These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Pharsalus, Pharynx, Phascolomys.
now FERSALA, a town of Thessaly, to the S. of Larissa, on a branch of the Salambria, and accordingly in the part of Thessaly restored to Greece in 1881. The district, Pharsalia, is historically notable mainly for Cæsar's great victory over Pompey on Aug. 9, 48 b. c.
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the dilated commencement of the gullet. There may be a diffused erysipelatous inflammation, an ordinary or a syphilitic ulcer of the pharynx, or foreign bodies may become imbedded in it.
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wombat, the sole genus of the family Phascolomyidæ. Tail rudimentary; stomach simple; cӕcum very short, wide, and with a peculiar vermiform appendage. Three species are known; they may be divided into two groups: (1) P. wombat and P. platyrhinus, the common and broad-nosed wombats; and (2) P. latifrons, the hairy-nosed wombat. They are terrestrial, burrowing animals, vegetable feeders, from the S. of Australia, Tasmania, and the islands of Bass' Straits.
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or PHASIS, in astronomy, etc. In physiology, the several changes one of the gradual changes undergone by the moon in passing from an unillumined state (new moon) through that of a continually broadening crescent to a complete orb (full moon), and back to new moon again. Similar phases are undergone by the inferior planets, Mercury and Venus, though, owing to their small size and the excessive brightness of the latter planet under the telescope, the phenomenon is not so easily seen. In mineralogy, transparent green quartz. In which the human and other organisms undergo in the progress from birth to maturity, and thence again to decline and death.
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in ancient geography, a river in Colchis, now called Rion or Faz. It rises in the Caucasus, and flows W. into the Euxine near the ancient city of Phasis.
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JAMES DUVAL, United States Senator from California. Born in San Francisco April, 1861; graduated from St. Ignatius College, 1881. Al. though a lawyer, most of his time has been occupied with the affairs of his city, state and nation. He took a prominent part in the relief work which took after the great fire in San Francisco, and from 1896-1902 was mayor of that city. In 1913 President Wilson appointed him special commissioner to deal with Santo Domingo affairs. In 1915 the Democrats of California sent him to the Senate. took place
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Elizabeth Stuart. See Ward ; Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps
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WILLIAM LYON, author and university professor. Born in New Haven, Conn., in 1865; graduated from Yale in the class of 1887, receiving his doctor's degree four years later from the same university. The year following he became an instructor in English at Yale University and in 1901 Lampson professor of English language and literature. He has edited many school and college as many works for periodicals. He wrote classics, especially the novelists. several volumes of essays on the English ringless plumage, and is about two feet in length. textbooks in English as well as reviewed Other species known respectively the Formosan, the rin Shaws, the Yarkand, the Mongolian, the ring-necked, the Chinese, the Japanese, the green-backed golden, Wallich's, Reeves', and Sæmmering's pheasant, the golden, Lady Amherst's pheasant and silver pheasant.
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highly prized game birds. The adult England in 1885-1889. During the Bermale pheasant is a beautiful bird, about ing Sea dispute he was senior counsel for three feet long. Head and neck deep the steel-blue, shot with greenish-purple and brown; eye surrounded by a patch of scarlet skin, speckled with blue-black; See WARD, ELIZABETH STUART (PHELPS). ear-coverts brown; back a light red, the feathers of the upper part tipped with velvet-black, of the lower part marked with brown. Quill feathers brown, of various shades, tail feathers oaken-brown, barred with a darker shade and with black. Breast and front of the abdomen golden-red with purple reflections, feathers edged with black; rest of abdomen and under tail-coverts blackishbrown. The female has yellowish-brown
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a drug prepared from like antipyrin, of service in stilling pain and securing rest in cases of severe headcarbolic acid, valuable in fevers, and, aches, insomnia, and nervousness.
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or PHENIX, in astronomy, one of the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere, N. of the bright In botany, star Achernar in Eridanus. the typical genus of the family Phœnicidæ. Habitat, northern Africa and southern Asia. Known species about P. dactylifera is the date palm. P. sylvestris is the wild date, a tree very common, both wild and cultivated, in India. The fibrous leaflets and the fibers from the petioles are manufactured into mats, ropes, and baskets; sugar is made from the sap of the tree. The juice of in sandy P. furinifera, a small species parts of India, yields sago; its leaves are of P. used in mat making, and those paludosa, which grows in the Sunderbunds, for rough ropes and thatching. species The fruit of P. acaulis, a stemless from the Sub-Himalayas and central In- . In entomoldia, is eaten by the natives geometer moth, ogy, Cidaria ribesaria, a larva of which feeds on currant and gooseberry bushes. In mythology, a which fabulous female bird of Arabia, was feigned to live for 500 or 600 years herself in the desert, when she built for funeral pyre of wood and aromatic gums, to which she set fire by the fanagain in youth and freshness. Hence immortality. In heraldry the bird is Figuratively, a paragon; a person or thing of
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a name for CARBOLIC ACID (q. v.). elion; according to legend, own, who
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a powerful city of Thessaly, Alcestis, and afterward of political consenear Mount Pelion; accordi the ancient royal seat of Admetus and quence under "tyrants" of its ow repeatedly attempted to make themselves masters of Thessaly.
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Son of Cretheus and Tyro, father of Admetus and Lycurgus , and founder of Pherae in Thessaly. Admetus, as the son of Pheres, is called Pheretiades. 2026 Editor's Note: While the page identifies him as the father of Admetus and Lycurgus, the Bibliotheca of Apollodorus also names Idomene and Periopis as his children. His name is derived from the Ancient Greek word for untamed or wild . (Ed: BR 2026-06-28)
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