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- (from the article "Plateau Indian") Speakers of Sahaptin languages may be subdivided into three main groups: the Nez Perce, the Cayuse and Molala, and the Central Sahaptin, comprising the Yakima, Wallawalla, Tenino, Umatilla, and others ...
- Tenji
- 38th emperor of Japan, from 668 to 672, and the ruler who freed the Japanese court from the domination of the Soga family. Tenji implemented a series of reforms that ... [5 Related Articles]
- Tenjiku
- (Japanese: "Indian Style"), one of the three main styles of Japanese Buddhist architecture in the Kamakura period (1192-1333). The style is impressive for the size and multiplicity of its parts. ... [1 Related Articles]
- tenka-ichi
- (from the article "mask") ...mask is worn by the villain, who epitomizes violence and brutality. No masks are highly stylized and generally characterized. They are exquisitely carved by highly respected artists known as
- Tenkalai
- one of two Hindu subsects of the Srivaisnava, the other being the Vadakalai. Though the two sects use both Sanskrit and Tamil scriptures and centre their worship on Vishnu, the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Tenmon Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") ...have achieved significant length. The Astoria Bridge (1966) over the Columbia River in Oregon, U.S., is a continuous three-span steel truss with a centre span of 370 metres (1,232 feet), ...
- Tennant Creek
- town, central Northern Territory, Australia, on Tennant Creek, which was explored in 1860 by the Scot John McDouall Stuart and named after a South Australian pastoralist. Earliest settlement of the ...
- Tennant, Charles
- (from the article "technology, history of") ...lead chambers. The acid was used directly in bleaching, but it was also used in the production of more effective chlorine bleaches, and in the manufacture of bleaching powder, a ...
- Tennant, David
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...to the day since the first performance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, the play that changed the British theatre for good, there was an electrifying semistaged performance starring ...
- Tennant, Don
- American advertising agency executive (b. Nov. 23, 1922, Sterling, Ill.-d. Dec. 8, 2001, Los Angeles, Calif.), served as copywriter, composer, director of TV commercials, artist, producer, and chief creative officer ...
- Tennant, Frederick Robert
- English philosophical theologian, a powerful apologist with a wide range of interests who essayed a harmony of science and religion within an empirical approach to theology. [2 Related Articles]
- Tennant, Kylie
- married name Kylie Tennant Rodd, nee Kylie Tennant Australian novelist and playwright famed for her realistic yet affirmative depictions of the lives of the underprivileged in Australia.
- Tennant, Smithson
- (from the article "Wollaston, William Hyde") In 1800 Wollaston formed a cost-sharing partnership with Smithson Tennant, whom he had befriended at Cambridge, to produce and market chemical products. Although Tennant achieved only limited success in his ...
- tennantite
- (from the article "tetrahedrite") ...ore of copper and sometimes of silver. It forms gray to black metallic crystals or masses in metalliferous hydrothermal veins. Tetrahedrite forms a solid solution series with the similar mineral ...
- Tenneco Inc.
- diversified American industrial corporation, with major interests in natural-gas pipelines and the construction of heavy equipment. It was also formerly a large producer of petroleum. Headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
- Tennent, Gilbert
- Irish-born American Presbyterian clergyman, son and brother of three other Presbyterian clergymen. He was one of the leaders of the Great Awakening of religious feeling in colonial America, along with ...
- Tennessee
- constituent state of the United States of America. It is located in the upper South of the eastern United States and became the 16th state of the Union in 1796. ... [15 Related Articles]
- Tennessee Hills
- (from the article "Mississippi") ...The two prairies, with fertile black soil that is excellent for many types of agriculture, were once the site of cotton plantations. East of the Black Prairie, in the extreme ...
- Tennessee River
- central component of one of the world's greatest irrigation and hydropower systems and a major waterway of the southeastern United States. It is formed by the confluence of the Holston ... [7 Related Articles]
- Tennessee State University
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., part of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee. A historically black university, it still has a largely ...
- Tennessee Titans
- (from the article "Super Bowl") ...in 1949. In 1953 he became starting quarterback and led the league in pass completions. After an injury in 1954, he was mainly a placekicker through 1958. He was inactive ...
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- U.S. government agency established in 1933 to control floods, improve navigation, improve the living standards of farmers, and produce electrical power along the Tennessee River and its tributaries. The Tennessee ... [16 Related Articles]
- Tennessee walking horse
- breed of horse that derives its name from the state of Tennessee and from its distinctive gait-the running walk. In a broad sense, it originated from all the ancestors that ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tennessee, flag of
- U.S. state flag consisting of a red field (background) with a central white-bordered blue disk bearing three white stars; at the fly end are unequal vertical stripes of white and ...
- Tennessee, University of
- state university system based in Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. It is a comprehensive, land-grant institution of higher education. In addition to the main campus there are branch campuses at Chattanooga and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
- American waterway linking the Tennessee River in northeastern Mississippi with the Tombigbee River in western Alabama. The 234-mile (376-kilometre) system of locks and canals along the upper Tombigbee River south ...
- Tenniel, Sir John
- English illustrator and satirical artist, especially known for his work in Punch and his illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872). [2 Related Articles]
- tennis
- game in which two opposing players (singles) or pairs of players (doubles) use tautly strung rackets to hit a ball of specified size, weight, and bounce over a net on ... [26 Related Articles]
- tennis ball
- (from the article "tennis") A tennis ball consists of a pressurized rubber core covered with high-quality cloth, usually wool mixed with up to 35 percent nylon. Balls gradually go soft with use, and in ...
- Tennis Court Oath
- (June 20, 1789), dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates-General (traditional assembly) at the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tennis Professionals, Association of
- (from the article "tennis") ...to full-fledged professional tennis were rife with political disputes and lawsuits for control of what had become a big-money sport. Both male and female players formed guilds-the men's Association of ...
- tenno
- (Japanese: "heavenly emperor"), the title of Japan's chief of state, bestowed posthumously together with the reign name chosen by the emperor (e.g., Meiji Tenno, the emperor Meiji). The term was ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tennochilus virescens
- (from the article "bark-gnawing beetle") ...and are dark-coloured. The species Tenebrioides mauritanicus is found in granaries where its larvae, commonly known as cadelles, feed on both the grain and other insects in the grain. Tennochilus ...
- Tennoji
- (from the article "Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area") Green space in the city of Osaka is scarce, but recreational opportunities abound. The important parks include Nakanoshima, Osaka Castle, Tsurumi Ryokuchi, Nagai, and Tennoji, the latter with a zoo ...
- Tennsift River
- river in west-central Morocco. The Tennsift River rises from several headstreams in the High Atlas (Haut Atlas) mountains and flows westward for 160 miles (260 km) to the Atlantic Ocean, ...
- Tennstedt, Klaus
- German conductor (b. June 6, 1926, Merseburg, Ger.--d. Jan. 11, 1998, Kiel, Ger.), was known for uncommonly expressive performances of the Romantic and Postromantic repertory. Tennstedt attended the Leipzig (Ger.) ...
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
- English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. He was raised to the peerage in 1884. [7 Related Articles]
- Tenoch
- (from the article "Mexico") ...Herons," or "Place of Herons"), where, according to Aztec tradition, their people originated, somewhere in the northwestern region of Mexico. The Aztecs are also known as Mexica or Tenochca. Tenoch, ...
- Tenochtitlan
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") Tenochtitlan itself was a huge metropolis covering more than five square miles. It was originally located on two small islands in Lake Texcoco, but it gradually spread into the surrounding ...
- tenor
- highest male vocal range, normally extending approximately from the second B below middle C to the G above; an extremely high voice, extending into the alto range, is usually termed ... [5 Related Articles]
- tenor and vehicle
- the components of a metaphor, with the tenor referring to the concept, object, or person meant, and the vehicle being the image that carries the weight of the comparison. The ...
- tenor clef
- (from the article "clef") and as a tenor clef (used by the trombone, cello, and bassoon), in which middle C occurs on the second line from the top:
- tenor drum
- cylindrical drum larger and deeper toned than the closely related snare drum and lacking snares. It is usually about 18 inches (45 cm) in diameter and 14 inches (35 cm) ...
- tenor horn
- brass wind instrument derived from the cornet and the valved bugle, or flugelhorn. A saxhorn of tenor range and a tenor bugle are also sometimes called tenor horns.
- tenor mass
- (from the article "music, Western") Four distinct types of mass settings were established during the century. Two types were continuations of earlier practice: the tenor mass, in which the same cantus firmus served for all ...
- tenor violin
- (from the article "violin") ...the composition of fine violin music. The violin was assimilated into the art music of the Middle East and South India and, as the fiddle, is played in the folk ...
- tenorite
- copper oxide mineral (CuO) found as gray-to-black metallic crystals as a sublimation product on lavas. Melaconite, the massive variety, is common as earthy deposits in the oxidized zone of copper ...
- Tenorlied
- (from the article "choral music") ...the earlier sources on the other hand retaining the instrumental nature and function of the alto, tenor, and bass. The songs of Isaac provide clear examples of this gradual change, ...
- tenosynovitis
- (from the article "occupational disease") Muscle cramps often afflict workers engaged in heavy manual labour as well as typists, pianists, and others who frequently use rapid, repetitive movements of the hand or forearm. Tenosynovitis, a ...
- tenrec
- any of 29 species of shrewlike and hedgehoglike mammals. Most are endemic to Madagascar and nearby islands, but the otter shrews (subfamily Potamogalinae) are native to the African mainland. [1 Related Articles]
- Tenreiro, Francisco Jose
- African poet writing in Portuguese, whose verse expresses the sufferings caused by colonialist exploitation of the indentured labourers of the island of Sao Tome.
- Tenri
- city, Nara ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies in the eastern part of the Nara basin. The area around the city contains many burial mounds and shrines dating from early ...
- Tenrikyo
- (Japanese: "Religion of Divine Wisdom"), largest and most successful of the modern Shinto sects in Japan. Though founded in the 19th century, it is often considered in connection with the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Tensas River
- river of northeastern and eastern Louisiana, U.S. It rises in East Carroll parish, as Tensas Bayou, and generally flows southwestward over a course of approximately 250 miles (400 km), joining ...
- Tensaw River
- (from the article "Alabama River") ...square km). It receives its chief tributary, the Cahaba, about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Selma. The Alabama is joined 45 miles (72 km) north of Mobile by the ...
- tense
- in grammar, a verbal category relating the time of a narrated event to the time of the speech event. In many languages the concept of time is expressed not by ... [2 Related Articles]
- tense vowel
- (from the article "vowel") ...is retracted toward the pharyngeal wall, and the pharynx is narrowed. To form a wide vowel, the tongue root is advanced so that the pharynx is expanded. Tense and lax ...
- Tensho Kotai Jingu-kyo
- ("Dancing Religion"), one of the "new religions" of Japan that have emerged in the post-World War II period. It was founded by Kitamura Sayo (1900-67), a peasant of Yamaguchi Prefecture, ...
- tenshu
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") The general castle layout consisted of a donjon, or reinforced tower, called the tenshu, around which were arranged gardens, parks, and fortified buildings used for both official and private purposes. ...
- tensile strength
- maximum load that a material can support without fracture when being stretched, divided by the original cross-sectional area of the material. Tensile strengths have dimensions of force per unit area ... [7 Related Articles]
- tensile test
- (from the article "metallurgy") The most common mechanical properties are yield stress, elongation, hardness, and toughness. The first two are measured in a tensile test, where a sample is loaded until it begins to ...
- tension
- a balance maintained in an artistic work (such as a poem, painting, or musical composition) between opposing forces or elements; a controlled dramatic or dynamic quality.
- tension
- (from the article "Properties of Certain Species of Wood") ...bridge form. A beam carries vertical loads by bending. As the beam bridge bends, it undergoes horizontal compression on the top. At the same time, the bottom of the beam ...
- tension bridge
- (from the article "bridge") ...or a tailpiece; it passes over the bridge (or bridges), which may be glued to the soundboard (as in the piano) or held in position solely by the pressure of ...
- tension headache
- (from the article "headache") Episodic tension headaches are by far the most common type of headache. They occur only irregularly and usually do not necessitate a visit to a physician. Pain is usually mild ...
- tension pneumothorax
- (from the article "pneumothorax") Tension pneumothorax is a life-threatening condition that can occur as a result of trauma, lung infection, or medical procedures, such as high-pressure mechanical ventilation, chest compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), ...
- tension wood
- (from the article "angiosperm") ...their wood watertight, which is why it is preferred in casks and shipbuilding to red oak, which lacks tyloses and does not hold water. In trunks and branches that lean, ...
- tension-cable network
- (from the article "building construction") Tension-cable networks use a mesh of cables stretched from masts or continuous ribs to form a taut surface of negative curvature, such as a saddle or trumpet shape; the network ...
- tenson
- a lyric poem of dispute or personal abuse composed by Provencal troubadours in which two opponents speak alternate stanzas, lines, or groups of lines usually identical in structure. In some ...
- tensor analysis
- (from the article "Levi-Civita, Tullio") ...relativity theory. At the University of Padua (1891-95), he studied under Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, with whom he later collaborated in founding the absolute differential calculus (now known as tensor analysis). ...
- tensor tympani
- (from the article "ear, human") Two minuscule muscles are located in the middle ear. The longer muscle, called the tensor tympani, emerges from a bony canal just above the opening of the eustachian tube and ...
- tent
- portable shelter, consisting of a rigid framework covered by some flexible substance. Tents are used for a wide variety of purposes, including recreation, exploration, military encampment, and public gatherings such ... [4 Related Articles]
- tent caterpillar moth
- any of a group of moths in the family Lasiocampidae (order Lepidoptera) in which the larvae (caterpillars) spin huge, tent-shaped communal webs in trees, are often brightly coloured, and can ... [1 Related Articles]
- tent church
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...character and increasingly permeated with the taste and thought of the people. The most important change in Russian church design of the 16th century was the introduction of the tiered ...
- tent stitch
- (from the article "needlepoint") There are more than 150 canvas embroidery stitches, most of which are a variation or combination of the long stitch, covering more than one mesh, or intersection of threads, and ...
- tent-making bat
- (from the article "leaf-nosed bat") ...structure on the muzzle that is called the nose leaf. Coloration of the fur ranges from gray, pale brown, and dark brown to orange, red, yellow, or whitish; some species, ...
- tentacle
- (from the article "feeding behaviour") ...minute hairlike projections of cell membranes that, by concerted beating in wave rhythm, set up water currents or physically move food particles.C. Tentacular (e.g., certain sea cucumbers). Tentacles are slender, ...
- tentacle worm
- (Thelepus), any of a genus of tube-dwelling segmented worms of the class Polychaeta (phylum Annelida). They are sedentary forms that remain fixed to the sea bottom except as larvae. T. ... [1 Related Articles]
- tentaculum
- (from the article "chimaera") ...chimaeras have a single external gill opening, covered by a flap as in the bony fishes, on each side of the body. Male chimaeras, unique among fishes, also possess a ...
- Tentena
- (from the article "Indonesia") ...stage attacks, and it was possible that non-JI groups were involved in the most recent attack. Aside from the Bali attack, there were also a number of other bombings, including ...
- Tenterfield
- town, northeastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Northern Tablelands (New England district) of the Eastern Highlands. Founded in 1848 and named after the Scottish homestead of an early settler, ...
- tentering
- (from the article "textile") These are final processes applied to set the warp and weft of woven fabrics at right angles to each other, and to stretch and set the fabric to its final ...
- Tenth Amendment
- (from the article "Rights, Bill of") ...of counsel. Excessive bail or fines and cruel or unusual punishment are forbidden by the Eighth Amendment. The Ninth Amendment protects unenumerated residual rights of the people, and by the ...
- Tenth Penny
- (from the article "Troubles, Council of") Alba used the council to intimidate the citizenry, especially the town and provincial governments, into accepting his scheme for a general, permanent 10 percent sales tax-the Tenth Penny-which would give ...
- tentorium cerebelli
- (from the article "meninges") The dura mater is partitioned into several septa, which support the brain. One of these, the falx cerebri, is a sickle-shaped partition lying between the two hemispheres of the brain. ...
- tenuis
- (from the article "paracanthopterygian") ...into a specialized larva, the vexillifer, which lives amid the plankton. After attaining a length of about seven to eight centimetres (about three inches), it transforms to another larval stage, ...
- tenure
- length and conditions of office in civil, judicial, academic, and similar services. Security of tenure, usually granted in the civil service and in academic appointments after a probationary period, is ... [1 Related Articles]
- tenure in chivalry
- (from the article "feudal land tenure") Tenures were divided into free and unfree. Of the free tenures, the first was tenure in chivalry, principally grand sergeanty and knight service. The former obliged the tenant to perform ...
- Tenure of Office Act
- (March 2, 1867), in the post-Civil War period of U.S. history, law forbidding the president to remove civil officers without senatorial consent. The law was passed over Pres. Andrew Johnson's ... [5 Related Articles]
- Tenzing Norgay
- Tibetan mountaineer who, with Edmund (later Sir Edmund) Hillary of New Zealand, was the first person to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak (29,035 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Teoctist
- Romanian prelate was patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1986; he was also the first head of an Orthodox church to host the Roman Catholic pontiff (during Pope John ...
- Teodoreanu, Ionel
- (from the article "Romanian literature") Cezar Petrescu and the poet Minulescu also dealt with the war, while other writers examined different areas of society: Ionel Teodoreanu described the disappearance of patriarchal life, Victor Popa wrote ...
- Teofilo Otoni
- city, east-central Minas Gerais estado (state), southwestern Brazil. It is located on the Todos os Santos River in the Mucuri River valley, at 1,047 feet (319 metres) ...
- teosinte
- any of four species of tall, stout, solitary annual or spreading perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, native to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Corn, or maize (Z. mays mays), ... [2 Related Articles]
- Teotihuacan
- the most important and largest city of pre-Aztec central Mexico, located about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of modern Mexico City. At its apogee (c. AD 500), it encompassed some ... [1 Related Articles]
- Teotihuacan civilization
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") Teotihuacan, which was located in the Valley of Teotihuacan, a pocketlike extension of the Valley of Mexico on its northeastern side, was probably the largest city of the New World ...
- Tepanec
- (from the article "Mexico") ...of Mexico had claimed it. Tenochtitlan was thus located at the edge of the lands occupied by the valley's three powers: the Chichimec of Texcoco, the Toltec of Culhuacan, and ...
- Tepe Gawra
- ancient Mesopotamian settlement east of the Tigris River near Nineveh and the modern city of Mosul, northwestern Iraq. It was excavated from 1931 to 1938 by archaeologists from the University ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tepe Sabz
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") By approximately 6000 BC these patterns of village farming were widely spread over much of the Iranian plateau and in lowland Khuzestan. Tepe Sabz in Khuzestan, Hajji Firuz in Azerbaijan, ...
- Tepe Siyalk
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...widely spread over much of the Iranian plateau and in lowland Khuzestan. Tepe Sabz in Khuzestan, Hajji Firuz in Azerbaijan, Godin Tepe VII in northeastern Lorestan, Tepe Sialk I on ...
- Tepe Yahya
- ancient Iranian site located northeast of Dowlatabad in southeastern Iran; it has yielded valuable information on the economic exchange patterns of the 3rd millennium BC. Excavations (1968-70) by the American ... [1 Related Articles]
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