These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Rhinelander, Rhinelander, Rhinitis.
a city of Wisconsin, the county-seat of Oneida co. It is on the Wisconsin river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern and the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste . Marie railroads.' The city is the center of an important lumbering region and its industries include saw mills, paper mills, iron works, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,637; (1920 ) 6,654.
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PHILIP MERCER, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born at Newport, R. I., in 1869. He was educated at Harvard and Oxford universities and became a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1896 , and a priest in 1897. After some years of active parish work in Washington, D. C., he became professor of ecclesiastical history, homiletics, and Christian evidences at Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., in 1903, and professor of history of religion and missions at the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1907. In 1911, he was consecrated coadjutor bishop of Pennsylvania, becoming bishop of the same diocese in November PHILIP MERCER RHINELANDER of that year. He received honorary de grees from the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge, Mass., Philadelphia Divinity School, Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania .
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nasal catarrh. acute form it is commonly known as a "cold in the head," and it is caused by bacilli attacking the mucous membrane of the nose when the resistance is lowered by cold or by mechanical irritants. Some chronic cases are caused by reflex irritation, resulting from over-stimulated sexual organs. Rhinitis is also a symptom of measles and occasionally accompanies other infectious diseases such as diphtheria or scarlet fever.
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When a portion or the whole of the nose has been destroyed by accident or disease, the deficiency may be restored by a transplantation of skin from an adjoining healthy part.
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a name introduced by Dujardin for an order of infusoria , which were defined as animalcules in mutable form, moving by means of multiform exsertile processes, without vibratile cilia or other external organs. When the subkingdom Protozoa was formed, the name Rhizopoda was retained for the class containing individuals with the power of emitting pseudopodia, and the class was divided into five orders: Monera, Amabea, Foraminifera, Radiolario, and Spongida. The rhizopoda are the Myxopodia of Huxley, and this latter name has been retained by Professor Lankester in his reclassification of the Protozoa.
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PAUL PETER, an American Roman Catholic bishop, born in Prussian Poland in 1871. Having come to America with his parents in his early childhood, he was educated at St. Mary's, St. Ignatius, and St. Francis colleges, Chicago, iest and was ordained a priest in 1894. From 1896 to 1909 he was in charge of various churches in Chicago. In 1908 he was consecrated bishop of Barca, and in the same year auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago. From 1909 to 1915 he also served as vicar-general of the Archdiocese. In 1915 he was appointed bishop of the Green Bay (Wis.) diocese.
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rodz, an island of the Aegean Sea. It lies about ten miles distant from the southeast coast of Asia Minor . Historically, the island belonged to one or the other of the cities of Greece, but it is now a Turkish possession. Rhodes has always been famous for a fine, mild climate, a fertile soil, and a great variety of the finest fruits, vegetables, and other products. At the present time, exports of olives, figs, pomegranates, sponges, and olive oil amount to about $1,000,000 a year. The present population is about 30,000. Two-thirds are Greeks, the rest are Turks and Jews. The city of Rhodes at the northeastern extremity of the island is noted in history. The island was held by Athens, Sparta, and Alexander successively. It passed with Asia Minor under Roman rule. It was taken by the Arabs in 661. During the Crusades the city was occupied by the Knights of St. John who converted it into a strongly fortified post. See Colossus
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CHARLES DUDLEY, an American military officer, born at Delaware, Ohio, in 1865. He was educated 'at the George Washington University, and the United States Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1889. After having been appointed in the same year 2nd lieutenant in the 7th Cavalry, he successively rose through the various ranks, to major-general major-general in 1918. He served in the Sioux Indian Campaign of 1890-1, in the Spanish-American War, in the Boxer (China) Relief Expedition, in the Philippine Islands (1900-1903), and in the World War, in which he commanded the 157th Field Artillery Brigade during the Aisne-Marne, the St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne offensives. Later he commanded the 42nd and 34th Divisions, served as chief of the American section of the Permanent Interallied Armistice Commission (1918- 19), and as commanding general of Base Section 2 at Bordeaux, France. In 1919-20 he was in command of the General Staff College. From 1903 to 1906, and again from 1909 to 1912, he was assigned to duty with the General Staff Corps, and from 1914 to 1917 commanded the Mounted Service Schools. He was awarded the D. S. M. and was made a Knight Commander of the Bath, and a Commander of the Legion of Honor. He wrote and lectured extensively on military subjects.
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HARRISON (GARFIELD), an American author, born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1871. He was educated at Harvard, and for a number of years was actively engaged in the publishing business, both in this country and in Eng- • land. Besides many stories and articles in magazines, he also wrote "The Lady and the Ladder" (1906); "Charles Edward" (1907); "The Flight to Eden" (1907); "In Vacation America" (1915). his plays were "Modern Marriage," "The Whirl of Society," "Ruggles of Red Gap," "The Willow Tree" (with Benrimo), "A Gentleman from Mississippi," "An Old New Yorker," and "Mr. Barnum," the last three with Thomas A. Wise.
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JAMES FORD, an American historian; born in Cleveland, O., May 1, 1848. He was educated at the Universities of New York and Chicago; spent some years in study abroad, and engaged in business till 1891. He wrote "History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850" (new ed. 1906); "Historical Essays" (1909); "History of the Civil War" (1917); "History of the United States, 1877-1896" (1919), etc. He was awarded the Loubat Prize from Berlin Academy of Science, 1901; gold medal National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1910; Pulitzer Prize, Columbia University, 1918; and many honorary degrees from American and foreign universities. He was an ex-president of the American Historical Society and a member of many domestic and foreign societies.
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