original name Matilda Alice Powles, married name Lady De Frece English singing comedienne who was the outstanding male impersonator in music-hall history.
German-born U.S. theologian and philosopher whose discussions of God and faith illuminated and bound together the realms of traditional Christianity and modern culture. Some of his books, notably The Courage ...
sedimentary rock that consists of consolidated masses of unweathered blocks (large, angular, detached rock bodies) and glacial till (unsorted and unstratified rock material deposited by glacial ice) in a rock ...
outspoken U.S. populist politician who championed agrarian reform and white supremacy. Tillman served as governor of South Carolina (1890-94) and was a member of the U.S. Senate (1895-1918).
(July 7 [June 25, Old Style] and July 9 [June 27], 1807), agreements that France signed with Russia and with Prussia (respectively) at Tilsit, northern Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia), after ...
table, the top of which is hinged to a central pedestal in such a way that it can be turned from a horizontal to a vertical position and, thereby, when ...
ridge of high land situated in northeastern European Russia, oriented in a roughly north-south direction and stretching for about 470 miles (750 km) from the Barents Sea to the source ...
in the Ottoman Empire, grant of lands or revenues by the sultan to an individual in compensation for his services, essentially similar to the iqta' of the Islamic empire of ...
city ("district") and port, Canterbury local government region, east-central South Island, New Zealand, on Canterbury Bight. Although the settlement's boundaries were delineated as early as 1856, the actual founding did ...
upper limit of tree growth in mountainous regions or in high latitudes, as in the Arctic. Its location depends largely on temperature but also on soil, drainage, and other factors. ...
region, northern Mali, West Africa, bordering Mauritania on the northwest, Algeria on the northeast, and the regions of Gao on the east, and Mopti and Segou on the south. Timbuktu ...
city in the West African nation of Mali, historically important as a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route and as a centre of Islamic culture (c. 1400-1600). Located on ...
a measured or measurable period, a continuum that lacks spatial dimensions. Time is of philosophical interest and is also the subject of mathematical and scientific investigation.
major American weekly newsmagazine that is published in New York City. Time was the creation of two young journalists, Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden, who wanted ...
in the theory of special relativity, the "slowing down" of a clock as determined by an observer who is in relative motion with respect to that clock. In special relativity, ...
in physics, mathematical operation of replacing the expression for time with its negative in formulas or equations so that they describe an event in which time runs backward or all ...
in musical notation, sign that indicates the metre of a composition. Most time signatures consist of two vertically aligned numbers, such as , , , and . The top figure ...
("race against the watch"), in bicycle racing, a form of competition in which individual cyclists or teams are sent out at intervals to cover a specified distance on a road ...
the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world. Time Warner's products encompass magazines, hardcover books, comic books, recorded music, motion pictures, online services, and broadcast and cable television programming ...
a zone on the terrestrial globe that is approximately 15° longitude wide and extends from pole to pole and within which a uniform clock time is used. Time zones are ...
in the evaluation of industrial performance, analysis of the time spent in going through the different motions of a job or series of jobs. Time-and-motion studies were first instituted in ...
motion-picture technique by which a naturally slow process, such as the blossoming of a flower or cloud-pattern development, can be seen at a greatly accelerated rate. Normal sound cinematography reproduces ...
in data processing, method of operation in which multiple users with different programs interact nearly simultaneously with the central processing unit of a large-scale digital computer. Because the central processor ...
weekly literary journal founded in 1902 as a supplement to The Sunday Times of London, long famous for its coverage of all aspects of literature and widely considered the finest ...
English-language morning daily newspaper published in Mumbai (Bombay), Ahmedabad, and Delhi, one of India's most influential papers; its voice has frequently coincided with that of the national government.
square in midtown Manhattan, New York City, formed by the intersection of Seventh Avenue, 42nd Street, and Broadway (q.v.). Early known as Longacre Square, it was renamed for the building ...
daily newspaper published in London, one of Britain's oldest and most influential newspapers. It is generally accounted, with The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain's "big three" and ...
river, rising in the Cernei Mountains at the western end of the Southern Carpathian Mountains in Romania, and flowing north, west, then south in an arc through Caransebes and Lugoj ...
mountain pass, southwestern Romania, located in the Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathians). The pass links the Tisza River plain and the city of Timisoara (northwest) with the Danubian Plain (southeast). The ...
city, Cochrane district, east-central Ontario, Canada, on the Mattagami River, 130 miles (210 km) north of Sudbury. The region was settled after the discovery of gold there in 1905. Mining ...
highest point (1,952 feet [595 metres]) in Wisconsin, U.S. It lies in the north-central part of the state in Price county, a few miles southeast of Prentice, near Ogema, between ...
copper-mining site, in the southern Negev, Israel, north of Elat. The presence of copper in Palestine is mentioned in the Bible, and archaeologists have identified remnants of ancient smelting operations ...
tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, probably written sometime in 1605-08 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an authorial manuscript, probably unfinished. Some parts of the ...
island of the Malay Archipelago, easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands between the Savu and Timor seas. Western Timor, with an area of 6,120 square miles (15,850 square km), is ...
surface oceanic current flowing southwest along the coast of Timor in the Malay Archipelago. The Timor Current is fed from the Arafura and Banda seas and transports between 1,000,000 and ...
arm of the Indian Ocean, lying southeast of the island of Timor, Indonesia, and northwest of Australia. Located at latitude 10° S and influenced alternately by the southeast trade winds ...
Greek statesman and general who sought to revive Athenian imperial ambitions by making Athens dominant in the Second Athenian League (established 378-377).
perennial grass of the family Poaceae, native to Europe and widely cultivated as a hay and pasture grass in North America. The stems grow in large clumps and are 0.5 ...
either of two New Testament writings addressed to Timothy, one of Paul's most faithful coworkers. They (and the Letter of Paul to Titus) have been called Pastoral Epistles since the ...
(Italian: "drums"), orchestral kettledrums. The name has been applied to large kettledrums since at least the 17th century. The permanent orchestral use of timpani dates from the mid-17th century, early ...
limestone cave system in American Fork Canyon, north-central Utah, U.S. The monument is on the northwestern slope of Mount Timpanogos (11,750 feet [3,581 metres]), the second highest peak of the ...
extinct North American Indian tribe that inhabited the northeast coast of Florida. Their name has been given to a group of closely related languages. The estimated population of Timucuan-language speakers ...
Turkic conqueror of Islamic faith, chiefly remembered for the barbarity of his conquests from India and Russia to the Mediterranean Sea and for the cultural achievements of his dynasty.
jewel that is in fact not a ruby but one of the world's largest polished red magnesia spinels (see ruby spinel). The unfaceted, 361-carat stone is set in the imperial ...
(fl. 15th-16th century AD), Turkic dynasty descended from the conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), renowned for its brilliant revival of artistic and intellectual life in Iran and Central Asia.
a chemical element belonging to the carbon family, Group IVa of the periodic table. It is a soft, silvery-white metal with a bluish tinge, known to the ancients in bronze, ...
earthenware covered with an opaque glaze that, unless colour has been added, is white. It is variously called faience, majolica, and delftware. Essentially it is lead glaze made opaque by ...
any of 47 species of ground-dwelling birds found in Central and South America. Tinamous superficially resemble partridges and quail but have limited flight capability, preferring to walk or run rather ...
Dutch economist noted for his development of econometric models. He was the cowinner (with Ragnar Frisch) of the first Nobel Prize for Economics, in 1969.
Dutch-born British zoologist and ethologist (specialist in animal behaviour) who, with Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1973.
a borate mineral, hydrated sodium tetraborate (Na2B4O5(OH)4·3H2O), that is found in nature only as a dull, white, fine-grained powder; colourless crystals of the mineral have been made artificially. Tincalconite is ...
town and Saharan oasis in westernmost Algeria. Rich deposits of iron ore are at Gara Djebilet, 93 miles (150 km) southeast. The town has a large population of Regeibat nomads ...
any member of the cosmopolitan insect family Tineidae (order Lepidoptera), including several economically important clothes-moth species. Tineid moths generally have slender, elongated, fringed wings with a spread of 12 to ...
thin sheet of metallic tin used as a protective wrapping for food and tobacco because tin is nontoxic. Tinfoil is also used in electrical capacitors. See foil.
American theosophist, a woman of forceful personality, who introduced charitable works and educational endeavours into the mission of the Theosophical Society in America during her leadership of that group.
city, Huanuco departamento, Andres Avelino Caceres region, central Peru. The city lies at an elevation of 2,133 feet (650 m) on the right bank of the Huallaga ...
pale- to dark-green, very fine-grained igneous rock that may be considered the dike (tabular body injected in fissures) equivalent of phonolite. It contains alkali feldspar and nepheline, with aegirine or ...
principal Etruscan deity, god of the thunderbolt, sky, and storm. He was identified with the Greek god Zeus and the Roman god Jupiter. Tinia together with his wife Uni (identified ...
