These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Torcello, Torch Lake, Torgau.
a small island in the Lagoon of Venice, 6 miles above that city. It was a place of some importance in the 10th and 11th centuries. It contains an ancient Byzantine cathedral of Santa Maria, and a church of Santa Fosca, both of which are beautiful specimens of architecture and are rich in interior decorations.
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a lake lying chiefly in Antrim co., Mich.; and separated from the E. side of Grand Traverse Bay by a narrow strip of land. It communicates with Lake Michigan. Length 14 miles.
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a fortified town in Saxony, Prussia; on the Elbe; 31 miles N. E. of Leipsic. It is inclosed by a wall and has manufactories of woolen goods, hosiery and leather. Its chief building is the castle, Hartenfels. It was fortified by Napoleon in 1810; was besieged by the Alſies in 1813 and surrendered Jan. 14, 1814. Pop about 11,000.
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in botany, Potentilla tormentilla, formerly Tormentilla officinalis. The stem is slender, the leaves three-foliolate, more rarely five-foliolate; of the the petals usually four in place normal five of other Potentillas. Abundant on heaths, copses, and dry pastures, flowering from June to September. The rootstock, which is very astringent, is used for tanning.
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UNIVERSITY OF, an institution for higher education, at Toronto, Canada; founded as King's College in 1827. It assumed its present title school, an in 1849. It has a medical agricultural college, a college of dentistry, pharmacy, music, practical science, veterinary science, ence, etc. There are about 5,000 students and about 400 instructors.
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a watering place of South Devon, England; occupying a cove on the N. side of Tor Bay, 23 miles S. of Exeter and 220 W. S. W. of London. Tor Abbey was founded here for Premonstratensian monks in 1196; and Tor Bay is famous in history as the place where in 1688 William of Orange nge landed at Brixham, and during the war with France was often used as a naval rendezvous. But till the beginning of the 19th century Torquay itself was little more than an assemblage of fishermen's huts. About that time the advantages of its climate-which are a peculiarly sheltered position, an equable temperature (mean 44° in winter, 55° in summer), and freedom from fogs-caused it to be resorted to by consumptive patients, and it soon acquired a European celebrity, which still is almost unrivaled. The remains of the abbey include some crypts and the 13th-century "Spanish barn" (socalled from its having housed some survivors from the Armada); and St. Michael's Chapel, on a hilltop, is thought to have been connected with the abbey. St. John's Church, by Street, is a striking early English edifice; and other buildings are the town hall, museum, and theater. Torquay is a great yachting station; its chief industries are the working up of Devonshire marbles and the manufacture of terra-cotta. Pop. about 39,000.
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THOMAS DE, the first inquisitor-general of Spain; born in Valladolid, Spain, in 1420. He became prior of a Dominican monastery at Segovia, and succeeded in persuading Ferdinand and Isabella to crave from the Pope the appointment of the "Holy Office" of the Inquisition. Torquemada was appointed its head, and began in 1483 that infamous work which has left his name a byword for pitiless cruelty. He has given a subject to Longfellow and to Hugo. He died in Avila, Spain, Sept. 16, 1498.
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Thomas de (1420-1498), the first inquisitor-general of Castile and Leon. Torquemada was educated as a dominican prior. Although he did not found the inquisition he organized it and became its first administrator under Ferdinand and Isabella. Protestant writers are accustomed to heap infamy on Torquemada for the barbarous severity with which he administered his office. In forming judgment, however, certain conditions should be borne in mind. The torture was in common use in that age both in prisons and in court to extort information even from the innocent. The inquisition was directed largely toward the Jews, whose wealth the grandees of the court were eager to seize, and whom the Spaniards desired, for political and social reasons, to expel from the country. Taking into consideration the general cruelty of the times and the political motives which were intermingled with those of a religious nature, historians are disposed to say that the authority of the church was used as a cloak to carry out the wishes of a greedy court, and that even Torquemada, who must be held responsible for the cruelty, was no worse than others of his day.
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a town in Italy, situated on the Bay of Naples, 7 miles S. E. of Naples. Its industries are fishing and coral working. It has been several times destroyed by earthquakes and eruptions from Mount Vesuvius. Pop. about 36,000.
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a large shallow salt lake of South Australia, about 40 miles N. of Spencer's Gulf. In the dry season it is merely a salt marsh.
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the strait which separates Australia from New Guinea, being about 80 miles across. It is crowded with islands, shoals, and reefs, rendering its navigation difficult.
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a town of Portugal in the province of Estremadura; on the Sizandro, 30 miles N. of Lisbon; celebrated in corection with the famous lines of defense behind which Wellington retired after the vain effort to hold the Portuguese frontier against the French. The outermost of the line stretched 29 miles from Alhambra on the Tagus to the sea at the mouth of the Sizandro; the second, from 6 to 10 miles behind, from Quintella on the Tagus to the mouth of the St. Lorenza, a distance of 24 miles. The third, much shorter, lay S. W. of Lisbon, at the very mouth of the Tagus, and was meant as a cover if embarkation were necessary. The whole lines consisted of 152 redoubts, with 534 pieces of ordnance and 34,125 men. The "great work at Monte Agraca" had a perimeter of 2,435 feet, an armament of 25 guns, and a garrison of 1,590 infantry. The allies entered the retreat which the foresight Wellington had provided in October, 1810, and held the French at Bay till March, 1811. The enemy then retired, and Wellington issued on his career as the liberator of the peninsula.
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