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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Pushball

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​PUSHBALL, a game played by two sides on a field usually 140 yds. long and 50 yds. wide, with a ball 6 ft. in diameter and 50 ℔ in weight. The sides usually number eleven each, there being five forwards, two left-wings, two right-wings and two goal-keepers. The goals consist of two upright posts 18 ft. high and 20 ft. apart with a crossbar 7 ft. from the ground. The game lasts for two periods with an intermission. Pushing the ball under the bar counts 5 points; lifting or throwing it over the bar counts 8. A touchdown behind goal for safety counts 2 to the attacking side. The game was invented by M. G. Crane, of Newton, Massachusetts, in 1894, and was taken up at Harvard University the next year, but has never attained any considerable vogue. In Great Britain the first regular game was played at the Crystal Palace in 1902 by teams of eight. The English rules are somewhat different from those obtaining in the United States. Pushball on horseback was introduced in 1902 at Durland's Riding Academy in New York, and has been played in England at the Military Tournament.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Pusa

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​PUSA, a village of British India, in Darbhanga district, Bengal, near the right bank of the Burhi Gandak River; pop. (1901), 4570. It was acquired as a government estate in 1796, and was long used as a stud dépôt and afterwards as a tobacco farm. In 1904 it was selected as the site of a college and laboratory for agricultural research.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Pushkar

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​PUSHKAR, a town of British India, in Ajmere district, Rajputana, 7 m. N. of Ajmere town. Pop. (1901), 3831. It derives its name from a small lake among the hills, 2389 ft. above the sea, in which Brahma is once said to have bathed as a penance. It contains one of the very few temples, in all India, dedicated to Brahma. At the annual celebration (Oct.-Nov.) about 100,000 pilgrims come to bathe in the lake.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Pushtu

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​PUSHTU, the language of the Pathan races of Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier province of India. It belongs to the Iranian group of the Indo-European languages, but possesses many Panjabi words. In Afghanistan it is the dominant language, but is not spoken west of the Helmund. In India it has two main dialects, the northern, hard or Pukhtu, and the southern, soft or Pushtu. The dividing line of the two dialects runs eastwards from Thal through the Kohat district almost to the Indus, but it then turns northwards, as the speech of the Akhora Khattaks belongs to the Pushtu or southern dialect. Thus Pukhtu is spoken in Bajour, Swat and Buner, and by the Yusufzais, Bangash, Orakzais, Afridis and Mohmands; while Pushtu is spoken by the Waziris, Khattaks, Marwats and various minor tribes in the south. The language division corresponds roughly with the tribal system of the Pathans, who are aristocratic in the north and democratic in the south. The classical dialect of Pukhtu is that of the Yusufzais, in which the earliest works in the language were composed. The Orakzai dialect differs from that of the Afridis, in that it is broader but less guttural and spoken more rapidly. The standard dialect is that of Peshawar. The literature is richest in poetry, Abdur Rahman, of the 17th century, being the best-known poet. Pushtu was spoken in the North-West Frontier province in 1901 by 1,142,011 persons, or 54% of the population.
See Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India; Roos-Keppel, Manual of Pushtu (1901); Lorimer, Grammar of Waziri Pushtu (1902).
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warre, Edmond

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​WARRE, EDMOND (1837–1920), English educationist, was born in London Feb. 12 1837, the son of Henry Warre, of Lindon House, near Wellington. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, taking a double first (1856 and 1859). In 1859 he was elected a fellow of All Souls. He went to Eton in 1860 as assistant master, and in 1884 was elected Headmaster, a position which he retained until 1905. After a period of retirement he was in 1909 appointed provost of Eton in succession to Dr. James Hornby, but during the greater part of his provostship he was incapacitated by ill health from taking any very active part in the government of the school. He was an hon. chaplain to Queen Victoria (1885–1901), and later occupied the same office in the households of King Edward VII. and King George V. He was created M.V.O. in 1901, C.B. in 1905, and C.V.O. in 1910. He died at Eton Jan. 22 1920. He took much interest in sport at Eton, and the high standard of rowing to which the Eton eights attained was due in a large measure to his coaching. His 45 years' connexion with Eton thoroughly identified him with its traditions and ideals, and, without being remarkable either as scholar or as teacher, he wielded a personal influence which has seldom been surpassed.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vol 32:5

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# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vol 32 PACIFIC OCEAN ISLANDS to ZULOAGA

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# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warren, Whitney

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WARREN, WHITNEY (1864-), American architect, was born in New York City Jan. 29 1864. After studying at the
École des Beaux Arts, Paris, under Daumet and Girault (1885-1894), he began the practice of architecture in New York, later becoming associated with Charles D. Wetmore under the firm-name of Warren & Wetmore. They specialized in railway architecture, hotels, business buildings and residences, and were architects for the New York Central, Michigan Central, Canadian Northern, and Erie railways. Their numerous structures in New York City include the Chelsea docks and the hotels Belmont (1905), Vanderbilt (1910), Biltmore (1912), and Commodore (1916). During and following the World War, Warren supported actively the claims of Italy in the Adriatic. He was an intimate friend of d'Annunzio, and was appointed diplomatic representative in the United States of the “Free State of Fiume.” In 1920 he was chosen by the International Committee to reconstruct the library of the university of Louvain, destroyed by the Germans in 1914. He was a member of the Institut de France, the Académie des Beaux Arts, the Royal Academy of St. Luke (Rome), and other foreign academies. He was the author of Les Justes Revendications de l'Italie: la Question de Trente, de Trieste et de l'Adriatique. Many of his addresses, delivered 1914-9, were published and widely distributed.
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# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Washington, Booker Taliaferro

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WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859-1915), American negro teacher and reformer (see 28.344), died at Tuskegee, Ala., Nov. 14 1915, as the result of a breakdown due to overwork. His last public address was delivered on Oct. 25 before the national conference of Congregational churches in New York City. At Tuskegee he was succeeded by Robert R. Moton. He was the author of My Larger Education: Being Chapters From My Experience (1911) and The Man Farthest Down; a Record of Observation and Study in Europe (1912).
See D. F. Riley, Life of Booker T. Washington (1916).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Renevier, Eugène

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​RENEVIER, EUGÈNE (1831–), Swiss geologist, was born at Lausanne on the 26th of March 1831. In 1857 he became professor of geology and palaeontology in the university at Lausanne. He is distinguished for his researches on the geology and palaeontology of the Alps, on which subjects he published numerous papers in the proceedings of the scientific societies in Switzerland and France. With F. J. Pictet he wrote a memoir on the Fossiles du terrain aptien de la Perle-du-Rhone (1854). In 1894 he was appointed president of the Swiss Geological Commission, and also of the International Geological Congress held that year at Zürich, in the previous meetings of which he had taken a prominent part. He published a noteworthy Tableau des terrains sédimentaires (1874); and a second more elaborate edition, accompanied by an explanatory article Chronographe géologique, was issued in 1897 as a supplement to the Report of the Zürich Congress. This new table was printed on coloured sheets, the colours for each geological system corresponding with those adopted on the International geological map of Europe.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Renfrew

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​RENFREW, a royal, municipal and police burgh and county town of Renfrewshire, Scotland, near the southern bank of the Clyde, 7 m. W. by N. of Glasgow, via Cardonald, by the Glasgow & South-Western and Caledonian railways (5 m. by road). Pop. (1891) 6777; (1901) 9296. Industries include shipbuilding (the construction of dredgers and floating docks is a speciality), engineering, dyeing, weaving, chemicals and cabinetmaking. The Clyde trust has constructed a large dock here. Renfrew belongs to the Kilmarnock district group of parliamentary burghs (with Kilmarnock, Dumbarton, Rutherglen and Port Glasgow). Robert III. gave a charter in 1396, but it was a burgh (Renifry) at least 250 years earlier. About 1160 Walter Fitzalan, the first high steward of Scotland, built a castle on an eminence by the side of the Clyde (still called Castle Hill), the original seat of the royal house of Stewart. Close to the town, on the site of Elderslie House, Somerled, lord of the Isles, was defeated and slain in 1164 by the forces of Malcolm IV., against whom he had rebelled. In 1404 Robert II. bestowed upon his son James (afterwards James I.) the title of Baron of Renfrew, still borne by the prince of Wales.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Rennell, James

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​RENNELL, JAMES (1742–1830), British geographer, was born on the 3rd of December 1742, near Chudleigh in Devonshire. His father, an officer in the Artillery, was killed in action shortly after the birth of his son. He entered the navy as a-midshipman in 1756, and was present at the attack on Cherbourg (1758), and the disastrous action of St Cast in the same year. At the end of the Seven Years' War, seeing no chance of promotion, he entered' the service of the East India Company, and was appointed surveyor of the Company's dominions in Bengal (1764), with the rank of captain in the Bengal Engineers. To this work he devoted the next thirteen years. In 1766 he received a severe wound in an encounter with some Sannyasis, or religious fanatics, from which he never thoroughly recovered; and in 1777 he retired as major on a pension of £600 a year. The remaining fifty-three years of his life were spent in London, and were devoted to geographical research chiefly among the materials in the East India House. His most valuable works include the Bengal Atlas (1779), the first approximately correct map of India (1783), the Geographical System of Herodotus (1800), the Comparative Geography of Western Asia (1831), and important studies on the geography of northern Africa—in introductions to the Travels of Mungo Park and Hornernann—and the currents of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. He also contributed papers to Archaeologia on the site of Babylon, the island of St Paul's shipwreck, and the landing-place of Caesar in Britain. He was elected F.R.S. in 1781; and he received the Copley medal of the Royal Society in 1791, and the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1825. While in India he had married (1772) Jane Thackeray, a great-aunt of the novelist. He died on the 29th of March 1830, and was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey.
See Sir Clements Markham Major James Rennell and the Rise of Modern English Geography (London, 1895).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Rendezvous

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​RENDEZVOUS, a place of meeting appointed or arranged for the assembling of troops, ships or persons. The word was adopted in English at the end of the 16th century from the French substantival use of the imperative rendez vous, i.e. " render or betake yourselves."
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Renneville, René Auguste Constantin de

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​RENNEVILLE, RENE AUGUSTE CONSTANTIN DE (1650–1723), French writer, was born at Caen in 1650. In consequence of his Protestant principles, he left France for Holland in 1699, and on his return three years later he was denounced as a spy and imprisoned in the Bastille, where he remained until 1713. During his imprisonment he wrote on the margins of a copy of Auteurs déguisés (Paris, 1690) poems which he called Otia bastiliaca. These were rediscovered by Mr James Tregaski in 1906. Renneville was set at liberty through the intercession of Queen Anne, and made his way to England, where he published ​his Histoire de la Bastille (7 vols., 1713-24), dedicated to George I. At the time of his death in 1723 he was a major of artillery in the service of the elector of Hesse. His other important work is a Recueil des voyages qui ont servi à l'établissernent de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales aux Provinces Unies (10 vols., new ed., Rouen, 1725).