These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Palatka, Pale, Palembang.
a town and county-seat of Putnam co., Fla., on the Atlantic Coast Line, the Georgia Southern and Florida, the Florida East Coast and the Ocala Northern railroads; 30 miles S. W. of St. Augustine. It is noted for its large shipments of oranges and as a winter resort for Northern invalids. It also has large shipments of cotton, sugar, and various fruits. Pop. (1910) 3,779; (1920) 5,102.
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in British history, that part of Ireland subject to English law. The parts of Ireland less completely dominated were said to be without the pale. They were subject to Irish law and to Irish customs. The English pale included Dublin, but the limits varied from time to time. The term came into use during the sixteenth century.
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capital of a residency (formerly an independent kingdom) near the S. end of Sumatra; on the Musi river, 50 miles from its mouth. The houses of the town are built on great log rafts on either bank. Manufactures, trade in silk goods, carved wood, ornaments in gold and ivory, ivory, and krises, as well as shipbuilding, are carried on. In the Middle Ages Palembang was one of the most important centers of Arabian trade with China. Pop. over 60,000; and of the residence about 775,000.
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an illustrious Byzan- 1 tine family, first mentioned about 1078, when George Palæologus was a faithful servant of the Emperor Nicephorus III. He was killed while defending Dyrrhachium, or Durazzo, against the Normans in 1081. The Palæologi, the last Greek family that occupied the throne of Constantinople, reigned from 1260 to 1453. A branch of the Palæologi ruled over Montferrat in Italy from 1305 to the end of 1530. PALÆOTHERIUM, or PALEOTHE- RIUM, the type-genus of the family Palæotheridæ, resembling the antelope. It was founded on remains discovered by Cuvier in the quarries of Montmartre, and named by him P. magnum. Several species are known, varying in size from that of a roedeer to that of a tapir. PALÆOZOIC, or PALEOZOIC, in geology, the term generally applied to the series of strata commencing with the ending with the upper part of the Permian. See FOSSIL: GEOLOGY.
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GULF OF, a bay or arm of the Mediterranean Sea, near Palermo.
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GULF OF ports principally sumach, fruits, wine, manna, and brimstone. Palermo, the ancient Panormus, is first mentioned in history 480 B. C., when the Carthaginians made it a naval station. It was taken by the Romans 254 B. C., and it became one of their principal naval stations. The Normans took it in 1072, and in 1282 it was the scene of the massacre called the "Sicilian Vespers." Palermo was taken by Garibaldi in May, 1860. Pop., city, about 350,000; province, about 810,000.
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WILLIAM, an English theologian; born in Peterborough, in 1743. He was appointed archdeacon of Carlisle, 1782; prebendary of St. Paul's, London, 1794; dean of Lincoln, 1795. His principal writings are: "Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy" (1785); "Horæ Paulinæ; or, "The Truth of the Scripture History of St. Paul Evinced," etc. (1791); "View of the Evidences of Christianity" (1794), his most celebrated work; "Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature" (1802), in some respects the most remarkable of all his writings. He died May 25, 1805.
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JOHN GORHAM, an American clergyman; born in Boston, May 2, 1796. 06. He was graduated at Harvard; was pastor of Brattle Street Unitarian Church, Boston; professor in Harvard, 1830-1839; member of the State Legislature, 1842-1843; secretary of State of Massachusetts, 1844-1848; and member of the Anti - Slavery Congress at Paris, 1867. He published "The Relation between Judaism and Christianity" (1854). His enduring work, however, is, "The History of New England" (4 vols. 1858-1864). He died In Cambridge, Mass., April 26, 1881.
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a town in the district of Malabar, Madras, India. It has several important educational institutions and a Swiss Protestant Mission. There is considerable trade in grain, tobacco, lumber, and oil. Pop. about 45,000.
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SIR FRANCIS, an English historian; born in London, England, in 1788. He was a Jew, and his original name was Cohen, which he changed to Palgrave on embracing Christianity in 1823. He was called to the bar in 1827, and made himself known by his edition of the "Parliamentary Writs from 1273 to 1327" (1827-1834); "History of England" (1831); "Rise and Progress of the Commonwealth" (1832). In 1832 he was knighted. His other works include "Truths and Fictions of the Middle Ages" (1844); "Reports of the Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records" (1840- 1861); and "History of Normandy and England" (1851-1860). He died in Hampstead, July 6, 1861.
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FRANCIS TURNER, an English poet and critic, eldest son of the preceding; born in London, England, Sept. 28, 1824. He was educated at Charterhouse School, became scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and Fellow of Exeter, filled for five years the office of vice-principal of the Training College for Schoolmasters at Kneller Hall, was private Secretary to Earl Granville, and an official in the Educational Department of the Privy-council. He became Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1886. His works are "Idylls and Songs" (1854); "Essays on Art" (1866); "Hymns" (1867); "Lyrical Poems" (1871); and the "Visions of England" (1881). He is best known, however, as the editor of "Golden Treasury of English Lyrics" (1861, and a 2d series in 1895); "The Children's Treasury of Lyrical Poetry" (2 vols. 1875); "The Sonnets and Songs of Shakespeare" (1877); "Selected Lyrical Poems of Herrick" (1877), of Keats (1885); and "Treasury of Sacred Song" (1889). He died Oct. 24, 1897.
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WILLIAM GIFFORD, an English traveler, son of Sir Francis; born in Westminster, England, Jan. 24, 1826. He was educated at the Charterhouse School and Oxford, graduating with great distinction in 1846. Next year he obtained a commission in the Bombay Native Infantry, which he resigned to become a priest in the Society of Jesus. After studying in France and at Rome he was sent at his own request as a missionary to Syria, where he acquired a wonderfully intimate knowledge of Arabic. Summoned to France in 1860 by Napoleon III. to give an account of the Syrian massacres, he went disguised as a physician on a daring expedition at the emperor's expense through central Arabia, traversing the entire Wahabi kingdom, and returning to Europe through Bagdad and Aleppo (1862-1863). His "Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia" (1865), is one of the best books of travel in the English language. Palgrave quitted the Society of Jesus in 1864. He was nominated consul at Sukhum-Kalé in 1866, at Trebizond in 1867, St. Thomas in 1873, at Manila in 1876, and consul-general in the principality of Bulgaria in 1878, and in Siam in 1880. He was appointed British minister to Uruguay in 1884. His other works are: "Essays on Eastern Questions" (1872); "Hermann Agha: an Eastern Narrative" (1872); "Dutch Guiana" (1876); and "Ulysses, or Scenes and Studies in Many Lands" (1887). He died in Montevideo, Sept. 30, 1888.
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