These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Salamanca, Salamanca, Salandra.
a village of New York, in Cattaraugus co. It is on the Allegheny river and on the Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh, and the Western New York and Pennsylvania railroads. It is the center of an important lumber region and has railroad repair shops, manufactures of furniture, lumber, leather, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,792; (1920) 9,276.
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UNIVERSITY OF, famous Spanish university. It was established about 1230 by Alfonso IX. of Leon and attained its greatest influence during the period from the 15th to the 17th century. While it embraced all the chief studies of the time, students particularly and sought there instruction in canon civil law. The Spanish monarchs aided particularly Ferdinand of Castile and Alfonso the Astronomer. Its financial condition was, however, not always flourishing and the Popes repeatedly came its aid. In the 16th and 17th century it shared almost the supremacy in Europe enjoyed by Paris in an earlier age. It has since been reorganized and its students now number about 1,500.
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Otherwise known as Asbestos . A mineral of an incombustible nature, which resembles flax, being of fine fibrous texture. It was used by the Pagans to light their temples: when once it was lighted, they believed it could not be put out, even by rain and storms. Leonardus says: "Its fire is nourished by an inseparable unctuous Humid flowing from its substance; therefore, being once kindled it preserves a constant light without feeding it with any moisture."
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ANTONIO, an Italian statesman, born in Troia, in 1853. For several years during his earlier life he was a professor of law on the faculty of the University of Rome. He began his political career by being elected ted to the National Chamber of Deputies from his native city. He was closely associated with Baron Sonnino, who was the bitter opponent of Giolitti. When the World ANTONIO SALANDRA War broke out, in 1914, Salandra was Premier, and he, more than any other individual, was responsible for the fact that Italy refused to join the Germanic alliance against the Entente, holding that the treaty which bound Italy to Austria- Hungary was purely for defensive purposes. In May, 1915, on the issue of whether the country was remain neutral or join the Entente, he resigned, to test popular sentiment. So overwhelming were the demonstrations for his poltural Society, the Mar icy that the Ki King was compelled to refuse to accept his resignation, and Italy definitely adopted her pro-Entente policy, which led to her joining forces with France and England. In June, 1916, Premier Salandra resigned.
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in American history, a popular name for a general increase in federal salaries. The Constitution provides for the payment of certain salaries from the national treasury. An act of March 3, 1873, duly signed by President Grant, provided that the president's salary should be increased from $25,000 to $50,000, that of the chief-justice from $8,500 to $10,500; and those of the vice president, cabinet, associate justices, and the speaker of the House from $8,000 to $10,000, and that of senators and representatives, from $5,000 to $7,500. An amendatory act passed on the following day provided that back salary be allowed to congressmen for two years. This last feature aroused so much indignation that the cry of "Salary Grab" was raised with such effect that the law was repealed except so far as it related to the salary of the president and justices. See Webster
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an island off the W. extremity of New Guinea, to the Dutch portion of which it is regarded as belonging; area about 750 square miles. Pop. about 5,000.
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a bay of the Atlantic, on the W. coast of Cape Colony, South Africa, 80 miles N. of Cape Town. It forms a fine natural harbor, with excellent shelter and anchorage at all seasons, but is at present little frequented on account of scarcity of water and fuel.
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SIR ROBERT HENRY, a British military officer; born in 1782. He entered the army at a very early age, and his brilliant military career supplies some stirring pages in the history of the British Indian empire of the first half of the 19th century. In India, Burma, Afghanistan, wherever he was employed, he distinguished himself, especially in Afghanistan, where he forced Dost Mohammed Khan to surrender, and inflicted a crushing defeat on Akbar Khan at Jalalabad (1842), subsequently assisting in the recapture of Kabul. He died in 1845.
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in law, that transaction by which the ownership of property is transferred from one person to another in consideration of a money payment made by the buyer to the seller. If it be a commutation of goods for goods, it is more properly an exchange. In order to the validity of a sale, it is necessary that the parties act in good faith; for it is a maxim in law that fraud vitiates all contracts. Neither is a sale valid if the subject-matter of it is illegal or prohibited, or if an essential part part of it involves an illegal act. In order to constitute a sale, the consent of each of the parties is required; and hence each must be legally qualified to consent.
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. See Hawthorne ; Witchcraft Salic (sal'ik) Law, a code of laws originating with the Salian Franks, a tribe of Teutons. They lived along the lower Rhine. The code was compiled, it is thought, prior to the conversion of this people to Christianity. The oldest manuscripts, however, are in Latin, and date from the time of Clovis. The code is subdivided into sixty-five chapters. It throws no little light on the customs of the people among whom it originated. The provisions relate to lawsuits, fines, theft, kidnaping, injury to persons and animals, and the inheritance of property. The people lived evidently in villages. They cultivated fields and raised cattle, hunted, and fished. They had vineyards and gardens. They had workers in gold and iron. Serfs and slaves are mentioned, but nothing is said of an aristocracy. A noted clause, frequently referred to as the Salic Law, provides that women shall inherit personal property only, real estate going to male heirs. At some time, just when is not clear, the law was applied to the inheritance of the crown. In France, where the Salic Law prevails, no female has ever occupied the throne. If the Salic Law had prevailed in Great Britain , Mary, Elizabeth, Anne, and Victoria would have been excluded from the throne.
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