These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Melanesia, Melanite, Melba.
a group of islands stretching from the N. E. of New Guinea to the tropic of Capricorn, and including New Britain Archipelago (with the Admiralty Islands), Solomon Islands, Queen Charlotte or Santa Cruz Islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, and the Fiji Islands.
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black a variety of garnet; a lime-iron garnet in which the protoxides are almost wholly lime. Dana includes most of the black garnet in his group, andradite, but excludes that from Arendal, Norway, referring it to the magnesia-alumina garnet group, for which he adopts the name of pyrope.
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NELLIE (MITCHELL), an Australian prima donna; born in Melbourne, Australia, May 19, 1865; studied under Madame Marchesi in Paris, and made her début in "Rigoletto" at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, Oct. 15, 1887; appeared as Lucia, at Covent Garden, London, in 1889; the following lowing year as Ophelia at the Paris Grand Opera, and as Juliet in London. Since then she has sung in all the principal cities of Europe and the United States. She was a member of the Chicago Opera Company 1915-1916.
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mel'burn, the capital of Victoria and the metropolis of Australia. It is situated on a fine harbor. With its suburbs it has a population of over half a million. Though not settled until 1835 it is one of the best built cities in the world. It is noted for its fine parks. It is one of the most important manufacturing cities in the southern hemisphere . The exports are chiefly gold, wool, and hides. The city was named for Lord Melbourne, prime minister of England when Queen Victoria came to the throne. 2026 Editor's Note: By way of comparison, Melbourne today is a metropolis of about 5.2 million, one of Australia's two largest cities. (Ed: BR 2026-07-03)
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W. L., VISCOUNT, an English statesman, born in 1779. MELCHIZEDEK (-kiz'e-dek) ("King of righteousness"), in the story of Genesis, King of Salem and priest of "Supreme El." He met Abram on his return from the victorious expedition against Chedorlaomer, gave him his blessing, and received tithes from him.
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a breed of turkey; a genus of gallinaceous birds of the family Meleagridæ, or the sub-family Meleagrinæ. They are the largest birds of the order to which they belong. Head naked, with wattles or folds of brightcolored skin, tuft of long hair on the breast, plumage more or less metallic.
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formerly MARIGNANO (mä-ren-yä'nō), a town of northern Italy, 12 miles S. E. of Milan. Here Francis I. of France defeated the Swiss in 1515, and the French routed the Austrian rear-guard in 1859.
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Spain, one of three towns having two sets of wireless communications of the Marconi system of the "Compañia Nacional de Telegrafia sin Hilos," holding a government concession. The other two stations are at Cadiz and Teneriffe.
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the badger; the typical genus of the family Melide. M. taxus (or vulgaris) is the largest of the indigenous British mammals. The siffleur of the United States and Canada is M. labradoricus, and the Indian badger, M. collaris.
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a Spanish fortress town on the northern coast of Morocco. Built on a peninsula extending out into the Mediterranean sea, and defended by forts on the land side. In 1902 the port was opened to commerce. Pop. about 40,000.
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FELIX JULES, a French statesman; born in 1838. After joining the bar he was active as a democrat in opposing the Empire. He declined election during the Commune. In 1872 he was returned to the National Assembly as a conservative Republican. Secretary of Agriculture, 1883-1885. Under Secretary of State a few months under Simon. Secretary of Agriculture, in Ferry's cabinet in 1883-1885. President of the Chamber of Deputies, 1888. Carried through his great protective measures which went into force in 1892. Re-elected President of Chamber, 1894. Prime Minister under Faure, 1896. The elections of 1898 forced the cabinet to resign and he returned to the Chamber of Deputies. Was a candidate for President of France in 1899. Meline lost much of his political influence by taking sides against Captain Dreyfus in the famous affair. After 1903 a member of the Senate for the Vosges. He founded the Society for Agricultural Merit.
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capital of the department of Cerro Largo, Uruguay, 200 miles N. E. of Montevideo. Center of a region in which cattle raising is the chief industry. Pop. about 10,000.
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a wind instrument with a row of reeds and operated by keys. In 1846 a method of drawing air through the reeds by suction bellows was patented. Pressure on the key drives down the pin and the valve, allowing passage to the air. The principle is the same as that of the accordeon.
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an agreeable succession of simple sounds, produced by a single voice or instrument, and so regulated as to give a pleasing effect or to be expressive of some kind of sentiment. It is often founded on relative harmonies and yet is completely distinguished from harmony by not needing the addition of parts to make it perfect.
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oil beetle; the typical genus of the family Meloïdæ. One or two species are common on hedgebanks in spring. Wing cases short, color blueblack, abdomen full, and general appearance greasy. The eggs are laid in holes in the ground, and the larvæ when hatched attach themselves to bees of various species, whence their popular ist and parliamentary troops, resulting in name bee lice. The active six-footed larva changes into a fleshy cylindrical grub with less aborted legs and stronger jaws than the corresponding stage of Sitaris.
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in botany, Cucumis melo. Linnæus, who discriminated it from others of the genus by the angular points of the leaves being rounded off and its torulose, i. e., knotted, fruit, says that it is a native of the Kalmuck country (in Tartary). MELOS (mē'los) (Italian Milo), a Greek island, the most S. W. of the Cyclades; length 13 miles, width 8 miles. The island is volcanic, and produces sulphur, salt, pumice stone, stucco, millstones, and a little oil and wine. Among the ruins of the ancient city of Melos, and near its theater, was found the price less antique, the Venus de Milo, now one of the chief treasures of the Louvre. Pop. about 5,000.
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