These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Peale, Pearce, Pearl Harbor.
REMBRANDT, an American artist; born in Bucks co., Pa., Feb. 22, PEACOCK 1778. When 17 years old executed a por trait of Washington, from whom he had three sittings. He painted portraits of many distinguished men. He was president of the American Academy, and also one of the original members of the Academy of Design. His portrait of Washington (1823) was purchased by Congress. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 3, 1860.
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WILLIAM, an American Methodist Episcopal bishop; born at Hayle, Cornwall, England, in 1862. He came to the United States in 1884 and was ordained minister of the Free Methodist Church in 1888, afterward serving in several pastorates in California, Oregon, and New York. He was appointed bishop of the Free Methodist Church in 1908. He was a delegate to the World's Missionary Convention in 1910.
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a United States coaling station at the island of Oahu, Hawaii; acquired prior to the annexation of the islands. The harbor has been strongly fortified, and is a United States naval station. It was an important War. point during the World
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Important: Safety Warning This page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. Occult properties of. Amongst the early Greeks and Romans, the wearing of gems as an amulet or talisman, was much in vogue. For this purpose pearls were often made into crowns. Rich says: "Pope Adrian, anxious to secure all the virtues in his favour, wore an amulet composed of a sunbaked toad, arsenic, tormentil, pearl, coral, hyacinth, smarag, and tragacanth." It is also said that to dream of pearls means many tears. Their occult virtues are brought forth by being boiled in meat, when they heal the quartan ague: bruised and taken with milk, they are good for ulcers, and clear the Philalethes voice. They also comfort the heart and render their possessor chaste.
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the Nautilus pompilius; common in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, especially toward the Moluccas. It is believed to inhabit both deep and shallow water. Its fine motherof-pearl is much in request with cabinet makers and jewelers. The smallest and most excavated partitions are used to make pendants for the ear. By removing the external layer of the shell which is not nacreous, drinking vessels of great brilliancy are made in the East, as they formerly were also in Europe.
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SIR (CYRIL) ARTHUR, English newspaper er proprietor. He was born at Wookey, England, in 1866, and began his newspaper career on Sir George Newnes' "Tit-Bits," which enjoyed a circulation till that time unknown in England. He later started "Pearson's Weekly" on the same lines, following this with similar journals. In 1900 he started the "Daily Express" in imitation of the "Daily Mail," which had then an enormous circulation. Like Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe, he came into ownership of many journals. Later he lost his eyesight, and has since devoted himself to philanthropic work among the blind. He was made baronet in 1916, and in 1919 wrote "Victory Over Blind ness."
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KARL, an English physicist. He was born in 1857 and studied at Cambridge, Heidelberg, and Berlin, being admitted to the bar in 1882. He taught mathematics in University College, London, and became Galton professor of eugenics in London University. His works include: "History of the Theory of Elasticity and Strength of Materials"; "Ethic of Freethought"; "Grammar of Science"; "The Chances of Death"; "National Life from the Standpoint of Science"; "The Life, Letters and Labors of Francis Galton."
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an area along the most northern coast of Greenland, discovered in 1882 by Lockwood and Brainard and later further explored by Peary in 1892.
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The. See Burns
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a struggle called the "Bundschuhe," which broke out in 1502, and another, the War of Poor Conrad, in Württemberg, in 1514. The peasants of the small towns rebelled in Swabia, and those of the Thurgau rose in arms in June, 1524. After a temporary lull it broke out again early in 1525, on a more extended scale, the peasants of Alsace, Franconia, Lorraine, the Palatinate, and Swabia joining in the movement. The insurgents were defeated by the army of the Archduke Ferdinand, May 2; again at Königshofen, June 2; and were put down after 100,000 persons had perished, in June, 1525. The Anabaptists took part in the movement.
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The. See Anabaptists
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Cheap grades of this valuable food finds its way into the foundry, where it is used as a substitute for flour. See FLOUR. Peat is one of the most important productions of alluvial ground, composing the soil of swamps, and consisting of the twigs, leaves, and roots of trees mixed with grass, plants, weeds, earth, etc., that have long lain in water, and thereby become decomposed into a blackish-brown mass that may be cut with the spade and dried for fuel. The better qualities contain about 40 per cent of carbon. In Ireland it is known as turf, where it is dug up, dried, and used for fuel. See FUEL.
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ELIA WILKINSON, an American writer, born at Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1862. In 1883 she married Robert Burns Peattie. For many years she was a reporter and writer on Chicago papers and contributed articles to many magazines. She was the author of "The Beleaguered Forest," (1901); "The Edge of Things," (1904); "The Newcomers," (1916).
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Dasypus (Tatusia) peba, called also the black tatou, an armadillo ranging from Texas S. to Paraguay. The ears are large, long, and close together; the head small, long, and straight; mouth large. Scales hexagonal; the bands vary in number, increasing with the age of the animal. It is nocturnal, swift of foot, and a good burrower. Its flesh is said to resemble sucking pig in flavor.
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GULF OF, a land-locked extension of the Yellow Sea, between the base of the Korean peninsula and the Chinese province of Shan-tung, into which the Pei-ho discharges.
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