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Tebessa: town, northeastern Algeria. It is located 146 miles (235 km) by road south of Annaba and 12 miles (19 km) west of the Tunisian frontier. Tebessa was an outpost of ...
technetium: chemical element, synthetic radioactive metal of Group VIIb of the periodic table, the first element to be artificially produced. The isotope technetium-97 (2,600,000-year half-life) was discovered (1937) by the Italian ...
technical assistance: form of aid given to less-developed countries by international organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and its agencies, individual governments, foundations, and philanthropic institutions. Its object is to provide ...
technical education: the academic and vocational preparation of students for jobs involving applied science and modern technology. It emphasizes the understanding and practical application of basic principles of science and mathematics, rather ...
Technicolor: (trademark), motion-picture process using dye-transfer techniques to produce a colour print. The Technicolor process, perfected in 1932, originally used a beam-splitting optical cube, in combination with the camera lens, to ...
techno: electronic dance music that began in the United States in the 1980s and became globally popular in the 1990s. With its glacial synthesizer melodies and brisk machine rhythms, techno was ...
technocracy: government by technicians who are guided solely by the imperatives of their technology. The concept developed in the United States early in the 20th century as an expression of the ...
technology: the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human environment.
technology, history of: the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek techne, "art, craft," with logos, "word, speech," meant in Greece ...
Tecoman: city, southeastern Colima estado ("state"), west-central Mexico. It is situated on the Pacific lowlands near the Armeria River, at 260 feet (80 m) above sea level. Located in the state's ...
tectogene: great downbuckle of the Earth's crust into the mantle below deep-sea trenches that are filled with marine sediments. The sediments become crumpled and folded within the deep downbuckle; some portions ...
tectonic basins and rift valleys: landforms characterized by relatively steep, mountainous sides and flat floors. The steep sides are created by displacement on faults such that the valley floor moves down relative to the surrounding ...
tectonic landform: any of the relief features that are produced chiefly by uplift or subsidence of the Earth's crust or by upward magmatic movements. They include mountains, plateaus, and rift valleys.
tectonics: scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up the Earth's crust and the forces that produce such deformation. It deals with the folding and faulting associated with ...
Tecumseh: Shawnee Indian chief, orator, military leader, and advocate of intertribal Indian alliance who directed Indian resistance to white rule in the Ohio River valley. In the War of 1812 he ...
Teda: people of the eastern and central Sahara (Chad, Niger, and Libya). Their language, also called Teda (or Tedaga), is closely related to the Kanuri and Zaghawa languages, and it belongs ...
Teda language: language spoken in Chad, Niger, and Libya. It is closely related to the Kanuri, Zaghawa, and Berti languages and belongs to the Saharan group of the Nilo-Saharan family of languages. ...
Tedder, Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron: marshal of the Royal Air Force and deputy commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force under U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower who contributed significantly to the success of the Allied invasion ...
Teddington: residential area in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames, about 11 miles (18 km) southwest of central London. Teddington is situated on the north bank of the River Thames, ...
teens: the years 13 to 19 in the human life span, a period roughly equivalent to adolescence (q.v.).
Tees, River: river in northeastern England, rising on Cross Fell in the northern Pennines and flowing 70 miles (110 km) east to the North Sea. It forms the boundary between the historic ...
Teesdale: district, administrative county of Durham, northeastern England, in the southwestern part of the county. The district lies on both sides of the River Tees. The area north of the river ...
teetotum: form of top having usually 4, 6, 8, or 12 sides marked with distinctive symbols. A teetotum is used for playing games, mostly of the gambling variety, and serves in ...
Tef: city, central Amazonas estado (state), northwestern Brazil. Founded by missionaries as Nogueira in the 17th century and also called Ega at one time, Tefe lies on the ...
Tefilo Otoni: city, east-central Minas Gerais estado (state), southwestern Brazil. It is located on the Todos os Santos River in the Mucuri River valley, at 1,047 feet (319 metres) ...
Teflon: trade name for synthetic resin composed of polytetrafluoroethylene (q.v.).
Tefnakhte: chieftain of Sais, in the northwest Nile delta, later king and founder of the 24th dynasty, which lasted from about 722 to about 715 BC. He was reduced to vassalage ...
Tegal: kotamadya (municipality) and port, northwestern Jawa Tengah provinsi (Central Java province), central Java, west-central Indonesia, located on the Java Sea about 160 miles (257 ...
Tegea: ancient Greek city of eastern Arcadia, 4 miles (6.5 km) southeast of the modern town of Tripolis. The Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea was described by the Greek geographer ...
Tegelen: gemeente (commune), Limburg provincie, southeastern Netherlands, bounded on the west by the Maas (Meuse) River. It is known for the Passion Play performed there every few years (May to September). ...
Tegernsee: lake, southern Bayern (Bavaria), southeastern Germany, lying at 2,380 feet (725 m) above sea level, surrounded by wooded mountains on the fringe of the Bavarian Alps, south of Munich. It ...
Tegh Bahadur: ninth Sikh Guru and second Sikh martyr, who gave his life for a religion not his own. He was also the father of the tenth Guru, Gobind Singh.
Tegner, Esaias: Swedish teacher, bishop, and most popular poet of his period.
tegu: (Tupinambis), any of several large, carnivorous, tropical South American lizards of the family Teiidae. All species are black with yellow or white bands across the back. The scales are small, ...
Tegucigalpa: city and capital of the Republic of Honduras. It is located on hilly terrain hemmed in by mountains, at an elevation of 3,200 feet (975 metres) above sea level. Tegucigalpa, ...
Tehachapi Mountains: segment of the Coast Ranges (see Pacific mountain system), south-central California, U.S. They extend for about 50 miles (80 km) and link the south end of the Sierra Nevada with ...
Tehran: city, capital of Iran, situated on the southern slopes of the Elburz Mountains 62 miles (100 km) from the Caspian Sea. It lies at an elevation of about 3,800 feet ...
Tehran Conference: (November 28-December 1, 1943), meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran during World War II. The chief discussion ...
Tehri-Garhwal: town, northern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. The town (usually called simply Tehri) is an agricultural trade centre on the Bhagirathi River.
Tehuacan: city, southeastern Puebla estado ("state"), south-central Mexico. It is situated in the Tehuacan valley of the Sierra Madre Oriental, at an elevation of 5,500 feet (1,700 m). Founded in 1540, ...
Tehuantepec, Gulf of: large inlet of the Pacific Ocean, forming the southern shore of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, southeastern Mexico. The gulf extends approximately 300 miles (500 km) from Puerto Angel, in Oaxaca ...
Tehuantepec, Isthmus of: isthmus in southern Mexico, between the Gulf of Campeche on the Gulf of Mexico, to the north, and the Gulf of Tehuantepec on the Pacific Ocean, to the south. From ...
Tehuelche: South American Indians who formerly inhabited the Patagonian plains from the Strait of Magellan to the Negro River. They were divided into northern and southern branches. Each division had its ...
Teide Peak: volcanic peak at the centre of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. At 12,198 feet (3,718 m), it is the highest point on Spanish soil. Teide is the ...
Teignbridge: district in the south-central part of the administrative and historic county of Devon, England, surrounding the valley of the River Teign between Dartmoor and the sea. Teignbridge's varied coastline attracts ...
Teignmouth: town ("parish"), Teignbridge district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England. It lies along the north bank of the Teign estuary where it joins the English Channel. The Saxon settlement ...
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre: French philosopher and paleontologist known for his theory that man is evolving, mentally and socially, toward a final spiritual unity. Blending science and Christianity, he declared that the human epic ...
Teirlinck, Herman: Flemish novelist, poet, short-story writer, essayist, and playwright who is considered one of the four or five best modern Flemish writers. His dramas were a notable influence on post-World War ...
Teishebaini: ancient Urartian fortified town, located on the hill of Karmirblur, near the city of Yerevan in what is now Armenia. Russian excavations at Teishebaini concentrated on the citadel, which occupied ...
Teispes: early Achaemenid Persian king (reigned c. 675-c. 640), the forefather of the great kings Darius I and Cyrus II.
Teisserenc de Bort, Leon: French meteorologist who discovered the stratosphere, thus paving the way for further study of the upper atmosphere.
Tejano: popular music style fusing Mexican, European, and U.S. influences. Its evolution began in northern Mexico (a variation known as norteno) and Texas in the mid-19th century with ...
Tekakwitha, Kateri: first North American Indian proposed for canonization in the Roman Catholic church.
Tekapo, Lake: lake in central South Island, New Zealand, occupying 37 square miles (96 square km) of a valley that has been dammed by a moraine (glacial debris). The lake is about ...
Tekirdag: city, European Turkey, on the Sea of Marmara. Probably founded in the 7th century BC as a Greek settlement called Bisanthe, it was renamed Rhaedestus when it became the capital ...
Tekke carpet: floor covering woven by the Tekke Turkmen, the major population group of Turkmenistan. Although elements of the tribe still migrated with their flocks until the Soviet era, most of them ...
tektite: any of a class of small, natural glassy objects that are found only in certain areas of the Earth's surface. The term is derived from the Greek word tektos, meaning ...
Tel Aviv-Yafo: city of Israel that lies on the Mediterranean coast and is the hub of the nation's largest urban centre. It was formed in 1950 by the incorporation of the ancient ...
Tel Hay: former settlement, now a national memorial, in Upper Galilee, northern Israel, near the Lebanese border. One of the first Jewish settlements in northern Palestine, it was intermittently inhabited from 1905, ...
Tel Quel: French avant-garde literary review published from 1960 to 1982 by Editions du Seuil. Founded by Philippe Sollers and other young writers, this eclectic magazine published works by such practitioners of ...
Tela: city, northern Honduras. It lies along Tela Bay, off the Gulf of Honduras. The old village of Tela lies across the Tela River from the modern port works and town, ...
Telakhon: one of the oldest Buddhist-influenced prophet cults among the Karen hill peoples of Myanmar (Burma). In their mythology, the restoration of their lost Golden Book by their white younger brothers ...
Telangana Plateau: plateau in western Andhra Pradesh state, southeastern India. Comprising the northeastern part of the Deccan Plateau, the Telangana Plateau has an area of about 57,370 square miles (148,000 square km), ...
Telde: city, Las Palmas provincia, Canary Islands comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community"), Spain. It lies on the southeastern part of the island of Gran Canaria (Grand Canary). It extends beneath the Telde ...
telecommunication: science and practice of transmitting information by electromagnetic means. A wide variety of information can be transferred through a telecommunications system, including voice and music, still-frame and full-motion pictures, computer ...
telecommunications media: equipment and systems-metal wire, terrestrial and satellite radio, and optical fibre-employed in the transmission of electromagnetic signals.
telecommunications network: electronic system of links and switches, and the controls that govern their operation, that allows for data transfer and exchange among multiple users.
teledu: species of badger (q.v.) found in Southeast Asia.
Telegonus: in Greek mythology, especially the Telagonia of Eugamon of Cyrene, the son of the hero Odysseus by the sorceress Circe. Telegonus went to Ithaca in search of his father, whom ...
telegraph: any device or system that allows the transmission of information by coded signal over distance. Many telegraphic systems have been used over the centuries, but the term is most often ...
Teleki, Pal, Grof: (count) Hungarian prime minister who cooperated with Nazi Germany in the early stages of World War II.
Teleki, Samuel, Grof: (count) Hungarian explorer who discovered and named Lake Rudolf (now also called Lake Turkana) and Lake Stefanie (now Chew Bahir), in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. He also added significantly ...
Telemachus: in Greek mythology, son of the Greek hero Odysseus and his wife, Penelope. When Telemachus reached manhood, he visited Pylos and Sparta in search of his wandering father. On his ...
Telemann, Georg Philipp: German composer of the late Baroque period, who wrote both sacred and secular music but was most admired for his church compositions, which ranged from small cantatas to large-scale works ...
Telemark: fylke (county), southeastern Norway. It extends from the Hardanger Plateau in the northwest to the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea in the southeast. The mountains in the northwest ...
telemetry: highly automated communications process by which measurements are made and other data collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring, display, and recording. Originally, the ...