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Teck
Language; Encyclopedias
A German principality, named after a castle which crowns an eminence called "The Teck," in the Swabian Alb, 20 m. SE. of Stuttgart, conferred in 1868 on Duke Albert of Wurtemberg's son, who in 1866 ...
Togoland
Language; Encyclopedias
A German protectorate on the Slave Coast, in Upper Guinea, Gold Coast Colony on the W., and Dahomey on the E.; exports palm-oil and ivory.
Henrietta Sontag
Language; Encyclopedias
A German singer, born at Coblenz; made her début at 15; had a brilliant career twice over (1806-1854).
Tityus
Language; Encyclopedias
A giant whose body covered nine acres of land, son of Zeus and Gaia, who for attempting to force Latona was punished in the nether world by two vultures continually gnawing at his liver.
Tammuz
Language; Encyclopedias
A god mentioned in Ezekiel, generally identified with the Greek Adonis, the memory of whose fall was annually celebrated with expressions first of mourning and then of joy all over Asia Minor. Adonis ...
Taurida
Language; Encyclopedias
A government of South Russia, of extensive area, jutting down in peninsular shape into the Black Sea, and including the Crimea and isthmus of Perekop; forms the western boundary of the Sea of Azov; ...
Somaliland
Language; Encyclopedias
A broad plateau of East Africa, bounded by the Gulf of Aden on the N. and the Indian Ocean on the SE.; inhabited by the Somalis, a pastoral people, who rear camels, sheep, and oxen, and are of the ...
