Three Bears, The
The, a popular nursery tale told in many forms. The original printed version is by Robert Southey, but the story is doubtless an old folk-tale. Walrus. the walrus and relatives Sea-bear Sea-lion
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These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Three Kings, Thresher Shark, Thrift.
Three Hours' Agony
or THREE HOURS' SERVICE, a devotion practised on Good Friday, from noon till three o'clock, in commemoration of the Passion. It was introduced by Father Messia, S. J., of Lima, about 1730, and reached Rome in 1738. It was introduced into the English Church about 1865, and was rendered legal by the Act of Uniformity Amendment Act (1872), which permits additional services, consisting of any prayers from the Liturgy or Bible, with address or sermon, and hymns. The service consists, in all cases, of hymns, collects, or litanies, and addresses, generally on "the seven words last feature from the cross," ss," though this is sometimes varied by meditations on other details of the Passion. The editor of the "Dictionary of Rel Religion" notes posthat the name of the devotion may sibly occasion a mistake as to the length of our Lord's sufferings. (Mark xv: 25, 34.)
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Three Kings
the name given in the Roman Church to the Magi, who came from the East to adore the Infant Jesus (Matt. ii: 1-12). They are probably callfrom Psalm lxxii: 10, which ed kings verse is used as an antiphon in the office for Epiphany. According to tradition, their names were Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, and on their return to the East they received baptism. The Empress Helena is said to have brought their bones to Constantinople, whence they were removed to Milan, and afterward to Cologne. The Chapel of the Three Kings, built by the Emperor Maximilian (1459-1519), in Cologne Cathedral, is supposed to contain their relics.
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Three Rivers (City and port of entry in St)
a city and port of entry in St. Maurice co., Quebec, Canada; at the confluence of the St. Maurice and St. Lawrence rivers, and on the Canadian Pacific railroad; 95 miles N. E. of Montreal. Here are a bishop's residence, a cathedral, college, convents, and many handsome residences. The city extensive trade in lumber, and tures boots, shoes, stoves, car and ironware. Three Rivers was ed by Laviolette under orders from Champlain in 1634. A battle which proved disastrous to the Americans was fought here on June 16, 1776. Pop. about 10,000.
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Three Rivers (City of Michigan in St Joseph)
a city of Michigan, in St. Joseph co. It is on the Michigan Central and the New York Central railroads, and is at the junction of the St. Joseph, Portage, and Rocky rivers. Its industries include the manufacture of cars, railroad supplies, marine engines, leather, knit goods, paper, brass goods, and machine-shop products. It has a public library. Pop. (1910) 5,072; (1920) 5,209.
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Three-Horn Chameleon
the Chameleon oweni from Fernando Po. The male has a long horn over each eye, at the end of the muzzle, and another whence the popular name.
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Three-Quarter Plate
A watch in which enough of the upper plate is cut away to allow of the balance vibrating on a level with the plate.
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Thresher Shark
also called the FOX SHARK, a genus of sharks containing but one known species, Alopias vulpes, with a short conical snout, and less formidable jaws than the white shark. The upper lobe of the tail fin is very elongated, being nearly equal in length to the rest of the body, and is used as a weapon to strike with. Tail in the thresher attains a length of 13 feet. It inhabits the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and is sometimes met with on the coasts of Great Britain. THRESHING MACHINE. See TOOLS and MACHINERY.
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Thrift
in botany, the genus Armeria, called also seapink, specifically Armeria vulgaris or maritima (Statice ia, Linn.): leaves densely fas- Armeria, cicled, linear, usually one-nerved, one-nerved, pubescent or ciliate, with impressed points both above and below; inflorescence scape, bearing a head of rose-colored, pink, or white flowers, surrounded by a brown membranous, three-leaved involucre, and intermixed with scales. It is found on seacoasts and on mountains, and is well adapted for edging in gardens.
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Thrinax
in botany, the thatch , a genus of palm Sabalidæ. Calyx sixcleft, corolla none; stamens 6, 9, united at the base; ovary one-celled, with a single, erect ovule; fruit round. argentea is the silver thatch palm, the leaves of which are used in Jamaica for thatch. In Panama it is made into brooms.
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Thrincia
in botany, a genus of Scorzonereæ, now reduced to a sub-genus of Leontodon. The pappus flowers consists of toothed scales, that of the inner is formed of feathery hairs. The buds are drooping. Common in all temperate regions, and popularly known as dandelion and lion's tooth. It has lanceolate, almost sinuo-dentate, leaves, somewhat hispid, and single flower flowers. It grows in scapes of yellow low gravelly pastures. flowering in July and August. English
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Thring
EDWARD, an educator; born in Alford Rectory, Somersetshire, Nov. 29, 1821; was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, of which he was elected fellow. He took has an orders, and served in curacies at Gloumanufac - cester and elsewhere, but in September, - wheels, 1853, found the work of his life in the found- appointment to be head master of Uppingham school. He found it insignificant, but made it one of the healthiest and best equipped among the public schools of England. He finally limited the number of boys to 330, 30 to each boarding house, and he gave himself for 34 years with restless energy to the task of educating these in the highest sense of the word. No man ever estimated schoolmore highly the worth of life: no master since Arnold was more successful in imprinting on the characters of his pupils a high ideal of duty as the great end of life. The manly fiber of and honincluded, his own nature, his earnestness esty, his firm discipline, and his stern denunciation of cowardice and wrong gave a distinctive character to the school. His publications include volumes of school songs and lyrics, an English grammar, a Latin gradual and a construing book: "Thoughts on Life Science," anonymously (1869), "The Theory and Practice of Teaching" (1883), "Uppingham Sermons" mons" (2 vols. 1886), "Addresses" (1887), "Poems and Transl tions" (1887), and "Uppingham So School scence a Songs and Borth Lyrics" (1887). He died Oct. 22, 1887.
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