Tamatave
a seaport on the coast of Madagascar and the chief commercial center of the island; pop. about 15,000.
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These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Tamatave, Tamaulipas, Tambelan Islands.
Tamaulipas
(tä-mou-lē'päs), a State of Mexico, bordering on Texas and the Gulf of Mexico; is about 400 miles long and 130 miles broad; area, 30,831 square miles; pop. about 257,000. The surface is diversified and the soil generally fertile. It produces most of the grains, fruits and woods of the temperate zone. Iron, silver, and salt are the chief mineral products. Stock of all kinds is raised and a considerable trade in them and other articles is carried on. The principal ports are Tampico and Matamoras.
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Tambelan Islands
a group in the China Sea, between Borneo and Singapore. They are under Dutch control.
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Tambov
a province of Russia, S. of Nijni-Novgorod and Vladimir, between the basins of the Oka and the Don; area, 25,710 square miles; pop. about 3,555,000. It is one of the largest, most fertile, and most densely peopled provinces inces of central Russia. More than two-thirds of the surface is arable. The principal crops are corn and hemp. Before the World War vast numbers of excellent horses, cattle, and sheep were reared. The chief industrial establishments are distilleries, tallow-melting works, sugar works, and woolen mills. TAMBOV, the capital, 263 miles S. E. of Moscow, is built mostly of wood. It has a great trade in corn and cattle. Pop. about 71,500.
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Tamerlane
. See Timur
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Tamils
the name of a race which inhabits South India and Ceylon. The Tamils belong to the Dravidian stock of the inhabitants of India, and are therefore to be regarded as among the original inhabitants who occupied the country before the Aryan invasion from the N., but they adopted the higher civilization of the Aryans. The Tamil language is spoken not only in south India and Ceylon, but also by a majority of the Indian settlers in places further E., as Pegu and Penang. There is an extensive literature, the greater part of it in verse. Among the chief works are the "Kural" of of Tiruvalluvar, an ethical poem, and the Tamil adaptation of the Sanskrit "Ramayana." !
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Tammerfors
the chief manufacturing city of Finland; 50 miles N. W. of Tavastehus. It is situated on a rapid which connects two lakes and affords motive power to cotton, linen, paper, and woolen mills. Pop. (1917) 46,353.
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Tammuz
a Syrian deity for whom the Jewish women held an annual lamentation (Ezek. viii: 14), doubtless borrowing the practice from the Phœnicians. Tammuz has generally been identified with the Phoenician sun god Adonis, or the Egyptian god Osiris. The Adonia or feast in honor of Adonis commenced with the new moon of July, when on a certain night an image of the god was laid out on a bed by women, and bewailed in woful ditties. After a time spent in this way lights were brought in, and the mouths of the mourners anointed by the priest, who whispered, "Trust ye, communicants, the god having been saved, there shall be to us, out of pains, salvation."
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Tampa Bay
the largest inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, on the W. coast of Florida. It affords excellent anchorage, and at its entrance are many islands.
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Tampico
a seaport town in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, on Lake Tampico, near the Gulf of Mexico. It has some good dwellings in the Spanish style, military and naval monuments, and an important trade with the United States and Great Britain, amounting to $100,000,000 annually. The principal exports are specie, hides, tallow, bones and jerked beef. Pop. about 36,000.
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Tamsui
a town on the N. coast of Formosa, one of the treaty ports, with a trade in tea; pop. 95,000.
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Tamworth
a town on the border of Stafford and Warwick shires, England; at the confluence of the Tame and Anker; 110 miles N. W. of London. Burned by the Danes in 911, and rebuilt by the Princess Ethelfleda, it was the seat of a castle of the Saxon kings, which was afterward held by the Marmion, Ferrars, and other families, and now belongs to the Marquis of Townshend. That castle, which ranges in date between Saxon and Jacobean times, crowns a knoll 130 feet high; in its noble round keep is a room where Mary, Queen of Scots, was a prisoner. The Church of St. Edith, restored since 1870, at a cost of £10,000, has some curious interesting monuments and a double tower staircase. There are also a bronze statue of Peel, the new Jubilee municipal buildings and assembly rooms, a town hall (1701), a grammar school (1858; rebuilt 1868), almshouses founded by Thomas Guy, a cottage hospital, recreation grounds, etc. The manufactures include elastic tape, small wares, paper, etc.; and in the vicinity are market gardens and coal pits. A municipal borough, chartered by Elizabeth, Tamworth, returned two members to Parliament till 1885. Pop. (1917) 8,000.
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Tana
a river in the extreme N. of Norway; forming part of the boundary between it and Russia. Also a river of East Africa, within the British sphere of influence; rising in Mount Kenia, navigable for about 100 miles in the rainy season.
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Tanager
tan'a-jer, an American family of birds. Of 350 species, nearly all are brightly colored inhabitants of tropical forests. Of the five species found in the United States the scarlet tanager, about seven inches in length, is chief. The plumage of the male is a bright scarlet with black wings and tail. The female is olive green above and greenish yellow beneath. The tanager ranges in deep, green woods from Manitoba to Virginia and eastward. It passes the winter beyond the Gulf of Mexico. The nest is placed near the end of a branch ten to twenty feet from the ground. The male especially is fond of a lofty swinging perch screened by leaves. He seems to realize that his plumage is conspicuous. One no sooner locates his bird and focuses his fieldglass on it, than the tanager apprehends danger and is gone into the depths of the forest. Its food is chiefly fruit and insects. It is the most brilliant bird in our forests. The summer tanager with rose red plumage ranges from Florida to New Jersey . The Louisiana tanager is a Western bird.
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