These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Oahu, Oajaca, Oak Park.
EDITH COUES (MRS. NELSON O'SHAUGHNESSY), an American writer, born in Columbia, S. C. She was educated privately and married Nelson O'Shaughnessy in 1901. She wrote "A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico" (1916); "Diplomatic Days in Mexico" (1917). During the war she was engaged in relief work in France.
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ARTHUR WIL- LIAM EDGAR, an English poet; born in 1844. In 1864 he entered the British Museum. He was a follower of Morris and Swinburne and of the French romantic school. He published between 1870 and 1881: "An Epic of Women"; "Lays of France," a free paraphrase of the lais of Marie de France; "Music and Moonlight"; and "Songs of a Worker." He died in 1881.
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NELSON, American diplomat, born in New York an in 1876. Graduated Georgetown College in 1892, and afterward studied at Oxford University. After making a study of international law and foreign languages in Europe, he returned to the United States. He was appointed secretary of the legation of Copenhagen in 1904, and served in this position and many other legations in Europe and America. In Affaires in Mexico, continuing during the 1913 he was Chargé de period of General Huerta's rule in that country. In 1914 he was appointed special diplomatic agent at Vienna and was first secretary of the Embassy of Rio de Janeiro, in 1915. In the following year he retired from diplomatic serwork in France during the World War. vice. He took an active part in war
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MICHAEL VINCENT, an American educator and author. He was born at Le Roy, N. Y., in 1866, studied at Cornell, where he graduated in 1892, immediately entering the State Normal School at Mankato, Minn., as instructor. Later he taught at Buffalo Teachers' College and the University of Wisconsin, at the same time editing journals connected with education, and presiding over the Society of College Teachers. His works include: "Aspects of Mental Economy"; "Education as Adjustment"; "Method and Management in Teaching"; "Dynamic Factors in Education"; "Social Development and Education"; and "Health and Cleanliness."
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one of the Hawaiian Islands, between Molokai and Kawai, the most important island of the archipelago, on which is the capital Honolulu; length 37 miles; greatest breadth 25 miles; area, 600 square miles. It is crossed by two mountain chains running parallel N. W. to S. E., between which is a large dry plain now only useful as pasture land; formerly, when irrigated, more fertile. Highest point Kaala, altitude 3,890 feet.
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or OAXACA (wä-hä'kä), a mountainous state in the S. of Mexico, bordering on the Pacific: area 35,382 O square miles; pop. about 1,100,000. The capital, Oajaca, lies 5,060 feet above the sea, in the fertile valley of the Atoyac. It contains a large cathedral (1729), a quaint bishop's palace, lace, the Seminario Tridentino, and the State Institute, with 34 4 professors. professors. The manufactures are chiefly chocolate, cotton goods, cigars, candles, and soap. Pop. about 35,000.
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a village of Illinois, in Cook co., 9 miles W. of Chicago. It is situated on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. It is a residential suburb of Chicago and contains the Scoville Institute and several other important public buildings. Pop. (1910) 19,444; (1920) 39,858.
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a city and county-seat of Alameda co., Cal.; on San Francisco Bay, and on the Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, and other railroads; 7 miles E. of San Francisco. The city is laid out on a fine slope of ground, overlooking the bay. It received its name from a grove of beautiful evergreen oaks in which it was first settled. Its favorable location has made it the residence of many wealthy families, whose business interests are in San Francisco. It contains a high school, a convent, a private normal school, several academies, a business college, library, St. Mary's College, and other educational institutions, a handsome theater, municipal buildings, Auditorium, parks, hospitals, schools, electric street railroads, and National, State and savings banks. It is the trade center of a large and fertile fruit-grow- 502 flour, pottery, brass goods, leather, canning and fruit-packing, shipbuilding, metallurgical works, cordage and jute, and smelting. The assessed valuation exceeds $250,000,000. Pop. (1910) 150,- 174; (1920) 216,361.
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VIOLET, American painter and designer; born in New York, 1874. Studied at Art Students' League, Penn. Academy of Fine Arts, and in Paris under Aman Jean, Collin, and Lazar. First important work was painting 13 panels, illustrating "Founding of the State of Spiritual Liberty," for the Governor's reception room, State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pa. Decorated the churches All Souls and All Saints, New York, the Pennsylvania Academy, and many private residences. Awarded gold medal St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Medal of Honor Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915.
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a material used between the edges of plank to make the seams watertight. It is made of old hemp ropes well tarred. Picking oakum is a monotonous job in shipyards.
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fertile spots in a desert, due to the presence of wells or of underground water supplies. The best known and most historically famous are those of the Libyan Desert and the Sahara; they occur also in the deserts of Arabia and Persia, and in the Gobi. The French have created many oases in the Algerian deserts by sinking ARTESIAN WELLS (q. ข.). The chief vegetation of the African oases is palms-especially date and doom palms; with barley, rice, and millet, when the fertile area is large enough to admit of settled occupation. In the Libyan Desert are the oases of Síwa (where was the temple of Jupiter Ammon); in the N., Farafa, Bahriya, and Khargeh (the oasis magna, 120 miles W. of Thebes). In the western Sahara, Tuat, 1,000 miles S. W. of Tripoli, is the best known; in the eastern Sahara are Fezzan, Gadames, Bilma and Air or Asben. See DESERT.
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or OATS (Avena), a genus of edible grasses cultivated extensively in all temperate climates, and though principally grown as food for horses largely used as human food. There are about 60 species, the principal of which are A. satīva (the common oat), A. nuda (naked oat, pilcorn, or peelcorn), A. orientalis (Tartarian or Hungarian oat), A. brevis (short oat), A. strigosa (bristle-pointed oat). A. chinensis (Chinese oat), etc. The weight per bushel varies from 32 lbs. ing region. The city has industries in (U. S.) to 40 lbs. (Europe); the meal is about half the weight of the oats. The wild oat (A. fatua) is supposed to be the original of all the species, but its native country is unknown. In the calendar year 1918 the oat crop of the United States aggregated 1,538,359,000 bushels. See OATMEAL.
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