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the deadly carrot; the typical genus of Thapsidæ. Perennial herbs with doubly or trebly pinnate leaves, and large compound umbels of yellow flowers without involucres or involucels. T. garganica is found in the S. of Europe and Northern Africa; T. silphion is a variety of it rather than a distinct species. Thapsia is a powerful rubefacient, and is used in medicine in the form of a sparadrap.
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the ancient Thasos, an island in the Ægean sea, a few miles S. of the Macedonian coast, belonging to Turkey. It is of a circular form, about 16 miles in diameter, and is traversed by high woody hills which yield large quantities of timber.
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straw, or any other dry vegetable substance, laid on the top of a building, rick, etc., to keep out the wet. There are many different materials for thatching, but the straw of wheat and rye when well laid form the neatest and most secure covering for general purposes. The reed, though expensive, is a highly valuable article for the purpose of thatch, where a lasting roof is required.
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in ornithology, the sheartail; a genus of Tr Trochilidæ, with two species, from the humid districts of Peru. The genus is distinguished by the peculiarly shaped tail, the feathers of which are pointed, the middle ones being greatly elongate. Several pairs are generally met with together. males are extremely pugnacious, driving off every other kind of humming bird which ventures to enter their territory. The plumage of the sexes is different, the female being much duller in color.
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MORITZ (tou'sing), an Austrian art critic; born in Leitmeritz, in Bohemia, June 3, 1838. He became professor of the science of æsthetics in the University of Vienna, 1873. He wrote: "Dürer: History of His Life and His Art" (1876); "J. J. Callot's Sketch- Book" (1881); "Art Letters from Vienna" (1884). He died in Leitmeritz, Aug. 14, 1884.
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MRS. CELIA (LEIGH- TON), an American poet; born in Portsmouth, N. H., June 29, 1836. She spent her childhood and most of her later life at the Isles of Shoals. Her works are: "Poems" (1872); "Among the Isles of Shoals" (1873); "Poems" (1874); "Drift Weed" (1879); "Poems for Children" (1884); "The Cruise of the Mystery," etc. (1886); "Idyls and Pastorals" (1886); "The Yule Log" (1889); "An Island Garden" (1894); "Letters" (1895); "Stories and Poems for Children" (1895). She died on the island of Appledore, Isles of Shoals, Aug. 26, 1894.
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The encyclopaedia's séance pages catalogue every rap, trumpet and cabinet trick the Victorian parlor produced — Spence documents them all with a folklorist's straight face. Now hold a séance of your own: write a message, copy the link, and when your sitter opens it the cabinet goes dark and your words come through the veil, letter by letter. The message to send through the veil Sign it (optional — spirits are often anonymous) Prepare the séance The Omen of the Day Consulting the entries… The omen is drawn each day from a real entry of the 1920 encyclopaedia — the same for every visitor, as omens should be.
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or THEATRE } (1863-1865); "White House Stories" (1880-1885); "Marvels of the New West" (1887); "Life of Garfield"; "Men Who Win"; "Women Who Win"; "From the Tannery to the White House"; "In the Meshes"; "Ethics of Success"; etc. He died in Franklin, Mass., April 7, 1898. THAYER, WILLIAM ROSCOE, an American author; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 16, 1859; studied in Europe, and was graduated at Harvard University in 1881; became editor of the "Harvard Graduates' Magazine" (1892-1915). His publications include "Confessions of Hermes" (1884); "The Best Elizabethan Plays" (1890); "The Dawn of Italian Independence" (1893); "Poems, New and Old" (1894); "History and Customs of Harvard University" (1898); "Throne- Makers" (1899); "Short History of Ven ice" (1903); "Life and Times of Cavour" (1911); "Life "Life and Letters of John Hay" (1915); "Germany Against Civilization" (1916); "Letters of John Holmes" (1917); "Theodore Roosevelt" (1919). He is an overseer of Harvard, vice-president American Historical Assoc., member Academy of Arts and Letters, etc.
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according to tradition, a body composed of Christians, who submitted to martyrdom rather than attack their brethren during the persecution of the Emperor Maximin, or sacrifice to the gods, about A. D. 286. Their leader, Maurice, was canonized.
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in entomology, the hairstreak; a genus of Lycænidæ. Fore wings wholly dark brown, or with a large blotch of some other color, or with pale markings near the hinder margin; hind wings with a transverse pale line below, which is entire, interrupted, or nearly obsolete. Larvæ feeding on trees, shrubs, or papilionaceous plants. Common in all temperate regions. T. rubi, the green hairstreak, has the under side of the wings green; the rest have not this character. T. betulæ, the brown hairstreak, has the under side of the hind wings with two slender white streaks. T. pruni, the dark hairstreak, has an orange band with a row of black spots; T. album, the black hairstreak, a black line; and T. quercus, the purple hairstreak, has two small orange spots instead of the band. The first of the five is the most common.
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a virgin saint of the early Church; a member of a noble family of Iconium in Lycaonia, where she was converted by the preaching of St. Paul, and having devoted herself to a life of virginity, suffered a series of persecutions from her intended bridegroom, as well as from her parents. She is said to have died at the age of 90 in Seleucia. The apocryphal "Acts of Paul and Thecla" were edited by Tischendorf.
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in paleontology, an order of Reptilia founded by Owen. Vertebral bodies biconcave; ribs of trunk long and bent, the anterior ones with a with a third trochanter; teeth with the with trenchant and finely-serrate margins, implanted in distinct sockets. Two genera, Thecodontosaurus and Palæosaurus, from the Trias, near Bristol. Huxley regards them as Dinosaurian.
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in palæontology, a genus of Actinozoa. One species from the Rhætic or Lower Lias; from the Jurassie rocks of Great Britain, and others from the Cretaceous and Tertiary.
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