These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Nikalgen, Nike, Nikisch.
a local anæsthetic, discovered in 1916 by Gordon Edwards of San Francisco, Cal. It consists of a mixture of quinine, hydrochloric acid, and urea, and was largely used during the war by the Allies. It is applied by means of an atomizer in the form of a fine spray.
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in Greek mythology, the goddess of victory (Latin, Victoria). She was rewarded by Zeus with the permission to live in Olympus, for the readiness with which she came to his assistance in the war with the Titans. There was a temple to her on the Acropolis of Athens. She is usually represented with wings, and frequently bearing a palm branch and wreath.
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ARTHUR, a Hungarian musical conductor; born in Hungary in 1855 and educated at the Vienna Conservatory. He conducted for the first time in the Leipsic Theater, doing so without a score. In 1889 he accepted the position as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he remained until his return to Hungary in 1893. He then succeeded Reinecke as the conductor of the Gewandhaus concerts of Leipsic. From 1902 on he appeared nearly every year in London as conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlin. His last appearance in the United States was in 1912, when he made a tour as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
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a town of Japan in the prefecture of Tochigi. It is famous as containing the tombs of several of the ancient kings. It is regarded as a holy place and is visited annually by thousands of pilgrims.
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a city of Michigan in Berrien co., 92 miles E. of Chicago on the St. Joseph river and on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis and the Michigan Central railroads. It has extensive manufacturing interests, including paper, furniture, steel products, farm tractors, flour, etc. It has a public library. Pop. (1910) 5,456; (1920) 7,311.
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a city of Ohio in Trumbull co., 58 miles S. E. of Cleveland. It is situated on the Mahoning river and on the Erie, the Pennsylvania, and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads. It is an important manufacturing center and produces sheet steel products, automatic presses, boilers, steam and electric cars, foundry and blast furnace products, mine and mill supplies, etc. There is a public library. The city is the birthplace of President McKinley, and a handsome monument has been erected to his memory. Pop. (1910), 8,361; (1920), 13,080.
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CHRISTINE, a Swedish operatic singer; born in Wexiö, Sweden, in 1843; was educated in Sweden and France; made her début at Paris in "La Traviata" in 1864; and in London, where she appeared in 1867, soon took rank as one of the foremost soprano singers. She repeatedly visited the United States. She married (1872) M. Rouzand (who died in 1882), and in 1887 Count de Miranda, when she retired.
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a game with nine pins or pieces of wood set on end, at which a ball is rolled for throwing them down.
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an American shrub of the rose family. It is related closely to the meadowsweet and the steeple-bush. The name is derived from the layers and shreds into which the old bark separates, giving the stem a ragged appearance. The leaves are palmate. The flowers are white. The purple pods are conspicuous and ornamental. The nine-bark adapts itself readily to lawns.
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a treaty-port of China; province of Che-keang; stands in a fertile plain; 16 miles from the mouth of the Takia (Ning-po) river, and about 100 miles S. of Shanghai. It is surrounded by a wall 25 feet high and 16 feet thick, and contains numerous temples, colleges, etc., chief among them the temple of the Queen Heaven, founded in the 12th century, but the present building, elaborately and richly ornamented, dates from 1680. The inhabitants make sedge hats and mats, grow cotton, catch cuttle fish, and carry on an active trade, especially in the export of silk goods, raw cotton, and green tea. Pop. about 670,000.
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A son of Belus . He built Nineveh and founded the Assyrian monarchy, of which he was the first sovereign, B. C. 2059. He married Semiramis , whose husband had destroyed himself through fear of Ninus. He reigned fifty-two years. 2026 Editor's Note: Semiramis , the legendary queen who married Ninus, is widely believed to be based on the historical Assyrian regent Shammuramat, who ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire for five years and stabilized it after a destructive civil war. The name Shamiram, derived from Semiramis, remains a common given name for girls among modern Armenians and Assyrians. (Ed: BR 2026-07-10)
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the capital of the French department of Deux-Sèvres; on the Sèvre- Niortaise river; 43 miles N. E. of La Rochelle and 109 S. W. of Tours. An important railway junction, it has an old castle, a city hall (1530), a fine public garden, and the 16th-century church of Notre Dame, with a spire 246 feet high. The dressing of leather and the manufacture of gloves are the leading industries. Niort in the 14th century was held for 18 years by the English. It was the birthplace of Madame de Maintenon. Pop. about 23,000.
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a lake in the province of Ontario, Canada; 30 miles N. W. of Lake Superior, with which it is connected by the Nipigon river; is about 70 miles long, but its deeply indented coast line measures 580 miles; greatest depth 540 feet. The lake is studded with hundreds of islands.
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a lake in the province of Ontario, Canada; N. E. of Lake Huron, into which (Georgian Bay) it drains through French river (55 miles); is about 50 by 28 miles.
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town in Yaracuy, Venezuela, 40 miles S. W. of Valencia. Region is fertile, coffee, sugar, tobacco, cocoa being abundant. Considerable cattle breeding, and some mining. Pop. about 11,000.
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nir-va'na, in Buddhist philosophy, the ultimate state or condition into which the soul enters after it has been perfected by the long processes of metempsychosis or transmigration. Karma is the active earthly life of struggle, and may continue for thousands of years, but at the end of Karma is "Nirvana the Blest." The word Nirvana means a blowing out, and the Buddhist conception seems to be of a condition equivalent to extinction. It is "freedom from the pang of earthly existence."
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