These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Rio Teodoro, Rio Tinto, Rioja.
or RIO THEODORO, also known as Rio Duvida, or River of Doubt, a river in Brazil, in the state of Matto Grosso, and rising in the Corde Leira dos Parecis. It is a tributary of the Rio Madeira, flowing northward between long. long. 59° 59° and and 61° 61° W. and nearly a thousand miles in length. Theodore Roosevelt partly explored it in 1914 and its name was changed in his honor.
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a river in southern Spain in the Province of Huelva, near whose sources are rich copper mines; the annual output (copper and sulphur) reaches 1,400,000 tons; these minerals are exported from the port of HUELVA (q. v.), 45 miles distant, near the mouth of the river. These mines were worked by the Romans-their Tharsis. During the years of Moorish supremacy they were unused, but they have been worked again since the middle of the 18th century. They were bought in 1872 by the Rio Tinto (London-Bremen) Syndicate for $20,000,000.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) FRANCISCO DE (rē-ō'Hä), a Spanish poet; born in 1585. He was a great scholar, librarian Seville about of the royal library and Chronicler of Castile. He was regarded as one of the best poets of his time. His best known work is "Epístola Moral á Fabio," full of sound advice regarding the superiority of a quiet and unassuming life. He wrote many sonnets under the titles of "To Riches," "To Poverty," Spring," "To the Rose," and "Silvas." "To the His "Poems ," with extensive biography, were published in 1867, and additions in 1872. He died in Madrid, Aug. 8, 1659.
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a character in a story of the same name by Washington Irving, published in The Sketch Book in 1819. The scene is laid in the Catskill mountains where Rip Van Winkle, an easy-going "ne'er do weel," sleeps for twenty years and awakens to find changes in his home and native village which are to him most marvelous. The character is one of Irving's greatest creations and has been given added popularity by the actor, Joseph Jefferson. The story has been dramatized several times. Jefferson altered it and made it one of his most important roles.
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WILLIAM ZEBINA, an American economist, born at Medford, Mass., in 1867. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Columbia University. From 1895 to 1901 he was a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1901 he became professor of political economy at Harvard University. He lectured on sociology at Columbia University from 1893 to 1901; served as expert agent on transportation with the United States Industrial Commission, in 1900-1; and was the Huxley memorial lecturer at the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, England, in 1908. He was a member of numerous American and foreign scientific societies and twice vice-president of the American Economic Association. During the World War he served in the War Department as administrator of labor standards for army clothing, and in 1919 was chairman of the National Adjustment Commission of the United States Shipping Board. He published, besides many articles in peri- History of Virginia" (1890); "The Races of Europe" (1900); "Trusts, Pools and Corporations" (1905); "Railway Problems" (1907); "Railroads: Rates and Regulation" (1912); "Railroads - Finance and Organization" (1914); "Special Report U. S. Eight-Hour Commission Trainmen's Schedules and Agreeon ments" (1917). He also edited "Selections and Documents in Economics," in 10 volumes.
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GEORGE, an American author; born in Greenfield, Mass., Oct. 3, 1802; educated at Harvard University and Cambridge Divinity School; became a Unitarian minister in Boston; lived some years in Europe; was one of the founders of the Transcendental magazine, the "Dial" (on which he had Emerson and Margaret Fuller as coadjutors); and the originator and conductor of the communistic experiment at Brook Farm. He became literary editor of the New York "Tribune" in 1849, and was joint-editor with Charles A. Dana of the "American Cyclopædia" (1858-1863, 16 vols., also of the second edition). He died in New York City, July 4, 1880.
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a city in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 22 miles N. W. of York. It is the seat of a bishopric, with notable cathedral and other ecclesiastical buildings. The market-place has a high obelisk and there is an Hiberno-Saxon crypt dating from the missionary period of the 7th century. The industries include iron founding, machine making and malting. The Irish missionaries in Northumbria established there one of the earliest monastic establishments in England, organized in 678 into a see. Pop. about 8,500.
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a co-educational institution for higher education, founded in 1851, at Ripon, Wis. It was originally called Brockway College and its present name was assumed in 1863. In odicals, the following books: "Financial structors. President, H. C. Culbertson,
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a name commonly applied to a wall of broken stones laid up loosely for protective purposes. Railroad embankments are faced with a loose, slanting wall of this description to prevent their being washed away by encroaching streams. In Europe where labor is cheap and bottom land is valuable, the shores of rivers are not infrequently riprapped to prevent the carrying away of rich soil. The Swiss banks of the Rhone and other streams are protected in this way. Riprap on a shore with little dip is practically a sort of paving. The term is applied also to heaps of broken stone dumped in a river just above piers and abutments to break the force of the current. See Galveston
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A gate set on the top or leading from the side of a casting, either to indicate when the mould is filled with metal or to be used as a means for introducing fresh supplies of hot fluid metal to make good the deficiency caused by shrinkage. In the latter instance the riser is often called a cut-off or flow-gate; in the former the terms "rising-head" or "feeding-head" are commonly used. See CUT-OFF; FLOW-GATE; FEEDING-HEAD; FEEDING-ROD.
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