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Tinian: one of the Mariana Islands, part of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean. It lies 100 miles (160 km) north of Guam. Of ...
tinikling: popular Philippine folk dance. Its appeal has spread worldwide, and it is generally included in the folk-dance curricula in the schools of many countries.
tinkerbird: any of several species of tiny barbets, which, at 9 cm (3.5 inches), are the smallest of the family Capitonidae (order Piciformes). Tinkerbirds constitute the genus Pogoniulus. They are named ...
Tinkisso River: river, rising in the southern outliers of the Fouta Djallon mountains of Guinea, northeast of Mamou. It flows 250 miles (400 km) north-northeast and east, past Dabola and Bissikrima, across ...
Tinne, Alexandrine-Pieternella-Francoise: Dutch explorer best known for her investigations of the course of the Nile River, made at a time when it was unusual for European women to travel in tropical Africa.
tinnitus: ringing or buzzing in the ears. Tinnitus may be caused by any of a number of ear conditions, including the clogging of the external auditory canal with earwax (cerumen) or ...
Tino Di Camaino: Sienese sculptor significant for his numerous sepulchral monuments.
Tinos: island in the Cyclades (q.v.) group of Greek Aegean islands; in antiquity it was known as the "island of the winds," the modern name being derived from the Phoenician tenok, ...
tinplate: thin steel sheet with a coating of tin applied either by dipping in molten metal or by electrolytic deposition; almost all tinplate is now produced by the latter process. Tinplate ...
Tinsukia: town, Dibrugarh district, northeastern Assam state, northeastern India. It is located in the Brahmaputra River Valley at a rail junction, about 25 mi (40 km) east of Dibrugarh, the district ...
Tintagel: village ("parish"), North Cornwall district, on the northwestern coast of the administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. It lies north of Tintagel Head, a rugged promontory joined to the ...
Tintern Abbey: ecclesiastical ruin in Monmouthsire, Wales, on the west bank of the River Wye. Founded for Cistercian monks in 1131, Tintern Abbey was almost entirely rebuilt and enlarged between 1220 and ...
tintinnid: any protozoan of the ciliate order Tintinnida, characteristically conical or trumpet-shaped. Although most are marine, some forms are found in fresh and brackish water. The tintinnids secrete loosely fitting gelatinous ...
Tintoretto: great Mannerist painter of the Venetian school and one of the most important artists of the late Renaissance. Early paintings include "Vulcan Surprising Venus and Mars," the Mannerist "Christ and ...
tintype: positive photograph produced by applying a collodion-nitrocellulose solution to a thin, black-enameled metal plate immediately before exposure. The tintype, introduced in the mid-19th century, was essentially a variation on the ...
tinware: utilitarian and decorative objects made of tinplate and, more rarely, of pure tin. Tin was used as an alloy some 30 centuries before the birth of Christ, but the earliest ...
Tioga: county, southern New York state, U.S., bordered by Pennsylvania to the south. It consists of a hilly upland region drained chiefly by the Susquehanna River and Catatonk and Owego creeks. ...
Tioga: county, northern Pennsylvania, U.S., bordered by New York state to the north and Lycoming Creek to the southeast. It consists of a mountainous region on the Allegheny Plateau. The principal ...
Tioga Pass: highest (9,945 feet [3,031 metres]) roadway across the Sierra Nevada, central California, U.S. Originally the pass served the nearby mining district, and it was named about 1878 for the Tioga ...
Tioman Island: island in the South China Sea, about 40 miles (65 km) off Kuala Rompin, Peninsular (West) Malaysia. It has an area of 53 square miles (137 square km) and is ...
Tionontati: Iroquoian-speaking Indians formerly living in the mountains south of Nottawasaga Bay, in what are now Grey and Simcoe counties, Ontario. In 1616 they were visited by the French, who called ...
Tioughnioga Stage: division of Devonian rocks and time in North America (the Devonian Period began about 395,000,000 years ago and lasted about 50,000,000 years); it precedes the Taghanic Stage and follows the ...
tip-cat: outdoor game dating back at least to the 17th century and introduced to North America and elsewhere by English colonists. The game was widely popular in 19th-century Great Britain and ...
Tipasa: village, northern Algeria, noted for its ruins. It is located on the Mediterranean coast 42 miles (68 km) west of Algiers. A Phoenician outpost from the 5th century BC, Tipasa ...
Tipitaka: the total canon of the southern schools of Buddhism, somewhat pejoratively dubbed Hinayana (Lesser Vehicle) by the self-styled Mahayana (Greater Vehicle) schools; for the latter, the canon constitutes a preliminary ...
Tippecanoe River: river rising in Tippecanoe Lake in Kosciusko county, northern Indiana, U.S. The river flows 166 miles (267 km) generally southwest into the Wabash River north of Lafayette. Tippecanoe is probably ...
Tippecanoe, Battle of: (Nov. 7, 1811), victory of a seasoned U.S. expeditionary force under Major General William Henry Harrison over Shawnee Indians led by Tecumseh's brother Laulewasikau (Tenskwatawa), known as the Prophet. The ...
Tipperary: county in the province of Munster, south-central Ireland, occupying a broad strip of country between the Rivers Shannon and Suir. It is bounded by Counties Offaly and Laoighis (north), Kilkenny ...
Tipperary: town and urban district, County Tipperary, Ireland. The town grew up around a castle erected by Prince John (later King John) when he was lord of Ireland; the outline of ...
tippet: long, narrow, cloth streamer, usually white, worn around the arm above the elbow, with the long end hanging down to the knee or to the ground. These graceful tippets, worn ...
Tippett, Sir Michael: one of the leading English composers of the 20th century.
Tippu Sultan: sultan of Mysore, who won fame in the wars of the late 18th century in southern India.
Tippu Tib: the most famous late 19th-century Arab trader in central and eastern Africa. His ambitious plans for state building inevitably clashed with those of the sultan of Zanzibar and the Belgian ...
Tiradentes Conspiracy: (1789), plot organized in the captaincy of Minas Gerais, Brazil, against the Portuguese colonial regime by the Brazilian patriot Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier, nicknamed Tiradentes ("Tooth Puller"), because one ...
Tirah: mountainous tract in west-central North-West Frontier province, Pakistan. It lies on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border between the Khyber Pass and Khanki Valley, northwest of Kohat town. It is inhabited mainly by ...
Tirane: city, capital of Albania. It lies 17 miles (27 km) east of the Adriatic coast and along the Ishm River, at the end of a fertile plain. It was founded ...
Tiraspol: city, eastern Moldova. It lies along the Dniester River and the Odessa-Chisinau railway. It was founded by Russia in 1795 alongside a fortress built in 1792 to protect the lands ...
tire: a continuous band that encircles the rim of a wheel and forms a tread that rolls on either a road, a prepared track, or the ground.
Tiresias: in Greek mythology, a blind Theban seer. In the Odyssey he retained his prophetic gifts even in the underworld, where the hero Odysseus was sent to consult him. At Thebes ...
Tirgoviste: (city, Romania): see Targoviste.
Tirgu Jiu: (city, Romania): see Targu Jiu.
Tirgu Mures: (city, Romania): see Targu Mures.
Tirich Mir: highest peak (25,230 ft [7,690 m]) in the Hindu Kush mountain system, lying 155 mi (249 km) north of Peshawar, Pak., in the North-West Frontier Province near Afghanistan. The Upper ...
Tiridates II: Arsacid prince of the Parthian Empire who revolted against King Phraates IV and drove him into exile (32 BC) among the Scythians. The next year Phraates returned, and Tiridates fled ...
Tiridates III: grandson of the Parthian king Phraates IV and an unsuccessful contender for the Parthian throne. He was captured by the Romans, taken to Rome as a hostage, and educated there. ...
Tirmidhi, at-: in full Abu 'isa Muhammad Ibn 'isa Ibn Sawrah Ibn Shaddad At-tirmidhi Arab scholar and author of one of the six canonical collections of spoken traditions (hadith) attributed to the ...
Tirol: Bundesland (federal province), western Austria, consisting of North Tirol (Nordtirol) and East Tirol (Osttirol). It is bounded by Germany on the north, by Bundeslander Salzburg and Karnten (Carinthia) on the ...
TIROS: any of a series of U.S. meteorological satellites, the first of which was launched on April 1, 1960. The TIROS satellites comprised the first worldwide weather observation system. Equipped with ...
Tirpitz, Alfred von: German admiral, the chief builder of the German Navy in the 17 years preceding World War I and a dominant personality of the emperor William II's reign. He was ennobled ...
Tirso de Molina: one of the outstanding dramatists of the Golden Age of Spanish literature.
tirtha: in Hinduism, a holy river, mountain, or other place made sacred through association with a deity or saint. The word tirtha means literally "river ford," and, by extension, a sacred ...
Tirthankara: ("Victor"), in Jainism (a religion of India), a saviour who has succeeded in crossing over life's stream of rebirths and has made a path for others to follow. Mahavira (6th ...
Tiruchchirappalli: city, central Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It is on the main road and rail routes between Madras and Trivandrum and lies at the head of the Kaveri (Cauvery) River ...
Tirukkural: the most celebrated of the Patiren-kirkkanakku ("Eighteen Ethical Works") in Tamil literature and a work that has had an immense influence on Tamil culture and life. It ...
Tirunelveli: city, southern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It lies along the Tambraparni River, slightly upstream from the city of Palayankottai (Palamcottah). Its name is derived from the Tamil words tiru ...
Tirupati: city, southeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. It lies about 67 miles (108 km) northwest of Madras in the Palkonda Hills. Tirupati is known as the abode of the Hindu ...
Tiruppur: city, western Tamil Nadu state, south-central India, on the Noyil River. It is an active cotton-ginning and distribution centre with rail connections to Coimbatore and Erode. The city became a ...
Tiruvalluvar: Tamil poet-saint known as the author of the Tirukkural ("Sacred Couplets"), considered a masterpiece of human thought, compared in India and abroad to the Bible, John Milton's ...
Tiryns: prehistoric city in the Argolis, Greece, noted for its architectural remains of the Homeric period. Excavations show the area to have been inhabited from the Neolithic Age. Not later than ...
Tischbein, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm: German portraitist and friend of the writer J.W. von Goethe.
Tischendorf, Konstantin von: German biblical critic who made extensive and invaluable contributions to biblical textual criticism, famous for his discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus, a celebrated manuscript of the Bible.
Tiselius, Arne: Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1948 for his work on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis.
Tisha be-Av: in Judaism, traditional day of mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Temples. According to the Talmud, other disastrous events such as the following occurred on Av 9: ...
Tiso, Jozef: Slovak priest and statesman who fought for Slovak autonomy within the Czechoslovak nation during the interwar period and headed the German puppet state of independent Slovakia (1939-45) until he was ...
Tissaphernes: Persian satrap (governor) who played a leading part in Persia's struggle to reconquer the Ionian Greek cities of Asia Minor that had been held by Athens since 449.
Tisserand, Felix: French astronomer noted for his textbook Traite de mecanique celeste, 4 vol. (1889-96; "Treatise on Celestial Mechanics"). This work, an update of Pierre-Simon Laplace's work on the same subject, is ...
Tissot, James: French painter, engraver, and enameler noted for his portraits of late Victorian society.
tissue: in physiology, a level of organization in multicellular organisms; it consists of a group of structurally and functionally similar cells and their intercellular material.
tissue culture: a method of biological research in which fragments of tissue from an animal or plant are transferred to an artificial environment in which they can continue to survive and function. ...
Tista River: a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, flowing through Sikkim (India) and Bangladesh. It rises in the Himalayas near Chunthang, Sikkim, flows south cutting a deep gorge through the Darjeeling (Darjiling) ...
Tisza River: a major tributary of the middle Danube River, rising in the Bukovina segment of the Carpathian Mountains. Its two headstreams, the Black and White Tisza, unite east of Sighet on ...
Tisza, Istvan, Grof: Hungarian statesman who became prime minister of Hungary as well as one of the most prominent defenders of the Austro-Hungarian dualist system of government. He was an opponent of voting ...
Tisza, Kalman: Hungarian statesman and longtime premier who led the coalition that ruled Hungary for the last 30 years of his life. He made his country a strong, unified, and economically viable ...
tit: any of a number of small active birds of the songbird family Paridae (order Passeriformes). The name tit is used primarily in the Old World; in the New World a ...
tit-babbler: any of a number of birds belonging to the babbler family Timaliidae (order Passeriformes). The 35 to 40 species are small and short-billed, rather like titmice in appearance and behaviour ...
Titagarh: city, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies just east of the Hooghly (Hugli) River, about 15 miles (25 km) north of central Kolkata (Calcutta), and is part of ...