These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Morel, Morelia, Morella.
or MORELLE (of the form morel), Morchella esculenta, and edible fungus. It has a pale-brown pileus, deeply pitted all over, with raised anastomosing lines between the depressions. It grows in orchards, woods, and forests. has an agreeable agreeable smell and taste. Also (of the two forms): Solanum nigrum. Called also petty morel, the great morel being Atropa belladonna.
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a town of Mexico, capital of the State of Michoacan, 125 miles W. N. W. of Mexico City, in a valley surrounded by high mountains; altitude 6,400 feet. It has a fine cathedral, and a magnificent aqueduct, dating from 1788, for the supply of water. It is in one of the chief sugargrowing districts in Mexico and was the birthplace of General Morelos, after whom the town was named. Pop. about 40,000.
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a town of Spain, 80 miles N. by E. of Valencia. It was the stronghold of Cabrera, the Carlist general, who scaled the castle on Jan. 25, 1839. It was retaken in July, 1840, by Espartero.
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a fine variety of cherry with fruit that becomes almost black if allowed to hang.
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one of the States of Mexico (since 1869), immediately S. of the highest volcanic region of the Anahuac plateau; area, 2,773 square miles; pop. about 185,000. The country is very broken and covered with forests, and is drained by the Mexcala river.
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an inlet of the sea on the E. coast of Queensland, Australia; formed inside the islands of Moreton and Stradbroke, the former 20 miles and the latter 33 miles in length, and both about 5 miles in greatest breadth. The bay is 40 miles long by 17 broad; its S. half is dotted with islands and sandbanks. It receives the six considerable streams, Nerang, Pimpama, Logan, Brisbane, Pine, and Caboolture.
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DANIEL, an American military officer; born in New Jersey, in 1736. He took a prominent part in the expedition under Arnold against Quebec, 1775-1776; was in command of the riflemen at the battle of Saratoga, in 1777; and defeated the British under Tarleton at the Cowpens, S. C., in 1781. He died in Winchester, Va., July 6, 1802.
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EDWIN VERNON, American diplomat; born at Aurora, N. Y., 1863. Graduated at Harvard, 1890. Assistant instructor in history, 1891-1894. Studied in Berlin, 1891-1892. Professor of history, Adelbert College (Western Reserve University), 1895-1898. Secretary Samoan High Commission, 1899, and subsequently held various consular positions. United States Minister to Korea, 1905; Cuba, 1905-1910; Uruguay-Paraguay, 1910-1911; Portugal, 1911-1912.
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G. CAMPBELL, an English clergyman; born Dec. 9. 1863. Ordained in the ministry of the Congregationalist Church in 1889. His most prominent pastorate was that of the Westminster Congregational Chapel, Buckingham Gate, London. From 1901-1904 he was a Northfield Bible Conference Extension lecturer, and is at present pastor of Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church. Dr. Morgan has written many works, chiefly on Christianity as interpreted by modern evangelism, such as "A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians," etc.
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JOHN PIERPONT, an American capitalist; born in Hartford, Conn., April 17, 1837; was educated at the University of Göttingen, Germany. In 1871 was made a partner of the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., afterward J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., and was organizer of large railroad and industrial interests. In 1901 he created the largest financial concern known, the United States Steel Corporation, with a stock JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN, SR. capital of $1,100,000,000 and a working capital of $200,000,000. Mr. Morgan has been a large donor to charitable and educational institutions. His gifts include $500,000 to the New York Trade Schools; $1,350,000 to the New York Lying-In Hospital; a collection of ancient Greek ornaments valued at $150,- 000 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the finest mineral collected States valued at $200,000 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; $100,000 to the Young Men's Christian Association of New York City; $1,000,000 to Harvard College for the Medical School; etc. Died in Rome, 1913.
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JOHN PIERPONT, an American banker, the son of J. P. Morgan, who died in 1913; born in New York City in 1867, graduated from Harvard University in 1889, and became a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. He inherited nearly all his father's fortune in 1913, as well as his father's position on many important banking and railroad directorates. In the same year he was elected director of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, but resigned under the fire of criticism directed against his house and its connections with the road. During the World War of 1914-1917 Morgan negotiated large loans in America in the interest of the Allied governments. Mr. Morgan also served as the chief agent for many of the larger enterprises for the relief of Europe, such as the Belgian Relief Fund, etc.
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JOHN TYLER, an American lawyer; born in Tennessee, June 20, 1824. He was admitted to the bar in 1845; presidential elector on the Breckenridge ticket in 1860; entered the Confederate service as a private in 1861; promoted for gallant and distinguished services, and in 1863 was commissioned Brigadier-General. He was elected to the United States Senate from Alabama in 1877; re-elected in 1883, 1889, and 1895. He was appointed one of the commissioners to represent the interests of the United States in the Board of Arbitration to which was submitted the Bering Sea dispute. He died June 11, 1907.
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LEWIS HENRY, an American archæologist; born in Aurora, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1818. He was graduated at Union College in 1840; became a lawyer at Rochester; served in the State assembly (1861) and senate (1868). His earliest work, "The League of the Iroquois" (1851), was the first account of the organization and government of an Indian tribe; but even more valuable are his "Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family" (1869), and his treatise on "Ancient Society" (1877). He also published "Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines" (1881), and an account of the beaver. He died in Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1881.
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a city of Louisiana, the port of entry of St. Mary parish, about 70 miles W. of New Orleans. It is on the Louisiana and Texas railroad and on the Intercoastal canal. The town has regular steamship connections with important Gulf ports and its sugar, lumber, and truck-gardening industries are important. There is also a considerable trade in fur, hides, and live-stock. The city has a city hall, court house, high school, Elks Home, and a handsome park. The city was the scene of important actions during the Civil War. Pop. (1910) 5.477; (1920) 5,429.
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