pop. (1910) 5,316; (1920) first printed in 1854. An Mathematical Works" complete edi
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