These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Petalite, Petaluma, Petchora.
a monoclinic mineral, rarely occurring in crystals, but mostly in cleavable masses. The crystallized form is the castorite. Found on the Isle of Utö, Sweden, and at a few other localities. Related to spodumene.
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a city of California in Sonoma co. It is on the Petaluma river, the Northwestern Pacific and the Petaluma and Santa Rosa railroads. The city is an important agricultural com- Important munity, and the raising of poultry is one of the chief industries. There are manufactories of silk, flour, machine shops and foundries, shoes, gas engines, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,880; (1920) 6,226.
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a large river in the N. of European Russia, rises on the W. slope of the Urals, flows N. through the E. parts of the governments of Vologda and Archangel, then S. E. for about 150 miles, and finally sweeping toward the N., and expanding into an estuary 30 miles wide and full of islands, falls into the Arctic Ocean, after a course of over 1,000 miles. It is navigable by boats for upward of 700 miles. The country through which the river flows is thinly peopled, and quite uncultivated. PETECHIÆ, spots formed by extravasated blood, as in typhoid, putrid and malignant fevers, hemorrhagic smallpox, etc.
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PARLEY the French Army, and served with distinction during the Franco-Prussian War, being thrice captured by the Germans, and escaping each time. Afterward he lived in retirement in Paris and Geneva. In 1903, King Alexander of Serbia, a member of the Obrenovitch family, rival of the Karageorgevitch dynasty, was assassinated by army of ficers, and Peter was proclaimed ruler in his place. In 1914, he went into the field at the head of his army, and remained
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KING OF SERBIA with his troops until the final invasion by the forces of the Central Powers in 1916, when he escaped through the mountains of Albania to the Adriatic Coast, where he was rescued by the Italian ships. Until the collapse of the Teutonic front in the Balkans in 1918, he remained gion. It exports peas, oats, barley, in Greece, when he returned to Belgrade with his troops, following the retreating Austrians. PETER, PARLEY. See GOODRICH, SAMUEL GRISWOLD. PETER PINDAR. See WOLCOTT, JOHN.
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the patron saint of the Inquisition, a Dominican of Verona, who, for the for the severity with which he exercised his inquisitorial functions, was in 1252 slain at Como by the infuriated populace. His death formed the subject of a masterpiece by Titian, destroyed by fire in Venice in 1867.
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an Italian reformer; born in Florence, Italy, Sept. 8, 1500; entered at 16 the order of the canons regular of St. Augustine at Fiesole, studied at Padua, and became abbot of Spoleto, and later prior of St. Peter at Aram near Naples. Here he was drawn into the doctrines of the Reformers by the teaching of Juan Valdes and Ochino, yet was appointed visitor-general of his order in 1541. His rigor made him hateful to the dissolute monks, and he was sent to Lucca as prior of San Frediano, but soon fell under the suspicions of the Inquisition, and had to flee to Zurich (1542). At Strassburg he was welcomed by Bucer, and made Professor of the Old Testament. In 1547 he went to England on Cranmer's invitation, lectured at Oxford on I Corinthians and Romans, and took an active part in the great controversy of the day. Mary's accession drove him back to Strassburg, then grown too Lutheran for his tastes, and at length in 1555 he repaired to Zurich, where he died Nov. 12, 1562.
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Born in 1250, at Apono, near Padua, a philosopher, mathematician, and astrologer of no mean skill. He practised physic in Paris with so great success that he soon became very rich, but his wealth and attainments were annulled by the accusation of sorcery which was brought against him. He was said to receive instruction in the seven liberal arts from seven spirits which he kept in crystal vessels. To him was ascribed also the curious and useful faculty of causing the money he spent to return to his own purse. His downfall was brought about by an act of revenge for which he was called to account by the Inquisition. A neighbour of his had been possessed of a spring of excellent water in his garden, from which he allowed Peter of Apono to drink at will. For some reason or another the permission was withdrawn, and Peter, with the assistance of the Devil , caused the water to leave the garden and flow uselessly in some distant street. Ere the trial was finished the unfortunate physician died, but so bitter were the inquisitors against him that they ordered his bones to be dug up and burned. This public indignity to his memory was averted by some of his friends, who, hearing of the vindictive sentence, secretly removed his remains from the burying-ground where they lay. The inquisitors thereupon satisfied their animosity by burning him in effigy.
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King of Castile and Leon; born in 1334; succeeded his father, Alfonso XI., in 1350. His reign was one long series of cruelties and despotic acts. The year following his coronation he put to death Eleanora de Guzman, his father's mistress. In 1353 he married, though contrary to his will, Blanche of Bourbon, one of the most accomplished princesses of the time, whom, however, he abandoned two days after his marriage to rejoin his mistress Maria Padilla. The queen was impris oned and divorced. He then married beautiful Juana de Castro, but only abandon her after a few months. revolts against him were unsuccessful. In 1366, Peter fled, and was dethroned, but he was reinstated the following year by an army lent by Edward the Black Prince. Executions and confiscations helped to swell the ranks of his opponents, of whom the chief was his it is a sheath. half-brother Henry of Trastamare. In 1369 Henry gained a signal victory over Peter at Montiel, and the latter was slain in a sword combat with his brother in 1369.
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