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7, 1892. Khedive of Egypt, league with Tenochtitlan and Tlacopan, and eventually be son of Is mail Pasha whom he succeeded June 26, 1879. From his acce ion until 1882 Egyptian finances continued under Anglo-French control. In that year occurred the rebellion of Arabi Pasha. Its suppre ion by the British marked the ce ation of French influence, and the virtual establishment of a British protectorate. The revolt of the Mahdists led, in spite of British expeditions, to the lo of the upper Nile and Sudan regions in 18841885. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Abbas Pasha. Tewkesbury (tūks'bu-ri). A town in Gloucestershire, England, situated at the junction of the Avon and Severn, 10 miles northeast of came subordinate in power to the former place. Their last chief or "king," Ixtlilxochitl, joined Cortés in 1520, and a isted in the siege of Tenochtitlan or Mexico. The Tezcucan historians claim for their nation a preeminence in civilization among the Nahuatl tribes. Tezcuco (tās-köʻkō), or Texcoco (tās-kōkō). A town of the state and republic of Mexico, near the eastern shore of Tezcuco Lake, about 16 miles from Mexico City. It was the ancient capital of the Tezcucans or Acolhuans, who called it Acolhuacan or Tenayucan. (See Tezcucans .) At this place, in 1521, Cortés organized the siege of Mexico 15,865. Tezcuco and built the brigantines with which he a aulted that city from the lake. Population (1889), with the commune, Tezcuco, or Texcoco, Lake of. The largest of the cluster of lakes in the valley of Mexico, At present it is nearly oval in outline, about 12 miles long, 7 wide, and le than 2 feet deep. Mexico City is about 4 miles from the western shore, and Tezcuco is about the same distance from the eastern side. Low and more or le swampy lands around it mark its ancient limits, which were at least four times as great as at present; Mexico was then on an island in it, approached by causeways, and Tezcuco, Tlacopan, and other towns were on its shore. The water was deep enough in 1520 to float the ships of Cortés. During the Aztec and early colonial periods it was frequently swelled by rains, causing disastrous floods in Mexico; one of these floods lasted 3 years (1629-32). The shrinkage is due to filling in with sediment, drainage, and evaporation. Until 1893 the drains of Mexico opened into the lake, and its polluted waters, forced back through them during the rains, caused great mortality in the city. This has been remedied by extensive drainage works, and it is now proposed to empty the lake entirely. Tezcuco is the lowest of the valley lakes, and its waters are brackish. It has no fish, but the singular amphibian called the axolotl was formerly abundant. Tezel. See Tetzel . Thacher (thach'er), George. Bornat Yarmouth, Maine, April 12, 1754: died at Biddeford, Maine, April 6, 1824. An American jurist and politician. He was a delegate from Ma achusetts to the Continental Congre ; was member of Congre from the of institut IMG:content-0961.png:[ocr errors] the Supreme Court of Ma achusetts and of Thacher, Thomas Anthony. Born at Hartford, Conn., Jan. 11,1815: died at New Haven, Conn., April 7, 1886. An American cla ical scholar, profe or of Latin at Yale from 1842. He translated Madvig's Latin grammar, and edited various Latin works. Thackeray (thak'e-ri), William Make peace. Born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811: died at London, Dec. 24, 1863. A celebrated English novel ist, satirist, and critic. He went to England when about 5 years old, and was educated at the Charter house school and at Trinity College, Cambridge, leaving in 1830. He traveled on Continent (visiting Weimar, etc.) for several years. In 1833 he began to devote himself seriously to literature and art, wrote for the "National Standard" (of which he was afterward both editor and proprietor), and later for "The Times," for "Fraser's Magazine" (to which he long contributed as Michael Angelo Titmarsh), for "Punch," etc. He had a talent for draw. ing and caricature, and about 1834 went to Paris, with the idea of studying painting. In this he was unsucce ful; but he illustrated many of his own works, and about 18:35 made his well-known application to illustrate "Pickwick." In 1837, having married Mi Isabella Shawe, he returned to England. About 1840 his wife's mind became affected, after the birth of her third daughter, and she never recovered, though she did not die until many years after her husband's death. He visited the East in 1844, lectured in the United States in 1852-53 and 1854-55, and was editor of the "Corn hill Magazine" 1860-62. His chief novels are "Vanity Fair" (1846-48: which made his reputation), "Pen dennis" (1848-50), "Henry Esmond" (1852), "The New comes" (1853-55), and "The Virgin i ans" (18571859). Among his other novels and stories are "The Yellow plush Papers" (1837), "History of Mr. Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond" (1837-38), "The Paris Sketch Book" (1840), "Jeames's Diary," "Fitz-Boodle's Confe ions," "Shabby Genteel Story," "The Book of Snobs" (collected from "Punch" 1848), "The Irish Sketch Book" (1843), "Notes of a Journey from Corn hill to Grand Cairo" (1846), "Memoirs of Barry Lyndon" (1844), "Mrs. Perkins's Ball" (1847), "Punch's Prize Novelists," "The Kickleburys on the Rhine," "Rebecca and Rowena," "Lovel the Widower" (1860-61), "Adventures of Philip" (1861-62), "The Rose and the Ring." and "Denis Duval" (unfinished). Many of these appeared first in "Fraser's," "Corn hill," and other periodicals. His other works in clude "English Humourists of the 18th Century" (first delivered as lectures in 1851), "The Four Georges" "(lectures The Roundabout Papers 3); (1862), “Early and Late Papers" (edited by J. T. Fields, 1867), "The Orphan of Pimlico, etc." (edited 1875), ballads, etc. Thaddæus (tha-de'us). [Gr. Θαδδαίος .] One of the apostles, otherwise called Jude or Judas and Lebbœus. See Jude. Thaddeus of Warsaw. A novel by Jane Porter, published in 1803: named from its hero. Thais (tha'is). [Gr. Θαίς .] Lived in the last part of the 4th century B. C. A famous A then i an hetæra, mistre of Alexander the Great. She is alleged (probably erroneously) to have incited him to fire the Persian palace at Perse polis. She was afterward mistre of Ptolemy Lagi. Thaisa (tha'is-a). The daughter of Simon ides and wife of Periclesin Shakspere's(?) "Pericles." Thalaba the Destroyer. A descriptive poem by Southey: so called from the name of the hero. Thalberg (täl'bera), Sigismond. Born at Geneva, 1812: died at Naples, 1871. A pianist and composer for the piano, illegitimate son of Prince von Diet rich stein. His works include various fantasias, nocturnes, etc. Thale (tä'le). A watering-place in the province of Saxony, Pru ia, situated in the Harz, on the Bode, 5 miles west of Quedlinburg. Population (1890), 6,292. Thales (tha'lēz). [Gr. Θαλῆς .] Born at Miletus, The a genes and Chariclea ern extremity of Kent, England. It is formed by a bifurcation of the Stour, and contains Margate and Rams and astronomy.