These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Nueva Ecija, Nueva Esparta, Nueva Vizcaya.
province of Luzon, Philippine Islands. Is mountainous, with dense woods, fertile, producing rice, tobacco, sugar, palay and coffee. Cattle raising is the principal industry. Watered by rivers tributary to the Pampanga, on which steamers ply. Capital, San Isidro. Pop. about 150,000.
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state of Vene zuela, of which the Caribbean island, Margarita, and other islands were constituted in 1901, though since 1904 forms part of Federal district. Consists of two mountainous portions, united by low isthmus. Interior produces maize, sugar, bananas, cotton. Salt and fishing active. Capital, Asunción. Pop. 50,000.
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central province of northern Luzon, Philippine Islands. Valley fertile in rice and tobacco, while raised in the domestic animals are mountainous districts. Tributaries of the Rio Grande de Cagayan water valleys, and there is considerable boat traffic. Pop. about 150,000.
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JOHN F., United States Senator from Idaho; born in 1868 and began the practice of law at Silver City, Idaho, in 1898. He became chairman of the Democratic State Committee in 1912 and was appointed a member of the United States Senate by Governor Alexander on Jan. 22, 1918, to fill out the unexpired term of the late Senator Brady.
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in American politics, the doctrine formerly held by the extreme States' Rights party, of the right of a State to declare a law of Congress unconstitutional and void, and if the Federal government attempted to enforce it, to withdraw from the Union. As an instance, in 1832, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the free trade and States' Rights party in South Carolina, under the leadership of John C. Calhoun, her senator in Congress, asserted the doctrine of nullification in a State convention which declared the tariff acts of that year unconstitutional, and therefore null and void; that the duties should not be paid; and that any attempt on the part of the general government to enforce their payment would cause the withdrawal of South Carolina from the Union and the establishment of an independent government. President Jackson met this declaration with a vigorous proclamation, in which he declared that the laws must be executed, and that "the Union must and shall be preserved." South Carolina, standing alone, receded from her position under protest, and a "Compromise Bill," introduced by Henry Clay in 1833, providing for a gradual reduction of duties, for the time settled the controversy.
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in grammar, that distinctive form given to a word according as it is intended to express or is spoken of one individual or several individuals. In English there are two numbers: the singular, which denotes one, or a single individual; the plural, which is used when two or more individuals are spoken of. In Greek, Sanskrit, and a few other languages, a third number was used, called the dual, when only two individuals are spoken of. In the oldest English a dual number existed in the case of pronouns. In phrenology, the name given by Combe to one of the perceptive faculties, the seat of which is placed by Spurzheim just above the external angle of each eye. It is supposed to give facility in arithmetical operations, and is called the organ of calculation.
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The numbers given to pig iron, as No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, etc., is simply a commercial classification in order to distinguish the various qualities as delivered from the blast-furnaces, indicating to the purchaser the grade or quality of each brand and the purposes for which they are best adapted. No. 1 invariably shows the largest crystals, is soft and bright, and adapted for light castings; No. 2, of the same brand, will be recognized as lighter in color, with smaller crystals, suitable for general work, machinery, etc.; while again, of the same brand we may have a more dense iron, with indications of mottle, which is denominated No. 3; and so on to white iron, a higher number still. See CAST IRON, WHITE IRON, GRAY IRON, MOTTLED IRON. Number of Nails in a Pound.--See NAILS.
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one of the books of the Old Testament. It spans a period of nearly 39 years, commencing with the second year of the wanderings, the second month, and the first day, and terminating in the 40th year. The Jews and NUMIDIA times implicitly believed in the Mosaic authorship of Numbers. Modern rationalists resolve the book into different portions, assigning each to a separate writer.
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the name given by the Romans to a part of the N. coast of Africa, corresponding to some extent with the modern Algiers, and lying between Mauretania and the Roman province of Africa; on the S. it reached to the chains of Mount Atlas. The inhabitants of Numidia, as of Mauretania, belonged to the race from which the modern Berbers are descended. They were a warlike race, and excelled as horsemen, but were protheir tribes the Massyli in the E. and the Massaœsyli in the W. were the most powerful. In the grand struggle betwen the Carthaginians and the Romans they at first fought on the side of the former, hey but subsequently the king of the Eastern Numidians, Massinissa, joined the Romans, and rendered them effectual service in the war with Hannibal. Favored by the conquerors, he united all Numidia under his sway. Of his successors in this kingdom Jugurtha and Juba are the most famous. After the victory of Cæsar over Juba I. in the African war Numidia became a Roman province (46 b. c.); but Augustus afterward gave the W. part, with Mauretania, to Juba II., and the name Numidia became limited to the E. part. For the modern history of Numidia, see ALGIERS.
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a virgin or widow who has consecrated herself to the service of God by the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and bound herself to live in a religious house under a certain rule. The first authentic notice of nuns is that by St. Anthony, who, when retiring from the world, placed his sister in a house of virgins. St. Augustin, of Hippo, and St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, both founded nunneries, and all the great orders of men have orders of women affiliated to them or following their rule as closely as difference of sex will permit. Communities founded since the Council of Trent mostly follow the rule the Christians of early and medieval of St. Augustin, with certain modifications. Also a name given to a variety of pigeon, having its head almost covered with a veil of feathers; a name sometimes given to the smew. Also the blue titmouse. NUNC DIMITTIS ("now thou lettest depart"), the first two words of the Latin version of the canticle of Simeon given in Luke ii: 29-32, and used as the designation of the whole canticle, which forms part of the_evening service in the Book of Common Prayer.
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