These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Steelton, Steen, Steevens.
a borough in Dauphin co., Pa., on the Susquehanna river, the Pennsylvania canal, and the Philadelphia and Reading, and the Pennsylvania railroads; 3 miles E. of Harrisburg. It contains electric railroads, a National bank, and daily and weekly newspapers. Here are the extensive plant of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, a flour mill, shirt factory, planing mill, and brick works. Pop. (1910) 14,246; (1920) 13,428.
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JAN, a Dutch painter; born in Leyden, Netherlands, in 1626; studied under Adrian van Ostade; joine Ostade; joined the Leyden Guild of Painters in 1648, and for some time carried on the trade of a brewer at Delft. A sympathetic observer of human life, he painted genre pictures from every plane of life, the lowest as well as the highest. The grave humor of his style is best seen in such pictures as the "Doctor Visiting His Patient," a "Cavalier Giving Lessons on the Guitar to a Lady," "Domestic Life," "Tavern Company," "The Oyster Girl," "Work and Idleness," "Bad Company," "Old Age," and particularly the pieces of childhood; e. g., the pictures called "St. Nicholas" and "Twelfth Night." He died in Leyden in 1679.
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GEORGE WARRING- TON, an English journalist and writer, born at Sydenham, in 1869. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. After serving on the editorial staff of the "Pall Mall Gazette" for several years, he became, in 1897, special correspondent of the "Daily Mail." In this capacity he visited the United States, Egypt, Egypt, Greece, Gr India, and other countries. His letters to the "Daily Mail" were republished under the titles "The Land of the Dollar" (1897); "With the Conquering Turk" (1897); "With Kitchener to Khartum" (1898); "The Tragedy of Dreyfus" (1899); "From Cape Town to Ladysmith" (1900). He served as correspondent in the Boer War and the hardships which he endured there led to his death at Ladysmith, while it was besieged by the Boers, in 1900. He was considered the most eminent war correspondent of his time.
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(JOSEPH) LINCOLN, an American writer and lecturer, born in San Francisco, Cal., in 1866. He graduated from the University of California in 1889 and studied philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Leipzig, and Paris. He was a newspaper editor in New York City from 1892 to 1902, when he became managing editor of "McClure's Magazine." From 1906 to 1911 he was an associate editor of the "American" and "Everybody's" magazines. His researches into the mismanagement and corruption of municipal politics, published in various newspapers and magazines, resulted in great improvement in these conditions. He wrote "The Shame of the Cities" (1904); "The Struggle for Self-Government" (1906); "Upbuilders" (1909); "The Least of These" (1910). He was a frequent contributor of articles and short stories to magazines.
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a family of Stegosauria; vertebræ biconcave; ischia directed backward, with the sides meeting in the median line; astragalus coalesced with tibia, metatarsals short. Genera: Stegosaurus, some 30 feet long, well armed with enormous bucklers, some of which were spinous, from the Jurassic beds of the Rocky Mountains; Diracodon and Amosaurus.
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stin, Baron (1757-1831), a Prussian statesman. He was educated at Gottingen, and became the manager of the mining department of the Prussian government. In 1804 he was made minister of state, a position he held with a short intermission until the overthrow of Napoleon had been accomplished. He was the center of an illustrious trio of men. He held the relation to them afterward held by Bismarck to Von Roon and Moltke. He revolutionized taxation, abolished a sort of semi-serfdom, made all classes of men subject to military service, abolished the rule of guilds, leaving every man free to pursue the occupation he might prefer. Remnants of feudalism were abolished, and the peasants were given two-thirds of the lands they occupied. The stand taken by the Prussians at Leipsic and at Waterloo may be credited largely to Stein. The upbuilding of the German army, the success of the Franco-German War, and the creation of the German Empire have their origin in the farseeing plans of Baron Stein. In his later days he was excluded from office by jealousy and criticism. Though little known except by scholars, Stein merits recognition as one of the great men of Germany. See Bismarck
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CHARLOTTE VON, the intimate friend of Goethe; born in Weimar, Germany, Dec. 25, 1742; married in 1764 to the duke's master of the horse. Her friendship with Goethe was broken suddenly after the poet's return from Italy (1788). They were, however, in some measure reconciled before Frau von Stein died. Goethe's "Letters" to her were first published in 1848-1851, and again, with additions, in 1883-1885; and another final collection was issued by the German Goethe Society in 1886. The lady's letters to Goethe were destroyed by her shortly before her death. She wrote a tragedy, "Dido." She died in Weimar Jan. 6, 1827.
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HEINRICH FRIEDRICH KARL, BARON VON, a Prussian statesman; born in Nassau, Germany, Oct. 26, 1757. After being educated at Göttingen and studying public law at Wetzlar, he entered the Prussian civil service, service, and after filling several important offices, was, in 1786, appointed president of the Westphalian Chambers, which post he held till 1804, in which year he became Minister of Finance and Trade. In this capacity he laid the foundation of important social reforms; but, exciting the jealousy of Napoleon, he was exiled to Prague. In 1812 he went to St. Petersburg, where he rendered great services to the Russian Government during the French invasion. Subsequently returning to his own country, he was placed at the head of administrative affairs, from which position he retired in 1827. He died in Kappenberg, Prussia, June 29, 1831.
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or STEENBOK, in zoölogy, the Antilope tragulus, from the stony plains and mountains of South Africa; rather more than 3 feet long, and about 20 inches high at the shoulder; red brown above, white below; tail rudimentary, ears large; horns straight, about 4 inches long in the male, absent in female; no false hoofs. Also, the ibex. STEGOSAURUS
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or STELE, in architecture, a small column without base or capital, serving as a monument, milestone, or the like. In archæology, a sepulchral slab or column, which in ancient times answered the purpose of a gravestone.
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