These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Malmaison, Malmaison, Malmesbury.
a château on the left bank of the Seine, 10 miles W. of Paris. It was the favorite residence of Josephine, wife of Napoleon I., and here she died. The château belonged to Richelieu, and was restored by by Napoleon III. in 1861. A sortie by Ducrot from Paris in 1870 was repulsed here by the Germans.
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BATTLE OF, was fought by French troops under General Maistre, Oct. 23-25, 1917, when the Chemin-des-Dames was cleared of the enemy and the Germans driven to the Ailette River. The front attack covered 12 kilometers and was preceded by six days of artillery preparation in which 25 million shells of "75's" alone were fired. The French troops attacked before daybreak on Oct. 23. The soldiers under General Maud'huy holding the left of the line, when they heard that they were opposed by two divisions of Prussian Guards whom they had defeated at Verdun, were aroused to such determination that in 45 minutes they had planted their flag on the Fort of the Malmaison. In this battle the French captured 11,000 prisoners, of whom 257 were officers, and 200 cannon.
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WILLIAM OF. See WILLIAM. MALMÖ (mäl'muh), the third largest town of Sweden, on the Sound, nearly opposite to and 17 miles from Copenhagen; besides being a busy seaport, it has manufactures of cigars, sugar, Leer, and woolens, and some shipbuilding; the exports (chiefly grain, flour, butter, eggs, cement, chalk, matches, live stock, and timber) are carried away every year in about 3,500 vessels of 750,000 tons burden, and the imports ( coal, machinery, cotton, grain, textiles, coffee, etc.), brought by 3,600 vessels of 720,000 tons; the town hall is a fine Renaissance building of 1546. The only remaining part of the old fortifications is the castle inwhich the Earl of Bothwell was confined; it is now used as a prison. Down to the 16th century Malmö was one of the busiest commercial towns in that part of the Baltic. In 1523 a treaty of peace between the Danes and Gustavus Vasa was signed here. Pop. (1918) 112,521.
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a market town of Wiltshire, England; on a bold eminence between the two head streams of the Avon, 26 miles N. N. E. of Bath. It owes its name to Maildulf, an Irish missionary. Aldhelm, his scholar, became about 673 first abbot of the famous abbey here, in which Athelstan was buried, and of which William of Malmesbury was librarian and precentor in the first half of the 12th century. To his time belong the building of a short-lived castle, and the rebuilding (also by Bishop Roger of Salisbury) of the abbey church, which, Transition Norman in style, and cruci form in plan, with a central spire, was 350 feet long. Little more than the nave -now the parish church-remains; but this is a most interesting fragment, its finest feature the S. porch. At the Dis solution (1539) the mitered Benedictine beautiabbey became a cloth factory. A ful market cross (temp. Henry VII.) is Hobbes was a native of noteworthy. Malmesbury. Pop. (1920) about 2,700.
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a name bestowed originally on the red and white wines of Napoli di Malvasia or Monemvasia, in the Morea, not because it produced them, but because it exported them; they were grown in the islands of the Ægean and the Levant. The Malmsey wines of modern commerce are mostly the produce of Teneriffe, Madeira, the Azores, Sardinia, Sicily, and one or two other places.
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a village and county-seat of Franklin co., N. Y.; on the Salmon river and on the Central Vermont and the New York Central and Hudson River railroads: 60 miles N. E. of Ogdensburg. It contains the Northern New York Institution for Deaf Mutes, Franklin Academy, the Wead Public Library, Alice Hyde Memorial Hospital, electric light plants, National banks, and several weekly newspapers. It has flour, woolen, and paper mills, a tannery, machine shops, railroad shops, etc. Malone was the birthplace and home of Vice-President William A. Wheeler. Pop. (1910) 6,467; (1920) 7,556.
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HECTOR (mä-lō'), a French novelist; born near Rouen, France, May 20, 1830. He was a prolific writer. Of his numerous works the best known are: "The Victims of Love," in three parts; "The Lovers"; "Husband and Wife"; "The Children"; "Doctor Claude"; "Accomplices"; "In the Bosom of the Family"; etc. Most of his books treat of French life under the Second Empire. He died in 1907.
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Grand president of the infernal regions, where he appears under the shape of a crow. When he appears in human form he has a very raucous voice. He builds impregnable citadels and towers, overthrows the ramparts of his enemies, finds good workmen, gives familiar spirits, receives sacrifices, and deceives the sacrificers. Forty legions are under his command.
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a vil lage in the French department of Nord, 10 miles S. of Mons in Belgium. Here, Sept. 11, 1709, over 90,000 British and Dutch, under Marlborough and Prince Eugene, defeated about the same number of French under Marshal Villars. In this "very murderous battle," as Marlborough called it, the loss of the allies was from 20,000 to 30,000, of the French from 6,000 to 16,000. Its result was the capture of Mons.
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a small variety of , most frespaniel, with long, silky hair quently white; the muzzle is round. MALTESE ISLANDS. See MALTA.
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GREAT, one of the most fashionable watering-places in England, Hills, at on the E. side of the Malvern the foot of the Worcestershire Beacon, summit of which (1,444 feet from the views are above the sea-level) extensive obtained. It is irregularly laid out, and has a fine cruciform church, with a square embattled tower 124 feet high rebuilt in the rising from the center, restored in reign of Henry VII., and is Malvern 1860-1861. On the outskirts Goldschmidt (Jennie College. Madame many years Lind) resided near Malvern . Pop. about 17,000. previous to her death
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an eminence near . the James river, S. E. of Richmond, Va Here, on July 1, 1862, the Confederates Union under Lee were defeated by the army under McClellan.
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