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Born at London, 1628: died at Moor Park, Sun Surrey, Jan. 27, 1699. An English diplomatist diplomatist, statesman, and author. He was educated at Cambridge; entered Parliament in 1660; concluded a treaty with the Bishop of Munster in 1665; became minister at Bru els in 1665;; negotiated the treaty of the Triple Alliance in 1668; was amba ador at The Hague 1668-71; negotiated a peace with the Nether. lands in 1674; was amba ador to the Congre of Nimwegen; formed a plan for a privy council in 1679, and became one of its chief members; and withdrew from public life in 1681. He wrote "An E ay on the Present State and Settlement of Ireland" (1668), "The Empire, etc." (1671), "Observations upon the United Provinces" (1672), "E ay upon Government" (1672), "Trade in Ireland" (1673), "Miscellanies," including poems (1679 and 1692), "Memoirs" (1691 and 1709), and "Introduction to the History of Eng. land" (1695). Temple Bar. A famous gateway before the Temple in London, which formerly divided Fleet street from the Strand. According to ancient custom, when the sovereign visited the City, he asked permi ion of the lord mayor to pa it. In its last form it was a rather ugly archway built by Wren in 1670. It spanned the street with an elliptical arch flanked by two small arches over the footways, and had a second story in which were four niches with statues of sovereigns, and a curved pediment above. It was removed in 1878, and reerected at Waltham Cro , Herts. It is now represented by a monument called the Temple Bar Memorial, a tall pedestal with statues of Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales in niches at the sides, surmounted by the griffin and arms of the city of London. Temple Beau, The. A comedy by Henry Fielding, produced in 1730. Temple Church. A church within the bounds of the Inner Temple in London. It consists of the Round Church and the Choir. The former is in a rich Norman style; it is 58 feet in diameter, and was finished in 1185. The Choir is Early English. The Round Church contains several beautiful altar-tombs of Templars. Temple Gardens. Gardens belonging to the Temple, London, separated from the Thames by the Victoria Embankment. According to Shak spere, the red and white roses which were a umed as badges of the houses of Lancaster and York were plucked garden by Plantage net and Somerset at the the brawl which began the civil war. Temple of Concord. See Girgenti . Temple of Fame, The. A poem by Alexander Pope, published in 1715. It differs from Chaucer's "House of Fame," though imitating it. Temple of Gla , The. A poem by Lydgate, partly imitated from Chaucer's "House of Fame." Temple of Heaven or of the Great Dragon. A temple at Peking, perhaps the most notable of Chinese temples. It stands in an inclosure of about a square mile. From the gate a causeway leads to the temple, which is surrounded by subordinate buildings. The temple proper stands on a 3-staged terrace ascended by flights of steps; it is circular, rising in 3 rece ed stages each with a widely projecting roof, that of the highest stage forming a concave cone of blue tiles terminating in a gilded ovoid finial. The date a igned is 1420. Temple of Mexico. See Teocalii . Temple of the Cro . A name commonly given to one of the ruined edifices at Palenque, Mexico. In a small inner room of this building there is a structure resembling an altar; and above this altar for merly stood the remarkable symbolic group from which This consisted of 3 sculp the temple derives its name. tured slabs joined together, showing a central cro -like symbol, with a human figure on each side, and numerous hieroglyphics. The middle slab, containing the cro , is now in the museum at Mexico; one of the others is at Washington, where it is known as the Palenque tablet; the third is still at Palenque. The meaning of the cro has been a subject for much conjecture and dispute: it probably a symbol of the fertilizing powers of nature. Another sculpture from the same building is supposed to represent the Maya rain-god. The temple itself is a quad statesman. He belonged to the Irish branch of the Temple family. On April 17, 1802, he succeeded to his father's title. He was educated at Harrow. He became member a young woman dre ed attended tastic demons. The architecture and scenery of the background present a free rendering of Tivoli. 2. A painting by Tin to ret to, in San Trovaso at Venice. The saint sits calmly, with four tempters about Teniers, David Venice, a secret tribunal instituted in 1310 and continued down to the overthrow of the republic in 1797. It was composed at first of 10 and later of 17 members, and exercised unlimited power in the supervision of internal and external affairs, often with great rigor and oppre ivene . Tenaino (tē-ni'nō). A tribe of North American Indians, nearly related to the Warm Springs Indians. They formerly lived at Celilo, Oregon, on the Columbia River. Their remnants are on the Warm Springs reservation, Oregon, and number 69. See Shahaptian . Tenant of Wild fell Hall, The. A novel by Anne Brontë (Acton Bell), published in 1848. Tena erim (te-nas'e-rim). A river in British Burma which flows into the Bay of Bengal near Tena erim. Length, about 250 miles. Tena erim. 1. A division of British Burma. Area, 46,590 square miles. Population (1891), 978,073.-2. A town in the division of Tena erim, British Burma, situated on the river Tena erim, near the coast, lat. 12°6′ N., long. 99°3′ Ε. Tenayucan. See Tezcuco . Ten Brink. See Brink . Tenbury (ten'bu-ri). A town in Worcesters hire, England, situated on the Teme 17 miles west-northwest of Worcester. Tenby (ten'bi). A watering-place and seaport in Pembrokes hire, Wales, situated on Car mar then Bay in lat. 51° 40′ N., long. 4° 43′ W. Population (1891), 4,542. Tenchebrai, or Tenchebray. See Tinchebray . Tencin (ton-san'), Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de. Born at Grenoble, France: died 1749. A French leader of society in the reign of Louis XV.: mother of D'Alembert. She wrote various works. Tencteri (tengk'te-ri). [L. (Cæsar) Tenchtheri , (Tacitus) Tencteri , Gr. (Ptolemy) Τέγτεροι .] Α German tribe first mentioned by Cæsar, who describes them as having been driven by the Suevi (59 в. с.), together with the Usipites, out of their original homes. They were crushingly defeated by Cæsar in Gallic territory near the confluence of the Maas with the Rhine. They afterward joined other tribes in wars against Rome. They were probably merged ultimately in the Alamanni. Tenda (ten'dä), Col di. A pa in the Alps, 16 miles south of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy. According to one cla ification, it separates the Ligurian and Maritime Alps. Height, 6,195 feet. Tendelti. Same as Fasher . Tender Husband, The, or the Accomplished Fools. A comedy by Sir Richard Steele, pro- duced in 1705. Tendra (ten'drä). A narrow island in the Black Sea, near the coast of Ru ia, about 45 miles southwest of Kherson. Length, about 40 miles. Tendra Bay. An inlet of the Black Sea, nearly inclosed by Tendra. Tenedos (ten'e-dos). [Gr. Τένεδος.] A small island in the Ægean Sea, belonging to Turkey, situated off the Troad, on the northwestern coast of Asia Minor, in lat. 39° 50′ N., long. 26° E.: the Turkish Bogdsha-Ada i. It was settled by Æolians; is noted in the legends of Trojan times; was subjugated by the Persians; and was in alliance with Athens the 5th century B. C. Length, about 7 miles. Tenerani (tā-nā-rä'nē), Pietro. Born at Torano, near Carrara, Italy, Nov. 11, 1789: died at Rome, Dec. 14,1869. An Italian sculptor. Among his works are "Psyche with Pandora's Box," "Cupid Extracting a Thorn," "Psyche and Venus," "Descent from the Cro ," "Christ on the Cro ," etc. Teneriffe (ten-er-if'), or Tenerife (tā-nā-rēʼfā), or Teneriffa (tā-nā-rēf'fä). The largest of the Canary Islands. It is traversed by mountains, and con tains the famous Peak of Teneriffe. On it is the capital of the group, Santa Cruz de Santiago. Length, 60 miles. Population, about 100,000. Teneriffe, Peak of. See Pico de Teyde . Teniers (ten'yerz; F. pron. tā-nyar'), David, the elder. Born at Antwerp, 1582: died there, July 29, 1649. A Flemish historical, genre, and landscape painter: a pupil of Rubens. He painted mostly peasants with landscape. His "Temptation of Saint Anthony" and "Dutch Kitchen" are at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Teniers, David, the younger. Born at Antwerp (baptized Dec. 15, 1610): died near Bru els, April 25, 1690. A noted Flemish genre, land scape, and portrait painter, influenced by Ru lived mostly at Antwerp and Bru els, and was master of the Antwerp gild in 1632, and dean 1644-45. He was well re bens: son and Teniers elder. He ceived at the court in the Netherlands, and obtained many important rompeiiolifein Flanders, from sacred history, him, one a demon, and two women, young and beautiful. peasant etc. He painted hundreds of pictures, among them "The Temptation of St. Anthony," "Seven Works of Mercy, "The Denial of St. Peter," and "The Prodigal Son" (all at the Louvre, with about 30 others), "Marriage of Teniers (Rothschild collection, London), "Kirme " (Bru els), "Temptation of St. Anthony" (Berlin), "Archers of Antwerp" (Hermitage, St. Petersburg), "Village Festival" Teniers, David (Vienna), "Rinaldo and Armida" (Madrid), "Marriage Festival" and "Judith”(Metropolitan Museum, New York), and "Incantation Scene," "Parable of the Laborer," "Boors Feasting," "Village Fête," and "Charles V. Leaving Dort," etc. (all at the rooms of the Historical Society, New York). Tenimber. See Timorlaut . Teniquech. See Chemehuevi . Tenisaws. See Taensa . Ten is on (ten'i-son), Thomas. Born at Cottenham, Cambridge shire, England, 1636: died 1715. An English prelate. He was bishop of Lincoln; became archbishop of Canterbury in 1694; and was appointed one of the lords justices during the absence of William III. in 1695. Tennant (ten'ant), William. Born at An strut her, Fifes hire, Scotland, May 15, 1784: died near Dollar, Scotland, Feb. 15, 1848. A Scottish poet. His chief work is the mock-heroic poem "Anster Fair" (1812). He also wrote "Thane of Fife," etc. Tennemann (ten'ne-män), Wilhelm Gottlieb. Born at Brembach, near Erfurt, Pru ia, 1761: died at Marburg, Sept. 30, 1819. A German philosopher, profe or of philosophy at Marburg from 1804. His chief work is "Geschichte der Philosophie" ("History of Philosophy, "1798-1819): abridged in "Grundri der Geschichte der Philosophie" (1812). Tennent(ten'ent), Sir James Emerson. Born at Belfast, Ireland, April 7, 1804: died at London, March 6, 1869. A British traveler, politician, and author. He was educated at Trinity College, Dub lin; traveled in Greece, where he met Lord Byron; and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1831. He married a daughter of William Tennent of Belfast, and adopted her He was returned as member of Parliament for name. Belfast in 1832, and was colonial secretary at Ceylon 1845 1850, and permanent secretary of the board of trade 18521867. He published a “Picture of Greece” (1826), "Letters from the Ægean" (1829), "History of Modern Times" (1830), "Belgium" (1841), “Christianity in Ceylon" (1850), "Ceylon, Physical, Historical, and Topographical" (1859), "Natural History of Ceylon" (1861). Tenne ee (ten-e-se'). The principal tributary of the Ohio River. It is formed by the union at Kingston, East Tenne ee, of the Clinch and Holston (which rise in Virginia), and flows southwest in Tenne ee past Chattanooga, then west through Alabama, touching the northeast corner of Mi i ippi, and then north through Tenne ee and Kentucky, to join the Ohio at Paducah, Kentucky. Total length, including the Holston, 1,100 to 1,200 miles; navigable the greater part of its course. The chief obstruction is at the Muscle Shoals in Alabama. Tenne ee. One of the South Central States of the United States of America. Capital, Nashville; chief cities, Memphis and Chattanooga. It is bounded by Kentucky and Virginia on the north; North Carolina on the southeast; Georgia, Alabama, and Mi i ippi on the south; and Arkansas and Mi ouri (separated by the Mi i ippi River) on the west. It is mountainous in the east, containing the Alleghanies and the Cumber land plateau, and is lower in the center and west. The leading agricultural productions are Indian corn, cotton, and tobacco. The manufactures (iron, cotton, etc.) are in creasing. The State has counties, send senators and This region was claimed in early times by North Carolina, and by the French and Spaniards. The leading settlement was made from Virginia and North Carolina in 1769. The temporary State of Franklin was formed in 1784. North Carolina ceded its claims to the United States, and the Territory of Tenne ee was formed in 1790. It was admitted to the Union in 1796. It seceded June 8,1861, and was Congre , and has 12 electoral cluding the battles of Do nelson, Shiloh, Island No. 10, the scene of many important the War, in, Memphis Murfreesboro chica mug a the red Nash of Chatta ville. It was readmitted in 1866. Area, 42,050 square miles. Population (1900), 2,020,616. Tenne ee, Army of the. A Federal army in the Civil War. It was commanded after the battle of Shiloh by Halleck, and later by Grant, Sherman, McPherson, Howard, and Logan. Tenne ee Pa . A pa over the main chain of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado. Height, 10,400 feet. Grimsby and rector of Somersby and Enderby. He published with his brother Charles a collection of juvenile poems ("Poems by Two Brothers") in 1827; was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1828-31 (with Arthur H. Hallam, Houghton, Trench, and others), where he wrote the prize poem "Timbuctoo" (1829); lived at various places till 1850, when he married and settled at Twickenham; and afterward lived at Aldworth (Su ex), and from 1853 at Farring ford (Isle of Wight). He received a state pension in 1845, succeeded Words worth as poet laureate in 1850, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in 1884. He lived a secluded life, and died of old age after a short and painle illne . He was buried in the Poets' Corner, near Chaucer, in Westminster Abbey. He wrote "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical"(1830:including "Mariana," "Recollections of the Arabian Nights," "The Ballad of Ori ana, etc.), "Poems" (1832: including "The Lady of Shalott," "The Miller's Daughter," "Enone," "The Palace of Art," "The May Queen," "The Lotus Eaters," and "A Dream of Fair Women"), "Poems" (1842: including "Uly es," "Two Voices," "The Talking Oak,” “Morte d'Arthur," "The Gardener's Daughter," and "Locksley Hall"), "The Prince ," a medley (1847), "In Memoriam" (1850), "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" (1852), "Charge of the Light Brigade," "Maud" and other poems (1855), "Idylls of the King" (1859-85), "A Welcome to the Prince Alexandra" (1863), "Enoch Arden and Other Poems" (1864), "The Golden Supper" (1869), "The Window, or the Songs of the Wrens," with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan (1870), "Queen Mary" (a drama, 1875), "Harold" (a drama, 1876), "The Falcon" (a short play, acted 1879, published 1884), "The Cup" (a short play, acted 1881, published 1884), "The Promise of May"(acted 1882, published 1886), "Becket" (a drama, 1884), "The Lover's Tale" (1879: in cluding as its fourth part "The Golden Supper"), "Ballads and Other Poems" (1880), "Tires i as and Other Poems" (partly new, 1885), "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" (1886), "Demeter and Other Poems" (1889), "The Death of Enone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems" (1892), "The Foresters, Robin Hood, and Maid Marian" (a drama, 1892). Tennyson, Charles. See Turner . [Derivation Teramo in circumference, and probably inclosing other but smaller temples. The great teocalli was the scene of several fierce battles between the Spaniards and Indians in 1520-21. After the city was taken, the pyramid was torn down, and a part of its site is now occupied by the cathedral. Some of the sculptured stones and idols which were on or near it are now in the Mexican national museum. See Huitzilopochili , Teoyaomiqui , and Sacrificial Stone . Teos (te'os). [Gr. Τέως.] In ancient geogra phy, an Ionian city of Asia Minor, situated on the western coast 25 miles southwest of Smyrna, Its ruins contain a noted temple of Bacchus, a beautiful Ionic hexastyle peripteros on a stylobate of 3 steps. It stood in a court surrounded by stoas. The fine sculptured frieze is in the museum at Constantinople. Teotihuacan, or San Juan Teotihuacan (sän Höän tä-ō-te-wä-kän'). A town of the republic and state of Mexico, 27 miles northeast of Mexico City. In the vicinity are many remarkable ruins, including two very large and many small pyramids, a walled inclosure called the "citadel," etc. Tradition as. signs these remains to the Toltecs (which see), and they are certainly older than the Aztec period. Population of the modern town, about 5,000. Teoyaomiqui (tā-ō-you-mē kē). The name given to a stone idol which was dug up near the ancient teocalli at Mexico, and is now in the Mexican national museum. Leon y Gama, who first de. scribed it under this name, states that Teoyaomiqui was the wife or female companion of the war-god Huitzilopochtli; others suppose that the statue is compound, representing several gods. It is doubtful if Teoyaomiqui was really a personage in the Nahuatl mythology; and the best modern investigators are inclined to believe that this hideous stone was the war-god himself. It is about 8 feet high and 5 feet wide. See Huitzilopochtli . It is covered with carvings almost to overloading.... The general effect, however, is appalling, and the stone In place of christening the monolith after an imagi nary composite deity of whose existence the oldest author i ties make no mention, it strikes me as much more natural to believe that it represents the well-known war-god of the Mexican tribe, Huitzilopochtli; and that consequently it was indeed the famous principal idol of aboriginal Mexico, or Tenochtitlan. Tennyson, Frederick. Born in 1807: died at presents a most hideous agglomeration of repulsive forms. Kensington, London, Feb. 26, 1898. An English poet, brother of Alfred Tennyson. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1828 took the medal for a Greek poem. He published a volume of poems entitled "Days and Hours" (1854), "Isles of Greece" (1890), "Daphne and Other Poems" (1891). Tenochtitlan (ten-ōch-tēt-län'). doubtful.] The chief city of the Aztecs, occupying the site of the modern city of Mexico. It was founded about 1325 on what was then an island in Tezcuco Lake. Causeways were built to the adjacent mainland, and these appear to have been the only approaches. Many of the streets were occupied by canals, and the houses were subject to frequent inundations. Water was supplied from Chapultepec by an aqueduct. Bandelier , Report of an Archæological Tour in Mexico, [pp. 59, 67. Tepanecs (tā-pä-nāks'), or Tecpanecs (tāk-pänāks'). A Nahuatl tribe of the Mexican valley. They were originally a branch of the Tezcucans who set tled at Azcapozalco, on the western shore of Lake Tezcuco, about 1168. In the 14th century the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan paid tribute to them. About 1430 the Aztecs con The most remarkable building was the teocalli, or great quered them, destroyed their capital at Azcapozalco, and temple: most of the other edifices were low, and prob a bly were built of adobe. The Spaniards under entered peaceably, but were subsequently driven out, and only took the place in 1521, after a terrible siege, in which a great part of the city was destroyed. (See Cortés.) The new capital, which was built on its site, was commonly and officially called Tenochtitlan (corrupted to Te mixtitan , Ten us titan , etc.) for many years after the con established a slave-market on its site. The Tepanecs were allowed to form a new capital a little to the south of the old one, at Tlacopan (now Tacuba). They joined with Tenochtitlan and Tezcuco in the confederacy formed soon after, but never rose to prominence. Tlacopan was joined to Tenochtitlan by a causeway over which Cortés retreated on the Noche Triste. Tepeguana. See Tepehuan . quest. Mexico (Aztec Mexitl ) was also a name of the Tepehuan(tā-pā-hwän'). Atribe of North A meri ancient city, or perhaps of a portion of it: probably from one of the appellations of the war-god Huitzilopochtli. Tenos (te'nos), or Tinos (tēnōs), or Tino (te' nō). [Gr. Τῆνος.] An island of the Cyclades, belonging to Greece, southeast of Andros and northeast of Syra: one of the most prosperous of the Greek islands. It exports wine and marble. The chief place is Tino (St. Nicolo). Length, 17 miles. Population, about 12,000. An offtake or bayou of the Alabama River, in Tensas (ten's as), or Tensaw (ten'sâ), River. Alabama, which flows parallel with Mobile River and empties into Mobile Bay. Tensas, or Tensaw, River. A river in south- eastern Arkansas and northeastern Louisiana, which joins the Washita about 26 miles west by north of Natchez. Length, over 200 miles; navigable about two thirds of its course. Tensau. See Taensa . can Indians which inhabit mainly the eastern slope of the Sierra Madre, from lat. 25° to 26° N., in the state of Durango, Mexico. Their domaln formerly extended acro the borders into Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Coahuila. Their tribal name is adapted from a term signifying 'conqueror.' Number, le than 1,000. See Piman . Tepic (ta-pēk'). 1. A territory of Mexico, on the Pacific coast north of the state of Jalisco, to which it was formerly attached. Area, 11, 581 square miles. Population (1895), 144.308 (mostly semi-civilized Indians).-2. The capi tal of the territory, 18 miles from the Bay of San Blas. Population (1895), 16,226. Teplitz (tep'lits), or Töplitz (tep'lits). A town and watering-place in northern Bohemia, situated in the valley of the Biela, near the mountains, 46 miles northwest of Prague. It is one of the most frequented watering-places in Europe (saline alkaline springs), and has been the scene of several con. Tenter den (ten'tèr-den). A small town in Kent, ferences of princes. Population (1891), commune, 17,526. England. the United States" (1865) and other works. Tenniel (ten'i-el), Sir John. Born at London, 1820. An English artist and cartoonist. was a member of the staff of "Punch" 1851-1901. He He illustrated "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," "Through