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ISLANDS; PORTO Rico. For the government of 

 GUAM, see that title. 



In Canada and Australia. In the Dominion 

 of Canada, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al- 

 berta were once under territorial government, 

 and the North West Territories and Yukon Ter- 

 ritory (which see) still have this form of ad- 

 ministration. The government is similar to 

 that of a territory in the United States. In 

 Australia there is the Northern Territory, for- 

 merly a part of South Australia, but since 1911 

 under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth. 

 Papua, or British New Guinea, is also an Aus- 

 tralian territory. W.F.Z. 



TERROR, REIGN OF. See FRENCH REVO- 

 LUTION. 



TERRY, ELLEN ALICIA (1848- ), one of 

 the greatest of English actresses, was born in 

 Coventry. Her parents were players, and they 

 began early to train their daughter for the same 

 career. She was but eight years old when she 

 first appeared on 

 the stage as Ma- 

 millius, in Shake- 

 speare's Winter's 

 ' Tale. For the 

 next ten years 

 she played minor 

 parts in various 

 theaters through- 

 out Great Britain, 

 and then retired, 

 in 1864, to marry 

 the celebrated 

 English painter, 



G. F. Watts. A most notable actress, 

 divorce soon followed, however, and in 1867 she 

 again turned to the stage, appearing as Katha- 

 rina in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. 

 Sir Henry Irving was the leading actor in this 

 production, and her support of his work was 

 gaining her wide notice when she again re- 

 tired, in 1868, to marry Charles Wardell. Seven 

 years passed before she reentered theatrical life, 

 and then, having once more secured a divorce, 

 she appeared as Portia in The Merchant of 

 Venice, in London. In 1878, with Irving, she 

 played Ophelia in Hamlet with so much pathos 

 and sentiment that British critics gave her 

 extravagant praise, and Irving retained her in 

 his company as leading woman until 1902. 



She made her first tour of America with him 

 in 1883 and met with such success, especially in 

 highly emotional parts, that she repeated the 

 trip nearly every year. As Portia, Lady Mac- 

 beth, Desdemona, Cordelia and other Shake- 



ELLEN TERRY 

 For a generation England's 



spearean women characters, she had few equals 

 in pathos, daintiness and grace during the nine- 

 teenth century. Nor has her ability been con- 

 fined to the older dramas. In such modern 

 plays as Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire, by J. M. Barrie, 

 and Captain Brassbound's Conversion, by Ber- 

 nard Shaw, she has shown a remarkable grasp 

 of modern social conditions and manners in her 

 acting. On April 28, 1906, she celebrated her 

 stage jubilee, the fiftieth anniversary of her first 

 appearance as an actress, and it seemed as 

 though all London turned out to honor her. 

 On that occasion a purse of $40,000 was pre- 

 sented to her in the name of British citizens. 

 During the next year she surprised her thou- 

 sands of admirers by marrying at Pittsburgh a 

 young American actor, James Carew. M.R.T. 



Consult her own Story of My Life; also Hiatt's 

 Ellen Terry and Her Impersonations. 



TERTIARY, tur'shiari, PERIOD, a name 

 employed formerly by geologists to designate 

 the first period of the Cenozoic Era. Tertiary 

 is applied also to the rock formations of that 

 period. It included what under modern classi- 

 fication forms the Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene 

 and Pliocene periods. The term is used some- 

 what less than formerly. 



Related Subjects. For a fuller understand- 

 ing of this period, the reader is referred to the 

 following articles in these volumes : 

 Cenozoic Era Miocene Period 



Eocene Period Pliocene Period 



Geology 



TERTULLIAN, tertul'ian, the first and one 

 of the greatest of the Western Church fathers,' 

 and the creator of Latin Christian literature. 

 He was born and educated at Carthage, North 

 Africa, in the latter part of the second century. 

 After reaching manhood he went to Rome, 

 where he was converted to Christianity. After 

 a visit to Greece and on his return to Carthage, 

 he became absorbed in the study of works on 

 the Christian faith and in the effort to har- 

 monize their teachings. Coming into conflict 

 with the laxity of the Church in the West, 

 Tertullian withdrew from its membership and 

 became the leader of a group of montanists, an 

 austere sect which put much emphasis on holy 

 living. His writings, with those of Cyprian, 

 who put them into current language, were 

 widely read in the Latin Church in the fourth 

 century. Many of them are still in existence. 

 Of these the best known is the Apology, a 

 vigorous defense of Christianity. 



TESLA, tes'lah, NIKOLA (1857- ), a 

 famous electrician, the inventor of numerous 



