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- (from the article "Devonian Period") ...The Lower Zlichov Event is associated with the extinction of the graptoloids and the appearance of the coiled cephalopod goniatites. Three events are very significant extinction episodes: the Taghanic Event, ...
- Taghlib
- (from the article "Kindah") After al-Harith's death the kingdom split up into four tribes-Asad, Taghlib, Qays, and Kinanah-each led by a Kindah prince. The tribes feuded constantly, and, after about the middle of the ...
- Taginae, Battle of
- (June or July 552), decisive engagement fought near what is now the town of Gualdo Tadino, Italy. In the battle the Byzantine general Narses defeated the main body of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tagliacozzi, Gaspare
- (from the article "transplant") ...of the 6th century BC, developed techniques for reconstructing noses from skin flaps taken from the patient's arm. This method was introduced into Western medicine by the great Italian surgeon ...
- Tagliacozzo, Battle of
- (from the article "Germany") ...then rallied his German supporters and led them across the Alps. But Conradin's financial resources were inadequate; unpaid troops deserted, and his depleted following was routed by Charles near Tagliacozzo ...
- Tagliavini, Ferrucio
- Italian opera tenor and motion-picture actor (b. Aug. 14, 1913--d. Jan. 28, 1995).
- Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio
- (from the article "calligraphy") ...letters are made; he states rules for joining and spacing letters and for spacing words and text lines, and he supplies practice exercises. Almost simultaneously the Venetian writing master Giovanantonio ...
- Taglioni, Fabio
- Italian engineer and motorcycle designer (b. Sept. 10, 1920, Lugo di Romagna, Italy-d. July 18, 2001, Bologna, Italy), during his 35-year career as the chief engineer for the state-owned Ducati ...
- Taglioni, Filippo
- Italian dancer and choreographer who developed the Romantic style of ballets.
- Taglioni, Marie
- Italian ballet dancer whose fragile, delicate dancing typified the early 19th-century Romantic style. [4 Related Articles]
- tagmeme
- (from the article "Pike, Kenneth L.") ...general theory of human behaviour, described in his Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior, 3 vol. (1954-60; 2nd ed. 1967). ...
- tagmemics
- a system of linguistic analysis developed by the American linguist Kenneth L. Pike in the 1950s and applied to the description of a very large number of hitherto unrecorded languages. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Tagore, Debendranath
- Hindu philosopher and religious reformer, active in the Brahmo Samaj ("Society of Brahma," also translated as "Society of God"), which purged the Hindu religion and way of life of many ... [4 Related Articles]
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use ... [23 Related Articles]
- tagua palm
- (from the article "palm") ...altilis); it is especially successful with cacao (Theobroma cacao). In Ecuador, palms that are grown by the agroforestry industry include the peach palm; the tagua, or ivory, palm (Phytelephas aequatorialis) ...
- Tagula Island
- volcanic island of the Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It lies 175 miles (280 km) southeast of the island of New Guinea. The largest island of the ...
- Tagus River
- longest waterway of the Iberian Peninsula. It rises in the Sierra de Albarracin of eastern Spain, at a point about 90 miles (150 km) from the Mediterranean coast, and flows ... [4 Related Articles]
- Tagus valley
- (from the article "Portugal") The earliest human remains found in Portugal are Neanderthal-type bones from Furninhas. A distinct culture first emerged in the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) middens of the lower Tagus valley, dated ...
- Taha Husayn
- outstanding figure of the modernist movement in Egyptian literature whose writings, in Arabic, include novels, stories, criticism, and social and political essays. Outside Egypt he is best known through his ... [4 Related Articles]
- Taha, Rachid
- (from the article "Performing Arts") It was also a good year for artists from Algeria. Rachid Taha argued that there were also links between North African styles and rock, and his album Tekitoi mixed North ...
- Tahaa
- (from the article "Sous le Vent, Iles") Raiatea, the principal island, and neighbouring Tahaa are part of a single submarine formation and are surrounded by a single barrier reef. Tahaa lies north of Raiatea and is separated ...
- tahajjud
- (Arabic: "keeping vigil"), in Islamic practice, the recitation of the Qur'an (Islamic scriptures) and prayers during the night. Tahajjud is generally regarded as sunnah (tradition) and not fard (obligation). There ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tahan Range
- (from the article "Tahan, Mount") ...West Malaysia. Mount Tahan is the central feature of Taman Negara National Park and a destination for mountaineers who begin their ascent from nearby Kuala Tahan, headquarters of the park. ...
- Tahan, Mount
- highest peak of the Malay Peninsula (7,175 feet [2,187 m]), in the Tahan Range, West Malaysia. Mount Tahan is the central feature of Taman Negara National Park and a destination ... [3 Related Articles]
- Taharqa
- fourth king (reigned 690-664 BCE) of the 25th dynasty of ancient Egypt (see ancient Egypt: The 24th and 25th dynasties). [8 Related Articles]
- Tahat, Mount
- (from the article "Ahaggar") large plateau in the north centre of the Sahara, on the Tropic of Cancer, North Africa. Its height is above 3,000 feet (900 m), culminating in Mount Tahat (9,573 feet ...
- Taheri
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...or in its more formalized shape, as in Damascus, the hypostyle tradition dominated mosque architecture from 715 to the 10th century. As it occurs at Nishapur in northeastern Iran, Siraf ...
- tahini
- paste of crushed sesame seeds that is widely used in Middle Eastern cooking. Tahini mixed with garlic, lemon juice, and salt and thinned with water constitutes taratoor, a sauce that ...
- Tahir ibn al-Husayn
- (from the article "Ma'mun, al-") ...in effect stripped by al-Amin of his rights to the succession, was supported by an Iranian, al-Fadl ibn Sahl, whom he was to make his vizier, as well as by ...
- Tahirid Dynasty
- (AD 821-873), Islamic dynasty of the land of Khorasan (centred in northeastern Persia), which owed nominal allegiance to the 'Abbasid caliph at Baghdad but enjoyed virtual independence. The dynasty was ... [4 Related Articles]
- Tahirid dynasty
- (from the article "Rasulid dynasty") ...trade in the Red Sea keen competition, but, soon after his death, internal unrest, revolts of slaves, and the plague hastened the fall of the dynasty. Yemen then passed into ...
- Tahiti
- largest island of the Iles du Vent (Windward Islands) of the Society Islands, French Polynesia, in the central South Pacific Ocean. Its nearest neighbour is Moorea, 12 miles (20 km) ... [7 Related Articles]
- Tahiti vanilla
- (from the article "vanilla") ...commerce are the cured, unripe fruit of Vanilla planifolia, Mexican or Bourbon vanilla, which is native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America; or Vanilla tahitensis, Tahiti vanilla, which ...
- Tahitian language
- (from the article "Polynesian languages") The best-known Polynesian languages are Samoan, with about 200,000 speakers; Maori, spoken in New Zealand by about 100,000 persons; Tahitian, with an unknown number of native speakers but widely used ...
- Tahlequah
- city, seat (1907) of Cherokee county, eastern Oklahoma, U.S., in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, near the Illinois River and Lake Tenkiller. Settled by Cherokee Indians and made capital ...
- Tahltan
- an Athabaskan-speaking North American Indian people living on the upper Stikine River and other nearby streams in what is now northwestern British Columbia, Can. This region, though grassy and rocky ...
- Tahmasp I
- shah of Iran from 1524 whose rule was marked by continuing warfare with the Ottoman Empire and the loss of large amounts of territory. [8 Related Articles]
- Tahmasp II
- (from the article "Iran") ...ravaging western Persia. Nadr, an Afsharid Turkmen from northern Khorasan, was eventually able to reunite Iran, a process he began on behalf of the Safavid prince Tahmasp II (reigned 1722-32), ...
- Tahoe, Lake
- freshwater lake occupying a fault basin on the California-Nevada border in the northern Sierra Nevada, U.S. Fed by numerous small streams, it is drained by the Truckee River to Pyramid ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tahoua
- town, southern Niger. Situated on the boundary between a cultivated zone (peanuts [groundnuts]) and a drier pastoral zone (cattle, goats, and sheep), it is an important trading town. During the ... [1 Related Articles]
- tahr
- any of three wary and surefooted wild goatlike mammals of the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), native to Asia. Tahrs live in herds and frequent steep, often wooded mountainsides. They range ...
- Tahtawi, Rifa'ah Rafi' at-
- teacher and scholar who was one of the first Egyptians to grapple with the question of adjusting to the West and to provide answers in Islamic terms. [2 Related Articles]
- Tahuna
- (from the article "Sangihe Islands") ...of Sulawesi Utara (North Celebes) provinsi (province). The main islands in the group are Sangihe, Siau, Tahulandang, and Biaro, and there are numerous islets. Tahuna (Taruna), on ...
- Tai
- peoples of mainland Southeast Asia, including the Thai, or Siamese (in central and southern Thailand), the Lao (in Laos and northern Thailand), the Shan (in northeast Myanmar [Burma]), the Lu ... [10 Related Articles]
- tai chi chuan
- ancient and distinctive Chinese form of exercise or attack and defense that is popular throughout the world. As exercise, tai chi chuan is designed to provide relaxation in the process ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tai K'uei
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...as amateurs and who were far better remembered in the written record of the art than were their professional, artisan-class counterparts. Among the first named painting masters, Ts'ao Pu-hsing and ...
- Tai languages
- closely related family of languages, of which the Thai language of Thailand is the most important member. Because the word Thai has been designated as the official name of the ... [6 Related Articles]
- Tai Mo, Mount
- (from the article "Hong Kong") ...ridges, running northeast to southwest, that tie in closely with the structural trend in South China. This trend is clearly observable from the alignment of Lantau Island and the Tolo ...
- Tai Reserve
- (from the article "Sassandra River") ...an Atlantic port. Its upper reaches flow through a savanna region and have been panned for diamonds; its lower course marks the eastern boundary of the 1,641-square-mile (4,250-square-kilometre) Tai Reserve ...
- Tai Wang-shu
- (from the article "Chinese literature") ...works of these authors include the contemplative sonnets of Feng Chih, the urbane songs of Peking by Pien Chih-lin, and the romantic verses of Ho Ch'i-fang. Less popular, but more ...
- Tai, Lake
- large lake between Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, eastern China. Roughly crescent-shaped, it is about 45 miles (70 km) from north to south and 37 miles (59 km) from east to ... [4 Related Articles]
- Tai, Mount
- mountain mass with several peaks along a southwest-northeast axis to the north of the city of Tai'an in Shandong province, eastern China. Mount Tai consists of a much-shattered fault block, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Tai, Parc National de
- national park, southwestern Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), situated between the Liberian border (along the Cavally River) to the west and the Sassandra River to the east. Formerly a fauna reserve ...
- Tai-Kadai languages
- (from the article "Tai languages") ...most populous being the Kam-Sui languages, spoken mostly in Guizhou, China; and the Li, or Hlai, languages of Hainan. The entire language family containing Tai and all its relatives is ...
- Tai-tsung
- (from the article "Buddhism") ...of sophisticated doctrinal instruction and miracle-working powers supposedly conferred by the Esoteric rituals enabled Zhenyan leaders to gain the confidence of the court, especially of Emperor Tai-tsung (762-779/780), who rejected ...
- Taibai, Mount
- (from the article "China") ...to divide China proper into two parts-North and South. The elevation of the mountains varies from 3,000 to 10,000 feet (900 to 3,000 metres). The western part is higher, with ...
- Taichang
- (from the article "China") ...absorbed the energies of officialdom, while the harassed emperor abandoned more and more of his responsibilities to eunuchs. The decline of bureaucratic discipline and morale continued under the Taichang emperor, ...
- Taidu
- (from the article "Taidu") name by which the Venetian traveler Marco Polo referred to the city of Beijing, China, which at that time was the capital of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty (1206-1368).for more related ...
- Taieri River
- river in southeastern South Island, New Zealand. It rises in the Lammerlaw Range and flows 179 miles (288 km) north and southeast in a great arc-across the Maniototo Plains, around ...
- TAIEX
- (from the article "Taiwan") ...Citigroup acquired the Bank of Overseas Chinese; ABN AMRO took over the troubled Taitung Business Bank; and HSBC agreed to take over the troubled Chinese Bank. Taiwan's main stock exchange, ...
- taifa
- a faction or party, as applied to the followers of any of the petty kings who appeared in Muslim Spain in a period of great political fragmentation early in the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Taifun
- (from the article "rocket and missile system") The only significant antiaircraft rocket development by the Germans was the Taifun. A slender, six-foot, liquid-propellant rocket of simple concept, the Taifun was intended for altitudes of 50,000 feet. The ...
- taiga shield
- (from the article "Canada") A vast transitional zone, the taiga shield, comprising some 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of mixed boreal and tundra growth, connects the northern forest and the tundra region. Generally, ...
- Taigen Sonjin
- (from the article "Shinto") ...some Taoist influence. The school's doctrines were largely the work of Yoshida Kanetomo (1435-1511). Its fundamental kami (the source of all things and beings in the universe) was Taigen Sonjin ...
- Taihang Mountains
- mountain range of northern China, stretching some 250 miles (400 km) from north to south and forming the boundary between Shanxi and Hebei provinces and between the Shanxi plateau and ... [4 Related Articles]
- Taihape
- town, south-central North Island, New Zealand. It lies along the Hautapu River, 7 miles (11 km) above the latter's confluence with the Rangitikei. It was founded in 1894 as a ...
- Taiho code
- (AD 701), in Japan, administrative and penal code of the Taiho era early in the Nara period, modeled on the codes of the Chinese T'ang dynasty (618-907) and in force ... [5 Related Articles]
- taiji
- in Chinese philosophy, the ultimate source and motive force behind all reality. In the Book of Changes (Yijing), the ancient philosophical text in which the concept is first mentioned, taiji ... [4 Related Articles]
- Taik
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...groups of Turkmen warriors (also called Oguz, Ghuzz, or Oghuz), originally from Central Asia, began to move into Azerbaijan and to encroach upon the Armenian principalities of Vaspurakan, Taik, and ...
- Taika era reforms
- ("Great Reformation of the Taika Era"), series of political innovations that followed the coup d'etat of AD 645, led by Prince Nakano Oe (later the emperor Tenji; q.v.) and Nakatomi ... [7 Related Articles]
- taiko
- any of various Japanese forms of barrel-shaped drums with lashed or tacked heads, usually played with sticks (bachi). When the word combines with another for the name of a specific ... [3 Related Articles]
- Taiko Josetsu
- priest and painter, regarded as the first of the long line of Japanese Zen Buddhist priests who painted in the Chinese-inspired suiboku (monochromatic ink painting) style. [2 Related Articles]
- Taiko land survey
- (from the article "Japan") ...Hideyoshi adopted several major policies to accomplish this end: a comprehensive land survey (kenchi), the disarmament of the peasantry, and the separation of the classes. The so-called Taiko land survey ...
- tail
- in zoology, prolongation of the backbone beyond the trunk of the body, or any slender projection resembling such a structure. The tail of a vertebrate is composed of flesh and ... [5 Related Articles]
- tail fan
- (from the article "malacostracan") ...unsegmented. The pleopods are typically reduced, or even lost, in many burrowers. The swimming crabs use paddlelike fifth thoracic legs for propulsion. Abrupt swimming propulsion is provided by the tail ...
- tail feather
- (from the article "bird") ...the surface of the bird, streamlining it for flight and often waterproofing it. The basal portion may be downy and thus act as insulation. The major contour feathers of the ...
- tail pulse
- (from the article "radiation measurement") ...when all the charge has been collected, and then exponentially decays back to zero with a characteristic time set by the time constant of the measuring circuit. This type of ...
- tail rhyme
- a verse form in which rhymed lines such as couplets or triplets are followed by a tail-a line of different (usually shorter) length that does not rhyme with the couplet ...
- tail rotor
- (from the article "helicopter") ...in the construction of a fixed-wing aircraft and a helicopter is of course the latter's use of a rotor instead of a wing. There are many other critical additions, however, ...
- tail-to-tail coupling
- (from the article "isoprenoid") The structures of most triterpenes and tetraterpenes show that they were formed by establishment of a tail-to-tail bond (carbon 4 to carbon 4) between two smaller units: in the structural ...
- tail-tube buoy
- (from the article "lighthouse") ...which need to be replaced every year or two. In order to increase the service interval and also to accommodate more powerful lights, rechargeable batteries with onboard generators are used. ...
- Taila II
- (from the article "India") Taila II (reigned 973-997), who traced his ancestry to the earlier Calukyas of Vatapi, ruled a small part of Bijapur. Upon the weakening of Rashtrakuta power, he defeated the king, ...
- tailcoat
- (from the article "dress") ...dress slowly became stereotyped, etiquette having laid down detailed regulations for the attire to be worn for different occasions, for different times of day, and by the various social classes. ...
- tailed frog
- (Ascaphus truei), the single species of the frog family Ascaphidae (order Anura). It is restricted to cold, clear forest streams of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and ... [2 Related Articles]
- tailings
- (from the article "mineral processing") ...Such a suspension can simulate a fluid with a higher density than water. When ground ores are fed into the suspension, the gangue particles, having a lower density, tend to ...
- taille
- the most important direct tax of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy in France. Its unequal distribution, with clergy and nobles exempt, made it one of the hated institutions of the ancien regime. [4 Related Articles]
- Tailleferre, Germaine
- (from the article "Six, Les") ...and Richard Strauss, as well as against the chromaticism and lush orchestration of Claude Debussy. Les Six were Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, and Germaine ...
- tailless whip scorpion
- any of 70 species of the arthropod class Arachnida that are similar in appearance to whip scorpions (order Uropygi) but lack a telson, or tail. They occur in hot parts ... [2 Related Articles]
- tailor
- (from the article "dress") Toward 1350 a great change occurred in costume. Clothes increasingly were tailored to fit and display the human figure. The ability to tailor garments improved. More and better fabrics were ...
- tailorbird
- any of the nine species of the genus Orthotomus, of the Old World warbler family Sylviidae, that sew together the edges of one or more leaves to contain the nest. ... [1 Related Articles]
- tailpiece
- (from the article "stringed instrument") ...outward and downward from the waist to the lower corners. A line joining the crosses of the fs marks the approximate position of the bridge. The lower ends of the ...
- tailslide
- (from the article "surfing") ...riders to move their craft freely around the wave and have transformed surfing into a gymnastic dance. Today the wave is the apparatus upon which surfers perform spectacular maneuvers such ...
- tailwind
- (from the article "airport") ...be considered up to about 15 km (10 miles) from the runways. Runway configurations must also ensure that, for 95 percent of the time, aircraft can approach and take off ...
- taima
- (from the article "kamidana") ...a household or a shop. The kamidana usually consists of a small cupboard or shelf on which are displayed articles of veneration and daily offerings. At the centre of the ...
- Taima-dera
- (from the article "tapestry") ...vines, ducks, lions, etc., and were found in relatively remote areas of Central Asia along the silk-trade route. In comparison is the more sophisticated 8th-century k'o-ssu that hangs in the ...
- Taimuri
- (from the article "Hazara") ...include those dwelling in the northern foothills of the Safid Kuh Selseleh-ye (Paropamisus Mountains); and a group on the border of Iran known as Hazara in Iran and as Taimuri, ...
- Tainan
- (from the article "Dates of 2004") ...mi) of the Earth, the closest encounter between an asteroid and the planet ever recorded, though scientists believe closer encounters occur without being noticed.
- Taine, Hippolyte
- French thinker, critic, and historian, one of the most esteemed exponents of 19th-century French Positivism. He attempted to apply the scientific method to the study of the humanities. [6 Related Articles]
- Taino
- Arawakan-speaking people who at the time of Christopher Columbus's exploration inhabited what are now Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Once the ... [11 Related Articles]
- Taino language
- (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") ...foothills of the Andes. A great many communities still speak Arawakan languages in Brazil, and other groups of speakers are found in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname. ...
- tainoya
- (from the article "shinden-zukuri") ...their houses on the same Chinese models as had been used in designing the Imperial Palace. The complex centred on the shinden, which faced south on an open court. The ...
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