These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Tembuland, Temesvar, Tempe.
a Transkeian Territories in eastern South Africa; bounded by Cape Colony, Basutoland, and Natal. Tembuland has an excellent climate and a fertile soil, which is well suited for pastoral and agricul- ag tural purposes. The coast regions are adapted to the growth of sugar, cotton, and coffee. The minerals include coal and copper. Area, 3,339 square miles; pop. about 236,086. Europeans (1918) 4,204.
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a royal free city of Hungary; consisting of the fortified city or "citadel," with four suburbs; on the Bega canal; 160 miles S. E. of Budapest. It has a fine cathedral, an ancient castle, a magnificent Episcopal residence, manufactures of flour, tobacco, cloth, silk, paper, leather, wool, and oil, and a brisk transit trade in grain, wax, honey, and brandy with Transylvania, Servia, and Rumania. Temesvar has endured a great number of sieges-the latest being that of 1849 1849, when it was besieged and bombarded for 107 days by the Hungarian insurgents, but was relieved by Haynau. Pop. about 72,500.
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A valley in Thessaly through which the river Peneus flows into the Aegean. It is described by the poets as one of the most delightful places in the world. Tenedos or Tenedus. A small island of the Aegean Sea , off the coast of Troas. It appears in the legend of the Trojan war as the station to which the Greeks withdrew their fleet in order to induce the Trojans to think that they had departed, and to receive the wooden horse. In the Persian war it was used by Xerxes as a naval station.
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With increase of temperature, the pendulum in common with most other substances, lengthens, and the clock loses; with decrease of temperature the contrary effect is produced. The object of the compensation pendulum is to meet the error arising from change of temperature by keeping the distance between the point of suspension and the center of oscillation constant.
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Important: Safety Warning This page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. M. Ducoetet uses the following process for tempering and magnetizing steel to be used as magnets. Two soft iron pole pieces are placed in the bottom of a water tight vessel and are connected with the poles of a powerful electro-magnet. The vessel is partially filled with water, and oil is poured into the vessel, which floats upon the surface of the water. The red hot bar is then passed through the liquids and comes in contact with the magnets. This softens the steel without depriving it of its power of being magnetized. To Engrave Name on Steel Tools. Coat the tool or article, if made of iron or steel, with a thin layer of wax, draw the name, initials or design through the wax, exposing the metal, and place the tool in a mixture of 6 parts by weight of water and 1 part of sulphuric acid. In a few hours remove, and if etched sufficiently, wash in clean water and dissolve the wax by heat. STOGDEN, MATTHEW. Inventor of the half-quarter repeating mechanism most used in English watches. He died in abject poverty, about 1770, at an advanced age.
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MARIE SUSAN, an English actress, born in London in 1866, her father's name being Etherington . She went to a convent in Belgium and studied music in Paris and London. She began playing at the Comedy Theater in London in 1885, her first rôle being in "Boccaccio." Her impersonations of Nell Gwyn and Becky Sharp brought her into prominence as a leading comedienne, and her later parts of Polly Eccles in "Caste," Peggy O'Mara in "All-of-a- Sudden Peggy," Becky Warder in "The Truth," and Kitty in "The Marriage of Kitty" established her position on the English stage. In 1915 she revived "The Duke of Killiecrankie." Miss Tempest in 1898 married Cosmo Gordon -Lennox . seven
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a city of Texas, in Bell co. It is on the Gulf, Gulf, Colorado, Co and Santa Fe and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads. Its industries include cottonseed oil mills, cotton gins, foundries, flour
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SOLOMON'S candy factories, and a cold - storage It has a sanitarium, two hosand a public library. Pop. ( 1910) 10,993; (1920) 11,033.
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SOLOMON'S, the building reared by Solomon as a habitation for Jehovah, though the king was aware that God could not be confined to an earthly edifice, or even to the heaven of heavens. It was built on Mount Moriah (II Chron. iii: 1), chiefly by Tyrian workmen, and had massive foundations. Its dimen-
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SOLOMON'S sions were 60 cubits (90 feet) long; 20 cubits (30 feet) wide, and 30 cubits (45 feet) high. The stone for its erection was dressed before its arrival, so that the edifice arose noiselessly (I Kings vi: 7); the floor was of cedar, boarded over with planks of fir; the wainscoting was of cedar, covered with gold, as was the whole interior. The Temple was surrounded by an inner court for the priest. here was also a Great or Outward Court, called specially the Court of the Lord's House. This temple was destroyed by the Babylonians during siege of Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar. On the return from Babylon, a temple, far inferior to Solomon's, was commenced under Zerubbabel, b. c. 534, and, after a long intermission, was resumed B. C. 520, and completed B. C. 516, under Darius Hystaspes. The second temple was gradually removed by Herod, as he proceeded with the building or rebuilding of a temple, designed to rival the first rather than the second. The work was commenced B. C. 21 or 20. In the courts of this temple Jesus preached and healed the sick. It caught fire during the siege of Jerusalem under Titus, and notwithstanding his efforts to save it, was burned to the ground.
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The, a district of London. See Inns Of Court
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