These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Orthoptera, Ortyx, Oruro.
in entomology an order of the class Insecta, having four densely reticulated wings, wings, the anterior more or less coriaceous, the posterior folded under them, and membranous; sometimes apterous. In the most typical groups the wings are deflexed and closely applied to the body. Mouth mandibulate, metamorphosis incomplete.
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or ORTLER, a mountain of the Alps, in Tyrol, near the borders of Switzerland and Italy, the highest of the Austrian and German Alps; height, 12,814 feet. The group to which this mountain belongs is known as the Ortler Alps.
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in ornithology, a genus of Perdicinæ; bill short, very high, the tip hooked; lateral toes, unequal; hinder toe, one, confined to America. O. virginianus is the Virginian quail.
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capital of the department of Oruro, in Bolivia; on a saline plain 11,- 960 feet above the sea, near the salt lake of Aullagas, and possesses mines of silver, gold, and tin. Founded in 1606, it had 70,000 inhabitants in the 17th century, pop. about 25,000.
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a city of Italy, province of Perugia; 78 miles N. N. W. of Rome; crowns an isolated tufa rock, which rises 765 feet above the river Pagalia, and 1,327 above sea-level. The cruciform cathedral (1290-1580), one of the most beautiful and richly adorned specimens of Italian Gothic, is built of black and white marble, and measures 295 feet by 109. The interior also is magnificently decorated with sculptures and with paintings by Luca Signorelli, Fra Angelico, etc. The bishop's palace and St. Patrick's Well (1527-1540), with its 250 steps, are also noteworthy. Orvieto, called in the 7th century A. D. Urbs Vetus in the Middle Ages gave shelter to 32 Popes. Pop. (1911) with suburbs, about 20,000.
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in zoölogy, a genus of Bovida; pacities and according to Sir Victor Brooke, typical roads from of the sub - family Oryginæ. Four spe- ed governor cies are known: O. leucoryx, the Leu- wrote " The coryx, from Northeastern and Western Africa; O. gazella, the gemsbok, from a, the beisa an- Southern Africa; O. beisa, the beisa telope, from Eastern Africa, and the coasts of the Red Sea; and O. beatrix, from Arabia. OSAGE ORANGE (Maclura aurantiaca), a tree of the natural order Moraceæ, a native of North America. It attains a height varying, according to soil and situation, from 20 to 60 feet. It is of the same genus with fustic, and its wood, which is bright yellow, probably might be used for dyeing. The wood is fine grained and very elastic, and takes a high polish; it is much used for fenceposts, sleepers, paving-blocks, etc. The tree is largely employed in the United States, especially in the West, as a hedge plant; it has also been introduced into Great Britain for that purpose. Its fruit, about the size of a large orange, is seldom eaten.
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a small thorny tree or shrub of the nettle family, closely allied to the mulberry. The name comes from its native locality and large, orange-like, worthless fruit. It is native to North America , from Kansas to Texas, and has been introduced eastward as far as Massachusetts as a hedge plant. The objections to osage hedges are want of hardiness in the North, and the width of ground impoverished by their extensive roots. In these particular respects wire fences are preferred. The sap contains milky rubber. The wood is fine grained, tough, and elastic. It was much used by the plains Indians for bows. The French trappers called it bois d'arc, or bowwood. Many a buffalo fell before arrows driven by osage orange bows.
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a tribe of North American Indians, about 1,500 in number, living on a reservation in the N. part of the State of Oklahoma. It is said to be the richest community in the world. They own nearly 1,500,000 acres, most of it leased to oil companies.
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LAUGHTON, an American artist and author, born in New York City in 1809. He graduated at Columbia College in 1827. His works include: "Sixty Years of Life" (1831); "Vision of Ru Rubeta" (1838); "Arthur Carryl" 1841; "Travels by Sea and Land" (1868). He died in New York City, Dec. 12, 1878.
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CHASE SALMON, an American public official, born in Huntington co., Ind., in 1860. After studying at Purdue University he entered newspaper work at Lafayette, Ind. In sevfollowing he did newspaper eral work in Chicago Chicaine Milanspare became a newspaper publisher in Florence, Wis., and afterwards purchased and published other newspapers in Michigan. He served in various public cawas commissioner of rail- 1899 to 1903. He was electof Michigan in 1911. He Andean Land " in 1909.
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HERBERT, an American biologist, born at Lafayette, Wis., in 1856. He graduated from Iowa State College in 1879. He served as professor of zoology at that institution from 1885 to 1898. In the latter year he was appointed state entomologist of Iowa. He was director of the Lake Laboratory of Ohio University in 1898 and was director of Ohio Biological Survey in 1912. He was a member of many important American and foreign professional societies. He wrote much on entomology. His most important works are "Economic Zoology" (1908); "Economic Entomology (1916). He also contributed many articles to professional journals.
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HENRY FAIRFIELD, an American scientist and author. He was born in 1857 at Fairfield, Conn., and after graduating at Princeton in 1877, devoted himself to the study of palæontology. In 1881 he became instructor at Princeton in natural science and two years later professor of anatomy, leaving in 1890 to teach zoology at Columbia University. He was twenty years at Columbia, filling the post of dean of natural science part of the time, and that of curator of vertebrate palæontology in the American Museum of Natural History. While engaged in teaching, his research and exploration work widened the field of natural history and his reconstruction of prehistoric mammals drew the attention of scientists all the world over. In 1908 he became president of the board of trustees of the Natural History Museum, and has acted as palæontologist to the geological surveys of the United States and Canada. He was official or president of several societies working in his field, among them the Bison Society, and the Morphological Society. His first published work, which appeared in 1890, was "Evolution then he wrote and Heredity." Since "From the Greeks to Darwin"; "Hereditary Mechanism"; "Evolution of Mammalian malia Molar Teeth"; "The Age of Mammals"; "Huxley and Education"; "Men of the Stone Age."
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