Each of these 10 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.
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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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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the type genus of the family Tanagridæ, with 12 species, ranging from Mexico to Bolivia and La Plata.
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a district, watered by the River Tanana and its tributaries, belonging to the Yukon watershed, Alaska. Area, 25,000 square miles. Pop. (white) about 7,000, the natives, Tananas, decreasing in number. During twelve months ending in 1915 gold valued at $66,000,000 was mined. Gold is the chief mineral, though coal beds extend from Upper Nenana to the Delta river, and in the Bonnefield district there is an area of 600 square miles with lignite coal. On the whole the abundant grass, rich soil and extensive woodland make the Tanana valley a favorable region for settlement, and it is estimated that there will soon be at least 50,000 acres under homestead.
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a town in the district of Fyzabad, Oude, British India; 3 miles from the Ghogra river; 100 miles S. E. of Lucknow. It is the seat of the largest weaving colony in the province, and manufactures both coarse cloth and fine muslin.
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ROGER BROOKE, an American statesman; born in Calvert co., Md., March 17, 1777; was graduated at Dickinson College in 1795; admitted to the bar in 1799, and elected to the house of delegates in the autumn of the same year. During the war with Great Britain he led the wing of the Federal party that upheld the policy of the government. In 1816 he was sent to the State senate; in 1827 became attorney-general of Maryland and in December, 1831, succeeded John M. Berrien as attorney-general of the United States. He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury under President Jackson on Sept. 24, 1833, but was forced to resign the next year, owing to his action with regard to the removal of the treasury deposits. On Dec. 26, 1835, however, he was nominated Chief- Justice of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate on March 15, 1836. While in this office he rendered decisions on many important cases, notably those of Dred Scott, and Sherman M. Booth, both bearing on the Fugitive Slave Law. He died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 12. 1864.
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a tree of Madagascar, natural order Apocynaceæ, bearing a fruit the kernel of which, about the size of an almond, is the highly poisonous. Trial by tanghin was formerly used in Madagascar as a test of the guilt or innocence of a suspected criminal. The person undergoing the ordeal was required to swallow a small portion of the kernel. If his stomach rejected it he was deemed innocent, but if he died, as happened in most cases, he was deemed to have deserved his fate and suffered the punishment of his crime.
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an island of Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay, nearly opposite the mouth of the Potomac river. N. due of this island extends a range of islands mostly in Somerset co., Md., dividing to Tangier Sound from the rest of the bay. The This sound is noted for its oysters. TANJORE (native, Tanjúr, or Tanjávúr), a town of India, capital of a district in the Madras province. 180 miles S. S. W. of Madras city, in the midst of an extensive plain, on one of the branches of the lower Kaveri. The principal edifices of Tanjore are the palace of the old rajahs, a dismantled fort and the Pagoda. This last has a perpendicular part 2 stories in height, 82 feet square, and above that 13 stories, forman elongated pyramid about 100 feet . The basement section is simple outlines, but adorned by niches and pilasters; the pyramidal portion is someelaborately sculptured; and the is crowned by a dome ( said to consist of a single stone), which brings total height to 190 feet. The temple stands in one of two great courtyards and in the same court stand several small shrines, one of which is so beautifully carved as to rival in interest the great temple. The date of the latter is not certainly known, but is with much probability referred to the beginning of 14th century. Silks, jewelry, carpets, copper vessels, and artistic models in clay, etc., are manufactured. Pop. about 60,500.
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. See Morocco
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tannin, a term applied to certain astringent substances occurring in the bark and other parts of plants, and widely distributed, in one form or another, throughout the vegetable kingdom. They are mostly amorphous, have a rough but not sour taste, a slight acid reaction, and color ferric salts dark blue or green. Their most characteristic reaction is that of forming insoluble compounds with gelatin, solid muscular fiber, skin, etc., which then acquires the property of resisting putrefaction, as in the tanning of leather.
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