Tanagra
the type genus of the family Tanagridæ, with 12 species, ranging from Mexico to Bolivia and La Plata.
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These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Tanagra, Tanana Valley, Tandah.
Tanana Valley
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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Tandah
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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Taney
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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Tanghin
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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Tangier
TANGIERS (tän-jērz'), TANJA, a seaport and the witness" of the ea early part of the war, Morocco; near the diplomatic capital of and and first used in action. But the entrance of the Strait of Gibraltar. It built stands on a height near a spacious bay and presents a very striking appearance farm from the sea. It is the principal center of commerce in Morocco Morocco,, has considerable trade with Europe and is the residence of the foreign consuls and diplo- ing matic corps. Tangier is said to have been founded by the Carthaginians, from whom it passed successively to the Goths bile and Arabs. It was taken from them by the Portuguese in 1471, by whom it was ceded to the British in 1662 as a part of the dowry of Catharine of Braganza for on her marriage with Charles II. It was abandoned to the Moors in 1684, bombarded by the Spaniards in 1790, and by the French in 1844. Pop. (1918) 46,000; European 11,000.
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Tangier (MOROCCO By a treaty made)
MOROCCO. By a treaty made in 1912 between Great Britain, France, and Spain, Tangier and its district were constituted an international zone. Joint policing of the district by France and Spain was determined by the Conference of Algeciras, 1906. Much dissatisfaction has arisen from the unsettled status of the port and territory, Great Britain wi wishing its complete internationalization, while France has predominant economic interests, and Spain claims the district as a necessary part of the Spanish zone of Morocco. A new international conference on the subject has been in discussion since 1920.
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Tangier Island
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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Tangiers
. See Morocco
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Tannenberg (BATTLE OF his favor he had)
BATTLE OF his favor he had behind him an admir able system of strategic railroads. Rennenkampf himself, with a large army, was in the neighborhood, but his advancing subordinate in command , Samsonov, with about 200,000 through the lake region, defeating a German force near Frankenau. Flushed by men was AMERICAN WHIPPET TANK effective merely in meeting an infantry charge. All available wall space in the tanks was used for storing ammunition, and the vehicle was made as self-sustaining as possible, although it was recognized from the beginning that its most effective use was as a co-operative and auxiliary arm, to attacking infantry.
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