city, southeastern Buenos Aires provincia (province), eastern Argentina. It is situated within the Pampa at the northern end of the Tandil Mountains, about 190 miles (305 km) ...
an Indian method of cooking over a charcoal fire in a tandoor, a cylindrical clay oven. Shaped like a large urn, a tandoor is at least one metre in height ...
district, administrative and historic county of Surrey, England. It occupies southeastern Surrey and borders Greater London to the north, Kent to the east, and Sussex to the south. Tandridge lies ...
Irish politician, ineffectual revolutionary, and popular hero memorialized in the Irish ballad "The Wearing of the Green":I met with Napper Tandy,and he took me by the hand,And he said "How's ...
region of the Sahara lying in southern Algeria and northern Mali. Covering part of a plateau eastward toward the Ahaggar (Hoggar) uplands, it slopes to lower ground in the west, ...
city and port, northeastern Tanzania, eastern Africa, located on the Pemba Channel of the Indian Ocean. The city itself was established on the coast by Persian traders in the 14th ...
city, north-central Bangladesh. It lies just east of the Jamuna (Brahmaputra) River. Tangail is an important handloom and cotton-weaving centre and serves as a trading centre for the rice, jute, ...
second largest of the lakes of eastern Africa. It is the longest freshwater lake in the world (410 miles [660 km]) and the second deepest (4,710 feet [1,436 m]) after ...
in geometry, straight line (or smooth curve) that touches a given curve at one point; at that point the slope of the curve is equal to that of the tangent. ...
(Citrus reticulata deliciosa), small, thin-skinned variety of orange belonging to the mandarin orange species of the family Rutaceae. Probably indigenous to Southeast Asia, tangerine culture spread westward along trade routes ...
ballroom dance, musical style, and song. The tango evolved about 1880 in dance halls and perhaps brothels in the lower-class districts of Buenos Aires, where the Spanish tango, a light-spirited ...
chartered city, Misamis Occidental province, northwestern Mindanao, Philippines. Located on the northern shore of Panguil Bay (an arm of Iligan Bay), it is just north of the narrow neck of ...
mythological first king of the Koreans, the grandson of Hwanin, the creator, and the son of Hwanung, who fathered his child by breathing on a beautiful young woman. Tangun reportedly ...
group of about 30 islands in Maluku Tenggara kabupaten (regency), Maluku provinsi ("province"), eastern Indonesia. The islands lie between the Banda and Arafura seas.
a custom among various Celtic tribes-notably in Scotland and Ireland-by which the king or chief of the clan was elected by family heads in full assembly. He held office for ...
chief goddess of Carthage, equivalent of Astarte. Although she seems to have had some connection with the heavens, she was also a mother goddess, and fertility symbols often accompany representations ...
Japanese literary award given annually to a Japanese writer in recognition of an exemplary literary work. The prize consists of a trophy and one million yen. It was established in ...
any heavily armed and armoured combat vehicle that moves on two endless metal chains called tracks. Tanks are the principal type of armoured vehicle. Other major types include tracked and ...
in literature, a five-line, 31-syllable poem that has historically been the basic form of Japanese poetry. The term tanka is synonymous with the term waka (q.v.), which more broadly denotes ...
drinking vessel for ale or beer, widely used in northern Europe (especially Scandinavia, Germany, and the British Isles) and in colonial America from the second half of the 16th century ...
ship designed to carry liquid cargo in bulk. Its cargo is usually a petroleum product, either crude oil being carried from oil fields to refineries or gasoline being carried from ...
waterfall in the lan (county) of Jamtland, northwestern Sweden, on upper Indals River, between Tann and Ostra Norn lakes and near Mount Areskutan (4,659 feet [1,420 m]). One of Sweden's ...
island of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Volcanic in origin, it is 25 miles (40 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide and occupies an area of 212 ...
any of several hundred Jewish scholars who, over a period of some 200 years, compiled oral traditions related to religious law. Most tannaim lived and worked in Palestine. Their work ...
(Aug. 26-30, 1914), battle fought at Tannenberg (Polish: Stebark), in what is now northeastern Poland, that ended in a German victory over the Russians in the early days of World ...
(July 15, 1410), battle fought at Tannenberg (Polish: Stebark) in northeastern Poland (formerly East Prussia) that was a major Polish-Lithuanian victory over the Knights of the Teutonic Order. The battle ...
moderate political leader, statesman, and prime minister who was instrumental in rebuilding the Finnish Social Democratic Party after his country's civil war of 1918. Thereafter he consistently opposed Soviet demands ...
any of a group of pale-yellow to light-brown amorphous substances in the form of powder, flakes, or a spongy mass, widely distributed in plants and used chiefly in tanning leather, ...
chemical treatment of raw animal hide or skin to convert it into leather. A tanning agent displaces water from the interstices between the protein fibres and cements these fibres together. ...
mountain range of southern Tuva, extending eastward about 350 miles (560 km) from the Altai Mountains in Russia. The average elevation of its summits is 8,200-8,850 feet (2,500-2,700 m) above ...
Korean holiday celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to commemorate the start of summer and to honour spirits and ancestors. One of Korea's oldest holidays, it ...
river, western Ghana, West Africa. It rises near Techiman and flows southward for 250 miles (400 km) to enter the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Ocean), at Aby Lagoon, Cote d'Ivoire ...
(Tanacetum vulgare, or Chrysanthemum vulgare), any of about 50 species of strong-smelling, poisonous herbs of the family Asteraceae, native to the North Temperate Zone. It has button-shaped yellow flower heads ...
city and capital of al-Gharbiyah mu-hafazah (governorate), Lower Egypt, in the Nile Delta. It lies on an irrigation canal almost midway between the Rosetta (west) and Damietta (east) branches ...
(Ta), chemical element, very hard, silver-gray metal of Group Vb of the periodic table, characterized by its high density, extremely high melting point, and excellent resistance to all acids except ...
in Greek legend, son of Zeus or Tmolus (a ruler of Lydia) and Pluto (daughter of Cronus and Rhea) and the father of Niobe and Pelops (qq.v.). He was the ...
(Sanskrit: Loom), any of numerous texts dealing with the esoteric practices of some Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina sects. In the orthodox classification of Hindu religious literature, Tantra refers to a ...
system of esoteric practices used for both the attainment of spiritual experiences and the fulfillment of worldly desires. Tantra designates a particular group of post-Vedic Sanskrit treatises, heterogeneous in content, ...
ancient group of various southern Arabian tribes and clans that first moved into central Arabia and then, at the beginning of the 2nd or 3rd century AD, moved into the ...
renowned minister of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867); traditionally considered one of the corrupt geniuses of the period, he actually helped restore the financial footing of the government and greatly fostered ...
East African country situated just south of the Equator. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean on the east and eight other nations: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo (Kinshasa), Zambia, ...
(Turkish: "Reorganization"), series of reforms promulgated in the Ottoman Empire between 1839 and 1876 under the reigns of the sultans Abdulmecid I and Abdulaziz. These reforms, heavily influenced by European ...
(Chinese: "road," or "way"), in Chinese philosophy, a fundamental concept signifying "the correct way," or "Heaven's way." In the Confucian tradition, tao signifies a morally correct path of human conduct ...
a large, imperially sponsored collection of Taoist writings, very few of which have been translated into English. The original canon, printed by the Taoist emperors of the Sung dynasty (AD ...
indigenous religio-philosophical tradition that has shaped Chinese life for more than 2,000 years. In the broadest sense, a Taoist attitude toward life can be seen in the accepting and yielding, ...
Japan's major crime boss (oyabun), who, after World War II, rose to head a giant crime organization, the Yamaguchi-gumi. Though centred in Kobe, it had interests and affiliates nationwide and ...
town, Messina province, eastern Sicily, Italy, on a hill rising almost perpendicularly from the sea at the foot of Monte Tauro, between Messina and Catania. The ancient Tauromenium, which took ...
county, a scenic region in northern New Mexico, U.S., bordered on the north by Colorado. It lies in the Southern Rocky Mountains. The Sangre de Cristo range in the eastern ...
town, seat of Taos county, New Mexico, U.S. It lies on a branch of the Rio Grande in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, near Wheeler Peak, the highest point in ...
town, provincial capital, and province (established 1978), Centre Nord region, northern Morocco. The town is a local market centre situated on the southern slopes of the Rif Mountains. It is ...
style of dance in which a dancer wearing shoes fitted with heel and toe taps sounds out audible beats by rhythmically striking the floor or any other hard surface.
Korean adaptation of a Chinese architectural style first introduced from China late in the Koryo period (935-1392). Tap'o means literally "multibracket," and its main feature is the adoption of intercolumnar ...
