These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Lowell Institute, Lower Austria, Lower California.
FRANCIS CABOT, an American merchant, son of John Lowell (1743-1802); born in Newburyport, Mass., April 7, 1775. He acquired celebrity as being the first to establish the cotton manufacture in the United States, and, also, as the founder of the town which bears his name, and which has since become the chief seat of textile manufactures in this country. He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 2, 1817.
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JAMES RUSSELL, an American author; born in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 22, 1819; was graduated at Harvard College in 1838. In January, 1855, he succeeded Henry W. Longfellow as Professor of Modern Languages in Harvard College. He became a high authority in old French and Provençal poetry, was the first editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" (1857), and joint editor with Prof. Charles Eliot Norton of the "North American Review" in 1863-1872. He was United States minister to Spain in 1877-1880 and to Great Britain in 1880-1885. During his residence in London he was elected Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University in Edinburgh. Hiş works include: "Conversations on Some of the Old Poets" (1845); "Poems" (1848); "The Biglow Papers" (1848); "Life of Keats" (1854); "Poetical Works" (2 vols. 1858); "The President's Policy" (1864); "Ode recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University" (1865); "Democracy and other Addresses" (1887); etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 12, 1891.
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PERCIVAL, an American author and astronomer; born in Boston, Mass., March 13, 1855. He was graduated from Harvard in 1876, and spent some time in Japan and Korea. He established the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., in 1894. Among his works are: "Chosön, a Sketch of Corea" (1886); "The Soul of the Far East" (1888); "Mars" (1895); "Annals of the Lowell Observatory" (1898-1900); "Mars and Its Canals" (1906); "Mars as the Abode of Life" (1908); "The Evolution of Worlds" (1909). Died in 1916.
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an institution founded by John Lowell who in 1836 left $250,000 for the maintenance and support of public lectures upon philosophy, natural history, and the arts and sciences. Edward Everett delivered the first lecture in 1839 and since that time them. The institute now conducts classes for workingmen, as well as special classes in drawing and science for teachers. The general management is under the control of one trustee, who by the terms of the will must be of the Lowell family. A. Lawrence Lowell is at present trustee.
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formerly a crownland of Austria, in the eastern part of the Archduchy of Austria, and now part of the Austrian Republic. The capital city is Vienna itself. The region, is both industrial and agricultural, has an area of 7,654 square miles, a mixed population, of which Germans predominate, numbering about 3,600,000 before the war.
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a peninsula the Pacific coast of North America on , extending about 750 miles S. of Caliabout fornia; 53,000 area. 58,328 square miles; with the exception It belongs of a few to Mexico spots, is sterile and unproductive region. towns are La Paz, the capital, Loretto and Rosario.
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a municipal borough and seaport on the Suffolk coast, England, 118 miles N. E. of London, and 40 from Ipswich; has of late years rapidly grown in favor as a watering-place; the older part, which lies to the N., is built on a cliff facing the sea, on its summit being a lighthouse (1874) 123 feet above the sea-level, while at its base, on the Ness-the most E. point of land in England-stands another lighthouse (1866); the modern part, which has a fine esplanade 800 yards long, extends S. into the parish of Kirkley, and is separated from the old town by the harbor, formed partly by two piers extending seaward 1,300 feet, and partly by Lake Lothing. In 1643 Cromwell entered the town at the head of 1,000 troopers, and, seizing several royalists, sent them prisoners prisoners to Cambridge; it was partially destroyed by fire in 1644; a great naval engagement took place off the coast June 3, 1665, when the Dutch were defeated with loss of 18 ships; George II. landed here on his return from Hanover, June 14, 1736. During the war the town was shelled by German boats and aeroplanes a number of times. Pop. (1918) 37,886.
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Poland, town on right bank of the Bzura, 50 miles W. S. W. of Warsaw, the scene of heavy fighting during the German drives on Warsaw heavy during fortifications 1914-1916. The Germans erected turing center. It is a manufacleather goods, for soap, candles and contains large flour mills. Pop. about 14,500.
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JAMES WILLIAM, an English politician born in 1855. Educated at King's College, London, and Cambridge University, where he won honors in classical and law tripos. Became a barrister in 1879, a Bencher in the Middle Temple in 1906. Elected a Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1883. Contested Mid Cumberland in 1885. Appointed 4th Charity Commiswhich sioner in 1887. Under - Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1891. Represented Great Britain at the International Conference at Venice in 1892. Chairman Quarter Sessions for Cumberland 1900. Alderman East Suffolk County Council in 1914. Chairman of Committee on Ways and Means, and Deputy Speaker in 1895- 1905. He has been Speaker of House of Commons since 1905. Chairman Speakpop. er's Electoral Reform Conference 1916and a, 1917. Chairman of Boundary Commis- Chief sions of Great Britain and Ireland in 1917. Chairman Royal Commission on , Proportional Legislative Representation in 1918.
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Chicago, U. S. A. In 1869 the Rev. Arnold Damen, S. J., associated with other Jesuit priests, founded the St. Ignatius College, which became Loyola University, the oldest and largest Catholic institution of high learning in Chicago. St. Ignatius College was at first located in the suburbs of the city, but it increased so rapidly in popularity and influence that in 1909 the Board of Trustees purchased 20 acres on the north shore where the institution would have room to expand. Loyola University was incorporated in 1909. A Law Dept. was opened in 1908. In 1909 the University became associated with the Illinois Medical College and with the Bennett Medical College in 1910. The Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery was purchased in 1917, and the Medical Dept. of the University now bears that name. In 1913 a Department of Sociology was opened. A junior college of engineering and two high schools are controlled by the University.
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