Each of these 12 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.
or TARANTELLE, in music, a rapid Neapolitan dance in triplets; so called because it was popularly thought to be a remedy against the Q supposed poisonous bite of the tarantula spider, which was said to set people dancing. Older specimens of the dance are not in triplets. The dance was in vogue in the 16th century.
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a dancing mania attributed to the bite of the tarantula spider. It was especially prevalent at Taranto in Apulia, Italy.
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a town of France, department of the Rhone, on the Tardine, among the Beaujolais Mountains; 21 miles N. W. of Lyon. It has two fine churches of the Madeleine and St. André, and manufactures fine muslins, tarlatans, plush, velvets, and other textures, to the value of 7,000,000 francs yearly. Pop. (1906) 12,016.
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a walled town of France, of the Provençal department in Bouches-du-Rhône; 14 miles S. W. of Avignon and 8 N. of Arles. King René's castle, dating from 1400, is picturesque and well preserved; and a Gothic church (1187-14th century) is dedicated to St. Martha, who here is said to have subdued a dragon. But Tarascon is chiefly famous through associations with the immortal Tartarin. It has manufactures of woolen and silk fabrics, "saucissons d'Arles," etc. Pop. about 8,500.
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range of mountains, 10,000 feet high, in Russian central Asia, on the frontier between Semipalatinsk on the N. and Chinese Zungaria.
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EDMUND C., an American landscape and figure painter, born at West Groton, Mass., in 1862. He was educated at the Boston Museum School, and studied with Boulanger and Lefebvre in Paris. He then went to Boston and soon developed a reputation by his Impressionist representations of New England interiors. His better known works include: "Josephine and Mercie" (Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington); "Woman in Pink and Green" and "Girl Reading" (Cincinnati Museum); "The Venetian Blind" (Worcester Museum); "The Golden Screen" (Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia); "Afternoon Tea" (Wilstach Collection, Philadelof the National phia). He is a member Academy, of the "Ten American Painters," and of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
IDA MINERVA, an American writer; born in Erie co., Pa., Nov. 5, 1857; was graduated at Allegheny College; studied in Paris 1891- 1894; was associate editor of "The Chautauquan" (1883-1891), of "McClure's Magazine" (1894-1906), and of "The American Magazine" (1906-1915). She 1 IDA MINERVA TARBELL wrote: "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte" (1895); "Life of Madame Roland" (1896); "Life of Abraham Lincoln" (1900); "History of the Standard Oil" (1904); "Father Abraham" (1909); "The Tariff of Our Times" (1911); "The Ways of Woman" (1915); "New Ideals in Business" (1916); etc.
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a town in the S. of France, capital of department of Hautes- Pyrenées; on the left bank of the Adour; 30 miles E. S. E. of Pau. The cathedral is the principal building. There is a government cannon foundry in the place which is the seat of an active general trade. Pop. about 28,600. Tarbes dates from the time of the Romans, and its bishopric was founded in the year 420. It was in the hands of the English in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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a borough of Pennsyl- It is on the Alvania, in Allegheny co. legheny river, and on the Pennsylvania railroad. It is an important industrial center and has manufactures of plate glass, bottles, lumber, steel and iron novelties, steel billets, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,- 414; (1920) 8,925.
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a small town in the Jonathan ben Uzziel and Targum Jeruprovince of Kieve, Russia; noted for shalmi. They are of the Palestinian or the Targowitz Confederation or plot formed here (May 14, 1702) by five Syrian growth. Jerushalmi is fragmenwho were instigated by tary, and appears to be a Haggadic sup- Its object was the over - plement to Onkelos. The Pseudo - Jonathrow of the constitution, and it than, by its maturer angelology, its abbreled to the second partition of POLAND viations, and other signs, appears to be a later recension of the Jerushalmi. It cannot well have been composed before 750.
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the most S. town of Europe ; a seaport of Spain, in the province of Cadiz in Andalusia; 21 miles S. W. of Gibraltar. The town is still quite Moorish in aspect, and retains its alcazar and battlemented Arab walls. A causeway connects it with a small island, on which are some powerful fortifications fortific and a lighthouse, 135 feet above the sealevel. Tunny and anchovy fishing is and has been since Roman times the principal occupation of the inhabitants, but the preparation of leather is also carried on, and there is a trade in sweet oranges. Tarifa, called Julia Joza by Strabo, was occupied in A. D. 710 by the pioneers of the Moorish invasion, under Tarif Abu- Zor'a, whence it obtained its Arabic name of Jezîret-Tarif (Tarif's island). It was taken from the Moslems, after an obstinate siege, in 1292, by Sancho IV. of Castile, and its first Spanish governor was Alonzo Perez de Guzman, celebrated in the Romancero for his valiant defense of the town against the besieging Moors in 1294. During the Peninsular War Tarifa was successfully defended by Gough with 1,800 British troops and 700 Spaniards against a besieging army of 10,000 French ( December, 1811, to January, 1812). Pop. about 12,500.
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( NEWTON) BOOTH, born in Indianapolis, 1869; graduate of Princeton University . In 1902-1903 he Representatives of Indiana. His chief was a member of the State House of vocation, however, has been that of a novelist and a writer of short stories. His first book, "The Gentleman from Indiana," appeared in 1899, but it was his "Monsieur Beaucaire," published in 1900, which first gained him his wide popularity. Among his short stories the "Penrod Stories" have been most popular, on account of their quality of rich humor. Among his many works are: "The Two Vanrevels" (1901); "Seventeen" (1916); "Ramsey Milholland" (1919). Among his plays are: "The from Home" (1906); "Getting Man Polish" (1909); "The Country Cousin" (1917); "Up from Nowhere" (1919); and "Clarence" (1919).
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Booth (1869-) an American novelist. He was born in Indiana. He was graduated from Princeton in 1893, and four years later published his first novel, The Gentleman from Indiana, which at once won him a reputation. Monsieur Beaucaire, The Two Vanrevels, and Cherry are other titles. Of these. Monsieur Beaucaire is probably the most artistic. If it obtained less popularity at first than did The Gentleman from Indiana, its fame will be probably more lasting.
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