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kp-eb0721-024304-0263 | THESIS, a general position which a person advances, and offers to maintain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024305-0263 | THESPIS, a famous Greek tragic poet, and the first representer of tragedy at Athens. He carried his troop from village to village in a waggon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024306-0263 | THESSALY, a country of Greece, the boundaries of which have been different at different periods. Properly speaking, Thessaly was bounded on the south by the southern parts of Greece, or Graecia Propria; cast, by the Aegean; north, by Macedonia and Mygdonia; and west, by Illyricum and Epirus. It was generally divided in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024307-0263 | THETFORD, a town of the hundred of Shropham, in the county of Norfolk, eighty miles from London. It stands on a branch of the river Ouse, and consists of three parishes. It was formerly much more extensive than it is at present, and in the reign of Edward the Third it contained twenty churches, eight monasteries, and s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024308-0263 | THETIS, in Pagan mythology, the wife of Oceanus, and the mother of Nereus and Doris, who were married to each other; and from this marriage sprung the nymphs of the earth and sea. Among the sea-nymphs there was one named Thetis the younger, who excelled all the rest in beauty, and for whom Jupiter conceived such a pass... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024309-0263 | THEURGY, ϑεουgγια , a name which the ancients gave to that sacred part of magic which we sometimes call white magic, or the white art. The word is formed from Θ εὸς , God, and ἔgγον , work; q. d. the art of doing divine things; or the power of working extraordinary and supernatural things, by invoking the names of God,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024310-0263 | THIAGUR, a town of Hindustan in the Carnatic. It is fifty-six miles west by south from Pondicherry. Long. 79. 12. E. Lat. 11. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 45' N 79 12' E | THIAGUR |
kp-eb0721-024311-0263 | THIERS, an arrondissement of the department of the Puy de Dome, in France. It is 334 square miles in extent, and comprehends six cantons and thirty-nine communes, having 70,657 inhabitants in 1836. The capital is the city of the same name, and is built on the side of a hill, at whose base flows the river Durolle. It co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 51' 27" N 3 27' 47" E | THIERS |
kp-eb0721-024312-0263 | THIMBRIC-KOUY, a village of Asiatic Turkey, in Anatolia, on the site of the ancient Thymbra, where considerable ruins are still found. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024313-0263 | THIONVILLE, an arrondissement of the department [7:21:244] of the Moselle, in France, extending over 408 square miles, It is divided into five cantons, and these into 117 communes, having a population of 87,520 persons in 1836. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the right bank of the Meuse. It is one... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 21' 30" N 6 5' 25" E | THIONVILLE |
kp-eb0721-024401-0264 | THIRLWALL, a hamlet within the parish of Haltwhistle, in the west division of the ward of Tindal, in the county of Northumberland. It is remarkable from being situated on the Picts’ wall, at the place where the Scots made gaps to force a passage into England. It has an ancient castle built on the north side of the wall... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024402-0264 | THIRSK, a town of the wapentake of Birdforth, in the north riding of the county of York, 223 miles from London. It is situated on the river Coldbeck, by which it is divided into two parts. The town has some trade in making coarse linens and sackings. It is an ancient borough, and returns one member to parliament. The c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024403-0264 | THIRSTY Sound, an inlet or bay on the east coast of New Holland. Long. of the northernmost point, 150. 0. 10. E. Lat. 22. 6. 53. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024404-0264 | THISTLE, Order of the, or of St Andrew, a military order of knighthood in Scotland, the rise and institution of which are variously related by different authors. Lesley bishop of Ross reports, that the night before the battle between Athelstan king of Northumberland and Hungus king of the Picts, a bright cross, in form... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024405-0264 | THISTLE’S Island, an island on the south coast of New Holland, at the mouth of Spencer’s Gulf. It is about twelve miles long. Long, of the north end, 136. 3½. E. Lat. 34. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024406-0264 | THOMAR, a corregimiento in the province of Estremadura, in Portugal, on the borders of Beira and Alentejo. It comprises twenty-six cities and towns, seventy-nine villages, and 21,748 dwellings, with 108,740 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, on the small river Na-bao, in a delightful country covered w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024407-0264 | THOMAS of Erceldoune, sometimes called Learmont, and sometimes the Rhymer, has long been recognized in the venerable character of a prophet and poet; but the history of his life and writings is involved in that degree of obscurity which may well be supposed to attend so remote an era of our literary annals. His very na... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024501-0265 | THOMASTOWN, an ancient borough in the county of Kilkenny, Ireland, situated on the river Nore, which is here crossed by a handsome stone bridge. Its position on a navigable river renders it well adapted for trade, and in some degree it acts as the port to the city of Kilkenny. The town contains the ruins of an old mona... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024502-0265 | THOMPSON, Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford, a well-known natural philosopher and political economist, was born in 1753, at a village in New Hampshire, then called Rumford, and now Concord. His father died while he was very young, and his mother married another man, who banished him from her house almost in his infancy: he i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024801-0268 | THOMSON, James, a poet of great eminence, was born in the parish of Ednam and county of Roxburgh, on the 11th of September 1700. His father was minister of that parish, which is contiguous to Kelso. The maiden name of his mother was Beatrix Trotter, and she was co-heiress of a small demesne in the county. In Dr Johnson... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025101-0271 | THOR, the eldest and bravest of the sons of Odin and Frea, was, after his parents, the greatest god of the Saxons and Danes while they continued heathens. They believed that Thor reigned over all the aerial regions, which composed his immense palace, consisting of 540 halls; that he launched the thunder, pointed the li... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025102-0271 | THORDA, or Τηοrenburg, a district of the province of Suabenburgen, in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary. It is a long narrow district, extending nearly the length of the whole province. It covers nearly 2000 square miles, but scarcely contains more than 70,000 inhabitants, the northern part comprising a great portion of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 31' 53" N 23 42' 12" E | THORDA |
kp-eb0721-025103-0271 | THORN, a city, formerly one of the most distinguished, in the kingdom of Poland, but now the capital of a circle of the same name in the government of Dantzig and the province of West Prussia. It stands on the river Vistula, which is there nearly two miles across. There is a bridge of boats from the city to an island i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 1' 30" N 23 44' 57" E | THORN |
kp-eb0721-025104-0271 | THORNBURY, a town of the hundred of the same name in the county of Gloucester, 124 miles from London. It is situated on a small stream that falls into the Severn, and consists of one street about half a mile long, with a large church resembling a cathedral, and the remains of a magnificent palace, begun, but never fini... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025105-0271 | THORNE, a town of the hundred of Strafforth and Tickhill, in the west riding of the county of York, 167 miles from London. It is situated in a marshy district, being surrounded by the rivers Don, Ouse, and Aire, and being near the canal of Headley. It has little trade except that of ship-building, which of late has dec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025106-0271 | THORNHILL, Sir James, an eminent English painter, was born in Dorsetshire in 1676, of an ancient family, but was constrained to apply to some profession by the distresses of his father, who had been reduced to the necessity of selling his family estate. His inclination directed him to the art of painting; and on his ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025201-0272 | THORNHILL, a large and thriving village in the parish of Morton and county of Dumfries, is delightfully situated in a vale through which runs the river Nith. It consists of a few streets, having in the centre a cross, erected by the last duke of Queensberry. It has of late been much improved by the proprietor, the pres... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025202-0272 | THOROUGH BASS (Ital. Basso continuo). See Music . From an edition of Emilio del Cavaliere’s musical drama, called La Rappresentazione di Anima e di corpo, published by Guidotti in 1600 at Bologna, it appears that Cavaliere was one of the earliest musicians who conceived the idea of writing an instrumental bass differen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025203-0272 | THOROUT, a market-town of the Netherlands, in the province of West Flanders and arrondissement of Bruges. It is on the chaussée leading from Menen to Bruges, and contains 5160 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025204-0272 | THORVERTON, a decayed town of the county of
Devon and the hundred of Hayridge, 175 miles from London. In former years the principal occupation of the inhabitants was making serges and other coarse woollen goods for the Spanish market, and long ells for the East India Company; but both these branches have diminished by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025205-0272 | THOTH, or Theut (called by the Phoenicians Tarnst, by the Greeks Hermes, and by the Romans Mercury), was a Phoenician of very superior talents, and one of the civilizers of mankind. He was prime minister to Osiris, whom, after his death, he deified; and he was himself deified by his countrymen the Egyptians, for the be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025206-0272 | THRACE, a country very frequently mentioned by the Greek and Latin writers, deriving its name, according to Josephus, from Tiras, one of the sons of Japhet. It was bounded on the north by Mount Haemus; on the south by the Aegean Sea; on the west by Macedon and the river Strymon; and on the east by the Euxine Sea, the H... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025207-0272 | THRAPSTON, a town in the hundred of Navisford and county of Northampton, seventy-five miles from London. It is built on the river Nen, by which it has some trade with Lynn and with Northampton. There is a market on Tuesday. The inhabitants amounted in 1821 to 854, and in 1831 to 1014. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025208-0272 | THRASHING, in Agriculture, the operation by which corn is separated from the straw. This operation is performed in a variety of ways, sometimes by the feet of animals, sometimes by a flail, and sometimes by a machine called a thrashing mill. See the article Agriculture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025209-0272 | THREE Hills Island, one of the Hebrides, in the South Pacific Ocean, about twelve miles in circumference. Long. 168. 35. E. Lat. 17. 7. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 7' S 168 35' E | THREE |
kp-eb0721-025210-0272 | Three Hummock Island, a small island on the east coast of New Holland; also an island on the north coast of Van Diemen’s Land. Long. 145. E. Lat. 40. 45. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 45' S 145 E | Three Hummock Island |
kp-eb0721-025301-0273 | Three Islands, small islands in the Eastern Seas, near the east coast of Bintang. Long. 105. 2. E. Lat. 1. 10. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 1 10' S 105 2' E | Three Islands |
kp-eb0721-025302-0273 | Three Kings, three small islands in the South Pacific Ocean, near the north coast of New Zealand. Long. 172. 12. E. Lat. 34. 13. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 13' S 172 12' E | Three Kings |
kp-eb0721-025303-0273 | Three Points Cape, the north head of the entrance into Broken Bay, on the east coast of New Holland. Long. 151. 23½. E. Lat. 33. 32½. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025304-0273 | Three Rivers, the name of numerous small islands, about eight in number, scattered over the Eastern Seas, two on the coast of Celebes, one on the coast of Amboyna, and one on the coast of Madagascar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025305-0273 | THRONE, a royal seat or chair of state, enriched with ornaments of architecture and sculpture, raised on one or more steps, and covered with a kind of canopy. Such are thrones in the rooms of audience of kings and other sovereigns. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025306-0273 | THUANUS, Jacobus Augustus, an historian of great and merited reputation, is better known by this classical, than by his vernacular name of Jacques Auguste de Thou. He was the son of Christophe de Thou, first president of the parliament, and was born at Paris on the 8th of October 1553. He received a very learned educat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025307-0273 | THUCYDIDES, a celebrated Greek historian, was born at Athens, 471 b. c. He was the son of Olorus, and grandson of Miltiades, who is thought to have been descended from Miltiades the famous Athenian general, and to have married the king of Thrace’s daughter. He was educated in a manner suitable to his quality, that is, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025401-0274 | THULE, or Thylae, in Ancient Geography, an island in the most northern parts of the German Ocean. Its situation was never accurately ascertained by the ancients, hence its present name is unknown by modern historians. Some suppose that it is the island now called Iceland, or part of Greenland, and others that it is Fou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025402-0274 | THUNDER, the noise occasioned by the explosion of a flash of lightning echoed back from the inequalities on the surface of the earth, in like manner as the noise of a cannon is echoed, and in particular circumstances forms a rolling lengthened sound. See Electricity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025403-0274 | THUNDERBOLT. When lightning acts with extraordinary violence, and breaks or shatters any thing, it is called a thunderbolt; which the vulgar, to fit it for such effects, suppose to be a hard body, and even a stone. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025404-0274 | THURGAU, or Thurgovia, a canton of Switzerland. It is bounded on the north-west by the Rhine, on the north-east by the lake of Constance, on the south-east by St Gall, and on the south-west by Zurich. It extends over 265 square miles, is divided into eight circles, and in 1838 contained 84,124 inhabitants, of whom 72,1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025405-0274 | THURINGIA, a division of the circle of Upper Saxony, in Germany. It is a fruitful tract, abounding in corn, especially wheat; in black cattle, sheep, and horses. It is about seventy-three miles in length, and as much in breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025406-0274 | THUROCZ, a palatinate or district of the province of the Hither Danube, in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary. It extends over 460 square miles, but contains only about 45,000 inhabitants, of whom two thirds are Lutherans, and the remainder of the Greek church. The soil is poor, and the climate mountainous and raw; and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025407-0274 | THURROCK-GRAYS, a small town of the hundred of Chafford, in the county of Essex, twenty-five miles from London. It stands on the banks of the Thames, near St Clement’s Reach. It has a market on Thursday. In 1831 the inhabitants amounted to 1248. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025408-0274 | THURSDAY, the fifth day of the Christian week, but the sixth of that of the Jews. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025409-0274 | THURSO, a seaport town, borough of barony, and parish on the north-west side of the county of Caithness. The town is situated on the river Thurso, which here falls into the bay of the same name, and by it is divided into two parts. The old portion of the town is irregularly built and ill paved; hut the new part is buil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025411-0274 | TIARA, an ornament or dress with which the ancient Persians covered their head, and with which the Armenians and the kings of Pontus are represented on medals; these last, because they were descended from the Persians. Latin authors call it indifferently tiara and cidaris. Strabo says the tiara was in the form of a tow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025412-0274 | Tiara is also the name of the pope’s triple crown. The tiara and keys are the badge of the papal dignity; the tiara of his civil rank, and the keys of his spiritual jurisdiction. As soon as the pope is dead, his arms are represented with the tiara alone, without the keys. The ancient tiara was a round high cap. John XX... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025413-0274 | TIBER, a great river of Italy, which runs through the pope’s territories, passing by Perugia and Orvietto; and having visited Rome, falls into the Tuscan Sea at Ostia, fifteen miles below that city. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025414-0274 | TIBET, a country of great extent, in Independent Tartary, stretching from east to west 1500 miles in length. It extends from the sources of the Indus to the borders of China, and from Hindustan to the great desert of Cobi, in Central Asia. It is of unequal breadth, and many parts of it are unknown. It is distinguished ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025801-0278 | TIBULLUS, Albius, a very elegant poet, was born at Rome about the year of the city 690. He belonged to the equestrian order; but as his father had espoused the cause of Pompey, his estate was impaired in the issue of tire unhappy contest which ensued. About the age of twenty-two, the son retired to his villa at Pedum, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025901-0279 | TIBUR, a town of ancient Latium, pleasantly situated on the Anio. Here Horace had his villa and house, and here he wished to end his days. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025902-0279 | TICAO Isle, one of the Philippine Islands, situated due south of the large island of Luzon, about twenty-eight miles in length by seven in average breadth. Here the Spanish galleon used to take in water and provisions before setting sail for Acapulco. Long. 123. 40. E. Lat. 12. 36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 36' N 123 40' E | TICAO |
kp-eb0721-025903-0279 | TICHFIELD, a town of the hundred of that name, in the division of Portsdown, in Hampshire, seventy-eight miles from London. The parish is very extensive, and includes a good roadstead for vessels in the bay of that name, near the mouth of Southampton water. Near to it are the remains of a Cistertian abbey. There is a m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025904-0279 | TICKARY, a town of Hindustan, province of Bahar, fifty miles south by west from Patna. Long. 84. 55. E. Lat. 24. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 58' N 84 55' E | TICKARY |
kp-eb0721-025905-0279 | TICKELL, Thomas, an English poet, was the son of the Rev. Richard Tickell, and was born in 1686, at Bride-kirk in Cumberland. He was educated at Queen’s College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow. While he continued at that university, he addressed to Addison a complimentary copy of verses on his opera of Rosamond, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025906-0279 | TICKHILL, a town of the hundred of Strafforth and Tickhill, in the west riding of the county of York, 156 miles from London. The church is a large and ancient building. The town was fortified, but its defences were destroyed in the civil wars. It has at present little or no trade. There is a market on Friday. The inhab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025907-0279 | TICOO, a cluster of small islands near the west coast of Sumatra. These islands were frequented by the early voyagers for pepper, and the Dutch and English had factories on them, but they were expelled in 1621. They are small and woody, and are about a mile and a half distant from each other. Long. 99. 13. E. Lat. 0. 6... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 0 6' S 99 13' E | TICOO |
kp-eb0721-025908-0279 | TICOS, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, near the east coast of the island of Luzon. Long. 124. E. Lat. 14. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-025909-0279 | TIDES.
Τηε alternate rising and falling which are observed to take place in the surface of the waters, generally twice in the course of a lunar day, or of 24 h ∙ 49 m ∙ of mean solar time, on most of the shores of the ocean, and in the greater part of bays, firths, and rivers which communicate freely with it, are the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-028701-0307 | TIDESWELL, a market-town of the hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 160 miles from London. It is in a lofty situation, and takes its name from a well near it, which, like the sea, ebbs and flows at intervals, rapidly in wet, but slowly in dry seasons. It is an ill-built place, with a large old church, and has... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-028702-0307 | TIDORE, one of the Molucca Isles, in the Eastern Seas, about twenty-one miles in circumference, situated on the west coast of Gilolo, three leagues south of Ternate, from which it is separated by a safe channel, with good anchorage near the town. It is mountainous towards the centre; the mountains are high, and general... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 0 45' N 127 25' E | TIDORE |
kp-eb0721-028703-0307 | TIGA, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the northwest coast of the island of Borneo. Long. 112. 14. E. Lat. 6. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-028704-0307 | TIGRIS. This large and celebrated river, which flows along the boundaries of the Turkish and Persian empires, has its rise in the mountains of Armenia, about fifty miles to the north-west of the valley of Diarbekir, and fifteen to the east of the source of the Euphrates. It derives its ancient Persian name of Tir or Te... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-028801-0308 | TIGUIL, a river of Kamtschatka which falls into the Penjinskaia gulf. On its banks is the fort of Tiguilskoi, the strongest in the country, where a Russian garrison is maintained, to keep in awe the wild tribes of the country. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-028802-0308 | TILBURG, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. It has been only of late years raised from the class of towns to that of cities. It stands on the river Lay, in a healthy district, chiefly flourishing by the extension of its manufactures, which provide fine broad clothe, casimeres, common cloths, b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-028803-0308 | TILBURY, a village of the hundred of Barnstaple, in the county of Essex. It is only remarkable for the strong fortifications constructed there to command the course of the river Thames. It contains a regular work, which can be surrounded by water, and has more than 100 cannon, from twenty-four to forty-eight pounders, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-028804-0308 | TILLOTSON, John, archbishop of Canterbury, was the son of Robert Tillotson of Sowerby, in the parish of Halifax in Yorkshire, clothier; and was born there in the year 1030. He studied at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and in 1651 became a fellow. In 1656 he left the university, in order to become tutor to the son of Edmund Pri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-028805-0308 | TILLOUTA, a town of Hindustan, province of Bahar, and district of Rotas, pleasantly situated on the north-west bank of the river Soane. Long. 84. 15. E. Lat. 21.43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-028806-0308 | TILSIT, a city of East Prussia, in the government of Gumbinnen, the capital of a circle of its name. It stands on the river Memel, where the Tilse falls into that stream. It contains three churches, a hospital, 860 houses, and 12,800 inhabitants, who conduct manufactories of linen goods, hosiery, and gloves, and have m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 4' 30" N 21 49' E | TILSIT |
kp-eb0721-028807-0308 | TIMAAN, or Timoan, a small island, high and woody, situated off the east coast of the Malay peninsula. There are several other smaller islands lying to the westward. Long. 104. 5. E. Lat. 2. 52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-028808-0308 | TIMAHET, a town of Hindustan, in the nizam’s territories, in the province of Boeder, fifty-four miles south-west from Hyderabad. Long. 78. 27. E. Lat. 16. 30. N.
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kp-eb0721-028901-0309 | TIMBER.
Τηε term “timber” is applied to wood of sufficient size to be adapted for building purposes, whether it be standing in the forest or after it is felled. While the timber forms a portion of the growing tree, it is distinguished as “standing timber when felled, it is called “rough timber.” After the rough log is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031001-0330 | TIMBUCTOO, an African city, situated on the banks of the Joliba or Niger, in 17° 40' north latitude, and 2° 30' west longitude, being nearly the very latitude in which Ptolemy placed the town which he calls Cuphae; and it is very remarkable that the principal stream of the Niger, which passes to the south and to the ea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031002-0330 | T1ME, a succession of phenomena in the universe, or a mode of duration marked by certain periods or measures, chiefly by the motion and revolution of the sun.
Time, in Music. See Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031003-0330 | TIMERYCOTTA, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, district of Palnaud, seventy-seven miles S.S.E. from Hyderabad. Long. 79. 20. E. Lat. 16. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031004-0330 | TIMON the Sceptic, who is not to be confounded with Timon the Misanthrope, was a Phliasian, a disciple of Pyrrho, and lived in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus. He took so little pains to invite disciples to his school, that it has been said of him, that as the Scythians shot flying, Timon gained pupils by running from... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031101-0331 | TIMOR, East, the largest and southernmost of the Molucca Isles, intersected by the ninth degree of south latitude, and extending obliquely in a north-east and south-east direction. In length it is 250 miles, and from thirty to sixty in breadth. It is mountainous in the interior, the ridge by which it is intersected ris... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031102-0331 | TIMOTHEUS, one of the most celebrated poet-musicians of antiquity, was born at Miletus, an Ionian city of Caria, 446 years b. c. He was contemporary with Philip of Macedon, and not only excelled in lyric and dithyrambic poetry, but in his performance upon the cithara. According to Pausanias, he perfected that instrumen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031103-0331 | TIMPANI (Ital.), kettle-drums. See Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031104-0331 | TINDAL, Matthew, a well-known English writer, was the son of the Rev. John Tindal of Beer-Ferres in Devonshire, and was born about the year 1657. He studied at Lincoln College in Oxford, whence he removed to Exeter, and was afterwards elected fellow of All Souls. In 1685 he took the degree of LL. D. In the reign of Jam... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031105-0331 | TINDAL, Nicholas, the nephew of Dr Tindal, was born in 1687, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he took the degree of A. Μ. in 1713. He became a fellow of Trinity College, and obtained several pieces of preferment in the church. In 1738 he was appointed chaplain of Greenwich Hospital; and here he died on the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031201-0332 | TINE, an island of Turkey, on the western side of the Archipelago, separated from Andros by a channel three quarters of a mile across. It is about ninety square miles in extent, and contains about 16,000 inhabitants, who cultivate the land with great care. It yields corn, pulse, cheese, and fruits; but the product whic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 37 50' N 25 14' E | TINE |
kp-eb0721-031202-0332 | TINGANO, a small river on the eastern coast of Malacca, which falls into the sea of China. Long. 103. 9. E. Lat. 5. 27. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 5 27' N 103 9' E | TINGANO |
kp-eb0721-031203-0332 | TINGI, a cluster of small islands in the Chinese Sea, near the eastern coast of Malacca. Long. 104. 21. E. Lat. 2. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 2 23' N 104 21' E | TINGI |
kp-eb0721-031204-0332 | TINGORAN, a small island in the Chinese Sea, near the eastern coast of Malacca. Long. 103. 33. E. Lat. 4. 8. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 4 8' N 103 33' E | TINGORAN |
kp-eb0721-031205-0332 | TINGTCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Fokien, situated among the mountains which separate it from Kiangsee. Long. 116. 4. E. Lat. 25. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031206-0332 | TINIAN, one of the Ladrone Islands, in the North Pacific Ocean, about forty-two miles in circumference, first discovered by a Manilla ship, which was cast away here in 1638. The author of Anson’s Voyage gives a most pleasing and romantic description of this island, as found by the crew of the Centurion in the year 1742... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031207-0332 | TINNEVELLŸ, an extensive district of the south of India, in the province of the Carnatic, 150 miles in length by fifty in breadth, situated principally between the 8th and 10th degrees of north latitude, and occupying the south-east extremity of what is called the peninsula. It is bounded on the north by Madura and Mar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 8 48' N 71 1' E | TINNEVELLŸ |
kp-eb0721-031208-0332 | TINNING, the covering or lining any thing with melted tin, or tin reduced to a very fine leaf. Looking-glasses are foliated or tinned with plates of beaten tin, the whole extent of the glass. They are applied or fastened by means of quicksilver. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031209-0332 | TINTERN, a village of the county of Monmouth, in the hundred of Ragland. It stands on the banks of the river Wye, in a most picturesque situation, about five miles above Chepstow. Tintern is much visited on account of the remains of its abbey, which present, in good preservation, a view of the ecclesiastical architectu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031210-0332 | TIPERAH, an extensive district of Bengal, situated on the eastern side of the Brahmapootra or Megna river, and between the 22d and 24th degrees of north latitude. On the north it is bounded by Silhet and Dacca; on the south by Chittagong and the sea; on the west it has the river Megna; and on the east it is divided fro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031211-0332 | TIPPERARY, an inland county in the province of Munster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by Galway and King’s counties; on the east by King’s, Queen's, and Kilkenny; on the south by Waterford and Cork; and on the west by Cork, Limerick, and Clare. It extends from 52° 11’ to 53° 10' north latitude, and from 7° 23’ to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-031601-0336 | TIPSTAFF, an officer who attends the judges with a kind of staff tipped with silver, and takes into his charge all prisoners who are committed or turned over at a judge’s chambers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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