These 19 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Ommiades, Omnibus Bill, Omri.
a dynasty founded in Arabia by Moawiyah, in 655 or 661. Merwan II., the 14th and last caliph of this race, was slain in a mosque on the banks of the Nile, Feb. 10, 750, when the Abbassides assumed the reins of power. Abderrahman, the only member of the Ommiades who escaped the massacre at Damascus, founded a caliphate in Spain, in 755. Eighteen caliphs reigned, Hinem III., who resigned in 1031, being the last.
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a general of the army of Elah, King of Israel, who, being at the siege of Gibbethon, and hearing that his master Elah was assassinated by Zimri, who had usurped his kingdom, raised the siege, and being elected king by his army, marched against Zimri, attacked him at Tirzah, and forced him to burn himself Tirzan, and all his family in the palace in which he had shut himself up. After his death, half of Israel acknowledged Omri for king; the other half adhered to Tibni, son of Ginath, which division continued four years. When Tibni was dead, the people united in acknowledging Omri as King of all Israel, and he reigned 12 years. Omri built the city of Samaria, which became the capital of the kingdom of the 12 tribes.
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chief town of the former Russian province of Akmolinsk, at the confluence of the Om with the Irtish, 1,800 miles E. of Moscow. It was built in 1716 as a defense against the Kirghiz; but is now of no importance as a fortress. It is the seat of administration for the Steppe provinces of Western Asia. The trade is in cattle, hides, furs, and tea. Pop. 135,800.
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Godfrey William de Leibnitz, Phil. Trans., London, 1675. A new invention of a Clock descending on an Inclined Plane. M. de Gennes,
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E J. Dent. 8vo, London, 1842. Traite d'Horlogerie. Louis Moinet, Paris, 1843.
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FRANK SCOVILL, American educator; born in Mission Valley, Texas, in 1871. After studying at Southwestern University, he entered the Methodist Episcopal Church as minister, in 1892, and served as missionary in Mexico. From 1907 to 1914 he was missionary at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and from 1914 was superintendent of the Mexican, Italian and Bohemian missions to Texas.
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a river in Russia, which, issuing from Lake Latcha, government of Olonetz, flows first N. E., then N. W., and after a course of about 270 miles, falls into the White Sea at the S. E. extremity of the Gulf of Onega.
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LAKE, in the N. of Russia, after Ladoga, to the N. E. of which it lies, the largest lake in Europe; 50 miles in greatest breadth, 146 miles in length, and 1,000 feet in depth in parts; area 3,764 square miles. It is fed by numerous rivers; but its only outlet is the river Swir, which flows S. W. into Lake Ladoga. The N. end is studded with islands and deeply indented with bays. The shores in other parts are flat and low and regular. Though the water is ice bound generally for 156 days in the year, the lake is the scene of busy traffic in other seasons. Communication is promoted by a canal cut parallel to the S. shore. Fish abound. Mirages are fre quent at times. Surveys were completed in 1890 for a canal 145 miles long to connect Lake Onega with the White Sea.
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a lake occupying portions of Oneida, Madison, Onondaga, and Oswego cos., N. Y. It covers an area of about 100 miles, abounds in fish of an excellent quality, receives many small streams, and empties its surplus waters into the Osage river by Oneida river.
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a town in Madison co., N. Y.; on Oneida creek, and on the New York, Ontario, and Western, the New York Central and Hudson River railroads; 26 miles E. of Syracuse. Here are a high school, waterworks, street railroad system, electric light plant, National and State banks, and several weekly newspapers. The town has a number of flouring mills, planing mill, steam knitting mill, foundry and manufactories of steam engines, and carriages. Pop. (1910) 8,317; (1920) 10,541.
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a religious known as communistic society, otherwise PERFECTIONIST (q. v.). North American In-
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dian tribe inhabiting Central New York. A remnant in Wisconsin are well advanced in civilization.
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a village in Otsego co., N. Y.; on the Susquehanna river, and on the Delaware and Hudson and other railroads: 60 miles N. E. of Binghamton. It contains a State Normal School, a State Armory, public library, National banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. It has shirt factories, piano, sash and door factories, cigar, grain' grain elevators, knitting mill, foundries, and the machine shops of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, and an assessed valuation of over $2,000,000. Pop (1910) 9,491; (1920) 11,582.
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in botany, horticulture, etc., allium cepa, and the genus Allium. The onion has been cultivated from a very early age (Num. xi: 51). A variety of it is called the potato, or underground onion. It multiplies in bulbs below the ground.
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OLIVER, an English novelist; born in 1876. Trained in the Royal School of Art and began his literary work in Paris, writing for a students' periodical. In addition to his writing, he has carried on his art work, doing mostly war pictures, posters and drawknown ings for advertisements. His best- " Doubt Devil "Little are: novels (1909); "In Accordance With the Evidence" (1912); "The Debit Account" (1913); "The Story of Louie" (1913); "Mushroom "Mush Town" (1915).
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or ONOMATOPEIA, name-making; the formation of words in imitation of the sounds made by the things signified; as, buzz, hiss, peewit, etc.
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LAKE, a small lake in Central New York, near Syracuse; out let, Seneca river.
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a tribe of North American Indians living chiefly in New York. At one time they laid claim to all the country from Onondaga Lake to Lake Ontario on the N., and to the Susquehanna river on the S. At the close of the Revolutionary War some settled on Grand river, Ontario, and the remainder in New York. The total number in Canada and New York State is at present about 900.
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