These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as London Company, Londonderry, Long.
a company of merchants and others dwelling in and near London. It was chartered in 1606. The members had perhaps large ideas and large expectations of empire. It founded a colony at Jamestown in 1607 and was dissolved in 1624.
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Jack (1876-), an American author. He was born in San Francisco and received his education at the University of California. While still a boy, he went to sea before the mast . He visited the Klondike and he tramped through Canada and the United States . He has written short stories for various periodicals, and several longer tales. Among them may be mentioned The Son of the Wolf, Tales of the Far North, The God of his Fathers, The Call of the Wild, The Children of the Frost, Love of Life and Other Stories, Sea Wolf, and White Fang.
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the chief city and port of the county of Ulster in north Ireland. The population is about 40,000. The city is at the head of Loch Foyle, twenty-three miles from the sea. A tender runs down the bay to connect with the Glasgow ocean liners for America. The center of the city is still surrounded by a wall. Seven gates give access. The harbor is safe for large ships and is the seat of an important trade with Scotland, England, and parts of Ireland. In British history Londonderry is celebrated as the center of the Scotch-Irish. In 1689 the men of Ulster successfully defended the city against James II from April to August. The present population is equally divided between Protestant and Catholic. The latter completed a superb cathedral in 1873.
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or "DERRY," a county borough, seaport, and the capital of the county of Londonderry, Ireland; on the Foyle, about 140 miles north-northwest from Dublin; it contains, within the walls, four main streets, which cross at right angles, and form, with the smaller streets and lanes, a sort of parallelogram; the old walls still remain in fine repair, though the town has grown beyond them; principal buildings, the Anglican cathedral, a Gothic structure, built in the year 1633, a handsome modern Catholic cathedral, Foyle College (1617), a bishop's palace, a deanery, various places of worship, schools, a mechanics' institute, jail, an infirmary, a small theater, a linenhall, town hall, district lunatic asylum, union workhouse, custom house, and barracks; also, a Doric column, surmounted by a statue, erected in honor of the Rev. G. Walker, who defended the city during its memorable siege (1689); has an extensive trade with the West Indies and the United States; the harbor is deep, wide, and tolerably secure. The town is of great antiquity, and has often suffered from the effects of war. Its chief industries are brewing and distilling, tanning, iron and brass founding, manufacture of linen and shirts, and salmon fishing. Steamers run to Liverpool, Glasgow, and Belfast. Pop. about 40,000.
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a maritime county of the province of Ulster, Ireland. Area, 816 square miles. Good crops are produced in its fertile lowlands. The salmon fisheries of the river Bann are worldfamous. The same river also supplies power for the staple manufacture of the province, linen. There are also extensive distilling, brewing, and salt making establishments, as well as important deep-sea fisheries. Capital, Londonderry. Pop. about 140,000.
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JOHN DAVIS, an American statesman; born in Buckfield, Me., 1838. He graduated at Harvard in 1857; studied law at Harvard Law School and in private offices; was admitted to the bar in 1861; was a Republican member of the Massachusetts Legislature from 1875 to 1878; was speaker of the house 1876-1878; was lieutenant-governor of his State in 1879 and governor in 1880-1883; was elected to the 48th, 49th, and 50th Congress; was appointed by President Mc- Kinley Secretary of the Navy in 1897 and 1901. His administration of the department during the Spanish-American War was able. On the accession of President Roosevelt Mr. Long retained his office for six months, but on March 10, 1902, tendered his resignation. He resumed the practice of law and became president of the board of overseers of Harvard University. He published "The New American Navy" (2 vols., 1903). He died in 1915.
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WALTER HUME, an English politician, born in 1854; was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford; from 1886 to 1892 was parliamentary secretary to the local government board; elected member of Parliament from West Derby, 1892-1900; president of the Board of Agriculture, 1895-1900; president of the local government board, 1900-1906; defeated for Parliament at Bristol in 1906; he was chosen from Dublin to represent the interests of Ulster, 1906-1910. Mr. Long was appointed chief secretary for Ireland, 1905-1906; president of the local government board, 1915-1916; secretary of state of the colonies, 1916-1918. From 1919 he held office as first lord of the admiralty.
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a city in Monmouth co., N. J.; on the Atlantic Ocean and the Shrewsbury river, and on the Pennsylvania and the New Jersey Central railroads; 42 miles S. of New York City. Long Branch is one of the oldest and most noted summer resorts in the United States, and has a long beach, affording excellent bathing facilities. The advantages of its beach and of its proximity to New York and Philadelphia were recognized as early as 1790 and quickly gave it its prominent position among summer pleasure resorts, cottages, parks, a board walk, and driveways, and electric railway communication with other New Jersey coast resorts. It has a National bank, public library, public schools, electric lights, and the Monmouth Memorial Hospital. The commission form of government has been adopted. Pop. (1910) 13,298; (1920) 13,521.
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a former munic- LONG ipality in Queens co., and the second city in size on Long Island, tory. The fifth Parliament summoned PARLIAMENT, in English his- N. Y.; since Jan. by Charles I. It convened at West- 1, 1898, a part of the Borough of Queens minster en in the Greater New York. Before the executed Strafford and Laud, abolished , Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1640. It consolidation it comprised Hunter's Point, Ravenswood, wood, the Star Chamber and the High Comthis sistar Blissville, Dutch Kills, inshamber and thighstitu- Steinway, and Astoria. It is separated from Brooklyn tional reforms, and provided against its by Newtown creek, is condissolution or prorogation without its nected with the Borough of Manhattan own consent. After having been reduced by several bridges and ferries, and by the expulsion of 96 Presbyterian contains extensive warehouses, oil remembers fineries, lumber yards, machine shops, known as the RUMP (q. v.), executed the , its remaining membership, and many manufacturing establishments king and established the Commonwealth, of the first magnitude. The increased transportation facilities in recent years 20, 1653. It was recalled twice in 1659. but was dissolved by Cromwell, April have made Long Island City one of the On Feb. 21, 1660, the expelled Presmanufacturing cities of byterian members were reseated and the street are hospitals, banks, Long Parliament, thus restored, voted newspapers railroad. services Pop., its own dissolution on March 16, 1660.
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