(from the article "faience blanche") ...In the simpler form, much of the white area was left exposed, the decoration being merely a central figure or a coat of arms with a conventional wreath around the ...
statesman who was three times premier of France and who attempted to carry on the policies of Georges Clemenceau in the aftermath of World War I. [1 Related Articles]
any of about 800 species of free-living, cosmopolitan invertebrates belonging to the phylum Tardigrada. They are considered to be close relatives of arthropods (e.g., insects, crustaceans). Tardigrades are mostly about ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "mental disorder") ...muscular rigidity); dystonia (sudden, sustained contraction of muscle groups causing abnormal postures); akathisia (a subjective feeling of restlessness leading to an inability to keep still); and tardive dyskinesia (involuntary movements, ...
(from the article "Arabic literature") ...the collected works of a poet would contain sections that included, among other categories, khamriyyat (wine poems), tardiyyat (hunt poems), zuhdiyyat ...
(from the article "China") ...from Manchuria to Gansu and a western one stretching in a vast arc north of the Tarim Basin into Central Asia. Wendi encouraged this split by supporting the khan (ruler) ...
city, northeastern New South Wales, Australia, 10 miles (16 km) above the coastal mouth of the Manning River. Established in 1854 as a private town, it was proclaimed a municipality ...
(from the article "Ahvaz") town, southwestern Iran. Ahvaz is situated on both banks of the Karun River where it crosses a low range of sandstone hills. The town has been identified with Achaemenid Tareiana, ...
(from the article "Alzheimer disease") ...a number of experimental drugs for Alzheimer disease in early- and late-stage clinical trials. One drug that has demonstrated some success in preventing cognitive decline in affected patients is tarenflurbil, ...
(from the article "Antony, Mark") ...son of a prominent Palestinian Jewish friend of Rome, Antipater-was set up in Jerusalem as king of Judaea in 37. When Octavian had problems in Italy and the West in ...
(from the article "Kebnekaise") ...high latitude, the range's glacier scenery is especially fine. Among the numerous glaciers, the largest are Bjorlings, Stor, Isfalls, Kebnepakte, and Rabots. A notable feature of the range is Tarfala ...
(from the article "artillery") Until the second half of the 20th century, target acquisition-a vital part of fire control-was almost entirely visual, relying upon ground observers. This was augmented first by observation balloons and ...
(from the article "target theory") ...radiations such as X rays result from ionization (i.e., the formation of electrically charged particles) by individual quanta, or photons, of radiation that are absorbed at sensitive points (targets) in ...
(from the article "Health and Disease") ...in all states but North Dakota, the company offered more than 300 generic versions of prescription drugs at a cost of $4 for a month's supply. Shortly after Wal-Mart launched ...
in biology, the concept that the biological effects of radiations such as X rays result from ionization (i.e., the formation of electrically charged particles) by individual quanta, or photons, of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "economic growth") ...to be found in the work of the Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen and his followers. In contrast to neoclassical growth models where the market brings about an adjustment of demand ...
city, capital of Dambovita judet (county), south-central Romania. It lies along the Ialomita River, in the southeastern Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathians), 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Bucharest. Targoviste was ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Poland") ...by pride and doctrine, a number of die-hard conservatives-among them high dignitaries such as Stanislaw Szczesny Potocki, Seweryn Rzewuski, and Ksawery Branicki-formed the Confederation of Targowica (in St. Petersburg) to ...
city, capital of Gorj judet (county), southwestern Romania, on the Jiu River. Formerly a Roman settlement, Targu Jiu was the property of boyars until the 19th century. After World War ... [1 Related Articles]
city, capital of Mures judet (county), north-central Romania. It lies in the valley of the Mures River, in the southeastern part of the Transylvanian Basin. First mentioned in the 14th ... [1 Related Articles]
town, Neamt judet (county), northeastern Romania, on the Neamt River. It has long been a local market centre and a major focus of culture in Moldavia. West of the town ...
(Aramaic: "Translation," or "Interpretation"), any of several translations of the Hebrew Bible or portions of it into the Aramaic language. The word originally indicated a translation of the Old Testament ... [2 Related Articles]
ancient Anatolian weather god. His name appears in Hittite and Assyrian records (c. 1400-612 BC) and later as an element in Hellenistic personal names, primarily from Cilicia. Tarhunt was the ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Anatolia") ...BC), and this was probably responsible for deteriorating relations between the two kings. Kurunta, another son of Muwatallis, was installed as Great King of a state centred on the city ...
(from the article "Caudata") ...Middle East; Afghanistan to Japan, China, and northern Vietnam; eastern and western North America; 15 genera (including Triturus and Salamandra in Europe, Notophthalamus and Taricha in North America, and Cynops ...
tax levied upon goods as they cross national boundaries, usually by the government of the importing country. The words tariff, duty, and customs can be used interchangeably. [12 Related Articles]
(from the article "international trade") ...the pattern for most European treaties (see Richard Cobden). The United States used the conditional MFN clause from its first trade agreement, signed with France in 1778, until the passage ...
(from the article "quota") Tariff quotas may be distinguished from import quotas. A tariff quota permits the import of a certain quantity of a commodity duty-free or at a lower duty rate, while quantities ...
city, southern Bolivia, situated at 6,122 feet (1,866 metres) above sea level on the Guadalquivir River. Founded in 1574 by the conquistador Luis de Fuentes as San Bernardo de la ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Damghan") ...feet (1,200 metres), just southeast of the Elburz Mountains on a large, barren gravel plain. It is on the road and railway between Tehran and Meshed. Possibly the oldest mosque ...
(from the article "Tarim River") chief river of the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, extreme northwestern China. It lies immediately north of the Plateau of Tibet. The river gives its name to the great basin ...
chief river of the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, extreme northwestern China. It lies immediately north of the Plateau of Tibet. The river gives its name to the great basin ... [2 Related Articles]
("road," "path," or "way"), the Muslim spiritual path toward direct knowledge (ma'rifah) of God or Reality (haqq). In the 9th and 10th centuries tariqa meant the spiritual path of individual ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Islamic arts") ...with the same metre were bound together as "stanzas" to form a longer unit through the use of a linking verse. When the linking verse was recurrent, the poem was ...
(from the article "Arzawa") ...(c. 1680-c. 1650 BC). During the period of Hittite decline after the end of the Old Kingdom (c. 1500 BC), Arzawa's power and prominence reached its peak, and its king, ...
(from the article "Islamic arts") ...verse. When the linking verse was recurrent, the poem was called a tarji'-band (literally "return-tie"); when the linking verse was varied, the poem was called a tarkib-band (literally "composite-tie"). True ...
city, southwestern Ghana, western Africa. It is situated about 120 miles (190 km) west of Accra. Located in a predominantly agricultural and mining region, it is a marketing centre for ...
(from the article "Cowpens, Battle of") ...had divided his army and sent a force of 1,000 men under General Daniel Morgan to the southwest to intercept Cornwallis's advance. At Cowpens, Morgan confronted about 1,150 troops under ...
(from the article "Moldova") ...nearly 300,000 Moldovans working abroad but including the 550,000 persons in Transdniestria) | Capital: Chisinau | Chief of state: President Vladimir Voronin | Head of government: Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev ...
(from the article "1964: Other Winners") Story and Screenplay: S.H. Barnett, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff for Father GooseAdapted Screenplay: Edward Anhalt for BecketCinematography, Black-and-White: Walter Lassally for Zorba the GreekCinematography, Color: Harry Stradling for My Fair...
(from the article "Midi-Pyrenees") region of France encompassing the southwestern departements of Lot, Aveyron, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Gers, Hautes-Pyrenees, Haute-Garonne, and Ariege. Midi-Pyrenees is bounded by the
(from the article "tarn") a small mountain lake, especially one set in a glaciated steep-walled amphitheatre known as a cirque (q.v.).cirquecirque...which causes the upper ...
river, in southwestern France. It has its source south of Mont Lozere at an elevation of 5,167 ft (1,575 m) in the Massif Central. After a course of 233 mi ...
(from the article "Midi-Pyrenees") region of France encompassing the southwestern departements of Lot, Aveyron, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Gers, Hautes-Pyrenees, Haute-Garonne, and Ariege. Midi-Pyrenees is bounded by the
(from the article "Podkarpackie") ...of the province is varied. The northern part of Podkarpackie consists of lowlands and uplands, while the Lower Beskid Mountains and the Bieszczady Mountains dominate the south. The highest point ...
(from the article "Tammann, Gustav") ...resulted from a rearrangement of their crystals. This finding, together with other related discoveries, influenced many techniques of modern metalworking. Noteworthy, too, was Tammann's analysis of tarnish on metallic surfaces, ...
(from the article "plant bug") The tarnished plant bug (Lygus pratensis), a well-known pest in North America, feeds on many plants, ranging from trees to grasses and cereals. It is about 6 mm long and ...
city, Podkarpackie wojewodztwo (province), southeastern Poland. Located on the eastern bank of the Vistula River on trade routes linking Warsaw to the cities of southeastern Poland, Tarnobrzeg ...
city, Malopolskie wojewodztwo (province), southeastern Poland, near the confluence of the Biala and Dunajec (a tributary of the Vistula) rivers. It is an industrial city, producing mainly ...
(from the article "Parma and Piacenza, Duchy of") ...(the future Charles III of Spain). Except for one brief interruption, the Spanish Bourbons controlled the duchy until 1808, when it was formally annexed to France as the departement of ...
herbaceous plant of the family Araceae. Probably native to southeastern Asia, whence it has spread to the Pacific islands, it has become a staple crop cultivated for its large, starchy, ... [5 Related Articles]
single-reed wind instrument, widely played in the folk music of Romania and, especially, Hungary. It resembles a wooden soprano saxophone, but its conical bore is narrower.
(from the article "Nigeria") ...people, predominately Christians, were killed. Moreover, many observers emphasized that the violence could not be attributed to religion alone and that the causes were complex. Land disputes between Tarok farmers ...
zoo located in Taronga Park, Sydney, N.S.W., Austl. One of the outstanding zoos in Australia, Taronga Zoo opened to the public in 1884 in an area outside Sydney known as ...
any of a set of cards used in tarot games and in fortune-telling. Tarot decks were invented in Italy in the 1430s by adding to the existing four-suited pack a ...
trick-taking game played with a tarot deck, a special pack of cards containing a fifth suit bearing miscellaneous illustrations and acting as a trump suit. The cards are known as ...
European wild horse that survived in small herds in remote parts of central Europe during the Middle Ages but became extinct early in the 20th century. It is likely that ... [2 Related Articles]
in Roman mythology, daughter of the commander of the Capitol in Rome during the Sabine War. Traditionally, she offered to betray the citadel if the Sabines would give her what ...
(from the article "Haemophilus") H. gallinarum causes infectious coryza in fowl. H. parasuis (itself not disease-causing), together with a virus (Tarpeia suis), causes swine influenza. H. ducreyi causes a venereal disease in humans known ...
(from the article "Tarpeia") ...on their left arms, i.e., their golden bracelets; instead, keeping to their promise, they threw their shields on her and crushed her to death. The story may have been an ...
any of certain marine fish of the family Megalopidae (order Elopiformes), related to the bonefish and the ladyfish and identified by the elongated last dorsal fin ray and the bony ... [1 Related Articles]
city, Pinellas county, west-central Florida, U.S., on the Anclote River bayous between Lake Tarpon and the Gulf of Mexico, about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Tampa. The area was ...
(from the article "Etruscan") ...To the south they were drawn into Latium and Campania from the end of the 7th century, and in the 6th century they had a decisive impact on the history ...
traditionally the seventh and last king of Rome, accepted by some scholars as a historical figure. His reign is dated from 534 to 509 BC. [4 Related Articles]
traditionally the fifth king of Rome, accepted by some scholars as a historical figure and usually said to have reigned from 616 to 578. [5 Related Articles]
town and episcopal see, Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy. It lies 4 miles (7 km) inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea, just north of Civitavecchia. The town developed out of the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "ancient Rome") ...In Spain, after Agrippa successfully ended in 19 BC the last campaign that Augustus had launched in person in 26, three provinces were formed: senatorial Baetica and imperial Lusitania and ...
Catalan political leader who led the struggle for an autonomous Catalonia as head of the Catalan government-in-exile (1939-77) and as interim president (1977-80).
(species Artemisia dracunculus), bushy aromatic herb of the family Asteraceae (Compositae), the dried leaves and flowering tops of which are used to add tang and piquancy to many culinary dishes, ... [1 Related Articles]
provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It borders the Mediterranean Sea. With Barcelona, Girona, and Lleida, Tarragona became ...
city, capital of Tarragona provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It lies at the mouth of the Francoli ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "chondrostean") ...The arrangement of the fins and the structure of the tail suggest that manoeuvrability in swimming was not as great as in either the holosteans or the teleosts. Members of ...
(from the article "Maurist") member of a congregation of French Benedictine monks founded in 1618 and devoted to strict observance of the Benedictine Rule and especially to historical and ecclesiastical scholarship. Dom Gregory Tarrisse ...
village, in Greenburgh town (township), Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. A northern suburb of New York City, it is just northwest of White Plains, where the Hudson River widens ...
any of several short, angular bones that in humans make up the ankle and that-in animals that walk on their toes (e.g., dogs, cats) or on hoofs-are contained in the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "eye, human") ...a muscular layer containing principally the orbicularis oculi muscle, responsible for lid closure; (3) a fibrous layer that gives the lid its mechanical stability, its principal portions being the tarsal ...
(from the article "Rijeka") A Roman settlement, Tarsatica, dating from the 3rd century, is thought to have been destroyed by Charlemagne about 800. Avars and Slavs had begun to settle there in the 6th-7th ...
(from the article "Italian literature") ...of imitation and the teaching of Bembo. Almost all the principal writers of the century wrote lyric poems in the manner of Petrarch. Surprising originality was to be found in ...
any of six or more species of small leaping primates found only on various islands of Southeast Asia, including the Philippines. Tarsiers are intermediate in form between lemurs and monkeys, ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "tarsier") Family Tarsiidae is classified with monkeys, apes, and humans (infraorder Simiiformes) in the suborder Haplorrhini, but it constitutes a separate infraorder, Tarsiiformes.
(from the article "marsupial") 2 species in 2 genera. Tiny arboreal nectar feeders. 1 species of southwestern Western Australia, adapted for feeding on nectar of flowers....
Polish-born American mathematician and logician who made important studies of general algebra, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and metamathematics. [12 Related Articles]
(from the article "bird") ...joint is simplified, there being but two bones involved: the tibiotarsus, consisting of the tibia (the so-called shinbone in man) fused with the three upper ankle bones (proximal tarsals), and ...
city, south-central Turkey, on the Tarsus River, about 12 miles (20 km) from the Mediterranean coast. It is an ancient city, on the alluvial plain of ancient Cilicia, the birthplace ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "psittaciform") ...lower leg), lies between the elevated heel joint and the toes. In parrots it is short and stout, and at least one toe is always longer. It is the characteristic ...
(from the article "pie") Tarts are similar to pies and the names are often used interchangeably. Tarts are made with short rather than flaky pastry and are frequently baked "blind," or empty, and filled ...
(from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...Equally important was the installation in conquered areas of a highly developed civil service under the leadership of trained officers. The highest ranking civil servant carried the title of tartan, ...
cross-checkered repeating pattern (or "sett") of different coloured bands, stripes, or lines of definite width and sequence, woven into woolen cloth (sometimes with silk added). Although such patterns have existed ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "rocket and missile system") ...acquisition and radio command guidance. The later Nike Hercules, also command-guided, had a range of 85 miles. After 1956 the Talos was supplemented by the Terrier, a radar-beam rider, and ...
(from the article "antimony poisoning") ...drinking acidic fruit juices containing antimony oxide dissolved from the glaze of cheap enamelware containers. Toxicity can also result from repeated exposure to antimony in medications, such as tartar emetic ...
(from the article "honeysuckle") ...of yellowish, purple-tinged blooms are followed by red berries. Some of the garden varieties of woodbine are prized for their delicious fragrance. Some of the more widespread shrub honeysuckles are ...
a dicarboxylic acid, one of the most widely distributed of plant acids, with a number of food and industrial uses. Along with several of its salts, cream of tartar (potassium ... [4 Related Articles]
the infernal regions of ancient Greek mythology. The name was originally used for the deepest region of the world, the lower of the two parts of the underworld, where the ... [4 Related Articles]
ancient region and town of the Guadalquivir River valley in southwestern Spain, probably identical with the Tarshish mentioned in the Bible. It prospered from trade with the Phoenicians and Carthaginians ... [5 Related Articles]
