These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sherif, Sheriffmuir, Sherman.
MOUNT, a mountain of Wyoming, situated in the Yellowstone National Park; is a summit of the Red Range of the Rocky mountains. It is 10,420 feet high, with a range of vision over an immense expanse and several hundred distinct mountain summits, at distances varying from 30 to 200 miles. A large part of it is formed of porphyry of a purplish-pink color; and was named for Gen. Philip H. Sheridan.
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THOMAS, an English of Richard B. Sherin scholar; grandfather of Ric dan; born in 1687. He was a close friend and confidant of Swift's, and was noted for his learning and eccentricities. He wrote the "Art of Punning," and published an edition of Persius. He died in 1738. His son, THOMAS, father of the dramatist; born in 1719; was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Colactor and lege, Dublin. He became an teacher of elocution, and published a " and "Plan of Education," "Life of Swift, a "Dictionary of the English Language." He died in 1788. His wife, FRANCES CHAMBERLAINE (1724-1766), was the author of two novels, "Sidney Bidulph" and The Dis- "Nourjahad"; and two plays, " " covery" and "The Dupe.
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Richard Brinsley (1751-1816), an English playwriter of note. He was born in Dublin and died in London. He came of a family known for generations as speakers and actors. He was educated for the law, but gave it up for literature. He became a theater manager in London and wrote several noted plays, the best of which are The Rivals and The School for Scandal. The latter is recommended to readers desiring a passing acquaintance with Sheridan. Later in life he entered Parliament, where he distinguished himself as a brilliant speaker. He was associated with Burke in the impeachment of Warren Hastings. He rose to be secretary of the treasury. See Drama ; Theater ; Burke ; Edmund
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an Arabic title equivalent to noble, borne by the descendants of Mo . It descends both in the male hammed this and female line. Those who possess turbans rank are distinguished by green being the color of the and veils, green Prophet. The title is applied specifically . to the chief magistrate of Mecca
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or SHERIFF MOOR, a place in Scotland, in the parish of Dunblane, in Perthshire. Here an indecisive battle was fought between the troops of George I. under the Duke of Argyle, and of the a rebel force of the adherents Stuarts under the Earl of Mar, in 1715.
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FRANK DEMPSTER, an American poet; born in Peekskill, N. Y., May 6, 1860. Educated at Columbia College and Harvard University, he became adjunct professor in the Columbia School of Architecture. He published: "Madrigals and Catches"; "Lyrics for a Lute"; and, with John Kendrick Bangs, "New Waggings of Old Tales"; "Little Folk Lyrics"; "Lyrics of Joy" (1904); "A Southern Flight" (with Clinton Scollard, 1906); and "Complete Poems" (1918). He died in 1916.
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a city and county-seat of Grayson co., Tex.; on the Texas and Pacific, the Houston and Texas Central, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads; 64 miles N. of Dallas. It contains Austin College (Pres.), North Texas Female College (M. E.), Carr-Carlton Christian College for Women, public library, Y. M. C. A. Building, Federal buildings, waterworks, electric lights, National and other banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. (It has cotton gins, a cotton-seed oil mill, machine shops, foundries, flour mills, planing mills, carriage and wagon factories, marble and brick works, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,412; (1920) 15,031.
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JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT, an American public official, and vice-president of the United States, born at Utica, N. Y., in 1855. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1878, and after studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1880. For several years he practiced his profession in Utica. He was early interested in politics and was elected chairman of the Oneida Republican County Committee 1885, he was mayor of Utica, and from 1887 to 1891, and again from 1893 to 1909, he was a member of Congress. He served as chairman of the Republican State conventions in 1895, 1900, and 1908, and chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee in 1906. He was nominated vice-president on the ticket of William H. Taft, and was elected in 1908. He died in 1912.
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LAWRENCE YATES, a United States Senator from Illinois, born in Miami co., Ohio, in 1858. In the following year his parents removed to Illinois. He was educated in the common schools and studied law at McKendree College. He practiced law in Chicago and from 1886 to 1890 was county judge of McDonough County. From 1897 to 1899 he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 1900. He was lieutenant-governor of the LAWRENCE YATES SHERMAN State from 1904 to 1908, and in 1909 was elected United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of William Lorimer. He was re-elected in 1914 but declined to stand for re-election in 1920. American
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ROGER, an statesman; born in Newton, Mass., April 19, 1721; was early apprenticed to a shoemaker, and continued in that trade till 1743, when he removed to New Milford, Conn., and engaged in mercantile business with his brother. In 1745 he was appointed surveyor for his county, and not long afterward furnished the astronomical observations for an almanac published in New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1754; was several times elected to the Colonial Assembly; and in 1759 became judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Having removed to New Haven, Conn., in 1761, he became judge of the Common Pleas there in 1765, and a member of the upper house of the Legislature. He was a member of the Continental and National Congress in 1774-1791; one of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, of which he was a signer; and in 1787, in conjunction with Dr. Samuel Johnson and Oliver Ellsworth, served as a delegate to the convention charged with the duty of framing the Federal Constitution. He died in New Haven, Conn., July 23, 1793.
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