These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sarasate, Saratoga, Saratoga Lake.
PABLO MARTIN ME- LITON DE SARASATE Y NAVAS- CUES, Spanish violinist; born at Pamplona, March 10, 1844, He want to as servatoire in 1856. He became one of the greatest concert violinists of his time, and no violinist ever traveled more extensively. He composed for the violin romances, fantasias, and transcriptions of Spanish airs and dances. He died in Biarritz in 1908.
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BATTLES OF, in the Revolutionary War, two battles fought 12 miles E. of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Burgoyne led the British in the first, while the Americans were under command of Gates, who had Morgan and Arnold as subordinates. The fight on Sept. 19, 1777, was indecisive. On Oct. 7, 1777, the Americans achieved a splendid victory over the British, the commanders of both armies being the same as in the first engagement. The result was the surrender of Burgoyne and his army, numbering 5,752 men, to the Americans, Oct. 17, 1777. These contests are sometimes called in history the battles of Stillwater and Bemis' Heights. The American victory came at a critical period of the Revolution. It frustrated the British plan for cutting off New England from the other states, enlisted the help of France, altered the policy of Parliament and the King and saved the cause of the patriots. Creasy enumerates it in his "Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World."
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a lake in Saratoga co., N. Y., 4 miles E. of Saratoga Springs. It is about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide.
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a village in Saratoga co., N. Y.; on the Boston and Maine and the Delaware and Hudson railroads; 38 miles N. of Albany. Besides being one of the most fashionable summer resorts in the world, Saratoga is visited by many persons for its medicinal advantages. Here are a large number of mineral springs, now owned by the State of New York, together with a reservation of some 350 acres; some of these are of great celebrity, the water being used not only for local consumption, but bottled in large quantities for exportation. The village contains over 30 hotels, Is, some of great elegance and capable of accommodating more than 1,000 guests each. Here are a Convention Hall, Skidmore School of Arts, Athenæum, several private schools, hospital, armory, National banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. There are manufactures of paper, furniture, machinery, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,693; 13,181.
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a city of Russia, on the Volga; 500 miles S. E. of Moscow. It is a city of broad streets and fine squares, and stands on terraces rising from the river. There are nearly 30 churches; a handsome new cathedral (1825), an old cathedral (1697), and Radistcheff's Museum, sheltering a fine art gallery and a library. Prior to the World War it had manufactures of brandy, liquors, flour, oil, and tobacco. Fishing was prosecuted in the river, and market gardening (especially fruit and the sunflower) in the vicinity. There was an important trade in corn, salt, iron, wooden wares, textiles, and groceries. The city was pillaged by Pugatcheff in 1774 and suffered severely from fire several times during the 19th century. Pop. about 235,500.
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a state of Borneo, under British government, extending from Cape Datoo on the W. to the Samarahan river on the E. Area about 42,000 square miles. Coast line about 400 miles. The aboriginal inhabitants, called Dyaks, consist of various wild tribes who in 1844 took for their sovereign an Englishman, SIR JAMES BROOKE (q. v.), through whom the country is chiefly known. Pop. (1917) 600,000. Capital, Kuching.
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FRANCISQUE (sar-sā'), a French author; born in Dourdan, France, Oct. 8, 1828. As dramatic critic for Paris journals he was highly esteemed for his independence of judgment and his wide acquaintance with dramatic literature. He published: "History of the Siege of Paris"; "The Word and the Thing," (1862); "Etienne Moret," (1875); "Recollections of Youth" (1884); "Recollections of Mature Age" (1892); "The Theater" (1893), etc. He died in Paris, May 16, 1899.
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a plant of doubtful affinity, probably a fungus, consisting of minute quadrilateral bodies in fours, or some of four. S. ventriculi was first multiple multiple observed by Goodsir in human vomit.
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plural SARCOMATA, cancerous growth, consisting of connective tissue cells retaining their embryonic condition. Those that remain in this elementary condition are round cells; those which advance one stage further are spindle-shaped; and a third kind originating in the bone, and having large nucleated myeloid cells, are called myeloid. The first is the most malignant.
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plural SARCOPH- AGI, a kind of stone used among the Greeks for making coffins, and so called because it was believed to have the prop. erty of consuming the flesh of dead bodies deposited in it within a few weeks. It was also called "Assos stone," from being found at Assos, a city of Lycia, in Asia Minor. Hence a coffin or tomb of stone; a kind of stone chest used for containing a dead body.
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a semi-precious stone of very variety of chalcedony presenting compact Presenting on a fractured surface a dull horn-like aspect; color, pale yellowish-red, shades of brown, transparent to translucent. It was much esteemed by the ancient gem engravers.
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anciently a town in Lower Dacia, on the site of the modern Bulgarian town of Sofia or Sophia. The town is chiefly celebrated as the place where an ecclesiastical council was held in 343, at which Athanasius defended himself against the Arians.
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a name applied to several kinds of small fish of the family Clupeidæ, the true Mediterranean sardine. The fishing season begins early in June, and is now successful in places along the Atlantic coast and on Puget Sound. The coasts of Norway and Brittany, in wiest France, are the scenes of the the heaviest takes, and the grade of sardines obtained there is superior. As soon as the fishermen notice shoals of the porpoise or flocks of seagulls off shore sail is made immediately, for the sardine is there. In the United States an extensive industry is carried on, especially on the New England coast, in the way of preserving small fish which are sold under the name of sardines. True sardines having been discovered along the coast of California, in recent years, a large business has developed in canning the fish. In 1920 there were 16 factories engaged in this work.
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