These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Santo Domingo, Santonin, Saphy.
the capital of the republic, is a city of about 20,000 inhabitants. It was founded by Columbus on his third voyage, and was for a time the capital of the Spanish West Indies . It still has a decidedly Spanish appearance. At his death, Columbus desired that his body be sent from Spain to be buried in the Cathedral of San Domingo. See Columbus ; Haiti; L'Ouverture
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in chemistry, C15H1803; santonic acid. The active constituent of the blossoms and seeds of Artemisia sanonica, discovered by Kahler in 1830. It crystallizes in lustrous six-sided flat prisms, which melt at 168°-170°; insoluble in cold water, very soluble in alcohol and ether. It is much esteemed as an anthelmintic.
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in anatomy, two small, yellowish, conical cartilaginous nodules, articulated with the tips of the arytenoid cartilages; named from their discoverer, G. B. Santorini, an Italian anatomist (1681-1736).
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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) Perhaps from the Arabic safi "pure, select, excellent." Certain charms or amulets worn by the negroes as protection against thunderbolts and diseases, to procure them wives, and avert disasters of all kinds. They are composed of strips of paper on which sentences from the Koran are inscribed, sometimes intermixed with kabalistic signs. These strips are enclosed in silver tubes or silk bags, which are worn near the skin, and often fastened in the dress. Africans of both sexes and all religions are great believers in the occult properties of such talismans; and Mungo Park resorted to the making of Saphy, or Grigris (as they are some times called), as a means of earning his living.
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soapworts; the typical order of Sapindales. Trees, shrubs, twining and with tendrils, rarely climbing herbs; leaves alternate, generally compound, sometimes dotted; flowers small, white or pink, rarely yellow. Found in S. America, in India, and various tropical countries; tribes, Sapindex, Hippocastaneæ, Dodoneæ, and Melismeæ. Known genera, 118; species, over 1,000.
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senegin; polygalin; a substance first observed in the common soapwort, but now found to be widely diffused through the vegetable kingdom. Quillaja bark, horse chestnuts, and senega root yield it in considerable quantities. The powdered substance is boiled in strong alcohol and filtered hot; the saponin separates in flocks on cooling and is purified by animal charcoal. It is a white friable powder, having a burning and persistently disagreeable taste, is more soluble in dilute than strong alcohol, and forms with water a frothy solution. It is often used to give an artificial froth to beer and effervescing beverages.
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an amorphous mineral occurring as nodules, or filling crevices, and forming amygdules in igneous rocks; soft, but brittle when dry; color, various; composition: essentially a hydrated silicate of magnesia and alumina. Also a clay resembling soap, occurring in the granite of the hot springs of Plombières, France. SAPOR I., or SHAHPUR, a Persian king who reigned A. D. 240-272. He belonged to the dynasty of the Sassanide, which ruled Persia for about 400 years. Sapor's most noteworthy achievement was his successful war with the Romans, in which he defeated, took captive, and put to death the Emperor Valerian. (A. D. 260).
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A king of Persia, who succeeded to the throne about the 238th year of the Christian era. He wished to increase his dominions by conquest, but was defeated by Odenatus , who defeated his army with great slaughter. He was assassinated A. D. 273. 2026 Editor's Note: The name Sapor is a Latinized form of the Persian name Shapur , which translates to "son of the king." This entry refers to Shapur I, the second Sasanian King of Kings of Iran, whose reign and death dates differ slightly from the traditional accounts provided in this text. (Ed: BR 2026-06-22)
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in military language, a term applied in England to officers and men of the Royal Engineers, who were originally organized as a corps of "Sappers and Miners." In the United States the work of the old sappers and miners is now done by the Engineer Corps.
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A piece of flat brass to which a piece of sapphire, previously flattened, is attached by means of shellac. It is used for working upon garnet pallets and other soft stones. The sapphire is ground upon a diamond mill, and its surface rendered coarse, or fine, according to the mill used. A strip of copper and diamantine is sometimes used instead of sapphire files.
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the popular American name of several small woodpeckers.
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the seed of Lecythis ollaria and L. zabucajo trees, plentiful in the forests of the N. of Brazil, and belonging to the natural order Lecythidaceæ. The fruit is urn-shaped, as large as a child's head. Each fruit contains a number of seeds or nuts, as in the case of the allied Brazil nut, but the flavor is finer.
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a city of Oklahoma, the county-seat of Creek co. It is on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad. It is an important industrial center, has railroad shops, large oil refineries, machine shops, glass, mattress, candy and other factories, and is the seat of an Indian mission school. Pop. (1910) 8,283; (1920) 11,634.
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an Arabian or other Mussulman of the early and proselytizing period; a propagator of Mohammedanism in countries lying to the W. of Arabia. It was also applied to any infidel nation against which crusades were preached, such as the Turks.
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sar'a-sens, an Arabic word meaning easterns, orientals. It was applied in the Middle Ages to the Mohammedans, who dwelt in Asia, as contrasted with the Moors, who dwelt in Morocco and occupied Spain. The Saracens had conquered Palestine and occupied Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. See Crusades ; Saladin; Arabs
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a very old city of Spain, the capital of the old kingdom of Aragon, now the capital of a province 6,726 square miles; pop. about 500,000), of the same name (area, on from its suburbs), 176 miles N. E. from the Ebro (which separates the city Madrid. Without being regularly fortified, it is surrounded by an earthen wall and is built throughout of bricks. The houses are seldom above three stories in height; the streets narrow and crooked, except one long and wide one called the Cozo. There are two bridges over the Ebro. The public buildings are numerous-churches, convents, and two cathedrals celebrated throughout Spain. The older one is much resorted to by pilgrims, as it contains a pillar on which the Virgin is said to have descended, and her image believed to have fallen from a university, heaven. The city has founded in 1474; also an academy of fine arts, and other educational institutions. It is a railroad center and its commerce and industries are of importance. It is noted in history for the memorable siege it sustained against the mer French, under Marshals Mortier and , which lasted Lannes and with slight intermission from July 15, 1808, to Feb. 21, 1809, when it finally surrendered, 54,000 of the inhabitants having died, meantime, chiefly of plague. Pop. (1918) 124,998.
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