These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Oswego River, Oswego Tea, Oswestry.
FORT, an old French fort, on the site built site of the present city Oswego, N. Y., by Count Frontenac, about 1696. Fort Ontario, however, was built on the opposite side of the Oswego river in 1755, and at once took the precedence. Both forts were the scenes of considerable fighting during the French and Revolutionary Wars, and once in 1814.
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a river in New York formed by the junction of the Seneca and Oneida rivers 12 miles N. W. of Syracuse. It is 24 miles long.
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a name given to several species of Monarda, particularly M. purpurea, M. didyma, and M. kalmiana, natives of North America, because of the occasional use of an infusion of the dried leaves as a beverage, said to be useful in intermittents and as a stomachic. Some other species of Monarda are used in the same way, and the three species named are not uncommonly cultivated in gardens for ornament.
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a thriving market town and municipal borough of Shropshire, England, 18 miles N. W. of Shrewsbury. It has an old parish church, restored in 1872; a fragment of the Norman castle of Walter Fitzalan, progenitor of the royal Stewarts; and a 15th century grammar school. Oswestry derives its name from St. Oswald, who was slain here.
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one of the provincial districts of New Zealand, including the whole of the S. part of South Island, S. of the districts of Canterbury and Westland, being surrounded on the other three sides by the sea; area, about 15,000,000 acres. The interior is mountainous; many peaks attain the height of from 3,000 to 9,000 feet, but there is much pastoral land; the N. E. consists of extensive plains. Otago, though it possesses valuable gold fields, is chiefly a pastoral and agricultural district, second only to Canterbury in wheat production. Coal has been found in abundance. Otago was founded in 1848 by the Scotch Free Church Association; it is now the most populous division of the colony. The capital is Dunedin; the next town in importance is Oamaru. Pop. Otago portion about 135,- 000; Southland portion about 65,000.
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neuralgia of the ear. Its causes and treatment are those of neuralgia generally, but it is particularly caused by caries of the teeth.
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with his barbaric innocence and regal magnificence of soul, must cease to live the moment he ceases to retain faith in the purity and goodness which were to him the highest and most real things upon earth. Or if he live, life must become to him a cruel agony. Shakespeare compels us to acknowledge that self-slaughter is a rapturous energy--that such prolonged agony is joy in comparison with the earthy life-in-death of such a soul as that of Iago. . . . To die as Othello dies is indeed grievous. But to live as Iago lives, devouring the dust and stinging--this is more appalling. . . . Othello dies "upon a kiss." He perceives his own calamitous error, and he recognizes Desdemona pure and loyal as she was. Goodness is justified of her child. It is evil which suffers defeat. It is Iago whose whole existence has been most blind, purposeless and miserable--a struggle against the virtuous powers of the world, by which at last he stands convicted and condemned.--Dowden.
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The Moor of Venice, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, written about 1604, and published first in 1622. The plot is based on a story told by an Italian novelist. It is the simplest of the four great tragedies, of which the other three are Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear . Othello, the Moor, wins the love of Desdemona, daughter of Brabantio, and weds her against her father's wishes. Then Iago, the ancient of Othello, suggests to his master that Desdemona is unfaithful. Othello, as he believes, finds proof that this is true and murders his wife by smothering her in her bed. Then, learning that she is innocent, he stabs himself. The character of Othello is the center of interest in this play. While less interesting as a reading play than the other tragedies mentioned above, Othello has been more popular on the stage. Othello was one of Salvini's greatest roles, which he played at one time with Edwin Booth as Iago.
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KING OF GREECE, 2d son of Louis I., King of Bavaria; born in Salzburg, July 1, 1815. At 17 years of age he was invited by the Greeks to become their monarch, and this proposition being acceded to by the governments of Great Britain, France, and Russia, in a treaty concluded in London in May, Vol. VII-Cyc revolted the Danes vassal,, 1832, Otho was accordingly declared and King of Greece in January, January, , . He was then in June, 1835, on his attaining the age 1833, and engaged for in war with the of 20, he assumed the reins of governdefeated them ment. Otho, however, soon became unusurped the popular with his subjects, owing to his , Otho entered selection of Bavarians as his cabinet ad- Emperor by visers, and, also, to the strong pro - Gerpontiff afterward man sympathies he continually manifested. After a stormy and inglorious reign of 30 years, Otho abdicated the throne, Oct. 20, 1862, and fled the country, which was then in a state of insurrection against the royal authority. He died in Bamberg, Bavaria, July 26, 1867.
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MARCUS SILVIUS, a Roman emperor; born in Rome, A. D. 32. After Nero's death, he attached himself Galba, but that emperor having adopted to Piso as his heir, Otho excited an insurrection, murdered Galba and Piso, and ascended the throne in 69. He was opposed by Vitellius, who was supported by the German army, and in a battle between the two rivals near Bedriacum, Otho was defeated, on which he slew himself, after reigning three months.
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HARRISON GRAY, an American statesman, son of James; born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 8, 1765; was member of Congress, 1797-1801, and United States Senator, 1817-1822. He was prominent in the Massachusetts Legislature; took an active part in the Hartford Convention of 1814; and was mayor of Boston in 1829. His published works include: "Letters in Defense of the Hartford Convention" (1824), and "Orations in Boston and Addresses." He He died , Oct. 28, 1848.
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