| | - Taylor, Edward
- one of the foremost poets in colonial British North America. [1 Related Articles]
- Taylor, Elizabeth
- nee Coles British novelist noted for her precise use of language and scrupulously understated style.
- Taylor, Frank B.
- (from the article "continental drift") ...fossil plants in both North American and European coal deposits could be explained if the two continents had formerly been connected, a relationship otherwise difficult to account for. In 1908 ...
- Taylor, Fred
- American basketball coach (b. Dec. 3, 1924, Zanesville, Ohio-d. Jan. 6, 2002, Hilliard, Ohio), was the longtime head basketball coach at Ohio State University; during his tenure at the university ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Taylor, G. P.
- (from the article "Literature") Christian readers critical of the benign image of witchcraft in Rowling's books found a riveting alternative in the works of G.P. Taylor, a policeman turned vicar. His popular children's novel ...
- Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram
- (from the article "solids, mechanics of") ...of the cut back together, filling in with material as necessary. The initial status of this work was simply regarded as an interesting way of generating elastic fields, but, in ...
- Taylor, Griffith
- (from the article "Australia") ...nationalistic sentiments that proclaimed "population capacities" of 100 to 500 million in Australia's "vast empty spaces." In the interwar period the Australian geographer Griffith Taylor argued that there were stringent ...
- Taylor, Henry
- (from the article "Literature") ...("The grated lemon rind bitters the oil it steeps in. / A wanted flavor. / Like the moment in love when one lover knows / the other could do anything ...
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Taylor, Jane
- (from the article "children's literature") ...the young really read or listened to at the opening of the 19th century was not Blake but Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804), by "Several Young Persons," including Ann ...
- Taylor, Jeremy
- Anglican clergyman and writer. [1 Related Articles]
- Taylor, Jermain
- (from the article "Boxing") World and WBC middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (U.S.) retained the titles by boxing a bristling 12-round draw on June 17 with accomplished left-hander Ronald ("Winky") Wright (U.S.) in Memphis, Tenn. ...
- Taylor, Jim
- (from the article "2004: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman; story by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor ...
- 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
- (from the article "Edwards, Jonathan") By 1757 Edwards had finished his Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended (1758), which was mainly a reply to the English divine John Taylor of Norwich, whose works attacking ...
- Taylor, John
- (from the article "Bach, Johann Sebastian") ...except that it lasted several months and prevented him from finishing The Art of the Fugue. His constitution was undermined by two unsuccessful eye operations performed by ...
- 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, ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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. [3 Related Articles]
- Taylor, June
- American choreographer (b. Dec. 14, 1917, Chicago, Ill.-d. May 17, 2004, Miami, Fla.), began dancing professionally when she was 12, had her career ended by tuberculosis at age 20, and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Taylor, Kenneth
- American publisher (b. May 8, 1917, Portland, Ore.-d. June 10, 2005, Wheaton, Ill.), founded (1962) Tyndale House Publishers, a prominent Christian publisher, but was best known as the creator of ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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. [2 Related Articles]
- Taylor, Moses
- (from the article "Stillman, James") Beginning his career in a New York City mercantile house, Stillman became a protege of Moses Taylor, then a wealthy merchant and banker. In 1891, having participated in a number ...
- Taylor, Myron C.
- American financier and diplomat who was chief executive of the United States Steel Corporation in the 1930s. [1 Related Articles]
- Taylor, Paul
- American modern dancer and choreographer noted for the inventive, frequently humorous, and sardonic dances that he choreographed for his company. [3 Related Articles]
- Taylor, Penny
- (from the article "Basketball") There was also a first-time winner in the FIBA women's world championships, played in Brazil in September. Penny Taylor scored 28 points in Australia's 91-74 win over Russia in the ...
- Taylor, Peter
- American short-story writer, novelist, and playwright known for his portraits of Tennessee gentry caught in a changing society. [1 Related Articles]
- Taylor, Regina
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...glum response, although newcomer Carla Gugino acquitted herself admirably in the role based on Marilyn Monroe. Drowning Crow, a rambling riff on The Seagull by up-and-coming playwright Regina Taylor, tried ...
- Taylor, Richard
- (from the article "Red River Campaign") ...up the Red River and, with the support of a river fleet commanded by Admiral David Dixon Porter, took Fort DeRussy and the town of Alexandria, La. However, Confederate troops ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Taylor, Robert
- (from the article "Xerox PARC") Upon opening the facility in a former Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., building in Palo Alto, Pake went about assembling a staff. His first hire was Robert Taylor, a former deputy director ...
- Taylor, Ronnie
- (from the article "1982: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: John Briley for GandhiAdapted Screenplay: Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart for MissingCinematography: Ronnie Taylor and Billy Williams for GandhiArt Direction: Stuart Craig and Bob Laing for GandhiOriginal Score: John ...
- Taylor, Samuel
- (from the article "shorthand") Several other systems were invented in the next decades, but most of them were short-lived. One of the most successful was that of the British stenographer Samuel Taylor, who invented ...
- Taylor, T. I.
- (from the article "chromatography") ...having a greater affinity for the exchanger. This selective affinity of the solid is called ion, or ion-exchange, chromatography. The first such chromatographic separations were reported in 1938 by T.I. ...
- Taylor, Telford
- American lawyer and writer (b. Feb. 24, 1908, Schenectady, N.Y.--d. May 23, 1998, New York, N.Y.), was best known for his role as the chief prosecutor during the Nurnberg war ...
- Taylor, Theodore Brewster
- American nuclear physicist and weapons designer (b. July 11, 1925, Mexico City, Mex.-d. Oct. 28, 2004, Silver Spring, Md.), devised the most powerful fission explosives in the U.S. arsenal as ...
- Taylor, Thomas
- (from the article "Platonism") ...Christian Platonism mentioned above on English literature, and especially on English poetry, has been wide and deep. But there has also been a strongly anti-Christian Neoplatonic influence, that of Thomas ...
- Taylor, Wayne
- (from the article "Automobile Racing") The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, sanctioned under the Grand American Sports Car series, saw the amateur trio of Wayne Taylor, Max Angelelli, and Emmanuel Collard cover 4,067.8 km (2,527.6 ...
- Taylor, Zachary
- 12th president of the United States (1849-50). Elected on the ticket of the Whig Party as a hero of the Mexican-American War (1846-48), he died only 16 months after taking ... [10 Related Articles]
- Taylor, Zola
- American singer was the only female member of the Platters, a vocal ensemble that became one of the foremost singing groups of the early days of rock and roll ...
- Taylorism
- (from the article "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 ...
- Tayma'
- (from the article "Arabia, history of") The oasis of Tayma' in the northern Hejaz emerged briefly into the limelight when the Neo-Babylonian king Nabu-na'id (Nabonidus, reigned c. 556-539 BC) took up his residence there for 10 ...
- Taymur ibn Faysal
- (from the article "Al Bu Sa'id dynasty") ...the Al Bu Sa'id family until a treaty, known as the Treaty of Al-Sib (Sept. 25, 1920), was signed between Imam 'Isa ibn Salih and Sultan Taymur ibn Faysal (reigned ...
- Taymur, Mahmud
- (from the article "Arabic literature") ...Muhammad Taymur, died at an early age, but the other members of the group elaborated on his efforts and brought the genre to a level of real maturity: if Muhammad's ...
- Taymur, Muhammad
- (from the article "Arabic literature") ...and mid-20th century with a group of Egyptian writers who became known as Jama'at al-Madrasah Hadithah ("New School Group"). The pioneer figure of the school, Muhammad Taymur, died at an ...
- Taymyr
- former autonomous okrug (district), northeastern central Russia. In 2007 Taymyr was subsumed under Krasnoyarsk kray (territory). It lies on the hilly Taymyr Peninsula, the most northerly part of the Eurasian ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Taymyr Samoyed
- (from the article "nature worship") ...is considered female-Shams of some Arabs, Shaph of ancient Ugarit in Palestine, Sun of Arinna of the Hittites, as well as the female Sun of the Germanic peoples. Siberian people ...
- 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 ...
- Taysina, Peace of
- (from the article "Finland") ...constant warfare, and the danger became more serious when Novgorod, at the end of the medieval period, was succeeded by a more powerful neighbour, the Grand Duchy of Moscow. In ...
- Taza
- city, north-central Morocco. Located south of the Rif Mountains, the city is composed of two formerly separate towns built on separate terraces overlooking a mountain valley. The old town (medina) ...
- Taza Pass
- (from the article "Atlas Mountains") ...a natural conduit for traffic between Constantine on the Rhumel River and Touggourt in the Sahara. Between Algeria and Morocco both the road and the railroad pass through the Atlas ...
- taze-gu'i
- (from the article "Turkish literature") In the 17th century this newer style of poetry was termed taze-gu'i ("fresh speech") or tarz-i nev ("new style"). (By the early 20th century ...
- Tazerzait Srhir Hill
- (from the article "Niger") ...Mountains of Algeria, and consists of a range running north to south in the centre of Niger, with individual mountain masses forming separate "islands": from north to south these are ...
- tazia
- (from the article "Islamic world") ...suffering on themselves to identify with their martyrs of old, listened to sermons, and recited appropriate elegiac poetry. In later Safavid times the name for this mourning,
- Tazieff, Haroun
- Polish-born French volcanologist whose fascination with volcanoes and knowledge of them, often obtained under extremely harrowing conditions, were enthusiastically shared by the French public through books and, especially, in films ...
- TB-1
- (from the article "Tupolev") ...team and workshop facilities to construct experimental aircraft for testing. The group's early forays into aircraft design led to the creation of a number of notable Soviet airplanes including the ...
- Tbilisi
- capital of the republic of Georgia, on the Mtkvari (Kura) River at its dissection of the Trialeti (Trialetsky) and Kartli (Kartliysky, or Kartalinian) ranges. Founded in 458 (in some sources, ... [8 Related Articles]
- Tboli
- (from the article "Tasaday") ...eventually, to somehow profit from the management of Tasaday forestlands. According to these later reports, the Tasaday were actually members of the nearby, more culturally advanced Manubo-Blit or Tboli tribes ...
- Tchaikovsky Ballet
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...Toronto and on tour at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Stanton Welch's brand new, sometimes crass production was unveiled at Houston Ballet. As the year ...
- 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, ... [12 Related Articles]
- Tchelistcheff, Andre
- Russian-born U.S. enologist (b. 1901, Moscow, Russia--d. April 5, 1994, Napa, Calif.), was a pivotal figure in the revitalization of the California wine industry following Prohibition (1919-33) and used his ...
- 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.
- Tcherina, Ludmila
- French ballet dancer, actress, artist, and writer (b. Oct. 10, 1924, Paris, France-d. March 21, 2004, Paris), was known almost as much for her beauty and flair as for her ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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. [2 Related Articles]
- 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, ...
- Tcikapis
- (from the article "American Subarctic peoples") Three of the most popular characters in Algonquian folklore are Wiitiko (Windigo), a terrifying cannibalistic giant apt to be encountered in the forest; Tcikapis, a kindly, powerful young hero and ...
- 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 ...
- Td
- (from the article "infectious disease") ...being recommended. Diphtheria toxoid is also available combined with tetanus toxoid and pertussis vaccine (DPT), combined with tetanus toxoid alone (DT), and combined with tetanus toxoid for adults (Td). The ...
- TDPradio
- (from the article "Media and Publishing") Digital radio was also expanding in other countries. Belgium-based TDPradio, the brainchild of program manager Daniel Versmissen, celebrated its third year as the first and only dance radio station that ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Te Aroha
- town, 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 known as Aroha Gold ...
- Te Atairangikaahu, Dame
- New Zealand Maori queen (b. July 23, 1931, Waahi Marae Huntly, N.Z.-d. Aug. 15, 2006, Ngaruawahia, near Hamilton, N.Z.), was the sixth and longest-serving monarch of the Kingitanga movement and ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri
- critically acclaimed lyric soprano best known for her repertoire of works by Mozart and Richard Strauss.
- Te Kooti
- Maori guerrilla and founder of the Ringatu religious movement in New Zealand. Imprisoned on the Chatham Islands, he studied the Old Testament and in December 1867 announced that he had ... [2 Related Articles]
- Te Manga, Mount
- (from the article "Rarotonga") ...group of the Cook Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, about 2,100 miles (3,400 km) northeast of New Zealand. Volcanic in origin, it has a rugged interior rising to 2,139 ...
- Te riri pakeha
- (from the article "Maori") The last of the wars-known to the Europeans as "the fire in the fern" and to the Maori as te riri pakeha, "the white man's anger,"-was fought ...
- Te Ua Haumene
- (from the article "Hauhau") any of the radical members of the Maori Pai Marire (Maori: "Good and Peaceful") religion, founded in 1862 in Taranaki on North Island, New Zealand. The movement was founded by ...
- 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. ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 blight bug
- (from the article "plant bug") Helopeltis theivora is the tea blight bug of Southeast Asia. It is both common and highly destructive.
- 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 ... [12 Related Articles]
- tea garden
- (from the article "garden and landscape design") ...15 stones divided into five groups. If anything is represented here, it is some rocky islets in a sea, but the appeal of the garden lies essentially in the charm ...
- tea olive
- a plant of the genus Osmanthus in the family Oleaceae, often grown for its fragrant flowers and shining, evergreen foliage. There are about 15 species, native to eastern North America, ...
- 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 ... [10 Related Articles]
- tea rose
- (from the article "rose") ...and sold in florist shops. Hybrid teas come in the complete range of rose colours and have large, symmetrical blossoms. Hybrid teas resulted from the crossbreeding of frequently blooming but ...
- tea tree
- (from the article "Leptospermum") Many species are called tea trees: the Australian tea tree (Leptospermum laevigatum), growing to a height of 6 m (20 feet), has shredding bark and white flowers. It is used ...
- teaberry
- (from the article "Gaultheria") ...slender, diffuse shrub of the California redwood forests; it grows 0.3-1.8 metres (1-6 feet) tall and has dark-purple edible fruits. G. procumbens, commonly known as checkerberry, teaberry, or wintergreen, is ...
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