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tanbark oak: oaklike ornamental evergreen tree with tannin-rich bark. It is a member of the beech family (Fagaceae) and is native to coastal areas of southern Oregon and northern California.
tanbur: long-necked lute played under various names from the Balkans to northwestern Asia. Closely resembling the ancient Greek pandoura and the long lutes of ancient Egypt and Babylon, it has a ... [2 Related Articles]
Tancred: (from the article "decretal") ...the decretals. The title was first used at the University of Bologna, where the decretals served as the text in the study of canon law. Among the most famous and ...
Tancred: king of Sicily whose brief reign marked the end of the Norman rule there. [6 Related Articles]
Tancred of Hauteville: regent of Antioch, one of the leaders of the First Crusade. [1 Related Articles]
Tancredo, Tom: American politician, who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999- ) and who sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008. [1 Related Articles]
tandem accelerator: (from the article "mass spectrometry") The tandem electrostatic accelerator (see particle accelerator: Van de Graaff generators) quickly displaced all other machines for this purpose, primarily because its ion source, the cesium sputter source described above, ...
tandem bicycle: (from the article "bicycle") ...in size. The design reduces wind resistance. Other variations include the tricycle, which has two rear wheels for increased stability and typically is used by small children and the elderly; ...
tandem compound turbine: (from the article "turbine") This flow splitting also leads to another method of classification that differentiates between having the whole machine assembled along a single shaft with one generator (tandem-compound turbines) or utilizing two ...
tandem couple: (from the article "diplomacy") ...U.S. Foreign Service no longer required women to resign upon marriage, but if the husband's profession was not easily movable, problems arose. These problems were particularly pronounced for "tandem couples," ...
tandem harrow: (from the article "harrow") ...to simply as disks. One type, the single-action two gang, has two groups of disks, more or less horizontally aligned, with opposing concavities, that throw the soil in opposite directions. ...
tandem mirror: (from the article "fusion reactor") ...of plasma is added at each end beyond the magnetic mirror. The plasma in these "end plugs" produces an electrostatic potential barrier to nuclei. The overall configuration is called a ...
tandem office: (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...switching centres were organized into three classes: local, tandem, and toll. A local office (or end office) is a switching centre that connects directly to the customers' telephone instruments. A ...
tandem racing: (from the article "sprint") Tandem races, an amateur event, are similar to sprint competition, with teams of two racers each competing on tandem bicycles (see photograph). Speeds are slightly higher, and the racers generally ...
tandem spectrometry: (from the article "mass spectrometry") The combination of two analytical techniques, such as resulted in the gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, has been followed by the combination of two mass spectrometers, which has proved helpful in determining ...
tandem-wing aircraft: (from the article "airplane") ...and the styles include monoplanes, with a single wing (that is, on either side of the fuselage); biplanes, with two wings, one atop the other; and even, though rarely, triplanes ...
Tandil: city, southeastern Buenos Aires provincia (province), eastern Argentina. It is situated within the Pampas at the northern end of the Tandil Mountains, about 190 miles (305 km) ...
Tandja, Mamadou: (from the article "Niger") Area: 1,189,546 sq km (459,286 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 14,226,000 | Capital: Niamey | Head of state and government: President Mamadou Tandja, assisted by Prime Ministers Hama ...
tandoor: (from the article "tandoori cookery") 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 ...
tandoori cookery: 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 ...
tandoori murgh: (from the article "tandoori cookery") ...a leavened wheat bread, is formed into ovals and pressed against the inner neck of the tandoor to bake suspended over the fire. The most celebrated dish in tandoori cookery ...
Tandridge: 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 ...
Tandy Corporation: (from the article "computer") The next year, another established company entered the microcomputer market. Tandy Corporation, best known for its chain of Radio Shack stores, had followed the development of MITS and decided to ...
Tandy, James Napper: 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Tandy, Jessica: English-born American actress of stage, screen, and television, noted for her complex portrayals and frequent collaborations with Hume Cronyn, her husband. [3 Related Articles]
Taney, Roger Brooke: fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, remembered principally for the Dred Scott decision (q.v.; 1857). [8 Related Articles]
Taneyev, Sergey: Russian pianist, theorist, and composer, whose works are known for their finely wrought contrapuntal textures combined with romantic harmony.
Tanezrouft: 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, ...
Tang: reign name of the Chinese emperor who overthrew the Xia dynasty (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC) and founded the Shang, the first historical dynasty ( c. 1600-1046 BC, though the dating ...
Tang dynasty: (618-907), Chinese dynasty that succeeded the short-lived Sui dynasty (581-618) and developed a successful form of government and administration on the Sui model and stimulated a cultural and artistic flowering ... [73 Related Articles]
Tang Gonghong: (from the article "Weight Lifting") ...gold and one silver), followed by Thailand (two gold and two bronze), Russia (one silver and two bronze), and Belarus (one silver and one bronze). Eight other countries captured one ...
Tang Hualong: (from the article "China") ...rebels coerced a colonel, Li Yuanhong, to assume military command, although only as a figurehead. They persuaded the Hubei provincial assembly to proclaim the establishment of the Chinese republic; Tang ...
Tang Yee-ming, Dominic: Chinese Roman Catholic priest who served (1951-58) as titular bishop and apostolic administrator of Guangzhou (Canton) diocese before spending 22 years in various prisons for refusing to break contact with ...
Tang Yin: Chinese scholar, painter, and poet of the Ming period whose life story has become a part of popular lore. [2 Related Articles]
Tang-e Soleyman Dam: (from the article "dam") ...computers and model testing offer the promise of future continued progress. It is now possible to calculate the response of a concrete dam to any specified ground motion; this has ...
tang-p'iri: (from the article "p'iri") ...and the Korean hyang-ak court music the most strident of the p'iris, the tang-p'iri, is used. This instrument is about the ...
Tanga: 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
tanga: (from the article "coin") ...silver coins of the Umayyad type. The coinage of the Ghurid dynasty of northwest Afghanistan and its successors from the 12th century onward is varied and extensive, mainly gold and ...
Tanga Islands: (from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") Several types of masks were made in the area. The masks of the Tanga Islands were ephemeral constructions of bark and fibre over bamboo frames. They were semiconical in shape, ...
Tangail: city, north-central Bangladesh. It lies just east of the Jamuna River (the name of the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh). Tangail is an important hand-loom and cotton-weaving centre and also serves as ...
Tangale: (from the article "Chad") ...the Gula and Tumak of the Goundi area, are culturally distinct from their Sara neighbours. Along the banks of the Chari and Logone rivers, and in the region between the ...
Tanganyika: (from the article "British East Africa") territories that were formerly under British control in eastern Africa, namely Kenya, Uganda, and Zanzibar and Tanganyika (now Tanzania).TanzaniaTanzania, flag ...
Tanganyika African National Union: (from the article "Tanzania, flag of") The liberation struggle in Tanganyika was led by the Tanganyika African National Union, whose flag was a horizontal tricolour of green-black-green. Elections confirmed the overwhelming popular support for the organization, ...
Tanganyika sardine: (from the article "clupeiform") ...C (just above 32° F) but only eight days at 19° C (66° F). Some shad eggs develop in about 75 hours at 17° C (63° F) but require only ...
Tanganyika, Lake: 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 ... [14 Related Articles]
Tange Kenzo: one of the foremost Japanese architects in the decades following World War II. [4 Related Articles]
tangelo: (from the article "tangerine") ...Dancy, and Seminole. Oil extracted from the fragrant skin of the tangerine is a characteristic ingredient in several flavourings and liqueurs. Tangerines have been crossed with grapefruit to produce tangelos.
tangent: (from the article "trigonometry") ...specific functions of angles and their application to calculations. There are six functions of an angle commonly used in trigonometry. Their names and abbreviations are sine (sin), cosine (cos), tangent ...
tangent: (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...the key and prevents the key from moving from side to side as it moves up and down.) When the front end of the key is pushed down by the ...
tangent: 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. ... [2 Related Articles]
tangent vector: (from the article "relativistic mechanics") ...v_y, and v_z, a 4-vector has four components. Geometrically the 4-velocity and 4-acceleration correspond, respectively, to the tangent vector and the curvature vector of the world line (see Figure 2). ...
tangential velocity: (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") ...motion and apparent magnitude; this yields a statistical sample of stars of approximately known and uniform distance. The fourth method involves examining the distribution of proper motions and tangential velocities ...
tangents, law of: (from the article "tangent") The trigonometric law of tangents is a relationship between two sides of a plane triangle and the tangents of the sum and difference of the angles opposite those sides. In ...
tangerine: 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 as far as ... [2 Related Articles]
Tanggeasinua, Pegunungan: (from the article "Sulawesi Tenggara") The Tanggeasinua and Mekongga mountains are parallel ranges in the northwestern part of the province, the latter rising to an elevation of 9,117 feet (2,779 metres) at Mount Mekongga, a ...
Tanggu: district, eastern Tianjin municipality, northeastern China. It is located on the Hai River where the Hai empties into the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli). Formerly the town of Tangda (it ... [1 Related Articles]
Tanggula Mountains: mountain range in the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwestern China. On the high plateau south of the mountains, there are many large salt lakes. In its eastern part the range forms ... [2 Related Articles]
Tanggula Pass: (from the article "Tanggula Mountains") ...Jiang). The southeastern flank drains into the Nu River, the headwater of the Salween River; and the Mekong River rises at the eastern end of the range. The mountains are ...
Tangi, Viliami: (from the article "Tonga") ...In February Prime Minister Prince 'Ulukalala Lavaka Ata was "invited" to stand down and was replaced by Feleti Sevele, an economist and commoner businessman. In May another commoner, Viliami Tangi, ...
tangible property: (from the article "property") Every known legal system has rules that deal with the relations among persons with respect to (at least) tangible things. The extraordinary diversity of the property systems of non-Western societies, ...
Tangier: port and principal city of northern Morocco. It is located on a bay of the Strait of Gibraltar 17 miles (27 km) from the southern tip of Spain; Tetouan lies ... [4 Related Articles]
tango: 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 ... [7 Related Articles]
tangoreceptor: (from the article "mechanoreception") ...to contact with relatively solid objects (tangoreception)-is found quite generally, from one-celled organisms up to and including man. Usually the whole body surface is tangoreceptive, except for parts covered by ...
Tangshan: industrial city, eastern Hebei sheng (province), northeastern China. It is situated in the northeastern portion of the North China Plain, about 30 miles (48 km) north of ... [1 Related Articles]
Tangshan earthquake of 1976: earthquake on July 28, 1976, with a magnitude of 8.0, that nearly razed the Chinese coal-mining and industrial city of Tangshan, located about 68 miles (110 km) east of Beijing. ... [1 Related Articles]
Tanguay, Eva: American singing and dancing comedienne billed as "the Girl Who Made Vaudeville Famous."
Tangub: chartered city, 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 land that connects ...
Tangun: 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
Tangut: (from the article "China") In the northwest the Tangut (Pinyin: Dangxiang), a Tibetan-speaking branch of the Qiang, inhabited the region between the far end of the Great Wall in present-day Gansu and the Huang ...
Tanguy, Yves: French-born American painter who worked in a Surrealist style. [2 Related Articles]
tanha: (from the article "tanha") (Pali), in the Buddhist chain of dependent origination, the thirst that leads to attachment. See pratitya-samutpada.law of dependent originationBuddhismThe law ...
Tanhuma: (from the article "Talmud and Midrash") The Tanhuma (after the late-4th-century Palestinian amora Tanhuma bar Abba), of which two versions are extant, is another important Pentateuchal Midrash. Additional Midrashic compilations include those to the books of ...
Tani Buncho: original name Tani Masayasu, also called Bungoro Japanese painter who founded an eclectic school influenced by Chinese, Japanese, and Western styles. [1 Related Articles]
Tani Hisao: (from the article "Nanjing Massacre") ...a third of the buildings. In 1940 the Japanese made Nanjing the capital of their Chinese puppet government headed by Wang Ching-wei (Wang Jingwei). Shortly after the end of World ...
Tani Ryoko: Japanese judoka, who became the first woman to win two Olympic titles in judo. [1 Related Articles]
Taniguchi, Yoshio: In late 1997 the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City selected the design of Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi for the museum's planned expansion. Taniguchi, the least known ... [2 Related Articles]
Tanimbar Islands: group of about 30 islands in Maluku Tenggara kabupaten (regency), Maluku provinsi ("province"), eastern Indonesia. The islands lie between the Banda and Arafura seas.
Tanis: ancient city in the Nile River delta, capital of the 14th nome (province) of Lower Egypt and, at one time, of the whole country. The city was ... [4 Related Articles]
tanistry: 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Tanit: 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro: major modern Japanese novelist, whose writing is characterized by eroticism and ironic wit. [2 Related Articles]
Tanizaki Prize: 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 ...
Tanjungperak: (from the article "Surabaya") Surabaya's port, Tanjungperak, lies just north of the city and next to Ujung, Indonesia's main naval station. Of Indonesian cities, Surabaya is surpassed in size only by Jakarta and has ...
Tanjungpriok: (from the article "Jakarta") The port of Tanjungpriok in Jakarta is the largest in Indonesia, handling exports from West Java and a large proportion of Indonesia's import trade; many goods are transshipped to other ...
tank: 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 ... [13 Related Articles]
tank car: (from the article "freight car") ...continental European and American passenger trains to haul the automobiles of touring motorists who wish to travel part way by rail. One other specialized freight car is the cylindrically shaped ...
tank destroyer: a highly mobile lightly armoured tank-type vehicle that was used to fight tanks in World War II. Tank destroyers tended to have relatively thin side and rear armour, and the ... [1 Related Articles]
tank epiphyte: (from the article "angiosperm") ...canopy, and grazing land. They supply nesting sites and materials for a wide range of birds and mammals, and they are the principal living spaces for many primates, reptiles, and ...
tank fermentation: (from the article "wine") Additional differences between tank- and bottle-fermented wines may develop after secondary fermentation. Upon completion of fermentation, tank-fermented wines are filtered to remove the yeast deposit and then bottled. The filtration ...
tank retting: (from the article "retting") Tank retting, an increasingly important method, allows greater control and produces more uniform quality. The process, usually employing concrete vats, requires about four to six days and is feasible in ...
Tank, Maksim: (from the article "Belarus") ...control over Belarusian cultural matters. Literature in the part of Belarus that was under Polish control until 1939 developed somewhat more freely. Two writers of note emerged from that area, ...
tank-type reactor: (from the article "nuclear reactor") At higher power levels, it becomes more convenient to employ a tank-type reactor because it is simpler to control the flow path of pumped water in such a system. Low-power ...
Tanka: (from the article "Fukien") ...They are distributed in the northern mountains, from the coast to the interior, and are even found beyond the Fukien border in Kiangsi and southern Chekiang. Nor are the "boat ...
tanka: 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 ... [8 Related Articles]
Tankarbyggarorden: (from the article "Nordenflycht, Hedvig Charlotta") ...in Swedish literature. She settled in Stockholm and became a leading literary figure, publishing four volumes of poetry in the next six years. During the 1750s she was elected to ...
tankard: 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 ...
tanker: 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
tankette: (from the article "tank") ...1930 and 1939 were still armed only with machine guns. Italy was even worse off, with only 70 M/11 tanks with 37-millimetre guns while the rest of its total of ...
Tann Falls: 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 ...
tanna: 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
Tanna: island of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It is volcanic in origin. It is 25 miles (40 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide and occupies an area ...