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- American television executive (b. Jan. 13, 1949, New York, N.Y.--d. Aug. 27, 1997, Los Angeles, Calif.), was a programming wizard who selected shows that became the highest-rated television series during ...
- Tartini, Giuseppe
- Italian violinist, composer, and theorist who helped establish the modern style of violin bowing and formulated principles of musical ornamentation and harmony. [2 Related Articles]
- tartogo
- (from the article "jatropha") A garden curiosity is tartogo, or gouty jatropha (J. podagrica), from Guatemala and Honduras; it has a short trunk that is swollen at the base, erect red clusters of small ...
- tartrazine
- (from the article "azo dye") The acid azo dyes possess affinity for wool and silk and are applied by essentially the same procedure used for the direct class. Tartrazine is a yellow acid azo dye ...
- Tartu
- old university city of Estonia, on the Emajogi River. The original settlement of Tarbatu dates from the 5th century; in 1030 the Russians built a fort there called Yuryev. From ...
- Tartu State University
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...an effective provision for secondary education; his splendid munificence to the University of Uppsala gave it the financial security that was essential to its development; and his foundation of the ...
- Tartu, Treaty of
- (from the article "Paasikivi, Juho Kusti") ...the first government of newly independent Finland, in which capacity he favoured a pro-German policy and a monarchy for his country. He headed the Finnish delegation that on Oct. 14, ...
- Tartus
- town, western Syria, situated on the Mediterranean coast opposite Arwad Island. It was founded in antiquity as Antaradus, a colony of Aradus (now Arwad Island). It was rebuilt in AD ... [1 Related Articles]
- Taruc, Luis
- Philippine leader (1942-54) of the communist Huk (Hukbalahap) movement. [4 Related Articles]
- Tarumanegara
- the oldest recorded kingdom in western Java. It was established about the 5th century AD, but little is recorded about the kingdom except for a sketchy account by a Chinese ...
- Tarver, Antonio
- (from the article "Boxing") Antonio Tarver (U.S.) regained recognition as the world's top light heavyweight with a 12-round decision over former IBF champion Glen Johnson (Jamaica) on June 18 in Memphis, Tenn. None of ...
- tarwanas
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...the bull, the stag, and the lion, respectively. A number of titles used by the kings of Carchemish (e.g., Great King and Hero) clearly are relics of a more glorious ...
- tarweed
- any sticky, hairy plant of the genus Madia of the family Asteraceae, consisting of about 18 species. They are native to western North and South America.
- Tarxien Cemetery
- (from the article "Malta") ...(1450-800 BCE), whose settlements were founded on naturally defensible hilltops. Between 900 and 800 BCE, people settled at Bahrija and were known for their distinct type of pottery.
- Tarzan
- one of the best-known and most durable figures of popular fiction, the hero of jungle adventures in nearly 30 novels and dozens of motion pictures. [3 Related Articles]
- Tasaday
- small group of people living in the highland rain forest of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Before their existence was first reported by anthropological investigators in 1971, the Tasaday, numbering about ...
- Taschenwerk
- (from the article "coin") The difficulty of taking out the complete rollers from such a press led to an ingenious variation-the Taschenwerke. In this machine the rollers were replaced by rectangular shafts pierced in ...
- Tasciovanus
- (from the article "Cunobelinus") Cunobelinus succeeded his father, Tasciovanus, as chief of the Catuvellauni, a tribe centred north of what is now London. Tasciovanus's capital was Verlamio, above the later Roman site of Verulamium ...
- Taser
- (from the article "Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement") Doubts were expressed about the safety of the nonlethal Taser stun gun, which fires two darts that deliver a debilitating 50,000-v electrical charge to the intended target. The Taser was ...
- Tasermiut
- fjord in southern Greenland, extending northeasterly from its mouth and the nearby town of Nanortalik on the Atlantic Ocean to the inland ice cap. It is 45 miles (70 km) ...
- Tashauz
- city, northern Turkmenistan, in the western Khorezm oasis. The Shavat Canal, which gets its water from the nearby Amu Darya (river), divides the city into northern and southern sections. Originally ...
- tashbih
- (Arabic: "assimilating"), in Islam, anthropomorphism, comparing God to created things. Both tashbih and its opposite, ta'til (divesting God of all attributes), are regarded as sins in Islamic theology. The difficulty ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tashi
- (from the article "Serkin, Peter") ...philosophies and musical traditions led him to retire in the early 1970s, to travel at length through Asia and Morocco, then to live in Mexico. He returned to performing in ...
- Tashi Chho Dzong
- (from the article "Thimphu") ...m) above sea level. It was designated the official seat of government in 1962 (formerly the seat was wherever the king resided), and a large construction program was undertaken with ...
- Tashilhunpo
- (from the article "Dalai Lama") The first of the line was Dge-'dun-grub-pa (1391-1475), founder and abbot of Tashilhunpo monastery (central Tibet). In accordance with the belief in reincarnate lamas, which began to develop in the ...
- Tashkent
- capital of Uzbekistan and the largest city in Central Asia. Tashkent lies in the northeastern part of the country. It is situated at an elevation of 1,475 to 1,575 feet ... [8 Related Articles]
- Tashkent Agreement
- (Jan. 10, 1966), accord signed by India's prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri (who died the next day) and Pakistan's president Ayub Khan, ending the 17-day war between Pakistan and India ... [1 Related Articles]
- tashlik
- (Hebrew: "you will cast"), traditional Jewish religious ceremony, still observed by Orthodox Jews, that entails visiting a body of water following the afternoon service on Rosh Hashana (or, if this ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tashmetum
- (from the article "Nabu") Goddesses associated with Nabu were Nana, a Sumerian deity; the Assyrian Nissaba; and the Akkadian Tashmetum, queen of Borsippa, stepdaughter of Marduk, and, as her abstract Akkadian name indicates, Lady ...
- Tashtyk
- (from the article "Central Asian arts") On the Yenisey River the Bronze Age Tagar culture was replaced by the Tashtyk culture, dating from the 1st to the 4th century AD. The physical appearance of the Tashtyk ...
- Tasian culture
- possibly the oldest-known cultural phase in Upper Egypt (c. 4500 BC). [1 Related Articles]
- Tasiilaq
- town, southeastern Greenland, on the south coast of Ammassalik Island. The island is 25 miles (40 km) long and 12-20 miles (19-32 km) wide, with a high point of 4,336 ...
- Tasikmalaya
- city, southeastern Jawa Barat provinsi (West Java province), western Java, west-central Indonesia. The city is located in the mountainous Preanger region, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast ...
- task force
- (from the article "military unit") ...turn form a flotilla, several of which in turn form a fleet. For operations, however, many navies organize their vessels into task units (3-5 ships), task or battle groups (4-10 ...
- Task Force on National Health Care
- (from the article "Clinton, Hillary Rodham") ...the Clinton White House supported this interpretation. She appointed an experienced staff and set up her own office in the West Wing, an unprecedented move. Her husband appointed her to ...
- task unit
- (from the article "military unit") ...destroyers) are organized into a squadron. Several squadrons in turn form a flotilla, several of which in turn form a fleet. For operations, however, many navies organize their vessels into ...
- Taskin, Pascal
- (from the article "Blanchet Family") ...makers. Francois's son, Francois the Younger (b. c. 1730, Paris, France-d. 1766, Paris), succeeded his father. He died at an early age, leaving a widow who later married Pascal Taskin ...
- Taskopruzade
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...remained the language of theology and scholarship throughout the Muslim world; both Turkey and India could boast a large number of scholars who excelled in the sacred language. In Ottoman ...
- Tasman
- unitary authority, northwestern South Island, central New Zealand. It is bounded by Tasman and Golden bays and Nelson city on the northeast. Administratively, it is bordered by Marlborough unitary authority ...
- Tasman Basin
- (from the article "Pacific Ocean") Extending southward from the Tasman Basin (between New Zealand and eastern Australia) is the Macquarie Ridge, which forms a major boundary between the deep waters of the Pacific and Indian ...
- Tasman Bay
- (from the article "Tasman") ...Golden Bay. His encounter there with the Maori was a tragic one, and Tasman sailed away naming the area Murderers' Bay. In 1770 Capt. James Cook sailed past Golden Bay ...
- Tasman Fold Belt
- (from the article "Australia") The various parts of the Tasman Fold Belt are separated from each other by faults or have boundaries covered by sediment. Geologists have reviewed the Paleozoic development of the Tasman ...
- Tasman Geosyncline
- (from the article "Devonian Period") Devonian rocks are known in eastern Australia in a belt from Queensland to Tasmania as part of the Tasman geosyncline. Fluviatile sediments are found to the west. Thicknesses of 6,100 ...
- Tasman Glacier
- (from the article "New Zealand") There are more than 360 glaciers in the Southern Alps. The Tasman Glacier, the largest in New Zealand, with a length of 18 miles (29 km) and a width of ...
- Tasman Line
- (from the article "Australia") ...belts. The second is as the basement to a younger cover of Phanerozoic sediment (deposited during the past 543 million years); for example, all the sedimentary basins west of the ...
- Tasman Peninsula
- peninsula in southeastern Tasmania, Australia, connected to the Forestier Peninsula to the north by a narrow isthmus, Eaglehawk Neck. Measuring 17 by 12 miles (27 by 19 km) and occupying ...
- Tasman Sea
- section of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, between the southeastern coast of Australia and Tasmania on the west and New Zealand on the east; it merges with the Coral Sea to ...
- Tasman, Abel Janszoon
- greatest of the Dutch navigators and explorers, who discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, and the Fiji Islands. On his first voyage (1642-43) in the service of the Dutch East India ... [17 Related Articles]
- Tasman, Mount
- (from the article "Westland National Park") There are over 60 named glaciers in the park, although only the 2 largest, the Franz Josef and Fox, are readily accessible to tourists. The highest point is Mount Tasman, ...
- Tasmania
- island state of Australia. It lies about 150 miles (240 km) south of the state of Victoria, from which it is separated by the relatively shallow Bass Strait. Structurally, Tasmania ... [11 Related Articles]
- Tasmania, flag of
- Australian flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with the Union Jack in the canton and, at the fly end, a red lion on a white disk. Like many ...
- Tasmanian
- any member of the extinct Australoid population of Tasmania. The Tasmanians were an isolate population of Aboriginal Australians, not a separate or distinctive population, who were cut off from the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Tasmanian cedar
- any of three species of evergreen conifers of the genus Athrotaxis, of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), native to the temperate rain forests of Tasmania. Two of the species are small ...
- Tasmanian crab
- (from the article "crab") The giant crab of Japan (Macrocheira kaempferi) and the Tasmanian crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) are two of the largest known crustaceans. The former may span nearly 4 m (12 feet) from ...
- Tasmanian devil
- stocky carnivorous marsupial with heavy forequarters, weak hindquarters, and a large squarish head. The Tasmanian devil is named for the Australian island-state of Tasmania, its only native habitat. Vaguely bearlike ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tasmanian Greens
- (from the article "Tasmania") ...that would further flood the natural Lake Pedder in the southwest. The campaign failed, but it spawned what many consider the world's first Green Party, the United Tasmania Group (later ...
- Tasmanian languages
- extinct languages spoken before 1877 by the indigenous people of Tasmania, who are also now extinct. No relationship between the Tasmanian languages and any other languages of the world has ...
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- area of remarkable natural beauty and ecological diversity in southwestern, western, and central Tasmania, Australia. Designated a World Heritage site in 1982, its area was extended to some 5,300 square ...
- tasmanite
- (from the article "algae") ...very old. Organic cysts resembling modern Micromonadophyceae cysts date from about 1.2 billion years ago. Tasmanites formed the Permian "white coal," or tasmanite, deposits of Tasmania and ...
- Tasmanites
- (from the article "algae") Some of the green algal classes are also very old. Organic cysts resembling modern Micromonadophyceae cysts date from about 1.2 billion years ago. Tasmanites formed the Permian ...
- Tasmannia
- (from the article "Magnoliidae") ...although the fossil record indicates that early flowers could revert to unisexuality. This has occurred in some primitive families. For example, unlike other Winteraceae, most species of Tasmannia have unisexual ...
- Tass
- (from the article "Bacs-Kiskun") Tass, in the northwestern corner of Bacs-Kiskun, is a centre for fishing and aquatic sports on the Danube River; the town of Kalocsa is known for its traditional folk art ...
- Tassaert, B. M.
- (from the article "coordination compound") The sustained and systematic development of modern coordination chemistry, however, usually is considered to have begun with the discovery by the French chemist B.M. Tassaert in 1798 that ammoniacal solutions ...
- Tassafaronga, Battle of
- (from the article "World War II") ...damaged. Only 4,000 Japanese troops out of 12,500 managed to reach land, without equipment; and on November 30 eight Japanese destroyers, attempting to land more troops, were beaten off in ...
- Tassi, Agostino
- (from the article "Gentileschi, Artemisia") A pupil of her father and of his friend the landscape painter Agostino Tassi, she painted at first in a style indistinguishable from her father's somewhat lyrical interpretation of Caravaggio's ...
- Tassie, James
- Scottish gem engraver and modeler known for reproductions of engraved gems and for portrait medallions (round or oval tablets bearing figures), both made from a hard, fine-textured substance that he ...
- Tassili-n-Ajjer
- area in southern Algeria where prehistoric rock paintings (and many engravings) were discovered first in 1910 and subsequently in the 1930s and '60s.
- Tassilo Chalice
- (from the article "metalwork") ...issued by the church synods held in the 8th and 9th centuries invariably expressly prohibited the use of copper and bronze for consecrated chalices, but in fact a few copper-gilt ...
- Tassilo III
- (from the article "Germany") ...and peaceful relations with the Avar kingdom to the east. Charlemagne's conquest of the Lombards in 774 left Bavaria isolated, and in 788 Charlemagne succeeded in deposing the last Agilolfing ...
- Tassin, Rene-Prosper
- (from the article "diplomatics") ...(1681), Mabillon set out the fundamental principles of the science of verifying documents; Papenbroeck soon afterward acknowledged the correctness of his tenets. Nearly a century later, Rene-Prosper Tassin and Charles-Francois ...
- Tasso, Bernardo
- Italian courtier and poet who was the father of Torquato Tasso, the greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance.
- Tasso, Torquato
- greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance, celebrated for his heroic epic poem Gerusalemme liberata (1581; "Jerusalem Liberated"), dealing with the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. [5 Related Articles]
- Tassoni, Alessandro
- Italian political writer, literary critic, and poet, remembered for his mock-heroic satiric poem La secchia rapita (The Rape of the Bucket), the earliest and, according to most critics, the best ... [1 Related Articles]
- taste
- (from the article "aesthetics") ...with laughter-which, in some views, is itself a species of aesthetic interest-introduces a concept without which there can be no serious discussion of the value of art: the concept of ...
- taste
- the detection and identification by the sensory system of dissolved chemicals placed in contact with some part of an animal. Because the term taste is commonly associated with the familiar ... [14 Related Articles]
- taste blindness
- (from the article "sensory reception, human") A substantial minority of people exhibit specific taste blindness, an inability to detect as bitter such chemicals as phenylthiocarbamide (PTC). Taste blindness for PTC and other carbamides appears to be ...
- taste bud
- small organ located on the tongue in terrestrial vertebrates that functions in the perception of taste. In fish, taste buds occur on the lips, the flanks, and the caudal (tail) ... [5 Related Articles]
- taste receptor
- (from the article "sensory reception, human") ...that open by a small pore to the mouth cavity. A single taste bud contains about 50 to 75 slender taste receptor cells, all arranged in a banana-like cluster pointed ...
- tasting
- (from the article "tea") Professional tasters, sampling tea for the trade, taste but do not consume a light brew in which the liquor is separated from the leaf after five to six minutes. The ...
- Tat Khalsa
- (from the article "Sikhism") ...the traditional blue. Those who accepted these changes were called Bandai Sikhs, while those opposed to them-led by Mata Sundari, one of Guru Gobind Singh's widows-called themselves the Tat Khalsa ...
- Tat language
- (from the article "Transcaucasia") ...latter consist of Ossetic (spoken in central Georgia), Talysh (spoken in far southeastern Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea), Kurdish (spoken in scattered areas in Armenia and southern Georgia), and Tat ...
- tat tvam asi
- (Sanskrit: "thou art that"), in Hindu philosophy, the famous expression of the relationship between the individual and the absolute. The statement is frequently repeated in the sixth chapter of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tata
- oasis, southwestern Morocco. Situated in an arid region at the extreme northwestern edge of the Sahara, Tata oasis is located in a canyon watered by three wadis descending from Mount ...
- Tata Family
- family of Indian industrialists and philanthropists who founded ironworks and steelworks, cotton mills, and hydroelectric-power plants that proved crucial to India's industrial development.
- Tata Iron and Steel Company
- (from the article "Business Overview") ...world's largest steel company, but it faced challenges from the rising power of the Indian steel industry, including JSW Steel, which was planning to triple production over the next five ...
- tata maki-e
- (from the article "lacquerwork") ...patron of the arts, and under his patronage a real revival took place. When he died, his widow erected the Kodai-ji at Kyoto, in which distinctive lacquer decoration called tata ...
- Tata Motors Ltd.
- (from the article "Ford Motor Company") ...However, as Ford struggled in the early 21st century, it began selling a number of its brands. In 2007 the company sold Aston Martin, and the following year it sold ...
- Tata, J R D
- Indian industrialist (b. July 29, 1904, Paris, France--d. Nov. 29, 1993, Geneva, Switz.), for more than 50 years controlled what under his leadership became India's largest industrial empire. Tata was ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tata, Jamsetji Nasarwanji
- (from the article "India") ...(i.e., textiles in Lancashire), by adding enough rupees to its revenue to make ends meet. Bombay's textile industry had by then developed more than 80 power mills, and the Indian ...
- Tata, Ratan
- Indian business mogul Ratan Tata, chairman of the privately owned Tata Group, a Mumbai-based conglomerate of nearly 100 companies, made international headlines in 2008 with some of the year's most ...
- Tata, Sir Dorabji Jamsetji
- (from the article "Tata Family") Tata began organizing India's first large-scale ironworks in 1901, and these were incorporated in 1907 as Tata Iron and Steel Company. Under the direction of his sons, Sir Dorabji Jamsetji ...
- Tata, Sir Ratanji
- (from the article "Tata Family") ...India's first large-scale ironworks in 1901, and these were incorporated in 1907 as Tata Iron and Steel Company. Under the direction of his sons, Sir Dorabji Jamsetji Tata (1859-1932) and ...
- Tatabanya
- city of county status and seat of Komarom-Esztergom megye (county), northwestern Hungary. Lying in the valley of the Gallei River, between the Vertes Hills to the south and the Gerecse ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tatamailau, Mount
- (from the article "East Timor") The eastern part of Timor is rugged, with the mountains rising to 9,721 feet (2,963 metres) at Mount Tatamailau (Tata Mailau) in the centre of a high plateau. The area ...
- tatami
- rectangular mat used as a floor covering in Japanese houses. It consists of a thick straw base and a soft, finely woven rush cover with cloth borders. A tatami measures ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tatar
- any member of several Turkic-speaking peoples that collectively numbered more than 5 million in the late 20th century and lived mainly in west-central Russia along the central course of the ... [31 Related Articles]
- Tatar City
- (from the article "Beijing") ...traditional core of Beijing essentially consisted of two walled cities (the walls no longer stand), the northern inner city and the southern outer city. The inner city, also known conventionally ...
- Tatar language
- northwestern (Kipchak) language of the Turkic subfamily of Altaic languages. It is spoken in the republic of Tatarstan in west-central Russia and in Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and China. There are ...
- Tatar Strait
- narrow passage of the northwest Pacific Ocean from the Sea of Japan (south) to the Sea of Okhotsk between Sakhalin Island (east) and the Asian mainland. From 4.5 to 213 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tatara Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") ...the 1979 Ohmishima steel arch bridge, whose 297-metre (975-foot) span made it the longest such structure in the Eastern Hemisphere. But the single most significant structure on the route is ...
- Tataraimaka
- (from the article "Maori") The fighting resumed in the Second Taranaki War in April 1863 after Governor Grey built an attack road into the Waikato area and drove the Taranaki Maori from the Tataraimaka ...
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