These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Narragansett Pier, Narragansetts, Narva.
a summer resort in Washington co., R. I., on W. shore of Narragansett Bay; 7 miles S. W. of Newport. It has an excellent beach, and a number of large hotels and handsome residences. The facilities for fishing and boating are excellent, and there are some notably fine drives amid charming scenery. At a distance of 3 miles are Narragansett Heights, 400 feet above the bay. The Pier has regular steamboat connection with Providence.
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a tribe of North American Indians which, in the early history of the United States, occupied the part of Rhode Island W. of Narragansett Bay. They were nearly destroyed during King Philip's war. TO
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a town of Russia; 101 miles W. S. W. of Petrograd, on the Narova, 10 miles from its mouth in the Gulf of Finland. The navigation of the Narova is impeded by a waterfall near Narva, 14 feet high, which is taken advantage of for driving cotton mills, sawmills, etc. Charles XII. won a great victory here in 1700.
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Petroleum V. See Locke ; David Ross
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a parish of Northamptonshire, England, 7 miles S. W. of Market- Harborough. Here, on June 14, 1645, 7,500 royalists under Charles I. and Prince Rupert were totally defeated by 14,000 parliamentarians under Fairfax and Cromwell, the king losing cannon, baggage, and 5,000 prisoners. An obelisk was erected in 1823 on the Naseby ridge (648 feet).
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RICHARD, called BEAU
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an English leader of fashion; born in Swansea, Wales, Oct. 18, 1674. He was the son of an impoverished Welsh gentleman and was educated at Carmarthen and Oxford; held for some time a commission in the army, and next entered at the Middle Temple, but found greater attractions in the dissipations of society than the pursuits of law. He made a shifty living by gambling, but in 1704 he found his true function as master of ceremonies at Bath, where he conducted the public balls with a splendor and decency never before witnessed. He died in poverty, Feb. 3, 1761.
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THOMAS, an English satirist folk, England, in 1567. He graduated at Cambridge in 1584, but was afterward expelled for satirizing the authorities. In conjunction with Marlowe he wrote a drama, "Dido, Queen of Carthage," and in 1592 produced a comedy of his own, "Summer's Last Will and Testament," which was acted before Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1600 or 1601.
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a city and one of the bunty-seats of Hillsboro co., N. H.; on the Nashua river and on the Boston and Maine railroad; 35 miles S. of Concord. It contains a public library, several public institutions, several daily papers, electric lights, electric street railroads, waterworks, and National and savings banks. It has manufactories of edge tools, iron and steel, engines, shoes, bob bins and shuttles, locks, cotton goods, furniture, carpets, etc. Pop. (1910) 26,005; (1920) 28,379.
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the capital of Tennessee. It is situated on the southern bank of the Cumberland, near the center of the state. In size it is the second city of the state. It is located in the midst of pleasing hills in a region noted for fruit and general farming. The average rainfall is about forty-nine inches. An abundance of timber and coal in the surrounding region has made Nashville a manufacturing city of importance. Wagons, carriages, stoves, clothing, harness, saddles, shoes, flour, and soap enter into an annual output of $20,000,000. The city is noted as an educational center. Vanderbilt University has been liberally endowed by the Vanderbilt family. The University of Nashville, the Peabody School for Teachers, Roger Williams University, and other institutions are located here. The city maintains an efficient system of graded and high schools. Nashville was settled in 1780. It was named at first Nashborough, in honor of Governor Nash of North Carolina . The name was changed four years later. The city was made the capital of the state in 1843. During the Civil War the battle of Nashville was fought in the immediate vicinity. After Sherman had set out on his "march to the sea," General Hood, the Confederate commander, conceived the plan of marching northward, with a view to the invasion of Ohio. He was met at Nashville by General Thomas. After severe fighting, Hood was repulsed and his army was broken up. Population (1910), 106,476. See Tennessee
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BATTLE OF, a desperate battle fought near Nashville , Tenn., Dec. 15-16, 1864. In November of that year, Atlanta having been taken, the Confederate General Hood invaded Tennessee. On Nov. 30, he advanced against Nashville, where he shut up a National force under General Thomas for two weeks. The latter then sallied out and in a terrible conflict of two days defeated the Confederates. The Union loss was 400 killed and 1,740 wounded; the total Confederate loss was estimated at 15,000.
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a town of Bombay, British India, on the Godavari, 31 miles from its source, and 100 miles N. E. of Bombay. It ranks as one of the most sacred of Hindu places of pilgrimage, the banks and even the bed of the river being crowded with temples and shrines. Formerly it was a Mahratta capital; now it manufactures paper, cotton, and excellent brass and copper work. Pop. about 35,000.
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FORT, an old fort on the Islands and the center of the trade and seat of government of the BAHAMA ISLANDS (q. v.), and a bishop's see. Pop. about 12,000.
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FORT, an old fort on the Delaware river, near the site of the present city of Gloucester, N. J., memorable as the first settlement on the shores of the Delaware, and built by Capt. Jacobus May, in 1631 .
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formerly a German duchy, now a district of the Prussian province of HESSE-NASSAU (q. v.). The soil is fertile and produces some of the most esteemed Rhenish wines. The chief towns are WIESBADEN (q. v.), the capital of the district ; Schwalbach, Schlangenbad, Fachingen , Selters, and Geilnau. The family of Nassau, the elder branch of which reigned till 1866, dates from the 10th century . The younger branch inherited in 1544 the principality of ORANGE (q.v.), and as the princes of Orange took an important pla ropean history (see HOLLAND ). The reigning Duke of Nassau sided against Prussia in 1866 , and his duchy was incorporated with Prussia (see PRUSSIA: corpo GERMANY); and on the extraction of the male line of the Orange branch by the death of William III. of Holland, in 1890, the Duke of Nassau became Grand- Duke of Luxemburg. place in Eu-
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