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Thomas Edward Lawrence (T E Lawrence also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia') was a British soldier. He was born in 1888 and died in 1935. Educated at Oxford, he took part in archaeological expeditions to Syria and Mesopotamia between 1910 and 1914. Later he was appointed to the military intelligence department in Cairo and took part in negotiations for an Arab revolt against the Turks. In 1916 he attached himself to the Emir Faisal and led Arab guerrilla raids against the Turks and encouraged an Arab revolution. In 1922 he joined the RAF under an assumed name, and upon discovery of his true identity transferred to the tank corps in 1923 under the name T E Shaw before returning to the RAF in 1925 and in 1927 changed his name legally to T E Shaw. He was killed in a motorbike accident in 1935.
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American-born British poet, critic and dramatist. He was born in 1888 at St Louis, Missouri and died in 1965. Educated at Harvard, London and Paris, T S Eliot settled in London in 1915 and worked as a bank clerk before becoming a teacher and journalist. His first book of prose was published in 1917, and in 1927 he became a British citizen.
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T J Jarvis was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of North Carolina from 1879 until 1885.
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T R Caldwell was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of North Carolina from 1871 until 1874.
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T T Geer was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Oregon from 1899 until 1903.
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A tabarder was the name given to a scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, so called because their original dress was a tabard.
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The Tacanas are a group of South American Indian tribes on the Madre de Dios river in Bolivia.
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko was a Polish soldier. He was born in 1746 and died in 1817. He went to America from Poland in 1775. He was commissioned a colonel under General Gates in 1776, and distinguished-himself by his engineering skill. He superintended the fortification at West Point. He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1783. He was afterward prominent in the defence of Poland in 1794.
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The Tagalog are the majority ethnic group living around Manila on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, who number about 10 million. The Tagalog live by fishing and trading. The Tagalog language is the official language of the Philippines. The Tagalog religion is a mixture of animism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Taharka or Tirhakah was a king of Ethiopia. He was born around 722 BC and died in around 663 BC. As viceroy of Egypt he rendered some support to Hezekiah during the siege of Jerusalem in 701 by Sennacherib, and succeeded Shabataka as sole king around 691 BC. In 1918 a life-size statue of Taharka was discovered at Gebel Barkal.
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The Tai are the groups of south east Asian peoples who speak Tai languages, all of which belong to the Sino- Tibetan language family. There are over 60 million speakers, the majority of whom live in Thailand. Tai peoples are also found in south-west China, north west Myanmar (Burma), Laos, and north Vietnam.
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Taillefer was a Norman jongleur who accompanied William the Conqueror to England and was killed at the Battle of Hastings. According to legend, Taillefer asked the king for the honour of striking the first blow, and went forth singing of the deeds of Charlemagne while performing juggling feats. He is recorded in the Bayeeux Tapestry.
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Talaat Pasha was a Turkish politician. He was born in 1872 and died in 1921. Of Romany origin he was a telegraphist in the Adrianople post office before later attracting the notice of Enver Pasha and becoming the leading spirit of the Committee of Union and Progress. From 1909 until 1911 he was minister of the interior, took part in the Balkan Wars, and in 1913 was again minister of the interior. In 1916 he became Grand Vizier and was a Turkish delegate at Brest-Litovsk. He left Turkey after her downfall and was assassinated by an Armenian in Berlin in 1921.
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The Talamancans are a group of allied aboriginal people of Central America, including the Atlantic Tiribri, Atlantic Bribri and the Pacific Boruca. They were formerly dominant in Costa Rica and Panama.
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A talapoin is a Buddhist priest or monk.
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The Taleban (Taliban) are a group of fundamentalist Pashtun Muslims trained in Pakistani religious schools and former American trained and funded Islamic fighters (mujahedin) from the Afghan civil war (in which the USSR supported the Communist government, and the USA the Islamic terrorists who sought to other throw it). The group became known to the world when they were appointed by the Pakistani government to protect a convoy trying to open up a trade route between Pakistan and Central Asia. In addition the group captured the nearby city of Kandahar, beginning a remarkable advance which led to their capture of the capital, Kabul, in September 1996. The
Taleban claimed that their aim was to set up the world's most pure Islamic state, banning frivolities like television, music and cinema, and imposing severe fundamentalist Islamic laws including execution for even minor crimes, banning girls from school and women from hospital, from the areas of Afghanistan they controlled - 90% at the time of American led attacks on them in 2001.
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The Tallense are a native tribe of northern Nigeria. They are farmers, the women working the fields.
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Tamerlane or Tamburlaine or Timur was a Tartar chieftain and a King of Samarkland. He was born in 1336 of noble family near Samarkand and died in 1405. In 1358 he began his military career by invading Khorassan. He became a powerful chieftain and in 1369 was crowned king of Samarkand. After being crowned king he embarked upon a series of wars and invasions, reaching the Caspian Sea, subduing most of Persia and routing the Golden Horde. In 1398 he invaded India and sacked Delhi, carrying back to Samarkand enormous booty. He was victorious against the Turks and Egyptians, captured Damascus and Aleppo and defeated and captured Bayazid I in 1402. He died while preparing an invasion of China.
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The Tamils are a Dravidian people, forming the majority ethnic group living in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and also living in northern Sri Lanka.
Tamils retain a distinct culture. They possess an ancient literary tradition and have developed their own court arts. The majority of Tamils are farmers, cultivating rice in irrigated fields. They are also known for their handicrafts, including pottery.
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Tammany was a chief of the Delaware Indians. He lived during the 17th century. He was renowned as a brave and influential chieftain about whom there are many traditions. He was the patron of the American Democratic organization called the Tammany Society.
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Tancred was a hero of the first Crusade. He was born in 1078 of Marquis Odo the Good and Emma. He died in 1112 of a wound received at Antioch.
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The Tanguts are a nomadic, pastoral Tibetan people of the Kan-su province of China.
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The Taos are a tribe of native American Indians of the Pueblo family living in New Mexico, typically at Taos.
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The Tarascans were a semi-civilised nation of Mexico at the time of the Aztecs, to whom they were allied.
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The Tarasco are an American Indian people or tribe of Michoacan, Mexico.
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Lucius Tarquinius Priscus was the fifth of the legendary kings of ancient Rome, reputed to have reigned from 616 BC until 578 BC. An exile from Corinth, and married to an Etruscan woman named Tanaquil, he went to Rome where he won the favour of king Ancus Marcius, and changed his original name of Lucumon to Tarquinius. Elected king when Ancus died, he proved himself a vigorous ruler, defeating the Latins and the Sabines. He was murdered by the sons of Ancus Martius.
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The Tartars (more correctly Tatars) are a Slavonic people akin to the Mongols. They live in central Asia and ethnically hold an intermediate position between Europeans and Mongols. The name Tartar was incorrectly applied by Europeans to the Mongol followers of Genghis Khan and the Mongol hordes.
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The Tasaday are an indigenous people of the rainforests of Mindanao in the Philippines.
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Tasker L Oddie was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Nevada from 1911 until 1915.
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The aboriginal inhabitants of Tasmania were a unique longish-headed, broad-nosed people of medium stature with black, ringlety hair. They rapidly dwindled in numbers after Tasmania was settled by Europeans in 1832 the few remaining Tasmanians were removed for their own protection to mainland reservations on Australia, where the last of them, a lady called Truganini died in 1876. The last Tasmanian man, Billy Lannee, died in 1865.
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Tatian was a heresiarch of the 2nd century. He was born in Ethiopia around 120 and died around 172. He became a disciple of Justin, after whose martyrdom he left Rome and travelled the Middle East preaching. He taught abstinence from wine, meat and marriage and disbelieved the divinity of Christ.
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Sir Tatton Sykes was an English racehorse breeder. He was born in 1772 and died in 1863. Educated at Westminster School and Brasenose College, Oxford he was noted as a breeder of horses and sheep and as a master of foxhounds.
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The Tauri were the earliest known inhabitants of the Crimea.
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In the Southern colonies of America, the term taxables meant persons upon whom a poll-tax was paid (these same people were called tithables in Virginia). In Maryland, for instance, taxables included all male and all female slaves of sixteen years or more, excepting beneficed clergymen of the Church of England, paupers and disabled slaves.
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Tecumseh (Tecumthe) was a Shawnee Indian chief. He was born in 1768 at Ohio and died in 1813. He conducted a fierce war against the United States for many years until his defeat at Tippecanoe in 1811. In 1811 he led an uprising against the Americans, and upon its suppression joined the British army as a brigadier-general in 1812, being given command of the Indian forces. He took part in the capture of Detroit but was killed at the Battle of Thames, Canada in 1813.
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Ted Schwinden was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Montana from 1981 until 1989.
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Theodore Samuel Williams (Ted Williams) is an American baseball player. He was born in 1918. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960, and was the best batter of his era making 2654 hits and 521 home runs, with a lifetime batting average of .344 and in 1941 hitting an average of .406. His career was disturbed by his service in the army during the Second World War and Korean War, otherwise his totals would have undoubtedly been much higher.
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Teddy boy is a name given to someone who dresses in the Ted fashion style.
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The Tehuelches are an aboriginal tribe of nomads of Patagonia noted for their tall stature, and hunting with the bola and lasso.
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The Teke are a people of Zaire.
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Teli was the Indian caste of oilmen. By the start of the 20th century most of the members of the Teli caste had left oil-pressing and were working in agriculture, milling, cotton-cleaning, soap-making and money-lending.
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The Tellem were a people of what is now Mali in West Africa. They disappeared during the 16th century
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Teller Ammons was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Colorado from 1937 until 1939.
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The Telugu are a Dravidian people of south-east India.
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Tenessee Williams (Thomas Lanier) is an American playwright. He was born in 1914. He wrote 'A Street Car Named Desire' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'.
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Teodor Castro was the false identity of the KGB spy Iosif Grigulevich, which he used after the Second World War to infiltrate western politics as a Costa Rican diplomat.
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The Terabin are a Bedouin tribe of the Sinai wilderness, forming the most numerous of the pastoral tribes occupying the Negeb uplands from Suez to Beersheba and Gazza.
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Terence (Publius Terentius) was a Roman comic poet. He was born in 194 BC and died in 159 BC. It is thought he was a native of Carthage and was taken to Rome as a slave where he was bought by the Senator Publius Terentius who had him well educated and presently set him free, after which Terence assumed his benefactor's name. He devoted himself to translating Greek plays into Latin and in 168 read his first play, Andria, to Caecilius Statius, the most popular playwright of Rome. Caecilius Statius recognised Terence's ability and his play was produced in 166 and at once was a success.
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Teresa de Jesus (real name Teresa Cepeda) was a Spanish nun and saint. She was born in 1515 at Avilla and died in 1582. In 1534 she entered a Carmelite convent where she found the rule of order to be laxly observed. In 1555 she experienced a sudden conversion and practised extreme austerities and was habitually entranced with prayer, and claimed to have had many visions. Having decided to reform the order she founded a new convent at Avilla dedicated to St Joseph in 1562. She was canonised in 1622 and declared the patron saint of Spain in 1814.
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Teresa Carolina Johanna Tietjens was a German operatic singer. She was born in 1831 at Hamburg and died in 1877. Of Hungarian parentage, she made her first appearance on the stage at Hamburg in 1849 and by 1856 had become one of the foremost singers of her time. Her mezzo-soprano voice and capable dramatic powers made her widely famous. Her success in 'Les Hugenots' during her first visit to London in 1858 led to her moving to England.
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Terpander was an ancient Greek poet. He founded Greek music, evolved the lyre to seven-strings and set poetry to music. He lived around 700 BC in Lesbos, and left a school of followers in Sparta and Lesbos.
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Sir Terrence Mervyn Rattigan was an English playwright. He was born in 1911 at London and died in 1977. he achieved fame for his 1936 comedy 'French Without Tears' and went on to write 'The Winslow Boy', 'The Browning Version' and 'Ross'.
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Terri Clark is a Canadian country and western singer. She was born in 1968 at Montreal, Quebec.
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Terry E Branstad was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Iowa from 1983 until.
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Terry Sanford was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of North Carolina from 1961 until 1965.
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The Teutones (Teutoni) were a tribe of people (probably of Celtic origin) living in northern Europe around the area of Jutland during the 2nd century BC. In 103 BC they marched south to assist the Cimbri who were fighting the Romans in Gaul, but were defeated by Marius in 102 at Aquae Sextiae (Aix).
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Teutonic refers to a group of Germanic people of the Caucasian race whose languages constitute the Teutonic sub-family of Indo-European speech. The name Teutonic was derived from the name of the Teutones or Teutoni tribe.
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Tewfik Pasha was Khedive of Egypt. He was born in 1852 and died in 1892. The son of Simail Pasha he was educated in Egypt and in 1879 succeeded his father who had been deposed.
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Thaddeus Stevens was an american politician. He was born in 1792 and died in 1868. Educated at Dartmouth, he settled to the practice of law in Pennsylvania. He was a Whig member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and as Congressman in 1849-1853 he opposed the Compromise of 1850. He was again in Congress from 1859 to 1868 as a Republican, of the radical type, and advocated drastic measures. He urged emancipation and the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as acts of confiscation; he was chairman of the important Committees of Ways and Means and of Reconstruction, proposed the impeachment of President Johnson, and was chairman of the board of managers of the impeachment proceedings.
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Thais was an Athenian prostitute who was said to have accompanied Alexander the Great on his eastern campaigns, and to have persuaded him, during a drunken bout, to set fire to the old palace of the Persians at Persepolis, by way of reprisal for the destruction of Athens by Xerxes.
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Thakin Nu (U Nu) was a Burmese statesman and writer. He was born in 1907 at Wakema and died in 1995. Educated at Rangoon University, he joined the Dobhama Asiayone Nationalist Organisation and acquired the name, Thakin ('master') while working for Burmese independence as a student, and was often given the title of respect, U ('The Honourable'). He was minister of foreign affairs from 1943 to 1944, minister of publicity and propaganda from 1944 to 1945 and Prime Minister of Burma from 1948 to 1956, 1957 to 1958 and again from 1960 to 1962. He was ordained as a Buddhist priest in 1980.
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Thales was a Greek philosopher. He was born in 636BC and died in 546 BC.
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Thales of Miletus was the earliest of the Greek scientists. He was born in 624 BC and died in 565 BC. He created a sensation by predicting an eclipse of the sun which was visible at Miletus in 585 BC. He looked upon water as the basis of all material things and in his mathematical works was the first to enunciate natural laws.
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In English history, a thane (or thegn) was someone who was awarded land by the King or another superior as a reward for military service. Thanes ranked between ordinary freemen and hereditary nobles. Thane was the Saxon word for a Vavasour, and the Norman word for a Baron.
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The War Poets were a collection of poets serving as volunteer soldiers with the British army during the Great War. They countered the propaganda of the British press by writing true accounts of the horror of the war and the conditions the soldiers faced as well as the stupidity of the British generals.
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Theebaw was king of Burma from 1878 until 1885. He died in 1916. The son and successor of Mindon, Theebaw inaugurated his reign by murdering all of his relations who might jeopardise his power. In contrast to his father who had maintained good relations with Britain, Theebaw did not and Britain declared war on Burma in 1885, an expeditionary force invading in November of 1885. Theebaw surrendered and Britain annexed Burma, sending Theebaw to India to live in exile.
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Themistocles was an Athenian statesman. He was born in 514 BC and died in 449 BC. Themistocles realised the capacity for maritime development within Greece and the imperial advantages that naval supremacy could bring, and after engineering the removal of Aristides in 483 achieved influence in Athenian policy.
When the Persians invaded Greece in 480, Themistocles evacuated the civilian population from the invaded area and conscripted all available men into the fleet which engaged the Persians in the Bay of Salamis and defeated them. Themistocles negotiated with Sparta to attack Persia, thereby reducing Persia's ability to launch a land assault upon Greece. Themistocles was subsequently charged with treason and was exiled, fleeing to Asia where he supposedly committed suicide.
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Theobald Wolfe Tone wan an Irish patriot. He was born in 1763 at Dublin and died in 1798. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin he was called to the bar, but preferred to devote himself to politics. Influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution, he was instrumental in the formation of the society of United Irishmen in 1790. He was subsequently arrested on charges of treason but allowed to leave the United Kingdom. He went to America and from there to Paris, France where in 1798 he persuaded the French government to undertake the Irish Expedition under Hoche, which however ended in failure. In 1798 he persuaded the French government to again send small raiding parties to Ireland, all of which miscarried, including one on which Theobald Tone was an officer which was forced to surrender. Theobald Tone was arrested and sentenced to be hanged, but took his own life before he could be executed.
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Theodor Benfey was a German Sanskrit scholar. He was born in 1809 and died in 1881. He was professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology at Gottingen. Among his works were a Sanskrit Chrestomathy, Vollstandige Grammatik der Sanskritsprache, Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language, Sanskrit-English Dictionary, etc.
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Theodor Bergk was a German classical scholar. He was born in 1812 and died in 1881. He is remembered for his criticism and explanation of Greek lyrical poetry.
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Theodor Schwann was a German naturalist. He was born in 1810 at Neuss and died in 1882. From 1834 to 1838 he was assistant to Johannes Muller at the anatomical museum of Berlin and then from 1838 to 1848 professor of anatomy at Louvain and at Liege in 1848. In 1839 he put forward a cell theory which marked an important epoch in the development of biology.
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Theodor Woldsen Storm was a German poet and novelist. He was born in 1817 at Husum, Schleswig and died in 1888. Educated at Kiel and Berlin he became a judge at Schleswig and then in Prussia, also writing numerous poems and short stories.
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Theodora was a Byzantine princess. The wife of Justinian I, she was in turn an actress, a prostitute, the mistress of and finally the wife of Justinian I. She had great influence over her husband and took a prominent part in politics and religious affairs. She persuaded her husband not to abandon the capital during the Nika riot of 532.
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Theodore Beza (Theodore de Beze) was a French clergyman. He was born in 1519 at Vezelay, Burgundy and died in 1605. Educated in Orleans under Melchior Volmar, a German scholar devoted to the Reformation; in 1539 became a licentiate of law, and went to reside at Paris. His habits at this time were dissipated, and his Poemata Juvenilia, Latin verses of a more than Ovidian freedom, were afterwards a frequent ground of attack upon him.
The reforming influence of a severe illness led to marriage with his mistress, and to his retirement to Geneva in 1548, and his conversion to Protestantism. In 1549 he became professor of Greek at Lausanne, occupying himself with the completion of Marot's translation of the Psalms and the study of the New Testament, and corresponding frequently with Calvin. In 1558 he was sent by the Swiss Calvinists on an embassy to obtain the intercession of the Protestant princes of Germany for the release of Huguenots imprisoned in Paris. In the following year he went to Geneva as a preacher, and soon after became a professor of theology, and the most active assistant of Calvin.
He also rendered admirable service to the cause of the reformers at the court of the King of Navarre and in attendance upon Conde and Coligny. In the conference at St Germain in 1562 he spoke strongly against the veneration of images. At Calvin's death in 1564 the administration of the Genevese Church fell entirely to his care.
He presided in the synods of the French Galvinists at La Rochelle (1571) and at Nismes (1572); was sent by Conde (1574) to the court of the elector palatine; and at the religious conference at Montpellier (1586) opposed James Andreas and the theologians of Wurtemberg. At the age of sixty-nine he married his second wife in 1588, and in 1597 wrote a lively poetical refutation of the rumour that he had recanted and was dead. In 1600 he resigned his official functions, and he died in retirement in 1605. Among his many works, his History of Calvinism in France from 1521 to 1563, and Theological Treatises, are still esteemed; but he is most famous for his Latin translation of the New Testament.
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Theodore Ludwig Wilhelm Bischoff was a German anatomist and physiologist. He was born in 1807 at Hanover and died in 1882. He became professor of comparative and pathological anatomy at Bonn in 1836; of anatomy at Giessen in 1844; and from 1855 to 1878 he occupied a chair at Munich. He was the author of several treatises, and gained distinction by his researches in embryology.
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Theodore Christianson was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Minnesota from 1925 until 1931.
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Theodore Dreiser was an American writer born in 1871. He died in 1945.
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Theodore Dwight was an American journalist. He was born in 1764 and died in 1846. he edited the Connecticut Mirror, was secretary of the Hartford Convention and founded the New York Daily Advertiser which he edited from 1817 until 1836.
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Theodore F Green was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Rhode Island from 1933 until 1937.
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Theodore F Randolph was an American politician. He was born in 1816 and died in 1883. He was a New Jersey Senator from 1861 to 1865, Governor of New Jersey from 1868 to 1872, and a Democratic US Congressman from 1875 to 1881.
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Theodore G Bilbo was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Mississippi from 1916 until 1920.
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Theodore Gericault was a French painter. He was born in 1791 at Rouen and died in 1824. He introduced the idea of painting directly onto canvas.
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Theodore Parker was an American clergyman. He was born in 1810 and died in 1860. He was pastor of a Unitarian church at West Roxbury, Massachusetts from 1837 to 1845. In 1845 he established the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston. He was an ardent opponent of all pro-slavery sentiments, and exerted a powerful anti-slavery influence. He was the leader of a new and more practical phase of the Unitarian movement.
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Theodore R McKeldin was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Maryland from 1951 until 1959.
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Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the USA, from 1901 to 1909. He was born in 1858 at New York City and died in 1919. He was a Republican member of the New York Assembly from 1880 to 1884. He was an ardent advocate of political reform, and succeeded in abolishing many political abuses. He wrote a 'History of the Naval War of 1812', and biographies of Benton and Gouverneur Morris in the American Statesmen Series and in 1889 became a member of the US Civil Service Commission.
With the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43 years of age, became the youngest President in the USA's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy. Roosevelt steered the USA more actively into world politics. He liked to quote a favourite proverb, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . ' Aware of the strategic need for a short-cut between the Atlantic and Pacific, Roosevelt ensured the construction of the Panama Canal. His corollary to the Monroe Doctrine prevented the establishment of foreign bases in the Caribbean and arrogated the sole right of intervention in Latin America to the USA. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo- Japanese War, reached a Gentleman's Agreement on immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world.
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Theodore Sedgwick was an American politician. He was born in 1746 and died in 1813. He represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1786. He served in the US Congress as a Federalist from 1789 to 1796 and in the US Senate from 1796 to 1799. He was Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801. He was a Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1802 to 1813.
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Theodore von Neuhof was a German adventurer. He was born in 1686 at Metz and died in 1756. The son of a Westphalian refugee nobleman, he was educated in the household of the duke of Orleans and afterwards served in the Swedish army, was engaged in Jacobite plots, gambled in Paris in John Law's speculations, and at Florence entered into relations with Corsican refugees. In 1736 he obtained a vessel and munitions from the government of Tunis, and sailed for Corsica, and after landing was proclaimed king Theodore I. He returned to the Continent the same year to obtain help against the Genoese master of Corsica, and failed to return to Corsica, dying in London shortly after being released - partly with the assistance of Horace Walpole - from debtors' prison.
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Theodore W Dwight was an American teacher of law. He was born in 1822 and died in 1892. From 1858 until 1891 he was professor of law at Columbia College, and was a member of the New York Constititional Convention of 1867, and from 1874 to 1875 a member of the Commission of Appeals.
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Theodore Winthrop was an American soldier and writer. He was born in 1828 and died in 1861. He was military secretary to General Butler at Fort Monroe. He aided in planning the attack on Little and Great Bethel, where he was killed. His novels were subsequently published after his death.
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Theodoric was king of Bernicia in 580.
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Theodoric I was king of the Visigoths from 418 until 451. The eldest son of Alaric I, he was killed at the battle known as Chalons.
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Theodoric II was king of the Visigoths from 452 until 466. The second son of Alaric I, he was murdered by his brother Euric.
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Theodoric The Great was king of the Ostrogoths from 493 until 526. He was born in about 454 at Pannonia and died in 526. The son of Theodemir, as a child he was sent as a hostage to Constantinople. Upon becoming king he was shown favour by the Roman emperor Zeno, but afterwards, distressed by the plight of his people, demanded a share of the fertile regions of Italy. Zeno allowed Theodoric The Great to invade Odoacer, whose murder allowed Theodoric The Great to rule Italy under the title king of Italy, supposedly under Zeno's guidance, but in reality as an independent sovereign. Under his rule Italy enjoyed peace and prospered, with reduced taxation and improved infrastructures. However, he failed to unite the Romans and Goths because of Roman resistance to recognise him as more than a puppet of the Roman emperor at Constantinople, and the Arians were persecuted by the Romans.
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Theodosius I was Roman emperor of the East from 379 until 395. He was born in 346 at Cauca, Spain and died in 395. The son of the general Theodosius, he served in the army under his father in Britain, and as commander-in-chief at Moesia, defeating the Sarmatians in 374. In 379 he was called to the eastern throne by Gratian, the emperor of the West, just after the defeat of the Romans by the Goths at Adrianople, where the eastern emperor, Valens, had himself been killed. Theodosius I cleared the Balkan peninsular of the Goths. The remainder of his reign was involved with civil war within the Roman empire and the suppression of pagan religion.
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Theodosius II was Roman emperor of the East from 408 until 450. He was born in 401 and died in 450. He succeeded his father, Arcadius, as Roman emperor of the East when he was seven years old and was placed under the guardianship of his sister Pulcheria, who completely dominated him.
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Theognis was a Greek elegiac poet. He was born in 540 BC at Megara, Attica and died in 500 BC.
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Theophile Delcasse was a French statesman. He was born in 1852 and died in 1923. As Foreign Minister he effected in 1904 the Franco-British Treaty regarding Morocco and Egypt, which so aroused German resentment that he was forced to resign.
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Theophile Gautier was a French poet and novelist. He was born in 1811 at Tarbes and died in 1872.
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Theophile Alexandre Steinlen was a Swiss artist. He was born in 1859 at Lausanne and died in 1923. He studied at Lausanne and at Paris where he principally lived and after working as a designer in a textile factory became known as an illustrator for low-cost journals and also for producing posters.
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Theophilus was a bishop of Adana, Cilicia during the 6th century. Having been deposed from his position as bishop he made a pact with the devil exchanging his soul for his immediate reinstatement in his office. Afterwards he was overcome with remorse and spent a long time fasting and at prayer asking the Virgin Mary to intercede on his behalf. The story forms a basis for the legend of Faust.
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Theophilus Eaton was an English merchant and colonist. He was born in 1591 and died in 1658. A prosperous merchant, he went to Massachusetts in 1637, explored the Connecticut coast, and in 1638 established a colony at New Haven, of which he became one of the government and was made the first Governor. He was one of the commissioners who formed the United Colonies of New England in 1643.
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Theophilus H Holmes was an American soldier. He was born in 1804 and died in 1880. He was brevetted major for services in the Mexican War. He organized the North Carolina troops in 1861, and during the American Civil War commanded in the Confederate army in Northern Virginia and in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
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Theophilus Parsons was an American jurist. He was born in 1750 and died in 1813. He was educated at Harvard, and rose to the leading position among the lawyers of Massachusetts. He was a member of the famous Essex Junto. He was foremost among the Federalists. in the Ratifying Convention of 1788. Aside from service in the State Legislature he held no further political office. He was Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1806 until his death.
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Theophrastus (real name Tyrtamus) was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher and naturalist. He was born in 372 BC at Eresus, Lesbos and died in 288 BC. He studied at Athens under Plato and Aristotle. He wrote 'A History of Plants'.
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Theron was the ruler of Agrigentum in Sicily. In alliance with his brother-in-law, Gelo of Syracuse, he won a great victory over the Carthaginians at Himera in 480. After his death he was popularly worshipped as a hero.
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The Thlinkits are a group of North American Indians. They originally lived on the Pacific seaboard between the Atna River and the Queen Charlotte Archipelago. They are comprised of several distinct groups, the Sitkas, Stahkins, Chilcats and the inland Tagishes all speaking dialects of the same stock language which is noted for its extremely harsh phonetic system.
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