These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Nampa, Nana Sahib, Nanaimo.
a city of Idaho, in Canyon co. It is on the Oregon Short Line and the Idaho Traction railroads. It is the center of important mining interests. Agriculture has been promoted by irrigation projects. The public institutions include a State sanitarium and a public library. Pop. (1910) 4,205; (1920) 7,621.
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the name under which Dundhu Panth, adopted son of the expeshwa of the Mahrattas, became known as the leader of the Indian Mutiny in 1857; born about 1825. He was the son of a Brahmin in the Deccan, and educated as a Hindu nobleman. He • was industrious in fanning discontent with the English rule, on the outbreak proclaimed of the mutiny he was peshwa, and was responsible for the massacres at Cawnpur (see INDIA). After the suppression of the rebellion he escaped into Nepal. He died about 1860.
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a city of British Columbia, pital of the Nanaimo electoral the capital district. It is situated on Departure Bay, on the east coast of Vancouver Island and on the Esquimault and Nanaimo railway, about 73 miles N. W. of Victoria. Opposite the mainland is Vancouver City, with which there is daily steamboat communication. The city is the center of the coal-mining coa and fishing industries of British Columbia. It has a handsome county building, a custom house and a Roman Catholic convent. It has manufactories of bricks, machine-shop products, and lumber products. The city was the site of the Hudson's Bay Company block house, built in 1833. Pop. about 10,000.
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a city of China, the capital of the province of Kiangsi. The surrounding country is very fertile and the city has important trade in porcelain and other manufactures. Pop. about 150,000.
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or NANKING, CLOTH, a fabric made of a kind of cotton grown in China which is naturally of a buffyellow color, and this is also the color of the cloth. The plant which yields it is a mere variety of Gossypium herbaceum. In the first half of the 19th century nankeen cloth was much used for ladies' and children's attire, and also for men's trousers, but now the name, when applied to certain kinds of cotton goods, is not confined to fabrics resembling genuine nankeen cloth.
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capital of the province of Kiangsu, formerly the capital of China, on the Yangtse river, 130 miles from its mouth. Its name signifies the southern capital. Since the removal of the seat of government to Peking (northern capital), in the beginning of the 15th century, the official name has been Kiangning, though the old name is popularly preferred. From 1853 to 1864 it was the capital of the Taiping rebels, who destroyed nearly all the magnificent public buildings for which the city was once famous. Previous to that time the walls inclosed an area nearly 20 miles in circumference, and reached in many places an elevation of 70 feet. The most memorable of the ruined buildings were the Porcelain Tower, the summer palace, and the tombs of the kings, with remarkable sepulchral statues. After its recapture by the Chinese imperialists, Nanking resumed its position as the seat of the viceregal government, and arsenal was established. In an 1842 it was captured by the British. Though specified in the treaty of Tientsin (1858) as a river port to be opened to foreign trade, little has come of this concession. Pop. estimated 270,000.
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a city of China in the province of Kwangsi. It is an impor. tant trading station and has a number of important educational and commercial establishments. Pop. about 37,000.
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or NANOSAUR, a fossil lizard-like animal belonging to the fossil lizard-like animal belonging to the America, and about the size of a cat.
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EDICT OF. See EDICT OF
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a borough in Luzerne river, and co., Pa.; on the Susquehanna Central of New on the Lackawanna, the railroads; Jersey and the Pennsylvania of Wilkes-Barre. It has 8 miles S. W. mills daily and weekly newspapers, silk , coal mines. canning factory, and several . Pop. (1910) 18,877; (1920) 22,614 island, county,
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an town, and county-seat of Massachusetts; Massachusetts; coast of Cape Cod, 30 miles from off the island is about 15 the mainland. The wide; is miles long by 3 to 4 miles several triangular in shape; and with has an area of small adjacent islands most popuabout 60 square miles. The town is on the N. lous part of the about 56 miles E. shore of the island, contains the Nanof New Bedford. It school tucket Athenæum Library, a high , School, water- Libra Coffin's Manual Training gas works, National and savings banks, newsand electric lights, and weekly papers. In summer a daily line of steamboats connects the island with New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and and Wood's Hole. The equable climate dry soil of the island make it very healthful, and a favorite summer resort. Pop. (1910) 2,962; (1920) 2,797. market-town of
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a Cheshire, England, on the Weaver, 4 has some miles S. W. of Crewe. It quaint old timber houses; a fine crucicentral form parish church, with a octagonal tower, 110 feet high; a 1858); a market hall Gothic town hall ( school (1611); and (1867); a grammar brine baths (1883). Boot and shoe making and the manufacture of clothing, cotton goods and iron ware are the prin- , cipal industries. A great fire (1583) Lord and its siege by the royalists under Byron (1644) are the chief events in the history of Nantwich. Pop. about 3,000.
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ROMULO S., Argentine Am- States. Born in passador to the United Buenos Aires 1875; graduated from the University of Buenos Aires and later was institua member of the faculty of that tion. In 1902 he was elected a representative to the Congress of Argentina Minand in 1908 accepted the post of ister of Justice and Public Instruction. In 1911 he was sent as envoy to the United States, and when the legation became an embassy in 1914 he was the 1914, when the first ambassador. In difficulties between Mexico and the United States seemed likely to produce war between the two countries, Naon along with the Brazilian and Chilean NAPHTHALENE ambassadors offered their mediation Niagara which was accepted and the Falls Conference resulted. The Conpassed a vote gress of the United States his services as of thanks to Naon for He has been prominent in mediator. the work of the Pan-American Union political and is the author of works on law. science and constitutional
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