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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e Socialist paper Vorwartsin Berlin. From 1907-1910 he was con-nected with a Socialist paper in Nurem-berg and both in that city and in Munichhe waged a bitter campaign to arousesentiment in Bavaria against the unionwith Prussia. Arrested in 1918 for hisanti-war activities, he was released laterin the same year and when the Revolu-tion occured in November he became aleader in the radical Socialist party withthe special objective of dividing thesouth German states from the Empire.He became Prime Minister in the newBavarian Government, and at the BerneConference of Socialists, held at Berne,Switzerland, he attacked the moderateGerman Socialists because of their re-fusal to acknowledge Germanys guilt inbringing about the World War of 1914.For this speech and for his uncompro-mising hostility to Prussia he ^camebitterly hated by large sections of the EXATEEINOSLAV 485 ELBEBTON German people. This hostile feelingfinally resulted in his assassination onFeb. 21, 1919, while he was walking in
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KURT EISNER the streets of Munich, on his way fromthe foreign office to the Parliament. EKATERINOSLAV (e-ka-te-re-no-8lav),a town of southern Russia,capitalof a government of the same name, onthe right bank of the Dnieper, 250 milesN. E. of Odessa. It was founded in1787 by Prince Potemkin, and consistsof a number of long, broad streets. Pop.about 195,000. The government, whichis intersected by the Dnieper and at onepoint reaches the Sea of Azov, mostlyconsists of steppes; area 24,477 squaremiles; pop. about 3,150,000. EEBON, the northernmost of the fivegreat cities of the Philistines, on theborders of Judah and Dan. Beelzebubwas its god. ELAM, a district mentioned in Scrip-ture, lying S. of Assyria and E. of Persiaproper, apparently the same as the Su-siana of Strabo. Its chief city, Susa(Shushan), early attained great impor-tanoe in Mesopotamia. It appears thatthe primitive Semitic Elamites wereovercome at an early period by a Hamiticor Cushite race from Babylon, called bythe Greeks

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