the main stock market of Japan, located in Tokyo, and one of the world's largest marketplaces for securities. The exchange was first opened in 1878 to provide a market for ...
coeducational, state-financed institution of higher learning in Tokyo, the largest of Tokyo's more than 50 universities and colleges. Founded in 1877 as the first Japanese institution of higher learning formed ...
metropolitan complex-commonly called Greater Tokyo-along the northern and western shores of Tokyo Bay, on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu, central Japan. At its centre is the metropolitan ...
informal Bengali school of instruction, usually in grammar, law, logic, and philosophy. Tols were usually found at places of holiness and learning, such as Varanasi (Benares), Nadia, and Nasik.
controversial Irish-born British freethinker whose rationalist philosophy forced church historians to seriously consider questions concerning the biblical canon.
drug used in the treatment of type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes. Tolbutamide stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas, thereby reducing the concentration of glucose in the blood.
city, on the western coast of Cebu island, Philippines. It is the site of the nation's largest copper mine; the ore is extracted by strip or open-cut mining, concentrated, and ...
city, seat (1835) of Lucas county, northwestern Ohio, U.S., at the mouth of the Maumee River (bridged). It lies along Maumee Bay (southwestern tip of Lake Erie), 55 miles (89 ...
city, capital of Toledo provincia, which is situated in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Castile-La Mancha, south-central Spain, on a rugged promontory washed on three sides by the Tagus ...
provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Castile-La Mancha, south-central Spain. It is bordered north by the provinces of Avila and Madrid, east by Cuenca, south by Ciudad Real, ...
18 councils of the Roman Catholic church in Spain, held in Toledo from about 400 to 702. At least 11 of these councils were considered national or plenary; the rest ...
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Toledo, Ohio, U.S. It offers more than 150 undergraduate and 60 graduate degree programs through colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education ...
(May 24, 1689), act of Parliament granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists (i.e., dissenting Protestants such as Baptists and Congregationalists). It was one of a series of measures that firmly ...
(Oct. 19, 1781), law promulgated by the Holy Roman emperor Joseph II granting limited freedom of worship to non-Roman Catholic Christians and removing civil disabilities to which they had been ...
any object of japanned (varnished) tinplate and pewter. The term is derived from the French name for such objects, tole peinte. The tinplate sheets of iron or steel dipped in ...
town, southwestern Madagascar. The town is a port on Saint-Augustin Bay of the Mozambique Channel and serves as the outlet for the agricultural products of the hinterland. It also ships ...
departamento, central Colombia, extending from the Andean Cordillera (mountains) Central across the Magdalena River valley to the Cordillera Oriental. Created in 1861, it occupies an area of ...
sum levied on users of certain roads, highways, canals, bridges, tunnels, ferries, and other such conveniences, primarily to pay the construction and maintenance costs for those structures. Tolls were known ...
county, north-central Connecticut, U.S. It is bordered to the north by Massachusetts and consists of an upland region forested by hardwoods and white pines. The county is drained by the ...
dramatist, poet, and political activist, who was a prominent exponent of Marxism and pacifism in Germany in the 1920s. His Expressionist plays embodied his spirit of social protest.
American psychologist who developed a system of psychology known as purposive, or molar, behaviourism, which attempts to explore the entire action of the total organism.
U.S. physical chemist and physicist who demonstrated the electron to be the charge-carrying particle in the flow of electricity in metals and determined its mass.
megye (county), south central Hungary, extending westward from the Danube and with an area of 1,429 sq mi (3,702 sq km). Near the Danube the landscape is flat, rising gently ...
six English farm labourers who were sentenced (March 1834) to seven years' transportation to a penal colony in Australia for organizing trade-union activities in the Dorsetshire village of Tolpuddle. Their ...
African-American poet who worked within the modernist tradition to explore African-American issues. His concern with poetic form and his abiding optimism set him apart from many of his contemporaries. Writing ...
(Count) Russian poet, novelist, and dramatist, an outstanding writer of humorous and satirical verse, serious poetry, and novels and dramas on historical themes.
(Count) novelist and short-story writer, a former nobleman and "White" Russian emigre who became a supporter of the Soviet regime and an honoured artist of the Soviet Union.
Nahuatl-speaking people who held sway over what is now central Mexico from the 10th to the 12th century AD. Their name has many meanings: an "urbanite," a "cultured" person, and, ...
city, capital of Mexico estado ("state"), central Mexico. It lies in the valley of the same name at an elevation of 8,793 feet (2,680 m) and is one of the ...
aromatic hydrocarbon used extensively as starting material for the manufacture of industrial chemicals. It comprises 15-20 percent of coal-tar light oil and is a minor constituent of petroleum. Both sources ...
city, Samara oblast (province), western Russia, on the Volga River. Founded as a fortress in 1738 and known as Stavropol, it was given city status in 1780 and again in ...
mining town, northwestern Western Australia, in the Hamersley Range area near Mount Tom Price, the site of major high-grade deposits of hematite. The town was constructed during 1965-66 by Hamersley ...
(from Algonkian otomahuk: "to knock down"), the war hatchet of the North American Indians. Early versions were made by tying a stone head to a handle with animal sinew or ...
city, southern Hokkaido, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. The city was a regional transport and commerce centre in the early 19th century. A pulp and paper industry has operated there ...
city and concelho (municipality), central Portugal, on the Nabao River, a tributary of the Zezere, northeast of Lisbon. The city contains the 12th-century castle of the Knights ...
one of the minor early medieval ruling houses of northern India. The family is known from scattered sources, and it is impossible to reconstruct its history in any detail. Puranic ...
Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Prague (1977-91), whose cautious but resolute opposition to the Czechoslovak communist regime helped to bring about its peaceful demise in the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
city, Lodzkie wojewodztwo (province), central Poland, on the Pilica River. A textile centre, the city contains synthetic-silk factories as well as carpet factories and leatherworks. A national ...
any fruit of the numerous cultivated varieties of Lycopersicon esculentum, a plant of the nightshade family (Solanaceae); also, the fruit of L. pimpinelli folium, the tiny currant tomato. Tomato plants ...
in the strictest sense, a home or house for the dead; the term is applied loosely to all kinds of graves, funerary monuments, and memorials. In many primitive cultures the ...
flamboyant Italian Alpine skier who earned five Olympic medals, including gold in both the slalom and the giant slalom at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and in ...
American astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930 after a systematic search instigated by the predictions of other astronomers. He also discovered several clusters of stars and galaxies, studied ...
river formed in northeastern Mississippi, U.S., by the confluence of the West and East forks near Amory, Miss. The river flows south and southeast for nearly 525 miles (845 km) ...
(Portuguese: "register of grants"), register of landholdings in Ceylon, compiled in the early 17th century under the Portuguese, and in the late 17th and 18th centuries under the Dutch. The ...
one or more sandbars or spits that connect an island to the mainland. A single tombolo may connect a tied island to the mainland, as at Marblehead, Mass. A double ...
city, Cochise county, southeastern Arizona, U.S. The site was ironically named by Ed Schieffelin, who discovered silver there in 1877 after being told that all he would find would be ...
city, south-central Gumma ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan, on the Kabura River, west of Takasaki. Situated on a local railway between Takasaki and Shimonita, it is the ...
Japanese artist of bunjinga, or "literati painting" (which originated in China and was also called Nanga, or the Southern school of Chinese art). Tomioka's philosophical view was deeply rooted in ...
American artist whose paintings introduced an elegiac tone to post-World War II abstract art. Following a path independent from art-world trends, in the last five years of his life he ...
radiologic technique for obtaining clear X-ray images of deep internal structures by focusing on a specific plane within the body. Structures that are obscured by overlying organs and soft tissues ...
Japanese physicist, joint winner, with Richard P. Feynman and Julian S. Schwinger of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 for developing basic principles of quantum ...
county, west-central New York state, U.S., constituting a plateau region that rises to rugged hills in the south. Cayuga Lake, which extends into the county from the northwestern corner, is ...
city and administrative centre of Tomsk oblast, central Russia, on the Tom River above its confluence with the Ob. Founded as a fort in 1604 to protect the river crossing, ...
oblast (province), central Russia, having an area of 122,350 square miles (316,900 square km) in the basin of the middle Ob River, which bisects it. The terrain is flat and ...
unit of weight in the avoirdupois system equal to 2,000 pounds (907.18 kg) in the United States (the short ton) and 2,240 pounds (1,016.05 kg) in Britain (the long ton). ...
Communist leader who succeeded Ho Chi Minh as president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1969 and from 1976 was president of the reunited Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
(diminutive of Spanish tonada, a type of solo song), genre of short, satirical musical comedy highly popular in 18th-century Spain. It originated as a song that was sung in the ...
in music, principle of organizing musical compositions around a central note, the tonic. Generally, any Western or non-Western music periodically returning to a central, or focal, tone exhibits tonality. More ...
260-day sacred almanac of many ancient Meso-American cultures, including the Maya, Mixtec, and Aztec. Used as early as the pre-Classic period (before c. AD 100) in Monte Alban (Oaxaca) and ...
in Meso-American religion, Nahua sun deity of the fifth and final era (the Fifth Sun). In most myths of the Meso-American Nahua peoples, including those of the Aztecs, four eras ...
