(from the article "phylactery") ...tefillin are worn in a prescribed manner so as to represent the letters shin,daleth, and yod, which taken together form the divine name Shaddai. The hand phylactery (tefillin shel ...
chieftain of Sais, in the northwest Nile River delta, later king and founder of the 24th dynasty (c. 722-c. 715 BCE; see ancient Egypt: The 24th and 25th dynasties). He ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Shu") in Egyptian religion, god of the air and supporter of the sky, created by Atum by his own power, without the aid of a woman. Shu and his sister and ...
kotamadya (municipality) and port, northwestern Jawa Tengah provinsi (Central Java province), central Java, west-central Indonesia, located on the Java Sea about 160 miles (257 ...
(from the article "Niger") ...of neighbouring Mali. The central region consists of the rocky Adar Doutchi and Majia areas; it is the region of the gulbi (dried-up valleys of former tributaries of the Sokoto ...
ancient Greek city of eastern Arcadia, 4 miles (6.5 km) southeast of the modern town of Tripolis. The Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea was described by the Greek geographer ...
(from the article "Tempelhof") ...for regular Allied airlifts of supplies. A statue commemorating the Berlin airlift stands in a park in front of the arrivals hall. In September 1975 nearly all air services transferred ...
gemeente (commune), Limburg provincie, southeastern Netherlands, bounded on the west by the Maas (Meuse) River. It is known for the Passion Play performed there every few years (May to September). ... [1 Related Articles]
lake, southern Bayern (Bavaria), southeastern Germany, lying at 2,380 feet (725 m) above sea level, surrounded by wooded mountains on the fringe of the Bavarian Alps, south of Munich. It ...
(from the article "pollination") ...moths are the various species of the genus Plusia, sometimes occurring in enormous numbers, and the hummingbird hawkmoth (Macroglossa), which is active in daylight. A small moth, Tegeticula maculata, presents ...
ninth Sikh Guru and second Sikh martyr, who gave his life for a religion not his own. He was also the father of the tenth Guru, Gobind Singh. [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "nervous system, human") The pons (metencephalon) consists of two parts: the tegmentum, a phylogenetically older part that contains the reticular formation, and the pontine nuclei, a larger part composed of masses of neurons ...
(Tupinambis), any of about seven large, carnivorous, tropical South American lizards of the family Teiidae. The background colour of most species is black. Some have yellow, reddish, ...
city and capital of the Republic of Honduras. It is located on hilly terrain hemmed in by mountains, at an elevation of 3,200 feet (975 metres) above sea level. Tegucigalpa, ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Arghun") Upon the death of his father, Il-Khan Abagha (reigned 1265-82), Prince Arghun was a candidate for the throne but was forced to yield to a stronger rival, his uncle Teguder. ...
(from the article "Mongolia") At that time, refugees from Inner Mongolia swarmed into the Mongolian People's Republic. The Japanese had organized a puppet government of Inner Mongolia under Teh Wang (Prince Teh, Demchukdongrub). He ...
segment of the Coast Ranges (see Pacific mountain system), south-central California, U.S. They extend for about 50 miles (80 km) and link the south end of the Sierra Nevada with ...
(from the article "The Tehelka Tapes") In 2001 a stunning expose by a New Delhi news portal claimed the jobs of India's defense minister, senior party functionaries of the ruling coalition, and at least five high-ranking ...
the capital city of Iran and the centre of the province (ostan) of Tehran, located in north-central Iran at the foot of the Elburz mountain range. Since ... [11 Related Articles]
(November 28-December 1, 1943), meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran during World War II. The chief discussion ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Performing Arts") While the furor over the bomb plot continued in August and international tension was also rising over Iran's nuclear program, the Tehran Symphony Orchestra made a brief tour of Germany, ...
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...women and dissidents and represented many people who had run afoul of the Iranian government. She also distributed evidence implicating government officials in the murders of students at the University ...
(from the article "Tehri-Garhwal") The surrounding region occupies an area of 1,707 square miles (4,421 square km), wholly within the Himalayan Range, and is bounded (south) by the Ganges River. Rice, barley, wheat, and ...
city, southeastern Puebla estado (state), south-central Mexico. It is situated in the Tehuacan valley of the Sierra Madre Oriental, at an elevation of 5,500 feet (1,700 m). ...
(from the article "Mexico") ...hunting to other means of subsistence, such as the hunting of small game and the collecting of wild food plants. This mode of existence is best seen in the archaeological ...
large widemouthed inlet of the Pacific Ocean, forming the southern shore of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, southeastern Mexico. The gulf extends approximately 300 miles (500 km) from Puerto Angel, in ...
isthmus in southern Mexico, between the Gulf of Campeche on the Gulf of Mexico to the north, and the Gulf of Tehuantepec on the Pacific Ocean to the south. From ... [3 Related Articles]
South American Indians who formerly inhabited the Patagonian plains from the Strait of Magellan to the Negro River. They were divided into northern and southern branches. Each division had its ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "South American Indian languages") ...employing only prefixes to show grammatical distinctions have not been reported. There are a few with many prefixes but still more suffixes (Jebero, or Chebero); others, like Ona and Tehuelche, ...
(from the article "Toronto") The first known settlement in the Toronto area, Teiaiagon, inhabited first by Seneca and later by Mississauga Native American peoples, was on the east bank of the Humber River. In ...
American pianist performed in the 1960s with pianist Arthur Ferrante, and the two (billed as Ferrante & Teicher) became a sensation with their florid renditions on twin pianos of the ...
(from the article "Skiing") ...title by an overwhelming 569 points. At the Nordic world championships in Oberstdorf, Ger., Bjorgen won five medals but somehow failed to qualify for the sprint final. For the men, ...
(from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...The former focuses on Canarian artisanship and hosts craft workshops and demonstrations; the latter features crafts from various regions of Spain and its former colonies. La Orotava's valleys reach Teide ...
volcanic peak at the centre of the island of Tenerife, in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province) of the Canary Islands comunidad autonoma ... [3 Related Articles]
district in the south-central part of the administrative and historic county of Devon, England, surrounding the valley of the River Teign between Dartmoor and the sea. Teignbridge's varied coastline attracts ...
town ("parish"), Teignbridge district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England. It lies along the north bank of the Teign estuary where it joins the English Channel. The Saxon settlement ...
(from the article "biozone") ...a particular place, on the local stratigraphic range of the fossil plant or animal involved, is called a teilzone. The geological time units corresponding to biozones and teilzones are biochrons ...
French philosopher and paleontologist known for his theory that man is evolving, mentally and socially, toward a final spiritual unity. Blending science and Christianity, he declared that the human epic ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Life Sciences") ...(the land mass that became Asia, Europe, and North America). Deposits dated to 55 million years ago (Early Eocene) of the Hengyang Basin in China recently yielded the oldest known ...
(from the article "biozone") ...a particular fossil and, hence, deposited during its existence. The extent of the unit in a particular place, on the local stratigraphic range of the fossil plant or animal involved, ...
(from the article "Georgian literature") ...fraction of what was written-and effectively ended literary production for two centuries. A renaissance began in the early 17th century with the harrowingly personal, though ornate, poetry of King Teimuraz ...
(from the article "Life Sciences") Research on the oldest known monotreme, Teinolophos trusleri from the Early Cretaceous, indicated that the complex structures of the mammalian inner ear evolved independently in the evolutionary lines of monotremes ...
Flemish novelist, poet, short-story writer, essayist, and playwright who is considered one of the four or five best modern Flemish writers. His dramas were a notable influence on post-World War ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Teishebaini") ...which occupied the top of the hill and contained about 150 rooms. Among the most important objects uncovered were the remains of wooden stools with their bronze fittings; a statuette ...
ancient Urartian fortified town, located on the hill of Karmirblur, near the city of Yerevan in what is now Armenia. Russian excavations at Teishebaini concentrated on the citadel, which occupied ...
(from the article "Ryokan") ...In old age he returned to his native Echigo province, where he studied the Man'yoshu and ancient calligraphy. He developed a strong master-pupil relationship with a young nun, Teishin, who ...
Hungarian-born rabbi (b. Nov. 17, 1914, Ujfeherto, Hung.-d. April 24, 2006, New York, N.Y.), served from 1979 until his death as the spiritual leader of the Satmar Hasidim, an ultra-Orthodox ...
Chilean writer and activist exerted an extraordinary influence on Chilean life as a leading writer, literary critic, and member of the Politburo of the Chilean Communist Party and a founder ...
(from the article "Amazon River") ...only means of access into the forest. Francisco de Orellana descended the main course of the Amazon from the Ecuadoran and Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic in 1541-42. Nearly a ...
(from the article "Baseball") ...The victory, the ninth straight for the AL, ensured that the league's World Series representative, which turned out to be the White Sox, would have home-field advantage in the Series. ...
popular music style fusing Mexican, European, and U.S. influences. Its evolution began in northern Mexico (a variation known as norteno) and Texas in the mid-19th century with ...
(from the article "Turkmenistan") ...Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev at the Battle of Gok-Tepe (now Gokdepe) in 1881. The Turkmens took an active part in the revolt of 1916 against Russian rule, particularly in the town ...
(from the article "Turkmenistan") Separated from the Morghab by a stretch of the Karakum, the Tejen oasis formed along the Tejen River. Before the construction of the Karakum Canal, only small areas of wheat, ...
(from the article "Spain") The inauguration of Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, also a member of the UCD, as prime minister was interrupted by the attempted military coup of Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero, who occupied the ...
(from the article "Abu") ...on the slopes of Mount Abu, an isolated feature of the Aravali Range. The city is a noted hill resort, and the Jaina temples at nearby Dilwara, built of white ...
lake in central South Island, New Zealand, occupying 37 square miles (96 square km) of a valley that has been dammed by a moraine (glacial debris). The lake is about ...
(from the article "art, African") The Teke live on the banks of the Congo River. They are best known for their fetishes, called butti, which serve in the cult of a wide range of supernatural ...
(from the article "Kyrgyzstan") ...particularly Pres. Kurmanbek Bakiyev, of having failed to solve any of the ills that led to the country's "Tulip Revolution" of 2005. Tensions reached a high point with the detention ...
(from the article "Native American music") ...Indians, particularly in the Tropical Forest and circum-Caribbean areas. The Yekuana people of southern Venezuela play an end-blown free-reed bamboo instrument called the tekeye, which has a ...
(from the article "Turkish literature") The two best-known novelists in Turkey at the turn of the 21st century were Orhan Pamuk and Latife Tekin. In very distinct ways, both expanded the scope of the novel ...
city, European Turkey, on the Sea of Marmara. Probably founded in the 7th century BC as a Greek settlement called Bisanthe, it was renamed Rhaedestus when it became the capital ...
(from the article "India") ...and that they had large herds of Brahman (zebu) cattle. The earliest known settlements, which were located at Kodekal and Utnur, date to about 2900 BCE. Other important sites are ...
(from the article "Turkmenistan") ...17th centuries the Chaudor tribe led a powerful tribal union in the north, while the Salor tribe was dominant in the south. During the 17th and 18th centuries the ascendancy ...
floor covering woven by the Tekke Turkmen, the major population group of Turkmenistan. Although elements of the tribe still migrated with their flocks until the Soviet era, most of them ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Tan-Tan") Tan-Tan and the surrounding area became a part of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco (the area defined as an integral part of Morocco by a Franco-Spanish convention in 1912) known ...
(from the article "Ethiopia") ...developing their own states in the Kefa highlands on the west bank of the Omo River, and a line that claimed Solomonid descent was returning northern Shewa to Amhara rule. ...
(from the article "South American Indian languages") Proper names, to which different beliefs are attached, offer a variety of phenomena, among them the practice of naming a parent after a child (called teknonymy) in some Arawakan groups; ...
(from the article "Native American religions") ...death that followed the Spanish conquest. As these eschatological groups succumbed to failure, they concluded that, on their paths to paradise, they had been overtaken by teko-achy, ...
(from the article "western Africa, history of") ...seem to have chosen to settle to the southwest, toward the middle Senegal valley. But there another settled, and (from the 11th century) an Islamized, black kingdom evolved, that of ...
any of a class of small, natural glassy objects that are found only in certain areas of the Earth's surface. The term is derived from the Greek word tektos, meaning ... [1 Related Articles]
major city and economic centre in Israel, situated on the Mediterranean coast some 40 miles (60 km) northwest of Jerusalem. Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a Jewish garden ... [3 Related Articles]
former settlement, now a national memorial, in Upper Galilee, northern Israel, near the Lebanese border. One of the first Jewish settlements in northern Palestine, it was intermittently inhabited from 1905, ...
French avant-garde literary review published from 1960 to 1982 by Editions du Seuil. Founded by Philippe Sollers and other young writers, this eclectic magazine published works by such practitioners of ... [2 Related Articles]
city and port, northern Honduras. It lies along Tela Bay, off the Gulf of Honduras. The old village of Tela lies across the Tela River from the modern port works ...
one of the oldest Buddhist-influenced prophet cults among the Karen hill peoples of Myanmar (Burma). In their mythology, the restoration of their lost Golden Book by their white younger brothers ...
(from the article "Phocus") ...son of Aeacus, king of Aegina, and the Nereid Psamathe, who had assumed the likeness of a seal (Greek: phoce) in trying to escape Aeacus's embraces. Peleus ...
plateau in western Andhra Pradesh state, southeastern India. Comprising the northeastern part of the Deccan Plateau, the Telangana Plateau has an area of about 57,370 square miles (148,000 square km), ...
city, Las Palmas provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), Spain. It lies on the southeastern part of Gran Canaria Island. ...
(from the article "television") Telecine, the recording on videotape of films originally produced for the cinema, is an important activity in television broadcasting, in the videotape rental market, and even in the home-movie market. ...
science and practice of transmitting information by electromagnetic means. A wide variety of information can be transferred through a telecommunications system, including voice and music, still-frame and full-motion pictures, computer ... [29 Related Articles]
(from the article "International Telecommunication Union") ...Committee with the standards-setting activities of the International Consultative Radio Committee and conducts technical studies and sets international standards for telecommunications; and (7) the Telecommunication Development Sector, which facilitates the ...
(from the article "International Telecommunication Union") ...activities of the former International Consultative Radio Committee and the former International Frequency Registration Board that were concerned with the assignment of radio frequencies; (6) the Telecommunication Standardization Sector, which ...
(from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...is split into three 10-kilohertz channels. Thus, in place of the 832 channels available in AMPS systems, the NAMPS system offered 2,496 channels. A second approach, developed by a committee ...
equipment and systems-metal wire, terrestrial and satellite radio, and optical fibre-employed in the transmission of electromagnetic signals. [2 Related Articles]
electronic system of links and switches, and the controls that govern their operation, that allows for data transfer and exchange among multiple users. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "military communication") ...by transferring a perforated tape message from the receiving to the transmitting positions. In addition a system of holding teletypewriter conferences was developed. These conferences, called "telecons," enabled a commander ...
(from the article "photography, technology of") If a camera lens is interchangeable, an accessory teleconverter lens group can be positioned between the prime lens and the camera. This turns a normal lens into an even more ...
(from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") While excess heat is more common in deep tunnels, it occasionally occurs in fairly shallow tunnels. In 1953, workers in the 6.4-mile Telecote Tunnel near Santa Barbara, California, were transported ...
(from the article "Ecuador") ...terminal. In 2000 extensive renovation of Guayaquil's waterfront was completed-namely, its transformation into a pedestrian walkway and the addition of shops and public art. In Quito the Teleferiqo (cable car) ...
(from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") ...from a group of scrolls. Triangular designs can also be found painted on bark sheets used by various groups for initiations and on huge conical masks used by several groups ...
(from the article "Slim Helu, Carlos") For more than a dozen years, Slim's key holding and the anchor to his success had been his ownership of the former national telephone monopoly, Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex), which ...
in Greek mythology, especially the Telagonia of Eugammon of Cyrene, the son of the hero Odysseus by the sorceress Circe. Telegonus went to Ithaca in search of his father, whom ...
(from the article "heredity") ...these beliefs are is suggested in the Book of Genesis, in which Laban produced spotted or striped progeny in sheep by showing the pregnant ewes striped hazel rods. Another such ...
