Wellesley Islands
a group in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, belonging to Queensland. Mornington Island, the most N. and largest, is 40 miles in length by 15 in breadth.
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These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Wellesley Islands, Wellingborough, Wells.
Wellingborough
a market-town of Northamptonshire, England, on a declivity near the confluence of the Ise with the Nen, 10½ miles E. N. E. of Northampton. Almost destroyed by fire in 1738, it has a chalybeate spring (the "Red Well"), said to have been resorted to by Charles I. and Henrietta Maria; a large and imposing parish church (restored 1861-1874), mainly Decorated and Perpendicular in style; a corn exchange (1861); grammar school (1595), a transferred to new buildings in 1880. It has important industries of boot making, iron smelting, etc. Pop. about 20,000.
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Wellington (City and capital of New)
a city and capital of New Zealand, on Port Nicholson, an islet of Cook's Strait; on the S. W. extremity of the provincial district of Wellington, North Island. Its harbor is 6 miles long and 5 wide. It has an excellent system of docks. The principal buildings are the Government House, the Houses of Legislature, the Government Buildings, the Supreme Court, the post ces, the Colonial Muand telegraph offices, seum, theaters, Wellington College, two seur cathedrals, Victoria College, etc. It has cat several daily and weekly newspapers, sever botanic gardens, tramways, etc., and is lighted by electricity. Pop. about 100,000.
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Wellington (City of Kansas the county-seat)
a city of Kansas, the county-seat of Sumner co. It is on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads, and is the center of an important agricultural community with a large trade in grain, live stock, and farm products. Its industries include flour mills, grain elevators, a broom factory, an ice plant, and railroad shops. It has a public library, city hall, court house, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 7,034; (1920) 7,048.
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Wells
DAVID AMES, an American political economist; born in Springfield, Mass., June 17, 1828; was graduated at Williams College in 1847, and at the Lawrence Scientific School in 1851; and became assistant professor in the latter institution. In 1866 he was made the chairman of a commission to devise the best means to raise money for the government; in 1866-1870 was a special commissioner of revenue; and in 1879 was appointed a member of the Board of Arbitration for Railroads. His publications include: "Our Burden and Our Strength" (1864); "The Creed of the Free Trader" (1875); "Why We Trade and How We Trade" (1878); "The Silver Question, or the Dollar of the Fathers vs. the Dollar of the Sons" (1878); "Our Merchant Marine; How it Rose, Increased, became Great, Declined, and and Decayed" (1882); "Relation of Tariff to Wages" (1888); etc. He died in Norwich, Conn., Nov. 5, 1898.
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Wells (City in Somerset England)
a city in Somerset, England; at the foot of the Mendip Hills; 20 miles S. W. of Bath and 20 miles S. of Bristol. Here, near St. Andrew's Well, from which and other springs the place took its name, King Ina in 1704 established a house of secular canons; but the see was first founded in 909 by Edward the Elder, and the city has grown up round the cathedral. The see was translated to Bath during the first half of the 12th century, and still is styled Bath and Wells, though Bath's connection has been purely titular since the Reformation. Among its 70 bishops have been Jocelin (1206-1242), the "second founder" of the cathedral, Fox, Wolsey, Barlow, Laud, and Ken. That cathedral, though one of the smallest yet perhaps the most beautiful of English cathedrals, is mainly Early English in style, and is 371 feet long, by 123 across the transept, while the height of the central tower is 160 feet, of the two W. towers 130. Other to buildings, all of extreme interest, are the moated episcopal palace, with an undercrypt of about 1220; the deanery, rebuilt by Dean Gunthorpe in the reign of Edward IV.; the archdeaconry, now remodeled as a theological college; the gateways and St. Cuthbert's Church, with a noble W. tower. It was chartered by King John in 1202. Pop. about 5,000.
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Wells (II)
HERBERT GEORGE, an English novelist; born in Bromley, Kent, England, Se Sept. 21, 1866; was educated at the Royal College of Science, London. Starting as teacher in a London, he became a journalist there. He wrote: "The Time Machine" (1895); "Select Conversations with an Uncle" (1895); "The Wonderful Visit" (1895); a humorous satire; "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1896); "The Wheels of Chance" (1896): "Thirty Strange Stories" (1897); "The Invisible Man" (1897); "The War of the Worlds" (1898); "Tales of Space and Time" (1899); "Love and Mr. Lewisham" (1900); "Tono Bungay" (1909); "History of Mr. Polly" (1910); "The World Set Free" (1914); "The Research Magnificent" (1915); "Mr. Britling Sees It Through" (1916); "The Soul of a Bishop" (1917); "Joan and Peter" (1918); "Outline of History" (1920). Wells several times visited and lectured in the United States. In 1920 he went to Russia as the guest of the Soviet Government, and recorded his impressions, which were, for the most part, favorable.
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Wellsville
a city of Ohio, in Columbiana co. It is on the Pennsylvania railroad, and on the Ohio river. It is an important industrial center and has manufactures of steel, terra-cotta, boilers, nails, machinery, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,769; (1920) 8,849.
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Welsbach Light
an invention of Carl Auer von Welsbach, an Austrian, in 1884. In Europe it is known as the Auer light. It is based upon the discovery that certain materials become incandescent at a low temperature. The process followed is to saturate a combustible filament in the form of a network with a solution of salt of a refractory earth, such as zirconium. It is then dried out and burned, the combustible element disappearing and leaving a frame of refractory material, which becomes incandescent at a low temperature. The filament is called a mantle and is exceedingly fragile.
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Wenceslaus
or WENZEL, an Emperor of Germany and King of Bohemia; born in 1361; was the son of Charles IV., whom he succeeded in 1378. He was a dissolute and cruel prince. He favored the Hussites, but was unable to save the life of Huss. He died in 1419.
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