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THOR, one of the chief deities of the heathen Scandinavians. He is represented as a middle-aged man of enormous strength, quick to anger, but benevolent towards mankind. To the harmful race of giants (demons), on the other hand, he was an implacable foe, and m ...

THORAX (Gr. Owpa.%, breastplate, also the part of the body covered by it), the anatomical term for the chest, that part of the body which contains the heart and lungs (see ANATOMY: Superficial and Artistic, and SKELETON: Axial). For the surgery of the thorax r ...

THORITE, a rare mineral consisting of thorium silicate, crystallizing in the tetragonal system and isomorphous with zircon. The theoretical formula, ThSiCu, requires 81-5 % of thoria, but analyses show only 50-70%, there being also some uranium, cerium, &c. Th ...

THORFINN KARLSEFNI, or KARLSEFNE (fl. 1002-1007), Scandinavian explorer, leader of the chief medieval expedition for American colonization. Thorfinn belonged to a leading Icelandic family and had great success in trading voyages. In 1002 he came to Greenland, ...

THORIANITE, a rare mineral, discovered by W. D. Holland, and found in the gem-gravels of Ceylon, where it occurs as small, heavy, black, cubic crystals, usually much water-worn. It was so named by W. R. Dunstan, on account of its high percentage of thorium (ab ...

TORO, a town of Spain, in the province of Zamora, on the right bank of the river Duero (Douro), and on the ZamoraMedina del Campo railway. Pop. (1900), 8379. Toro is an ancient fortified town, with picturesque narrow streets, among which are many medieval chur

... poda stand in the same relation to Limului and Scorpio that Cyamus holds to the thoracostracous Crustacea. The reduction at the organism to seven leg -bearing somite*, of which the first pair, an in so many Eu-araehnida. are chelate. is a form of degeneration ...

... ondon. Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, 1893-1901."] Author of England under the Protector Somerset; Life of Thomas Cranmer;&c. Estlenne. - Equation. Euseblus: of Caesarea. Eschatology. Espartero. Elasticity. Enamel. Embroidery (in par ...

... y real patriotism, which developed after 1870 into hatred of the Germans. The authors attacked militarism by depicting the horrors of war in the plainest terms. See also J. Claretie, Erckmann-Chatrian (1883), in the series of " Celebrites contemporaines."

... rovince are dense forests. In the south towards the Kunenc are regions of dense thorn scrub. Rubber vines and trees are abundant, but in some districts their number has been considerably reduced by the ruthless methods adopted by native collectors of rubber. T ...

... ry and governor of Provence; and Francois, who died in 1622. The duke was the author of the following works: — (i)Mhtunrei. from the assassination of Henri III. to the battle of Arque* (15*97 1 J>93). published at Paris by Boneau, and reprinted by Buchon in hi ...

... 1868 published his great map of the normal solar spectrum which long remained authoritative in questions of wave-length, although his measurements were inexact to the extent of one part in 7000 or 8000 owing to the metre which he used as his standard having be ...

... 0 Jews, members of the Evangelical (Union) Church. The supreme ecclesiastical authority is the consistory in Dessau; while a synod of 39 members, elected for six years, assembles at periods to deliberate on internal matters touching the organization of the chu ...

... Austrians. Two years later, soon after his release, his wound proved mortal. AUTHORITIES.— Varnhagen von Ense. Preuss. biographiscke DenkmaJe. vol. ii. (3rd ed., 1872); Mtiitar Konversations-Lexiton, vol. ii. (Leipzig, 1833); Anon.. Furst Leopold I. ton Anlia ...

... itallization, being anhydrous calcium sulphate, CaSO,. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, and has three directions of perfect cleavage parallel to the three planes of symmetry. It is not isomorphous with the orthorhombic barium and strontium sulphates ...

... y the relative amounts of heat lost through these various channels (different authorities give somewhat different figures): — faeces and urine about 3, respiration about 20, skin (conduction, radiation and evaporation) about 77. Hence it is clear the chief mea ...

... a cult of the red dog, each family keeping one in the house; according to one authority the dogs are images of wood which are worshipped after the death of a member of the family and burnt after a thousand days. In Nepal it is said that dogs are worshipped at ...

... e abdomen is oval, sandy-grey in hue and beset with warts and bristles; the pro thorax forms a mobile neck for the large square head, which carries a pair of long and powerful toothed mandibles. It is in dry and sandy soil that the ant-lion lays its trap. Havi ...

... , an Athenian sculptor, of the latter part of the 6th century B.C. He was the author of the group of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton, set up by the Athenians on the expulsion of the Peisistratidae, and carried away to Persia by Xerxes. A basis with ...

... ead came up from the underworld and walked abroad; people chewed leaves of whitethorn and besmeared their doors with tar to protect themselves from evil. But at least in private circles the festive character of the ceremonies predominated. The third day was na ...

... cal works, which enjoyed great popularity, although his editions of classical authors were by no means in favour with schoolmasters, owing to the large amount of assistance, especially translations, contained in the notes.

... "ii. pointed below, and the operculum is attached to it by hinge-like teeth.) AUTHORITIES. — The following list contains only the names of the more important and more general works on the structure and classification of corals and on coral reefs. Foi a fuller ...

... llian origin (Kohut, Ferdinand Lassalle, pp. 144 et seq.), was claimed by its author as being essentially Christian (Busch, p. 483). Under his auspices the years 1880-1881 became a period of bitter and scandalous conflict with the Jews. The Conservatives suppo ...

... carried out under Augustus. Nothing is known with certainty as to the date or author. It is considered probable that the date of the original edition was the beginning of the 3rd century, while that which we possess is to be assigned to the time of Diocletian. ...

... ed possession of Rome (87) . Antonius's reputation for eloquence rests on the authority of Cicero, none of his orations being extant. He is one of the chief speakers in Cicero's De Oratore. Velleius Paterculus ii. 22; Appian, Bell. Civ. i. 72; Dio Cassius xlv. ...

... or " the son of Peleus," for Achilles; " the Stagirite " for Aristotle; " the author of Paradise Lost " for Milton; " the little corporal " for Napoleon I. ; " Macedonia's madman " for Alexander the Great, &c. &c. The opposite substitution of a proper name for ...

... te many Oriental and European languages. Though a foreigner, he soon acquired a thorough knowledge of Rumanian, and was instrumental in helping to introduce that language into the church as its official language. He was a master printer and an artist of the fi ...

... ith Cromwell, for whom he performed various services, though there appears no authority to support Carte's story that Antrim was the author of a forged agreement for the betrayal of the king's army by Lord Inchiquin.1 Subsequently he joined Ireton, and was pre ...

... ated of the antrustions, and each one has his different system. The principal authorities are: — Waitz, Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichle, 3rd ed. vol. ii. pp. 335 et seq.; Brunner, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichle, vol. ii. p. 97 et seq. ; Fustel de Coulanges, La Monar ...

... E, JEAN BAPTISTS BOURGUIGNON D' (16971782), perhaps the greatest geographical author of the i8th century, was born at Paris on the 1 1 th of July 1697. His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at the age of twelve he was already ...

... a treatise on the gods and the heroic age, entitled Bt/SXio6i\Krt, a valuable authority on ancient mythology. Modern critics are of opinion that, if genuine, it is an abridgment of a larger work by him (Ilepl Qduv). F.dition, with commentary, by Heyne (1803); ...

... marian, who probably lived towards the end of the ist century A.D. He was the author of a Homeric lexicon (Ae£«s 'O/^rjpiKcu), the only work of the kind we possess. His chief authorities were Aristarchus and Apion's Homeric glossary. Edition by Villoison (1773 ...

... the story of Apollonius's wanderings, and was clumsily tacked on by the Latin author. The romance kept its form through a vast number of medieval re-arrangements, and there is little change in its outlines as set forth in the Shakespearian play of Pericles. Th ...

... ainted only with John's baptism or have required to be taught Christianity more thoroughly by Aquila and Priscilla. Martin Luther regarded Apollos as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and many scholars since have shared his view. Jerome says that Apoll ...

... hodoxy, while saying nothing about infallibility, is pledged to the essential authority of the Bible; it cannot e.g. simply ignore the Old Testament with F. E. D. Schleiermacher. Catholic apologetics must further give a central position to Church authority, wh ...

... hin and spare persons who present no such peculiarity of conformation, yet a plethoric habit of body, occasioned by immoderate eating or drinking associated with the gouty diathesis, leads to a general arterio-sclerosis and high arterial pressure. All conditio ...

... tury A.D., at any rate, it denoted responsible envoys from the central Jewish authority, especially for the collection of religious funds. In its first and simplest Christian form, the idea is present already in Mark iii. 14 f., where from the general circle o ...

... ious of the gulf between himself and apostles like Peter and Paul in claim to authority (ib. iii. 3, ad Rom. iv. 3). The like holds of Polycarp, who, in explaining that he writes to exhort the Philippians only at their own request, adds, " for neither am I, no ...

... have been transmitted to the Church by Clement of Rome; sometimes the alleged authors are represented as speaking jointly, sometimes singly. From the first they have been very variously estimated; the Canons, as a rule, more highly than the rest of the work. F ...

... Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, vol. ii. (Frankfort, 1624); Gcorgii Gemisthi Plethoras et Mich. Apostolii Oraiiones funebres duae in quibus de Immortaliiate Animae exponitur (Leipzig, 1793); ar>d a work against the Latin Church and the council of Florence in L ...