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Thira: (from the article "Greece") ...but more recently (the first third of the 20th century) with agrarian reform, are juxtaposed with some of the most ancient towns of Mediterranean Europe (including Mycenea, Pilos, Thira, Argos, ...
third: (from the article "African music") ...interval of 171 cents. One of the most impressive areas in Africa in which a pen-equidistant heptatonic scale is combined with a distinctively harmonic style based on singing in intervals ...
third baseman: (from the article "baseball") The third baseman, playing to the right of third base and nearer the batter than the shortstop or second baseman, is not called on to cover as much ground, but ...
Third Coalition: (from the article "France") ...winter killed most of the others. Yet this unparalleled disaster did not humble or discourage the emperor. Napoleon believed that he could hold his empire together and defeat yet another ...
third contact: (from the article "eclipse") The moment of third contact occurs when the Moon's west edge first reveals the Sun's disk. Many of the phenomena of second contact appear again, in reverse order. Suddenly the ...
Third Department: office created by Emperor Nicholas I (July 15 [July 3, old style], 1826) to conduct secret police operations. Designed by Count A.Kh. Benckendorff, who was also its first chief administrator ... [2 Related Articles]
Third Duma: (from the article "Duma") In 1907, by a virtual coup d'etat, Prime Minister Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin restricted the franchise to reduce the representation of radical and national minority groups. The Third Duma, elected on ...
Third Estate: in French history, with the nobility and the clergy, one of the three orders into which members were divided in the pre-Revolutionary Estates-General. It represented the great majority of the ... [6 Related Articles]
third figure: (from the article "logic") ...as the subject of the premise or it may occur last as the predicate of the premise. This is also true for the subject term of the conclusion when it ...
Third Front: (from the article "India") ...of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Despite its heightened rhetoric, the Left Front suffered a political setback when its allies in a potential non-BJP, non-Congress coalition dubbed the "Third Front" were ...
third harmonic mode: (from the article "sound") ...string is one full wavelength long. Because the wavelength of the second harmonic is one-half that of the fundamental, its frequency is twice that of the fundamental. Similarly, the frequency ...
Third Idea: (from the article "Sakharov, Andrey Dmitriyevich") ...department at the Installation after Tamm returned to Moscow in 1953. The following year, there was a conceptual breakthrough to develop high-performance thermonuclear weapons. The "Third Idea," of which Sakharov ...
third intention: (from the article "surgery") ...intention, in which all tissues, including the skin, are closed with suture material after completion of the operation; secondary intention, in which the wound is left open and closes naturally; ...
Third Intermediate period: (from the article "Egypt, ancient") The Third Intermediate period (1075-656 BC)
third law of thermodynamics: (from the article "Nernst, Walther Hermann") German scientist who was one of the founders of modern physical chemistry. His theoretical and experimental work in chemistry, including his formulation of the heat theorem, known as the third ...
third party: (from the article "contract") ...importance until such relatively modern developments as the emergence of life insurance, many systems of contract law have encountered difficulty in working out the relationship between the third party and ...
third party: (from the article "electoral college") ...the popular vote and 79 percent of the electoral vote; and in 1992 and 1996 William J. Clinton won 43 and 49 percent of the popular vote, respectively, and 69 ...
third position: (from the article "ballet position") ...with the weight equally divided between them. In second position en l'air ("in the air"), the weight is supported by one foot while the other is raised at the side. ...
Third Poverty Reduction Support Credit Agreement: (from the article "Ghana") Throughout the year economic development dominated international policy. On August 29 the government signed the Third Poverty Reduction Support Credit Agreement with the World Bank in Washington, D.C., to facilitate ...
third rail: (from the article "locomotive") ...directly to the wheels; instead, a mechanical, electric, or hydraulic transmission must be used. The electric locomotive is not self-sufficient; it picks up current from an overhead wire or a ...
Third Reich: (from the article "Third Reich") official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany (q.v.) from January 1933 to May 1945, as the presumed successor of the medieval and early modern Holy Roman Empire of 800 ...
Third Republic: (from the article "Burundi") The crisis in church-state relations was the critical factor behind Maj. Pierre Buyoya's decision to overthrow the Second Republic in September 1987 and proclaim a Third Republic. Buyoya, also a ...
Third Republic: (from the article "Madagascar") With the formal ratification of the power-sharing agreement, institutions for the transitional period, including a national forum charged with drafting a constitution for a Third Republic, were put in place. ...
Third Republic: (from the article "Korea, South") The election for president of the Third Republic took place on October 15, 1963. Park narrowly defeated the opposition candidate, Yun Po Sun, former president (1960-62) of the Second Republic, ...
Third Republic: (from the article "Major rulers of France") A provisional government of national defense was set up in 1870 and took as its first task the continuation of the war against the invaders. Composed of the deputies representing ...
Third Republic, Constitution of the: (from the article "France") Meanwhile, the task of writing a constitution for the republic could no longer be postponed. The assembly began its deliberations in 1873; in 1875 it adopted a series of fundamental ...
Third Rome: (from the article "Eastern Orthodoxy") The "third Rome"reflection in Russian literatureRussian literatureWorks reflecting Muscovite power...(the second Rome), Moscow became the third (and last) Rome. Along ...
Third Seminole War: (from the article "Seminole Wars") The Third Seminole War (1855-58) resulted from renewed efforts to track down the Seminole remnant remaining in Florida. It caused little bloodshed and ended with the United States paying the ...
third stream: (from the article "jazz") It was also in the 1950s that a greater rapprochement between jazz and classical music began to emerge. Like Lewis, many other jazz musicians were studying much of the great ...
Third style: (from the article "painting, Western") In the Third style, which covers most of the Augustan period, the central panel picture on a wall is no longer thought of as a scene through a window but ...
third theatre: (from the article "theatre, Western") ...an upsurge of "alternative culture," and an abolition of the lord chamberlain's powers of censorship (1968). Following the example of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, a profusion of "fringe" theatres ...
Third Wave Foundation: (from the article "Feminism Reimagined: The Third Wave") Some early adherents of the new approach were literally daughters of the second wave. Third Wave Direct Action Corporation (organized in 1992) became in 1997 the Third Wave Foundation, dedicated ...
Third Way: (from the article "United Kingdom") ...on to freely choose. This politics of choice was in fact shared by the Thatcher's Conservative administration and Blair's Labour one. In both the state was seen as a partner. ...
Third Workshop: (from the article "Vakhtangov, Yevgeny Bagrationovich") ...His departure from naturalism in the direction of greater theatricality gave rise to some of the most original productions of the Russian post-Revolutionary theatre. In 1920 he took charge of ...
Third World: (from the article "Christianity") Second, "Third World theologies" often provoked angry debate. The underlying questions concerned the identification of what was essentially Christian in Western Christianity and theology and whether Western church structures and ...
third-class mail: (from the article "postal system") ...mail most commonly used by the public, has generally had a simplified rate structure. The other classes were established according to mail content: second-class consists of newspapers and magazines, third-class ...
third-degree burn: (from the article "burn") Third-degree, or full-thickness, burns destroy the entire thickness of the skin. The surface of the wound is leathery and may be brown, tan, black, white, or red. There is no ...
third-generation computer: (from the article "computer") ...machine implementations and multiple generations of machines. The first 360 models were hybrid transistor-integrated circuit machines. Integrated circuit computers are commonly referred to as third-generation computers.
third-generation data network: (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") ...companies T-Mobile USA, owned by Germany's Deutsche Telekom, and Verizon Wireless. The new wireless licenses were expected to give the cellular companies a boost in marketing what were called third-generation, ...
third-man argument: (from the article "Plato") ...and therefore a second Form must exist, participated in alike by the sensible things and the first Form, and so on, endlessly. This objection came to be known in Plato's ...
third-party logistics: (from the article "logistics") ...department also is responsible for logistics management, control, and planning. The firm may contract with an outside party to perform specific logistics services; this practice is referred to as third-party ...
third-wave feminism: (from the article "Feminism Reimagined: The Third Wave") The third wave of feminism emerged in the mid-1990s. Generation Xers, born in the 1960s and '70s in the developed world, came of age in a media-saturated, diverse world; they ...
Thirkell, Angela: author of more than 30 lighthearted novels about English middle- and upper-class life in Barsetshire dealing with descendants of characters in Anthony Trollope's novels set in the same fictional locale.
thirst: (from the article "sensory reception, human") ...that are sensitive to carbon dioxide in the blood or to changes in blood pressure or heart rate, and there are receptors in the digestive tract that appear to mediate ...
thirst centre: (from the article "human disease") ...is also maintained at fairly constant levels from day to day by the combined action of the central nervous system and the kidneys. If one were to refrain from drinking ...
thirsty glass: (from the article "industrial glass") ...phase and the other a sodium borate-rich phase. The latter is dissolved out by acid treatment, leaving behind a porous skeleton of 96 percent silica. In the porous shape, the ...
Thirteen Articles: (from the article "Thirty-nine Articles") ...Articles developed from the Forty-two Articles, written by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1553 "for the avoiding of controversy in opinions." These had been partly derived from the Thirteen Articles of ...
Thirteen Articles of Faith: a summary of the basic tenets of Judaism as perceived by the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides. They first appeared in his commentary on the Mishna, Kitab al-Siraj, as an ... [2 Related Articles]
Thirteen Offices: (from the article "Kangxi") ...by Sonin, Suksaha, Ebilun, and Oboi-four conservative Manchu courtiers from the preceding reign. One of the first political acts of the four imperial advisers was to replace the so-called Thirteen ...
Thirteen Principles of Faith: (from the article "creed") ...our God is one Lord") and of the resurrection of the dead in the amidah (standing prayer). Of the various medieval attempts to formulate creeds, the most enduring has been ...
Thirteen Towers of Chankillo: (from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") ...of the coastal Peruvian desert 386 km (240 mi) north of Lima. Thirteen towers from 1.8 to 6 m (6 to 20 ft) high extend over a distance of 30.5 ...
Thirteen Years' War: (1454-66), war between Poland and the Teutonic Knights that began as a revolt by the Prussian populace against their overlords, the Teutonic Knights, and was concluded by the Treaty of ... [2 Related Articles]
Thirteenth Amendment: (from the article "Confiscation Acts") With the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, however, Southern slaveholders lost an estimated $2,000,000,000 worth of human property. politics of ...
Thirty Thousand Islands: (from the article "Georgian Bay") ...is named for two giant flowerpot-shaped pillars that were sculptured from limestone cliffs by the waves. The park's landscape is varied and includes glacier-scraped rocks and some dense forests. The ...
Thirty Tyrants: (from the article "Lysander") ...September 405 BC; this action closed the grain route through the Hellespont, thereby starving Athens into surrender (April 404). Lysander instigated establishment of the oligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants in ...
Thirty Years' Peace: (from the article "Pericles") ...that Athens would give up its mainland possessions and confine itself to a largely maritime empire. The Spartan army retired, Euboea was quickly reduced, and the arrangement was ratified by ...
Thirty Years' War: (1618-48), in European history, a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. Its destructive campaigns and battles occurred over most ... [50 Related Articles]
Thirty, Battle of the: (March 27, 1351), episode in the struggle for the succession to the duchy of Brittany between Charles of Blois, supported by the King of France, and John of Montfort, supported ...
Thirty-nine Articles: the doctrinal statement of the Church of England. With the Book of Common Prayer, they present the liturgy and doctrine of that church. The Thirty-nine Articles developed from the Forty-two ... [6 Related Articles]
thirty-seven: (from the article "nat") ...that are the objects of an extensive, probably pre-Buddhist cult; in Thailand a similar spirit is called phi. Most important of the nats are a group collectively called the "thirty-seven," ...
thirtysomething: American television drama about the lives of young urban professionals that was broadcast on the American Broadcasting Co. (ABC) network for four seasons (1987-91). Initially panned by some critics as ...
Thiry, Marcel: Belgian poet, novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose work reflects his experiences of foreign lands and cultures.
This: (from the article "Jirja") ...Upper Egypt. It is situated on the west bank of the Nile River, which encroached considerably on the town in the 18th and 19th centuries. In pharaonic times it was ...
Thisbe: (from the article "Pyramus and Thisbe") hero and heroine of a Babylonian love story, in which they were able to communicate only through a crack in the wall between their houses; the tale was related by ...
Thisted: city in northwestern Jutland, Denmark. It dates from the 14th century and used to be a busy port for local commerce on the Limfjorden. Industry now includes meat processing and ...
thistle: weedy species of Cirsium, Carduus, Echinops, Sonchus, and other plant genera of the family Asteraceae. The word thistle most often refers to prickly leaved species of Carduus and Cirsium, which ...
thistle butterfly: (from the article "Oxygen Consumption of Various Animals and Its Variation with Rest and Activity") The thistle butterfly (Vanessa) is named for its principal larval host plant. Some species, such as the painted lady (V. cardui), migrate during adulthood, traveling in large groups.
Thistle, The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the: the Scottish order of knighthood whose modern period dates from King James VII of Scotland (James II of England), who revived it in 1687, and Queen Anne, who revived it ...
Thistlewood, Arthur: revolutionary who in 1820, a time of economic distress and radical unrest in England, organized the Cato Street Conspiracy to assassinate all the members of the British Cabinet. [1 Related Articles]
thixotropy: reversible behaviour of certain gels that liquefy when they are shaken, stirred, or otherwise disturbed and reset after being allowed to stand. Thixotropy occurs in paint, such as lithopone in ... [1 Related Articles]
Thjors River: longest stream in Iceland. Rising from the central plateau northeast of Hofs Glacier, it flows southwestward for 143 miles (230 km) and then discharges into the Atlantic Ocean southeast of ...
Tho: (from the article "Chu Van Tan") Chu Van Tan became chieftain of the Tho, a tribal ethnic minority in the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam near the China border. Before World War II, Chu Van Tan ...
Tho Moi: (from the article "Vietnamese literature") ...the two most influential literary movements, when one considers their lasting effect, were the Tu Luc Van Doan ("Independent Literary Group"), led by Khai Hung and Nhat Linh, and the ...
Thoburn, Isabella: American missionary to India whose work in education there culminated in the founding of an important woman's college in Lucknow.
Thokk: (from the article "Balder") ...knowing that he was immune from harm. The blind god Hod, deceived by the evil Loki, killed Balder by hurling mistletoe, the only thing that could hurt him. After Balder's ...
Thokoly, Imre: Hungarian patriot, a leader of the Hungarian Protestants in their struggle against Austrian Habsburg rule. [2 Related Articles]
tholeiite: fine-grained extrusive igneous rock, a basalt that contains plagioclase feldspar (labradorite), clinopyroxene (augite with pigeonite), and iron ore (magnetite and ilmenite). Tholeiitic lavas often contain glass, but little or no ...
tholeiitic series: (from the article "igneous rock") ...and silica contents, which yield two groups, the subalkaline and alkaline rocks. The subalkaline rocks have two divisions based mainly on the iron content, with the iron-rich group called the ...
tholos: in ancient Greek architecture, a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof and with or without a peristyle, or surrounding colonnade. In the Mycenaean period, tholoi were large ceremonial ... [4 Related Articles]
Tholos: (from the article "Athens") ...and some secular buildings in the Agora, notably the Stoa Poikile, or Painted Colonnade, with its famous paintings by Polygnotus and Micon, one of which represented the Battle of Marathon. ...
tholu bommalata: (from the article "South Asian arts") ...The puppeteer chirps, whimpers, and squeals in animal-bird voices and creates battles and tragic moments, expresses pathos, anger, and laughter. In Andhra Pradesh the puppets, called tholu bommalata ("the dance ...
Thom, Rene Frederic: French mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1958 for his work in topology. [2 Related Articles]
Thomas: (from the article "Tristan and Isolde") ...work containing episodes of a coarse and even farcical character. Two adaptations, made in the late 12th century, preserved something of its barbarity. About 1170, however, the Anglo-Norman poet Thomas, ...
Thomas A Kempis: Christian theologian, the probable author of De Imitatione Christi (Imitation of Christ), a devotional book that, with the exception of the Bible, has been considered the most influential work in ... [5 Related Articles]
Thomas Cook and Son: (from the article "Cook, Thomas") English innovator of the conducted tour and founder of Thomas Cook and Son, a worldwide travel agency. Cook can be said to have invented modern tourism.
Thomas Cup: trophy signifying world supremacy in the sport of badminton. The cup was donated in 1939 by Sir George Thomas for a series of men's international team competitions to be managed ... [2 Related Articles]
Thomas de Colmar, Charles Xavier: (from the article "computer") ...but with the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century came a widespread need to perform repetitive operations efficiently. With other activities being mechanized, why not calculation? In 1820 Charles Xavier ...
Thomas Jefferson Building: (from the article "Congress, Library of") ...burgeoning collection outgrew its space in the Capitol. In the early 21st century the Library of Congress complex on Capitol Hill included three buildings containing 21 public reading rooms. The ...
Thomas Jefferson University: private, state-aided, coeducational institution of higher education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It has one of the largest independent medical schools in the United States. The university comprises Jefferson Medical College, ...
Thomas Of Bayeux: archbishop of York from 1070, who opposed the primacy of the archbishopric of Canterbury over that of York. Consecrated by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury, Thomas professed obedience to Lanfranc personally ...
Thomas of Brittany: (from the article "Gottfried von Strassburg") ...French sources. The first German version is that of Eilhart von Oberg (c. 1170), but Gottfried, although he probably knew Eilhart's poem, based his own work on the Anglo-Norman version ...
Thomas of Stitny: (from the article "Germany") ...the towns by virtue of its economic power and cultural influence. The luxury and immorality of the Bohemian clergy were castigated by a series of religious reformers such as Conrad ...
Thomas steel: (from the article "Gilchrist, Percy") ...his better-known cousin Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, devised in 1876-77 a process (thereafter widely used in Europe) of manufacturing in Bessemer converters a kind of low-phosphorus steel known as Thomas steel. ...
Thomas The Rhymer: Scottish poet and prophet who was likely the author of the metrical romance Sir Tristrem, a version of the widely diffused Tristan legend. The romance was first printed in 1804 ... [1 Related Articles]
Thomas the Tank Engine: anthropomorphic locomotive engine who rides the rails of the fictional island of Sodor. Thomas the Tank Engine stars in the long-running television series Thomas & Friends.
Thomas's pygmy mouse: (from the article "mouse") ...but others are more adaptable. Habitats of the pygmy mouse, for example, include open sandy ground, savannas, forests, and sometimes houses. This subgenus contains the most efficient burrowers: Thomas's pygmy ...
Thomas's rice rat: (from the article "rice rat") ...Much has been learned about the ecologies of some species with extensive geographic ranges and high population densities, such as O. megacephalus. Others, such as Thomas's rice ...
Thomas's rope squirrel: (from the article "squirrel") ...gray squirrel (S. carolinensis), prefer to travel through the treetops and regularly cross rivers by swimming with the head up and tail flat on the water's surface. ...
Thomas, Albert: French statesman, political leader, and historian, who was the first director of the League of Nations' International Labour Organisation (1919-21).
Thomas, Ambrose: French composer best known for his operas, particularly Mignon, written in a light, melodious style. [1 Related Articles]
Thomas, Antoine: (from the article "Darmesteter, Arsene") ...Words . . .") and La Vie des mots . . . (1887; The Life of Words . . .). He collaborated with the French linguists Adolphe Hatzfeld and Antoine ...