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tetsuke: (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...used only in dance sections of a play. Placement of the dots shows right- and left-hand strokes; black dots indicate the softer-and light dots the louder-strokes. The few patterns (tetsuke) ...
Tetum: people indigenous to the narrow central section of Timor, easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. The Tetum numbered more than 300,000 in the late 20th century. Of Melanesian and ...
Tetum language: (from the article "Austronesian languages") ...languages are large or well-known, but those for which fuller descriptions are available include Manggarai and Ngadha, spoken on the island of Flores; Roti, spoken on the island of the ...
Tetzel, Johann: German Dominican friar whose preaching on indulgences, considered by many of his contemporaries to be an abuse of the sacrament of penance, sparked Martin Luther's reaction. [4 Related Articles]
Teucer: (from the article "Salamis") principal city of ancient Cyprus, located on the east coast of the island, north of modern Famagusta. According to the Homeric epics, Salamis was founded after the Trojan War by ...
Teufelsberg: (from the article "Berlin") ...the southeast and the Havel to the west; indeed, about one-third of the Greater Berlin area is still covered by sandy pine and mixed birch woods, lakes, and beaches. "Devil's ...
Teuke Khan: (from the article "Kazakhstan") ...among which the Dzungars were particularly aggressive. In 1681-84 the Dzungars, led by Dga'-ldan (Galdan), launched a devastating attack against the Great Horde. The unification by Teuke Khan (1680-1718) of ...
Teuspa: (from the article "Anatolia") In 679 Esarhaddon of Assyria (680-669) defeated the Cimmerians under King Teuspa in the region of Hubusna (probably Hupisna-Cybistra), but the area was not pacified. In the same year Esarhaddon's ...
Teuta: (from the article "Illyria") ...(second half of the 3rd century BC), who, in alliance with Demetrius II of Macedonia, defeated the Aetolians (231). Agron, however, died suddenly, and during the minority of his son, ...
Teutates: important Celtic deity, one of three mentioned by the Roman poet Lucan in the 1st century AD, the other two being Esus ("Lord") and Taranis ("Thunderer"). According to later commentators, ... [1 Related Articles]
Teutoburg Forest: westernmost escarpment of the Weser Hills (Weserbergland) in northeastern North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northern Germany. Its wooded limestone and sandstone ridges curve from the Ems River valley southeastward in an ...
Teutoburg Forest, Battle of the: (AD 9), battle fought in late summer in which three Roman legions and auxiliary troops under Publius Quinctilius Varus were ambushed and annihilated east of the Rhine by German tribes ... [5 Related Articles]
Teutoni: (from the article "Arausio, Battle of") (Oct. 6, 105 BC), the defeat of a Roman army by Germanic tribes near Arausio (now Orange in southern France). The Cimbri and the Teutoni had invaded the Roman province ...
Teutonia: (from the article "Follen, Adolf Ludwig") ...democratic Deutsche Lesegesellschaft (German Reading Society). Expelled for his political views in 1815, he went to Heidelberg, where he was among the founders of the political student association Teutonia. With ...
Teutonic Order: religious order that played a major role in eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages and that underwent various changes in organization and residence from its founding in 1189/90 to ... [32 Related Articles]
Tevatron: (from the article "colliding-beam storage ring") Fermilab is the site of the Tevatron, the world's highest-energy proton-antiproton collider, which began operation in 1985 and delivers particle beams at energies of 900 gigaelectron volts (GeV) per beam ...
Tevet: (from the article "Jewish calendar") ...Elul (August-September), Tishri (Ethanim [September-October]), Heshvan, or Marheshvan (Bul [October-November]), Kislev (November-December), Tevet (December-January), Shevat (January-February), and Adar (February-March). The 13th month of the leap year, Adar Sheni (or ve-Adar), ...
Tevet, Fast of: (from the article "Jewish calendar") ...17); Tisha be-Av (Fast of Av 9), which commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in 586 BCE and 70 CE, respectively; Tzom Gedaliahu (Tishri 3); 'Asara be-Tevet ...
Tevez, Carlos: (from the article "Football") West Ham was fined a record £5.5 million (almost $11 million) by the Premier League over a breach of rules in the signing of two Argentine players, Javier Mascherano and ...
Tevfik Fikret: poet who is considered the founder of the modern school of Turkish poetry. [1 Related Articles]
Tevfik Pasa, Ahmed: last Ottoman grand vizier (chief minister); he was sympathetic to the nationalist movement of Mustafa Kemal (later known as Ataturk), which resisted the Allied occupation of Anatolia after World War ...
Teviot, River: tributary of the River Tweed, southern Scotland. Its valley, Teviotdale, constitutes a large part of the historic county of Roxburghshire. The river, rich in trout, flows northeast past Hawick to ...
Tevkkel Khan: (from the article "Kazakhstan") ...these obstacles and, having succeeded in reuniting the three hordes, embarked upon systematic raids into Transoxania, a trend that continued under his immediate successors down to the reign of Tevkkel ...
Tevye the Dairyman: (from the article "Yiddish literature") ...success in short fiction. He superseded Abramovitsh's satiric bent, developing a nuanced combination of realism, humour, and social commentary. In 1894 he began writing a sequence of monologues by Tevye ...
Tewkesbury: borough (district), administrative county of Gloucestershire, England, north of the city of Gloucester. Most of the borough belongs to the historic county of Gloucestershire, but the villages of Teddington and ...
Tewkesbury: town ("parish"), Tewkesbury borough, administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire, England, at the confluence of the Severn and Warwickshire Avon rivers. A small Benedictine abbey was founded in 715 on ...
Tewkesbury, Battle of: (May 4, 1471), in the English Wars of the Roses, the Yorkist king Edward IV's final victory over his Lancastrian opponents. Edward, who had displaced the Lancastrian Henry VI in ... [2 Related Articles]
Tewksbury: town (township), Middlesex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. Located just southeast of Lowell and 21 miles (34 km) north of Boston, the town occupies a marshy lowland between the Concord and ...
Tewksbury, John Walter: American sprinter who won five medals at the 1900 Olympics in Paris. He earned gold medals in the 200-metre race and the 400-metre hurdles, silver medals in the 100- and ...
Tewodros II: emperor of Ethiopia (1855-68) who has been called Ethiopia's first modern ruler. Not only did he reunify the various Ethiopian kingdoms into one empire, but he also attempted to focus ... [4 Related Articles]
Tewson, Sir Vincent: English trade union leader and general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 1946 to 1960.
TeX: (from the article "computer programming language") TeX was developed during 1977-86 as a text formatting language by Donald Knuth, a Stanford University professor, to improve the quality of mathematical notation in his books. Text formatting systems, ...
tex system: (from the article "textile") The tex system, originally devised in 1873, is a universal method developed for the measurement of staple fibre yarns and is also applicable to the measurement of filament yarns. It ...
Texaco Inc.: former U.S.-based oil and petrochemical corporation. Founded in 1901, by the late 20th century it was one of the world's largest petroleum companies in terms of sales. The name Texaco ... [2 Related Articles]
Texaco process: (from the article "coal utilization") The Texaco gasifier appears to be the most promising new entrained-bed gasification system that has been developed. In this system, coal is fed into the gasifier in the form of ...
Texarkana: (from the article "Texarkana") dual municipality astride the Texas-Arkansas boundary, U.S. The city also lies near the Louisiana and Oklahoma state lines. First settled in 1874 at the junction of the Cairo and Fulton ...
Texarkana: dual municipality astride the Texas-Arkansas boundary, U.S. The city also lies near the Louisiana and Oklahoma state lines. First settled in 1874 at the junction of the Cairo and Fulton ...
Texas: constituent state of the United States of America. It became the 28th state of the Union in 1845. Texas occupies the south-central segment of the country and is the largest ... [35 Related Articles]
Texas A&M University: state university system based in College Station, Texas, U.S., formed in 1948 as an outgrowth of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, which was established in 1871 and opened ...
Texas and Pacific Railway Company: Texas railroad merged into the Missouri Pacific in 1976. Chartered in 1871, it absorbed several other Texas railroads and extended service to El Paso in the west and New Orleans, ...
Texas bluebonnet: (from the article "bluebonnet") any of several flowering plants, including the Texas bluebonnet (Lupinus subcarnosus), a North American annual plant of the pea family (Fabaceae), native to the plains of Texas. It grows about ...
Texas bluegrass: (from the article "bluegrass") ...form a good sod. Canada bluegrass (P. compressa), native to Europe and now common in North America, is a wiry plant with flat stems, similar to Kentucky bluegrass in appearance ...
Texas cattle fever: (from the article "Smith, Theobald") Smith's most important research was carried out (1888-93) on Texas cattle fever. He discovered that the disease is caused by a protozoan parasite (Pyrosoma bigeminum [now called Babesia bigemina]) that ...
Texas Christian University: private, coeducational institution of higher education in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. It is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). It grants about 14 undergraduate degrees in more than ... [1 Related Articles]
Texas City: city, Galveston county, Texas, U.S. It is part of the Galveston-Texas City complex on Galveston Bay. Texas City is a deepwater port on channels to the Gulf of Mexico, and ...
Texas hold'em: (from the article "poker") The most popular game of the modern era is Texas hold'em, which world champion poker player Doyle ("Texas Dolly") Brunson once called the "Cadillac of poker games." This is a ...
Texas Instruments Incorporated: American manufacturer of calculators, microprocessors, and digital signal processors with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. [4 Related Articles]
Texas kangaroo rat: (from the article "kangaroo rat") ...or gravelly soils in a variety of open, sparsely vegetated, hot and dry habitats such as chaparral and sagebrush, desert grassland, mixed grass- and scrubland, and pinon-juniper woodland. The Texas ...
Texas ocelot: (from the article "ocelot") ...because they have long been hunted for their skins, they can be rare in many areas. In fact, the ocelot population is declining throughout most of its range, and one ...
Texas Oil & Gas Corp.: (from the article "United States Steel Corporation") ...Steel remained the largest steel producer in the United States, by the late 20th century only about one-third of its business remained in steel. The acquisitions of Marathon Oil Company ...
Texas Playboys: (from the article "Wills, Bob") American bandleader, fiddler, singer, and songwriter whose Texas Playboys popularized western swing music in the 1930s and '40s.
Texas Presbyterian College: (from the article "Austin College") ...of Austin College in 1849. Instruction began the following year in Huntsville. The college was moved to Sherman in 1876. Women were first admitted in 1918, and in 1930 the ...
Texas Rangers: (from the article "Arlington") ...is the seat of the University of Texas at Arlington (1895) and the Arlington Baptist College (1939). Six Flags Over Texas, a large amusement park, is located there, and the ...
Texas Rangers: a loosely organized military force that policed Texas from the time of their initial organization in the 1830s to their merger with the state highway patrol in 1935. The first ... [2 Related Articles]
Texas red oak: (from the article "red oak") The Texas red oak (Q. texana), about 10 m tall, is sometimes considered a shorter variety of the Shumard oak.
Texas Southern University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Houston, Texas, U.S. A historically black university, it continues to have an enrollment that is predominantly African American. It grants undergraduate, graduate, and ...
Texas Tech University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Lubbock, Texas, U.S. In addition to programs leading to baccalaureate degrees, it offers about 100 master's and 60 doctoral degree programs. The main ... [1 Related Articles]
Texas v. Johnson: (from the article "Stevens, John Paul") ...of groups that historically had been disenfranchised or discriminated against. Stevens was usually a strong defender of free speech, though he vigorously dissented from the court's 1989 ruling in Texas ...
Texas v. White: (1869), U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was held that the United States is "an indestructible union" from which no state can secede. In 1850 the state of Texas ...
Texas Woman's University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Denton, Texas, U.S. It focuses on liberal arts and professional studies. Texas Woman's University is divided into the University General Divisions, the Institute ...
Texas, flag of: U.S. state flag consisting of a vertical blue stripe at the hoist bearing a large white star; the fly end is horizontally divided white over red.
Texas, University of: state university system based in Austin, Texas, U.S. Branch campuses are located in Arlington (founded 1895), El Paso (1913), Edinburg (Pan American branch; 1927), Richardson (Dallas branch; 1961), Odessa (Permian ... [8 Related Articles]
Texcoco: city built in the present-day Valley of Mexico by the Acolhuas, a pre-Columbian people of the Nahuatl-speaking group of tribes, which gained mastery of the valley after the collapse of ... [2 Related Articles]
Texcoco, Lake: lake in central Mexico. Originally one of the five lakes contained in Anahuac, or the Valley of Mexico, Texcoco has been drained via channels and a tunnel to the Panuco ... [5 Related Articles]
Texel Island: (from the article "Frisian Islands") The West Frisian Islands (Dutch: Friese Eilanden), belonging to The Netherlands, include from west to east the inhabited islands of Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland, and Schiermonnikoog and the virtually uninhabited ...
Texico: (from the article "Curry") The area has been populated since about 10,000 BC, and Comanche Indians roamed it in the 18th and 19th centuries. The town of Texico, on the Texas border, became one ...
Texier, Charles: (from the article "Bogazkoy") Bogazkoy was discovered in 1834 by the French explorer Charles Texier, who saw Yazilikaya and those remains of the ancient city that were above ground. After visits by British and ...
text: (from the article "textual criticism") the technique of restoring texts as nearly as possible to their original form. Texts in this connection are defined as writings other than formal documents, inscribed or printed on paper, ...
text formatting language: (from the article "word processor") Programs known as text formatters give more control over document layout and appearance, especially for scientific and mathematical documents, than do word processors. On the other hand, these programs, of ...
text messaging: (from the article "Text Messaging: WAN2TLK?") In 2005 some 45 billion text messages were expected to be sent by cellular phone users in the United States. The sending of messages to and from mobile phones via ...
textbook: (from the article "Education") ...had centred on training students to support the country's imperial ambitions. In keeping with the new policy, the Japanese Education Ministry initially asked the publishers of high-school history textbooks to ...
textile: any filament, fibre, or yarn that can be made into fabric or cloth, and the resulting material itself. [92 Related Articles]
Textile Workers Union of America: (from the article "Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union") ...the United States and Canada. It was formed in 1976 by the merger of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), a large union representing workers in the men's clothing ...
Textron Inc.: American multi-industry company that pioneered the conglomerate concept. Its present-day core organization includes aircraft, automotive, and industrial manufacturing segments. The firm was established in 1923 as a textile maker and ... [1 Related Articles]
textual community: (from the article "writing") ...skills of reading and writing, first arose in Europe in the later Middle Ages with the development of what the Canadian historian Brian Stock refers to as "textual communities." A ...
textual corruption: (from the article "paleography") Textual corruptions are another obstacle to correct elucidation. A legal document is certain to have been checked at the time of writing, but one cannot be sure in the case ...
textual criticism: the technique of restoring texts as nearly as possible to their original form. Texts in this connection are defined as writings other than formal documents, inscribed or printed on paper, ... [11 Related Articles]
textual transmission: (from the article "textual criticism") ...textual criticism is indispensable for the student of history, literature, or philosophy. Written texts supply the main foundation for these disciplines, and some knowledge of the processes of their transmission ...
Textura: (from the article "calligraphy") ...style of increasing density deepened the colour of the page and imparted to this formal book hand the appearance of woven fabric, giving rise to its generic name of
textural maturity: (from the article "sedimentary rock") The texture of a sandstone is the sum of such attributes as the clay matrix, the size and sorting of the detrital grains, and the roundness of these particles. To ...
texture: (from the article "acoustics") "Texture" refers to the time interval between the arrival of the direct sound and the arrival of the first few reverberations. To obtain good texture, it is necessary that the ...
texture: the concrete, physical elements of prose or poetry that are separate from the structure or argument of the work. Such elements include metaphor, imagery, metre, and rhyme. The distinction between ...
texture: (from the article "architecture") Texture plays a dual role in architecture: it expresses something of the quality of materials, and it gives a particular quality to light. Although one absorbs both qualities simultaneously by ...
texture: (from the article "rock") The texture of a rock is the size, shape, and arrangement of the grains (for sedimentary rocks) or crystals (for igneous and metamorphic rocks). Also of importance are the rock's ...
textured yarn: (from the article "fibre, man-made") Texturing is the formation of crimp, loops, coils, or crinkles in filaments. Such changes in the physical form of a fibre (several examples of which are shown in Figure 3) ...
Tey, Josephine: Scottish playwright and author of popular detective novels praised for their warm and readable style.
Teyateyaneng: village, northwestern Lesotho, 19 miles (31 km) northeast of Maseru, on the country's main north-south road. Named after the Teja-Tejane ("Quicksands") River that flows south of the village, Teyateyaneng is ...
Teyte, Dame Maggie: English soprano, a well-known opera, concert, and recording artist who was considered one of the 20th century's foremost interpreters of French song.
Tezcatlipoca: god of the Great Bear constellation and of the night sky, one of the major deities of the Aztec pantheon. Tezcatlipoca's cult was brought to central Mexico by the Toltecs, ... [2 Related Articles]
tezhong: (from the article "zhong") ...usually of the bo variety (having a loop top, a flat bottom rim, and a rounder body shape), is considered a tezhong ("special bell").
Tezpur: city, north-central Assam state, northeastern India. Situated along the Brahmaputra River, it is a trade centre for tea, rice, and other crops grown in the surrounding agricultural area. There is ...
Tezukayama: (from the article "Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area") ...while the palaces, shrines, and temples were located on higher ground. Medieval settlements were in the uplands. Some modern residential areas are on the sites of several former settlements. Thus, ...
TH1: (from the article "immune system") A discussion of helper-T-cell activation is complicated by the fact that helper T cells are not a uniform group of cells but rather can be divided into two general subpopulations-T_H1 ...
TH2: (from the article "immune system") ...of helper-T-cell activation is complicated by the fact that helper T cells are not a uniform group of cells but rather can be divided into two general subpopulations-T_H1 and T_H2 ...
Tha River: river in northwestern Laos, one of the 12 principal tributaries of the Mekong River. The Tha River rises on the Chinese frontier and flows generally southwestward in deep, narrow valleys ... [1 Related Articles]
Tha'lab of al-Kufah: (from the article "Arabic literature") ...("Book of Poetry and Poets"), in which he suggested that ancient poetry could not be deemed superior merely because it was old. The 9th-century grammarian Tha'lab of al-Kufah organized his ...
tha'r: (from the article "Islam") ...of Adam," and the only distinction recognized in the sight of God is to be based on piety and good acts. The age-old Arab institution of intertribal revenge (called
Thaba Bosiu: site and sandstone plateau (elevation 5,919 feet [1,804 m]) in the foothills of the southern African state of Lesotho. It is located about 15 miles (24 km) east of Maseru, ... [2 Related Articles]
Thaba Bosiu, Treaty of: (from the article "South Africa") ...defeated the Boers in 1858. The Boers, however, coveted the fertile Caledon valley and defeated the Sotho eight years later after the Boers regained their unity. The Sotho were forced ...
Thaba Putsoa Mountains: (from the article "Maloti Mountains") ...Drakensberg Range near the northern tip of Lesotho and a few miles from its highest point, Mont aux-Sources. The Front Range is extended almost to Lesotho's southwestern border by another ...
Thabana Ntlenyana: mountain peak (11,424 feet [3,482 m]) in the Drakensberg and the highest in Africa south of Kilimanjaro. The peak lies in Lesotho, an independent country entirely within South Africa, just ... [2 Related Articles]