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THANA, or TANNA ( = a fort, or police-station), a town and district of British India, in the Northern division of Bombay. The town is on the west of the Salsette creek or Thana river, just where the Great Indian Peninsula railway crosses to the mainland, 21 m. ...

THANN, a town of Germany, in Upper Alsace, 16 m. by rail N.W. of Mulhausen. Pop. (1905) 7901. It is the seat of cotton, calico, silk, machinery and other industries, and excellent wine is grown there. The (Roman Catholic) church of St Theobald (1351) is an ele

THANESAR ( = " place of the god"), an ancient town of British India, in Karnal district of the Punjab, on the river Saraswati, 100 m. by rail N. of Delhi: pop. (1901) 5066. As the centre of the tract called Kurukshetra in the Mahabharata, it has always been a

TAENIA (Gr. raivia, ribbon, fillet), the term in architecture given to the projecting fillet which crowns the architrave of the Greek Doric order.

THANET, ISLE OF, the extreme north-eastern corner of Kent, England, insulated by the two branches of the river Stour, and forming one of the eight parliamentary divisions of the county. Its name is said to be derived from Saxon tene, a beacon or fire (probably

THATON, a town and district in the Tenasserim division of Lower Burma. The town is situated below a hill range, 10 m. from the sea. It was formerly the- capital of the Talaing kingdom and a sea-port. Pop. (1901) 14,342. The district has an area of 5079 sq. m.;

... the Edwardsian type. The order ZOANTHIDEA comprises a number of soft-bodied Zoanthanans generally encrusted with sand. Externally they resemble ordinary sea-anemones, but there is only one ciliated groove, the sulcus, in the stomodaeum, and the mesenteries are ...

... ty of the soul may be maintained on Platonic or quasi-Platonic lines, as by St Athanasius (Contra Centes, § 33) — a writer who repeatedly quotes the Alexandrian Book of Wisdom, in which Platonism and the Old Testament had already joined partnership- This phase ...

... y in my case, and at my age, is impossible; the kindest wish of my friends is Euthanasia." In January 1735 was published the " Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot," which forms the prologue to Pope's satires. He died on the 2 7th of February 1735 at his house in Cork Stre ...

... tinction implying no superiority of jurisdiction. Its first recorded use is by Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, who applied it to his predecessor Alexander as a mark of respect. In the same way Gregory of Nazianzus bestowed it upon Athanasius himself. In the ...

... ian " rule to which many of the monasteries still adhere was established by St Athanasius, the founder of the great monastery of Laura, in 069. Under a constitution approved by the emperor Constantino Monomachos in 1045, women and female animals were excluded ...

... cessfully among the Goths, not living to see the destruction of his labours by Athanaric. The Audaeans celebrated the feast of Easter on the same day as the Jewish Passover, and they were also charged with attributing to the Deity a human shape, an opinion whi ...

... 1—1904) of translations by F. M. Nichols from Erasmus's letters down to 1517, withanample commentary which amounts almost to a biography; and an edition of the letters, in Latin, was begun by the Oxford University Press in 1906 (vol. ii., 1910). (M. P.; P. S. ...

... of father, used only after the praenomen of a daughter (e.g. 6ana velQurnas, " Thana daughter of Velthurna"), to which sex " daughter," often abbreviated s, is sometimes added. (6) maternum (a) = nomen of mother. e.g. pumpunial, " of Pumpuni " (in Lat. form P ...

... were a vulgar talisman. Serapion of Thmuis in Egypt, a younger contemporary of Athanasius, in his Eucharistic prayers combines the language of the Didache with a high sacramentalism alien to that document which now only survived in the form of a grace used at ...

... , and Theophania). But he never felt in sympathy with the extreme views of the Athanasian party, for they seemed to him to savour of Sabellianism, which always remained his chief dread (cf. his two works against Marcellus of Ancyra). His personal friends, more ...

... during the War of American Independence. About 2300 Americans under 'General Nathanael Greene here attacked a slightly inferior force under Colonel Alexander Stewart; at first the Americans drove the British before them, but later in the day the latter took a ...

... well. He also used other sources, and made a thorough study of the writings of Athanasius, but apart from some documents he has preserved, relating to the Arian controversy, he does not contribute much that is not to be met with in Socrates. As regards chronol ...

... en greater successes by his diplomacy. He persuaded the fugitive Visigoth king Athanaric to enter his service, and enlisted 40,000 of his former enemies as foederati, providing them with settlements in various parts of the realm. Though this kindness towards t ...

... a, represents the working of Aristo- Ariaalstn. telianism. His chief opponent, Athanasius, is probably the greatest Christian, if Origen is the greatest thinker, among all the Greek fathers. Few will deny that Athanasius stood for the Christian view of the que ...

... the American Revolution (New York, 1903) ; George Washington Greene's Life of Nathanael Greene (3 vols., Boston, 1867-1871) and William Johnson's Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Nathanael Greene (Charleston, 1822); William -Thompson Reed's Life and ...