Taurids
meteors which appear about Nov. 20, and which have their radiant in Taurus. Fire balls are occasionally seen among them.
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These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Taurids, Taussig, Tautpheus.
Taurus (Astronomy the Bull The second)
in astronomy, the Bull. The second of the zodiacal constellations. It is bounded on the E. by Gemini, on the W. by Aries, on the N. by Perseus and Auriga, and on the S. by Orion and Eridan- THE CONSTELLATION TAURUS us. It is composed of many small stars, but has a large one (Aldebaran) situated in the midst of a group called the Hyades. They constitute the Bull's forehead and eye. Another group falling within the limits of Taurus is that of the PLEIADES (q. v.). It is situated on the Taurus contains shoulder of the Bull. Also the second also the Crab cluster. The sun enters sign of the zodiac (8). it about April 22.
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Taurus (Mountain chain in Asiatic)
a mountain chain in Asiatic Turkey, stretching for about 500 miles from the Euphrates to the Ægean Sea, latterly running N. of the Gulf of Adalia. In the E. it takes the name of Alma Dagh, in the W. that of Bulghar Dagh. It descends steeply to the sea on the S.; N. it merges gradually into the plateau of Asia Minor. It is connected by the Alma-Dagh with the chain of Lebanon; and by Anti-Taurus, with Ararat, El- a west tower (106 feet) resting on burz, and the Caucasus.
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Taussig
FRANK WILLIAM, an American economist; born in St. Louis in 1859. He studied at Harvard and taught there for ten years, becoming in 1892 professor of economics. In 1904- 1905 he was president of the American Economic Association. His works include: "The Tariff History of the United States"; "Protection to Young Industries as Applied in the United States"; "History of the Present Tariff, 1860-83"; "The Silver Situation in the United States"; "Wages and Capital"; "Principles of Economics"; "Some Aspects of the Tariff Question"; "Inventors and Money Makers". He was for some years editor of the "Quarterly Journal of Economics."
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Taussig (EDWARD DAVID a rearadmiral)
EDWARD DAVID, a rearadmiral of the United States navy, born in St. Louis in 1847. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1867 and became an ensign in 1868, going through the grades till he became a rearadmiral in 1908. He was commended to the department in 1868 for services during the earthquake at Africa. He served on the European and Pacific stations in the coast survey and commanded the Bennington in 1898-9. He served in the Philippines nes in 1900 and commanded the battleship Massachusetts, in 1904. He was comman commandant at the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., in 1907, and retired in 1909.
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Tautpheus
BARONESS VON (tout'fe-ös), an Irish novelist; born (Jemima Montgomery) in Ireland in 1807. She wrote the popular novels: "Cyrilla"; "Quits"; "At Odds"; "The Initials." She died in Munich Nov. 12, 1893. market town of
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Tavistock
a Devon, England, 11 miles N. of Plymouth and 31 S. W. of Exeter; in a trough of the hills on the Tavy's left bank, with Dartmoor stretching away from it to the E. An old stannary town, till 1885 governed by a portreeve, it is the center of what not many years ago was a great mining district. Two gateways, a porch, and the refectory are the chief remains of its once magnificent Benedictine abbey, founded in 961 by Ordgar, ealdorman of Devon, the father of the infamous Elfrida. It was rebuilt between 1285 and 1458; was the seat of a very early printing press; and had a revenue of $4,510 at the dissolution in 1539; when it was conferred on the first Lord Russell, remaining still with his descendant, the Duke of Bedford. The parish church (1318) is a fine structure, with arches. Tavistock has also a guildhall (1848), corn market (1839), covered markets (1863), statues of the 7th Duke of Bedford by Stephens (1864) and Drake by Boehm (1883, a very fine one presented by the 9th Duke), and the Kelly College (1877), founded by Admiral B. M. Kelly. Drake and William Browne were natives, tives, Pym and William Lord Russell members; and the Right Hon. W. H. Smith was educated at the grammar school. Pop. about 4,500.
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Tavoy
a district in the Tenasserim division of British Burma; area, 5,308 square miles; pop. about 110,000. The country is mountainous with thick forests and jungle, and the chief rivers are the Tavoy and the Tenasserim. The chief town and the headquarters of the deputy-commissioner is Tavoy, about 30 miles from the mouth of the river of the same name; pop. 25,000. There is also an Island of Tavoy, the largest and most N. of the extensive chain which fronts the Tenasserim coast. It is about 18 miles long and 2 broad, and on the E. side there is a well-sheltered harbor called Port Owen.
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Tavus
an American writer on law; born in Charleston, S. C., July 16, 1857; graduated at the College of Charleswas ton in 1876; and at the Columbia Law School in 1879; was Professor of Law in the University of Missouri for 10 years and held the same chair in New York University for six years. He was the author of "The Law of Real Prop erty" (1883); "Limitations of Police Powers" (1886); "Commercial Paper" (1889); "Unwritten Constitution of the United States" (1890); "Sales of Personal Property" (1891); "State and Federal Control of Persons and Property" (1900); etc. He died in New York Aug. 25, 1903.
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Taxil, Leo
The pseudonum of M. Gabriel Jogaud-Pages, who in his works The Brethren of the Three Points and Are there Women in Freemasonry? has accused the Masonic Fraternity of the practice of Satanism and sorcery. His assertions are of the most debatable description.
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Taxus
in botany, the yew, the typical genus of the order Taxacex. T. Baccata, the common yew, is an evergreen tree which often attains a great size. Specimens of remarkable antiquity are commonly seen in old churchyards. The timber is extremely durable and valuable, and was formerly much used for making bows. Its leaves and young branches act as narcotic-acrid poisons when eaten by man or the lower animals. T. Canadensis, the dwarf yew, or ground hemlock, is a small, evergreen shrub, with the general aspect of a dw dwarf hemlock spruce (Pinus Canadensis).
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