Truss
. See Bridge
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Single-source entries: T (101)
These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Truss, Tsarskoe Selo, Tschaikowsky.
Tryon (SIR naval officer born)
SIR naval officer; born in 1832; entered the GEORGE, a British navy in 1848; was at Sebastopol; became captain in 1866, and admiral in 1884. He was commander-in-chief on the Australian station in 1884-1888, and in the Mediterranean from 1891 till the disastrous collision (June 22, 1893) off the coast of Syria, when his flagship, the "Victoria," by his mistaken order, collided, capsized, and sank with her commander and great part of her crew.
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Tryon (WILLIAM British a colonial)
WILLIAM, British a colonial governor; born in Ireland, about 1729; joined the British navy and as an officer did creditable service. Through the influence of the Earl of Hillsborough, a relative of whom he married, he was made lieutenant-governor of North Carolina in June, 1764, and became governor in July, 1765. He put down the revolt of the "Regulators" in that colony, and was exceedingly cruel to the prisoners. The assembly of North Carolina voted $15,000 with which a beautiful residence was erected for him in Newbern. In 1771 he was made governor of New York. The patriots detested him on account of his arbitrary rule and especially for the cruelty he manifested in the destruction of Fairfield, Danbury, and Norfolk, Conn., expeditions expeditions against which he personally conducted. He relinquished the office of governor in 1778, and returned to England. He was promoted Major-General in August, 1777, and Lieutenant-General in November, 1782. He died in London, England, Jan. 27, 1788.
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Tsarskoe Selo
a town of Russia, province of St. Petersburg, 18 miles S. of Petrograd. It contains eight churches and two palaces, formerly the principal summer residences of the imperial family. The larger of these, built by Elizabeth in 1744, and embellished at greater expense by Catherine II., is a noble building, though overladen with false ornament. It has a frontage of 782 feet, and contains a ball room 141 feet long and 50 feet broad. In one of its wings is a marble gallery 270 feet long by 28 wide, with a noble Ionic colonnade adorned with bronze busts of the most famous men of antiquity. The great park, one of the most carefully planted in Europe, contains a Turkish kiosk, a Chinese hamlet with a pagoda, a bridge built of Siberian marble over a canal connecting two lakes, a marble statue of Count Orlof, and the artificial ruins of a Gothic castle, in the chapel of which stands the marble statue of Christ by Dannecker, erected in 1824 by Maria Feodorovna at a cost of 30,000 rubles. In the armory is a large collection of armor, weapons, dresses, and relics of historical persons, while the model farm contains Tyrolese, Swiss and Dutch cattle, besides buffaloes and bisons. N. W. of the town is Pulkowa, the central Russian observatory. Pop. about 20,000.
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Tschaikowsky
PETER ILTITSH, a Russian composer; born in Wotkinsk, Russia, in 1840; was educated at the School of Jurisprudence in St. Petersburg; received an office in the Ministry of Justice in 1859; turned his attention to music in 1862"; and studied in the Conservatoire of Music till 1865. He was Professor of the History of Music, Harmony, and Composition in the Conservatory of Moscow in 1866-1878, and afterward applied himself to composition. His works include the "Enchantress," "Vakula," "Opritchnik," and several ballets and operas, six symphonies, and many concertos, symphonic poems, suites, etc. He died in St. Petersburg, Nov. 7, 1893.
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Tschudi
JOHANN JAKOB VON (tshö'dē), a Swiss naturalist; born in Glarus, Switzerland, July 25, 1818. He traveled extensively in South America in 1838-1843 and again in 1857-1861. He wrote: "The Kechua Language" (1853); "Peru: Sketches of Travel" (1846); "Peruvian Antiquities" (1851); in South America" (5 vols. 1866-1869). He died in Jakobshof in Lower Austria, Oct. 8, 1889.
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Tschudi
EGIDIUS, or, as he wrote himself, GILG SCHUDI, the father of Swiss history; born in Glarus in 1505, of a family of which several members were distinguished in war, politics and science. He studied under Glarean in Basel and Paris; was in 1533 and 1549 high baliff at Baden, and for some time a captain in the French service; afterward traveling much among the Swiss mountains in search of materials for his historical studies. He several times acted as a mediator in the religious disputes of his time, but himself continued a Roman Catholic. In 1558 he became "Landammann" of Glarus; in 1559 was envoy to the Kaiser Ferdinand I. The chief of his numerous historical works is the "Chronicon Helveticum," embracing the period 1000-1470. The dramatic description of this book Schiller declared to be "both homely and Herodotean, nay Homeric," and used amply in giv giving local color to his "Wilhelm Tell." Rilliet notes that it was Tschudi who first gave precision to the circumstances, dates and persons of the Tell legend. Many unpublished MSS. of Tschudi are preserved in the libraries of St. Gallen and Zürich. He died in Glarus, Feb. 28, 1572.
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Tsech
or CZECH, a branch of the Slavic race, inhabiting Moravia and Bohemia.
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Tsithsith, The
An article of apparel, believed to be endowed with talismanic properties. A sentence in the Talmud runs thus : Whoever has the tephillin bound to his head and arm, and the tsithsith thrown over his garments is protected from sin. 66
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Tuamotu Islands
PAUMOTU, or LOW ARCHIPELAGO, an extensive group of islands in the Pacific, lying E. of the Society Islands and S. of the Marquesas; mostly under French p protection. They export pearls, mother-of-pearl, trepang, etc. Pop. about 4,000.
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Tuaregs
TUARICKS, or TAWA- REK, a nomadic race of Berber origin inhabiting the Sahara between long. 5° W. and 13° E., and across its entire breadth. They are the finest of the Sahara races, being handsome and powerfully made, but are fierce and are perpetually at war among themselves. They profess Islamism, but are more influenced by pagan superstitions. Their women go unveiled, and take part in public affairs. No reliable estimate of their numbers can be formed. Tuaregs is a name of Arabic origin, and Imoshagh is the name by which the Tuaregs designate themselves. They appear to be a race dating from remote antiquity, and Barth identifies them with a people figured on the Egyptian monuments.
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