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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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es at the Peace Congress ofVersailles. In October, 1919, he was madeLord President of the Council. His pub-lications include A Defense of Philo-sophic Doubt (1879); Essays and Ad-dresses (1893) ; The Foundations ofBelief (1895); Insular Trade (1903);Criticism and Beauty (1909); Theismand Humanism (1915). BALI, an island of the Indian Archi-pelago E. of Java, belonging to Holland;greatest length, 85 miles, greatestbreadth, 55 miles; area, about 2,170square miles. It consists chiefly of aseries of volcanic mountains, of whichthe loftiest, Agoong (11,326 feet), be-came active in 1843, after a long periodof quiescence. Principal products, rice,cocoa, coffee, indigo, cotton, etc. Thepeople are akin to those of Java and aremostly Brahmins in religion. It is di-vided into two districts and several au-tonomous states under native rajahs,and forms one colony with Lombok, theunited population being estimated in 1918at 1,344,880. BALIOL, or BALLIOL, JOHN, ofBarnard Castle, Northumberland, father
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BALIOL 393 BALKAN WARS of King John Baliol, a great English(or Norman) baron in the reign of HenryIII., to whose cause he strongly attachedhimself in his struggles with the barons.In 1263 he laid the foundation of BaliolCollege, Oxford, which was completed byhis widow, Devorguila or Devorgilla.She was daughter and co-heiress of Allanof Galloway, a great baron of Scotland,and of Margaret, eldest daughter ofDavid, Earl of Huntington, brother ofWilliam the Lion. It was on the strengthof this genealogy that his son John Baliolbecame temporary King of Scotland. Hedied in 1269. BALIOL, or BALLIOL, JOHN, Kingof Scotland; born about 1249. On thedeath of Margaret, the Maiden of Nor-way, and grandchild of Alexander III.,Baliol claimed the vacant throne by vir-tue of his descent from David, Earl ofHuntington, brother to William the Lion,King of Scotland. Robert Bruce (grand-father of the King) opposed Baliol; butEdward I.s decision was in favor ofBaliol, who did homage to him for thekingdom, Nov

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