These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Little Women, Little World, Liturgy.
a story for girls by Louisa M. Alcott, published in 1868. It is based on the girlhood experiences of the author and her three sisters. Little Women has been one of the most popular stories ever written, and is still a great favorite. See Alcott ; Louisa M
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The name given to a secret society which conspired in England , in the eighteenth century, to reestablish the Stuart dynasty. Many stories are told of this society-as, for instance, that the devil presided over their assemblies in person. The members were Freemasons.
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liturjy, an appointed form of public worship. Such forms are given in the missal, breviary, etc., of the Roman Catholic and the Greek Church , and in the English Book of Common Prayer. Services are arranged for such occasions as the holy communion, daily prayer, baptism, confirmation, marriage, penance, visitation, and unction of the sick or dying, the ordination of the clergy, etc. Modern liturgies have been drawn largely from Jewish sources. The book of Psalms and the New Testament have supplied a large amount of liturgical material. See Litany
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or CÆCILIUS, an eminent father th inent ment is a good evidence of the specific of the Church, lived at the beginning of gravity of milk, and the specific gravity the 4th century. He was by some esteemed an African and by others a nais a probable, but not positive, evidence tive of Fremo, in Ancona. He studied of quality. Taken in connection with rhetoric under Arnobius, and by his the per cent. glass, which measures the and "Symposium" he obtained such renown per cent. of cream that rises, it is nearly a positive indicator of pure and watered that Diocletian appointed him to teach milk. rhetoric in Nicomedia. Subsequently he was appointed tutor to Crispus, the son
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a town of Greece, on the little stream Hercyno. Here are the famous cave and oracle of Trophonius, and the fountains of Lethe and Mnemosyne.
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Mary (1821-1905), an American reformer and lecturer. Her maiden name was Mary Ashton Rice. She was a native of Boston. She was married in 1845 to the Rev. D. P. Livermore, a Universalist minister--an anti-slavery lecturer. In 1862 Mrs. Livermore was made northwestern agent of the United States Sanitary Commission with headquarters at Chicago. She was noted as a lecturer in the interest of woman's suffrage and temperance. She was for many years president of the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association and of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union . She wrote several books, including Pen Pictures, Thirty Years Too Late, My Story of the War, and The Story of My Life. Her list of lectures included Women of the War, The Moral Heroism of the Temperance Reform, What Shall We Do With Our Daughters? etc. See Howe ; Stanton ; Willard ; Anthony
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UNIVERSITY OF, an institution for higher education, founded in Liverpool, in 1881. From 1884 to 1903 it was a part of Victoria University. It was then reorganized and made an independent university. It includes the departments of art, science, engineering, law, and medicine. Much attention is given to the university extension course. It has about 1,500 students.
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JENKINSON, EARL OF, an English politician; born June 7, 1770. He entered Parliament under Pitt's auspices in 1790, and on his father being created Earl of Liverpool in 1796 he became Lord Hawkesbury. As foreign secretary in the Addington ministry he negotiated the 1836 treaty of Amiens, and he became home secretary in 1804. On the assassination of Percival in 1812 he became premier, min B and held that position till 1827. His st went opposition to all liberal measures, the London severity with which he repressed internal scovered disturbances, and his prosecution of Queen Caroline, rendered him extremely unpopular. He died in London, England, Dec. 4, 1828. L
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a flowerless plant allied to the mosses. The liverworts are divided into several classes. Those of one group have what are known as thalloid, prostrate fronds, looking as much like bits of green, corky leather as anything else, except that they are tender and often bear cups. They may be attached to the soil by rootlets on the under surface, or they may float, or they may be submerged. Those of the marchantia group, known as the common liverworts, grow in moist shade. The stem is a flat, prostrate, ribbon-like body, having no leaves but rooting in the mud. The upper surface bears cups and umbrella-shaped growths, both of which are concerned, though quite independently, in the propagation of the plant. The "cups" produce "buds." The umbrellas produce spores. Liverworts of still another sort look very much like leafy mosses. They may be distinguished, however, by the fact that the leaves are arranged in two ranks. All liverworts are propagated by powdery spores produced in little capsules. The members of the family are partial to stagnant waters, to shady banks, and damp places around springs. The best month for their study is June. They are of little practical interest to anyone but the botanist. See Mosses
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a city of Montana, the county-seat of Park co. It is on the Yellowstone river, and on the Northern Pacific railroad. It is the headquarters of a railroad division, and its industries include machine shops, lumber mills, lime works, etc. It is the center of an important stock raising and agricultural region. It has a public library and a high school. Pop. (1910) 5,359; (1920) 6,311.
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EDWARD, an American statesman; born in Clermont, Columbia co., N. Y., May 26, 1764. He was a brother of Robert Livingston, was educated at Princeton College, and was called to the bar in 1785. In 1794 he was elected member of Congress, and distinguished himself by his opposition to Alien and Sedition Bills. He belong to the party then called Republican, and since Democratic. In 1801 he retired from Congress, and accepted the two offices of mayor of New York, and attorney-general for the district of New York. Owing to his negligence and the fraud of an agent, he res resigned office in 1804, giving up his property to the State and settled at New Orleans. He became a member of the Legislature of Louisiana and revised the municipal law. He also drew up a new code of criminal law for the State. On this code his fame rests. His manuscript was burnt on the night it was finished, and he did the work over again, at the cost of two years' labor. In 1829 he became Senator of the United tate under Presi- States, Secretary of State under Presi- 1888, ambassador dent Jackson, and, in 1833, ambassador Paris be was to France. While at Paris he te of the Academy was chosen Foreign Associate of the Academy in Rhinebeck, N. of Sciences. He died in Rhinebeck, N. Y., May 23, 1836. AVID, a Scotch
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