These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Podolia, Poelcapelle, Poggio.
or KAMENETZ, a government of West or "White" Russia, N. of Bessarabia, and bordering on the Austrian frontier; area, 16,224 square miles; pop. about 4,250,000, the majority of whom are Russniaks. The surface is a table-land, strewn with hills; nearly three-fourths is either arable or available for pasturage. Since the World War (1914-1918) a part of the independent state of Ukrania.
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a village N. E. of N. of Langemarck, about 10 miles Belgium, which was the Ypres, in many battles during the scene of World more than a cluster War. It is little of several of houses at the crossing importance and durroads of strategic of Ypres in Octoing the third battle 1917, was bitterly ber and November, British troops succeeded in fought for. advancing half a mile N. taking it and , the 53d Bri- E. of it during that battle Eighteenth Division carrygade of the as Meunier Hill ing the point known fighting. after hard
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. See Westminster Abbey
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THE, in Westminster Abbey, the S. corner. This is merely a popular name. The poets represented are: Addison, Beaumont, mont, S. But ler, Campbell, Cowley, Davenant venant, Drayton, Dryden, ay. Goldsmith Goldsmith, Gray, Dr. Jonson, Longfellow, of America, Macauley, Mason, Milton Philips, Prior, Rowe, Shakespeare, Shadwell, Sheridan, Spenser, and Thomson. But there is no memorial to such poets as the following: Akenside, Mrs. Browning, Byron, Burns, Carew, Cartwright Chaucer, Churchill, Coleridge, Collins Cotton, Cowper, Crabbe, Denham, Donne Fletcher, Mrs. Hemans, Herbert Herrick, Hogg, Hood, Keats, Miss Landon, Lee, Lovelace, Marlowe, Marston, Massinger, Moore, Parnell, Pollock, Pope, Raleigh, Ramsay, Rossetti, Scott, Shelley, Shenstone, Southern, Southey, Waller, Wither, Wolfe, Wordsworth, Young, and several others.
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BRACCIOLINI, GIAN FRANCESCO, an Italian humanist; born in Castel Terranuova, near Florence, Feb. 11, 1380. By his untiring research of the monastery libraries of Switzerland and Germany he brought to light MSS. supposed to have been lost, of works of the ancient classics, Quintilian, Valerius Flaccus, Ascanius, Statius, Ammianus, and many others. He translated into Latin several of the Greek classics. His own writings are: "Facetiæ," a work of the same questionable character as others of the same title the book had 26 editions at the end of the 15th century; "Of the Variances of Fortune"; a "History of Florence"; "The Miseries of Human Life"; POINCARÉ , " The Infelicity of Princes "; " On Marriage in Old Age "; " Dialogue Against Hypocrites. " He died lied in Florence, Oct.
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MILES, United States Senator from Washington. Born at Memphis, Tenn., in 1868, and educated at Washington and Lee University, he moved to the State of Washington in 1891, where he took up the pr practice of w. After serving as district attorney, law. and later judge of Spokane co., he was elected to the National House of Representatives as a Republican in 1909, and at the expiration of his term was chosen United States Senator. He received the support of the Republicans in the State of Washington as a candidate for the presidential nomination in 1920. Vol. VII-Cye
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a genus of Euphorbiaceæ, now merged in Euphorbia itself. P. pulcherrima is a highly ornamental stove plant, with rose-like whorls of bracts.
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A tool consisting of two parallel jaws mounted upon a base in such a way that they may be opened or closed to suit the length of the arbor of the piece to be poised. When using the tool it must be perfectly level.
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a game played by children in the following manner: A chip or similar object is thrown down in the midst of a plot of sward; the children then hold hands and run around it in a ring swaying in and out, trying to make some one of their number step on "the poison." The moment that this is accomplished, they abandon their poisoned playmate, who chases about the playgrounds trying to touch and poison some one else before he can sit. Those who are remote from the poisoned child jump up and run about, and the game continues until someone is caught and poisoned. Then the game recommences by circling around the original source of venom. Sometimes the game is played by allowing the poisoned member of the ring to drop out. The circle starts around again until another playmate is poisoned, and thus the game continues till but few, or only one, is left unpoisoned. See Games
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SIMÉON-DENIS, a French geometer; born in Pithiviers, department of Loiret, June 21, 1781; and displaying an aptitude for mathematics, he was received into the École Polytechnique in 1798. In 1802 he became a professor in the Polytechnique; in 1808 a member of the Bureau des Longitudes; in 1809 professor in the Faculty of Sciences; member of the Institute in 1812, etc.; and this list of distinctions was crowned in 1837 by his elevation to the dignity of a peer of France. Poisson's whole life was devoted to the prosecution of scientific research, and the fruits of his pen number about 300 memoirs. Of the separate treatises published by Poisson, the best known is the "Treatise on Me chanics" (1833); others were on capillary action, the mathematical theory of heat, the motion of projectiles, and, lastly, the celebrated work "On the Invaria bility of the Mean Movement of the Planetary Axes." Poisson is fairly considered one of the chief founders of the science of mathematical physics. He died April 25, 1840.
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or POICTIERS, a town of France, on the Clain, formerly capital of the province of Poitou, at present of the department of the Vienne. The town occupies a large space, the houses being often surrounded by gardens and orchards. The principal edifice is the cathedral, founded by Henry II. of England about 1162. Poitiers is one of the most ancient towns of France, and the vestiges of a Roman palace, of Roman baths, of an aqueduct, and an amphitheater still remain. Two famous batvicinity, that in which Charles Martel defeated the Sarawere fought in its vicinity, cen army in 732, and that between the French under their king John II., and the English under Edward the Black Prince in 1356. The manufactures are unimportant, but there is a large trade. Pop. about 42,000.
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