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a group of birds composed of about 90 species, closely allied to the parrots; brush-tongued; dense, richly colored plumage; active and gentle. They are to be found in Polynesia and Australasia, except New Zealand.
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a state in Venezuela, situated in the western part of that country, now divided into three states: Trujillo, Mérida, and Tachira. The population is about 350,000, and the area about 50,000 square miles.
UNIVERSITY OF, one of the two universities of the Republic of Venezuela, the other being the Central University at Caracas. It is at Mérida, and has professors, doctors, and honorary
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inland province of Ecuador, capital Babahoyo (Bodegas). Mountainous, being on slope of Andes, communicates with sea by Guayaquil river, chief industries farming and stock raising. Pop. about 35,000.
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town, Panama, 95 miles S. W. of the city of Panama, near the Bay of Parita, in province of the same name of which the capital is Las Tablas.
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BENSON JOHN, an Amer ican historian; born in Beekman, Dutchess co., N. Y., Feb. 12, 1813. He published "Pictorial Field-Books" of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, the first in 1850-1852 (2 vols.), the second in 1868, the third 1866-1869 (3 vols.). He was a wood engraver, and himself made the engravings for the works, the scenic ones largely from sketches on the spots. He wrote also "Lives of the Presidents of the United States" (1847); "Biographies of Eminent Americans" (1855); "Cyclopædia of United States History" (1881, revised and enlarged to 10 vols., by George J. Hagar 1901); "History of New York City" (1884); "The Empire State" (1887); etc. He died near Dover Plains, N. Y., June 3, 1891. LOT (15) (Latin Oltis), one of the largest tributaries of the Garonne in southern France, rising in the Cévennes, flowing in a generally W. direction, being known at first as the Olt, through the departments of Lozère, Aveyron, Lot, and Lot - et - Garonne, and joining the Garonne from the right at Aiguillon, after a course of nearly 300 miles, nearly twothirds being navigable.
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Lost Word in Masonry. A word relating to some mystic plan, which though it is held to have disappeared, will at some time be restored, and will then make the whole system plain. It is not really lost, only withheld for a season. In the same way the Graal was not lost, but withdrawn to its own place and the search for it occupied the noblest figures in chivalry. It represents the Key to the enigma of Creation; in terms of Christianity, the Kingdom of Heaven.
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according to the Book of Genesis, the son of Haran, and nephew of Abraham, by whom he was brought up. He afterward settled at Sodom, where he was taken prisoner by the King of Edom, but rescued by Abraham. When Sodom was about to be destroyed, two angels came to Lot and obliged him to quit the place with his wife and daughters, when the former, for looking back, was turned into a pillar of salt. By his daughters he became the father of two sons, named Moab and Ammon, from whom sprung the Moabites and Ammonites.
a department in the S. of France, formed out of parts of the old province of Guienne, and comprising the arrondissements of Cahors, Gourdon, and Figeac, watered by the Dordogne and the Lot; area 2,017 square miles; pop., King of Sicily. about 220,000. The E. districts are invaded by the Causses plateaus of the Cévennes; the valleys fertile; wheat, maize, tobacco, fruits, chestnuts, and especially wine are the more important products. Sheep-breeding is largely carried on. Milling, tanning, flax mills, and the manufacture of woolens are the only branches of industry. Capital, Cahors.
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a department in the S. W. of France, formed out of parts of the old provinces of Guienne and Gascony, and comprising the arrondissements of Agen, Villeneuve, Marmande, and Nérac, watered by the Garonne and its tributaries, the Gers and Lot; ot; area 2,078 square miles; pop. about 275,000. The department is a rolling plain and extremely fertile, except in the S. W., where it is invaded by the landes; principal products wheat, maize, wine (20,000,000 gallons annually), hemp, fruits (the plums of Agen are particularly celebrated), tobacco, potatoes, flax, and oil-plants; pine, cork, and chestnut woods are numerous; poultry are reared in great numbers for exportation; manufacturing is confined chiefly to metal-works, paper-mills, woolen and cork factories, distilleries, and tanneries. Capital, Agen. LOTHAIRE I., Roman Emperor, eldest son of LOUIS LE DÉBONNAIRE (q. v.); born about 795. In 817 he was associated with his father in the empire, and named King of the Lombards in 820. He afterward dethroned his father. After his father's death, father's Louise and Charlesbis joined forces, defeated Lothaire at Fontenoy, in 841. Two years afterward, the three brothers entered into a treaty at Verdun by which Lothaire retained the title of emperor, with Italy and some French provinces beyond the Rhine and the Rhone. Died in 855. LOTHAIRE II., Emperor of Germany, and Duke of Saxony, bet between 1125 and 1137. He died in Italy, on his return from an expedition against Roger,
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THE. Name applied to three counties of Scotland, Edinburgh, Linlithgow, and Haddington. This name formerly included all the section of Scotland held by the English in the eleventh century, a territory larger than the three counties.
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HARRIET MULFORD, pseudonym MARGARET SIDNEY, an Amer- Vol. VI-Cyc-A As by Fire " ( Name " ( 1883); ( 1885); " The "Our Davie Pepper" (1916); etc. joined the French navy during the ican novelist, wife of the publisher, D. World War. Lothrop; born in New Haven, Conn., in 1844. She founded and is honorary pres-
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PIERRE (lō-tē'), a French poet 1890, notably in Louisiana. In the latter and novelist; real name LOUIS MARIE year they were suppressed there, too, JULIEN VIAUD; born in Rochefort, Jan. and Congress in the same year prohibited 15, 1850. He was a French naval officer the transmission of lottery tickets or until 1898 and in 1891 was elected a memadvertisements through the mails, and in 1894 their importation.
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