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Tay Son Brothers: collective name for Nguyen Hue Nguyen Nhac (b. c. 1752-d. Dec. 16, 1793), and Nguyen Lu (b. c. 1752-d. 1792); the name was derived from their home village, Tay Son, ...
Tay, River: longest river in Scotland, flowing about 120 miles (193 km) from its source on the north slopes of Ben Lui to the North Sea below Dundee. The river drains 2,400 ...
Tay-Sachs disease: hereditary metabolic disorder that causes progressive mental and neurologic deterioration and results in death in early childhood. The disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait and occurs most commonly ...
Tayacian industry: primitive flake-tool tradition of France and Israel, believed to be essentially a smaller edition of the Clactonian industry (q.v.).
Tayama Katai: novelist who was a central figure in the development of the Japanese naturalist school of writing.
Taylor, A.J.P.: British historian and journalist noted for his lectures on history and for his prose style.
Taylor, Bayard: American author known primarily for his lively travel narratives and for his translation of J.W. von Goethe's Faust.
Taylor, Brook: British mathematician, a proponent of Newtonian mechanics and noted for his contributions to the development of calculus.
Taylor, Cecil: American jazz musician and composer, the leading free-jazz pianist.
Taylor, Charles Ghankay: Liberian politician and guerrilla leader, who served as Liberia's president from 1997 to 2003. He was widely held responsible for the country's devastating civil war during the 1990s, and he ...
Taylor, David Watson: American marine architect who built the first ship-model testing establishment in the United States at the Washington (D.C.) Navy Yard, and formulated basic principles of ship design.
Taylor, Edward: one of the foremost poets in colonial British North America.
Taylor, Elizabeth: American motion picture actress noted for her beauty and her portrayals of emotionally volatile characters.
Taylor, Elizabeth: nee Coles British novelist noted for her precise use of language and scrupulously understated style.
Taylor, Frederick W.: American inventor and engineer who is known as the father of scientific management. His system of industrial management has influenced the development of virtually every country enjoying the benefits of ...
Taylor, Henry: British swimmer who won five Olympic medals and was the first man to hold world records in the 400-metre, 880-yard, and 1,500-metre freestyle events.
Taylor, James: American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who defined the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s. Bob Dylan brought confessional poetry to folk rock, but Taylor became the epitome of the troubadour whose ...
Taylor, Jeremy: Anglican clergyman and writer.
Taylor, John: one of the leading American philosophers of the liberal agrarian political movement-commonly known as Jeffersonian democracy-during the early national period.
Taylor, John: minor English poet, pamphleteer, and journalist who called himself "the Water Poet."
Taylor, John Henry: British professional golfer, a member of the "Great Triumvirate" (with Harry Vardon and James Braid) that won the British Open 16 times between 1894 and 1914, Taylor winning in 1894, ...
Taylor, Joseph: English actor mentioned in the First Folio of Shakespeare in 1623 as one of the 26 who took principal parts in all of those plays and one of the 10 ...
Taylor, Joseph H., Jr.: American radio astronomer and physicist who, with Russell A. Hulse, was the corecipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of the first binary pulsar.
Taylor, Laurette: nee Loretta Cooney American actress whose stage career spanned more than 30 years.
Taylor, Lawrence: American collegiate and professional gridiron football player, considered one of the best linebackers in the history of the game. As a member of the New York Giants of the National ...
Taylor, Lucy Hobbs: the first American woman to earn a degree in dentistry.
Taylor, Margaret: American first lady (1849-50), the wife of Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States.
Taylor, Maxwell Davenport: U.S. Army officer who became a pioneer in airborne warfare in Europe during World War II.
Taylor, Myron C.: American financier and diplomat who was chief executive of the United States Steel Corporation in the 1930s.
Taylor, Paul: American modern dancer and choreographer noted for the inventive, frequently humorous, and sardonic dances that he choreographed for his company.
Taylor, Peter: American short-story writer, novelist, and playwright known for his portraits of Tennessee gentry caught in a changing society.
Taylor, Richard E.: Canadian physicist who in 1990 shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall for his collaboration in proving the existence of quarks, which are now generally ...
Taylor, Zachary: 12th president of the United States (1849-50). Elected on the ticket of the Whig Party as a hero of the Mexican War (1846-48), he died only 16 months after taking ...
Taymyr: autonomous okrug (district), Krasnoyarsk kray (region), northeastern central Russia. It has an area of 332,850 square miles (862,100 square km) on the hilly Taymyr Peninsula, the most northerly part of ...
Taymyr Peninsula: northernmost extension of the Eurasian landmass, in north-central Siberia in Krasnoyarsk kray (region), northeastern central Russia. The northernmost point of the peninsula is Cape Chelyuskin, north of which lie Vilkitsky ...
tayra: weasellike mammal of tropical forests from southern Mexico through South America to northern Argentina. The tayra is short-legged, yet slender and agile, weighing from 2.7 to 7 kg (5.95 to ...
Taza: city, north-central Morocco. Located south of the Er-Rif Mountains, the city is composed of two formerly separate towns built on separate terraces overlooking a mountain valley. The old town (medina) ...
Tbilisi: capital of the republic of Georgia, on the Kura (Mtkvari) River at its dissection of the Trialeti and Kartliysky (Kartli, or Kartalinian) ranges. Founded in 458 (in some sources, 455), ...
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: the most popular Russian composer of all time. His music has always had great appeal for the general public in virtue of its tuneful, open-hearted melodies, impressive harmonies, and colourful, ...
Tcherepnin, Alexander: Russian-born American pianist and composer, known for his stylistic mixture of Romanticism and modern experimentation-e.g., with a nine-note scale and with complex rhythms. In smaller forms his work was often ...
Tcherepnin, Nikolay: prominent Russian composer of ballets, songs, and piano music in the nationalist style of Russian music.
Tchernichowsky, Saul: prolific Hebrew poet, whose poetry, in strongly biblical language, dealt with Russia, Germany, and Palestine and with the themes of love and beauty.
Tchibanga: town, southwestern Gabon. It lies along the north bank of the Nyanga River and at the intersection of roads from Mouila, Ndende, and Mayumba. It has regular air connections with ...
Tchicaya U Tam'si: Congolese French-language writer and poet whose work explores the relationships between victor and victim.
Tchien: town, southeastern Liberia. Tchien has expanded into an important administrative, marketing, and traffic centre. It is surrounded by rubber plantations and diamond mines; cattle are abundant. Rubber, coffee, cocoa, piassava, ...
Tczew: city, Pomorskie wojewodztwo (province), north-central Poland. It lies along the Vistula River, 19 miles (30 km) above its mouth. Tczew is a major river port, with links ...
te: (Chinese: "virtue," or "potentiality"), in Chinese Taoism, the potentiality of the mysterious Tao, or Way, the undefinable, transcendent reality that produces all things. In contrast, Confucianism views te as the ...
Te Anau, Lake: lake, the largest of the Southern Lakes, southwest South Island, New Zealand. About 38 miles (61 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide, the lake, with an area of ...
Te Aroha: town, Waikato local government region, northern North Island, New Zealand, on the Waihou (Thames) River. The settlement, established in 1880 as a river port for a new gold find, was ...
Te Deum laudamus: Latin hymn to God the Father and Christ the Son, traditionally sung on occasions of public rejoicing. According to legend, it was improvised antiphonally by St. Ambrose and St. Augustine ...
Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri: critically acclaimed lyric soprano best known for her repertoire of works by Mozart and Richard Strauss.
Te Tsung: ninth emperor (reigned 779/780-805) of the T'ang dynasty and the only emperor in the latter half of the dynasty to reign more than 20 years. In spite of his long ...
Te, Palace of: summer palace and horse farm near Mantua, Italy, of Duke Federico Gonzaga II. It was designed and built (c. 1525-35) by Giulio Romano, who also executed several of the fresco ...
Te-chou: city on the northern plain of Shantung sheng (province), China.
tea: beverage produced by steeping in freshly boiled water the young leaves and leaf buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis. Two principal varieties are used, the small-leaved China plant (C. ...
Tea Act: (1773), in British American colonial history, legislative maneuver by the British ministry of Lord North to make English tea marketable in America. A previous crisis had been averted in 1770 ...
tea and coffee service: set of vessels and implements for making and serving tea and coffee, the items often of matched design. Elaborate 18th-century examples had tea and coffee pots, a milk or cream ...
tea ceremony: time-honoured institution in Japan, rooted in the principle of Zen Buddhism and founded upon the adoration of the beautiful in the daily routine of life. It is an aesthetic way ...
tea olive: any plant of the genus Osmanthus in the family Oleaceae, often grown for its fragrant flowers and shining, evergreen foliage. There are more than 30 species, native to eastern North ...
tea production: cultivation of the tea plant, usually done in large commercial operations. The plant, a species of evergeen (Camellia sinensis), is valued for its young leaves and leaf buds, from which ...
teacher education: any of the formal programs that have been established for the preparation of teachers at the elementary- and secondary-school levels.
teaching: the profession of those who give instruction, especially in an elementary or a secondary school or in a university.
teaching machine: any mechanical device used for presenting a program of instructional material.
Teagarden, Jack: U.S. jazz trombonist, unique because he developed a widely imitated style that appeared to have arrived fully formed.
Teague, Walter Dorwin: industrial designer who pioneered in the establishment of industrial design as a profession in the United States.
teak: large deciduous tree of the family Verbenaceae, or its wood, one of the most valuable timbers. Teak has been widely used in India for more than 2,000 years. The name ...
teal: any of about 15 small ducks of the genus Anas (family Anatidae), found on the six major continents and many islands. Within the divisions of true duck species, the teal ...
team handball: game played between two teams of 7 or 11 players who try to throw or hit an inflated ball into a goal at either end of a rectangular playing area ...
team roping: rodeo event in which two mounted cowboys attempt to rope and immobilize a full-grown steer. The event is timed, and the team with the lowest time wins. The team is ...
Teamsters Union: largest private-sector labour union in the United States, representing truck drivers and workers in related industries (such as aviation). The union was formed in 1903 when the Team Drivers International ...
Teapot Dome Scandal: in American history, scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall. After President Warren G. Harding ...
tear duct and gland: the structures that produce, distribute, and carry away tears (drops of clear saline fluid that are diffused between the eye and eyelid). Tears moisten the membrane that covers the eye ...
tear gas: any of a group of substances that irritate the mucous membranes of the eyes, causing a stinging sensation and tears. They may also irritate the upper respiratory tract, causing coughing, ...
Teasdale, Sara: American poet whose short, personal lyrics were noted for their classical simplicity and quiet intensity.
teasel: any of about 15 species constituting the genus Dipsacus of the family Dipsacaceae, native to Europe, the Mediterranean area, and tropical Africa. Many teasels are prickly, coarse biennials with opposite ...
Tebaldi, Renata: Italian operatic soprano, a star at both Milan's La Scala and New York City's Metropolitan Opera.