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STEPHENSON, Robert, 1803-59, son of G. S., 

 Eng. engineer ; inventor of tubular bridge. 



STERNE, Laurence, Rev., 1713-68, Ir. hu- 

 morous writer. 



STEUBEN, Frederick William Augustus von, 

 Baron, 1730-94, Ger.-Am. general in the Rev- 

 olutionary war. 



STEVENS, Thaddeus, 1793-1868, Am. aboli- 

 tionist. 



STORY, Joseph, 1779-1845, Am. jurist. 



STOWE, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, 

 1812-96, Am. authoress. 



STRABO, 54 B. C.-24 A. D., Gr. geographer. 



STRADELLA, Alessandro, 1645-78, It. com- 

 poser. 



STRAFFORD, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 

 1593-1641, Eng. statesman; beheaded. 



STRAUSS, Johann, 1804-49, Ger. composer. 



STUART, Gilbert C., 1756-1828, Am. por- 

 trait painter. 



STUYVESANT, Peter, 1602-82, last Dutch 

 governor of New Netherland (Ne*v York). 



SUE, Marie Joseph Eugene, 1804-57, Fr. 

 novelist. 



SULLA (or Sylla), Lucius Cornelius, 138-7^8 

 B. C., Rom. statesman and general. 



SUMNER, Charles, 1811-74, Am. statesman. 



SWEDENBORG, Emanuel, 1688-1772, Sw. 

 theosophist ; in his theosophy the central point 

 is the correspondence of the natural and the 

 supernatural. 



SWIFT, Jonathan, 1667-1745, Ir. divine and 

 satirist. 



TACITUS, Caius Cornelius, 557-118?, Rom. 

 historian ; to him we owe nearly all our knowl- 

 edge of the early Britons and the Germans. 



TAINE, Hippolyte Adolphe, 1828-93, Fr. 

 author. 



TALBOT, William Henry Fox, 1800-77, Eng. 

 author and discoverer of photography. 



TALFOURD, Sir Thomas Noon, 1795-1854, 

 Eng. author. 



TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD, Charles Maurice 

 de, Prince of Benevento, 1754-1838, Fr. di- 

 plomatist. 



TAMERLANE (or Timour), 1336-1405, Asiatic 

 conqueror. 



TANCRED, 1078-1112, Norman leader in the 

 first Crusade. 



TANEY, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864, Am. jurist. 



TASMAN, Abel Janssen, 1600 ?-45, Dutch 

 navigator. 



TASSO, Torquato, 1544-95, It. poet. 



TAUCHNITZ, Christian Bernhard, Baron, 

 1816-95, Ger. publisher. 



TAYLOR, Bayard, 1825-78, Am. traveler, 

 novelist, poet, and journalist. 



TAYLOR, Jeremy, 1613-67, Eng. bishop and 

 author. 



TAYLOR, Zachary, 1784-1850, Am. general 

 and statesman ; twelfth president ; born in 

 Virginia; entered the army in 1808; served 

 in Seminole and Black Hawk wars ; major- 

 general in Mexican war, and won the battles of 

 Resaca de la Palma and Buena Vista ; elected 

 president by the Whigs in 1848. 



TECUMSEH, 1770-1813, chief of the Shawnee 

 Indians ; defeated by Harrison at Tippecanoe ; 

 killed in the battle of the Thames. 



TELL, Wilhelm, fl. 1305, legendary Swiss 

 hero. 



TENNYSON, Alfred, Baron, 1809-92, Eng. 

 poet-laureate. 



TERENCE (P. Terentius Afer), 195?-160? 

 B. C., Rom. comic poet. 



TERTULLIAN, 150?-230?, Latin father of the 

 Church. 



TETZEL, Johann, 1460?-1519, Ger. monk ; 

 vender of indulgences. 



THACKERAY, William Makepeace, 1811-63, 

 Eng. novelist. 



THALES, 635?-546 B. C., Gr. sage and 

 philosopher. 



THEMISTOCLES, 5147-449? B.^C., Athenian 

 general and statesman. 



THEOCRITUS, fl. 275?, Gr. pastoral poet. 



THEODORA, . . . .-548, empress of the East; 

 wife of Justinian. 



THEODORIC (the Great), 455-526, king of 

 the Ostrogoths. 



THEODOSIUS, Flavius (the Great), 3467-395, 

 Rom. emperor. 



THEOPHRASTUS, 3727-287? B. C., Gr. phi- 

 losopher and moralist. 



THIERRY, Jacques N. Augustin, 1795-1836, 

 Fr. historian. 



THIERS, Louis Adolphe, 1797-1877, Fr. 

 statesman and historian. 



THOMAS, George H., 1816-70, Am. Federal 

 general ; won the battles of Chickamauga and 

 Nashville. 



THOREAU, Henry D., 1817-62, Am. author. 



THORWALDSEN, Albert D., 1770-1844, Dan- 

 ish sculptor. 



THUCYDIDES, 470-400 B. C., greatest of 

 Greek historians. 



TIBERIUS, 42 B. C.-37 A. D., Rom. emperor. 



TILDEN, Samuel Jones, 1814-86, Am. 

 statesman ; governor of New York ; Demo- 

 cratic candidate for presidency, 1876. 



TILLY, Johann Tzerklas von, Count, 1559- 

 1632, Ger. general in Thirty Years' war ; fell 

 at the battle of the Lech. 



TINTORETTO, II (Giacomo Robuati), 1512- 

 94, It. painter. 



TITIAN (Tiziano Vecellio), 1477-1576, the 

 .greatest of Venetian painters. 



TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis Charles Henri Clerel 

 de, 1805-59, Fr. statesman and author. 



