These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Truce of God, Truck, Truckee River.
in feudal times, a regulation of the church forbidding private hostilities between Wednesday evening and the following Monday morning of each week. In addition the truce covered the time of church festivals. See Fist-Law
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Almost any contrivance on wheels for carrying loads is called a truck. At one time trucks were of such variety as almost to defy description, but the tram-rail and overhead conveniences have revolutionized this, leaving the foundries clear of all except the common hand-truck and wheelbarrow. See IRON-CARRIER; CRANES. Trunnions are cylindrical projections placed on each side of a flask in a position to balance it. the trunnion forms an axis to turn in a sling, or on a suitably contrived trestle, when the cope is turned over. A depression in the middle of the trunnion prevents the sling from slipping off. See SLING.
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a river in California, forming the outlet of Lake Tahoe. It runs nearly N. and enters the State of Nevada, intersecting Washoe county and emptying into Pyramid Lake. It is nearly 125 miles long and abounds in trout.
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EDWARD LIVINGSTON, an American physician, born in New York City, in 1848. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1871. For a short time he practiced in New York, and then, having contracted tuberculosis, he went to Saranac Lake. He received such benefit from the air and climate that he resolved that others should benefit, and, with the aid of others, opened the first American institution to attempt the open-air method of treatment for the disease. In 1894 he founded the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis. His treatment was remarkably effective and won worldwide recognition. He developed it on a large scale and it continued to grow after his death. He wrote much on the subject of tuberculosis and, in 1916, the year following his death, his autobiography was published.
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ALFRED CHARLES, an American agricultural expert, born in Middletown, Conn., in 1853. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1873, and took post-graduate studies at Harvard and elsewhere. He taught until 1888 in schools and colleges, becoming in the following year editor for the Statistical Department of Agriculture. From 1893 to 1915 he was the director of the Office of Experimental Statistics in the Department of Agriculture, and edited various publications. He had general supervision of experimental stations in States and Territories, and carried on investigations on agricultural education and other related subjects in Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam. From 1915 he was director of the States Relations Service of the Department of Agriculture and had general supervision of the co-operative extension work in agriculture and home economics conducted by the Department of Agriculture and the State agricultural colleges. At various times he was on the faculties of several universities and agricultural colleges. He was the author of monographs on agricultural experiment stations in the United States and agricultural education.
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CHARLES KITTRIDGE, an American educator; born in Portland, Me., Aug. 14, 1809. He was pastor of various Methodist churches, and subsequently Professor of Intellectual Philosophy at Wesleyan University (1849- 1860). He was the author of "Elements of Logic" (1840); "Shawmut; or, The Settlement of Boston" (1845); "John Winthrop" (1875); "Sir Walter Raleigh" (1878); "Life and Times of John Knox" (1878); "Memoirs of John Howard" (1878); "The Thirty Years' War" (1879); "Heroes of Holland" (1882). He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1878.
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FREDERICK WILLIAM, an American biologist; born in Middletown, Coun., July 8, 1858; was graduated at New York University in 1878 (LL. D., 1897); became connected with the government service in 1878; and was appecial agent on fisheries special for the 10th census, 1879. He next served pointed expert as custodian of the collections of the United States Fish Commission at the Berlin Fisheries Exhibition in 1880. He was curator of the department of mammalia at the United States Museum in 1883-1892, and was executive curator in 1892-1897. In the latter year he was made head curator of the Department of Biology at the United States National Museum. During the exposition in Nashville in 1897, Omaha in 1898, and Buffalo in 1901, he was the representative of Smithsonian Institution. He was the author of "Review of the Family of Dephinidæ"; etc. He died in 1914.
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(trö-hēl'yo), (1) a town of Spain, the birthplace and burial place of Pizarro, in Cáceres province, 60 miles N. E. of Badajoz. It is built partly on a granite crag, and manufactures linen, leather, and pottery. Pop. about 12,000. (2) An episcopal city of Peru, capital of the department of Libertad, on a fertile plain near the sea-coast. It was founded by Pizarro in 1535, has walls that were raised in 1686 to keep out the filibusters, and contains a college, a theological seminary, and high school. Its ports are Huanchaco and Salaverry. Pop. about 15,000. (3) A port of Honduras, on the N. coast (bananas, hides, mahogany, rubber, and cattle). The town dates from 1524. Pop. about 2,500.
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Jonathan. See Connecticut ; Brother Jonathan
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HENRY CLAY, an American editor; born in Stonington, Conn., June 8, 1831. He was army chaplain, 1862-1865; afterward secretary of the American Sunday-School Union, 1865- 1872; and after 1875 editor of the "Sunday-School Times." He published many books, including "Army Sermons" (1864); "The Knightly Soldier" (1865); "A Useful Life," etc. (1866); "The Captured Scout" (1869); "Children in the Temple" (1869); "A Model Superintendent" (1880); "Kadesh-Barnea" (1884); "Teaching and Teachers” (1884); "The Blood Covenant" (1885); "Yale Lectures on the Sunday-School" (1888); "Hints on Child Training" (1890); "Friendship the Master Passion" (1891); "Studies in Oriental Social Life" (1894); "War Memories" (1898); "The Covenant of Salt" (1899); "Answers to Prayer" (1900); etc. He died in 1903.
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JOHN, an American poet and lawyer; born in Waterbury, Conn., April 24, 1750. He wrote, with Timothy Dwight, a series of essays in the "Spectator" style, which first drew attention to his ability. In "The Progress of Dullness" (1772-1773) he satirized contemporary methods of education; but he won his greatest fame with "Mc- Fingal" (1775-1782), a satire on the loyalists of the Revolution time, written in Hudibrastic verse. Thirty pirated editions are said to have been sold; and some of its lines are still "familiar quotations" popularly credited to "Hudibras." Later he was associated with Joel Barlow and others in the production of "The Anarchiad" (1786-1787). His "Poetical Works" were published at Hartford, Conn., in 1820. He died in Detroit, Mich., May 10, 1831.
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