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Teach for America: nonprofit educational organization formed in 1990 to address underachievement in American public schools.
teacher education: any of the formal programs that have been established for the preparation of teachers at the elementary- and secondary-school levels.
Teachers College: (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...as commerce, government, and navigation. It has numerous strong graduate and professional schools and various institutes for research and advanced study that have a cosmopolitan outlook. Its Teachers College (1887), ...
Teachers' Day: (from the article "Confucius") ...born on the 27th day of the eighth lunar month has been questioned by historians, but September 28 is still widely observed in East Asia as Confucius's birthday. It is ...
teaching: the profession of those who give instruction, especially in an elementary or a secondary school or in a university. [11 Related Articles]
teaching machine: any mechanical device used for presenting a program of instructional material. [1 Related Articles]
Teagarden, Charlie: (from the article "Teagarden, Jack") Jack's brother, Charlie Teagarden, played trumpet off and on in Jack's bands and did free-lance work for several well-known bandleaders, including Paul Whiteman, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, and Bob Crosby.
Teagarden, Jack: U.S. jazz trombonist, unique because he developed a widely imitated style that appeared to have arrived fully formed. [2 Related Articles]
Teague, Walter Dorwin: industrial designer who pioneered in the establishment of industrial design as a profession in the United States. [1 Related Articles]
teahouse: (from the article "Sen Rikyu") Sen Rikyu redefined the tea ceremony in all its aspects: the rules of procedure, the utensils, the teahouse architecture (of which he designed several styles), and even the tea-garden landscaping. ...
teak: large deciduous tree of the family Verbenaceae, or its wood, one of the most valuable timbers. Teak has been widely used in India for more than 2,000 years. The name ... [6 Related Articles]
teal: any of about 15 small ducks of the genus Anas (family Anatidae), found on the six major continents and many islands. Within the divisions of true duck species, the teal ...
Tealia: (from the article "sea anemone") ...tidal zone of all oceans to depths of more than 10,000 metres (about 33,000 feet). Some live in brackish water. They are largest, most numerous, and most colourful in warmer ...
team handball: game played between two teams of 7 or 11 players who try to throw or hit an inflated ball into a goal at either end of a rectangular playing area ...
team policing: (from the article "police") Team policing was introduced in the early 1970s in New York City. Patterned after earlier efforts in Britain, the approach emphasized the delivery of round-the-clock decentralized patrol services by a ...
team roping: rodeo event in which two mounted cowboys attempt to rope and immobilize a full-grown steer. The event is timed, and the team with the lowest time wins. The team is ...
team teaching: (from the article "pedagogy") Team teaching represents an attempt to make better use of every teacher's potential in any subject area, to create a flexible learning situation, and to make nonstreaming more effective. The ...
Teamsters Union: largest private-sector labour union in the United States, representing truck drivers and workers in related industries (such as aviation). The union was formed in 1903 when the Team Drivers International ... [7 Related Articles]
Teapot Dome Scandal: in American history, scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall. After President Warren G. Harding ... [6 Related Articles]
tear: (from the article "eye, human") The exposed surface of the globe (eyeball) is kept moist by the tears secreted by the lacrimal apparatus, together with the mucous and oily secretions of the other secretory organs ...
tear duct and glands: structures that produce and distribute the watery component of the tear film. Tears consist of a complex and usually clear fluid that is diffused between the eye and the eyelid. ... [3 Related Articles]
tear gas: any of a group of substances that irritate the mucous membranes of the eyes, causing a stinging sensation and tears. They may also irritate the upper respiratory tract, causing coughing, ... [5 Related Articles]
tear gland: (from the article "tear duct and glands") The lacrimal glands, the small glands that secrete the watery component of tears and are located behind the outer part of each upper lid, are rarely inflamed but may become ...
Tearle, Sir Godfrey: (from the article "Bennett, Jill") ...Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London (1944-46). In 1949 she joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, where she began a passionate love affair with 60-year-old actor Sir Godfrey ...
Teasdale, Sara: American poet whose short, personal lyrics were noted for their classical simplicity and quiet intensity. [1 Related Articles]
teasel: any of about 15 species constituting the genus Dipsacus of the family Dipsacaceae, native to Europe, the Mediterranean area, and tropical Africa. Many teasels are prickly, coarse biennials with opposite ...
Teatro all'Antica: (from the article "theatre") In 1588-89 Scamozzi designed the Teatro all'Antica, a small court theatre for the Gonzaga family at Sabbioneta. Unlike the Teatro Olimpico the stage here is a single architectural vista behind ...
Teatro Amazonas: (from the article "Manaus") ...on the production of natural rubber from the tree Hevea brasiliensis brought prosperity to the city. Manaus's majestic buildings and homes, including the cathedral and ornate opera house (Teatro Amazonas, ...
Teatro Campesino, El: (from the article "theatrical production") ...campaigns of the Vietnam War era resulted in the formation of a large number of innovative companies. Notable among these groups were the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Bread and Puppet ...
Teatro dell'Opera: (from the article "Rome") ...sculpted into the outer wall, it enlarges on concepts advanced by Michelangelo. Bernini's use of coloured marbles and shrewd lighting effects gives the small structure extra dimension. Nearby is the ...
Teatro Grottesco: (from the article "theatre, Western") ...space, masks, and costumes to Surrealistic effect. He also wished his actors to master the acrobatic aspects of the commedia dell'arte as an antidote to cerebral acting. Another movement was ...
Teatro Olimpico: (from the article "Scamozzi, Vincenzo") Scamozzi was also an important theatre architect who tried to integrate stage settings into the surrounding space. He completed Palladio's Teatro Olimpico in 1585, adding to it the model streets ...
teatro stabili: (from the article "theatre, Western") Theatre in Italy was stimulated by the establishment of permanent regional companies (teatri stabili) immediately after World War II. The first of these, the Piccolo Teatro di ...
Teays River System: (from the article "valley") ...from the Appalachians across the Midwest, but far north of its present course. Numerous water wells in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois are located along this paleovalley, which is called the ...
Tebaldi, Renata: Italian operatic soprano, a star at both Milan's La Scala and New York City's Metropolitan Opera. [1 Related Articles]
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 ...
Tebow, Tim: (from the article "Football") Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, the first sophomore Heisman Trophy winner, was the FBS's first player to score 20 touchdowns both on runs and on passes and ranked second in passing ...
Tebulosmta, Mount: (from the article "Caucasus") ...Mount Dombay-Ulgen (Dombey-Yolgen; 13,274 feet [4,046 metres]), in the western sector; Mounts Shkhara, Dykhtau, and Kazbek, all over 16,000 feet (4,800 metres), in the central sector; and Mounts Tebulosmta and ...
Tecate: (from the article "Baja California") ...Agreement in 1994 intensified the state's economic ties with the United States. Tijuana, ideally situated just south of San Diego, Calif., is the leading maquiladora centre, followed by Mexicali and ...
Tech Duinn: (from the article "Celtic religion") ...the Blessed, having forgotten all their suffering and sorrow. But this "delightful plain" was not accessible to all. Donn, god of the dead and ancestor of all the Irish, reigned ...
Tech Model Railroad Club: (from the article "electronic game") ...minicomputer donated by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to MIT and the new Precision CRT Display Type 30 attached to it. This new technology appealed to the "hacker" culture of the ...
Techale, Alem: (from the article "Track and Field Sports") Ethiopian distance star Kenenisa Bekele's fiancee, Alem Techale, the 2003 world youth 1,500-m champion, died in January from a heart attack as the couple trained in the forest outside Addis ...
Techichi: (from the article "Chihuahua") smallest recognized dog breed, named for the Mexican state of Chihuahua, where it was first noted in the mid-19th century. The Chihuahua is thought to have been derived from the ...
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 ... [4 Related Articles]
technetium-99: (from the article "radioactivity") ...the thyroid gland where this isotope accumulates. Phosphorus-32 is useful in the identification of malignant tumours because cancerous cells tend to accumulate phosphates more than normal cells do. Technetium-99m, used ...
Technical and Further Education Commission: (from the article "South Australia") Two types of postsecondary education are available in South Australia. The Technical and Further Education Commission provides a wide range of courses at community colleges and colleges of further education. ...
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 ... [5 Related Articles]
technical knockout: (from the article "boxing") A bout ends in a knockout when a boxer is knocked down and cannot get up by the count of 10. A fight can be stopped by a technical knockout ...
Technical Library: (from the article "Germany") ...Property Foundation (formerly the Prussian State Library), and National Library in Berlin. The German Library at Frankfurt am Main is the country's library of deposit and bibliographic centre. The Technical ...
technical molybdic oxide: (from the article "molybdenum processing") About 97 percent of MoS₂ must be converted into technical molybdic oxide (85-90 percent MoO₃) in order to reach its commercial destination. Such conversion is almost universally carried out in ...
technical writing: (from the article "language") At the other end of the translator's spectrum, technical prose dealing with internationally agreed scientific subjects is probably the easiest type of material to translate, because cultural unification (in this ...
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 ... [6 Related Articles]
Technicolor, Inc.: (from the article "Frawley, Patrick Joseph, Jr.") ...as well, having experienced successful treatment for alcoholism in 1964. In the second half of the 20th century, Frawley became involved in the motion-picture industry, serving as chairman of Technicolor, ...
technique: (from the article "architecture") The second aspect of content is the communication of the structural significance of materials and methods. Its purpose is to interpret the way in which architecture is put together. The ...
Technische Universitat Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig: (from the article "Braunschweig") The city is internationally renowned for scientific research. The Technische Universitat Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, the oldest technical university in Germany, was founded as the Collegium Carolinum in 1745 (its current ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Technocracy, Committee on: (from the article "technocracy") The much-publicized Committee on Technocracy, headed by Walter Rautenstrauch and dominated by Scott, was organized in 1932 in New York City. Scott proclaimed the invalidation, by technologically produced abundance, of ...
Technological Museum: (from the article "museum, types of") Some science and technology museums, such as the very popular Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago or the Technological Museum in Mexico City, are of a more technical nature. ...
technology: (from the article "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.arts and cultureFrench literature
Technology Vision 2020: (from the article "Abdul Kalam, A.P.J.") ...country's 1998 nuclear weapons tests established Kalam as a national hero, although the tests caused great concern in the international community. In 1998 Kalam put forward a countrywide plan called ...
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 ... [14 Related Articles]
Technorati, Inc.: (from the article "blog") The growth of the blogosphere has been nothing short of remarkable. Technorati, Inc., a Web site and organization dedicated to mapping and searching the blogosphere, found that by October 2005 ...
Teco language: (from the article "Mesoamerican Indian languages") ...hundred Indians in four or five towns in southeast Chiapas and west central Guatemala. Although it appears to be closely related to Mam, Kaufman considered it a separate language and ...
Tecom Investments of Dubai: (from the article "Malta") On March 27 Malta's government and a top-level delegation from Tecom Investments of Dubai signed an agreement for the construction of SmartCity@Malta, a high-tech village modeled on Dubai Internet City, ...
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 ...
Tectariaceae: the buckler fern family, containing 8-15 genera and about 230 species, in the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular plants). Tectariaceae is distributed nearly worldwide but is most diverse in tropical ...
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 ... [3 Related Articles]
tectonic cave: (from the article "cave") Tectonic caves are formed by a mass movement of the bedrock. The rocks separate along joints or fractures, and are pulled apart mechanically. The resulting cave is usually a high, ...
tectonic earthquake: (from the article "earthquake") ...because this form of energy is the only kind that can be stored in sufficient quantity in the Earth to produce major disturbances. Earthquakes associated with this type of energy ...
tectonic geomorphology: (from the article "continental landform") In addition to the usual climatic imprints, orogenic tectonism (including volcanism) adds its obvious dimensions of elevation and slope to any surficial environment it encounters. It is now clear that ...
tectonic lake: (from the article "lake") In some cases, elevated land areas may already contain depressions that eventually form lake basins. Lake Okeechobee, Florida, is cited as being such a basin, formed by uplift of the ...
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 ... [10 Related Articles]
tectorial membrane: (from the article "ear, human") The stereocilia are about three to five micrometres in length. The longest make contact with but do not penetrate the tectorial membrane (Figure 6). This membrane is an acellular, gelatinous ...
tectosilicate: (from the article "Silicate minerals") ...where tetrahedrons share all their oxygen ions, an infinite three-dimensional network is created with an SiO₂ unit composition. Minerals of this type are called framework silicates or tectosilicates.
Tectus: (from the article "top shell") ...are common along temperate Atlantic shores, while those of Tegula and Calliostoma are abundant in the Pacific. Tropical top shells such as Trochus, Tectus, and Cittarium tend to be larger ...
Tecuaque: (from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") Human skeletons found at an archaeological site called Tecuaque, near Mexico City, provided grisly confirmation of Aztec practices of human sacrifice. The site was a flourishing Aztec community of 5,000 ...
tecuhtli: (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...office and, unless they had inherited private estates, were forced to live off the largess of the ruler. Commoners who had captured four enemy warriors in combat were promoted to ...
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 ... [4 Related Articles]
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 ... [3 Related Articles]
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. ... [2 Related Articles]
Tedania ignis: (from the article "sponge") ...excretory products of the sponges-ammonia and other nitrogen-containing substances-account for their characteristic unpleasant odour. Many sponges (e.g., the tropical sponge Tedania ignis) exude large quantities of mucus, and some species ...
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, ...
teddy bear: (from the article "Roosevelt, Theodore") ...its doors to entertain cowboys, prizefighters, explorers, writers, and artists. His refusal to shoot a bear cub on a 1902 hunting trip inspired a toy maker to name a stuffed ...
Teddy Bears: (from the article "Spector, Phil") ...school friends recorded To Know Him Is to Love Him, a simple teenage ballad written by Spector, its title taken from his father's gravestone. Released under the ...
Tee Ball: (from the article "baseball") ...for boys 8 to 12 years old, had about 2,500,000 players in its baseball program and 400,000 in its softball program in 102 countries. Little League has added leagues for ...
teeing ground: (from the article "golf") The starting place for each hole to be played is the teeing ground. The front is indicated by two markers, and the teeing ground is the rectangular space two club ...
teen idol: (from the article "Presley, Elvis") Presley became the teen idol of his decade, greeted everywhere by screaming hordes of young women, and, when it was announced in early 1958 that he had been drafted and ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Tees-Exe Line: (from the article "United Kingdom") Great Britain is traditionally divided into a highland and a lowland zone. A line running from the mouth of the River Exe, in the southwest, to that of the Tees, ...
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 ...
Teesside: (from the article "England") The North East extends to the Scottish border, taking in the geographic counties of Northumberland and Durham. It also includes the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and the Teesside ...
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 ...
Tefe: city and river port, central Amazonas estado (state), northwestern Brazil. Founded by missionaries as Nogueira in the 17th century and also called Ega at one time, Tefe ...
teff: (from the article "Bayda', Al-") The area was not a traditional province of Yemen but was set up in 1949, primarily for political reasons. Teff, a cereal grain introduced into southern Arabia from Ethiopia, is ...
tefilla: (from the article "Judaism") ...of Psalms and biblical prayers; the Shema and its accompanying benedictions, introduced by a call to worship that marks the beginning of formal public worship; the prayer (
tefillin shel rosh: (from the article "phylactery") ...which taken together form the divine name Shaddai. The hand phylactery (tefillin shel yad) has one compartment with the texts written on a single parchment; the head phylactery (tefillin shel ...