These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sacristy, Sacrum, Saddle.
the apartment in or connected with a church intended for the keeping of the sacred vestments and utensils while not in use, and in which also the clergy and others who take part in religious ceremonies array themselves for service.
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in anatomy, the bony structure which forms the basis or inferior extremity of the vertebral column.
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a kind of seat for a horse's back, contrived for the safety and comfort of the rider. The modern riding saddle consists of the tree, generally of beech, the seat, the skirts, and the flaps, of tanned pig's-skin. Among the varieties are racing saddles, military saddles, hunting saddles, and side saddles for ladies. The name saddle is also given to a part of the harness of an animal yoked to a vehicle, being generally a padded structure by means of which the shafts are directly or indirectly supported.
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a mountain in Cumberland, England, 5 miles N. E. of Keswick; height, 2,847 feet.
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a mountain in Franklin co., Me.; reaches a height of 4,000 feet.
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or SAADI, the most celebrated didactic poet of Persia; born in Shiraz, Persia, about the end of the 12th century. In his youth he visited Hindustan, Syria, Palestine, Abyssinia, and made several pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina. While in Syria he was taken by the Crusaders, and forced to labor on the fortifications of Tripoli. After about 50 years of wandering he returned to his native city. The best of his works are: "Gulistan" (Garden of Roses), a moral work, comprising stories, anecdotes, and observations and reflections in prose and verse; and "Bostan" (the Orchard), of much the same character. He died about the end of the 13th century. SADOWA. See KÖNIGGRÄTZ.
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sa-do'va, a village in Bohemia near the cathedral city of Koniggratz. It lies on the Elbe, about sixty-two miles east of Prague. The village is noted as the scene of the decisive battle of the Seven Weeks' War , fought July 3, 1866. The Prussians, numbering 220,000, under the command of William I and the Crown Prince, defeated 205,000 Austrians under the command of Benedek. The Austrians lost 40,000 men; the Prussians, 10,000. As the result of this battle, Austria retired from the confederation of German states, and left Prussia free, as the event proved, to form the present German Empire .
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PEÑA ROQUE, an Argentine statesman, born at Buenos Ayres, in 1851. He studied law in the University of Buenos Ayres, and in 1876 was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, becoming in the course of a year president of the Chamber. When the war with Peru broke out in 1879 he joined the army and was wounded and taken prisoner. Returning to his native city in 1881 he became Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Meanwhile he had entered journalism and founded the review "Sud America." He became minister to Uraguay and served as ambassador to Spain 1906, and to Italy 1907-10. In 1910 in he was elected president of the republic and as such promoted the A. B. C. (Argentine, Brazil, Chile) entente. He died in 1914.
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one of the four holy cities of the modern Jews in Palestine; in horseshoe shape round a hill 2,700 feet above the Mediterranean; 6 miles N. W. of the Sea of Galilee. Here dwell about 15,000 Jews, Moslems, and Christians. The town was overthrown by earthquakes in 1759 and 1837. A castle of the Christians, built during the Crusades, was destroyed by the Sultan of Damascus in 1220, and, having been rebuilt by the Templars, was again taken and destroyed by Beybars of Egypt in 1266. The Jewish colony has been settled here since the 16th century, and embraces many immigrants from Poland.
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a mountain range in Afghanistan. The W. portion of the chain separates the Herat river valley from the Murghab, while the E. Safed Koh forms the S. boundary of the Kabul basin. These mountains are quite alpine in their character, and some of the peaks exceed 15,000 feet in height. Among the spurs of the E. section are the passes leading from Kabul to Jalalabad, and from Jalalabad to Peshawur famous in the annals of British military expeditions into Afghanistan.
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In the lever escapement, a pin that when the hands are turned backward, prevents the pallets leaving the escape wheel.
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A center pinion which allows the barrel to recoil when the mainspring breaks.
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or ASFI, a seaport of Morocco, on a bay on the Mediterranean coast, 102 miles W. N. W. of the city of Morocco. It is a compactly built place, dominated by a fine ruined castle of the Sultans of Morocco dating from the 16th century. The place was held by the Portuguese for several years; they abandoned it in 1648. The fortifications they built still stand in part. The shrine of the Seven Sleepers here is visited by both Moslems and Jev Jews. Saffi was at one time the chief seat of the trade of Morocco with Europe, and, though it has declined since the rise of Mogador, it still exports beans, maize, peas, wool, olive oil, and imports cottons, sugar, etc.
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or BASTARD SAF- FRON (Carthamus tinctorius), a large thistle - like plant with orange - colored flowers, natural order Compositæ. It is cultivated in China, India, Egypt, and in the S. of Europe. An oil is expressed from the seeds, which is used as a lamp oil. The dried flowers afford two coloring matters (also called safflower), a yellow and a red, the latter (carthamine) being that for which they are most valued. They are chiefly used for dyeing silk, affording various shades of pink, rose, crimson, and scarlet. Mixed with finely-powdered talc, safflower forms a common variety of rouge. In some places the questions involved were efficiently it is used in lieu of the more expensive saffron, and for adulterating the latter. The oil, in large doses, acts as a purgative.
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WILLIAM EDWIN, an American botanist, born at Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1859. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1880 and took post-graduate studies at Yale and Harvard. From 1880 to 1902 he was engaged in collecting for the United States National Museum in the departments of ethnology and ethnobotany. From 1902 to 1915 he was assistant botanist, and from the latter date was economic botanist of the Department of Agriculture. He conducted an expedition to South America for the Chicago Exposition. In 1898-90 he was vice-governor of the Island of Guam. He was a member of many learned societies. His writings include: "A Year on the Island of Guam" (1904); "An Aztec Narcotic" (1915); "Natural History of Paradise Key and the Nearby Everglades of Florida" (1919); and articles on botanical subjects to several encyclopædias.
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