These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Unguents, Uniformity, Union.
There are many kinds of unguents, each with its peculiar properties. It is known that the devil compounds them in order to harm the human race. One such unguent is composed of human fat, and is used by the witches to enable them to fly through the air to the Sabbath. Many old recipes exist for unguents to induce sleep, visions, etc., and these are compounded from various strange ingredients. ( See Salverte "Les Science Occultes.")
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ACT OF, in English Church history, history, the Act 13 & 14 Car. II., c. 4, designed to regulate the terms of membership in the Church of England and in the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. Both the Anglican and the Puritan parties had desired their faith to be that of the Church of England, and Charles II., who, as a step to obtaining his father's throne, wished to stand well with both parties, promised at Breda to use his influence to bring about a certain measure of comprehension. But the Parliament was in no mood to vote for such a scheme, and the Act of Uniformity required the clergy to sign the Thirty-nine Articles and to use the Book of Common Prayer. The enforcement of these regulations led to the secession from the Church of England of upward of 2,000 clergymen, and laid the foundation of modern dissent. The Act of Uniformity Amendment Act, passed July 18, 1872, somewhat modified that Charles, as the University Test Act, passed June, 1871, had done the year before.
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a town of New Jersey, in Hudson co., adjacent to Weehawken and West Hoboken. There are important establishments for the manufacture of silk and embroidered goods, besides other industrial establishments. Pop. (1910) 21,023; (1920) 20,651.
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a city of South Carolina, and the county-seat of Union co., on the Southern and the Union and Glenn Springs railroads. There are several large cotton, knitting and oil mills. The city is a commercial center of a prosperous agricultural region, cotton, fruit and other farm products being raised. There is a Carnegie library, high school, Federal building and county court house. Pep. (1910) 5,623; (1920) 6.141.
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an American institution of learning established in Schenectady, N. Y., in 1795 by several religious denominations, from which fact it derives its name. It was the first nonsectarian college incorporated in the United States. The movement for the founding of such an institution was inaugurated in 1779, when 500 citizens of eastern and northern New York petitioned the Legislature in its behalf. This request was refused, but an academy was started in Schenectady in 1785, which on Feb. 25, 1795, became Union College. The first president was the Rev. John Blair Smith. In 1804 the Rev. Eliphalet Nott was elected president and held the office till 1866, the longest term of service of any college president in the history of the United States. During his incumbency Union College became one of the best known educational institutions in the country. The Dudley Observatory, the Albany Law School and the Albany Medical College became parts of it in 1873. There are also separate departments in civil engineering and pharmacy. The reports for 1919 showed: Professors and instructors, 42; students, 466; president, C. A. Richmond, LL. D.
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a coeducational non-sectarian institution in College View, Neb.; founded in 1891; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 27; students, 473; president, H. A. Morrison, A. M.
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a national ensign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The national flag of England is the red cross of St. George on a white ground; that of Scotland is the white diagonal cross of St. Andrew on a blue ground; that of Ireland is the red diagonal cross of St. Patrick on a white ground. The three crosses put together form the Union Jack. The triangular portions of the background are blue. The bars representing the crosses are partly red and partly white. Its colors, therefore, are red, white, and blue. Although the American flag was adopted before the Union Jack took its present form, its colors also are derived, as is fitting, from the three flags of the United Kingdom. See Flag
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of New York City, was founded in 1836. It was of Presbyterian origin, but is now independent of ecclesiastical control. In 1919 there were 275 students and 33 professors. The Seminary is organically connected with Columbia University, its students being permitted to take courses in the University, and the University students being admitted to certain courses in the Seminary. In 1910 the Seminary moved into new, extensive and attractive buildings at Broadway and 120th Street.
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a borough in Pennsylvania and county-seat of Fayette co., on the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads, 40 miles S. E. of Pittsburgh. It lies in the agricultural and iron-mining region, and has natural gas, electric lights and railway, waterworks, National and State banks, daily and weekly newspapers, public schools, churches and numerous steel and structural iron works. Pop. (1910) 13,344; (1920) 15,692.
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An American periodical having for its aim "the establishment of a universal System of Truth, the Reform and Reorganisation of Society." It made its first appearance in December, 1847, under the editorship of Andrew Jackson Davis (q.v.), and lived for about a year and a half. Its supporters and contributors looked for a new revelation to supplement those of the Old and New Testaments, Swedenborg and Fourier. Attention was given in its pages to prophecy, clairvoyance, somnambulism and trance phenomena generally, while it also taught "an interior and spiritual philosophy" whose central idea was that God was the infinitely intelligent Essence which pervaded all things-the Universal Soul, expressing itself in the material universe and the laws of nature as the human soul expresses itself through the material body. Though the Rochester Rappings broke out some time before the Univercælum came to an end, the adherents of the paper did not seem to connect the disturbances with their propaganda. However, many of those who were associated with the Univercælum afterwards became editors of spiritualistic papers. In July, 1849 the paper passed out of the hands of A. J. Davis, and became The Present Age, under the editorship of W. M. Channing.
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