These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Nivelles, Noah, Noailles.
a town of Belgium; province of Brabant; on the Thines river; 19 miles S. of Brussels. Its fine Romanesque church (1045) contains the relics of Pepin's daughter, St. Gertrude. In 1381 the townsfolk of Ghent were defeated here by Count Louis of Flanders, and 6,000 burned in a monastery. Has manufactures of linen, cotton, and lace. Pop. about 13,000.
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LEWIS, an American shipbuilder; born in Leesburg, Va., April 7, 1861; was graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1882; sent to the British Royal Naval College, by the Navy Department; and was transferred to the construction corps of the navy in 1884. In 1890 he designed the battleships "Oregon," "Indiana," and "Massachusetts." He resigned from the navy to become superintendent of Cramps' shipyard, Philadelphia , Pa., and in 1895 he founded the Crescent shipyard, in Elizabeth, N. J., where in six years he built over 100 vessels, among them the submarine torpedo boat "Holland," the monitor "Florida," and the cruiser "Chattanooga." In 1898 he was appointed president of the East River Bridge Commission of New York. Succeeded Richard Croker as leader of Tammany Hall, 1901-1902. Commissioner Public Works for Borough of Richmond, New York City (1914); State Commissioner Public Works (1919); afterward Commissioner Public Service, New York City; author "Canal Tolls and American Shipping."
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a name applied to outlying districts in various countries, especially at one time to what now corresponds mainly to Griqualand East; also to a territory of 80,000 square miles in South Australia; to a strip ceded by Texas to the United States in 1850, for many years without any government, now constituting Beaver co., Okla.; to a small island 3 miles S. W. of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; and to a strip of land bordering on Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, still in dispute. Used in the World War, 1914-1918, to describe the ground between the German and the Allies front lines.
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one of the alkaloids of opium, and the first base extracted from that substance, discovered by Derosne in 1803. It forms lustrous rhombic prisms, which melt at 170°, and decompose at 220°. Insoluble in water and alkalies, but soluble in alcohol and ether. It is less poisonous than morphine, and its salts are very unstable.
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the tenth male in descent from Adam, in the line of Seth; was the son of Lamech and the grandson of Methuselah. According to the Scriptural story he received the divine command to build an ark in which he and his family escaped the Deluge (Gen. v: 29-ix: 29).
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a French family which dates from the 11th century, and played an important part in history from the reign of Louis XIV. to the Revolution. Antoine (1504-1562) was ambassador in England in 1553-1556, and Admiral of France. Anne Jules (1650-1708), son of the first duke, commanded against the Huguenots and in Spain during the war of the Spanish succession, and was made marshal; while his brother, Louis Antoine (1651-1729), was Archbishop of Paris from 1695 till his death, and was made cardinal in 1700. The third duke, Adrien Maurice (1678-1766), won the marshal's baton in the wars of Louis XV. in Spain, Italy, and Germany. The fifth duke, Paul François (1739-1824), attained eminence as a chemist and was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1777; his brother, Emmanuel Marie Louis (1743-1822), was French ambassador at Amsterdam (1770-1776), London (1776-1783), and Vienna (1783- 1792). The sixth duke, Paul (1802- 1885), wrote historical works, and was elected to Chateaubriand's chair in the Academy in 1849. His second son Emmanuel Victorien (born 1830), was ambassador at Washington (1872), Rome (1873), and Constantinople (1882-1886), and wrote works on the history and literature of Poland. A grandson of the third duke, Louis Marie (1756-1804), served in the American Revolutionary War under his brother-in-law Lafayette, embraced for a while the French Revolution, and defended San Domingo against the British.
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ALFRED BERNHARD, a Swedish chemist and physicist; born in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 21, 1833. His father, Emmanuel Nobel, originally an architect, and appointed a professor of ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL geometry at the age of 26, became interested in explosives, and founded extensive engineering and shipbuilding works at St. Petersburg, Russia; in 1859 he left these in charge of his second son, Louis, and, with the rest of his family returned to Stockholm where he founded the Noble firm engaged in the manufacture of explosives. In 1863 Alfred took out a patent for the manufacture of an explosive composed of nitroglycerin and ordinary blasting powder, and in 1864 a second patent. In 1867 he invented dynamite; in 1876 gelatinous nitroglycerin; in 1889 ballistite, which led the way to the invention of smokeless powder. The Nobel firm in 1886-1896 employed constantly 12,000 persons in the manufacture of dynamite alone, and in 25 years the firm never had a strike. Alfred invented also artificial gutta-percha; manufactured cannon, and, with his brother, Louis, developed the petroleum deposits at Baku, in the Caucasus. He subscribed half the sum for fitting out the ill-fated Andrée balloon expedition. He lived for a long time in Paris, but had a villa and laboratory at San Remo, Italy, where he died Dec. 10, 1896.
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EUGENE ALLEN, American educator; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1865; graduated from Wesleyan University, 1891; studied theology in Garrett Biblical Institute, in Illinois; ordained Methodist Episcopal minister, in Bridgeport, Conn., where he remained till 1895; head master of Centenary Collegiate Institute, Hackettstown, N. J., from 1902 to 1908; president Goucher College, Baltimore, Md., from 1908 to 1911; president Dickinson College, Pa., from 1911. Has contributed to many magazines on educational subjects. rsects
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in zoölogy, a genus of Polythalamia or multilocular foraminifera. The additional segments, each of which is essentially similar to a Lagena, are added to to the primordial chamber in a straight line. The ornamentation is various, chiefly thin ribs and delicate points. Range in time from the Permian to the present day .
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MICHITSURA, COUNT, Japanese soldier; born at Satzuma, in 1840. He fought in the rebellion of 1877 and was honored by the emperor. He became General in 1894 and led the Japanese forces at Ping-Yang in the China war. During the war between Japan and Russia he had a responsible part in several campaigns, and contributed to the defeat of the Russian forces in the battle of Mukden. In home politics he labored in the development of an educational system and was for some years inspector-general of education . After the war with Russia he was made field-marshal. He died in 1908.
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