These 8 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Monk, Monkey, Monmouth College.
a male religious living in community (except the Chartreux and Camaldoli, who are strictly solitary), bound by rule and practicing the counsels of perfection. The name was in universal use till the rise of the friars in the 13th century.
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George (1608-1670), an English soldier. He is noted in English history as a brilliant commander and an unprincipled politician. He entered the British service at the age of seventeen and served under Sir Richard Grenville. At the opening of the Civil War in 1640 he fought for the king and was taken prisoner. He was released soon and took the field for Parliament. He was sent to Ireland, then recalled and reprimanded at the bar of the House for what seemed a betrayal of the cause; yet later he rose to command of the ordnance under Cromwell and was charged with the pacification of Scotland. In 1652 Cromwell made him commander of the fleet. He gained two signal victories, one over Van Tromp, the Dutch admiral. At the death of Cromwell and the virtual collapse of the Commonwealth, Monk scattered the English army with skill so that concerted opposition to the Stuarts was out of the question. He manipulated Parliament so that it could not oppose their return. Charles II, who was thus enabled to resume the throne of his fathers without the shedding of blood, rewarded Monk with the title of Duke of Albemarle and gave him a pension of $35,000 a year. For the humorous side of Monk's life, the reader may consult Pepys's Diary. See Marlborough
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in forging, a vertical hammer, consisting of a long bar of iron, eye, several running loosely through an above the anvil, and terminating at feet called the the foot of a mass of iron, ram. The shaft is raised by a chain and drum driven by the engine and has an which is automatic releasing apparatus, regulated to drop the monkey at the rea range of from quired height, say with 5 feet. In pile-driving, the weight of a pile or post driver, which is raised by a grapple and chain, and, being detached, is allowed to fall in its guides onto the head of the pile. In zoölogy (1) A popular name for any one of the qua quadrumanous mammals having a well tails being developed tail, those wanting called apes. (2) A quadrumanous mammal having a tail and callosities, but no cheek pouches. The Capuchin monkey is the genus Cebus; the Diana monkey, Cercopithecus diana; the howling monkey is the genus Mycetes; the proboscis monkey is Semnopithecus larvatus; the sacred monkey is the Semnopithecus entellus; the silver-haired monkey, Lagothrix humboldtii; and the spider monkeys, the genus Ateles. (3) Plural: The mammalian order QUADRUMANA (q. v.). The strepsirhine monkeys are the lemurs, the platyrhine monkeys are confined to America, and the catarhine monkeys are found only in the Old World.
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BATTLE OF, an engagement between the American forces under General Washington, and the British under Sir Henry Clinton, near Freehold, Monmouth co., N. J., June 28, 1778. the British forces which had previously evacuated Philadelphia for the purpose of embarking at Sandy Hook, ordered the advance, under General Charles Lee, to attack the enemy. The Americans were at first successful, but from some unknown cause they were seized with a panic, and fell back to the main body. General Washington, with the latter succeeded in rallying the fugitives, and repulsed the British. The American loss was 69 killed and 160 wounded; that of the British, nearly 300 killed and 100 prisoners, including the wounded.
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a city and county-seat of Warren co., Ill.; on the Minneapolis and St. Louis, Rock Island Southern, and the Burlington Route railroads; 179 miles S. W. of Chicago. It contains Monmouth College (Unit. Presb.), the Warren County Library, a business college, high school, waterworks, gas and electric lights, street railroads, daily railroads, daily and weekly and several National banks. and newspapers, It has manufactories of sewer pipe, cigars, soap, agricultural implements, and one of the most extensive crockeryware plants in the United States. Pop. (1910) 9,128; (1920) 8,116.
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the county town of Monmouthshire, England. Its chief features are the ruined castle of John of Gaunt, in which Henry V. was born; the parish church, dating from the 14th century, and restored in 1882, with a graceful spire 200 feet high; the bridge over the Monnow (1272), with its "Welsh gate," and near it a small Norman chapel; a fragment of a Benedictine priory, with "Geoffrey of Monmouth's study"; the new town hall, built in 1888, and a grammar school (1614). Pop. about 5,500.
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a coeducational institution in Monmouth, Ill.; founded in 1856 under the auspices of the United Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors 26; students, 254; president, T. H. McMichael, D. D. MONMOUTH, JAMES FITZROY, DUKE OF, a natural son of Charles II. of England; born in Rotterdam, April 9, 1649. At the age of 14 he was created Duke of Monmouth, and two years later was made Master of the Horse. He was concerned in various plots which had for their object the exclusion of the Duke of York from the crown; and he was, in consequence, ordered by Charles to quit the kingdom. kingdom. On the accession of James II., being urged to the act by some of his partisans, he left Holland and landed at Lyme, with scarcely 100 followers (June, 1685), but their numbers were soon increased, and he assumed at Taunton the title of king and asserted the weekly legitimacy of his birth. The royal forces were sent against him, and an engagement took place at Sedgmoor, near Bridgewater, July 6. The rebels were defeated, and the duke himself was made prisoner. He nobly refused to betray his accomplices, and conducted himself with much firmness on the scaffold, where his head was severed from his body, after four unsuccessful blows, July 15, 1685.
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James (1649-1685), an English duke. He was the son of Charles II and Lucy Walters. During the rule of the Commonwealth he was educated in France. On the restoration of the Stuarts his father called him to England and recognized him as his son, making him Duke of Monmouth. He commanded the English forces at Bothwell Bridge in 1679. He was a Protestant by sympathy and was regarded as an available candidate for the throne. The Protestants aimed to raise him to the throne instead of the legal heir, James, Duke of York, but failed. During the reign of James II , Monmouth, at the instigation of William of Orange, organized what is known as Monmouth's Rebellion. The uprising is described vividly in Blackmore's Lorna Doone and in Conan Doyle's Micah Clarke. Monmouth, never a strong character, pleaded for his life but was executed. See Jeffreys
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