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Tieck, Ludwig: versatile and prolific writer and critic of the early Romantic movement in Germany. He was a born storyteller, and his best work has the quality of a Marchen (fairy tale) ...
Tiel: gemeente (commune), Gelderland provincie, central Netherlands, on the Waal River, west-southwest of Arnhem. Chartered in 1200, Tiel developed as a medieval port and market town and became a member of ...
Tiele, Cornelis Petrus: Dutch theologian and scholar, whose influence on the comparative study of religion, which in his time was only beginning, was very great.
Tien Lake: lake lying to the south of K'un-ming in Yunnan sheng (province), China. Tien Lake lies in the largest group of Yunnanese lake basins, in the eastern part of the ...
Tien Shan: great mountain system of Central Asia. Its name is Chinese for "Celestial Mountains." Stretching about 1,500 miles (2,500 kilometres) from west-southwest to east-northeast, it mainly straddles the border between China ...
Tientsin: city and province-level shih (municipality), located to the east of Hopeh Province, at the northeastern extremity of the North China Plain. After Shanghai and Peking, it is ...
Tientsin Massacre: (June 21, 1870), in Tientsin, China, violent outbreak of Chinese xenophobic sentiment that nearly precipitated international warfare and signaled the end of the "cooperative policy" between China and the Western ...
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista: great Italian painter of the 18th century. His luminous, poetic frescoes (e.g., "The Banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra," before 1750), while extending the tradition of Baroque ceiling decoration, epitomize the ...
Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico: son of the Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; he was a talented genre painter, especially of scenes from contemporary life and the popular theatre (as in the decorations of his ...
Tiergarten: district of Berlin, Germany, on the Spree River. Before World War II the district was Berlin's diplomatic quarter and the site of the War Ministry. It includes the famous 630-acre ...
Tierra Blanca: city, southern Veracruz state, south central Mexico, in the Gulf of Mexico lowland, in the Rio Papaloapan Valley, near the border of Oaxaca state, at an elevation of 200 ft ...
Tierra del Fuego: archipelago, at the southern extremity of South America. In shape the main island, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan, is a triangle with its base on Beagle ...
Tierra del Fuego: provincia, southern Argentina, consisting of the eastern half of the triangular island of Tierra del Fuego (Spanish: "Land of Fire"), lying between the Strait of Magellan (north) and Beagle Channel ...
tietaja: the principal religious specialist of the Baltic Finns, functioning in the tradition of the Finno-Ugric shaman. Operating in a more complex, agricultural society than his more primitive counterparts, such as ...
Tiete River: Sao Paulo estado ("state"), southeastern Brazil, rising in the Serra do Mar, just east of Sao Paulo city, and flowing in a northwesterly direction for about 700 miles (1,130 km) ...
Tiffany, Charles Lewis: American jeweler who made a specialty of importing historic gems, jewelry, and art works.
Tiffany, Louis Comfort: American painter, craftsman, philanthropist, decorator, and designer, internationally recognized as one of the greatest forces of the Art Nouveau style, who made significant contributions to the art of glassmaking.
Tiffin: city, seat (1824) of Seneca county, north-central Ohio, U.S., on the Sandusky River, 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Toledo. Fort Ball, a military depot of the War of 1812, ...
Tigellinus, Ofonius: the Roman emperor Nero's chief adviser from 62 to 68, notorious for the influence his cruelty and debauched behaviour had upon the emperor.
tiger: largest member of the cat family (Felidae), rivaled only by the lion (P. leo) in strength and ferocity. Ranging from the Russian Far East through parts of North Korea, China, ...
tiger beetle: any member of the approximately 2,000 species of the insect family Cicindelidae (order Coleoptera). The name derives from their voracious eating habits. The larva lives in a vertical burrow, which ...
tiger moth: any of the nocturnal moths of the cosmopolitan family Arctiidae (order Lepidoptera), containing more than 3,500 species. Many have furry or hairy larvae (caterpillars) called woolly bears. Most adults have ...
tiger shark: (Galeocerdo cuvieri), large, potentially dangerous shark of the family Carcharhinidae. It is noted for its voracity and inveterate scavenging, as well as its reputation as a man-eater. The tiger shark ...
tiger snake: (Notechis scutatus), Australian member of the cobra family, Elapidae. The snake's venom, which contains a blood-clotting agent as well as a nerve paralyzer, is often fatal to humans. Before striking, ...
tiger-flower: any of about 12 species of the genus Tigridia, plants native from Mexico to Chile and once prized by the Aztecs for the chestnut flavour of bulblike structures (corms). They ...
tigereye: semiprecious quartz gem displaying chatoyancy, a vertical luminescent band like that of a cat's eye. Veins of parallel, blue asbestos (crocidolite) fibres are first altered to iron oxides and then ...
tigerfish: any of several fishes so named on the basis of their pugnacity when caught, their fiercely predaceous habits, or their appearance. In African freshwaters, tigerfishes of the genus Hydrocynus (sometimes ...
Tigerman, Stanley: prominent American architect and activist best known for his work in Chicago.
tigerware: 16th- and 17th-century German stoneware having a brown, mottled glaze, and made in the Rhenish centres of Cologne and Frechen, Ger. Tigerware was imported to England and imitated there in ...
Tighina: city, Moldova. Tighina lies along the right bank of the Dniester River below its confluence with the Bac (Byk). A settlement has existed on the site since the 2nd century ...
Tiglath-pileser I: one of the greatest of the early kings of Assyria (reigned c. 1115-c. 1077 BC).
Tiglath-pileser II: king of Assyria (c. 965-c. 932 BC). He apparently ruled effectively, as a successor addressed him by a title reserved for mighty monarchs. Otherwise, little is known of the period ...
Tiglath-pileser III: king of Assyria (745-727 BC) who inaugurated the last and greatest phase of Assyrian expansion. He subjected Syria and Palestine to his rule, and later (729 or 728) he merged ...
tigon: offspring of a tiger and a lioness. The tigon, or tiglon, is a zoo-bred hybrid, as is the liger, the product of the reverse mating of a lion with a ...
Tigranes II The Great: king of Armenia from 95 to 55 BC, under whom the country became for a short time the strongest state in the Roman East.
Tigray: people of central Eritrea and of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. The Tigray speak Tigrinya, a Semitic language related to Ge'ez and to Tigre, the language of a separate ...
Tigray: historical region, northern Ethiopia. Its western part rises in high-plateau country where elevations generally range between 5,000 and 11,000 feet (1,500 and 3,300 metres). The region is drained by the ...
Tigre: cabecera (county seat) and partido (county), on the outskirts of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. It lies northwest of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires province, on the Rio ...
Tigre: people inhabiting northwestern Eritrea and limited areas of neighbouring Sudan. The Tigre speak Tigre, a Semitic language related to ancient Ge'ez and to modern Tigrinya, the language of the Tigray ...
Tigre language: Semitic language of the Tigre people of northwestern Eritrea and smaller areas of neighbouring Sudan. It is closely related to the ancient Ge'ez language and modern Tigrinya. A few religious ...
Tigrinya language: Semitic language of the Tigray people of northern Ethiopia and central Eritrea. Written records include religious texts prepared by mission societies and an increasing number of more recently printed textbooks ...
Tigris-Euphrates river system: great river system of Southwest Asia, comprising the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which have their sources within 50 miles (80 km) of each other in eastern Turkey and travel southeast ...
Tihamat 'Asir: coastal plain of the Asir region, southwestern Saudi Arabia. It is the central southern section of the great Tihamah (coastal plain), running down the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula. ...
Tihamit al-Yaman: coastal plain in western Yemen, fronting the Red Sea. A 260-mile (420-kilometre) southern extension of the Arabian Tihamah (coastal plain), it consists of a strip of arid coastal land stretching ...
Tijaniyah: an especially proselytizing order of Islamic mystics (Sufis) widespread in northern and western Africa and the Sudan. Founded by Ahmad At-Tijani (1737-1815), formerly of the Khalwati order, about 1781 in ...
Tijuana: city, northwestern Baja California Norte estado ("state"), northwestern Mexico. The city lies along the Tecate River near the Pacific Ocean and is 12 miles (19 km) south of San Diego, ...
Tikal: city and ceremonial centre of the ancient Maya civilization. The largest urban centre in the southern Maya lowlands, it stood 19 miles (30 km) north of Lake Peten Itza in ...
Tikhomirov, Vasily Dmitrievich: ballet dancer and influential teacher who helped develop the vigorous style and technical virtuosity of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. He trained such dancers as Mikhail Mordkin, Alexandre Volinine, and ...
Tikhon, Saint: patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. At first sharply resisting the new Soviet state's antiecclesiastical legislation, he refused to cooperate with a schismatic, state-supported, ...
Tikhonov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich: premier of the Soviet Union from 1980 to 1985, a staunch Communist Party member closely associated with the former Soviet president and Communist Party chairman Leonid Brezhnev.
Tikhonov, Nikolay Semyonovich: Soviet poet and prose writer, notable for his heroic war ballads and for his originality and poetic experimentation.
Tikhoretsk: city and administrative centre of Tikhoretsk rayon (sector), Krasnodar kray (region), southwestern Russia. It is a railway junction and grain centre with flour mills and locomotive repair shops. An oil ...
Tiko: town and port, southwestern Cameroon. It is situated along the Bimbia River at the Gulf of Guinea, 12 miles (19 km) east of Limbe (formerly Victoria). The port's activity has ...
Tikrit: town, capital of Salah al-Din muhafazah (governorate), north-central Iraq. It lies on the west bank of the Tigris River about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Baghdad. ...
Tiktaalik roseae: taxonomic name given to an aquatic, fishlike animal that lived about 380-385 million years ago (during the earliest late Devonian Period) and was a very close relative of the direct ...
tilak: ("mark"), in Hinduism, a mark generally made on the forehead, indicating a man's sectarian affiliation. The marks are made by hand or with a metal stamp, using ash from a ...
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar: scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and militant nationalist who helped lay the foundation for India's independence. He founded (1914) and served as president of the Indian Home Rule League and, in 1916, ...
Tilapia: genus of fishes belonging to the family Cichlidae (order Perciformes), represented by numerous, mostly freshwater species native to Africa. Tilapia species are perhaps best known because of their potential as ...
Tilburg: gemeente (commune), Noord-Brabant provincie, southern Netherlands, on the Wilhelmina Canal. A small village until 1860, it grew rapidly into one of the chief industrial centres of the south; woolen textiles ...
Tilbury: port in Thurrock unitary authority, historic county of Essex, England. It lies along the north bank of the River Thames, opposite Gravesend, 26 miles (42 km) downstream of London Bridge. ...
Tilden, Bill: American tennis player who dominated the game for more than a decade, winning seven U.S. championships, three Wimbledons, and two professional titles. His overpowering play and temperamental personality made him ...
Tilden, Samuel J: lawyer, governor of New York, and Democratic presidential candidate in the disputed election of 1876.
Tilden-Hayes affair: disputed U.S. presidential election of 1876, resolved by a special Electoral Commission (q.v.).
Tildy, Zoltan: non-Communist statesman who was president of Hungary for a short time after World War II and a member of the 1956 anti-Soviet revolutionary government.
tile: thin, flat slab or block used structurally or decoratively in building. Traditionally, tiles have been made of glazed or unglazed fired clay, but modern tiles are also made of plastic, ...
tilefish: any of two dozen species of elongated marine fishes in the family Branchiostegidae (order Perciformes), with representatives occurring in tropical and warm temperate seas. The family Malacanthidae is used synonymously ...
Tiliaceae: linden or basswood family, consisting of about 35 genera of mostly shrubs and trees, widely distributed. The following genera are notable for ornamental species: Tilia, including the linden (q.v.) trees; ...
till: in geology, unsorted material deposited directly by glacial ice and showing no stratification. Till is sometimes called boulder clay because it is composed of clay, boulders of intermediate sizes, or ...
till-less agriculture: cultivation technique in which the soil is disturbed only along the slit or in the hole into which the seeds are planted; reserved detritus from previous crops covers and protects ...
tillage: in agriculture, the preparation of soil for planting and the cultivation of soil after planting. See cultivator; harrow; plow.
Tillamook: city, seat (1873) of Tillamook county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Trask River, at the head of Tillamook Bay, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Founded in 1851, the settlement ...
Tillandsia: the most widely distributed genus of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae), containing about 500 species of tropical American plants. They are mainly perennial herbs that are epiphytic (supported by other plants ...
Tillemont, Sebastien Le Nain de: French ecclesiastical historian who was one of the earliest scholars to provide a rigorous appraisal of preceding historical writing. His works were objective and among the first of modern historical ...
Tiller, Terence: English playwright, translator, and poet whose best verse is noted for its highly wrought form and intense emotional content.
Tillett, Benjamin: English trade union leader who directed successful dock strikes in 1889 and 1911. Tillett was also an alderman of the London County Council (1892-98) and a Labour member of Parliament ...
Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard: Canadian politician, an early advocate of the confederation of British North America. He introduced the National Policy, a program of trade protection that became the basis of Canadian fiscal policy.