These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Moray Firth, Morbihan, Mordant.
an indentation of the German Ocean, on the N. E. coast of Scotland, measuring 21 miles across its entrance from Tarbet Ness, in Rossshire, to Stotfield Head, near Lossiemouth in Elginshire, and 39 miles thence to the mouth of the river Beauly.
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a maritime department of France, formed out of ancient Brittany, bounded by the Atlantic on the S. and Finistère on the W.; area, 2,738 square miles; pop. about 600,- 600, 000. The largest island is Belle Isle. The departmer forms a plateau, partly cultivated, partly occupied by y tracts of heath and marsh. Morbihan is divided into the four arrondissements of Vannes, L'Orient, Ploërmel, and Pontivy. The chief town is Vannes, but the most populous is L'Orient. Many ancient customs still prevail; communal proprietorship survives there, and in some of the islands the priest, assisted by a council of notables, governs the people.
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a Finnic race, now however greatly intermingled with the Russians, who dwell along the middle course of the Volga, from the government of Nijni-Novgorod to that of Samara. They number about 790,000.
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SIR THOMAS, an English statesman; born in London, England, Feb. 7, 1478. He was the only son John More, a judge of the Court of King's Bench. A portion of his youth was spent in the family of Cardinal Morand chancellor; and he was then sent to Oxton, Archbishop of Ca Canterbury, ford, and afterward entered at Lincoln's Inn. He had already formed an intimate . About 1502 he became a member of Parand lasting friendship with Erasmus liament, upholding the privileges of the House of Commons to treat all questions of supply as their own exclusive business. On the accession of Henry VIII. he was made under-sheriff of London. In 1514 he was envoy to the Low Countries, soon after a privy-councillor, and in 1521 was knighted. In 1523 he became speaker of the House of Commons, and in 1529 succeeded Wolsey in the chancellorship. When Henry began his attacks on the papal supremacy More supported the old system. Henry marked his matrimonial views. He was requested him out for vengeance as an opponent of to take the path to maintain the lawful- His refusal led to his committal to the ness of the marriage with Anne Boleyn. Tower and execution, July 6, 1535. His chief work is the "Utopia" (in Latin), a philosophical romance describing an ideal commonwealth.
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HANNAH, an English author; born in Stapleton, Gloucestershire, England, Feb. 2, 1745. She wrote verses at an early age, and in 1762 she published "The Search after Happiness," a pastoral drama. In 1773 she went on a visit to London, and was introduced to the Garricks, Dr. Johnson, Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds. She wrote two tales in verse, and two tragedies, "Percy" and "The Fatal Secret." After the publication of her "Sacred Dramas" she retired to Cowslip Green, near Bristol, where she did much to improve the condition of the poor in her neighborhood by establishing schools. Her novel, "Celebs in Search of a Wife," and a tract called "The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain," are some of the most popular of her works. She died in Clifton, England, Sept. 7, 1833.
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PAUL ELMER, author; born in St. Louis, Mo., 1864, he graduated from Washington University in 1887 and attained his A.M. degree at Harvard in 1893. During the following year he was assistant instructor in Sanskrit at Harvard, and taught classical literature in addition, 1895-1897, at Bryn Mawr. He was literary editor of "The Independent" from 1901 to 1903, of the New York " Evening Post" from 1903 to 1909, and editor of "The Nation" from 1909 to 1914. His works include. "A Century of Indian Epigrams," "The Judgment of Socrates," translation translation of "Prometheus Bound" of Æschylus, "Life of Benjamin Franklin," "Shelburne Essays" (9 vols.), and "Platonism."
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Sir Thomas (1478-1535), an English statesman and writer. He was born in London and educated at Oxford. He was a brilliant lawyer and became a member of Parliament. He opposed a demand for a royal subsidy. He served England as a diplomat and was for a time chancellor. He was a staunch Catholic. He refused to recognize Henry VIII as head of the church, and was beheaded therefor for treason. As a writer he is known as the author of Utopia, a Latin treatise on an ideal state in a land of nowhere. It was translated in 1551. This is the first political romance. It belongs to the same class of works as Bacon's New Atlantis and Bellamy's Looking Backward. See Utopia
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JEAN VICTOR (mo-rō'), a French general; born in Morlais, France, Aug. 11, 1761. He was educated for the law, but enlisted at 17, and thenceforth devoted himself to a military career. In 1796 he was commander of one of the two French armies that invaded Germany. The other army, under General Jourdan, was completely defeated by the Austrians, who then brought their whole force to bear on Mo. reau. In this emergency, Moreau extricated himself by the retreat through the Black Forest. Napoleon, in 1800, gave Moreau the command of the armies of the Danube and the Rhine; and in the winter of that year Moreau gained the great victory of Hohenlinden. He was afterward suspected of plotting against Napoleon's government, and was banished from France. He lived in the United States till 1813, when he returned to Europe and joined the armies of the allied sovereigns against the French. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Dresden, Aug. 27, 1813, and died in Laun, Bohemia, Sept. 20.
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an inlet of the Irish Sea, separating separating the main portion of Lancashire, England, from the detached portion of Furness; length 18 miles; average breadth about 10 miles; it receives the Leven, the Kent, and the Lune.
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JOHN ALFRED, American clergyman and educator; born in Pulaski co., Va., Feb. 4, 1867. Educated at Roanoke College and graduated from Lutheran Theological Seminary, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, 1892. Studied at Berlin and Leipsic, 1901-1902. (D. D., Roanoke College, 1902.) Ordained to the Lutheran ministry 1892; Burke's Garden pastorate, Va., 1892; First English Lutheran Church, Richmond, Va., 1894- 1898; president, and professor of systematic theology Southern Lutheran Theological Seminary, 1898-1908; president of Roanoke College, 1903; president of the United Synod of the South, 1910-1914.
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