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Teutonic Peoples – Thalia

Teutonic Peoples

a term now erland and Austria. (2) The Low Ger-

Teutonic Peoples

a term now deutsch, the Dutch, the Flemings, and the English descended from the Saxons, Angles, etc., who settled in Britain. (3) The Scandinavians, including the Normans, including the Frisians, the Platt- erland and Austria. (2) The Low Ger- TEUTSCH TEXAS

Texas

UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational non-sectarian institution in Austin, Tex.; founded in 1883; reported at the close of 1920: Professors and instructors, 250; students, 4,478; volumes in the library, 35,000; president, R. E. Vinson.

Thaarup

THOMAS, a Danish poet; among them "The Birthday" and "Peter's born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1749. Some of his dramatic compositions, Wedding," are regarded as equal to the best in Danish literature. His "Song of Love and Fatherland" ranks as a lyrical classic. He died in 1821.

Thaer

WILHELM ALBRECHT, a German agriculturist; born in Lüdersdorf, near Wriezen, on the Oder, Aug. 6, 1828. He was appointed professor in the University of Giessen, 1871. He is author of a "System of Agriculture" (1877); "Ancient Egyptian Husbandry" (1881); "Weeds in Rural Economy" (1881); "Researches in Tenant-Farming" (1890). He died Dec. 14, 1906.

Thais

a famous Athenian courtesan, She accompanied Alex Alexander, who, during an orgy, was persuaded by her to destroy the city of Persepolis. After the death of the Macedonian conqueror, she became the wife of Ptolemy, King of Egypt.

Thalamiflore

a class of exogenous or dicotyledonous plants in which the petals are distinct and inserted with the stamens on the thalamus or receptacle.

Thalassicollina

an approximate synonym of THALASSICOLLIDA (q. v.).

THALASSINIDÆ, in zoölogy, a widely distributed family of macrurous Decapoda. Abdomen long, not very solid, carapace small and compressed; first pair THALASSINIDÆ of legs large; sternal plate long and narrow.

Thalassiophyllum

in botany, a genus of algals, akin to Laminaria, but having the frond spirally wound around the stem. Found on the N. W. shores of Arctic America.

Thalassochelys

in zoölogy, the loggerhead turtle; a genus of Chelonidæ, genus of Chelonidæ , equivalent to the genus Caouana of older authors, with two or three species from tropical seas. Plates of the carapace not imbricated; 15 plates on the disk; jaws slightly curved toward each other at their extremity.

Thaler

a silver coin formerly in use in Germany, of the value of about 75 cents.

Thalia

one of the nine Muses.

She was the patron of comedy, and is usually represented with the comic mask and the shepherd's crook in her hand.

One of the Graces was also called Thalia.