Lehmann
FREDERICK WILwith rapid preferment, address winning the
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These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Lehmann, Lehmann, Leibniz.
Lehmann
LILLI, a German operat Würzburg German operhad but one house. , and the atic singer, born in 1848, . first lessons in music at Würzburg. called the Senate in the States ; the lower is She received her chain musie Council in the Territories Representatives in from her mother, who was also an opera her first appearance iso an opera called the House of the Territories and most of the States, House of Delegates, singer. She made but is known as the in Berlin in 1870, and was at once suc Fat once suc cessful. She afterwards sang in London York, wher ng in London the Assembly, or the General Assembly, and in 1884 came to New soprano York, wher in a few of the States. she was engaged as the principal Opera House. She cipal soprano at the Metropolitan
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Leibniz
GOTT- NIZ GOTT- LEGUMINOSÆ, leguminous plants, exogens, alliance
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Leicester
les'ter, a prosperous city in the north central part of England. It is the seat of the county of that name,--a region noted for coal, Leicester sheep, and as a hunting country. The city is noted for its manufactures of hosiery, boots and shoes , etc. The name is derived from the Latin, meaning camp of the legion, and is in itself a reminiscence of the period when the Romans occupied Great Britain . Remnants of Roman walls and other antiquities are still shown. The population of the city and its manufacturing suburbs was returned in 1903 at 220,272. Montfort, Dudley, and other earls of Leicester were men of prominence in English history.
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Leicestershire
an inland county England, bounded of N. by Nottinghamshire, E. by Lincolnshire and Rutland. Surface is undulating and. , the highest point being in Charnwood Forest, of which Bardon Hill has an elevation of 912 feet. The county is traversed by the Soar and Avon, tributaries and (1 of the Trent and Severn. The minerals include coal, slate, and granite. The soil is loamy, and the richest agricultural district ate, the is E. of the Soar, the which is largely pasturage. Wheat, oats and barley are under cultivation. About nine-tenths of the total area is ca cultivated, but the proportion of pastureland is increasing. The county is famous for fox of hunting, and has produced famous cricketers. Capital, Leicester. Area , 819 square miles. Pop. about 250,000.
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Leif Ericsson
half-mythical a Scandinavian voyager who flourished about the year 1000 A. D. to have sailed from Iceland and to have discovered the American continent, and in 1887 there was erected in Boston, Mass., a statue to "Leif the Discoverer." mon
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Leigh
a city in England about 10 miles from Manchester. Situated near coal mines and in one of the leading industrial sections of England it has important silk, glass, and textile manufactures. One of the oldest and most heavily endowed of the English grammar schools is located here. Pop. about 45,- 000.
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Leinster
a province ace of Ireland, coterminous with the ancient kingdom of of Ireland, the Mac ient kingdom of Morroughs, occupying the central and ccupying the censoutheastern part of the island, and extending part of the island, to the left bank of the Shannon. It left bank of the includes counties Wexford, Kilkenny counties Wexford, , Wicklow, Carlow, Longford, Westmeath, arlow, Longford, Meath, Louth, King's County, outh, King's Coun- Kildare, Dul Dublin, Queen's County. Meath, now part Queen'e County. of Leinster, was the ancient domain of the Leinster was the high-monarchs of Ireland. The high-morarchs of kings of Leinster reigned He is reported with full power till 1171, and with re- Leinster reigned 1171, and with restricted power to the 16th century. The daughter of Diarmuid 16th century. The , King of Leinster at the date of the Norman d, King of Leinster French invasion of Ireland in 1169, married Strongman French invamarried Strongbow, who led these adventurers. Gradual division of the old principality adventurers. Gradold principality followed until its organization into the presfolent county system on into the pres- . Pop. about 1,165,000. Pop, about 1,165,000.
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Leipoa
a genus of Rasores birds, family Megapodidæ, the only genus of Rasores known the only species of which is L. Ocellata, the "native Ocellata, pheasant" of the colonists of Western nists of Australia; which in its habits is its habits is very like the domestic fowl. It deposits its eggs in a mound of sand about three deposits feet high, the about three inside being lined with layers of dried leaves ed with lay- , grasses, etc. etc. The bird never sits on the eggs, but leaves The them to ut leaves be hatched by the heat of the sun's rays. heat of the
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Leith
the 6th largest town in Scotland, an important seaport, on the S. of Forth, 2 miles N. shore of the Firth with which it is of EDINBURGH (q. v.), a continuous line of now connected by (1918) 83,828. street. Pop.
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Leitha
an Austrian stream rising , and flowing N. E. to in Lower Austria join the Danube nearly along the tier of Lower Austria and Hungary, of the empire Since the reorganization become usual to speak of in 1867, it has lands belonging to the Hungary and the as Trans-leithan, and Hungarian crown empire as Cis-leithanthe rest of the factitious imthus giving the stream a portance. LEMAÎTRE
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Leland
CHARLES GODFREY, an in Philadelphia Pa., Aug. 15, 1824, He was graduated fine libraries and at Princeton at Heidelberg, Munich, and ward studied Paris. place are resided chiefly in phia bar in 1849, but turned to journalsilk goods, ism. From 1869 he paper hangings, tallow England, and investigated the language gipsies, a subject on language and customs of the and 1890 he puba subject on 1890 he pubwhich between 1873 works. Leland is lished four valuable , however, for his dia- Leland is en for his diamost widely known Dutch," the lect poems in "Pennsylvania Hans Breitmann Ballads" mis Dutch," the famous " Poetry Ballads" re "The Poetry (1871). Other works are "The Dreams" 月” (1855) (1855), and Mystery of Sketch Book "Meister Karl's " (1855), Birds" (1864), "Fu-Sang" Book" (1855), "Legends 34), "Fu-Sang and "Algonquin Legends" of series of (1875), (1884). In 1885 he edited a died at Flor- "Art-Work Manuals." He 1903. le med at Flor ence, Italy, March 20,
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