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THEODORE II. (1580-1605), tsar of Russia, was the son of Tsar Boris Godunov and one of the daughters of MalyutaSkuratov, the infamous favourite of Ivan the Terrible. Passionately beloved by his father, he received the best available education for those days, a ...

THEODORE I. (1557-1598), tsar of Russia, the son of Ivan the Terrible and Anastasia Romanova, nominally succeeded his father in 1584, but being of weak intellect was governed throughout his reign by the boyar, Boris Godunov, whose sister Irene he married in 15 ...

THEODORE, the name of two popes. Theodore L, pope from November 642 till May 649, succeeded John IV. He was the son of a bishop, and was born in Jerusalem. A zealous opponent of monothelitism, in the course of the protracted controversy he in a Roman synod exc ...

THEODOSIUS II. (401-450) succeeded his father Arcadius as emperor of the East in 408. During his minority the empire was ably ruled by the praetorian prefect Anthemius and Pulcheria, who became her brother's guardian in 414. Under his sister's care the young e ...

THEODORET, bishop of Cyrrhus, an important writer in the domains of exegesis, dogmatic theology, church history and ascetic theology, was born in Antioch, Syria, about 386. At an early age he entered the cloister; and in 423 he became bishop of Cyrrhus, a smal ...

THEODOSIUS III., emperor of the East (716-717), was afinancial officer whom a Byzantine army rebelling against Anastasius III. unexpectedly proclaimed monarch in his stead. He captured Constantinople after a six months' siege and deposed Anastasius, but in the ...

THEODORE LASCARIS (d. 1222), emperor of Nicaea, was born of a noble Byzantine family. He became the son-in-law of the Emperor Alexius III. and distinguished himself during the sieges of Constantinople by the Latins (1203-4). After the capture of the city he ga ...

THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA (c. 350-428), early Christian theologian, the most eminent representative of the so-called school of Antioch, was born at Antioch about the middle of the 4th century and was a friend of John Chrysostom; in rhetoric the celebrated Libaniu ...

EUGENIUS II., pope, was a native of Rome, and was chosen to succeed Pascal I. in 824. His election did not take place without difficulty. Eugenius was the candidate of the nobles, and the clerical faction brought forward a competitor. But the monk Wala, the re ...

... . 59. — Schizomus crassicaudatus, one of the Pedipalpi. Lateral view of a male. II to VI, the prosomatic appendages, the first being concealed (see fig. 58) ; 5, the fifth, and 1 1 , the eleventh tergites of the opisthosoma; pa, the conical post-anal lobe. (Or ...

... ith a very poor insight into their design were it not for the discovery of Pompeii (q.v.) and Herculaneum (q.v.). The descriptions given by Pliny of the lavish extravagance in the Roman nouses, and the employment of various Greek marbles in the shape of monoli ...

SULEIMAN II. (1641-1691), sultan of Turkey, was a son of Sultan Ibrahim, and succeeded his brother Mahommed IV. in 1687. Forty-six years of enforced retirement had qualified him for the cloister rather than for the throne, and his first feeling when notified o ...

TABLE II. — Diurnal Variation Potential Gradient. Station. Karasjok. Sodankyla. Kew (19, 12). Greenwich. Florence. Perpignan. Lisbon. Tokyo. Batavia. Cape Horn(20). Period. 1903-41882-83. 18621864. 18981904. 1893-96. 1883-85. 1886-88. 1884-86. 1897-98. 1900-1. ...

TIGLATH-PILESER II. or III., son of Hadad-nirari II., appears to have reigned from about 950 to 930 B.C., but nothing is known about him.

... xpenses of his education. In 1582 he went to Geneva, studied there awhile under Theodore Beza, but had soon, owing to his active advocacy of the Ramist philosophy, to remove to Basel. After a short but brilliant career there he turned to Geneva, studied for th ...

... n a monastery on Mount Athos. From this seclusion he was in A.D. 1255 called by Theodore II. Lascaris to the position of patriarch at Nicaea, and four years later, on that emperor's death, became joint guardian of his son John. His fellow-guardian Georgios Mou ...

... n a monastery on Mount Athos. From this seclusion he was in A.D. 1255 called by Theodore II. Lascaris to the position of patriarch at Nicaea, and four years later, on that emperor's death, became joint guardian of his son John. His fellow-guardian Georgios Mou ...

... because • • events actually took place after »urh a phenomenon, Imt by an .ipplii.itionof thrRriu-r.il principle resting upon association teas whereby anything premature would suggest an unfavourable occurrence. A thin halo seen above the new moon was picture ...

... e ground that they seduced the people from the practice of archery. Thus Edward III. prohibited weight -put ting by statute. Nevertheless a variety of this exercise, "casting of the barre," continued to be a popular pastime, and was afterwards one of the favou ...

... tmosphere of hard work, of moral discipline, and (after his father's death in iSii)of that wholesome self-sacrifice which is a condition of life for those who are poor in money and rich in spirit. His aunt. Miss Mary Moody Emerson, a brilliant old maid, an ecc ...

... ame time professor of medicine at Heidelberg. His patron's successor, Frederick III., made him (1559) a privy councillor and member of the church consistory. In theology he followed Zwingli, and at the sacramentarian conferences of Heidelberg ( 1 560) and Maul ...

... ess are traced by E. W. Budge, The Egyptian Sudan, 1907, i. 505 sqq.),undertheXVIIIth Dynasty it became an Egyptian province, administered by a viceroy (at first the Egyptian king's son), called prince of Kesh, and paying tributes in negroes, oxen, gold, ivory ...

... t psychical proof of man's specific unity is his common possession of language. Theodore Waitz writes : "Inasmuch as the possession of a language of regular 'grammatical structure forms a fixed barrier between man and brute, it establishes at the same time a n ...

... , should eat at home and beforehand. Mark xiv. 22-25, Matt. xxvi. 26-29, Luke xxii. 14-20, arc, in order of time, our next accounts, Mark representing the oldest tradition. They all in substance repeat Paul's account; but identify the night on which Jesus was ...

... 1), tsaritsa, first consort of Peter the Great, was the daughter of the boyarin Theodore Lopukhin. Peter, then a youth of seventeen, married her on the 27th of January 1689 at the command of his mother, who hoped to wean him from the wicked ways of the German ...

... ews he seems to have identified himself (see MELETIUS OF ANTIOCH). According to Theodoret (5, 4, 8) he was killed at Doliche in Syria, where he had gone to consecrate a bishop, by a stone cast by an Arian woman. He thus became a martyr, and found a place in th ...

IRENE LASCARIS, daughter of Theodore I. (Lascaris), was first married to the general Andronicus Palaeologus, and after his death became the wife of Theodore's successor, John Vatatzes (q.v.) , and mother of Theodore II. She is much praised by historians for he ...

... siderable originality, and of some church hymns. Like all the monks of Studium, Theodore was famous for his calligraphy and industry in copying MSS. BIBLIOGRAPHY. — General edition of his works in J. P. Migne, Patroloeia Graeca, xcix., to be supplemented (for ...

... h by order of Valens, probably through fear lest he should be the Theodosius or Theodore whom a magician had indicated as the future emperor. The younger Theodosius was born about the year 346. He was a native of Spain, but the exact place of his birth is unce ...

... xcept in special circum stances which generally explain themselves, e.g. " Homerii Theology " (a book by Nagelsbach), Old Testament Theology Comparative Theology, Natural Theology, the word in modern languages means the theology of the Christian Church. What f ...

... onse Daudet to his Les Amoureuses in 1858; and there are delightful examples by Theodore de Banville. In Germany the triolet has attracted much attention. Those which had been written before his day were collected by Friedrich Rassmann, in 1815 and 1817. But a ...

... shing forms. Certain districts within d Engraved by Ju»tui P*rth««,Goth».,G*rn»«iiy. W AA&A O4UP %»« Ai Scale, 1 : 12, 500, 000 Copyright in. the United Stales of America, 19JO. ty The Encyclopaedia Britannica Co. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY] the mountains, apparently ...

... til absolute resistance was encountered. The heads of the piles were from 10 to II in. in diameter and they were driven in almost in contact. On this surface of pile heads was laid a platform of two layers of squared oak beams; and on this again the foundation ...

the summit of the San Francisco Mountain* one may pan rapidly through all these down into the Painted Desert. The BorealCanadian, Transition and Upper Sonoran embrace the highlands. Coyotes are very common; wild cats and mountain lions are fairly plentiful. De

... a, Pocock (nov.) (fig. 43). — In primitive forms belonging to the family Nymphotiidae the full complement of appendages is retained — the 1st (mandibular), the 2nd (palpiform), and the jrd (ovigerous) pairs being well developed in both sexes. In certain deriva ...

... . Embroidery (in part). Elizabeth, Queen; Eiuser; Englefleld; English History (VII. and

... year, commended him to the care and favour of his brother and successor, Henry III., who faithfully fulfilled the charge. His mother married Francois de Balzac, marquis d'Entragues, and one of her daughters, Henriette, marchioness of Verneuil, afterwards beca ...

... ed on. Commerce is carried on in wine, brandy and building-stone. Angoule'me (Iciilisma) was taken by Clovis from the Visigoths in 507, and plundered by the Normans in the 9th century. In 1360 it was surrendered by the peace of Bretigny to the English; they we ...

... rtation of pineapples and other fruit. Angra served as a refuge for Queen Maria II. of Portugal from 1830 to 1833.

... frica, in 26° 38' S., 15° E., discovered by Bartholomew Diaz in 1487. F. A. E. Liideritz, of Bremen, established a trading station here in 1883, and his agent concluded treaties with the neighbouring chiefs, who ceded large tracts of country to the newcomers. ...