Taoism – Tauchnitz
Taoism
or TAONISM obtained by heating the fluotantalate of potassium or sodium with metallic sodium in a covered iron crucible, cooling, and washing out the soluble salts with water. It is a black powder, insoluble in sulphuric, hydrochloric, nitric, or even in nitrohydrochloric acid, but is slowly dissolved in warm aqueous hydrofluoric acid, very rapidly when nitric acid is present.
Taoism
or TAONISM, one of the three religions of China. Its founder, Its founder , Laotse, lived, according to tradition , in Tao is a word entury B. C. the 6th century, "way." The whole teaching meaning "way." was vague and unsatisfactory; but its followers made a great advance on those
Taos
the most N. of the Pueblo tribes of North American Indians. They live in New Mexico, in a village of the same name, on the Rio de Taos, 50 miles N. of Santa Fé, and number about 400.
Tapajos
a river of Brazil, rises in the Serra Diamantina, 20 miles from the headwaters of the Paraguay, and after a N. course of 1,100 miles, joins the Amazon in lon. 35° W. The Tapajos is a dark, wide stream, and is navigable throughout most of its length. Steamers ply on its lower course for several hundred miles.
Tarare
a town of France, department of the Rhone, on the Tardine, among the Beaujolais Mountains; 21 miles N. W. of Lyon. It has two fine churches of the Madeleine and St. André, and manufactures fine muslins, tarlatans, plush, velvets, and other textures, to the value of 7,000,000 francs yearly.
Pop. (1906) 12,016. in of
Tarn
a river of southern France, which rises on the S. slope of Mount Lozère, near Florac, in the department of Lozère; flows through the departments of Aveyron, Tarn, Haute-Garonne, and Tarn-et-Garonne; and finally joins the Garonne. Its whole course is 230 miles, of which about 100 miles beginning at Alby are navigable.
Tarnopol
a town of Galicia, Poland; on the Sered river; 80 miles S. E. of Lemberg. It has a Roman Catholic and a Greek church, a Jesuit college, upper gymnasium, etc. Before the World War there was considerable trade in corn and other agricultural products. A great horse market with horse races was held annually. Pop. about 35,000.
Tarpeian Rock
a rock on the Capitoline Hill at Rome, named from the maid Tarpeia. Traitors were cast down this rock and so killed.
Tar River
a river in North Carolina, which rises in Granville co., flows S. E., and enters Pamlico Sound by a wide estuary. The lower part of it is called Pamlico river. It is about 200 miles long.
Tarshish
a place frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. It is now generally identified by Biblical critics with the Tartessus of the Greek and Roman writers, a district of Southern Spain, near the mouth of the Guadalquivir, settled by the Phœnicians.
Tasman Sea
a name given to that part of the Pacific inclosed by Australia and Tasmania on the one side, and New Zealand and smaller islands on the other.
Tauchnitz
born in Schleinitz Aug. 25, 1816, also founded in 1837 a printing and publishing house in Leipsic. 1841 he began his well-known collection of "British Authors," of which 2,600 vol umes appeared within the first 50 years.
The enterprising publisher was ennobled in 1860, and made one of the few Saxon life-peers in 1877. He died Aug. 14, 1895.