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TERRE HAUTE, a city and the county-seat of Vigo county, Indiana, U.S.A., on the eastern bank of the Wabash river, about 186 m. S. by E. of Chicago and about 73 m. W. by S. of Indianapolis. Pop. (1890) 30,217; (1900) 36,673, of whom 1520 were negroes and 2952 f ...

... E in 1715 after the Treaties of U trecht & Rastadt Habsburg dominion* Piedmont (Haute o Prussia i — I Hanover (House of Brunswick) Bavaria A the Palatinate Venice Boundary of the Empire POPULATION] boundary between Norway and Sweden descends from the fjeld in ...

... following year he became observer at Upsala Observatory. Becoming interested in terrestrial magnetism he made many observations of magnetic intensity and declination in various parts of Sweden, and was charged by the Stockholm Academy of Sciences with the task ...

... gesting destroyer or eater. Perhaps, however, the name may only signify a large terrestrial biting apterous insect, surpassing the ant in size and predatory habits. (R. I. P.)

... ble, rapidly moving tongue covered with glutinous saliva. The great anteater is terrestrial in habits, not burrowing underground like armadillos. Though generally an inoffensive animal, when attacked it can defend itself vigorously and effectively with its sab ...

... which financial promoters and aristocratic directors were chiefly involved. Undeterred by the fact that the leading spirit in these abuses, Bethel Henry Strousberg (1823-1884), was a Jew, Lasker presented the results of his inquiry to the diet on the 7th of Fe ...

... average height of 1150 ft. It forms the connecting-link between the plateaus of Haute Marne and the Ardennes, and is bounded E. by the Meuse and W. by the Ante and the Aisne, which rises in its southern plateau. The valleys of the Aire and other rivers travers ...

... the four simple bodies (dirXa axojuara) with natural rectilineal motions in the terrestrial world (De Gen. et Cor. ii. i seq.); while aether (aiftrip) is a fifth simple body, with natural circular motion, being the element of the stars (ri> T&V turrpuv <rroix< ...

... the paper strength. On the loth of June, when the Armada had rounded Cape Finisterre, it was scattered by squalls. Some of the vessels went on to the appointed rendezvous at the Scilly Isles, but the majority anchored on the north coast of Spain. Medina Sidon ...

... tu (1816), the performance of which was the occasion of a disturbance in the parterre which threatened serious political complications. His tragedies are perhaps less known now than his Fables (1813, 1815 and 1826), which are written in very graceful verse. Ar ...

... orps at once crossed to the left bank and dislodged the 'Austrian outposts. Undeterred by the news of heavy attacks on his rear from Tirol and from Bohemia, Napoleon hurried all available troops to the bridges, and by daybreak on the 2ist, 40,000 men were coll ...

... nd thus might reconcile the possibility of dipping into futurity with certain interrelations of the universe, different indeed from those assumed by astrological theory, but underlying and explaining it. If this is ever accomplished it will need the patient in ...

... t is the plane of the equator. This plane intersects the earth's surface in the terrestrial equator. Coordinates referred to this system are termed equatorial. A system of equatorial co-ordinates may also be used when the origin is on the earth's surface. The ...

... m the sun, and reaching the earth, have important relations to the phenomena of Terrestrial Magnetism and the Aurora. The subject of Astrophysics does not admit of so definite a subdivision as that of Astrometry. The conclusions which researches relating to it ...

... r, of Calypso. In works of art he is represented as carrying the heavens or the terrestrial globe. The Farnese statue of Atlas in the Naples museum is well known. The plural form ATLANTES is the classical term in architecture for the male sculptured figures su ...

AUSTRIA. (Ger. OsterreicK), a country of central Europe, bounded E. by Russia and Rumania, S. by Hungary, the Adriatic Sea and Italy, W. by Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the German empire (Bavaria), and N. by the German empire (Saxony and Prussia) and Russia. ...

... arranged from @ to _A, thirty-two in number, parts of animals, celestial signs, terrestrial signs, vases. The arrangement down to this point is far from strict, and beyond it is almost impossible to describe concisely, though there is still a rough grouping of ...

... es, marls and limestones of the Trias. On the southern border, at Wittlich. the terrestrial deposits of the Permian Rothliegende are also met with. The slates and sandstones of the Lower Devonian form by far the greater part of the region ; but folded amongst ...

... ifestations in nature in ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; AURORA POLARIS and MAGNETISM, TERRESTRIAL. The general principles of electrical engineering will be found in ELECTRICITY SUPPLY, and further details respecting the generation and use of electrical power are giv ...

... (1739-1799), the husband of Goethe's sister Cornelia (who died in 1777 and is interred in the old graveyard), was Oberamtmann (bailiff) for a few years. 'Including Codex K. But this distance is too great for the conditions of Luke's narrative and the reading ( ...

... of the interior with the mountains on the west were meanwhile being filled with terrestrial and lacustrine deposits which attained an enormous development. This great extension of non-marine formations in the Eocene of different countries has introduced diffic ...

... rpendicular to the axis of the earth ; this is termed the " geographical " or " terrestrial equator." In astronomy, the " celestial equator " is the name given to the great circle in which the plane of the terrestrial equator intersects the celestial sphere; i ...

... people were horrified at the irreligious character of the new regime, and a counterrevolution, fomented by Pope Pius VII., the grand ducalists and the clergy, broke out at Arezzo. Bands of armed peasants marched through the country to the cry of " Viva Maria!" ...

TERRELL, a city of Kaufman county, Texas, U.S.A., about 32 m. E. of Dallas. Pop. (1890) 2988; (1900) 6330 (1517 negroes); (1910) 7050. Terrell is served by the Texas & Pacific and the Texas Midland railways. The city is the seat of Wesley College (Methodist Ep ...

... n (the State Lunatic Asylum), San Antonio (the Southwestern Insane Asylum), and Terrell (North Texas Hospital for the Insane); the Texas School for the Deaf (1857), an institution for deaf, dumb and blind coloured youths (1889), a School for the Blind (1856), ...

... here is unfortunately a tendency to depreciate his work. During the period of interregnum in stage reform there appeared a number of faddist inventions which, while creating public interest, cannot be considered of lasting Modem practical utility. Thus in the ...

... his alternate fits of feverish gaiety and melancholy abstraction, aristocratic hauteur and liberal views, there was yet found a little band of students to accompany him on the first stage of his journey homewards. While probably admiring the original bent of ...

TURMERIC (from Fr. terre merite, turmeric, Lat. terra merita, deserved, i.e. excellent earth; Skeat suggests that it is a barbarous corruption, perhaps of Arabic karkam, kurkum, saffron or curcuma), the tuberous root of Curcuma longa, L., an herbaceous perenni ...

... ny small ascents and descents; and it is from this that their name, " mauvaises terres pour traverser," was given by the early French voyageurs. The central section of the Great Plains, between latitudes 42° and 36°, occupying eastern Colorado and western Kans ...

... d," with which it is apt to be confused. The crural glands, which occur in many terrestrial Arthropods, are epidermal in origin and totally distinct from the coxal glands. The coxal glands of the Arachnida are structures of the same nature as the green glands ...