These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Newton, Newton Abbot, Nez Perces.
a city of Kansas, the county-seat of Harvey co., 27 miles N. of Wichita, on the Missouri Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé railroads. It is the center of an important farming and stock-raising region and has manufactories of flour and machinery. There is a library, hospitals, parks, and Bethel College. Pop. (1910) 7,861; (1920) 9,781.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
a city in Middlesex co., Mass.; on the Charles river, and on the Boston and Albany railroad; 7 miles W. of Boston. It comprises 13 villages; contains the Newton Theological Institution (Bapt.), the Allen School for Boys, the Lasell Female Seminary, West Newton Classical School, public library, Eliot Memorial, high school, and several National and savings banks, and has gas and electric lights, manufactures of hosiery, shoes, silk, rubber, machinery, paper, carriages, cordage, etc. Pop. (1910) 39,806; (1920) 46,054.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
JOSEPH FORT, clergy- Born in Decatur, Tex., in 1876, man. he studied at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., and was ordained Baptist minister in 1893. He was pastor of the 1st Baptist Church, Past Paris, Tex., in 1898, and associate pastor of a non-sectarian church at St. Louis, 1898-1900. He founded and presided over the People's Church, Dixon, Ill., from 1901 to 1908. Was Universalist pastor at Cedar Rapids, Ia., 1908-1916, and has been at the City Temple, London, England, since 1916. His works include: "David Swing, Poet Preacher" (1909); "Abraham Lincoln" (1910); "The Eternal Christ" (1912); "The Builders, A Story and Study of Masonry" (1914); etc.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
a market-town of Devonshire, England; 15 miles S. of Exeter. Its principal industry is pottery, there being abundant clay deposits. Ford House, a good Tudor building, has lodged both Charles I. and William of Orange, who here in 1688 was first proclaimed king. Pop. about 15,000. NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTI- TUTION, a college for instruction in theology founded by the Bantin Churches in 1825 at Newton Center, Mass. While the instruction is under Baptist auspices, students from any denomination may be admitted. The course is three years and leads to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. The grounds and buildings are valued at $700,000, while the college has an endowment of $800,000. The enrolment of students numbered 70 in 1915 with 8 instructors.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
na per-saz', pierced noses, a tribe of Indians originally located in Idaho and eastern Oregon. The tribe welcomed and aided Lewis and Clark in their famous expedition in 1804. They requested the whites to send them the white man's book. It is recorded that for seventy years not a white man lost his life at the hands of a Nez Perce warrior; but, when the whites began to settle up their country, ruin their hunting grounds, and take possession of their fairest lands, the Nez Perces went on the war path under their famous chief Joseph. He and his few hundred followers caused General Miles one of the hardest campaigns he ever undertook; but, of course, the result was inevitable. After a short residence in Indian Territory the old chief and his band were placed upon a reservation near Spokane. Chief Joseph died in 1904, much regretted by the white man as well as red. General Miles called him the "Napoleon of Indians." See Indian
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
Members of the Ndembo Secret Society of the Lower Congo. Nganga-literally "the knowing ones"is a term applied to those who have passed certain curious rites to distinguish them from the Vanga or uninitiated.
Only in An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
a city in Niagara ., N. Y.; on the co Niagara river, and on the Michigan Central, the Erie, the Lehigh Valley, the Grand Trunk, the New York Central and Hudson River and other railroads; 20 miles N. of Buffalo. Here are De Veaux College (P. E.), Niagara University (R. C.), a business college, several hospitals, excellent schools, Carnegie library, electric lights, lights, ele electric street railroads, several National and State banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. It contains flour and paper mills, a bicycle factory, planing mills, carbide and carborundum works, electrochemical and electrometallurgical works and several engineering plants operated by the power of the falls for manufacturing. The city has in recent years increased greatly in industrial importance. The income of its trade is about $50,000,000 per year. The city has a continual flow of visitors who are attracted thither by the Niagara Falls, and Whirlpool Rapids, about two miles below the falls. Niagara Falls was chartered in 1892 from the former villages of Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge. Pop. (1910) 30,445; (1920) 50,760.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
an island belonging to the Netherlands; about 65 miles W. of Sumatra; has an area of about 1,800 square miles. The surface is mountainous, the highest peak rising 1,970 feet. In 1857, when the Dutch took complete possession of the island, the population was reckoned at 17,000. Recent estimates place it at 200,000. They grow rice, cocoanuts, bananas, tobacco, sugarcane, etc., and annually about 110,000 pounds of pepper. The Niassers are of the Malay race, but fairer than the type.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
ALBERT PARKER, an American naval officer; born in Vincennes, Ind., July 25, 1859; was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1880. He was naval attaché at Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Buenos Aires; served in the Spanish-American War, Filipino Insurrection, Boxer Campaign, occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914, 1914, a and commanded squadron 1, Atlantic Fleet, battleship force, and later United States naval forces based on Gibraltar. Promoted Rear Admiral August, 1917.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
LAKE OF, an extensive sheet of water in the republic of the same name; area, about 3,000 square miles; depth, 10 to 260 feet; length, 110 miles N. W. to S. E.; greatest breadth, 40 miles; mean breadth, 30 miles; 110 feet above the Pacific, from which it is separated by a strip of land 12 miles wide. The San Juan de Nicaragua river flows from its S. E. extremity into the Caribbean Sea, and at its N. W. extremity it is connected with the smaller Lake of Managua or Leon by the Tipitapa river. Steamers ply on it, as it forms a link in the traffic route across the isthmus of Central America. There are hundreds of islands, the largest, Ometepe, having two active volcanoes.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia