These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Tiedemann, Tiedge, Tiele.
Rods of iron, used for stiffening unsupported portions of moulds and cores. Grates, or grids, make the most trustworthy supports, inasmuch as the stiffening influence is imparted in every direction. This can only be approximately accomplished by tie-rods with alternate layers at right angles to each other. See CORE-IRON; GRIDS.
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Wire of different sizes, used for tying cores with. This should always be annealed and of the best quality, as the connections are invariably made by twisting the ends together. Poor wire breaks during the operation, and not unfrequently have we seen the mould completely spoiled through a rupture occurring after all was closed and considered safe. See TIED-CORE.
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Two halves of dry-sand core bound together with one or more strands of wires. The wire ends are made to overlap each other sufficient to make a twisted junction. Similar fastenings are of great service on a small brick core that has no binding-rings built in it. The wires may be wrapped round before roughing up; they are then hidden by the loam. See BINDING-RINGS.
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DIEDRICH (te'demän), a German philosopher; born in Bremerwörde, near Bremen, April 3, 1748. He was Professor of Philosophy hilosophy in the University of Marburg. He wrote: "Researches on the Origin of Languages" (1772); "System of the Stoic Philosophy" (1777); "The First Philosophers of Greece" (1780); "Origin of the Magic Arts" (1787); "Spirit of Speculative Philosophy from Thales to Berkeley" (6 vols. 1790-1797); "Theætetus; or, Human Knowledge" (1794). He died in Marburg, Sept. 24, 1803.
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CHRISTOPH AUGUST (tēd'ge), a German poet; born in Gardelegen, Prussia, Dec. 14, 1752. He enjoys distinction as the author of "Urania," and "Mirror for Women." He also wrote: "Wanderings through Life's Market," and "Elegies." His admirers are many, and his poetry has been compared with that of Cowper. He died in Dresden, March 8, 1841.
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CORNELIS PETRUS, a Dutch theologian; born in Leyden, Netherlands, Dec. 16, 1830. He studied at the university there and at the Remonstrants' seminary at Amsterdam, and became Remonstrant pastor at Rotterdam (1856), professor in the seminary translated to Leyden (1873), and Professor of the History of Religions in the University of Leyden in 1877. From its foundation in 1867 he collaborated with Kuenen, Loman, and Rauwenhoff in editing the well - known " Theologisch Tijdschrift, " and he published a long series of important theological works. Of his writings there have been translated into English the "Comparative History of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian Religions" (1869- 1872); "Outlines of the History of Religion to the Spread of the Universal Religions" (1876); Eng. trans. by J. E. Carpenter, 1878). Other works discuss the Gospel of St. John (1855), the Religion of Zarathustra (1864), "Babylonian-Assyrian History" (1886-1887); etc. He died in 1902.
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a massive granular mineral, first found at several localities in the Harz Mountains, but since at several places in the United States; hardness, 2.5; sp. gr., 7.1-7.37; luster, metallic; color, steel to blackish lead-gray. Composition: A selenide of mercury. Dana suggests the formula HgSe, but points out that the analyses mostly correspond with Hg.Ses, which requires selenium, 24.8, mercury, 75.2-100.
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a large city and river port of China, in the province of Chihlî, on the right bank of the Peiho; 34 miles from the mouth of the river. It is the port of the city of Peking, from which it is distant 80 miles S. E. The river is generally frozen over from about Dec. 15 to March 15, and the business at other times carried on by means of boats and junks is taken up by sledges, which swarm on the river. By the treaty of Tientsin, signed here in 1858, the port was declared open; and a British consulate was established in January, 1861, while part of the allied troops were still here. In 1881 Tientsin was connected by telegraph with Shanghai (the line extending to Peking); and there is a railway from Tientsin to the mouth of the Peiho, which will ultimately be extended to Shanghai. It does an export business of about $35,000,000. There is also a large and rapidly increasing transit trade with Russia via Siberia. Pop. about 800,000. See BOXERS.
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA (tē-āpō-lō), an Italian painter, the last of the great Venetian school; born in Venice, Italy, March 5, 1692; modelled himself on Paul Veronese. His first works were in the adornment of churches and palaces in and about Venice; in 1750- 1753 he executed a great series of frescoes in the archiepiscopal palace at Würzburg, and in 1760 was engaged on the palace of Madrid. He was a most productive painter, rich in color ( especially in the easel pictures), and clear ( though incorrect) in drawing. His chief works were the Old Testament histories - the palace of Udine and the frescoes at Madrid. He died in Madrid, Spain, March 27, 1769. His two sons were also painters, and like their father, etchers also.
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FRANCES FISHER (pseudonym, CHRISTIAN REID), an American novelist; born in Salisbury, N. C. Her many works include: "Valerie Aylmer" (1870); "Mabel Lee" (1871); "Morton House" (1871); "Ebb Tide" (1872); "Nina's Atonement" (1873); "Carmen's Inheritance" (1873); "A Daughter of Bohemia" (1873); "A Gentle Belle" (1875); "Hearts and Hands" (1875); "A Question of Honor" (1875); "The Land of the Sky" (1875); "After Many Days" (1877); "Bonny Kate" (1878); "A Summer Idyl" (1878); "Hearts of Steel" (1882); "Armine" (1884); "Roslyn's (1885); "Miss Churchill" Fortune" (1887); "A Child of Mary" (1887); "Philip's Restitution" (1888); "The Land of the Sun"; "A Woman of Fortune"; "Chase of an Heiress"; etc.
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CHARLES COMFORT, an American clergyman; born in Baltimore in 1829; was educated at Dickinson College, Andover Theological Seminary, and the Universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Berlin; ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1866; held charges in Boston and New York in 367-1890; and became archdeacon of 1867 New York in 1893. He wrote "Expressions in Church Architecture"; "Modern Atheism"; "History of the Protestant Episcopal Church"; "The Prayer Book and the Christian Life." He died Aug. 20, 1907.
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LOUIS COMFORT, an American artist; born in New York City, Feb. 18, 1848; studied art in New York and Paris; has done considerable decorative work; discovered the "Tiffany Favrile Glass," and some of his designs for stained glass windows have become famous. He was president and art director of the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co., and a member of many American and foreign art associations. Mr. Tiffany received a gold medal and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French Government in 1900; gold medal, Dresden, 1901; and gold medal, Turin, 1902 1902; A. M., Yale, 1903.
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