These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Odenwald, Oder, Odometer.
a forest and chain of mountains in Western Germany, between the Neckar and the Main, in the territories of Hesse, Baden, and Bavaria. The Odenwald is about 50 miles in length, and presents charming scenery.
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one of the principal rivers of Germany, rising in the Oderberg on the tableland of Moravia, 1,950 feet above the level of the sea, traversing Prussia, Silesia, Brandenburg, and Pomerania, then emptying into the Stettiner Haff, whence it passes into the Baltic by the triple arms of the Dievenow, Peene, and Swine, which enclose the islands of Wollin and Usedom. It has a course N. W. and N. of 550 miles, and a basin of 50,000 square miles. Canals connect the Oder with the Spree, the Havel, and the Elbe; the Warthe is the only tributary of importance for navigation. On the banks of the Oder are Ratibor, Breig, Breslau, Frankfort - on - the - Oder, Stettin, and
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an instrument employed for registering the number of revolutions of a carriage wheel, to which it is attached.
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an extensive genus of orchids, natives of Central America, much prized by cultivators for their magnificent flowers, which are remarkable both for their size and the beauty of their colors. A considerable number of species have been introduced into Europe.
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. See Ulysses
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a long and narrow island in the Baltic, 4 to 17 miles from the E. coast of Sweden. It is 55 miles long and 5 to 12 broad. Scarcely more than a limestone cliff, scantily covered with soil, but in some parts well wooded, and has good pasture ground; there are large alum works; and the fishing is excellent.
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A king of Calydon , son of Parthaon or Portheus and Euryte. He married Althaea , their children being Clymenus, Meleager , Gorge, and Dejanira . In a general sacrifice he made to the gods he slighted Diana , who, in revenge, sent a wild boar to waste his country. The animal was killed by Meleager in the celebrated Calydonian boar hunt. After this, misfortunes overtook Oeneus, and he exiled himself from Calydon, and died on his way to Argolis. 2026 Editor's Note: Oeneus , whose name translates to "Wine-man" in ancient Greek, was the first mortal to receive a grapevine from the god Dionysus. His wife, Althaea , later became infamous for causing the death of their son Meleager after the Calydonian boar hunt. (Ed: BR 2026-07-15)
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King of Pisa, in Elis, and father of Hippodamia . He was told by the oracle that he would perish by his son-in-law. Being skillful in driving a chariot, he announced that he would give his daughter in marriage only to someone who could defeat him in a race, death being the result to those who were defeated. After a number of aspirants had contended and failed, Pelops , son of Tantalus , entered the lists, and by bribing the charioteer of Oenomaus, who provided a chariot with a broken axle-tree, Pelops won the race, and married Hippodamia becoming king of Persia. Oenomaus was killed in the race.
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in Greek legend, a nymph who became the wife of Paris before he was called upon to award the golden apple to the "fairest," and thus led to the fatal union with Helen. Tennyson has given the title of Oenone to a poem in which the deserted wife tells the story of the judgment of Paris. Hither came at noon Mournful Oenone, wandering forlorn Of Paris, once her playmate on the hills. Her cheek had lost the rose, and round her neck Floated her hair, or seemed to float in rest. She, leaning on a fragment twined with vine, Sang to the stillness, till the mountain-shade Sloped downward to her seat from the upper cliff. --Tennyson.
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a town of Sweden, at the entrance of the Svarta into the Hjelmar Lake, 170 miles W. of Stockholm. It has an ancient castle, in which many diets have been held; and there is a trade in minerals and matches. Pop. (1917) 34,667.
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or'sted, Hans Christian (1777-1851), a professor of physics in the Danish University at Copenhagen. He was noted as a student of magnetism, galvanism, and electricity. His investigations did much to establish the belief that they are but manifestations of the same form of energy. He invented a piece of apparatus designed to show that the magnetic needle , suspended freely, tends to place itself at right angles to the direction of an electric current in its vicinity. It is known to students as Oersted's Apparatus.
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an island in the Baltic belonging to the Republic of Esthonia, and lying across the mouth of the Gulf of Riga; length about 45 miles; area, 1,000 square miles; pop. about 60,000. The surface is undulating, broken by low hills, marshy, watered by numerous small streams, and well wooded. The coast is generally formed by high cliffs. The climate is milder than that of the neighboring continental districts. The only town is Arensburg, on the S. E. coast. Many of the inhabitants of Arensburg are of German descent, as are the nobles and the clergy of the island; but the peasantry are Esthonian. Long governed by the Teutonic knights, it became a Danish province in 1559, was given up to Sweden in 1645, and in 1721 fell into the hands of Russia. Capital Arensburg. Pop. 5,000. Island population 66,000, chiefly Esthonians. ESOPHAGUS, in anatomy, a slightly flexed canal, between the pharynx and the stomach, inclining to the left in the neck, the right in the upper thorax, and the left again through the posterior mediastinum. It is narrow and flat in the neck, and rounded in the lower and longest part. It passes through the diaphragm, and terminates nearly opposite the 10th dorsal vertebra in the cardiac orifice of the stomach. The passage of the food is caused by muscular contrac tion through the action of the parvagum nerve.
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a King of Mercia, who attained the throne after Ethelbald, on defeating the usurper Beornred, A. D. 757. He brought Kent under his sway, and reduced the power of Wessex by a defeat inflicted in 777. He also defeated the Welsh, took from them part of their border lands, and to keep them within their new limits erected here the ramparts known as Watt's Dyke and Offa's Dyke. Latterly he murdered Ethelbert, King of East Anglia, and seized his kingdom. He founded the Abbey of St. Albans, and was a liberal patron to the Church. He died in 796.
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