Turner, Nat
Nat (1800-31), a Virginia slave. He became possessed of the idea that the voice of God was calling him to lead his people to freedom. In 1831 he started an impossible insurrection. Several families of whites were massacred. He went from plantation to plantation, killing whites and increasing his following until he had two hundred half crazed negroes at his back. Fifty-five white people had been butchered before troops were obtained to suppress the rising. Turner took refuge in the Dismal Swamp , but was taken finally and hanged. The heads of sixteen of his fellow insurgents were fixed on poles along the highways as a warning. The terror created by the insurrection was such that leading Virginians seriously considered the question of general emancipation.
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Turns
A small dead center lathe used but little in this country.
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Turret
in architecture, a small tower attached to and forming part of another tower, or placed at the angles of a church or public building especially in the style of Tudor architecture. Turrets are of two kinds such as rise immediately from the ground, as staircase turrets, and such as are formed in the upper part of a building by being carried up higher than the rest, as bartizan turrets. In military antiquities, a movable building of a square form, consisting of 10 or even 20 stories, and sometimes 180 feet high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaches to a fortified place for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, etc. In railways, the elevated central portion of a passenger car, whose top forms an upper story of the roof, and whose sides are glazed for light and pierced for ventilation.
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Tuscaloosa
a city and county-seat of Tuscaloosa co., Ala.; on the Black Warrior river, and on the Alabama Great Southern, the Louisville and Nashville, 50 and the Mobile and Ohio railroads, contains miles S. W. of Birmingham. It a court house, a lunatic asylum, the Ala- .) bama Central Female College (Bapt , Tuscathe University of Alabama, the loosa Female College (M. E.), the Stillman Institute for Colored Students National several libraries, (Pres.), banks and a number of daily, weekly, large and monthly periodicals. It has . (1910) cotton and coal interests. Pop 8,407; (1920) 11,996.
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Tuscany
formerly a grand-duchy, now a department of Italy; area, 9,304 . The square miles; pop., about 2,800,000 chain of the northern Apennines forms boundary, a considerable portion of its N. the sea being its boundary on the W. the Arno. Cereals The principal river is cover a large area, and vineyards, olive The yards, and orchards are numerous. manufacture of silk is considerable. The marble of Tuscany, especially that of corre- Siena, is well known. Tuscany , which was sponds to the ancient Etruria , . After the fall however, of wider extent (476) it passed of the Western Empire successively into the hands of the Ostrogoths, Byzantine Greeks, and Lombards. prov- Charlemagne made it a Frankish marquises ince, and it was governed by centuries, or dukes till the 12th and 13th when it became broken up into a number of small republics, four of which were Lucca. From Florence, Pisa, Siena, and the first Florence occupied the leading place, and it gradually extended its terto ritory. In 1569 Pope Pius I. granted Tus- Cosmo I. the title of Grand-Duke of , with cany, and this position was retained family till interruptions, by the Medici 1737, when it passed to Francis Stephen, , under his Duke of Lorraine. In 1859 , descendant, the Grand-Duke Leopold it was annexed to Sardinia by a popular vote, and in 1860 became, with Sardinia, part of the kingdom of Italy.
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Tuscarawas River
a river of the Mohinortheastern Ohio, which with is can river forms the Muskingum. It town on about 125 miles long. The chief this river is Massillon.
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Tuscarora
a tribe of North American Indians, who at an early day lived in North Carolina. on the Neuse river They had much trouble with the colonists tribe. and were nearly destroyed as a The remnant united with the Iroquois territory in and settled in the Oneida about 380, New York. They number reservation in and live on the Indian New York State.
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Tusci
the name given by the Romans to the ancient inhabitants of Etruria or Tuscany, and the people existing when be- Rome was founded, and till Etruria . came a portion of the Roman empire city of
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Tussaud
MADAME, the foundress of the well-known exhibition of waxwork in London; born (Marie Grosholtz) in Berne, Switzerland, in 1760; learned the art of modeling in wax in Paris. For a time she was engaged in giving lessons in modelling to Elizabeth, sister of Louis XVI., and in this way became acquainted with the leading personages at court. Imprisoned for three months during the Revolution, in 1802 she established herself in London. The collection of over 300 portrait figures (that of Voltaire and others still on view modelled by Madame Tussaud herself from life), with the "Chamber of Horrors," devoted to figures of murderers, instruments of torture, the guillotine of the Revolution, etc., is one of the sights of London. She died in London, April 16, 1850.
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Tussock Moth
the Dasychira pudibunda, a grayish-white moth about TUSSOCK MOTH an inch long, the caterpillars of which do great mischief in hop grounds, and are known as hop dogs. The caterpillar is delicate green in color, with brushlike tufts of yellow hairs on several of the segments. It feeds on leaves throughout the summer, becomes a hairy chrysalis about September, and emerges as a moth in the following spring. A hard syringing is recommended if the caterpillars are present in large numbers.
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Tutania
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A beautiful table-ware alloy of silvery brightness. One mixture is tin 2 pounds, antimony 4 ounces, arsenic 1 ounce. The Engestroom tutania is copper 4, regulus of antimony 8, bismuth 1, melted together and added to 100 parts of tin. A German alloy is tin 48, copper 1, antimony 4. See SPANISH TUTANIA; SILVER; GERMAN-SILVER; BRITANNIA METAL.
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Tutenag
An Indian name for zinc. It is sometimes applied to denote a white alloy brought from China and called Chinese copper. Analysis discovers copper, zinc, and iron in some specimens, while others are said to be merely copper and arsenic. It is used chiefly for tableware, and is generally composed of copper 50, nickel 19, and zinc 31, although it is common to mix lead or iron in small quantities along with these ingredients. See WHITE ALLOYS.
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