These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Schweinfurt, Schwerin, Schwerte.
long an imperial free city in Bavaria; on the Main, 28 miles N. E. of Würzburg. It contains a beautiful market-place, in which important cattle and wool markets 1 are held. Wine growing, sugar refining, and manufactures of chemicals, paper, bells, dyeing materials, as white lead, ultramarine, Schweinfurt green, etc., and numerous other articles are carried on. Ruckert, the poet, was born here; and a monument was erected in 1890. Pop. about 22,200.
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the capital of the republic of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. It is situated on Lake Schwerin, 38 miles S. E. of Lubeck. It has many handsome buildings, among them a fourteenth century Gothic cathedral, containing the ducal tombs, and the former Grand Ducal Palace. The manufactures are machinery, dyes, pianos, bricks, and furniture. Pop. about 45,000.
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a town of the province of Westphalia, Prussia. It stands 53 miles N. E. of Cologne, and has some interesting buildings, among them a Romanesque church with carved interior and ancient stained-glass windows. The industries include iron wares and machinery. Pop. about 14,000.
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a central canton of Switzerland, bounded on the N. by the Lake of Zürich and canton of St. Gall, W. by Zug and Lucerne, S. by Lake Lucerne, and E. by Glarus; area, 351 square miles. It belongs to the so-called mountain cantons, being traversed in all directions by lofty peaks, including including the Mythen, the Rigi, the Rossberg, the Drusberg, etc. The whole canton belongs to the basin of the Rhine, more than two-thirds of the surface being drained by the Sihl and the Lake of Zürich; a third, by the Lake of Lucerne, chiefly by means of the Muota; and the remainder, forming only an_unimportant portion, by the Lake of Zug. The chief industry is the rearing of cattle, sheep, and swine. The canton is very poor in minerals. Manufactures are almost confined to some cotton and silk spinning and weaving. Schwyz being the most important of the cantons which first threw off the yoke of Austria, gave the name to the whole confederation. Its present government is an extreme democracy, the whole power, legislative and executive, being lodged in the male population of legal age, who hold a general assembly every two years. The great body of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics. Pop. (1920) 59,475. Schwyz, the capital, is a straggling and picturesque town at the foot of the Mythen, about 1,680 feet above the sea, with a handsome parish church and an interesting town hall. Pop. about 8,000.
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a seaport of Sicily; on a cliff 30 miles N. W. of Girgenti; has a fine 11th-century cathedral, the ruined castles of the Lunas and the Perollos (between whom there existed a terrible feud), hot sulphurous and saline springs, and half-way up the adjacent mountain San Calogero caves that have been used as steam baths since Phœnician times. Off the coast very productive coral banks were discovered in 1875-1880. Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse, was a native. Pop. about 25,000.
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acute pain produced by neuralgia following the course of the great sciatic nerve, generally in only one limb. It extends from the sciatic notch down the posterior surface of the thigh to the popliteal space, or even to the foot, and arises from pressure on the nerve by intestinal accumulations, or from tumors, inflammation, over-fatigue, exposure to cold and wet, or rheumatism. There are often nocturnal exacerbations of pains. It is most common from 50 to 60 years of age, and may continue for weeks or months. Electricity has been successfully employed.
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ELIZA RUHAMAH, an American writer, born at Madison, Wis., in 1856. She was educated privately and for many years served as foreign secretary of the National Geographic Society. Her writings include "Guide to Alaska and the Northwest Coast" (1890); "Java, the Garden of the East" (1897); "China, the Long-Lived Empire" (1900); and "As The Hague Ordains" (1907).
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or the Younger (185-129 B. C.), was an adopted grandson of the former. He brought the Punic Wars to a close by the capture and destruction of Carthage 146 B. C. On his return to Rome he supported the aristocratic faction and opposed the reforms proposed by his cousins, the Gracchi. He was found dead in his bed the morning of a day on which he had proposed to speak in the Senate on the land question, "a victim of political assassination," says Mommsen. Many others Scipios appear on the pages of Roman history. A group of tombs on the Appian Way near Rome is pointed out as the Tombs of the Scipios, the ancient place of family burial. See Hannibal; Gracchi
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skoon, a small village of Scotland. It is situated on the Tay, two miles above Perth. It was once famous for the Abbey of Scone, destroyed by the Scotch Reformers. The early Scottish monarchs were crowned here. The famous Stone of Scone which figured in the coronation exercises was kept here. It was traditionally the stone once used by the patriarch Jacob as a pillow. In 1297 it was taken to London by Edward in token of the complete subjugation of Scotland. It now rests in Westminster Abbey , under the seat of the old coronation chair of the Scottish kings. It is said that the stone once bore this legend: Should fate not fail, where'er this stone be found, The Scot shall monarch of that realm be crowned.
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. See Minstrel
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in music, compositions for several voices or instruments, or for an orchestra, so written that each part has a separate staff for itself, these staves being placed over each other, bar corresponding for bar. SCORIÆ, the cinders and slags of volcanoes, more or less porous from the the expansion of the gases contained in the melted materials.
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in astronomy, the eighth SCOR zodiacal constellation. It is bounded on the N. by Ophiuchus and Serpens, on the S. by Lupus, Norma, and Ara, on the E. by Sagittarius, and on the W. by Libra. It is a small but very brilliant constellation, especially when seen from places S. of the equator. It contains Antares or Cor Scorpii (Alpha Scorpii), of the first magnitude, and Iklil, or Beta Scorpii, of the second magnitude. Also the eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about Oct. 23.
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