These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Suchau, Suchet, Suckers.
SUCHOW, previous to the Taiping rebellion, one of the largest cities in China; on the Imperial canal, 80 miles W. N. W. of Shanghai, in the province of Kiangsu. It stands on numerous islands separated by canals, and since 1896 has been accessible as a treaty port. The city walls have a circuit of
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LOUIS GABRIEL, DUKE OF ALBUFERA, a French military officer; born in Lyons, France, March 2, 1770; 17 entered the military service at an early age (1790), and served with distinction under Napoleon, Masséna, Joubert, and Moreau in the Italian and Swiss campaigns. He attained the rank of lieutenant-general before he was 30 , and in 1808 received the command of a division in Spain, and was almost constantly victorious till after the battle of Vittoria. His brilliant services in that country obtained him the marshal's staff, and the title of duke . After the restoration Suchet was created peer of France . He lost his peerage after the battle of Waterloo, but recovered it in 1819. He died in Marseilles, France, Jan. 3, 1826. SUCKER or SUCKING FISH, a name applied popularly to the Remora, to the lump-sucker, and also to the fishes belonging to the teleostean genus Lipáris which is nearly allied to the lumpsuckers. The best-known forms are Montague's sucker, L. Montagui, and the common sucker or sea-snail, L. vulgaris, which adheres to stones and other fixed objects by means of their united ventral fins. They are small fishes, three or four inches long .
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a family of fresh water fishes, chiefly American. The mouth is prolonged, rather for nibbling and sucking than for seizing. The flesh is rather tasteless and is full of bones. Suckers, buffalo fish, and redhorse are closely allied. To say of one that he is a "sucker" is to intimate that he takes bait easily and is caught too readily--too easily deceived.
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SIR JOHN, an English author; born in Whitton, Middlesex , England, in 1609, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1631-1632 he served as a volunteer under Gustavus Adolphus. In 1639 he equipped a troop of horse for the service of Charles I. against the Scotch. Being implicated in a plot to rescue the Earl of Strafford from the Tower, he was obliged to flee to France in 1640. His writings consist of letters; miscellaneous poems, including ballads and songs; a prose treatise entitled "An Account of Religion by Reason"; and several plays - "Aglaura, "The Goblins ," and "Brennoralt." He died in Paris in 1642.
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Sir John (1609-1642), an English poet. He is one of a group of poets including Herrick, Lovelace, and Carew, who are sometimes called the Caroline poets, because of their adherence to Charles I,--Carolus, the Latin word for Charles, giving rise to the adjective Caroline. They were also called the Cavalier poets for a similar reason, the Royalist party being known as Cavaliers. Suckling was educated at Cambridge. He became a Royalist and man of fashion at the court of Charles I. He wrote a play presented with elaborate scenery, then a new thing except in masques. He is said to have invented the game of cribbage. He raised a troop of 100 horsemen to aid the king against the Scots, and was much laughed at for the gorgeous equipment with which he supplied them. The expedition cost him about $50,000, but was a total failure. Having joined in a scheme to release Strafford from the tower, Suckling was charged with treason and was obliged to flee from England. He is believed to have committed suicide in Paris. Suckling wrote several plays, interspersed with songs much better than the plays themselves. His Ballad Upon a Wedding is an exquisite lyric for which his name has been and will be remembered. It represents a rustic describing a fashionable wedding. It contains the well known lines: Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out As if they feared the light.
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a name given by different authors to various groups of animals , from the fact that the mouth is more or less developed into a suctorial rather than a masticatory organ ; especially the Aphaniptera; and a group of Annelida, containing the leeches.
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minute transparent vesicles arising on the skin toward the favorable termination of various diseases which have been attended by perspiration, as acute rheumatism, typhus, scarlatina, enteric fever, etc.; developed chiefly on the front of the abdomen and the chest. They are placed under the order Vesiculae.
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or Soudan, soo-dan', a vast, somewhat indefinite region in central Africa. It lies between the Sahara and the Congo basin, and extends from Senegambia on the west to the Red Sea. It comprises 2,000,000 square miles of territory and is inhabited by some 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 people, chiefly negroes and Arabs. The latter are the traders and dominant element. The region is reached by way of the Red Sea, the Nile, and from the Mediterranean by caravan. The western part of this vast region is chiefly under French influence. The eastern part is claimed by Great Britain . 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: BR 2026-07-22)
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FRENCH. See FRENCH WEST AFRICA.
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ANGLO-EGYPTIAN, the territory lying south of the 27 parallel of latitude, in northeast Africa, under Anglo-Egyptian control. It has an area of 1,014,400 square miles, and the distance from Lake Albert to Egypt is about 1,400 miles. The northern part includes the Nubian Desert, but mountains are found in the central and extreme southern parts. The flat part of the southern region is composed chiefly of swamps. This section has an enormous rainfall, with only two dry months, November and December. The Nile and its tributaries flow through the entire country, from Lake Albert to Egypt. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is divided into 13 provinces. The governors are British officers of the Egyptian Army, employed under the Sudan Government, or British civil officials of the government. The administration is carried on through British inspectors in charge of districts. In 1910 a governor's council was created to assist the governor-general in the discharge of his duties. The chief towns are Khartum, pop. about 17,000, the capital; Omdurman, pop. about 85,- 000; Khartum North, pop. about 12,000. The chief products are gum arabic , ivory, cotton, ostrich feathers, dates, hides and skins, and gold. The value of the imports in 1918 amounted to £4,- 024,582, and the exports to £3,923,771. There is a railroad from Wadi Halfa to Khartum, with a connection with the Red Red Sea at Port Sudan. The total crisis appeared Mohammed Ahmed of length of the line is approximately 1,500 miles.
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