Thornton
MATTHEW, an Ameriin Ireland about can statesman; born 1717; engaged 1714; came to America in Louisburg as in the expedition against troops; surgeon in the New Hampshire in the overthrow of took an active part New Hampthe royal government in provincial shire; was president of the of the asconvention of 1775 and speaker sembly in 1776; and served as judge of in 1776-1782. He was the Superior Court a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776; and a signer of the Declaration of the General Independence; a member of of Massachusetts; and in 1785 was Court appointed a member of the General Coun- , Mass., cil. He died in Newburyport June 24, 1803.
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Thornycroft
WILLIAM HAMO, born in London, an English sculptor; at the Royal March 9, 1850; studied " (1880) was Academy schools. "Artemis were: "Teucer" his first success; others 1884); and the (1881); "The Mower" ( Gordon in portrait statues of General ); and of John Trafalgar Square (1885 ); Queen Vic- Bright at Rochdale (1892 Exchange; and a bust toria in the Royal Abbey of Coleridge for Westminster , etc. He (1885); a statue of Gladstone of the Royal Acadwas made a member Paris emy in 1888. Medal of Honor, ,
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Thornycroft (II)
SIR JOHN ISAAC, born in Rome, Italy, 1900. an English engineer; practical engineerat the latter in- Feb. 1, 1843; studied " Ariel, " a fast steamwas the au- " Miranda, " boat; drew the plans for the modern ern torpedo engineering University; studied shipbuilding at Govan on the Clyde, and settled in Chiswick, England, as a designer and builder of torpedo boats several such vesand there constructed navy. He also insels for the British -engine for low-draft vented a turbine vessels.
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Thorough Wax
THOROW-WAX, Bup or THROW-WAX, in botany, the leurum rotundifolium. The stem is , perfoliate; branched; the leaves ovate yellow, with large the flowers greenishstriate interstices. bracts; fruit with by Turner because The name was given , thro the as he says, "the stalke waxeth a vulleaves." It was formerly used as of Europe and nerary. It is a native in Great Britain. Western Asia; rare
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Thoroughwort
in botany, the The stem is Eupatorium perfoliatum. hairy; the leaves subround, erect, and , pale undersessile, opposite, wrinkled 12 to 15 florets neath and hairy; the in North tubular. It grows in bogs whole plant is intensely America. The the leaves has bitter. A decoction of febrifuge. In larger been given as a sudorific, and quantities it is emetic, boneset and cross aperient. Called also wort.
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Thorp
the Scandinavian equivalent village," in local of the German dorf, "a sometimes stands by itself, nomenclature but oftener e. g., Le Torp, in Normandy; in English Alappears as a suffix, as and Norwegian Clithorpe, Wilstrop, than Nortourps. Being Danish rather often helps us to wegian, this suffix whence Scandinavian settlers determine while it is very arrived in England; and occurs very common in East Anglia, it once in seldom in Westmorland, but in Lancashire. Cumberland, and never
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Thorpe
BENJAMIN, an English Among his scholar; born about 1782. an English numerous publications are -Saxon Gramedition of "Rask's Anglo and Institutes of mar," "Ancient Laws The Gospels in the Anglo-Saxon Kings," " edition of "Beo- Anglo-Saxon," an Chronicle," wulf," "The Anglo-Saxon etc. He died in "Northern Mythology," London, July 19, 1870.
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Thorpe
ROSE HARTWICK, an American author; born in Mishawaka, Ind., July 18, 1850; received a high school education. She became widely known because of her poem "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight." Her other publications include "Fred's Dark Days" (1881); "Nina Bruce" (1886); "The Chester Girls" (1887); "The Year's Best Days" (1889); "Temperance Poems" (1887); "Sweet Song Stories" (1898); etc.
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Thorpe
FRANCIS NEWTON, an Swampscott, American author; born in educated at Mass., April ril 16, 16, 1857; was University and at the Law Syracuse Univer School of the University of Pennsylvania; fellow professor was admitted to the bar; of constitutional history ing; designed the stitution in 1885-1898. He of the People thor of " The Government the forerunner of the of the United States " ( 1889); " Franklin " boat; went through the and the University of Pennsylvania course at Glasgow . (1893); "The Story of the Constitution" den, Warsaw, and Vienna. He remained (1891); "The Government of the State of Pennsylvania" (1894); "The Constitution of the United States with Bibliography" (1894); "A Constitutional History of the American People, 1776-1850" (1898); "A History of the United States for Junior Classes" (1901); "The Civil War" (1906); "History; the Career of Man on Earth" (1909); "The House and Household" (1910); "An American Fruit Farm" (1915); "Essentials of American Constitutional Law" (1917).
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Thos
Mudge, Jun., London, 1792. Answer to a pamphlet, entitled, A Narrative of Facts, lately published by T. Mudge, Jun, relating to some timekeepers constructed by his father, Mr. Thos.
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Thoth
or TAUT, an Egyptian deity identified by the Greeks with Hermes (Mercury), to whom was attributed the invention of letters, arts, and sciences. The name is equivalent in significance to the Greek Logos, and Thoth is a mythical personification of the divine intelligence. THOTHMES III. (Tehuti-mes), an Egyptian king of the 18th dynasty; lived about 1600 b. C. and reigned for 54 years. He was famous for his conquests and carved upon the temple walls of Karnak the names of 625 vanquished cities and nations.
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Thou
JACQUES AUGUSTE DE (tö), a French statesman and historian; born in Paris, Oct. 8, 1553. Henry IV. employed him in several important negotiations, and in 1593 made him his principal librarian. In 1595 he succeeded his uncle as chief-justice, and during the regency of Mary de Medici he was one of the directors-general of finance. His greatest literary labor was the composition in Latin of a voluminous "History of his own Times" (Historia sui Temporis), comprising the events from 1545 to 1607, of which the first part was made public in 1604. To this work, which is remarkable for its impartiality, he subjoined interesting "Memoirs" of his own life. He died May 7, 1617. THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE. See TELEPATHY.
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Thought-Reading
A term somewhat loosely applied to various forms of apparent thought-transference, even where the method employed is muscle-reading or actual fraud. It must not be confused with telepathy, for, though both terms are sometimes used synonymously, the latter implies the direct action of one mind on another, independent of the ordinary sense-channels, while no such restrictions are Tii contained in the term "thought-reading." In early times, when outbursts of ecstatic frenzy were ascribed to demoniac possession, we find the ecstatics credited with the power to read thoughts; witches were supposed to be endowed with the same faculty; Paracelsus and the early magnetists recognised its existence. The advent of spiritualism gave to thought-reading a new impetus. It was now the spirits who read the thoughts of the sitters and replied to them with raps and table-turnings. Until quite recently, however, thought-reading was attributed either to occultism or fraud. Not only was the "ethereal vibration" theory unthought of, but the phenomena of hyperæsthesia and "subconscious whispering were very imperfectly understood in their bearing on thought-reading. Yet it is probable that these last offered a satisfactory explanation in many cases, especially when the subject was entranced. Professional thought-readers who performed on public platforms indulged largely in fraud. (See Telepathy .) "
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