These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Palm Oil, Palm Sunday, Palmas.
palm butter; a fat obtained from the fruit of certain kinds of palm, and imported from the coast of Guinea. It has the consistence of butter, an orange color, a smell resembling violets, and consists mainly of tripalmi- , with a little olein. Palm oil is extin tensively used in the manufacture of soap and candles, and is a common constituent of railway-carriage grease. It is frequently adulterated with wax, tallow, lard, resin, etc.
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the Sunday immediately preceding Easter. It commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm "branches," or rather leaves, for the typical palms, like those of Palestine, have no branches (John xii: 13).
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CAPE habitants weave silks and woolens, make jewelry, and various articles of common use. The port is protected by a mole, and the town by a wall and batteries. Pop. about 70,000. (2) A town of Sicily, pop. 12,000. (3) The name of one of the larger of the Canary Islands.
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CAPE, headland of western Africa, on the Guinea coast, lat. 4° 22' 6" N., lon. 7° 44′ 15" W. There is a lighthouse with a fixed light, and the adjacent harbor is the only one between Sierra Leone and Benin.
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VILHELM FREDRIK, East a Swedish Gothland historian, Dec.; 16 born, 1788 in. Liljested, ied at Upsala, and became Professor of Greek in the same university in 1835. Among his works are the " Biographical Dictionary " ( 23 vols. 1835-1859) and the historical novel "Aurora Königsmark" (1847). He died Sept. 2, 1852.
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A. MITCHELL, Attorney- General of the United States. Born in Pennsylvania in 1872; graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. Admitted to A. MITCHELL PALMER the bar in 1893, and practiced law in his home town of Stroudsburg, Pa. In 1909 he was elected Congressman on the Democratic ticket from the 26th Pennsylvania District, and held that office un- Vol. VII-Cyc til 1915. On the outbreak of war with Germany President Wilson appointed Palmer Alien Property Custodian, an office which he held until he resigned to become Attorney-General of the United States in 1919. During the major part of his term as Attorney - General he has been occupied in investigating and halting the various " Red " activities in the United States. Attorney - General Palmer directed the fight made by the Government to reduce the high cost of living by prosecuting profiteering wherever it showed itself. When the coal miners struck in 1919 the Attorney-General had the United States Court at Indianapolis issue an injunction compelling the strike leaders to recall their order. This action was bitterly assailed by the leaders of the American Federation of Labor and by union men generally. Early in 1920 Mr. Palmer announced himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President to succeed President Wilson, but failed of nomination.
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ALICE FREEMAN (1855- 1902). An American educator and a leader in the movement for the higher education of women. Born in New York State, she graduated from the University of Michigan in 1876. After teaching in the schools of Wisconsin and Michigan, in 1879 she became professor of history in Wellesley College and three years later became president. Under her leadership W Wellesley attained the front rank of women's colleges in America. In 1887 she married George Herbert Palmer, a professor in Harvard University. From 1892 until her death ten years later she was associated in a non-resident capacity with the University of Chicago.
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FREDERICK, an American newspaper correspondent and writer, born at Pleasantville, Pleasantville, Pa., in 1873. Graduated from from Allegheny College in 1893, he_engaged at once in newspaper work. He was for several years London correspondent and in 1897 was correspondent for several papers in the Greek War. He was in the Philippines in 1897-1898 and accompanied the expedition for the relief of Peking in 1900. He took part in the Russo-Japanese War for several papers. Following this he accompanied the forces to the Balkan War, in 1912, having in the meantime carried on investigations in Central America. He was a credited correspondent of the American Press with the British Army and Fleet, serving in 1914 and 1916. He was appointed official reporter with the American Expeditionary Forces with the rank of major in 1917, 7 and served as such during the war. He office nearly changed, he retired from wrote two books covering the World views having War, "My Year of the War" (1915); and "My Second Year of the War" (1917); "America in France" (1918); He "Our Greatest Battle" (1919). contributed many articles on the war and on other subjects to leading periodicals.
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GEORGE HERBERT, an American educator; born in Boston, Mass., March 19, 1842; was graduated at Harvard in 1864; studied at the University of Tübingen 1867-1869; was assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard in 1883-1889; and in 1889 became Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity there. He wrote "The New Education" (1887); "Life and Works of George Herbert" (1905); "Life of Alice Freeman Palmer" (1908); "Trades and Professions" (1915).
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a town of Massachusetts, which includes several villages, in Hampden co. It is on the Chicopee river, and Chic on the Central Vermont and the Boston and Albany railroads. Its industries include cotton goods, foundry and machineshop products, carpets, wire, etc. It has a public library, and a Y. M. C. A. building. It is the seat of the Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics. Pop. (1910) 8,610; (1920) 9,896.
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JOHN MCAULEY, an American lawyer; born in Eagle Creek, Scott co., Ky., Sept. 13, 1817. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1843 was elected probate judge of Macoupin co., Ill.; in 1847 was elected a member of the constitutional convention, and in 1849 county judge of Macoupin co. He was elected to the State Senate in 1852, and 1854. He presided over the Republican State Convention in 1856. He made an unsuccessful canvass for Congress in 1859; elector on the Lincoln ticket in 1860. In 1861 he was State delegate to the peace congress in Washington. He entered the army in 1861, retiring in 1866 with the rank of Major-General, U. S. A. He then settled in Springfield, Ill. In 1868 he was elected the 16th governor of Illinois, and served four years from January, 1869. In 1872 he returned to the Democratic party and supported Greeley for President. He was nominated by the Democrats in the Legislature in 1877 and twice afterward of Home as their candidate for United States ment of Senator, without however, being elected; was delegate-at-large to the National Democratic convention in 1884, and was nominated by the Democratic State convention for governor in 1888 and defeated. In 1896 he was the candidate of the Gold Democrats for President of the United States. He died Sept. 25, 1900.
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