town, Maharashtra state, western India, at the mouth of the Thana River and head of the Ulhas Estuary, northeast of Bombay. The town is primarily a residential suburb of Bombay, ...
the description or study of death and dying and the psychological mechanisms of dealing with them. Thanatology is concerned with the notion of death as popularly perceived and especially with ...
in English history before the Norman Conquest (1066), a free retainer or lord, corresponding in its various grades to the post-Conquest baron and knight. The word is extant only once ...
district, administrative and historic county of Kent, England, in the extreme northeast of the county. It roughly coincides with the historic Isle of Thanet, but the modern administrative district extends ...
island in the northeastern corner of the administrative and historic county of Kent, England, bounded by the Thames Estuary and two branches of the Great Stour River. It is 42 ...
(Tibetan: "something rolled up"), Tibetan religious painting or drawing on woven material, usually cotton; it has a bamboo-cane rod pasted on the bottom edge by which it can be rolled ...
city, northern Vietnam. It is situated immediately south of the Red River (Song Hong) delta region, about 85 miles (137 km) south of Hanoi, on a small tributary of the ...
city, eastern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It lies in the Kaveri (Cauvery) River delta, about 30 miles (50 km) east of Tiruchchirappalli. An early capital of the Chola (Cola) ...
Myanmar educator, civil servant, and third secretary general of the United Nations (1962-71). Neutralist by inclination and in practice, he criticized both West and East for actions and attitudes that ...
low, basinlike, alluvial swampy region, a northwestern extension of the Mekong delta, in southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It is bounded on the southeast by the Tien Giang River, the ...
(Feb. 6, 46 BC), in ancient Roman history, battle during the civil war between the Caesarians and the Pompeians (49-46 BC). It was the final blow delivered by Julius Caesar's ...
a tract of rolling sand hills located partly in the Indian state of Rajasthan and partly in Pakistan. Covering 77,000 square miles (200,000 square km) of territory, it is bordered ...
French brothers noted for the extent and diversity of their literary production spanning 50 years of collaboration. Many of their early works were published in the periodical Cahiers de la ...
in Greek religion, one of the chief festivals of Apollo at Athens, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Thargelion (May-June). Basically a vegetation ritual upon which an expiatory ...
eighth king (reigned 1837-46) of the Alaungpaya, or Konbaung, dynasty of Myanmar (Burma), who repudiated the Treaty of Yandabo and nearly brought about a war with the British.
extensive volcanic province on Mars that contains three of the planet's most massive volcanoes. The province is focused on a rise or dome about 8,000 km (5,000 miles) across and ...
intermittent stream of north-central Iraq, rising from several headstreams in the Sinjar Mountains (west of Mosul) and flowing southward to Lake Tharthar, which is a reservoir 60 miles (100 km) ...
people of the Tarai region of the Himalayan foothills located in southern Nepal and in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. In the late 20th century the Tharu in ...
large, wooded island of the northernmost Aegean Sea, Kavala nomos (department), Greece. It is located southwest of the delta of the Nestos River in Thrace and has an area of ...
British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979-90), Europe's first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the ...
town, southern Myanmar (Burma), situated on the Tenasserim plains in the northern part of the narrow coastal strip known as Tenasserim. Once a lively seaport, Thaton, because of silting, is ...
town, Sindh province, Pakistan, just west of the Indus River, inland from Karachi and the Arabian Sea coast. During the 16th century it was the capital of the Samma dynasty ...
Protestantism originated in the 16th-century Reformation, and its basic doctrines, in addition to those of the ancient Christian creeds, are justification by grace alone through faith, the priesthood of all ...
the tea family of plants in the order Theales. The Theaceae comprises about 40 genera of trees or shrubs native to temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres, including several ...
tea order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, a division of the subclass Dilleniidae. The members are mostly tropical trees and shrubs. Prominent among them are the plants that produce tea and ...
in dramatic arts, an art concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama.
in architecture, a building or space in which a performance may be given before an audience. The word is from the Greek theatron, "a place of seeing." A theatre usually ...
a theatrical society founded in New York City in 1918 for the production of high-quality, noncommercial American and foreign plays. The guild, founded by Lawrence Langner (1890-1962), departed from the ...
any music designed to form part of a dramatic performance, as, for example, a ballet, stage play, motion picture, or television program. Included are the European operetta and its American ...
French national theatre created in 1920 to bring theatre to the general public. Its first director, Firmin Gemier, had been the director of the Theatre Antoine and had made a ...
an art, concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama, as it is presented in sub-Saharan ...
first public playhouse of London, located in the parish of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. Designed and built by James Burbage (the father of actor Richard Burbage), The Theatre was a roofless, ...
form of theatrical staging in which the acting area, which may be raised or at floor level, is completely surrounded by the audience. It has been theorized that the informality ...
(French: Free Theatre), independent, private theatre founded in Paris in 1887 by Andre Antoine, which became the proving ground for the new naturalistic drama. Antoine, an amateur actor, was influenced ...
in English literary history, conflict involving the Elizabethan playwrights Ben Jonson, John Marston, and Thomas Dekker. It covered a period when Jonson was writing for one children's company of players ...
the planning, rehearsal, and presentation of a work. Such a work is presented to an audience at a particular time and place by live performers, who use either themselves or ...
in 20th-century Western theatre, the general movement away from the dominant 19th-century techniques of naturalism in acting, staging, and playwriting; it was especially directed against the illusion of reality that ...
major city of Boeotia nomos (department), northwest of Athens, Greece, and one of the chief cities and powers of ancient Greece. On the acropolis of the ancient city stands the ...
one of the famed cities of antiquity, the capital of the ancient Egyptian empire at its heyday. Thebes lay on either side of the Nile River at approximately latitude 26° ...
archaic term formerly applied to any member of a group of primitive archosaurs ("ruling reptiles") thought to include the ancestral stock of all other archosaurs, including birds, dinosaurs, pterosaurs (extinct ...
in law, crime of taking another person's property without his consent. It is a general term covering the specific crimes of larceny, robbery, and burglary.
South African-born American microbiologist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his development of a vaccine against yellow fever.
any of a group of livestock diseases caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Theileria (Gonderia), transmitted by tick bites. The most serious is East Coast fever of cattle, caused ...
problematic order of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing one family (Theligonaceae, sometimes called Cynocrambaceae) and one genus (Theligonum) with three species distributed in the Canary Islands, Mediterranean region, southwestern China, and ...
extinct genus of early and primitive jawless vertebrates that is known from impressions on rocks of Silurian age in Europe and North America, although the genus persisted into the Early ...
stream in eastern Fort Smith region, Northwest Territories, and central Keewatin region, Nunavut territory, Canada. It drains a major portion of the Barren Grounds (a sub-Arctic prairie region). Arising from ...
South African journalist and short-story writer associated with a brilliant group of young South African writers in the 1950s that included Moses Motsisi, Arthur Maimane, Ezekiel Mphahlele, and Lewis Nkosi.
in the Byzantine Empire, originally, a military unit stationed in a provincial area; in the 7th century the name was applied to large military districts formed as buffer territories against ...
(Greek: Order), in Greek religion, personification of justice, goddess of wisdom and good counsel, and the interpreter of the gods' will. According to some sources, she was the daughter of ...
Athenian politician and naval strategist who was the creator of Athenian sea power and the chief saviour of Greece from subjection to the Persian Empire at the Battle of Salamis ...
any of a type of sodium sulfate mineral (Na2SO4) that has been deposited as an evaporation product near salt lakes and playas, as in the arid regions of northern Africa, ...
also called Theobald The Troubadour, or The Posthumous, French Thibaud Le Chansonnier, or Le Posthume, Spanish Teobaldo El Trovador, or El Postumo count of Troyes and of Champagne (from 1201), ...
count of Blois and of Chartres (from 1102) and count of Champagne (from 1125) as Theobald II. He was the grandson of Theobald III of Blois. Theobald IV reunited Champagne ...
diuretic drug and major alkaloidal constituent of cocoa. Theobromine is a xanthine alkaloid, a methylxanthine, as are caffeine and theophylline, but it differs from them in having little stimulatory action ...
Ostrogothic king of Italy and a philosopher who wrote a treatise on Plato; his assassination of his cousin Queen Amalasuntha, daughter of King Theodoric, furnished a pretext for the Byzantine ...
Merovingian king of Reims from 547 or 548, in succession to his father, Theodebert I. He proved incapable of continuing the latter's dynamic policies. He left no son, and on ...
(from Greek theos, "god"; dike, "justice"), the justification of God, which is concerned with reconciling the goodness and justice of God with the observable facts of evil and suffering in ...
basic surveying instrument of unknown origin but going back to the 16th-century English mathematician Leonard Digges; it is used to measure horizontal and vertical angles. In its modern form it ...
