These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Maiden Plum, Maidenhair, Maidenhair Tree.
the name of two West Indian plants, Comocladia integrifolia and C. dentata, belonging to the natural order Anacardiaceæ. They yield a milky juice which, on exposure to air, becomes an indelible black dye.
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Adiantum capillus veneris, and the genus Adiantum. The former has many spreading capillary branches (whence the English name), a three to four pinnate frond, with the pinnules cuneate, lobed, crenate, glabrous. It is rare in Great Britain, but is found in the United States, in continental Europe, Asia, Africa, and Polynesia. Also Passiflora adiantum.
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the Salisburia adiantifolia, a deciduous tree of the yew family, a native of Japan, so called from the likeness of its leaves to the maidenhair fern.
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a municipal borough and market-town of Berkshire, England, situated amid beautiful scenery 26 miles W. of London, on the right bank of the Thames (over which are two bridges,. one of stone, built in 1772 at a cost of $100,000, and the other of brick) and on the Great Western railway. In 1399 it was the scene of an engagement between the rival forces of Richard II. and Henry of the interview of Charles I. with his children. Pop. about 16,000.
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Caucasia, a town 93 miles S. E. of Ekaterinodar, situated on a branch of the main railroad line to Baku. The region round about is rich in oil wells, whose products are shipped through Maikop. Pop. about 45,000. MAILS. See POSTAL SERVICE.
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MOSES (mi-mon'idēz), a Jewish philosopher; born in Cordova, Spain, March 30, 1135. He harmonized Judaism and philosophy. Driven with his family from Spain, he resided in Fez; then traveled by way of Palestine to Cairo, becoming there chief rabbi and the caliph's physician. His chief work, written in Hebrew, is "Mishneh Torah" (Repetition of the Law: 1170- 1180), a masterly exposition of the whole of the Jewish law as contained in the Pentateuch and the voluminous Talmudic literature. His principal philosophical work, written in Arabic, was "Dalalt al Haïrin" (Guide of the Perplexed: 1190). He died in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 13, 1204.
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an old province of France, having Normandy on the N., Brittany on the W., and Anjou on the S., corresponding to the modern department of Sarthe and Mayenne; its chief town was Le Mans.
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UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational non-sectarian institution in Orono, Me.; founded in 1865; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 160; students, 1,213; volumes in library, 66,000; funds from the State amounted to $199,986; from the Federal Government, $99,909; from trust funds, $4,000; president, Robert Judson Aley, Sc. D.
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a department of France, formed out of the province of Anjou, and watered old the rivers whose names it bears, divided into the arrondissements of Angers, Beaugé, Cholet, Saumur, and Segré; area, 2,787 square miles; pop. about 510,000; the soil is fertile, and produces excellent corn and wine, with hemp, linseed, fruit and green crops; slate quarries and coal mines are worked, and there are mills for cotton, woolen, and linen manufacturers. Capital, Angers. The department is formed mainly out of the ancient Anjou.
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A punch used by watchmakers for perforating mainsprings. It is inserted in a vise when used. These punches are also made in the form of tongs or plyers.
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A mechanism for driving a watch or clock while being wound.
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a city, near Montreal, Canada, of which it is a suburb. Its manufacturing plants employ nearly half the population, and turn out cotton goods, shoes, sugar, and foundry products. Has a fine city hall, libraries and schools. Its industrial output ranks as sixth in Canada. Pop. about 40,000.
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Australia, a town in New South Wales, on the Hunter river, 119 miles N. of Sydney and 15 miles N. W. of Newcastle. Some of the purest coal in the world is found in this region, veins running over thirty feet in thickness, but these fields have not yet been much exploited. Pop. about 12,000.
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WILLIAM, commonly known as SECRETARY LETHINGTON, a Scotch statesman, eldest son of Sir Richard Maitland; born about 1525. He early adopted the reformed doctrines, and was one of the first public men openly to renounce the mass. In 1558 he was appointed secretary of state by Mary of Guise. In the following year he joined the Lords of the Congregation, who had taken possession of Edinburgh. In 1560 he was speaker of the Parliament which abolished the authority of the Pope in Scotland. On Queen Mary's arrival in Scotland he was chosen one of her principal ministers, and was continually employed as her envoy to the English court. After the assassination of Moray he be came the life and soul of the queen's party and kept ept up an active correspondence with Mary, who was then in prison. In 1571 he joined Kirkcaldy in Edinburgh Castle; was proclaimed a traitor by the Parliament, and attainted with his two brothers. On the surrender of Edinburgh Castle Kirkcaldy and his brother were hanged, but Maitland died in prison in Leith, presumably by his own hand, June 9, 1573.
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a pale yellow oil, specific gravity 0.926, pressed from the germ of maize. The germs are obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of starch and are separated from the starch granules by sifting or blowing. The germs contain approximately 50 per cent. of oil, and yield, by pressing, about 40 per cent. Before being placed on the market the oil is neutralized and partially decolorized, and is then used for cooking, as a salad oil, and in the manufacture of oleomargarine. Lower grades of oil are used in the manufacture of soap.
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a title of honor now usually bestowed on sovereigns. MAJOLICA (mā-yol'i-kä) (from the Italian name of the island of MAJORCA (q. v.), where this ware seems to have been first made), a decorated kind of enameled pottery made in Italy from the 15th to the 18th century. It attained its greatest development in the duchy of Urbino, which included the four great manufactories of Pesaro, Gubbio, Urbino, and Castel Durante. Majolica is an earthenware usually of a coarse paste, covered with a stanniferous glaze or enamel.
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