These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Vilaine, Vilas, Vilayet.
a river of France which rises in the department of Mayenne and flows into the Atlantic at Penestin, in the department of Morbihan. It is 140 miles long. Its principal tributaries are the Ille, Oust, Cher, Don, and Isac.
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WILLIAM FREEMAN, an American lawyer; born in Chelsea, Vt., July 9, 1840; removed to Madison, Wis., in 1851; and was graduated at Wisconsin University in 1858. He was admitted to the bar in 1860, and on the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted in the Union army in which he served till 1863; was Postmaster-General in 1885- 1888; and subsequently was Secretary of the Interior in President Cleveland's cabinet in 1888-1889. He was United States Senator in 1891-1897, becoming a Gold Democrat in 1896. He died Aug. 27, 1908.
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a name officially applied since 1865 to the large administrative districts of Turkey.
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(See Slavs .)
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a town of Italy, in the province of Verona, on the Tartaro. It is celebrated as having been the center of the wars of 1848 and 1866. The preliminaries of peace between Napoleon III. and the Emperor of Austria were signed here, July 11, 1859. Pop. about 12,000.
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OSWALD GARRISON, an American writer and editor, born at Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1872. He was a grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, was educated at Harvard University, and received honorary degrees from Washington and Lee University and from Lafayette College. From 1894 to 1896 he was assistant in United States History at Harvard, from 1896 to 1897 a reporter on the Philadelphia "Press"; and from 1897 to 1918 an editorial writer and president of the New York "Evening Post." After selling this newspaper, he became editor and owner of the New York "Nation." He was president of the board of the Manassas (Va.) Industrial School. Besides numerous magazine articles he wrote "John Brown-a Biography Fifty Years After" (1910); "Germany Embattled" (1915).
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HENRY, an American capitalist; born in Spire, Germany, April 11, 1835; received a good education; removed to the United States in 1853; and engaged in newspaper work in Chicago. In 1859, as a correspondent for the Cincinnati "Commercial," he was sent to the Colorado gold region; and during the Civil War was a correspondent in Washington, D. C., for Eastern and Western papers. In 1873, as agent for German stockholders, he bought the Oregon and California railroad and the Oregon Steamship companies. In 1875 with C. S. Greeley he was made receiver of the Kansas Pacific railroad. He next formed the Oregon Oregon and Transcontinental Company, which afterward controlled the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Northern Company. In 1881-1884 he was president of the Northern Pacific, and in 1889-1893 was chairman of the board of directors. In 1890 he purchased the Edison Machine Works In Schenectady, N. Y., and the Edison Lamp works in Newark, N. J., and from these organized the Edison General Electric Company, of which he was president for two years. He made liberal donations to charitable, educational, and religious enterprises, and published "The Pike's Peak Gold Regions." He died in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1900.
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PASQUALE, an Italian historian; born in Naples, Italy, in 1827. His principal works are: "History of Girolamo Savonarola and his Times" (1859-1861); "Niccolo Machiavelli and his Times" (1877-1882); "Ancient Legends and Traditions Illustrating the Divine Comedy" (1865); "Essays Critical, Historical, and Literary" (1868); "Teaching History" (1869); "The School and the Social Question in Italy" (1872). He died in 1914.
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CLAUDE LOUIS HEC- TOR, DUC DE, a French military officer; born in Moulins, France, May 8, 1653. He early distinguished himself under Turenne, Condé, and Luxembourg, and was created maréchal de camp in 1690, and lieutenant-general in 1693. In the wars of the Spanish succession he was sent to co-operate with the Elector of Bavaria. He defeated Prince Louis of Baden at Friedlingen, Oct. 14, 1702, for which he received the marshal's baton; and having joined the elector he defeated the Prince of Baden at Höchstadt, Sept. 21, 1703. His success in dealing with the insurrection of the Camisards obtained for him the title of duke (1705). Having been sent to defend the frontier against Marlborough, he forced the formidable lines of Stollhofen, near Strassburg, and penetrated far into Germany (1705-1707). In 1709 he replaced Vendôme in Flanders, and fought the battle of Malplaquet against Marlborough and Eugene, in which he was seriously wounded. In 1712 he defeated the allies at Denain, took Marchiennes, and relieved Landrecy. After the peace of Utrecht he opposed Eugene with uninterrupted success, and negotiated with him the peace of Rastadt, March 7, 1714. On the renewal of the war with Austria in 1733 he was sent to Italy at the head of an army, with the title of Marshal- General of France. After a successful ampaign, he died in Turin, Italy, June 14, 1734.
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a genus of plants of the natural order Gentianaceæ, the species of which are widely distributed over the world, and are either aquatic or marsh plants, with entire leaves and yellow flow- V. (Limnanthemum) nymphoides ers. is a native of England, but rare; it is more common in many parts of Europe, from Denmark to the Mediterranean, Mediterranean, and is very abundant in Holland, often covering large tracts of the canals with its beautiful flowers and leaves. V. indica is regarded as a valuable medicine in India, being given internally to persons bitten by cobra. Several species from south Africa and Australia are cultivated in British aquariums for the beauty of their flowers.
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DUC DE, a French marshal; born April 7, 1644; was educated at court with Louis XIV.; but was banished to Lyons for a love affair. In 1680 he returned to court, and in 1693 became a marshal, having distinguished himself at Ne Neerwinden. As commander in the Netherlands in 1695-1696 he showed great incapacity; and sent in chief command to Italy in 1701, he was there defeated and taken prisoner by Prince Eugene. Again he commanded in the Netherlands, but was defeated by Marlborough at Ramillies. Madame de Maintenon got him made guardian to Louis XV. Orleans sent him to live on his estate in 1722, because of his intrigues; but he was subsequently governor of Lyons, and died in Paris, July 18, 1730.
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