These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Macgillycuddy Reeks, Mach, Machala.
a group of rugged mountains in Ireland, in County Kerry, rising from the W. shores of the Lakes of Killarney, and covering an area of 28 square miles. Carran-Tual, the loftiest peak, not only of the Reeks, but in all Ireland, is 3,414 feet in height. Caper, the next in altitude, reaches 3,200 feet, and there are several others which exceed 2,500 feet.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
EDMUND (ROBERT OTTO), VON, a German writer and lecturer; born in Pomerania, Germany, in 1870, and came to America in 1891. Graduated from Harvard in 1895, and became instructor in fine arts there from 1899 to 1903. He is the author of several books dealing with Greek art and painting, as well as some which deal with the more modern artists of the 19th century. When the war of 1914 broke out in Europe he was one of the chief German apologists, writing several books explaining the German point of
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
capital of province of El Oro, Ecuador, 70 miles south of Guayaquil, on the Gulf of Guayaquil. The agricultural resources of the district are considerable, the principal product being
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
a cutlasslike tool or weapon, half knife, half cleaver, used either as a tool or a weapon in Cuba and other tropical countries.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Slavonic name for a witch. (See Slavs .)
Only in An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
CLARENCE HUNGER- FORD, American financier; born in 1874, son of John Mackay. He succeeded his father as president of the Commercial Cable Co. Later he was also president of the Commercial Cable Co. of Cuba, the Commercial Pacific Cable Co., the Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Co., and the Mackay Companies. He has shown interest in dramatic art and was one of the chief supporters of the New Theater of New York. an
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
JOHN WILLIAM, American capitalist; born in Dublin, Ireland, Nov. 28, 1831. He came to New York City when a boy. After a miner's life in California, in 1852, he went to Nevada. In 1872 he was one of the discoverers of the Bonanza mines, of which he owned two-fifths. Their production . In 1884, in has been enormous in partnership with James Gordon Bennett, he laid across the Atlantic. He died two cables in 1902.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
A disciple of Albert Pike (q.v.) and one of the leaders of Masonry in Charleston, U.S.A. who was charged by Miss Diana Vaughan, Dr. Bataille and others with the practice of Satanism and sorcery-charges entirely without foundation. (See Waite, Devil-Worship in France .)
Only in An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
PERCY, dramatist and poet; born in 1875 in New York, graduated from Harvard in 1897, and became a student at Leipsic, after traveling in Europe, he taught privately in New York and from 1904 has been engaged in dramatic work. His works include "The Canterbury Pilgrims," a comedy (1903); "A Modern Rendering into Prose of Chaucer's Tales" (1904); "Fenris the Wolf," a tragedy (1905); "Jeanne d'Arc," a tragedy (1906); "Sap- ; "The Scarepho and Phaon" (1907) a tragedy of the Ludicrous" 26, 1898. crow: (1908); "The The Playhouse and the Play" (1909); "The Civic Theater" (1912); Caliban" "The Present Hour" (1914); " (1916); "Christmas Masque" (1917); "George Washington" (1920).
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
District of, a district of northwestern Canada. It extends from the sixtieth parallel of north latitude to the Arctic Ocean, and from the 100th meridian to the Rocky Mountains . It includes half a million square miles of territory, and is inhabited by 5,000 or 6,000 traders, trappers, employes of the Hudson Bay Company , Indians, and Eskimo. With the other Northwest Territories, it is governed by a commissioner and a council of four appointed by the governor-general of Canada.
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
SIR ALEXANDER, a Canadian explorer; born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1755. In the employment of the Northwest Fur Company, he explored the great river named after him from the W. end of Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean (1789). He made another expedition to the W. coast (1792), and was the first white man to cross the Rocky Mountains and reach the Pacific coast. He returned to Great Britain in 1801, and was knighted. He died in Mulnain, near Dunkeld, Scotland, March 11, 1820.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
ALEXANDER, a Canadian statesman; born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland, Jan. 28, 1822; removed to Canada in 1842; in 1852 became editor of a Reform newspaper; represented Lambton in Parliament 1861-1867, and in the Dominion Parliament till 1882; was then elected for East York, and was re-elected in 1887. In 1873 he succeeded Macdonald as premier, and remained at the head of the government till 1878. He published the "Life and Speeches of Hon. George Brown" (1882). He died in Toronto, Canada, April 17, 1892.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
SIR MORELL, a Scotch physician; born in Leytonstone, July 7, 1837; was educated at London Medical College, Paris and Vienna; obtained the Jackson prize for diseases of the larynx. In 1887-1888 he was associated with the specialists of Berlin and Vienna in the treatment of the larynx disease of the Emperor Frederick (at first, while he was Crown Prince) of Germany. He was the author of a treatise on "Diseases of the Throat and Nose," etc. He died in London, Feb. 3, 1892.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
The fan-blades in this blower are supported by a shaft, and caused to revolve by the revolutions of a cylinder contained in the shell. The fan-blades are loosely joined to the shaft and arranged so that they adapt themselves to a continuous alteration of the angle as they pass through the cylinder. Half-rolls in the cylinder act as guides for the fan-blades, allowing them to work smoothly in and out as the cylinder revolves. At each revolution the entire space back of the cylinder between two blades is filled and emptied three times, that being the number of blades contained. See BLOWER.
Only in The Encyclopedia of Founding
in North America, a stream having its origin, as the Athabasca, in a Rocky Mountain lake in British Columbia, flowing over 600 miles to Lake Athabasca, and 240 as the Slave river to Great Slave Lake, where it assumes the name of Mackenzie river, conveying the waters of the Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean at Mackenzie Bay, after a final course of 1,045 miles, making a total river system of nearly 2,525 miles. It drains an area of little less than 600,000 square miles. The mouth of the river is closed from October to June by ice. The Mackenzie district itself is desolate and unfit for colonization; but its great tributaries, the Laird and the Peace and Athabasca rivers, drain an immense fertile country, with abundance of petroleum (the fields have more than once been reported to be the largest in the world), and some coal and lignite. The Mackenzie received its name from Sir Alexander Mackenzie, by whom it was discovered and first navigated in 1789. Sir John Franklin descended it in 1825.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia