These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Vortex, Vosges, Vosges Mountains.
ordinarily, a whirlpool. When any portion of a fluid is set rotat ing round an axis a vortex is produced. Familiar examples are seen in eddies, whirlpools, waterspouts, whirlwinds, and on a larger scale in cyclones and storms generally.
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BERT JOHN, a Dutch-American educator; born in Katwykaan Zee, Holland, Oct. 27, 1867; was educated in his native land, and graduated at the Uni- 'versity of Michigan in 1888. He studied at Johns Hopkins University in 1888- 1891 and at the University of Leipsic in 1891-1892; was instructor of German at the University of Chicago in 1892-1893; associate instructor of the same at Johns Hopkins University in 1893-1898, and associate professor from 1898-1908. In the latter year he became professor of German at Indiana University. He was the author of "Materials for German Conversation" (1900); "Monographs on Middle High German Style and Rhyme Technic"; etc. He also translated from the German "Religion of the Ancient Teutons" (1901).
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a department in the E. of France; bounded N. by Meurthe-et Moselle and Meuse, W. by Haute-Marne, S. by Haute-Saône, and E. by Elsass area 2,303 square miles; pop. abou 430,000. The surface is covered in the E. by the wooded summits of the Vosges Mountains, and in the W. consists of fertile undulating plains. It is watered by the Moselle, with its affluents the Moselotte, Vologne, Madon, and Meurthe; the Meuse with the Mouzon and the Vaire; and the Saône with its affluent the Coney. The industries include silk and wool spinning and weaving, embroidery and lace-making, bleaching and dyeing, and the manufacture of glass, pottery, paper, beet sugar, beer, leather, and machinery. The capital of the department is Epinal. The Vosges was the scene of the earliest fighting in France during the World War. See WORLD WAR.
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a range of hills in the E. of France, bounding the valley of the Rhine on the W. and parallel with the Schwarzwald in Baden. They are connected in the N. with the Hardt in Rhenish Bavaria, in the S. W. with the Faucilles, the Côte-d'Or, and the Cévennes, and in the S. they unite with offsets from the Jura. The summits are usually rounded, hence called ballons, and are covered with a rich green turf, on which for six months of the year large herds of cattle graze. Their sides are clothed with forests of fir, oak, and beech. Their highest summits range from 3,000 to over 4,000 feet, culminating in Ballon de Gebweiler, 4,700 feet above the sea. In those mountains was carried on severe and almost persistent fighting during the World War.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) GERHARD JOHANN (fos), usually styled Vossius, a Dutch philologist; born near Heidelberg, in 1577. In certain departments of archæophilology he made valuable original researches; and he was the first to indicate the historical evolution of the Latin language. Among his writings are: "Essays on Rhetoric; or, The Institutes of Oratory," his greatest work (1606); "The Greek Historians" (1624); "The Latin Historians" (1627); "Aristarchus; or, On the Art of Grammar" (1635); "Of Errors of Speech and Latino-Barbarous Terms" (1640); "Heathen Theology" (1642); "The Times of the Ancient Poets" (1654); "Etymology of the Latin Language" (1662). The "Correspondence of Vossius with Eminent Men" was published in 1691. He died in Amsterdam, March 19, 1649.
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JOHANN HEINRICH, a German poet; born in Sommersdorf, Germany, Feb. 20, 1751. He received a scanty school education, acted for a time as private tutor in a family, and in 1772 went to Göttingen, where he studied the classical and modern languages, and was one of the founders of the Göttingen Dichterbund, or Poet's Union. In 1775 he retired to Wandsbeck, in order to edit the "Almanac of the Muses," which he published till 1800. In 1778 he became rector of a school at Otterndorf, in Hanover, and in 1782 went as rector to Eutin. In 1805 he became professor at Heidelberg. Between 1785 and 1802 he published several volumes of original poems, the best of which is the idyl, "Luise." Among his translations that of Homer's works is undoubtedly the greatest, being the classical German version of these great epi epics. A translation of Shakespeare, which he undertook with his sons, was published in nine volumes in 1829. He died in Heidelberg, March 29, 1826.
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JULIUS VON, a German storywriter; born in Brandenburg, Germany, Aug. 24, 1768. His rapidity of liter ary production was almost without a parallel. His best story is "The Schildbürger" (The Fooltownite: 1823). He wrote a great many comedies, farces, and satirical parodies. In "The Strah lau Haul of Fish" (1822, a popular piece with songs, in the Berlin patois) he gives the first example of the Berlinese farce. He died in Berlin, Nov. 1, 1832.
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RICHARD, a German poet; called the "Tired Man"; born in Neugrape in Pomerania, Prussia, Sept. 2, 1851. Among his dramatic compositions are: "Savonarola"; "Magda"; "The Patrician Dame"; "Lu "; "Luigia Sanfelice"; "Father Modestus"; "Woe to the Vanquished"; "Eve"; "Betwixt Two Hearts"; "At Sedan." In narrative verse he wrote: "Roman Village "A Hill Asylum"; "Among his novels Tales"; "Messalina.' are: "Life Tragedy of an Actress"; "The New Romans"; "Children of the South"; "Villa Falconieri"; "Amata"; "The Sabine"; etc. He excels in description of Italian lowly life.
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CLYDE WEBER, an American educator; born in Wheaton, III., Feb. 6, 1864; was graduated at Amherst College in 1888; at Yale Divinity School in 1891, and in post-graduate work at the University of Chicago in 1896; was reader and instructor in Biblical literature at the latter institution in 1892- 1896, instructor of New Testament literature in 1896-1900; and was then made Professor of Biblical Greek. His publithe cations include "Inductive Studies in the Founding of the Christian Church"; "Use of the Infinitive in Biblical Greek"; "The Primitive Era of Christianity"; "The Transition from Judaism to Christianity," etc. VOTING MACHINE. See BALLOT.
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