These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Paris Gold, Park, Parker.
a town and county-seat of Lamar co., Tex.; on the Texas and Pacific, Texas Midland, and other railroads; 64 miles E. of Sherman. It contains a court house, hospitals, private schools, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has manufactories of furniture, plows, cotton-seed oil, brick, and large wholesale and shipping interests, wagons, blind and sash industry, etc. Pop. (1910) 11,269; (1920) 15,040.
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TREATIES OF . agreed to four points in international copper; used to destroy the potato bug, law-viz.: (1) Privateering is abolished; or Colorado beetle. (2) the neutral flag covers enemies' goods, excepting contraband of war; (3) neutral goods, with the same exception, are not liable to be seized even under an enemy's flag; (4) blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective. The United States refused to accept the first point, because the European Powers declined to affirm that hereafter all private property should be exempted from capture by ships of war. See NEUTRALITY.
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A cheap imitation of the pure metal. See OREIDE; TOMBAC. Parisian White Metal is composed of copper 69.8, zinc 5.5, cadmium 4.7, nickel 19.8. See WHITE ALLOYS.
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NATIONAL MILITARY. In the United States the name is given to a group of battlefields, celebrated in the Civil War, cared for by the War Department, and containing memorials commemorative of personages and events The most famous of them in that war. is the Gettysburg National Military Park, established in 1895, with an area of 24,460 acres, comprising the field on which the battle of Gettysburg was fought in 1863. Another is the Chickaand Chattanooga Park, in mauga Georgia and Tennessee, established in 1890, with 6,966 acres, comprising the Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mounof the tain, and the battle grounds nds Chickamauga and Chattanooga engagements. Shiloh National Military Park battle was fought in 1862. Vicksburg Nacontains the field of Shiloh, where a tional Military Park, in Mississippi, is commemorative both of the Confederate and Union forces, and the positions held by them in the spring of 1863. These sites were not established as national property immediately after the war, but after the passage of a number of years had given them a reminiscent and hallowed character. An endeavor is made to preserve them in the condition they were in when the events commemorated occurred.
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in a legal sense, a large piece of ground inclosed and privileged for wild beasts of chase, by the monarch's grant, or by prescription. The only distinction between a chase and a park was that the latter was inclosed, where a chase was always open. The term now commonly means a considerable piece of ornamental ground connected with a gentleman's residence; or an inclosed piece of public ground devoted to recreation, and generally in or near a large town. See NATIONAL PARKS.
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MUNGO, a celebrated Scotch traveler; born in Selkirkshire, Scotland, Sept. 10, 1771. He was sent to Africa unde under the auspices of the African Association, and explored the Gambia and Up Upper Niger, publishing on his return the well-known "Travels in the Interior of Africa" (1799). On his second expedition, which was equipped by the British Government, he descended the Niger some 1,500 miles; and after losing the majority of his men from fever, was treacherously murdered by natives, in 1806.
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Mungo (1771-1806), an African explorer. He was born near Selkirk, Scotland, on the banks of the Yarrow. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was fond of tramping and had a liking for natural history. In 1792 he received an appointment as a medical officer on one of the East India Company's lines plying to Sumatra. He pleased Sir Joseph Banks and other scientific men of Great Britain by bringing home a number of plants and eight fishes new to science. In 1795 he received from the African Association of London a coveted commission to explore Senegambia. He was the first modern European to reach the Niger, a river of which much was heard and nothing known. His privations, adventures, encounters with the lion, hippopotamus, and gorilla, and descriptions of the natives, rivers, and jungles were given to the public in 1799 in a famous volume, Travels in the Interior of Africa. It was long a favorite book of adventure and ran through many editions. In 1803 he again set out, this time with a government commission, to trace the Niger to its ultimate source. He ascended the river for over one thousand miles. At the village of Boussa, above Timbuctoo, he fell into a contest with hostile natives. He and his entire party, with the exception of one attendant, were killed or drowned. His name is linked with that of Livingstone, not only as a great explorer, but as a scientific observer as well.
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WILLARD, an American physician and surgeon; born in New Hampshire in 1800; Professor of surgery in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1839-1869; and subsequently Professor of Clinical Surgery in the same institution; he made many important discoveries in practical surgery. He died in 1884.
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ALTON BROOKS, an American jurist and publicist; born in Cortland, N. Y., in 1852. Studied at academies and schools and graduated from the Albany Law School in 1873. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Ulster co. from 1877 to 1885. In the latter year he was appointed chairman of the State Democratic Committee. He was justice of the Supreme Court of New York in 1885 and a member of the Court of Appeals from 1889 to 1902. From 1898 to 1904 he was chief justice of this court and resigned to accept the Democratic nomination for the presidency. He took a prominent part in political affairs, serving as chairman of the Democratic State Convention in 1908. He ALTON B. PARKER served as chief counsel in many important cases in New York and elsewhere. He was president of the American Bar Association in 1906 and 1907.
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EDWARD MELVILLE, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop; born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1885. He was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and at Keble College, Oxford, England. He was ordained priest in 1881. From 1879 to 1906 he was master of St. Paul's School. He was made bishop coadjutor of New Hampshire in 1906 and became bishop in 1914.
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