Titmouse
. See Chickadee
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Single-source entries: T (50)
Each of these 12 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Titration
in chemistry, the process of estimating the amount of an element or compound contained in a solution, by the addition to it of a known quantity of another chemical capable of reacting on it. The end of the process is determined by the complete precipitation of the compound, or by the discharge and production of some definite color in the mixed solutions. See ANALYSIS.
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Tittman
OTTO HILGARD, an American geodesist, born in Belleville, Ill., in 1850. After a common school training he entered the service of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1874 he went to Japan as an assistant astronomer in the Transit of Venus expedition. In 1895 he was appointed assistant in charge of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey office, becoming superintendent in 1909, which position he resigned in 1915. He has at various times represented the United States in demarking the boundaries with Canada and was Commissioner of Northern Boundaries under the Treaty of 1908.
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Tittoni
TOMMASO, an Italian statesman and diplomat, born in Rome in 1854. He received his education at the universities of Rome and Oxford and entered politics. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1886, and in 1897 was appointed prefect of Naples, and a year later became a Senator. In 1903-1906 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs, and, after a brief interval, returned TOMMASO TITTONI to the position which he held till 1910. In that year he went to Paris as ambassador. He has been a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration of The Hague since 1912. He continued as Italian ambassador in France during the great war till 1916, playing no small part in the negotiations which brought Italy into the war on the side of the Allies. In 1916 he became Minister of State, and at the conclusion of the war in 1918 took part in the peace negotiations. His works include: "Sei anni di Politica Estera" (published in 1912 and later translated as "Italy's Foreign and Colonial Policy") (mostly discourses); "The Responsibility of the War."
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Titular Bishop
a title substituted by Pope Leo XIII, for the older one of bishop in partibus infidelium.
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Titular Church
a name given to the parish churches of Rome, as distinct from the patriarchal churches, which belonged to the Pope, and from the oratories. Each titular church was under a cardinal priest, had a district assigned to it, and a font for baptism in case of necessity. TITTMAN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (tit'män), a German historian; born in Wittenberg in 1784. His "Study on the Amphictyonic League" (1812) was crowned by the Berlin Academy. His principal work is a "History of Henry the Illustrious' (2 vols. 1845-1846). Among his other writings are: "A View Vie of the Civilization of our Times" (1835); "On Life and Matter" (1855); "Aphorisms of Philosophy" (1850); "Nationality and the State" (1861). He died in 1864.
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Titus Vespasianus
Son of Vespasian and Flavia Domitilla, famous on account of his valor, particularly at the siege of Jerusalem. He had been distinguished for profligacy, but on assuming the purple he became a model of virtue. His death, which occasioned great lamentations, occurred A. D. 81, in the fortyfirst year of his age. Tomi or Tomis (Tomiswar or Jegni Pangola). A town of Thrace (subsequently Moesia), situated on the western shore of the Euxine, and at a later time the capital of Scythia Minor. It is renowned as the place of Ovid's banishment.
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Titusville
a city in Crawford co., Pa.; on Oil creek and the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads; 18 miles N. of Oil City. Here are a public library, high school, waterworks, electric lights, churches, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The first petroleum well in the United States was opened in the suburbs of the city in 1859, and since then the principal industry has been the production of oil. The city also has manufactories of soap , silk goods, radiators, chairs and furniture, engines, boilers, steel and iron forgings, oil-well drilling tools, etc. Pop. (1910), 8,533; (1920), 8,432.
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Tiumen
a town in Western Siberia; at the confluence of the Tjumenka with the Tura, a tributary of the Tobol; 138 miles S.W. of Tobolsk . It is regularly built (chiefly of wood), has 10 stone churches, a mosque, etc. There are manufactures of soap, tallow candles , and textile fabrics, bell and iron foundries, potteries , and shoemaking . Tiumen is also a great center of transit traffic-boats coming here from the Obi, Irtish, Tobol, and Tura, and unshipping goods for the W. and S. A great market is held here in January. Pop. about 35,000. ang nel was formed for a part of the waters of the river, by the construction of two shafts through the limestone rock of Monte Catillo, 870 feet and 990 feet long respectively. In 1834 this new channel was opened by Folchi in the presence of Pope Gregory XVI. , and a new waterfall was thus formed 330 feet high. Pop. about 15,000.
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Tiverton
a town in N. Devon, England; 18 miles N. of Exeter; on the slope of a hill above the confluence of the Exe and Loman, from whose two fords it derives its Old English name of Twy-ford-ton. The chief of its three churches, St. Peter's (136 feet long by 82 feet wide, with a tower 110 feet high), dates from 1073, but was partly rebuilt in the 16th and was thoroughly restored
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Tlaxcala
the smallest State of Mexico; on the plateau of Anahuac; nearly surrounded by Puebla, and touching Mexico State on the W.; area 1,534 square miles. Pop. 1919, 192,000 . In Aztec days Tlaxcala was the seat of an independent republic , which survived for a time under the protection of the Spaniards. The capital , Tlaxcala, stands 7,300 feet above the sea, and has some manufactures of woolens .
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Tlemcen
a town in the province of Oran, Algeria; 88 miles S. W. of Oran , with which it is connected by railway. It occupies the site of the Roman city of Pomaria , and under the Moors, in the 12th and 13th centuries, was a place of great importance , with a pop. of nearly 150,000. It stands on the N. slope of a steep mountain, at a height of 2,500 feet, in the midst of a well-irrigated and richly cultivated country , which especially abounds in fruit trees. The chief exports are olive oil, dried fruit, corn, wool, sheep and cattle, dressed alfa cloths, carpets, and leather goods. has 23 mosques, two of which are fine specimens of Moorish architecture. Pop. about 28,000. It
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