These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Telemachus, Telemachus, Telemaque.
Son of Penelope and Ulysses . At the end of the Trojan war he went in search of his father, whom, with the aid of Minerva, he found. Aided by Ulysses he delivered his mother from the suitors that beset her.
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in mythology, the son of Ulysses and Penelope; was an infant when his father left home to join in the war against Troy; but during his 20 years' absence grew into manhood. Under the guidance of Athene, who had assumed the appearance of Mentor, Telemachus set out in search of his long-lost sire, after having vainly endeavored to eject his mother's troublesome suitors from the house. Having visited Pylos and Sparta, Telemachus returned home to Ithaca, where he found his father in the guise of a beggar, and with him proceeded to slay the suitors. In modern times Telemachus is known chiefly as the hero of Fénelon's romance, which was once very popular as a school book.
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ta-la-mak'. See Ulysses ; Fenelon
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an instrument for determining the distance of an object whose linear dimensions are known, from length or height, when its apparent viewed between two parallel wires of a telescope.
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in philosophy, a branch of metaphysics; the doctrine of final causes and of the uses which every part of nature was designed to subserve; the argument from design in proof of the existence of God. The expression "final causes" was introduced by Aristotle, and the extension which he gave to the idea of causation drew his followers away from studying the proper object of physical science. Bacon said on the subject: "Inquiry into final causes is fruitless, and like a virgin dedicated to God, produces nothing." The context shows that his objection was not to the investigation of final causes in themselves, but to the supposition that this study was a branch of physics. Descartes objected to the study of final causes, believing that to do so successfully was beyond the faculties of man; and most of the French philosophers of the 18th century for various reasons ignored teleology. Modern physical science confines itself rigorously as its name suggests, to the investigation of physical causes. Also, the doctrine of ends in morality, prudence or policy, and æsthetics.
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a genus of fossil crocodiles, the remains of which occur in the lower Jurassic rocks. They are found associated with marine fossils, and the peculiar modification of their skeleton seems to have specially fitted them for an aquatic life.
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LONG-DISTANCE 43 In 1920 the Peruvian delegates in the League of Nations Assembly brought up the question of Tacna-Arica there, but afterward withdrew the request for its consideration. In 1921 the Bolivian delegates requested that the treaty of 1904 be revised under that section of the League of Nations Covenant which says that the Assembly may advise reconsideration of treaties endangering peace. The Assembly declared that it had no jurisdiction on to revise treaties, and Bolivia Mikewise withdrew her demand. On Dec. 12, 1921, a Chilean note to Peru proposed the opening of negotiations in regard to the holding of the Tacna-Arica plebiscite, but Chile denied Peru's demand that the entire treaty of 1883 be reopened and also denied the claim of Bolivia to have a voice in the negotiations. On Jan. 17, 1922, the United States Government extended invitations to Chile and Peru to discuss the matter of the plebiscite in Washington. Both states accepted two two days later. LONG-DISTANCE.
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(See LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONY.)
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or TELESCOPE CARP, in ichthyology, the most highlyprized of the many varieties of Cyprinus ( Carassius) auratus, the goldfish. The Cyc-Vol. 1X dorsal fin is absent, the tail is much enlarged, sub-triangular or tri-lobate, and the eyes which are large and protruding, are set in pedicels.
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HENRY MOORE, an American statesman; born in Granger, N. Y., May 23, 1830; was admitted to the bar in 1856; practiced law in Illinois in 1858- 1860; went to Colorado in 1861; was major-general of the Colorado militia in 1862-1864; United States Senator in 1876-1882, and 1885-1897; Secretary of the Interior in President Arthur's cabinet in 1882-1885; and was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in St. Louis in 1896, from which he withdrew because of a financial plank in the platform. He was again elected to the United States Senate in 1897, which office he held until 1909. He died in 1914.
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a seaport town and military station of British India, in the district of Malabar, Madras presidency. The site of the town is very beautiful, and the neighboring country highly productive. There is a natural breakwater abreast of the fort, formed by a reef of rocks running parallel to the shore. The town, with suburbs, occupies about 5 square miles. Coffee, cardamons, and sandalwood are the chief exports. The East India Company founded a factory here in 1683, which was reduced to a residency in 1766. Pop. about 28,000.
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A name applied by Kieser to Animal Magnetism (q.v.) Temeraire, Charles A.: Duke of Burgundy. He disappeared after the battle of Morat; and it was said by his chroniclers that he was carried off by the devil, like Roderick. Some maintained, however, that he had withdrawn to a remote spot and become a hermit.
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a chemical element. It has been known since 1782. It occurs in ores of silver, gold, lead, and bismuth. Pure tellurium is a brittle, silvery white metal. It is somewhat more than half as heavy as silver. Chemically it has many of the properties of sulphur, even to the disagreeable odors in combination. The element was discovered originally in Austria, but it abounds in Colorado and other mining regions.
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in chemistry, symbol Te, at. wt. 128, an element of rare occurrence, found in few minerals, in association with gold, silver, and bismuth. It possesses many of the characters of a metal, but bears so close a resemblance to selenium in its chemical properties that it is generally placed in the sulphur group. It has the color and luster of silver, is very brittle, a bad conductor of heat and electricity; ity; sp. gr. 6.26; melts below a red heat, and volatilizes at a higher temperature. Like sulphur, it forms both oxides and acids. It occurs in six-sided prisms with basal edges replaced; crystallization hexagonal; has lately been found in more complex forms; more often massive and granular; hardness, 2-2.5; sp. gr. 6.1-6.3; luster, metallic; color, tin-white; brittle; composition, tellurium and gold, with occasionally some iron; originally found at the Maria Loretto mine, Transylvania, where it was melted for the gold it contained. It has been recently found associated with various tellurides, in several of the United States. district of the
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