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819. Tailors of Tooley Street, The Three. Three tailors of Tooley street, London, referred to by Canning, who wrote a petition to Parlia ment, beginning "We, the people of England." Taimyr (ti-mēr'), or Taimur (ti-mör'), Peninsula. The northernmost peninsula of Siberia, projecting into the Arctic Ocean. Tain (tān). A town in Ro -shire, Scotland, situated on Dornoch Firth 24 miles north-north east of Inverne . Population (1891), 2,080. Tain (tan). A town in the department of Drome, France, situated on the Rhone 11 miles north of Valence. Near it is produced the Ermitage wine. Population (1891), commune, 3,085. Taine (tān), Hippolyte Adolphe. Born at Vouziers, Ardennes, April 21, 1828: died at Paris, March 5, 1893. A distinguished French historian, philosopher, and critic. He graduated with the highest honors from the Collège Bourbon in Paris, and was admitted in the first rank to the Ecole Normale in 1848. He maintained this high standing throughout his course, and went then as a profe or into the provinces. He soon returned to Paris. Anxious to broaden his knowledge of science, he took a three years' course in medicine. In this time he accumulated an extensive fund of information, and wrote a series of articles that brought him into notice. In 1853 he took his doctor's degree before the Faculty of Letters in Paris: as a di ertation he presented the celebrated "E ai sur les fables de La Fontaine." Other e ays by Taine are on le advanced in civilization than the Chibchas, but they had no hereditary chiefs or "kings," and their wealth in gold was le apparent, owing to their custom of burying it with the dead. Many of their tombs ( huacas ), opened in modern times, have yielded large quantities of gold or- naments. See Nutabes . Tahano. See Tano . Tahiti (tä-he'tē), formerly Otaheite. The prin- cipal island of the Society Archipelago in the South Pacific. The surface is mountainous, the highest point being 7,300 feet above the sea. The chief town is Papeete. Length, 35 miles. Area, 412 square miles. Popu- lati on, 11,200. Tahiti Archipelago. See Society Islands . Tahlequah (tä-le-kwä'). The capital of the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, near the Illinois River 45 miles northwest of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Tahmurath (tä-mö-rät'). In the Avesta, as Takhmo urupa, a son of Vivanghao, and elder brother of Yima. He tames Ahriman and rides upon him 30 years until Ahriman devours him, when Yima over- comes Ahriman by subterfuge and delivers Takhmo urupa from the body of Ahriman. In Firdausi he becomes the third Iranian king, who taught weaving and subdued animals, but was especially the vanquisher of the devs or demons, who, freed by him, taught the king writing. He chained Ah rim an and rode him as a courser round the world. Tahoe (tä-hō'), Lake. A lake in the Sierra Ne- vada Mountains, situated on the boundary be- tween California and Nevada, and intersected by lat. 39° N. It is noted for its picturesque scenery. Its outlet is the Truckee River. Length, about 20 miles. Elevation, over 6,225 feet. Tai, or Thai, or T'hai (tī). [Siamese, lit. ' free- men.' The principal race of people in the 1825. A Peruvian general and politician. He Indo-Chinese peninsula, including the Siamese, represented Peru in the Spanish Cortes 1813-14; subse quently was brigadier-general and governor of Trujillo; and in 1820 deserted to the patriots. San Martin named him grand marshal and president of the council of state, and in July-Aug., 1822, he had charge of the executive, with the title of supreme delegate. From July, 1823, to Feb., 1824, he was again nominally the head of the government, but in reality acted for Sucre and Bolivar. Charged with treason, he took refuge with the loyalists in Callao, where, despised by both parties, he died of hunger or disease during the subsequent siege. Tagliacozzo (täl-yä-kot'sō). [ML. Tallaco the Shan tribes, the Laos, etc. Taichow (ti'chou'). A city in the province of Chekiang, China, situated on the river Taichow 80 miles south-southwest of Ningpo. Taillandier (tä-yon-dyā'), René Gaspard Ernest, called Saint-René. Born at Paris, Dec. 16, 1817: died there, Feb. 24, 1879. A French scholar and littérateur, noted especially for his historical and literary writings on Germany and Ru ia: profe or in the Faculté des Lettres at on Stuart "Le posit i vis me anglais," 1864). He composed also a volume of "E ais de critique et d'his to ire" (1857), and another entitled "Nouveaux e ais de critique et d'his to ire" (1865). In 1864 he accepted the chair of esthetics at the École des Beaux Arts. His course of lectures appeared as "L'Idéal dans l'art" (1867). Other works of the same nature are "Philosophie de l'art" (1865), "id. en Italie" (1866), "id. dans les Pays-Bas" (1868). His personal experiences and impre ions about men and things both at home and abroad are related in his "Voyage aux Pyrénées" (1855), "Voyage en Italie (1866), "Notes sur Paris ou vie et opinions de M. Frederic-Thomas Graindorge" (1867), and "Notes sur l'Angle terre" (1872). Lastly came the series of brilliant works that have chiefly made his reputation. These are "Les philosophes cla iques du XIXe siècle en France" (1856), His to ire de la littérature anglaise" (1864-65). "De l'in telligence "(1870), and "Les origines de la France contem poraine" (in three parts: "L'Ancien régime The Lare "Le régime moderne" (1875-90)). Univer sity of Oxford conferred upon Taine the honorary degree of LL. D. in 1871, and the French Academy elected him to membership Nov. 14, 1878. Tainos (ti'nōs). [From tain i , chiefs (the name which they gave to themselves).] The ancient Indian inhabitants of the island of Haiti. Their number is conjectural, but all accounts agree that the island was very populous. They are described as a race of agriculturists, going nearly naked, and living in small villages: their chiefs had little power, except in war. The island was divided among several tribes or subtribes, inhabiting districts which the Spaniards called provinces. The tribes in the central and eastern districts were more warlike than the others, perhaps from admixture of Carib blood. Those of the northern coast were very friendly to Columbus in 1492, and the subsequent uprisings appear to have been provoked entirely by Spanish cruelty. Wars with the whites and the slavery to which they were re come down to duced soon destroyed the tribes, and their blood is seen only in the mixed races of the Dominican Republientes show that they belonged to the Arawak or May pure stock. Taiping, or Taeping (ti'ping'), Rebellion. [Chinese, from t'ai , a form of ta , great, and ping , peace.] The great rebellion inaugurated in southern China in 1850 by one Hung-sintsuen, who, calling himself the "Heavenly Prince," pretended that he had a divine mi ion to overturn the Manchu dynasty and set up a purely native dynasty, to be styled the T'ai - ping Chao , or 'Great-peace Dynasty. As the cue had been imposed (about 1644) upon the Chinese Taiping Rebellion by the Manchus as an outward expre ion of loyalty to the Tatar dynasty, the Taipings discarded the cue, and hence were styled by the Chinese Ch'ang -mao- tseh , or 'long haired rebelschung-su-tsuen also promulgated kind of spurious Christianity, in which (Shangti) was known as the "Heavenly Father," and Jesus Christ as the "Heavenly Elder Brother." The insurrection was suppre ed about 1864, largely with the aid of the "Ever-victorious Army" under Colonel Gordon, who from that time became known as "Chinese Gordon." Taironas. See Tayronas . Tais (tā'is). [Ar. al - taïs , the goat.] The third magnitude star & Drac on is. Another form given on some maps is Jais . Tait (tat), Archibald Campbell. Born at Edinburgh, Dec. 22, 1811: died Dec. 3, 1882. An English prelate. He was educated at Glasgow and Oxford; became head master of Rugby in 1842; and was made dean of Car lisle in 1850, bishop of London in 1856, and archbishop of Canterbury in 1868. He wrote "Dangers and Safeguards of Modern Theology" (1861), "Word of God and the Ground of Faith" (1863), and various sermons and charges. Tait, Peter Guthrie. Born at Dalkeith, April 28, 1831. A Scottish mathematician and physicist, profe or of natural philosophy in Edinburgh University from 1860. He was educated at Edinburgh, and at Peter house, Cambridge. He has made important investigations in electricity, heat, and light, Steele, "Dynamics of a Particle"; with Thomson (now Lord Kelvin), a "Treatise on Natural Philosophy"; and, is authority quaternions. He has written, with Balfour Stewart, "The Unseen Universe." He has also written "Properties of Matter," etc. Taittiriyas (tīt-ti-rē'yaz). [In Skt., a patronymic from Tittiri: 'the scholars of Tittiri.'] The name of a school of the Yajurveda, whence Taittiriyasanhita as a name for the Yajurveda itself as handed down in the text of this school. The Taittiriyas have also a pratishakhya, a brahman a, an aranyaka, and an up an is had. Taiwan (ti-wän'). 1. The Chinese name of Formosa.-2. The capital of Formosa, and a treaty port, situated on the southwest coast. Popula tion, estimated, about 70,000. Taiyuen (ti-wen'). The capital of the prov ince Shansi, China, about 37° 54′ Ν. Tajak (tä-zhäk'), or Tajik (tä-zhēk'). A name given collectively to all persons of Iranian descent in central and western Asia. Taj-e-mah (täzh'e-mäh'), The. ['Crown or crest of the moon.'] An Indian diamond in the Persian collection of crown jewels. It weighs 146 carats. Taj Mehal (täzh me-häl′). ['Gem of buildings.'] The famous mausoleum erected at Agra, India, by Shah Jehan for his favorite wife. It stands a platform of white marble 18 feet high and 313 square, with tapering cylindrical minarets 133 feet high at the an gles. The mausoleum itself is in plan 186 feet square with the corners cut off; it consists without of two tiers of keel shaped arches, with a great single-arched porch in the middle of each side. The structure is crowned by a pointed and slightly bulbous dome, 58 feet in diameter and about 210 in exterior height, flanked by 4 octagonal kiosks. The interior is occupied by 4 domed chambers in the corners, and a large arcaded octagon in the middle, all connected by corridors. In the central chamber stand two cenotaphs inclosed by a remarkable openwork rail in marble. No light is admitted to the interior except through the delicately pierced marble screens which fill all the windows. The decoration is enriched by admirable mosaic inlaying in stone of flower-motives and arabesques, much of it in agate, bloodstone, and jasper. Also Taj Mahal . Tajo. The Spanish name of the Tagus. Tajurrah (tä-jöʻrä). A seaport on the eastern coast of Africa, situated on the Gulf of Tajurrah. Tajurrah, Gulf of. An arm of the Gulf of Aden, on the eastern coast of Africa, about lat. 11° 40′ N. A part of its coast now belongs to France.