These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Manor, Manoury, Manrique.
in English law, a lordship or barony held by a lord and subject to the jurisdiction of a court-baron held by him. In American law, a tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a fee-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes perform certain stipulated services.
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GENERAL, a French fficer who figured prominently in the irst Battle of the Marne in September, 1914, when he commanded the 6th French Army which in the first day's fighting (Sept. 6) helped to turn Von Kluck's right wing and Sept. 9 drove the Germans across the Ourcq in retreat.
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JORGE (män-rēkā), a Spanish poet; flourished in the 15th century. He belonged to one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Spain. His chief work was an ode on his father's death (1492), now known as "Coplas de Manrique" (Manrique's Stanzas), one of the most touching poems in the Spanish language. It has often been reprinted, and was translated into English by Longfellow. Several of his love poems also have come down to us. He died in 1479.
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LE (mong), a picturesque city of France, the capital formerly of the province of Maine, and now of the department of Sarthe, on the left bank of the Sarthe, 116 miles S. W. of Paris. Pop. about 70,000. The Cenomanum of the Romans, and the birthplace of Henry II. of England, Le Mans witnessed in 1793 the dispersion and massacre of more than 10,000 Vendéans; and in January, 1871, the defeat, after a stubborn resistance, of 100,000 Frenchmen under Chanzy by Prince Frederick-Charles.
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a style of roof, also called the French curb, or hip-roof; named after a French architect, who invented it. It was designed to make the attics available for rooms, in consequence of a municipal law limiting the height of front walls in Paris.
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SARD, FRANÇOIS (mong-sär'), a French architect; born in Paris, France, Jan. 23, 1598. He built several churches, and other public edifices in Paris. He died in Paris, Sept. 23, 1666. His nephew, JULES HARDOUIN MANSARD; born in Paris, April 16, 1646, was also an excellent architect, and the superintendent of the royal edifices. He built the palaces of Versailles, Marly, and the Great Trianon, the Hospital of the Invalides, etc. He died in Marly, May 11, 1708.
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a roof with an angle in the slope so made that the lower part of the roof is steeper. It was devised by Francis Mansard, a French architect of the seventeenth century. Mansard windows are placed in the lower part of the roof, giving an effect of an additional story in the roof. This style is out of favor.
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mans, in Scottish affairs, the dwelling of the minister. The Presbyterian clergyman of the established church is entitled by law to a manse at the expense of certain landholders called heritors. They must build and keep it in good condition; the minister is required to make ordinary repairs at his own expense. The term has spread to other denominations and lands. Hawthorne adopted the term in his Mosses from an Old Manse, written while he was residing in the old parsonage or manse of Concord.
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town in Bristol co., Mass., 24 miles S. W. of Boston and 20 miles N. E. of Providence. The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad runs into it, and the industrial establishments turn out much cutlery, cocoa machine tools, and straw goods. Pop. (1910) 5,183; (1920) 6,255.
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a manufacturing city 14 miles N. of Nottingham, England, situated in the midst of what remains of Sherwood Forest. Silk and cotton mills employ the majority of the people, but a large trade in agricultural produce is also carried on. The city owns the water and gas works, and conducts a mechanics' institute. Po Pop. about 40,000.
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a city and county-seat of Richland co., O.; on the Pennsylvania, the Erie, and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads; 54 miles S. of Sandusky, O. Here are the Ohio State Reformatory, Memorial Soldiers' and Sailors' Building, a high school, business colleges, National and State banks, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has manufactories of boilers, threshing machines, engines, brass goods, street cars, stoves, tubing, cigars, etc. Pop. (1910) 20,768; (1920) 27,824.
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a college devoted to the study of theology at Oxford, England. Founded in 1886, when the Spring Hill College of Birmingham was transferred to Oxford, it was built and is maintained by the Congregational churches especially for the education of Congregational ministers. MANSFIELD, MOUNT, the highest peak of the Green Mountains, in the State of Vermont, 20 miles E. of Burlington. It has three distinct summits, the highest of which is 4,364 feet above sealevel. MANSFIELD, RICHARD, an American actor; born on the Island of Heligoland, North Sea, in 1857; first studied urt, but afterward prepared for the stage; came to the United States and appeared as Dromez in "Les Manteaux Noirs" at the Standard Theater, New York. He later became very successful in many plays, and created the parts of Prince Karl, Beau Brummel, and Baron Chevrial, and the titular rôles in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"; also of Cyrano de Bergerac, and Monsieur Beaucaire. He died Aug. 30, 1907.
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PAUL, American sculptor; born at St. Paul, Minn., in 1885, received his art education the St. Paul Institute of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the American RICHARD MANSFIELD Academy in Rome. He was awarded the Helen Barnet prize in 1913 and 1917, the George D. Widener memorial gold medal in 1914, and the gold medal of the San Francisco Exposition in 1915. His works are represented in the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; the Detroit Museum of Art, Minneapolis Art Museum, and elsethe where.
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the slaughter or killing of a human being or beings; homicide. Vol. VI-Cyc-H
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ANDREA (män-tān'yä), an Italian painter; born in Padua, Italy, in 1431. He was a pupil of Squarcione. About 1459 he went to Verona, where he painted a magnificent altar piece in the Church of St. Zeno. About 1466 he removed to Mantua; the rest of his life was passed there, with the exception of two years at Rome. At Mantua he opened a school, and painted among other important works the "Triumph of Julius Cæsar," now at Hampton Court. One of the latest and best of his works is the "Madonna della Vittoria" now in the Louvre at Paris. Others of his works, also in the Louvre, are "Wisdom Vanquishing Vice," and a mythological work, "Parnassus." Mantegna excelled in perspective, and in engraving, and introduced the art of engraving on copper into upper Italy. He died in Mantua, in 1506. His two sons, Francesco and Carlo, were also painters.
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