Terek
a river in Russian Caucasia, rises near Mount Kasbec, flows in an E. direction, and enters the Caspian by many branches after a course of 350 miles. It has a descent, after reaching the plain (Mosdok), of 40 centimeters to the kilometer, and is utilized for irrigation in the district to which it gives name, and which is specially noted for its warm springs and petroleum wells. The district lying between the province of Stavropol and the highlands of Daghestan, has an area of 34,637 square miles.
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Terentia
Wife of M. Cicero, the orator, to whom she bore two children, a son and a daughter. She was a woman of sound sense and great resolution; and her firmness of character was of no small service to her weak and vacillating husband in some important periods of his life. Terentius, Publius, or Terence. A native of Africa, celebrated for the comedies he wrote. He was twenty-five years old when his first play was produced on the Roman stage. Terence is admired for the purity of his language and the elegance of his diction. He is supposed to have been drowned in a storm about B. C. 159.
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Terhune
ALBERT PAYSON, an American author, born at Newark, N. J., in 1872. He was educated at Columbia and traveled on horseback through Syria and Egypt investigating leper settlements, and living among the Bedouins of the desert. He has been on the staff of the New York "World" since 1894. His works include "Syria from the Saddle"; "Columbia Stories"; " Dr. Dale-A Story Without a Moral"; " The Secret of the Blue House"; "The Shadow of the Prophet"; libretto of " Nero" (a comic opera); "Caleb Conover"; "Railroader"; "Dad"; "Dollars and Cents"; "The Locust Years"; "Bruce"; " The Pest."
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Terhune (II)
MARY VIRGINIA, ("Marion Harland"), an American author; born in Amelia co., Va., Dec. 21, 1831; received an academic education, and early began to write for 1 ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE the press. She contributed extensively to numerous magazines, was for several years the editor of "Babyhood" and "The Home Maker"; conducted departments in "Wide Awake" and "St. Nicholas"; and served on the editorial staff of the Chicago "Tribune." Her publications include: "The Story of Mary Washington"; "A Gallant Fight"; "A Story Without a Moral"; "Where Ghosts Walk" (1910); "The Long Lane" (1915).
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Terhune, Mrs. Mary Virginia Hawes
Mrs. Mary Virginia Hawes (1835-), an American novelist and miscellaneous writer, better known by her pen name of Marion Harland. She was born in Amelia County, Virginia, and began to write for the press when only fourteen years old. She was married in 1856 to Edward Payson Terhune. She has done editorial work on Babyhood, The Homemaker, Saint Nicholas, Wide Awake, and North American. Among her novels are Alone, The Hidden Path, and Sunny bank. The latter is said to have been "the first work to utilize the romantic materials of the Civil War without gross partisanry." Mrs. Terhune is probably best known for her writings on subjects connected with home life and household management. Whenever the problems of cook and housewife come up for discussion, the name of Marion Harland is a recognized authority. Common Sense in the Household, The Dinner Year-Book, Model Housewife, Breakfast and Luncheon and Tea are among her published works on household topics.
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Term
a limit; a boundary; a bound; a confine; the extremity of anything; that which limits its extent. The limitation of an estate; or, rather, the whole time or duration of the holding of an estate. The time in which a court is held or open for the trial of causes. The time during which instruction is regularly given to students in universities and colleges. A word or expression; the word by which a thing is expressed; that which fixes or determines ideas, a word or expression that denotes something peculiar to an art. The subject or predicate of a proposition in logic. In algebra, a member of a compound quantity. In the plural, conditions; propositions stated promises made, which, when assented to fishing. The ancient Thermæ Himerenor accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties. TERMES. See TERMITES.
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Termini
a seaport on the N. coast of Sicily; 23 miles E. S. E. of Palermo. The industries are tunny and sardine ses here was founded by the Carthaginians in 408 b. c., after the destruction of the Greek city of Himera. Under the Roman rule it flourished through its baths. Of these some fragments still exist, as well as of a theater, an aqueduct, etc. Pop. about 21,000.
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Terminus
A Roman divinity, presiding over boundaries and frontiers. His worship is said to have been instituted by Numa, who ordered that everyone should mark the boundaries of his landed property by stones consecrated to Jupiter , and at these boundarystones every year, sacrifices should be offered at the festival of the Terminalia . Terminus of the Roman state originally stood between the fifth and sixth milestone on the road towards Laurentum, near a place called Festi. Another public Terminus stood in the temple of Jupiter in the Capitol. The
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Terminus
in mythology, a divinity among the Romans supposed to preside over boundaries, frontiers, and landmarks. He was represented with a human head and neck, placed on a plinth, or column, and being destitute of legs or arms, was thus supposed to testify his immovable and steadfast character. NEST OF TERMITES In the upper left corner, one of the workers
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Ternate
one of the Molucca Islands, area, about 25 square miles; contains a remarkable volcano (5,600 feet), and produces tobacco, cotton, sago, sulphur, saltpeter, etc. The town Ternate is the seat of a native sultan and of the Dutch resident.
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Terni
a cathedral town in central Italy; between the two arms of the Nera; N. N. E. of Rome. About 70 miles 2 miles off is the famous cataract of Velino, 500 feet high, celebrated by Byron in his "Childe Harold." Terni is perhaps the ancient Interamna Umbrica, the birthplace of Tacitus. Pop., about 33,000.
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Ternina Milka
a German dramatic soprano; born in Vezisee, Croatia, in 1863. After studying under Dr. Josef Gansbacher, of Vienna, she acquired experience in Leipsic, Graz, and Bremen. In 1890 she became prima donna in Munich, where her success was great. Her talents were recognized throughout Germany, and she was a favorite in Russia and America. She first appeared in England at Covent Garden Opera House as Isolde in 1898, and further attracted attention by exceptionally fine impersonations of Brünnhilde and Fidelio, appearing in the former rôle with great success in New York City during the season of 1896. Owing to poor health she made few public appearances after 1906. TERNSTRÆMIACEÆ TERNSTRÆMIACEÆ, a order of polypetalous or usually with alternate simple leaves without stipules. The flowers are in axillary or generally white, arranged the terminal peduncles, articulated at is one of great ecobase. This order the nomical importance, as it includes the teas of genus Thea, from which The favorite commerce are obtained. it. The garden camellia also belongs to are prinplants belonging to the order and Amercipally inhabitants of Asia ica.
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