These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Neerwinden, Negapatam, Negaunee.
a small village in the N. W. corner of the Belgian province of Liége; noted for the victory gained by the French under Luxembourg over the English under William III. ( July 29, French under Dumouriez by the allies 1693), and also for the defeat of the under the Prince of Coburg, March 18, 1793.
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a seaport of British India, on the Coromandel coast, 180 miles S. by W. of Madras city. Originally a Portuguese settlement, it was taken by the Dutch in 1660, and by the English in 1781. The port trades in cotton, livestock, ghi (exported), and spices, piece goods, coal, gunny bags (imported), chiefly with Burma, the Straits Settlements, and Ceylon. Pop . about 65,000.
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a city in Marquette co., Mich.; on the Marquette and Ishpeming, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic, and the Lake Superior and Ishpeming railroads; 10 miles W. of Marquette. It is built on a ridge named Iron Mountain, at an elevation of about 1,000 feet above Lake Superior. It contains a high school, waterworks, a public library , electric lights, a National bank , and street railroads. It has a noted cluster of productive iron mines within its limits. Pop. (1910) 8,460; (1920) 7,419.
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documents which may be converted into cash, representing money. They may be divided into two classes: those based on legislation, such as government script ; or on credit, personal or otherwise, such as a bank note, representing the credit of a banking institution, institution , or a personal check, or promissory note, representing the credit of an individual. Bonds, stocks, mortgages are further specimens of such documents . Those based on statute are usually converted into money at their face value, in theory, at least, though actually, if the credit of a government is low, they exchange for more money in gold than their face value. Documents based on credit are "discounted," usually on the basis of the current rate of interest , where the credit of the individual or firm is good.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) the name given to certain negro-like tribes inhabiting the interior of some of the Philippine Islands, and differing both in features and manners from the Malay inhabitants of the Eastern Archipelago. They seem to be more closely akin to the Andaman Islanders than to either Papuans or any other stock; and are also known as Aëtas or Itas (see PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ). The name is also used in a wider sense for the Papuans and all the Melanesian peoples of POLYNESIA ( q. v.).
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) an island in the Philippine group, between Panay and Cebu; area, 5,191 square miles; pop. 460,776. In the S. W. part is the mountain cnain of Sojatas, and lying N. and N. E. of this are large plains cut by numerous rivers. The interior has not been explored. The island is divided into two provinces, Western and Eastern Negros. The former is very fertile, and owing largely to the work of the various European settlers, is in the front rank of all the provinces of the archipelago. The Eastern province, while not so fertile, produces large crops of sugar-cane, hemp, rice, cocoa, and cotton. The forests of the island furnish an abundance of fine building woods, among them teak. On the seashores are numbers of shell fish, tortoise shell, lagan, sea cucumbers, etc., while near the W. coast deposits of excellent coal have recently been discovered. Bacolod is the capital of the Western province, and has a number of fine public and private buildings. There are over a score of cities with a population of 10,- 000 and over.
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three persons of this name are mentioned in Scriptu Scripture: One who came with Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezra ii: Nehanother, the son of Azbuk (Neh. iii: 16); and lastly the celebrated Jewish leader, the son of Hachaliah (Neh. i: 1), and brother of Hanani (i: 2, vii: 2). In modern Hebrew Bibles, as that of Van der Hooght, the Book of Nehemiah is distinct from that of Ezra, immediately following it as one of the Hagiographia. In the Jewish canon, however, the two were treated as a single work. No quotation from the book occurs in the New Testament. The Septuagint translation of the book is badly executed.
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a mountainous district in the S. of India, rising abruptly from the plains to the height of 6,000 feet, though individual peaks shoot up to 8,760 feet. The mass is entirely isolated, with the exception that a precipitous granite ridge leaves its W. face and connects it with the Western Ghats. The surface consists of grassy uplands with large groves of forest trees; but the lower slopes are heavily timbered. Owing to their great elevation, the Neilgherry Hills have a delightfully cool climate, and are much resorted to on this account by invalided Europeans, the principal station being Ootacamund.
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CHARLES PATRICK, American educator and statistician, born in Rock Island, Ill., 1865; graduated from Georgetown University; became instructor in Notre Dame University; head of economic department of Catholic University, 1897-1905; was assistant recorder for Anthracite Coal Strike Commission; appointed Commissioner of Labor by President Roosevelt, remaining as such under Taft and Wilson; resigned in 1913 to organize the Labor and Welfare Department of the American Smelting & Refining Co., New York City. In 1915 he went to Washington to organize a bureau of information for the Southeastern railways.
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