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- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...formulas, variety of intonations, and other conventional devices. The performer improvises within the framework of the maqam, which is also imbued with ethos (Arabic ta'thir), a specific ...
- ta'til
- (from the article "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 ...
- ta'wil
- (from the article "Batiniyah") ...religiously and politically schismatic group. The Ismailis believed that beneath every obvious or literal meaning of a sacred text lay a secret, hidden meaning, which could be arrived at through ...
- ta'zir
- (from the article "punishment") Most other offenses in Islamic law are called ta'zir crimes (discretionary crimes), and their punishment is left to the discretion of the qadi (judge), ...
- ta-asobi
- (from the article "feast") In Japan, among those engaged in agriculture, the ta-asobi ("rice-field ritual") festival is celebrated at the beginning of the year to ensure a plentiful harvest. Dances, songs sung with a ...
- ta-ch'u
- (from the article "Chinese literature") Aside from drama and ta-ch'u (a suite of melodies sung in narration of stories), which in the South were noticeably modified in spirit and structure, becoming more ornate and bookish-it ...
- Ta-liang Mountains
- (from the article "Shensi") ...of immense thickness. Its raised western rim forms the Liu-p'an Mountains, which extends from the far west of Shensi northward into Kansu and Ningsia. A minor northwest-to-southeast axis forms the ...
- Ta-t'ien-wan Stadium
- (from the article "Chungking") Sports and recreation are dominant features of Chungking's cultural life. Ta-t'ien-wan Stadium, the city's main sports centre, offers a football (soccer) field; volleyball, basketball, and tennis courts; a track-and-field playground; ...
- Ta-ti-wan I
- (from the article "China") Two major cultures can be identified in the northwest: Laoguantai, in eastern and southern Shaanxi and northwestern Henan, and Dadiwan I-a development of Laoguantai culture-in eastern Gansu and western Shaanxi. ...
- Ta-yu
- (from the article "Kiangsi") ...minerals. The area around P'ing-hsiang in the west is the coking coal capital of south central China; another major coal-mining centre is Feng-ch'eng, south of Nan-ch'ang. The region surrounding Ta-yu, ...
- Taaffe, Eduard, Count von
- statesman and twice prime minister of Austria (1868-70 and 1879-93) who controlled most of the empire's quarreling nationalities and forged a conservative coalition that remained in power longer than any ... [2 Related Articles]
- Taal Lake
- lake in southwestern Luzon, Philippines, occupying a volcanic crater with a maximum width of 15 miles (24 km), at less than 10 feet (3 m) above sea level. It has ...
- taangata whenua
- (from the article "Maori") To most Maori, being Maori means recognizing and venerating their Maori ancestors, having claims to family land, and having a right to be received as taangata whenua ...
- Taarab
- (from the article "Kenya") ...area around Lake Victoria inhabited by the Luo; called benga, it is perhaps the most distinctly Kenyan form in the musical repertoire. Taarab, a ...
- Tab
- (from the article "Coca-Cola Company, The") ...acquisition of new products. In 1946 the company purchased rights to the Fanta soft drink, previously developed in Germany. It introduced the lemon-lime drink Sprite in 1961 and the sugar-free ...
- tab
- (from the article "drum") ...were expected to extemporize their parts. By the 13th century, three types of drum appear to have been established: the nakers, small paired kettledrums; the tab, a ...
- Tabah Incident
- (from the article "Egypt") ...Kamil and his alliance with the khedive, who became more willing to cooperate with Cromer. Mustafa Kamil now turned to Sultan Abdulhamid. When a dispute (the Tabah Incident, 1906) arose ...
- Tabal
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...King Tutammu of Patina, who had been strategically safe as long as Arpad had not been conquered, also was defeated and his land turned into an Assyrian province. In 738 ...
- tabali
- (from the article "African architecture") ...probably comparable with that of earlier centuries, but with the former cylindrical huts replaced by those of square plan, reflecting the changing size of families. New houses are built from ...
- Tabanus
- (from the article "horse fly") any member of the insect family Tabanidae (order Diptera), but more specifically any member of the genus Tabanus. These stout flies, as small as a housefly or as large as ...
- Tabanus lineola
- (from the article "horse fly") ...may refer either to the fly's roving habits or to its mouthparts, which resemble a wedge-shaped miner's tool. Other such names are breeze fly and ear fly. One of the ...
- tabaqat
- (from the article "Islamic world") ...hadith stimulated a characteristic form of premodern Muslim intellectual and literary activity, the collecting of biographical materials into compendiums (tabaqat). By viewing the Qur'an ...
- tabard
- (from the article "dress") ...was noted for its plainness. There was little or no decoration, and garments were unbelted. A sleeveless surcoat was generally worn over the tunic. This had derived in the late ...
- Tabard, Francois
- (from the article "tapestry") ...Lurcat's art did not become definitive until the 1930s, when under the influence of Gothic tapestry, particularly the 14th-century "Angers Apocalypse," and in collaboration with Francois Tabard, master weaver at ...
- Tabari, at-
- Muslim scholar, author of enormous compendiums of early Islamic history and Qur'anic exegesis, who made a distinct contribution to the consolidation of Sunni thought during the 9th century. He condensed ... [5 Related Articles]
- Tabarin, Operation
- (from the article "Antarctica") ...be lost and that a pro-German Argentine government might control both sides of the vital Drake Passage linking Atlantic and Pacific sea routes resulted in a secret military plan, code-named ...
- Tabarly, Eric Marcel Guy
- French yachtsman who became a national hero when he won the 1964 Observer Single-Handed Transatlantic Race (OSTAR) in record time and, in a series of sailboats named Pen Duick, went ...
- Tabasara Mountains
- (from the article "Panama") A central spine of mountain ranges extends almost the entire length of Panama, dividing the country into Atlantic- and Pacific-facing slopes. The two principal ranges, the Tabasara Mountains (Cordillera Central) ...
- Tabasaran language
- (from the article "Caucasian languages") This language group includes Lezgi (with 240,000 speakers in Dagestan and about 170,000 in Azerbaijan); Tabasaran (about 90,000); Agul (about 12,000); Rutul (about 15,000); Tsakhur (about 11,000); Archi (fewer than ...
- Tabasco
- estado (state), southeastern Mexico. It is bounded by the Gulf of Mexico to the north, by the state of Campeche to the east, by Guatemala to the ...
- tabasco
- (from the article "tabasco") hot red pepper, a variety of Capsicum frutescens of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family. See pepper.pepperpepperIn addition to the cherry ...
- Tabasco Plain
- tropical lowland on the Gulf of Mexico, in Tabasco state, southeastern Mexico. Occupying the coastal lowlands south of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and north of the Yucatan Peninsula, the Tabasco ...
- tabashir
- (from the article "bamboo") ...of bamboo are used as ornamentals in landscape gardens. The fine-grained silica produced in the joints of bamboo stems has been used as a medicine in the Orient for centuries ...
- Tabataba'i, Sayyid Zia od-Din
- Iranian statesman who led the coup d'etat of 1921 in which he was made prime minister. [2 Related Articles]
- tabby
- type of dark-striped coat colouring found in both wild and domestic cats. One of the most common coat colours, the tabby pattern dates back to domestic cats in ancient Egypt. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tabebuia pentaphylla
- (from the article "boxwood") ...tree of the family Flacourtiaceae; West Indian boxwood, a North American lumber trade name for wood from two tropical American trees, Phyllostylon brasiliensis of the family Ulmaceae and Tabebuia pentaphylla ...
- Tabei Junko
- (from the article "Everest, Mount") ...from the north. The Chinese team included a Tibetan woman, Phantog, who reached the summit on May 27. The honours for the first woman to summit Everest, however, belong to ...
- tabelliones
- (from the article "legal profession") ...law schools at Rome, Constantinople, and Berytus (now Beirut) and to their salaried professors. There was also a humbler class of paid legal documentary experts, the tabelliones, ...
- Tabennisi
- (from the article "Pachomius, Saint") ...the military about 314, withdrew alone into the wilderness at Chenoboskion, near his Theban home. Soon after, he joined the hermit Palemon and a colony of solitaries (anchorites) in the ...
- Tabernacle
- ("dwelling"), in Jewish history, the portable sanctuary constructed by Moses as a place of worship for the Hebrew tribes during the period of wandering that preceded their arrival in the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tabernacle Pentecostal Church
- (from the article "Pentecostal Holiness Church, Inc.") ...N.C., in 1911 by the merger of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church (organized in 1898 by several Pentecostal associations) and the Pentecostal Holiness Church (organized in 1900). A third group, the ...
- Tabernanthe iboga
- (from the article "ibogaine") hallucinogenic drug and the principal iboga alkaloid, found in the stems, leaves, and especially in the roots of the African shrub Tabernanthe iboga. Ibogaine was isolated from the plant in ...
- tabes dorsalis
- rare neurologic form of tertiary syphilis, involving sensory deficits, loss of neuromuscular coordination, and diminished reflexes. Symptoms of this form of neurosyphilis chiefly affect the legs and may not appear ... [4 Related Articles]
- tabi
- (from the article "dress") Traditional Japanese footwear includes sandals, slippers, and wooden clogs (geta) worn with the tabi, a sock with a separate section for the big toe.
- tabi'un
- (from the article "North Africa") ...'Umar II (717-720) was the only Umayyad caliph who is known to have condemned the levying of human tribute and ordered that it be discontinued. He also sent 10
- Tabinshwehti
- king who unified Myanmar (reigned 1531-50). He was the second monarch of the Toungoo dynasty, which his father, Minkyinyo, had founded in 1486. [2 Related Articles]
- tabl
- any of a group of two-headed cylindrical drums used in Islamic music along the Mediterranean coast. They are the ancestors of European tenor and bass drums.
- tabla
- pair of small drums fundamental (since the 18th century) to Hindustani music of northern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The higher-pitched of the two drums, which is played with the right ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tablas de Daimiel National Park
- nature reserve and wetland ecosystem, located about 19 miles (30 km) northeast of the city of Ciudad Real, south-central Spain. The park, created in 1973, occupies 4,633 acres (1,875 hectares) ...
- tablature
- system of musical notation based on a player's finger position, as opposed to notes showing rhythm and pitch. Tablatures were used for lute and keyboard music during the Renaissance and ... [3 Related Articles]
- table
- basic article of furniture, known and used in the Western world since at least the 7th century BC, consisting of a flat slab of stone, metal, wood, or glass supported ... [5 Related Articles]
- table
- (from the article "facet") ...stone is the girdle; the girdle lies on a plane that separates the crown, the stone's upper portion, from the pavilion, the stone's base. The large facet in the crown ...
- Table Bay
- bay of the Atlantic Ocean, located near the southern tip of Africa and forming the harbour of Cape Town. Extending north from Cape Town to Melkbosstrand, S.Af., the bay is ... [2 Related Articles]
- table berg
- (from the article "ocean") ...it floats on the water. Because of their origin, the Antarctic icebergs are much longer than they are high, occasionally measuring some tens of kilometres in length. For this reason ...
- table carpet
- (from the article "rug and carpet") ...Taking this European attitude into account, the Egyptian manufacturers created several unusual shapes and sizes for the European market: square, round, and cruciform carpets, obviously designed for tables rather than ...
- Table Mountain
- flat-topped mountain in southwestern South Africa, overlooking Cape Town and Table Bay and dominating the northern end of the high, rocky Cape Peninsula. Its tabular shape results from nearly horizontal ... [2 Related Articles]
- table mountain
- (from the article "volcano") ...today. Fissure eruptions beneath the ice form steep ridges of broken lava fragments rather than lava-flow plateaus, while subglacial eruptions from point-source vents that erupt repeatedly form table mountains. Table ...
- table roll
- (from the article "papermaking") The table rolls, in addition to supporting the wire, function as water-removal devices. The rapidly rotating roll in contact with the underside of the wire produces a suction or pumping ...
- table saw
- (from the article "saw") ...unit can also be pivoted to make angular and ripping cuts. The work is laid on a wooden table on top of the base, and the motor-blade unit is manually ...
- table talk
- informal conversation at or as if at a dining table; especially, the social talk of a celebrity recorded for publication. Collections of such conversations exist from as early as the ...
- table tennis
- ball game similar in principle to lawn tennis and played on a flat table divided into two equal courts by a net fixed across its width at the middle. The ... [10 Related Articles]
- tableau vivant
- (from the article "stage design") ...or dominion would do so with a large entourage in full pomp and heraldic dress. These entrances included a series of stops at stages placed at various intervals en route. ...
- tableaux
- (from the article "Lenormand, Henri-Rene") ...in murder and suicide. To elucidate the conflicts of the human psyche, Lenormand often chose abnormal or pathological types for his characters, and to portray their inner struggles, he made ...
- tableland
- (from the article "New South Wales") A narrow coastal strip of fertile river valleys, plains, and granite outcrops is bounded on the west by steep gorges and ascents leading up to the tableland, a series of ...
- tablero
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...the northern end of the Avenue of the Dead is the Pyramid of the Moon, very similar to that of the Sun, but with an additional platform-temple jutting out on ...
- tables of discovery
- (from the article "philosophy, Western") ...and varied experiments but primarily on "an entirely different method, order, and process for advancing experience." This method consisted of the construction of what he called "tables of discovery." He ...
- tablet
- (from the article "Administration of drugs") Tablets are by far the most common dosage form. Normally, they are intended for the oral or the sublingual routes of administration. They are made by compressing powdered drug along ...
- tableware
- utensils used at the table for holding, serving, and handling food and drink. Tableware includes various types of containers (known as hollowware, q.v.), spoons and forks (flatware, q.v.), knives (cutlery, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Tablighi Jama'at
- (from the article "Pakistan") ...likewise widespread in Pakistan. Differences between the two movements over a variety of theological issues are significant to the point that violence often has erupted between them. Another group, Tablighi ...
- tablinum
- (from the article "domus") ...the perimeter into different spaces for conversation and relaxation; it was reached from the street through the prothyrum, an entrance passageway. Located between the atrium and peristyle was the tablinum, ...
- tablita dance
- (from the article "Native American dance") The most spectacular public dances of the Pueblos are the corn dances, or tablita dances, named for the women's tablet crowns with cloud symbols. They recur at ...
- tabloid
- (from the article "Media and Publishing") ...issues and economic strains, pockets of innovation remained at newspapers. While a change in format had been implemented by newspapers worldwide in the past decade, the launch in London of ...
- Taboga Island
- island in the Bay of Panama, central Panama. Taboga and its small neighbour, Taboguilla Island, lie 11 miles (18 km) south of Panama City, with which they are connected by ...
- taboo
- the prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behaviour is either too sacred and consecrated or too dangerous and accursed for ordinary individuals to undertake. The term ... [22 Related Articles]
- Tabor
- city, southern Czech Republic. It lies along a bend in the Luznice River 50 miles (80 km) south of Prague. Founded in 1420 by Jan Zizka and other followers of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tabor, Mount
- historic elevation of northern Israel, in Lower Galilee near the edge of the Plain of Esdraelon ('Emeq Yizre'el). Though comparatively low (1,929 feet [588 m]), it dominates the level landscape ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tabora
- town, west-central Tanzania. Lying on the Central Plateau at an elevation of 4,000 feet (1,200 m), it has a mean annual temperature of 73 °F (23 °C). The town has ...
- taboret
- type of armless and backless seat or stool. Early taborets were probably named for their cylindrical shape, which resembled a drum (Old French: tabour).
- Tabori, George
- Hungarian-born writer and theatre director crafted plays, novels, and screenplays, many of which limned the emigrant experience and explored Germany's relationship with the Jewish people. Tabori, who was Jewish, in ...
- Taborite
- member of a militant group of Bohemian Hussite reformers who in 1420 gave the biblical name of Tabor (Czech: Tabor) to their fortified settlement south of Prague. Like their more ... [8 Related Articles]
- Tabriz
- fourth largest city of Iran and capital of the East Azarbayjan province, lying about 4,485 feet (1,367 metres) above sea level in the extreme northwestern part of the country. The ... [10 Related Articles]
- Tabriz carpet
- floor covering handmade in or around Tabriz, the principal city of northwestern Iran and one of its best-known carpet-producing centres. The identification of the court carpets of the early 16th-century ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tabriz school
- in painting, school of miniaturists founded by the Mongol Il-Khans early in the 14th century and active through the first half of the 16th century. The style represented the first ... [4 Related Articles]
- Tabuaeran Atoll
- coral formation of the Northern Line Islands, part of Kiribati, in the west-central Pacific Ocean. Discovered in 1798 by an American trader and explorer, Edmund Fanning, the atoll is composed ...
- Tabucchi, Antonio
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...His career culminated with the reflections on grief, sickness, and death of Camere separate (1989; Separate Rooms). Also notable are the short stories and short novels of Antonio Tabucchi-for example, ...
- Tabuk
- oasis city, northwestern Saudi Arabia. The city is situated amid a grove of date palms. In former times it was a station on the Hejaz railway (now defunct). At the ...
- Tabula Bantina
- (from the article "Italic languages") ...century BC). The largest text, a treaty between Nola and Abella from the 2nd century BC, is carved on a stone slab, called the Cippus Abellanus. In Bantia, a nearly ...
- tabula rasa
- (Latin: "scraped tablet," i.e., "clean slate"), in epistemology (theory of knowledge) and psychology, a supposed condition that empiricists attribute to the human mind before ideas have been imprinted on it ... [4 Related Articles]
- tabular alumina
- (from the article "aluminum processing") Tabular alumina is aluminum oxide that has been heated to temperatures above 1,650° C (3,000° F). Composed of tabletlike crystals, it has high heat capacity and thermal conductivity as well ...
- tabular summary
- (from the article "statistics") The most commonly used tabular summary of data for a single variable is a frequency distribution. A frequency distribution shows the number of data values in each of several nonoverlapping ...
- Tabulata
- major division of extinct coral animals found as fossils in Ordovician to Jurassic marine rocks (488 million to 146 million years old). Tabulata is characterized by the presence of interior ...
- tabulating machine
- (from the article "Hollerith, Herman") American inventor of a tabulating machine that was an important precursor of the electronic computer.
- Tabun
- site of paleoanthropological excavations in a deep rock shelter located on the edge of Mount Carmel and facing the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel. Artifacts discovered in a long sequence ...
- tabun
- (from the article "anticholinesterase") ...toxins that achieve their effects by causing a continual stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system. Parathion and malathion are thus highly effective agricultural insecticides, while sarin, tabun, and soman are ...
- Tabwa
- a people who live mainly on the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika, on the high grassy plateaus of the Marungu massif in extreme southeastern Congo (Kinshasa). Some also live in ...
- Tabwemasana
- (from the article "Vanuatu") ...twin volcanic vents of Benbow and Marum on Ambrym, and Yasur on Tanna. There are also several submarine volcanoes in the group, and some islands have solfataras or fumaroles. The ...
- Tacana
- (from the article "Chiapas Highlands") ...the central section. The Northern Mountains of Chiapas, block mountains capped with volcanic materials and reaching elevations above 12,000 feet (3,650 metres), compose the eastern section. The Tacana Volcano, located ...
- Tacca
- (from the article "Dioscoreales") ...destroyed by boiling. In addition, several steroid compounds were originally obtained from Mexican species of Dioscorea to manufacture contraceptives and medicines. Members of the genus Tacca, or bat flower, are ...
- Tacca, Pietro
- (from the article "Cosimo II") ...worked on the funeral chapel of the Medici (according to designs by Cosimo I's brilliant natural son, the younger Giovanni, who also won fame as a soldier and as a ...
- taccavi
- (from the article "India") ...a stern policy, he provoked rebellion by the rural chiefs and the peasants, but, interestingly, he was also the first Indian ruler in recorded history to advance loans (
- Tachibana Akemi
- (from the article "Japanese literature") ...masters. Authentic new voices, however, were heard in traditional poetic forms. Later neo-Man'yoshu poets such as Ryokan, Okuma Kotomichi, and Tachibana Akemi proved that the tanka was ...
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