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- embroidery worked on material that has been stretched taut on a tambour frame, which consists of two wooden hoops, one slightly larger than the other, fitting close together. The embroidery ...
- tamboura
- long-necked fretless Indian lute. It has a hollow neck, measures about 40-60 inches (102-153 cm) in length, and usually has four metal strings tuned (relative pitch) c-c'-c'-g or c-c'-c'-f. Precision ... [1 Related Articles]
- tambourine
- small frame drum (one whose shell is too narrow to resonate the sound) having one or two skins nailed or glued to a shallow circular or polygonal frame. The tambourine ... [4 Related Articles]
- Tambov
- oblast (province), western Russia. It occupies an area of 13,250 square miles (34,300 square km) on the low, level plain of the Oka and Don rivers. The natural vegetation is ...
- Tambov
- city and administrative centre of Tambov oblast (province), western Russia. It lies along the upper Tsna River. Founded in 1636 as a fortress on the Belgorod defensive line, in 1779 ...
- Tambraparni River
- (from the article "Tirunelveli") city, southern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It lies along the Tambraparni River, slightly upstream from the city of Palayankottai (Palamcottah). Its name is derived from the Tamil words tiru ...
- Tamburini, Antonio
- Italian operatic baritone, particularly noted for his starring roles in the works of Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini. [1 Related Articles]
- Tamburini, Francisco
- (from the article "Latin American architecture") ...French on the emerging cosmopolitan culture. The government provided the most important commissions, which were intended to consolidate this period of rapid economic expansion. In Buenos Aires, Francisco Tamburini remodeled ...
- Tamenaga Shunsui
- (from the article "Japanese literature") ...Edo along the Tokaido, the great highway between Kyoto and Edo. Shunshoku umegoyomi (1832-33; "Spring Colours: The Plum Calendar"), by Tamenaga Shunsui, is the story of Tanjiro, ...
- Tamerlane's Gates
- (from the article "Jizzax") ...is located in a small oasis irrigated by the Sanzar River, northeast of Samarkand. One of the most ancient settlements of Uzbekistan, it was situated on the trade routes to ...
- Tameside
- metropolitan borough in the eastern part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. The parts of the borough west of the River Tame, such as Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, and Denton, ...
- Tamesna
- (from the article "Niger") The sandy regions of the Nigerian Sahara extend to either side of the Air. To the west the Talak region includes the Tamesna area in the north (where fossil valleys ...
- Tami style
- type of Oceanic carving originating on the Tami Islands, in Papua New Guinea. The style spread to the coastal areas along the Huon Gulf, to the islands of Umboi and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tamiahua Lagoon
- long coastal lagoon in Veracruz state, eastern Mexico. An inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, it extends approximately 65 miles (105 km) southward from Tampico. A long, narrow, sandy peninsula ...
- Tamil
- people originally of southern India and speaking Tamil, one of the principal languages of the Dravidian family. Numbering about 57,000,000 in the late 20th century (including about 3,200,000 speakers in ... [12 Related Articles]
- Tamil Aiyar Brahmins
- (from the article "South Asian arts") In the most common style of Rigvedic and Yajurvedic chanting found today, that of the Tamil Aiyar Brahmins, it is clear that the accent is differentiated in terms of pitch. ...
- Tamil Federal Party
- (from the article "Sinhala Only Bill") The Tamil Federal Party, led by S.J.V. Chelvanayakam, pressed demands that Ceylon be made a federal state. To conciliate the Tamils, Bandaranaike made a pact with Chelvanayakam, allowing for the ...
- Tamil language
- member of the Dravidian language family, spoken primarily in India. It is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry (Pondicherry). It ... [6 Related Articles]
- Tamil Language Special Provisions Act
- (from the article "Sinhala Only Bill") ...nullified this pact. Such severe rioting and communal violence ensued that mass internal migrations of Tamils and Sinhalese occurred, and a state of emergency was declared. In August 1958 The ...
- Tamil literature
- body of writings in Tamil, a Dravidian language of India and Sri Lanka. Apart from literature written in classical (Indo-Aryan) Sanskrit, Tamil is the oldest literature in India. Some inscriptions ... [10 Related Articles]
- Tamil Nadu
- state of India. It is located in the extreme south of the subcontinent. The state has an area of 50,215 square miles (130,057 square kilometres). It is bounded by the ... [9 Related Articles]
- Tamil script
- (from the article "Grantha alphabet") ...two varieties are used: Brahmanic, or "square," and Jain, or "round." The Tulu-Malayalam script is a variety of Grantha dating from the 8th or 9th century AD. The modern Tamil ...
- Tamil Tigers
- guerrilla organization that seeks to establish an independent Tamil state, Eelam, in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. [15 Related Articles]
- Tamil United Liberation Front
- (from the article "Sri Lanka") ...and the Tamils have continued in the political arena. Intensifying grievances of the latter group against the Sinhalese-dominated governments culminated in the late 1970s in a demand by the Tamil ...
- Tamilakam
- (from the article "India") Tamilakam, the abode of the Tamils, was defined in cankam literature as approximately equivalent to the area south of present-day Chennai (Madras). Tamilakam was divided into 13 ...
- Tamilnad Plains
- eastern coastal lowlands of Tamil Nadu state, southern India. Bounded by the Bay of Bengal on the east, the Indian Ocean on the south, the Eastern Ghats on the west, ...
- Tamilnad Uplands
- hilly region in central Tamil Nadu state, southern India, extending over an area of about 15,200 sq mi (38,000 sq km) and bounded by the Eastern Ghats on the west, ...
- Tamim ibn Bahr
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") The Uighur empire was governed from a city on the Orhon River, Karabalghasun, the foundations of which were probably laid by the Turks and can still be seen. A Muslim ...
- Taming of the Shrew, The
- comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1590-94 and first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The play describes the volatile courtship between the shrewish Katharina ... [5 Related Articles]
- Tamir, Zakariyya
- (from the article "Arabic literature") Two writers, by their concentration on the art of the short story, have come to be widely acknowledged as genuine masters of their craft: Yusuf Idris of Egypt and Zakariyya ...
- Tamiris, Helen
- American choreographer, modern dancer, and teacher, one of the first to make use of jazz, African American spirituals, and social-protest themes in her work.
- tamizdat
- (from the article "Russian literature") ...Second, unofficial literature written within the Soviet Union came to include works circulated illegally in typewritten copies ("samizdat"), works smuggled abroad for publication ("tamizdat"), and works written "for the drawer," ...
- Tamluk
- city, West Bengal state, northeastern India, just south of the Rupnarayan River. Archaeological excavations have revealed a sequence of occupation going back to a period in which stone axes and ...
- Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich
- Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics with Pavel A. Cherenkov and Ilya M. Frank for his efforts in explaining Cherenkov radiation. Tamm was one of the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tammann, Gustav
- Russian chemist who helped to found the science of metallurgy and pioneered in the study of the internal structure and physical properties of metals and their alloys. In addition, his ...
- Tammany Hall
- the executive committee of the Democratic Party in New York City historically exercising political control through the typical boss-ist blend of charity and patronage. The name was derived from a ... [9 Related Articles]
- Tammen, Harry H.
- (from the article "Bonfils, Frederick Gilmer") Bonfils entered the U.S. Military Academy in 1878 but resigned in 1881. With Harry H. Tammen (1856-1924), he purchased the Post in 1895. They dedicated the paper ...
- Tammuz
- in Mesopotamian religion, god of fertility embodying the powers for new life in nature in the spring. The name Tammuz seems to have been derived from the Akkadian form Tammuzi, ... [8 Related Articles]
- Tammuz
- (from the article "Tammuz, Fast of") a minor Jewish observance (on Tammuz 17) that inaugurates three weeks of mourning (see Three Weeks) that culminate in the 24-hour fast of Tisha be-Av. Though probably an adaptation of ...
- Tammuz, Fast of
- a minor Jewish observance (on Tammuz 17) that inaugurates three weeks of mourning (see Three Weeks) that culminate in the 24-hour fast of Tisha be-Av. Though probably an adaptation of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tamora
- (from the article "Titus Andronicus") Titus Andronicus returns to Rome after having defeated the Goths, bringing with him Queen Tamora, whose eldest son he sacrifices to the gods. The late emperor's son Saturninus is supposed ...
- tamoxifen
- synthetic hormone, used primarily in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer, that inhibits the growth-promoting actions of estrogen in breast cancer cells. [2 Related Articles]
- Tampa
- city, seat (1834) of Hillsborough county, west-central Florida, U.S. It is situated on the northern shore of Tampa Bay at the mouth of the Hillsborough River and is connected to ... [5 Related Articles]
- Tampa Bay
- arm of the Gulf of Mexico, indenting the west coast of Florida, U.S., covering about 400 square miles (1,000 square km). The bay, shaped roughly like a crescent some 40 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- (from the article "Football") ...division winner. Seven teams reached the play-offs after missing them in 2004-05, and the records of 15 teams in the 32-team league improved or declined by at least four games. ...
- Tampa Bay Lightning
- (from the article "Ice Hockey") ...the NHL did enjoy a better competitive balance than it had shown in several years, however, owing to the ascent of Calgary and San Jose to the Western Conference finals ...
- Tampa Bay Rays
- American professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Fla., that plays in the American League (AL). The Rays began play in 1998 and were known as the Devil Rays until ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tampa Red
- (from the article "blues") ...developed a style later adopted by Riley ("B.B.") King. It was Chicago, however, that played the greatest role in the development of urban blues. In the 1920s and '30s Memphis ...
- tampan
- (from the article "Ki Seto ware") ...deepened, achieving the great warmth of tone for which it is known. In addition to tea utensils, various types of plates, bowls, and flower vases were made. A type of ...
- Tampanian tradition
- (from the article "Stone Age") ...proposed. In northern Malaya a large series of choppers and chopping tools made on quartzite pebbles and found in Middle Pleistocene tin-bearing gravels have been referred to collectively as the ...
- tamper
- (from the article "atomic bomb") ...detonated, implode the fissionable material under enormous pressures into a denser mass that immediately achieves criticality. An important aid in achieving criticality is the use of a tamper; this is ...
- Tampere
- city, southwestern Finland. It is located on an isthmus traversed by the Tammer Rapids between Lakes Nasi and Pyha, northwest of Helsinki. Tampere is Finland's second largest city and both ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tampere, Battle of
- (from the article "Finland") ...to the western part of the country, where a counterattack was organized under the leadership of General Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. At the beginning of April the White Army under his ...
- Tampico
- city and port, southeastern Tamaulipas estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It lies on the northern bank of the Panuco River, 6 miles (10 km) from the Gulf of ...
- tampon
- (from the article "toxic shock syndrome") In the early 1980s the disease was associated primarily with menstruating women who used a certain brand of tampons. Scientists later found that several types of highly absorbent material (polyacrylate ...
- Tamuning
- (from the article "Hagatna") ...one of a few parts of the original Spanish governor's palace still standing. Close by is Latte Stone Park, with latte stones (pillars that supported houses of the prehistoric Latte ...
- Tamworth
- (from the article "Tamworth") ...Warwickshire. Offa, 8th-century king of Anglo-Saxon Mercia, built a palace on the site. The present castle, of Norman origin, was largely restored in the Jacobean period (1603-49). The town of ...
- Tamworth
- borough (district), administrative county of Staffordshire, England, at the confluence of the Tame and Anker rivers, on the northeastern periphery of the metropolitan area centred on Birmingham. The historic centre ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tamworth
- city, east-central New South Wales, southeastern Australia, on the Peel River, a tributary of the Namoi River. It was founded in 1848 in a valley (visited in 1818 by the ...
- Tamworth Manifesto
- (from the article "Peel, Sir Robert, 2nd Baronet") ...Party lacked the organization and men necessary to procure, a majority in the House of Commons (even though the general election of 1835 added considerably to their numbers). Nevertheless, his ...
- Tan Cheng Lock
- (b. April 5, 1883, Malacca, Straits Settlements [now in Malaysia]-d. Dec. 8, 1960, Malacca, Malaya). Malaysian Chinese community leader, politician, and businessman.
- Tan Dun
- (from the article "2000: Other Winners") ...or Published: Stephen Gaghan for TrafficCinematography: Peter Pau for Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonArt Direction: Tim Yip for Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonOriginal Score: Tan Dun for Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonOriginal Song: ...
- Tan Malaka, Ibrahim Datuk
- (Headman) Indonesian Communist leader who competed with Sukarno for control of the Indonesian nationalist movement.
- tan renga
- (from the article "renga") ...gave obscure or even contradictory details to make it harder for the second to complete the poem intelligibly and, if possible, inventively. These early examples were tan ...
- Tan Sitong
- (from the article "China") ...used what he considered authentic Confucianism and Buddhist canons to show that change was inevitable in history and, accordingly, that reform was necessary. Another important reformist thinker, Tan Sitong, relied ...
- Tan, Amy
- American author of novels about Chinese American women and the immigrant experience.
- Tan, Lucio
- In 1996 reclusive Philippine businessman Lucio Tan found himself all but untouched by an ongoing government probe into the legitimacy of his operations. Tan, who was accused of tax evasion ...
- Tan, Tony
- (from the article "Singapore") ...opposed by conservatives, especially on the religious right. The decision even split the cabinet; in an unprecedented break with a tradition of collective responsibility, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan publicly ...
- tan-e
- Japanese wood-block prints hand-coloured with an orange-red tone. Tan-e were produced in the Edo period from the late 17th century through the first quarter of the 18th century by Ukiyo-e ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tan-shui
- coastal chen (town) in western T'ai-pei hsien (county), northern Taiwan. It is located on the northern bank of the Tan-shui River, about 10 miles ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tan-Tan
- town, southwestern Morocco. The town, about 16 miles (25 km) by road east of the Atlantic Ocean in the extreme northwestern reaches of the Sahara, is a military post and ...
- Tan-Zam railway
- (from the article "Tanzania") ...country between Dar es Salaam and Kigoma, and the Tanga-to-Moshi railway. Today there is also a branch between these two lines, and another line connects Mwanza with Tabora on the ...
- Tana Ekan
- (from the article "Solorese") ...missionaries as early as the 16th century. Today most are Muslim, except for the Roman Catholics on Flores. The indigenous religion honoured the high god Lera Wulan and his female ...
- Tana River
- river, Kenya, flowing 440 miles (708 km) from its headwaters in the Aberdare Range and Mount Kenya to the Indian Ocean. Taking a northeasterly course at first, the river plunges ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tana River mangabey
- (from the article "mangabey") ...south of the Congo River; the Sanje mangabey (C. sanjei), discovered quite unexpectedly in 1980 living in the Udzungwa Mountains and Mwanihana forest of Tanzania; and the ...
- Tana, Lake
- largest lake of Ethiopia, in a depression of the northwest plateau, 6,000 ft (1,800 m) above sea level. It forms the main reservoir for the Blue Nile (Abbay) River, which ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tana-Anarjakka
- (from the article "Norway") ...to twice the length of the two other large drainage systems in southern Norway, which meet the sea at the cities of Drammen and Skien. The only other long river ...
- Tanabata Matsuri
- (from the article "Sendai") ...of its reconstruction after World War II. The Shinto shrine of Osaki Hachiman is valued for its architectural beauty. Tourists from all over Japan are attracted to the city by ...
- Tanabe Hajime
- Japanese philosopher of science who attempted to synthesize Buddhism, Christianity, Marxism, and scientific thought. He taught the philosophy of science at Tohoku Imperial University in Sendai from 1913 and later ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tanacetum cinerariaefolium
- (from the article "pyrethrum") The powdered flower heads of T. coccineum, T. cinerariifolium, and T. marschalli are chief sources of the insecticide. The active substances in pyrethrum are ...
- tanager
- any of numerous songbirds of New World forests and gardens, chiefly in the tropics, constituting most of the subfamily Thraupinae (formerly Tanagrinae), of the family Emberizidae. The subfamily includes 200 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tanagra
- city of ancient Boeotia, Greece. It is situated in northern Attica on the left bank of the Asopos River near Thebes and Chalcis (Khalkis). The nearly circular hill of the ...
- Tanagra figurine
- any of the small terra-cotta figures dating primarily from the 3rd century BC, and named after the site in Boeotia, in east-central Greece, where they were found. Well-dressed young women ... [4 Related Articles]
- tanaid
- any of more than 550 species of small, bottom-dwelling marine and brackish-water crustaceans constituting the order Tanaidacea (superorder Peracarida, phylum Arthropoda). Tanaids have a worldwide distribution; they are especially numerous ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tanaina
- a North American Indian people, the only northern Athabaskan-speaking group occupying extensive portions of the seacoast. They lived chiefly in the drainage areas of Cook Inlet and Clark Lake in ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tanaka Chojiro
- (from the article "pottery") A tilemaker named Ameya, who is said to have been a Korean, introduced a type of ware that was covered with a lead glaze and fired at a comparatively low ...
- Tanaka Fujimaro
- (from the article "education") ...to have little relation to the social and cultural needs of that day, and ordinary Japanese continued to favour the traditional schooling of the terakoya. Tanaka Fujimaro, ...
- Tanaka Giichi, Baron
- (Danshaku) prime minister (1927-29) and author of Japan's aggressive policy toward China in the 1920s. [1 Related Articles]
- Tanaka Kakuei
- politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1972 to 1974 and who subsequently became the central figure in a major political scandal. [6 Related Articles]
- Tanaka Koichi
- Japanese scientist who, with John B. Fenn and Kurt Wuthrich, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002 for developing techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large biological ...
- Tanaka Odo
- Japanese philosopher and critic who promoted within Japan the Western philosophy of pragmatism.
- Tanaka, Atsuko
- Japanese artist (b. Feb. 10, 1932, Osaka, Japan-d. Dec. 3, 2005, near Nara, Japan), was a leading avante-garde artist, best known for her experimental works of the 1950s and '60s. ...
- Tanaka, Makiko
- Dubbed "the Lady with the Big Mouth" by Time magazine, Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka made headlines in 2001 for her outspoken comments and her skirmishes with Japan's senior political ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tanaka, Tomoyuki
- Japanese film producer who was best known for his series of motion pictures featuring the dragonlike monster Godzilla (b. April 26, 1910--d. April 2, 1997).
- Tanaka, Toyoichi
- Japanese-born American biophysicist (b. Jan. 4, 1946, Nagaoka, Japan-d. May 20, 2000, Wellesley, Mass.), conducted experiments in 1978 with mixtures of polymers and fluids while serving on the faculty of ...
- Tanala
- a Malagasy people living in southeastern Madagascar who are separated from the coast by the Antaimoro and other ethnic groups. They are divided into two subgroups: the Tanala Menabe in ...
- tanam
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...is intended to display the raga being performed in as complete a manner as possible, without the limitations imposed by a fixed time measure. This is followed by another improvised ...
- Tanana
- Athabaskan-speaking North American Indian group that lived along the headwaters of the Tanana River in what is now central Alaska. Traditionally, they were nomadic hunters, relying chiefly on caribou, moose, ...
- Tanana River
- river, east-central Alaska, U.S. Its name is an Athabascan word meaning "river trail." An important tributary of the Yukon River, it rises from two headstreams, the Chisana and Nabesna rivers ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tanaquil
- legendary Etruscan prophet, the wife of Tarquinius Priscus, traditionally the fifth king of Rome.
- Tanayev, Nikolay
- (from the article "Kyrgyzstan") ...to April 11; actually deposed March 24), Ishenbay Kadyrbekov (acting) on March 24-25, and, from March 25, Kurmanbek Bakiyev | Head of government (appointed by the president): Prime Ministers Nikolay ...
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