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Tocantins River: river that rises in several headstreams, including the Parana and Maranhao rivers, on the central plateau in Goias state, Brazil. It flows northward through Goias and then Tocantins states until ...
toccata: musical form for keyboard instruments, written in a free style that is characterized by full chords, rapid runs, high harmonies, and other virtuoso elements designed to show off the performer's ...
Toccoa: city, seat (1905) of Stephens county, northeastern Georgia, U.S. It lies on the Dahlonega Upland, northwest of Hartwell Dam and Lake near the South Carolina border, about 50 miles (80 ...
Toch, Ernst: composer whose works, noted for their perfection of form, fused elements from the classical tradition with modern musical ideas. Although he rarely carried innovation to great lengths, he was considered ...
Tocharian languages: small group of extinct Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Tarim River Basin (in the centre of the modern Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, China) during the latter half ...
Tochigi: ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, in the northern Kanto chiho (region). It occupies an area of 2,476 square miles (6,414 square km). The eastern border with Ibaraki prefecture is formed by ...
Tocopilla: capital of Tocopilla provincia, Antofagasta region, northern Chile, situated on the Pacific coast. Founded in about 1850, it developed as a shipping point for copper mined inland. Now it is ...
Tocqueville, Alexis de: political scientist, historian, and politician, best known for Democracy in America, 4 vol. (1835-40), a perceptive analysis of the political and social system of the United States ...
Toda: city, Saitama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the alluvial plain of the Ara River. During the Tokugawa era (1603-1867) it was a post town and ferry station. The city is ...
Toda: pastoral tribe of the Nilgiri Hills of southern India. Numbering only about 800 in the early 1960s, they were rapidly increasing in population because of improved health facilities. The Toda ...
Todai Temple: ("Great Eastern Temple"), monumental Japanese temple and centre of the Kegon sect of Japanese Buddhism, located in Nara. The main buildings were constructed between AD 745 and 752 under the ...
Todd River: intermittent river in south-central Northern Territory, Australia. It rises in the MacDonnell Ranges and flows southeast for 200 miles (320 km), passing through Heavitree Gap and the town of Alice ...
Todd, Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron: British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the 1957 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Todd, Mabel Loomis: American writer and editor who was largely responsible for editing the first posthumously published editions of the poems of Emily Dickinson.
Todd, Michael: American showman with a flair for the flamboyant who is remembered as a film producer for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956).
Todd, Thomas: associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1807-26).
toddy cat: any of several arboreal palm civets. See civet.
Todi: town and episcopal see, Perugia provincia, Umbria regione, central Italy, south of Perugia. The town, on a hill overlooking the Tiber River, is of ancient Umbrian origin and served as ...
Todmorden: town ("parish"), Calderdale metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the Rochdale Canal. Surrounded by high moorland, Todmorden is a ...
Todos os Santos Bay: sheltered bay of the Atlantic Ocean, eastern coast of Brazil. A natural harbour, it is 25 miles (40 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide. Salvador, the principal seaport ...
tody: any of five species of small, brilliantly coloured forest birds constituting the genus Todus of the order Coraciiformes. They occur in the West Indies. Four distinct but closely related broad-billed ...
Toei Company, Ltd.: leading Japanese motion-picture studio, the films of which are usually dramas and thrillers for children and rural audiences. Toei was formed in 1951 from the Toyoko and Oizumi Studios and ...
Tofalar: Turkic-speaking people of southern Siberia who numbered about 800 in the mid-1980s. Their traditional habitat was the northern slopes of the Eastern Sayan Mountains, where they lived by nomadic hunting ...
Toft, Thomas: one of the most prominent of the English potters working in Staffordshire during the 17th century. The Staffordshire potters were known for the excellence of their slipware, a kind of ...
tofu: soft, bland, custardlike food product made from soybeans. It is an important source of protein in the cuisines of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Tofu is believed to date ...
toga: characteristic loose, draped outer garment of Roman citizens. Adopted by the Romans from the Etruscans, it was originally worn by both sexes of all classes but was gradually abandoned by ...
togavirus: any of three genera of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) of the family Togaviridae. Flaviviruses, once considered to be of the Togaviridae, are now designated as members of a separate family, Flaviviridae.
Toggenburg: breed of dairy goat originating in the Toggenburg valley of Switzerland. The oldest breed of dairy goat in the United States, the Toggenburg has proved widely adaptable. It is characterized ...
Toggenburg Succession: in Swiss history, a long territorial dispute that gave rise to the Old Zurich War (1436-50) and the Second Villmergen War (1712). In the Middle Ages the counts of Toggenburg, ...
toggle mechanism: combination of solid, usually metallic links (bars), connected by pin (hinge) joints that are so arranged that a small force applied at one point can create a much larger force ...
Toghril Beg: founder of the Seljuq dynasty, which ruled in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia during the 11th- 14th centuries. Under his rule the Seljuqs assumed the leadership of the Islamic world ...
togidashi maki-e: in Japanese lacquerwork, kind of maki-e (q.v.). In this technique, the design is painted in lacquer, and gold or silver powder is sprinkled over it; when the lacquer is dry, ...
Togliatti, Palmiro: politician who led the Italian Communist Party for nearly 40 years and made it the largest in western Europe.
Togo: country of western Africa. Situated on the Gulf of Guinea, it has a total area of 21,925 square miles (56,785 square kilometres). From its 32-mile (51-kilometre) coastline, Togo extends northward ...
Togo Heihachiro: admiral who led the Japanese fleet to victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05). In the process, he developed new tactics for engaging an advancing enemy fleet.
Togoland: former German protectorate, western Africa, now divided between the Republics of Togo and Ghana.
Togon-temur: posthumous name Shun-ti last emperor (reigned 1333-68) of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty in China, under whom the population was provoked into rebellion.
Toho Motion Picture Company: leading Japanese motion-picture studio.
Tohoku: chiho (region), located on northern Honshu, Japan, and including the ken (prefectures) of Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Yamagata, Miyagi, and Fukushima. Its name is derived ...
Tohorot: (Hebrew: "Purifications"), the last of the six major divisions, or orders (sedarim), of the Mishna (codification of Jewish oral laws), which was given its final form early in the 3rd ...
toile de Jouy: cotton or linen printed with designs of landscapes and figures for which the 18th-century factory of Jouy-en-Josas, near Versailles, Fr., was famous. The Jouy factory was started in 1760 by ...
toile peinte: , large sheet of heavy, flexible fabric on which a tapestry cartoon (a full-sized preliminary study from which the finished tapestry is made) has been painted. Unlike cartoons drawn on ...
Tojo Hideki: soldier and statesman who was prime minister of Japan during most of World War II (1941-44) and who was subsequently tried and executed for war crimes.
Tojolabal: Mayan Indians of Chiapas in southeastern Mexico, near the Guatemalan border. The Tojolabal language is closely related to that of the Tzotzil and Tzeltal, their neighbours to the northwest, and ...
Toka Gorge: gorge, Hordaland fylke (county), western Norway, near the village of Norheimsund about 25 miles (40 km) east of Bergen. A waterfall flowing into the gorge makes the area a popular ...
Tokai Bank Ltd.: Japanese commercial bank that merged with Sanwa Bank and Asahi Bank to form UFJ Holdings, Inc., in April 2001. Tokai was established in 1941 through the merger of Ito Bank ...
Tokai region: industrial region, central Japan, extending along the Tokaido Line (railway) between Tokyo and Nagoya, and occupying areas of Shizuoka ken (prefecture). Tokai is neither an administrative nor a political entity. ...
Tokaido: historic road that connected Osaka and Kyoto with Edo (now Tokyo) in Japan. The Tokaido was 303 miles (488 km) long and ran mostly along the Pacific (i.e., southern) coast ...
Tokaj: town, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen megye (county), northeastern Hungary. Tokaj lies at the confluence of the Bodrog and Tisza rivers. It is known as the home of the golden yellow Tokay wine and ...
Tokat: city, north-central Turkey. It lies along a tributary of the Yesil River. Surrounded by orchards and gardens, Tokat lies in a plain beneath steep hills that are crowned by a ...
Tokay: famous, usually sweet white wine of Hungary, made from the Hungarian Furmint grape. The wine derives its name from the Tokaj district of northeastern Hungary. Though some Tokay is dry, ...
Tokelau: island territory of New Zealand, consisting of three atolls in the South Pacific Ocean. Tokelau lies 300 miles (480 km) north of Samoa and 2,400 miles (3,900 km) southwest of ...
Toki: city, Gifu ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Toki River. During the civil wars of the Momoyama period (1568-1614), refugees (including potters) fleeing from Seto city settled in ...
Tokiwa Mitsunaga: (c. last half of the 12th century, Kyoto, Japan), leading Japanese painter of the 12th century.
Tokmak: city, northern Kyrgyzstan, on the Chu River. Originally an early 19th-century fort, it became a district town after capture by the Russians in 1867, a status it lost to Pishpek ...
Tokoname: city, Aichi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the west coast of the Chita Peninsula, facing Ise Bay. Pottery manufacture was probably introduced to the city in the 8th ...
tokonoma: alcove in a Japanese room, used for the display of paintings, pottery, flower arrangements, and other forms of art. Household accessories are removed when not in use so that the ...
Tokoroa: town, Waikato local government region, north-central North Island, New Zealand. It lies in the upper Waikato River basin of the Volcanic Plateau. It was constituted a county town in 1953. ...
Tokorozawa: city, Saitama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Seibu Line (railway), in the central part of the Musashino plateau. During the Tokugawa era (1603-1867), Tokorozawa was a rural ...
Tokuda Shusei: novelist who, with Masamune Hakucho, Tayama Katai, and Shimazaki Toson, was one of the "four pillars" of naturalism.
Tokugawa Hidetada: second Tokugawa shogun, who completed the consolidation of his family's rule, eliminated Christianity from Japan, and took the first steps toward closing the country to all trade or other intercourse ...
Tokugawa Iemitsu: third Tokugawa shogun in Japan, the one under whom the Tokugawa regime assumed many of the characteristics that marked it for the next two and a half centuries.
Tokugawa Ieyasu: the founder of the last shogunate in Japan, the Tokugawa, or Edo, shogunate (1603-1867).
Tokugawa Mitsukuni: Japanese feudal lord who began the compilation of the Dai Nihon shi ("History of Great Japan"), a comprehensive rewriting of Japanese history modelled after the great Chinese dynastic histories. Mitsukuni's ...
Tokugawa Nariaki: Japanese advocate of reform measures designed to place more power in the hands of the emperor and the great lords and to keep foreigners out of Japan. He played a ...
Tokugawa period: (1603-1867), the final period of traditional Japan, a time of internal peace, political stability, and economic growth under the shogunate (military dictatorship) founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu. As shogun, Ieyasu achieved ...
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi: fifth Tokugawa shogun of Japan, known as the "Dog Shogun" because of his obsession with dogs.
Tokugawa Yoshimune: eighth Tokugawa shogun, who is considered one of Japan's greatest rulers. His far-reaching reforms totally reshaped the central administrative structure and temporarily halted the decline of the shogunate.
Tokugawa Yoshinobu: the last Tokugawa shogun of Japan, who helped make the Meiji Restoration (1868)-the overthrow of the shogunate and restoration of power to the emperor-a relatively peaceful transition.
Tokushima: prefecture (ken) and city, Shikoku, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. The prefecture's 1,600 sq mi (4,145 sq km) are drained by the Yoshino-gawa (Yoshino River), whose valley is followed by ...
Tokutomi Roka: Japanese novelist, the younger brother of the historian Tokutomi Soho.
Tokutomi Soho: influential Japanese historian, critic, journalist, and essayist and a leading nationalist writer before World War II.
Tokuyama: city, Yamaguchi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It faces Tokuyama Bay of the Inland Sea. A castle town during the early Tokugawa period (1603-1867), it became a station on the Sanyo ...
Tokyo: to (metropolis), in Honshu, Japan. It is bordered by the ken (prefectures) of Saitama (north), Chiba (east), Yamanashi (west), and Kanagawa (southwest) and by Tokyo Bay (southeast). Tokyo metropolis is ...
Tokyo: city and capital of Tokyo to (metropolis) and of Japan. It is located at the head of Tokyo Bay on the Pacific coast of central Honshu. It is the focus ...
Tokyo Bay: inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the east-central coast of Honshu Island, Japan. Along the northwestern shore of the bay are the major cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kawasaki. The ...