These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Nogales, Nogi, Noguchi.
a town of Arizona, the county-seat of Santa Cruz co. It is on the Southern Pacific railroad. Its industries include cigar fad factories, mining machinery works, etc. Its public buildings include a town hall, county court house, and the ruins of the Tumacacori, built about 1687. The town is separated from the Mexican town of the same name by only a street. Pop. (1910) 3,514; (1920) 5,199.
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a town of France, department of Eure-et-Loir; on the Huisne river; 93 miles S. W. of GENERAL NOGI Paris; is a well-built place, with the ruined château of the great Sully, his violated sepulcher, and a statue of General Saint-Pol, who fell before Sebastopol. fights, on Nov. 21, 1870, and Jan. 6, 1871. Pop. about 8,000 . The Germans here won two
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MARESUKE, COUNT, Japanese soldier; born at Hagi, Choshin , in 1849. He fought in the civil war of 1877 and distinguished himself at Kinchow in the China-Japanese war. During the war with Russia he commanded a division at first, and organized the attack on Port Arthur, which resulted in its seizure by the 3d Army after numerous bloody battles on its slopes. He has also been credited with the victory over the Russian forces at Mukden, which yielded when Nogi came upon them in the rear. He was an old-fashioned type of Japanese statesman and on the death of the emperor he and his wife committed hara-kiri. He died in 1912.
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HIDEYO, Japanese_physician; born in Inawashiro, Yama, Fukushima, in 1876. He was educated in the public schools of Japan, and was taught French, English, German, and Chinese under private tutors. He graduated from Tokyo Medical College in 1897, and studied at the University of Pennsylvania 1901-1903, later studying a year at the Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen. In 1904 he became connected with the Rockefeller Institute, New York. He has brought about the cultivation of syphilitic organisms, demonstrated treponema pallidum in paresis and locomotor ataxia, instituted the skin test for syphilis, and has made similar contributions to medical science.
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a village of France, commercial houses, etc. 5 miles E. of Metz, where, on Aug. 31- (1910) 2,600; (1914) 2,600; (1920) 852. Sept. 1, 1870, Bazaine attacked the German besiegers of Metz with 120,000 men and 600 guns. He had some success on the first day, against the 41,000 men and 138 guns commanded by Manteuffel; but on the second day gave up the attempt to break through the German line, which had been reinforced during the night by 30,000 men and 162 guns.
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an episcopal city of Italy; 16 miles E. N. E. of Naples; is built on the site of one of the oldest cities of Campania, founded by the Ausonians, and taken by the Romans in the Samnite War, 313 b. c. Augustus died here A. D. 14. Pop. about 14,000.
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a roaming or wandering shepherd; one who leads a wandering life, and subsists by tending herds of cattle which graze on herbage of spontaneous growth. In history, nomads, or nomades, are tribes of men without fixed habitation. The principal nomadic tribes of antiquity were those of southern Russia and the interior of Asia, from whom sprang, in the decline of the Roman empire, many of the tribes which overran western Europe, and, at a later era, those which conquered empires in west- 476 NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER ern and southern Asia. The vast regions of Mongolia are inhabited by nations which still retain their wandering habits.
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A name given to people who had no fixed habitation, and who continually changed their place of residence in quest of fresh pastures for the cattle they tended. There were Nomades in Scythia, India , Arabia , etc. The word is in constant use as Anglicized-Nomad-meaning anyone who leads a wandering and unsettled life. Nomius (The Pasturer). A surname of divinities protecting the pastures and shepherds, such as Apollo , Pan, Hermes (Mercury), and Aristaeus .
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a city in Alaska, situated on the Seward peninsula, and on the shore of Norton Sound. In July, 1899, gold was discovered on the beach at Nome and a rush of settlers followed. The maximum of gold ever found in the district was in 1906, when $7,500,000 was discovered. Since that time the output has steadily decreased in value. The city's location exposes it to severe storms from the Sound, which caused severe distress in the early days of temporary dwellings. Nome is the judicial center 'of Seward Peninsula and has a court house, Pop.
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THE, a soldier whose rank is between private and commissioned officer. In the United States a noncommissioned officer is an enlisted man accepted for 7 years, and receives appointment from his superior officer. An officer is commissioned by the President and the Senate must confirm the appointment. Noncommissioned officers in the United States Army are: 1.-Sergeant major, regimental, and sergeant major, senior grade, coast artillery corps; master electrician, quartermaster's department, and master electrician, coast artillery corps, master signaler, chief musician, engineer, coast artillery patrol. 2.- Ordnance sergeant, quartermaster sergeant, quartermaster corps, sergeant 1st class, quartermaster corps, 1st class, signal service. 3.- Quartermaster sergeant and commissary Quartermaster sergeant, regimental; electrician sergeant, 2d class, coast artillery corps; master gunner, coast artillery corps. 4. - Sergeant major, squadron and battalion; sergeant major, junior grade, coast artillery; color sergeant; battalion quartermaster sergeant, engineer and field artillery. 5. - First sergeant; drum major, chief musician; chief trumpeter; foreman, coast artillery company. 6.- Sergeant; quartermaster sergeant, company; staff sergeant. 7.- Corporal. Noncommissioned officers being called on to serve in more responsible position in emergencies, only the most intelligent are selected. In the United States army every year a number are enabled to obtain commissions.
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in English history, those who declined to conform their worship to that by law established. They were of two kinds: First, those who, being religious, worshipped nowhere; second, those who attended the services of some other religious denomination than the Established Church. The name was first applied to those who declined to conform to the enactment of the Act of Uniformity of Edward VI., passed in 1549. It was revived and applied to the 2,000 clergymen, who had to surrender their livings on account of their inability to conform to the more celebrated Act of Uniformity of Charles II., first enforced on Aug Aug. 24, 1662. Etymologically viewed, a Dissenter and a Conformist somewhat differ. The former word denotes that he feels differently from Churchmen, that his sympathies go in a different direction; the latter word refers, not to his feelings, but to his action with respect to public worship.
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