These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Stanwood, Stanza, Staple.
FRANK LEBBY, an American poet and journalist, born at Charleston, S. C., in 1857. After being connected with various newspapers in Atlanta, Ga., he joined the staff of the Atlanta "Constitution," where for several years he contributed daily verse and prose. He published "Songs of the Soil" (1894); "Comes One With a Song" (1898), and "Little Folks Down South" (1904).
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ELIZABETH CADY N. Y., Nov. 12, 1815; was graduated at Emma Willard's Seminary, in Troy, N. Y., in 1832; called the first Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1848; addressed the New York Legislature on the rights of married women in 1854, and in advocacy of divorce for drunkenness in 1860; and was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1868. She was a member of numerous Woman's Suffrage societies, editor of "The Revolution," and the author of "The History of Woman Suffrage"; "Eighty Years and More"; "The Woman's Bible"; and other works. She died in 1902.
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OSCAR FITZALAN, an American naval officer, born in Sag Har- Har bor, N. Y., in 1834. He was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy, in 1849, and gradually rose through the various grades of the service, becoming a rear admiral in July, 1894, just before he was retired. He served in various posts throughout the Civil War, and saw service in Chinese and Japanese waters from 1872 to 1874. Besides holding commands on various vessels of the United States Navy, his assignments included service at the New York Navy Yard (1864-1865), Norfolk Navy Yard (1874-1877), Newport Torpedo Station (1878), Naval Station, New London, Conn. (1885-1889), Newport Training Station (1890-1891), and the Philadelphia Naval Home (1891-1893). He was a member of various patriotic and naval societies.
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STANTON, THEODORE, an American journalist, son of Henry B. and Eliza- Cady; born in Seneca Feb. 10, 1851. He was a correspondent for the New York "Tribune" at Berlin from 1880, and later engaged as a journalist in Paris. He translated Goff's "Life of Thiers" (1879), and wrote: "The Woman Question in Europe" (1884) and "Life of Rosa Bonheur" (1910). He edited several volumes of letters relating to the World War.
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Edwin M. (1814-1869), an American statesman. He was born at Steubenville, Ohio. He studied at Kenyon College. He was admitted to the bar in 1836. Twenty years later, after practicing in his native town and in Pittsburg, he opened an office in Washington, D. C. Lincoln made Stanton his secretary of war in 1862, a position which he held until forced out by a disagreement with President Johnson. President Grant appointed him a justice of the supreme court, but he did not live to discharge the duties of the office.
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Elizabeth Cady (1815-1892). A leading advocate of woman suffrage . Elizabeth Cady was the daughter of a New York lawyer, a member of Congress. She was born at Johnstown, and was educated in a local academy. She married Henry B. Stanton, a pronounced abolitionist. While in England attending an anti-slavery meeting, Mrs. Stanton become acquainted with Lucretia Mott. The first woman suffragist convention held in America was called to order by Mrs. Stanton at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Mrs. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were co-workers in reform movements. Mrs. Stanton's acknowledged social grace and pleasing qualities as a speaker and presiding officer gave her a large place in women's orzanizations. See Anthony ; Willard ; Woman Suffrage
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EDWARD, an American editor, born in Augusta, Me., in 1841. He was educated at Bowdoin College, from which he also received an honorary degree in 1894. From 1867 to 1882 he was assistant editor, and from 1882 to 1883, editor of the Boston "Daily Advertiser." From 1887 to 1911 he was managing editor of the "Youth's Companion." He acted as special agent on several of the United States manufacturing censuses, was a trustee of Bowdoin College, and a member and recording secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He wrote, besides many articles for domestic and foreign reviews and for many other periodicals: "History of Presidential Elections" (1884); "History of the Presidency" (1898 Controversies" (1903); "James Gillespie Blaine" (1905); etc.
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a number of lines or verses regularly adjusted to each other, and properly ending in a full point or pause; a part of a poem ordinarily containing every variety of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring, whether like or unlike in measure. A stanza is variously termed terzina, quartetto, sestina, ottava, etc., according as it consists of three, four, six, eight, etc., lines.
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the modern form of the Anglo-Saxon word stapel, meaning a heap, or regularly piled up accumulation, of goods; hence a place where goods are stored up for sale. In the Middle Ages, when the term was in common use, a staple meant both the trading town for particular commodities and the commodities that were wont to be exposed for sale there.
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lists of catalogues of the stars arranged according to their positions, generally their right ascensions and declinations, though some of the early catalogues were arranged according to the positions in ۱ latitude and longitude. The early catalogues, and those accompanying uranometries, are arranged in constellations, and then in the order of position under each constellation. This system was of course fit only for the few stars visible with the naked eye. Modern catalogues resulting from accurate determinations of position give the places to hundredths of a second of time and tenths of a second of arc. Such catalogues also give the precession of each star in right ascension and declination, in order to reduce the position to any desired epoch, for the places of the stars are always changing, or rather the co-ordinate plane to which they are referred is always shifting its position on account of the precession of the equinoxes. The epoch of a star catalogue is the date to which its places refer, and is always taken as the beginning of some year, generally some decade or quarter of a century.
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