Thalberg, Sigismond
Life, musical highlights, comparisons with Liszt, and comments on his better and worse works.
Thanksgiving Before and After Meals
The word grace, which, as applied to prayer over food, always in pre-Elizabethan English took the plural form graces, means nothing but thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Day
The custom originated in 1621, when Governor Bradford of the Plymouth colony appointed a day for public praise and prayer after the first harvest.
Theatre, The
All forms of the drama were banned by the Fathers of both East and West indiscriminately and in terms of the severest reprobation.
Thecla, Saint
Short biography of the eighth-century Benedictine abbess of Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt.
Thecla, Saints
The most famous of several saints named Thecla is Thecla of Iconium. Other saints of this name include a martyr from Gaza, an African martyr, one or two Roman martyrs, one who is p…
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