These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Nephrite, Nepomuk, Neptune.
a mineral, an aluminous variety of amphibole among the bisilicates, of a leek-green color, massive, and rolled pieces, remarkable for its in hardness and tenacity. It was formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys. A unisilicate, zoisite, is also spoken of as nephrite, as is jade. All three are capable of fine polish, and have been used since prehistoric times for ornaments, weapon-handles, and even weapons.
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or POMUK, JOHN OF, the patron saint of Bohemia, honored as a martyr of the seal of confession; born in Pomuk, a few miles S. E. of Pilsen, Bohemia, about 1330. Having studied at the University of Prague and taken holy orders, he held various ecclesiastical offices in Prague, and was appointed confessor to Sophia, wife of King Wenceslaus IV. For refusing to betray to this monarch the confession of the queen John was put to the torture, then tied hand and foot, and flung into the Moldau, in March, 1383. His memory was cherished with peculiar affection by the Bohemian people, and in 1729 he was canonized by Pope Benedict XIII. His memory is celebrated May 16.
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the Roman god of the sea, corresponding to the Greek Poseidon. In art, Neptune is represented as a stately, bearded man carrying a trident in token of sovereignty over the sea. Ofttimes he rides in a seagoing chariot drawn by dolphins and surrounded by monsters of the deep. See Poseidon
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in Roman mythology, the fabled god of the sea; the son of Saturn and Rhea, and the brother of Jupiter and Pluto. He is generally with the Greek Poseidon and dented ously represented; sometimes with a trident in his right hand, a dolphin in his left, and with one of his feet resting on part of a ship; at others in a chariot drawn by sea-horses, with a triton on each side. He was said to preside over horses and the manger. In astronomy, a planet, the most remote of any yet discovered. The diameter of Neptune is nearly 35,000 miles Its density is only a fifth that of the earth, its mean distance from the 2,792,000,000 miles, and its year 165 times as long as one of ours. Mr. Lassell discovered that it has one satellite.
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Known to the Greeks as Poseidon . One of the gods, son of Saturn and Ops, and brother to Jupiter and Pluto . He was devoured by his father as soon as he was born, and restored to life again by a potion given to Saturn, by Metis , the first wife of Jupiter. Neptune shared with his brothers the empire of Saturn, and received as his portion the kingdom of the sea. He did not think this equivalent to the empire of heaven and earth which Jupiter had claimed, therefore he conspired to dethrone him. The conspiracy was discovered, and Jupiter condemned Neptune to build the walls of Troy. He married Amphitrite, who thus broke a vow she had made of perpetual celibacy. The term Neptune is often used to signify the sea itself; thus Shakespeare, in his Tempest, act v. scene 1, says: "Ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune."
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Nymphs of the sea, daughters of Nereus and Doris . According to most of the mythologists, they were fifty in number. They are represented as young and handsome girls, sitting on dolphins and armed with tridents.
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sea-centipede; the typical genus of the family Nereidæ. The species are numerous and widely distributed.
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a genus of Fucaceæ family Laminardiæ. The stem, which is filiform, is many fathoms long.
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WALTER, German scientist; born in 1864 at Briesen, Prussia, he was a student at Zürich, Berlin, Graz, and Würzburg; in 1887 was appointed assistant to Ostwald, and in 1889 became professor of physics at Leipsic University. In 1891 he became professor of Göttingen, and in 1905 at Berlin. In 1907 he published in German and English a series of lectures delivered by him at Yale on applications of thermodynamics to chemistry. The Nernst incandescent electric lamps which he invented was one of the first of its class. He has published several works on physics in German.
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LUCIUS DOMITIUS, called after his adoption CLAUDIUS DRUSUS, Roman emperor; born in Antium, Italy, Dec. 15, 37 A. D. He was the son of Cneius Domitius Ahenobarbus, and of Agrippina, daughter of Germanicus. He had the philosopher Seneca for his teacher; was adopted by Claudius, A. D. 50, and four years after succeeded him on the throne. At the commencement of his reign his conduct excited great hopes in the Romans; he appeared just, liberal, affable, and polished; but this was a mask which soon fell off. He caused his mother to be assassinated, and vindicated the unnatural act to the Senate the ground that Agrippina had on plotted against him. He divorced his wife, and led a most shameless and abandoned life. In 64, Rome was burnt, and popular suspicion pointed to Nero as the author of the conflagration. He charged the Christians with it, and commenced a dreadful persecution of them. His cruelties, extravagance, and debauchery at length aroused the public resentment. Piso formed a conspiracy against the tyrant, but it was discovered and defeated. That of Galba, however, proved more successful, and sun wever, Nero being abandoned abando by his flatterers, put an end to his existence near Rome, June 9, 68 A. D.
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a town of Siberia, in the Trans-Baikal Territory, on the Nertcha, a tributary of the Shika (a head-stream of the Amur), 875 miles E. of Irkutsk. The district of which it is the center yields silver, lead, zinc, tin, and gold; and the town is a trading center for Russians, Mongols, Turcomans, and Tunguses, exchanging tea, gunpowder, and furs. Pop. about 12,- 000. Another Nertchinsk, NERTCHIN- SKIY-ZAVOD, is 180 miles S. E., on a tributary of the Argun, and is also a great mining center. The silver mines and gold mines are largely worked by convict labor.
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MARCUS COCCEIUS, a Roman emperor; born in 32 A. D. He twice held the honor of consulship before his election to the dignity of emperor, and was elected by the Senate after the murder of Domitian, Sept. 18, A. D., 96. He displayed great wisdom and moderation, and rectified the administration of justice, and diminished the taxes; but finding himself, on account of his advanced age, not vigorous enough to repress the insolence of the Prætorian Guards, he adopted M. Ulpius Trajanus, then at the head of the army of Germany, who succeeded him on his death, Jan. 27, 98. Vol. VI-Cyc-AA
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