These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Quillaia, Quiloa, Quilt.
QUILLAJA, or QUIL- LAYA, large evergreen trees. Three or four species are known; all from South America. ca. Q. saponaria is the Quillai or Cullay. Also the bark of the Q. saponaria. It is used as a source of saponin, which is extracted with alcohol.
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SIR ARTHUR THOMAS, an English writer of fiction; born in Cornwall, Nov. 21, 1863. He was educated at Oxford. He belonged to the staff of the weekly "Speaker." Among his stories are: "Dead Man's Troy by Town"; "The Splendid Spur"; "The Blue Pavilions"; "The Ship of Stars," etc. He completed Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel "St. Ives." Among his more recent works are: "Poison Island" (1907); " Corporal Sam" (1910); "Nicky Nan" (1915), etc. Knighted in 1910. Since 1912, Professor of English Literature, Cambridge University.
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kwil'er-kowch, Arthur Thomas (1863-), an English author. He was born at Cornwall, and was educated at Oxford. In 1887 he began his literary career in London, becoming a member of the staff of the Speaker, a liberal weekly. He used the pseudonym "Io" for some years. He has written many novels, short stories, and poems. He drew largely on Cornwall for local color. Among his books may be named The Laird's Luck, Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts, The White Wolf, Hatty Wesley, and The Ship of Stars.
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or KILWA, a seaport of East Africa, in former German territory, 190 miles S. of Zanzibar, and an outlet for the trade with Nyassaland, exports ivory, gum copal, rice, and manioc.
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the topmost cover for a bed. Quilts are also called coverlets, counterpanes, and bedspreads. They are of various kinds. The common domestic method of making quilts is to stitch together with the needle two pieces of fabric of the required size, with an even layer of cotton batting or wool between them. The stitching is in some regular pattern. The upper covering of the quilt is usually more or less ornamental. Patchwork of various patterns has been, and in some localities is still, a popular method of making this upper covering of the quilt. Crochet, toilet, and Marseilles quilts are loom woven. They are made of heavy cotton yarns and ornamented with a variety of patterns by means of the Jacquard attachment. They are woven double, and the crochet quilts are reversible. Marseilles quilts have a much coarser back and cannot well be reversed.
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a method of sewing two pieces of silk, linen, or stuff on each other, with wool or cotton between them, by working them all over in the form of chequer or diamond work , or in flowers.
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a town of France, in the department of Finistère, on the Odet, 11 miles from its mouth, and 63 miles S. E. of Brest. Its cathedral (1239-1515), a stately and richly-carved and ornamental edifice, is the principal building. Potteries are in operation, as well as tan yards, sailworks, etc. Pop. about 20,000.
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JAMES, an English actor, of Irish parentage; born in London, England, Feb. 24, 1693. He made his first appearance on the stage at Dublin in 1714; shortly afterward he obtained an engagement in London, and gradually acquired celebrity as a tragic actor as well as in comic characters . He retained his pre-eminence till the appearance of Garrick in 1741. His last performance was Falstaff (1753), in which character he is supposed never to have been excelled. He died Jan. 21 , 1766.
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a prominent name in American biography. Edmund Quincy, a lawyer of note, was born at Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1681. His grandson, John Quincy, lived 1744-1775. He was born at Boston and undertook the profession of law. He took a prominent part in the agitation which preceded the American Revolution and died while absent on a political mission to England. His son, Josiah Quincy, lived 1772-1864. He represented Massachusetts in Congress 1805-13. He opposed the War of 1812 and was against the admission of Louisiana. He was mayor of Boston, and from 1829 to 1845 was president of Harvard. He wrote a History of Harvard University and a Municipal History of Boston. His son, Edmund Quincy, lived 1808-1877. He is known chiefly as his father's biographer and the editor of his writings. Josiah Quincy, a brother of the preceding, was mayor of Boston in 1845-9; another Josiah Quincy has been prominent in the politics of Massachusetts. Other Quincys are still prominent in the politics of Boston and of the state. Quincy, Massachusetts, was named after John Quincy of this family in 1792. It is a suburb of Boston, noted as the birthplace of John Quincy Adams and John Hancock. It has enormous stone quarries and is noted for its system of public schools.
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a city and county-seat of Adams co., Ill.; on the Mississippi river , and on the Wabash, the Burlington Route, and the Quincy, Omaha, and Kansas City railroads; 104 miles W. of Springfield. Here are the St. Francis Solanus College (R. C.), Chaddock College (M. E.), Gem City and Union business colleges, St. Mary's Institute (R. C.), public library, Blessing and St. Mary's Hospitals, State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, residence of a Protestant Episcopal bishop, parks, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National, State and private banks. and several daily and weekly periodicals. There is daily steamboat connection with cities along the Mississippi river. Quincy has flouring mills, carriage factories, machine shops, foundries, saw mills, planing mills, and extensive manufactures of cigars, tobacco, sash, blinds, stoves, elevators, pumps, furniture, bricks, steam engines, plows, etc. magnificent railroad bridge crosses the river here. Pop. (1910) 36,587; (1920) 35,978.
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a city in Norfolk co., Mass.; at the mouth of the Quincy river where it enters Quincy Bay, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 8 miles S. E. of Boston. It comprises nearly a dozen villages. Here are the Adams Academy for Boys, Woodward Institute for Girls, Thomas Crane Public Library, city hospital, waterworks, electric street railroads, electric lights, National, co-operative, -operative, and savings banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. The city contains quarries of the celebrated Quincy granite, which is shipped to nearly all parts of the United States. It also has a large boot and shoe industry. Quincy is noted as the birthplace of John Hancock, of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, Presidents of the United States. Pop. (1910) 32,642; (1920) 47,611.
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