These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Laeken, Lafayette, Lafayette College.
a N. suburb of Brussels. In it is the crypt of the Belgian royal family in the new Gothic Church of the Virgin, and a royal palace (built in 1782), which, previous to its destruction by fire, Jan. 1, 1890, contained valuable works of art and historical documents. The palace has been rebuilt in the same style as the one destroyed. Pop. about 25,000. LÆLAPS, a large fossil dinosaurian reptile found in the Cretaceous formation of the United States.
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a city and county-seat of Tippecanoe co., Ind., on the Wabash river, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Lake Erie and Western, and other railroads; 64 miles is. It is the farm- N. W. of Indianapolis. ing and manufacturing trade center for the surrounding country; has boot and shoe factories, car works, flour and woolen mills, marble works, etc.; and is the seat of Purdue University, and the State Agricultural College. The city contains a high school, public library, several National banks; has electric light and street railroad plants, and waterworks. In the public square is an artesian well of sulphur. Pop. (1910) 20,081; (1920) 22,486.
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an educational institution in Easton, Pa.; founded in 1826 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 48; students, 695; volumes in the library, 60,000; productive funds, $961,988; income, $173,990; president, J. H. Mc- Cracken, Ph.D., LL.D. LA FÈRE, a town in France, in the Aisne department, on an island in the Oise, near its confluence with the Serre, 14 miles N. W. of Laon. It is a fortress of the second class, and has a school of artillery. During the Allied offensives of 1917 La Fère formed a point in the Hindenburg line and was the scene of much fighting. Pop. about 5,000.
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HENRI, a Belgian Belgian
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AUGUST HEIN- RICH JULIUS (lä-fông-tān'), a German novelist; born in Brunswick, Oct. 5, 1758. He wrote more than 150 novels, LAGERLÖF character, strange mixture of childish and founded a school which in its day simplicity and finesse which is perceptwas regarded with high favor at the ible in his poems, made him at once the court of Prussia for its tone of illiberal pet and the laughing-stock of his friends moralizing sentimentality. Among his and patrons. During the last two years novels may be named: "Picture of the of the of his life the religious sentiments of his Human Heart" (1792); "Descriptions of tions of early youth revived. He was admitted the Life of Man" (1811); "The Parsonto the French Academy in 1684, conage on the Lake Side" (1816). He died He jointly with his friend Boileat., and died in Halle, April 20, 1831. in Paris, April 13, 1695.
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or LIGAN (li'-), in maritime law, goods found at such a Prize. His works include: "Les droits s droits distance from shore that it is uncertain et les obligations des entrepreneurs des eurs ces what coast they would be carried to, and travaux publics"; "Traité de la Contre- Contretherefore belonging to the finder. façon"; "Pasicrasse Internationale"; onale "Bibliographie de la Paix et de L'Arbi- L'Arbi-
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in bottrage." any, a genus of Cucurbitaceæ, containing but one species, the bottle, club, or trumne of the
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Selma (1859-) a Swedish novelist, the winner of the Nobel prize of $40,000 for literature, December, 1909. She was born in an old rectory named Marbacka in the province of Warmland, Sweden. She was fitted for a teacher at the normal school in Stockholm and followed the profession of teaching for many years. Her first book to win notice was The Saga of Gosta Berling, published in 1899. She is known especially as a teller of fairy tales or old folk tales and legends which have been familiar to her from her youth up. Those of her books which are familiar, through translations, to American readers are The Story of Gosta Berling, Invisible Links, The Miracles of Antichrist, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, and Christ Legends.
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a town in department Seine-et-Marne, 12 miles S. France, in the W. of Meaux ne, 12 miles S. , on the left bank of the Marne. It 2 bank of the figured in the battle of the Marne in September battle of the , 1914, and for a time was 14 and for a threatened by the Germans, but the French the Garmana, victory in that battle saved it. that battie Pop. about 5,000.
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go mad-jö'-re), (ancient Verbanus), a lake partly in ake pardy in northern Italy, partly in Switzerland, surrounded by hills, Switzerland, and containing several islands containing sev- ; about 39 miles long and 7 broad, les long and 7 and in some places 1,500 feet deep. 1,600 feet
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a genus of rodents, much resembling hares or rabbits, but with limbs of more equal length, more perfect clavicles , longer claws, longer head, shorter ears, and no tail. There are about a dozen species, one in S. E. Europe, one on the Rocky Mountains, and the rest on the and mountains of northern Asia. They are about the size of guinea pigs, and ern mines make burrows, but are particularly but are parinteresting for their habit of stacking choice their habit of herbage for winter use. The stacks or winter use. of the Siberian species, the Alpine species, the lagom.ys, or pika (L. alpinus), are said to be utilized by the sableby the sablehunters for fodder.
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a shallow lake or of water hallow Jake or sheet , connected with the sea or a river, found on the coasts of Holland, in of Holland, Italy, South America, etc. sheet of water surrounded by an ATOLL Also (q. v.). a
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ptarmigan, of genus a has the base thickly feathered, the eye- Tetraonidæ (grouse). The bill brows are naked and The bill smooth, the tarsus and toes thickly the aye covered with feathers in winter. L. scoticus is the red grouse. L. mutus, or vulgaris, is the ptarmigan. L. albus is the willow grouse of the Swedish Peninsula, Russia, and Siberia. and Siberia.
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