These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Uranus, Urbino, Urena.
in Greek mythology, the most ancient of all the gods. He married Gæa, or Earth, by whom he had, first, the children called the hundred-handed, Briareus, Cottus, and Gyges; secondly, the Cyclopes, Arges, Steropes, and Brontes; thirdly, the Titans, Oceanus, Cœus, Saturnus, etc., and lastly, the Giants. He was dethroned and mutilated by his son Saturnus, and from his blood sprang the Furies, Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megæra.
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a city and county-seat of Pittsburgh, Champaign co., O.; on the Louis, the Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Cincinnati and Erie, and the Cleveland, by N. of Chicago railroads: 40 miles W. Urbana University Columbus. Here are con- (Swedenborgian), a public library, Home, elecvent, high school, Children's banks tric lights, waterworks, National , weekly newsand a number of daily and factory, papers. The city has an egg-case mills broom factories, tannery, woolen , works, railroad car shops, straw-board . etc. Pop. (1910) 7,739; (1920) 7,621
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a city of Illinois, and the the county-seat of Champaign co., on Chicago and St. Cleveland, Cincinnati, and the Illinois Louis, the Wabash, city is the center Traction railroads. The contains of a prosperous farming district, , and manextensive railroad repair shops and tile, lawn mowers, ufactories of brick etc. Urbana is the seat of the University are a public library, of Illinois. There a county court house, a high school, a , etc. Pop. post office, a Masonic temple . (1910) 8,245; (1920) 10,244
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an ancient town of central Italy; in the province of Pesaro and Urbino; between the Foglia and Metauro rivers, remote from the highways of commerce. It is a town of narrow, tortuous streets, with an archbishop's cathedral and other churches; a magnificent ducal palace (1447; restored, and now housing the fine art institution); a free university, dating from 1564, but now attracting less than 100 students, and the house in which Raphael was born, now the town museum. Cheese, silk, pins, and some majolica ware are manufactured, but not the majolica for which the place was famous for a century and a half after 1475. Urbino, anciently the Urbinum Hortense of Umbria, Umbria, was a municipium under the Romans and was the seat of a line of independent dukes from 1474 to 1626. On the death then of the last duke Urban VIII. took possession of the duchy as a vacant fief; and it belonged to the Papal states till 1860, when it became part of the kingdom of Italy. Pop. about 20,000. URDÉE, or URDY, in heraldry, pointed. A cross-urdée is one in which the extremities are drawn to a sharp point instead of being cut straight.
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in botany, the typical genus of Ureneæ. Involucre and calyx five-cleft; style divided above into 10 portions; carpels, five, prickly at the top. U. lobata, a shrub commonly occurring with the mango and bamboo in Bengal and throughout India, and U. sinuata, a small Indian shrub, have strong fibers, probably well adapted for the manufacture of sa sacking and twine. In Brazil a decoction of the root and stem of U. lobata is employed as a remedy in windy colic, and the flowers are given as an expectorant in dry and inveterate cough.
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in anatomy, a membrarunning from the bladder first nous tube ru directly downward and then forward beneath the arch of the pubes. It is the excretory passage for the urine, serving also in the male for the ejaculation of the semen. URFÉ, HONORÉ D', a French romance-writer; born in Marseilles, France, Feb. 11, 1568. He is celebrated for his immensely popular bucolic and allegorical romance "Astrée" (1st part, 1610). It introduces us to a sort of ideal world, in which elegant ladies and gentlemen appear clad as shepherds and shepherdesses, and make pretty observations on topics of the period. He left it unfinished, and the conclusion was supplied by his secretary. He died in Villefranche, France, June 1, 1625.
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a town of Mongolia; on the Tola river; in a valley in the great Asiatic plateau; 180 miles S. E. of Kiachta, on the trade route to Peking. It is the religious center for northern Mongolia, has considerable trade, and a population (partly living in tents outside the city proper) of about 30,000, mostly Chinese. In and about the town, which is the seat of the Bogdan or chief Lama of the Mongols, there are about 14,000 Mongolian Lamas.
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A means of divination employed by the ancient Hebrews, and which it was believed consisted of a species of casting lots. Their form and method of use is uncertain, but from passages in the Book of Samuel, it seems probable that (1) they were used to determine guilt and innocence, and (2) that this was done by means of categorical questions, to which the suspected person answered "Yes or No." They appear to have been the prerogative of the priesthood.
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DAVID, a Scotch economist; born in Braelangwell, Scotland, in 1805; was educated at Oxford University after which he entered the diplomatic service; was secretary of the British embassy at Constantinople in 1835-1836. He was a representative for Stafford in Parliament in 1847-1852. During most of his public career he antagonized the Eastern policy of Lord Palmerston, which he held was subservient to the ambitious wishes of Russia. His publications include "England, France, Russia, and Turkey" (1835); "The Spirit of the East, a Journal of Travels Through Roumeli" (2 vols. 1838); "The Progress of Russia in the West, North, and South" (1853); "Letters and Essays on Russian Aggressions" (1853); etc. He died in Naples, May 16, 1877.
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in astronomy, the Little Bear; one of the 20 ancient northern constellations, bounded by Draco, Camelopardalis, Cassiopeia and Perseus. Its contour is marked out by seven stars. The curvature of the tail is in the contrary direction to that of the Great Bear; and at its tip is a star of the second magnitude, Alpha Ursæ Minoris, called Polaris, or the Pole Star, midway between Cassiopeia and the Great Bear. Next in brightness are Beta Ursæ Minoris, called by the Arabs Kobab, and Gamma Ursæ Minoris. The two are sometimes designated the Guards of the Pole, or simply the Guards. Kobab is of the second, and the other of the third. The remaining stars are smaller.
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