These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Platte, Plattsburg, Platypus.
a river in the United States, which rises in the Rocky Mountains by two branches, called respectively the North and South Forks of the Platte. The united stream falls into the Missouri after a course of about 1,900 miles. It is from 1 mile to 3 miles broad, shallow, encumbered with islands, has a rapid current, and therefore not navigable.
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a town and countyseat of Clinton co., N. Y.; at the mouth of the Saranac river, which here enters Cumberland Bay, a part of Lake Champlain, and on the Delaware and Hudson, and the Chateaugay railroads; about 155 miles N. of Albany. Here are electric lights, public library, court house and jail, barracks for United States soldiers, custom house, Home for Aged Ladies, Home for the Friendless, Plattsburg Academy, a State Normal school, National banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. The town has a large harbor, and ships lumber, grain, and other commodities. It has manufactures of shirts, wood pulp, sewing machines, etc. On Oct. 11, 1776, one of the earliest naval actions of the Revolutionary War took place here, Benedict Arnold commanding the American forces. On Sept. 11, 1814, Commodore Mc- Donough gh gained a remarkable victory berland over the British fleet in Cumberland Bay. About the same time an American army under General Macomb repulsed a superior force which, under General Prevost, had attacked the town. Pop. (1910) 11,138; (1920) 10,909.
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. See Duckbill Duckbill or platypus. Platypus and spiny anteater Spiny anteater of Australia. Platypus Inner view of pouch and teats. Platypus Underside of female showing pouch. Platypus
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the name of popular Ornithorhynchus Anatinus or Paradoxus . (See ORNITHOR- HYNCHUS , Vol. VII.) An effort was made in 1922 to bring a living specimen of this animal to America, but the only one which survived the voyage from Australia died within a few weeks at the New York Zoological Park.
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one of the most important manufacturing towns of Saxony; on the Elster, 72 miles S. of Leipsic. Its chief industries are the manufacture of cotton goods, muslin, cambric, jaconet, and embroidered fabrics, with in a secondary degree cigars, paper, machinery. Pop. about 130,000.
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in English law, that which is pleaded or alleged by a party to an action in support of his demand; in a more restricted sense the answer of the defendant in a cause to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. Pleas are two sorts: dilatory pleas, and pleas to the action. Pleas to the action are such as dispute the very cause of suit.
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the act of advocating a cause in a court of law. In the plural, the written statements of parties in a suit at law, containing the declaration and claim of the plaintiff, or the answer or defense of the defendant. Pleadings consist of the declaration, the plea, the replication, the rejoinder, the sur-rejoinder, the rebutter, the sur-rebutter, etc., which are successively filed. Pleadings were formerly made by word of mouth in court.
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or PLEBS, in ancient Rome, one of the great orders of the Roman people, at first excluded from nearly all the rights of citizenship. The whole government of the state, with the enjoyment of all its offices, belonged exclusively to the patricians, with whom the plebeians could not even intermarry. The Lex Hortensia ( 286 B. C) gave the plebiscita, or enactments passed at the in plebeian assemblies, the force of law. From this time the privileges of the two classes may be said to have been
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the transfer of a chattel from a debtor to a creditor as a security of a debt, or that which is pledged or pawned as security for the repayment of money borrowed, or for the performance of some obligation or engagement; a pawn. Pledges are generally goods and chattels, but anything valuable of a personal nature, as money, negotiable instruments, etc., may be given in pledge. A living pledge (vadium vivum) is one which produces an income, interest, or profit by being used, and which is retained by the pledgee till he shall have satisfied his claim out of such income, profit, or interest; a dead pledge (vadium mortuum) is a mortgage.
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A daughter of Oceanus, and mother of the Pleiades by Atlas. Plinius, C. Secundus (the Elder). He was born at Verona , of a noble family. He distinguished himself in the field, and was appointed governor of Spain. When at Misenum in command of the Roman fleet, Pliny observed the appearance of a cloud of dust and ashes, which was the commencement of the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius which overwhelmed Herculaneum and Pompeii. He sailed for the scene of the eruption, where he was suffocated by the vapors emitted. This occurred in the seventy-ninth year of the Christian era. Plinius, C.. Caecilius Secundus (the Younger Pliny). Son of L. Caecilius by the sister of Pliny the Elder. At the age of nineteen he distinguised himself at the bar. When Trajan was invested with the purple Pliny was created consul He died in the fifty-second year of his age, A. D. 113. Pliny had much to do with the persecutions of the Christians in the early promulgation of the Christian religion. The Rev. James Copland, M. A., in an admirable little work entitled Reasons Why We Believe the Bible, gives a very interesting letter from Pliny to the emperor Trajan, asking instructions how to deal with the Christians when they were cited to appear before him.
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a term proposed in 1839 by Lyell as an abbreviation for Newer Pliocene; but Edward Forbes, in adopting it, applied it to the next more modern series of beds, called by Lyell Post-Tertiary. Confusion thus arising, its author withdrew the word, but in the "Student's Elements of Geology," he readopted it in the sense of Post-Pliocene. He considers it the older of two divisions of the Post-Tertiary or Quaternary period. it are Under placed the Reindeer period and the Palæolithic age generally, the Brick-earth, the Fluviatile Loam or Loess, the High Plateaux Gravel or Loess, the Cavern and the Glacial Drift deposits. The climate was colder than now, the summers hot and short, the winters long and severe.
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