These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Parry Islands, Parsifal, Parsons.
an archipelago of the Arctic Ocean, lying for the most part N. of the seventy-fifth parallel of latitude. The islands extend toward the W. from Baffin Bay. The most important are North Devon, Cornwallis, Bathhurst, Milville and Prince Patrick. The islands are not inhabited. They were first explored by Parry in 1819.
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William Edward (1790-1855), an English Arctic explorer. He was the son of a physician of Bath and was educated in the grammar school of that place. He went to sea as a midshipman when a mere youth. He was a member of the John Ross expedition in search of a northwest passage to the Pacific. On his return he was made commander of two ships and set out on the same mission. He made three trips to the region westward of Greenland. On one of these trips he reached Melville Islands and crossed the 110th meridian of west longitude. He received a standing reward of $25,000 which had been offered to any navigator who should accomplish this feat. Parry also attempted to reach the north pole by way of Spitzbergen. He expected to find a solid body of ice on which to travel with sledges, but was disappointed. The most northerly point reached by him was 82 deg. 45' north latitude. On retiring from the sea, he was knighted and received a comfortable position in the government service in connection with the making of sea charts. He wrote several books descriptive of his voyages. His name has been given to the Parry Islands, an archipelago in which Melville and neighboring islands are included. See Arctic Regions
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parse-fal, an opera by Richard Wagner. The drama is founded on a story of Perceval or Parsifal of the Arthurian cycle. Wolfram von Eschenbach told the legend in an epic poem entitled Parzival, written in the early part of the thirteenth century. It was based probably on a French epic by Christian de Troyes of the twelfth century, although the story had appeared in several prose forms. From the French it passed into the literature of nearly every European nation. The story runs that Parzival's father fell in battle, and, to avoid a like fate for her child, his mother brought him up in the forest in ignorance of knightly customs. After many adventures, he reached Arthur's court and became a knight of the Round Table. He then renounced his allegiance to God and wandered away, but at last, learning the true nature of God and of the Grail, he was purified and restored to his place as a knight of the Round Table. Wagner's drama, somewhat changed from this old story, was written in German in 1877. The music was composed in 1879.
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FRANK ALVAH, an American lecturer on art subjects, born at Chesterfield, Mass., in 1868. He was educated at Wesleyan Seminary and afterward studied art in Italy, France, England and Austria. He graduated from the department of Fine Arts at Columbia, in 1905. He was lecturer on art in Columbia and other colleges and was president and director of the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, from 1905 to 1914. He also lectured on interior decoration for women's clubs and other bodies. He carried on yearly a course of lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and conducted summer study classes in Europe yearly. He wrote several books on interior decoration and other subjects relating to art.
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a city of Kansas, in Labette co. It is on the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas and the St. Louis and San Francisco railroads. Its industries include flour and feed mills, grain elevators, chicken-feed factories, clothing factories, etc. It has the State hospital for epileptics, a high school, a public library, a Federal building, Masonic Temple, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,463; (1920) 16,028.
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HERBERT, an American lawyer and politician, born in New York in 1869. He graduated from Yale in 1890 and afterward studied at several law schools. He was admitted to the bar in 1895. After serving as alderman in New York City he was elected a member of Congress, serving from 1905 until 1911. For many years he was chairman of the Republican County Committee and was also a member of the Republican National Committee, and was a member of the Seventh Regiment and for a time served as major and as judge-advocate on the staff of the 1st Brigade of the New York National Guard. In 1917 he was commissioned major in the Aviation Service. He was one of the most prominent Republican can supporters of Gov. J. M. Cox for president in 1920.
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THOMAS WILLIAM, a poet and translator of Dante. He was born in Boston in 1819, and from 1836 lived in Italy, where, after some years' study of the language of the country he produced his "Dante's Inferno," later adding parts of the Purgatorio and Paradiso. He afterward practiced dentistry in Boston and London, and died in 1892. His other works include: "Ghetto di Roma"; "The Magnolia and Other Poems"; "The Old House at Sudbury"; "The Shadow of the Obelisk, and Other Poems."
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WILLIAM BARCLAY, civil engineer, of New York City; born in 1859, and educated at Columbia University, New York. In 1885 he became consulting engineer of New York City, a position he has held to the present time. From 1894 to 1905 he was the chief engineer for the Rapid Transit Co. of New York and constructed their great subway system. In 1898 he conducted exploration and drew up plans for a proposed railway from Hankow to Canton, China. During During the war with Germany Colonel Parsons largely directed the engineering work of the New York regiments whc were with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
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THEOPHILUS, an American jurist; born in Essex co., Mass., Feb. 24, 1750; was graduated at Harvard College College in 1769, and studied law at Falmouth (now Portland), in Maine, where he was admitted to the bar in 1774. He was a member of the convention which, in 1779, framed the State constitution of Massachusetts and of the convention called to ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1789. In 1800 he removed to Boston. He was appointed in 1806 chief justice of Massachusetts. As a lawyer, "he had," according to Justice Story, "no equal in Massachusetts"; and he probably had few, if any, superiors in the United States.' A collection of his judicial opinions was published; "Commentaries on the Law of the United States." He died in 1813.
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