These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Selective Draft Law, Selene, Selenite.
a distinctive name given to the measures passed by the United States Congress in 1917, providing for the drafting of men of military age into the armed forces, for service in the World War. See UNITED
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se-le'ne, in Greek mythology, the goddess of the moon. She was the daughter of Hyperion and Thea. Selene was confounded to some extent with Artemis, and with Diana of the Romans. See Diana
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a name used by some mineralogists for all species of gypsum, by others applied to the crystallized forms only.
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H(ARRY) GORDON, an American merchant, born in Ripon, public school Wis., in 1858. He received a employ of education and, entering the ad- Field, Leiter & Co. in 1879, he was vanced until he became a partner of Marshall Field & Co., and manager of the his interretail store. In 1904 he sold ests and retired, and afterward engaged the firm in business in Ch Chicago under name of H. G. Selfridge S & Co. In 1906 he organized in London, Selfridge & Co., Ltd., and in 1909 built and opened one of the largest retail stores in Europe. Commerce." He wrote "The Romance of
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THOMAS OLIVER, an American naval officer; born in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 6, 1836; son of rear admiral of same name, graduated at U. S. Naval Academy in 1854, and promoted lieutenant in 1860. During the Civil War he was serving on board the "Cumberland" when she was sunk by the "Merrimac" in Hampton Roads in 1862; Cairo," which commanded the ironclad " was blown up on the Yazoo river; had charge of a battery at the capture of Vicksburg; participated in both attacks on Fort Fisher, and commanded several vessels in the Mississippi fleet. He was promoted commander in 1869 and had charge of the surveys for the canal across the Isthmus of Darien in 1869-1874; was a member of the International Congress at Paris in 1876 and in 1896 was protired. moted rear admiral. He was retired, Feb. 6, 1898.
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EDWIN ROBERT AN- DERSON, an American educator; born in New York City, April 25, 1861; was in graduated at Columbia University 1879; then studied abroad; became Professor of Political Economy and Finance at Columbia University in 1891; editor of the Political Science Quarterly. He was a member of New York Mayor's Tax and Finance Committee, 1905; President of Roosevelt's Committee on Statistics and Reorganization, 1908; Chairman of trustees, Bureau of Municipal ipal Research, 1905- President, Am. Science Ass'n and 1910: of National Tax Association. His publications include "Railway Tariffs" (1887); "Finance Statistics of American Commonwealths" (1889); "The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation" (1899); "Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice" (1894); "Essays in Taxation" (1900); "Principles of Economics" (1919).
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surnamed "the Sot," was the son of Solyman I. He ascended the throne in 1566. Among the events of his reign was the subjugation of Cyprus. SELIM III (1761-1808) ascended the throne in 1789. He was embroiled in wars with Austria, Russia, and France. He attempted to organize the Turkish army on European models, but the Janizaries or native troops revolted and the unfortunate Selim was strangled in prison.
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one of the most important founded of the Greek colonies in Sicily, foun probably about 628 B. c. on the S. W. coast of that island. Thucydides mentions its great power and wealth, and the rich treasures of its temples. It was conquered by the Carthaginians in 409, and in 249 destroyed by them. There are still important ruins of ancient Greek temples here.
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an outlying range of the Rocky mountains, in British Columbia, extending S. from about lat. 52° N. to near the United States frontier. The Canadian Pacific railway climbs over the mountains at a point 4,300 feet above the sea.
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Alexander (1673-1723), a Scottish sailor. He gained some reputation as the commander of buccaneering ships. He was neither more nor less than a pirate engaged in preying on the ships of foreign nations. In 1704, owing to a dispute, he was put ashore at his own request on the island of Juan Fernandez and remained there alone for four years. He is popularly believed to be the original of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. His Life and Adventures were published in 1829. He is the subject, also, of the poet Cowper's well known lines beginning: I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute. Selkirk's sea chest and cup are preserved in the Edinburgh Museum of Antiquities. In 1903 his old gun, a flint-lock fowling-piece, was placed in the British Museum . The stock bears his name carved in rude letters, and the date, 1701. See Defoe
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a county of southeast Scotland. Area, 267 square miles. Pop. about 25,000. Almost its entire area is occupied by two parallel valleys of the rivers Ettrick and Yarrow. The county is mountainous. The various mountains, the highest of which is Dun Rig (2,433 feet), have round, instead of peaked tops, and the mountain sides are covered with a high quality grass, providing excellent pasturage. Formerly there were extensive woods, which, however, have now disappeared. Capital, Selkirk, with a population (1918) of 5,946.
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WILLIAM YOUNG, an English critic; born in Morvich, Sutherland, Feb. 22, 1825; was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Glasgow University, from which he passed to Balliol College, Oxford. In 1850 he was elected to a fellowship at Oriel; next acted as assistant professor at Durham, Glasgow (1851-1853), and St. Andrews 1853- 1859); filled for six years the Greek chair at St. Andrews; and was elected in 1863 to the Latin chair at Edinburgh, which he retained till his death near Dalry, Galloway, Oct. 12, 1890. He made his name widely known by his learned and brilliant book, "The Roman Poets of the Republic" (1863; revised and enlarged, 1881), which was followed by "The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age -Vergil" (1877), and "Horace and the Elegiac Poets" (1892), the latter edited from his papers by his nephew, Andrew Lang, with a brief memoir prefixed.
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