poet laureate of England and playwright, adapter of other's plays, and collaborator with Nicholas Brady in A New Version of the Psalms of David (1696).
city, Gumma ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies in the northern Kanto Plain along the Isesaki line of the Tobu railway, north of Tokyo. Founded in the 16th century as ...
(Sanskrit and Pali), one of the titles of a buddha and the one most frequently employed by the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, when referring to himself. The exact meaning of ...
French filmmaker and actor who gained renown for his comic films that portrayed people in conflict with the mechanized modern world. He wrote and starred in all six of the ...
Syrian compiler of the Diatessaron (Greek: "From Four," or "Out of Four"), a version of the four Gospels arranged in a single continuous narrative that, in its Syriac form, served ...
a periodical launched in London by the essayist Sir Richard Steele in April 1709, appearing three times weekly until January 1711. At first its avowed intention was to present accounts ...
highest range of the Central Carpathians. The mountains rise steeply from a high plateau and extend for approximately 40 miles (64 km) along the Slovakian-Polish frontier, varying in width from ...
wilderness park, extreme northwestern British Columbia, Canada, sandwiched between Yukon Territory to the north and the Alaskan Panhandle (U.S.) to the west and south. It was created in 1993 largely ...
(c. 6th-5th century BC), Persian governor of the province west of the Euphrates River (eber nari, "beyond the river") during the reign of Darius I (522-486 BC).
horse auction mart, founded in London by Richard Tattersall (1724-95). The first premises occupied were near Hyde Park Corner, then in the outskirts of London. Tattersalls became a rendezvous for ...
process by which a fabric akin to lace is made of thread with a small hand shuttle and the fingers. It was once a widely practiced craft, known in Italy ...
any shorebird that is easily alarmed and calls loudly when it senses danger. Broadly, tattlers are birds of the subfamily Tringinae of the family Scolopacidae. Examples are the redshank, greenshank, ...
permanent mark or design made on the body by the introduction of pigment through ruptures in the skin. Sometimes the term is also loosely applied to the inducement of scars ...
American biochemist who helped demonstrate that genes determine the structure of particular enzymes or otherwise act by regulating specific chemical processes in living things. His research helped create the field ...
elementary subatomic particle similar to the electron but approximately 3,500 times heavier. Like the electron and the muon, the tau is an electrically charged member of the lepton family of ...
one of the largest of the Muslim cultural-linguistic groups of the Philippines. Numbering about 500,000 in the late 20th century, they live in the Sulu Archipelago southwest of Mindanao, mainly ...
city, southeastern Sao Paulo estado (state), southern Brazil, on the Paraiba do Sul River. Founded in the early 17th century by Jacques Felix on the site of ...
Canadian-born American chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1983 for his extensive research into the properties and reactions of dissolved inorganic substances, particularly oxidation-reduction processes involving the ...
waterfalls and the central feature of Taughannock Falls State Park, near the western shore of Cayuga Lake, in the Finger Lakes Region, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Ithaca in ...
mountain in Iron county, southeastern Missouri, U.S., highest point (1,772 feet [540 m]) of the St. Francois Mountains and of the state. Centrepiece of Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, it ...
a former mine in South Africa in which the first fossil of Australopithecus africanus was discovered. Exhumed by miners in 1924, the fossil was recognized as a primitive hominin (member ...
city, east-central Myanmar (Burma). It lies on the Thazi-Keng Tung road at an elevation of 4,712 feet (1,436 metres), just north of Shwenyaung and Inle Lake. Its facilities include hospitals, ...
city, Bristol county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Taunton River, 33 miles (53 km) south of Boston. Elizabeth Poole, an early proprietor, was said to have purchased the site from ...
borough (district), administrative and historic county of Somerset, England. It lies in the Vale of Taunton Deane, which is sheltered by the Quantock, Black Down, and Brendon hills.
wooded highland of Germany, extending across parts of the Lander (states) of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. The range is 50 miles (80 km) long and is bounded by the Rhine (west), ...
lake, the largest in New Zealand, on the volcanic plateau of central North Island. With a total surface area of 234 square miles (606 square km), it lies at an ...
city, district, and port, north-central North Island, New Zealand. It is situated on a 2-mile (3-kilometre) neck projecting from the southeastern shore of Tauranga Harbour, a crescent-shaped inlet opening onto ...
earliest known inhabitants of the mountainous south coast of what is now the Crimea, which itself was known in ancient times as the Tauric Chersonese. The Tauri were famous in ...
bull sacrifice practiced from about AD 160 in the Mediterranean cult of the Great Mother of the Gods. Celebrated primarily among the Romans, the ceremony enjoyed much popularity and may ...
goddess of ancient Egypt, the benevolent protectress of fertility and childbirth, associated also with the nursing of infants. She was depicted as having the head of a hippopotamus standing upright ...
in astronomy, zodiacal constellation lying between Aries and Gemini, at about 4 hours 20 minutes right ascension (the coordinate on the celestial sphere analogous to longitude on the Earth) and ...
mountain range in southern Turkey, a great chain running parallel to the Mediterranean coast. The system extends along a curve from Lake Egridir in the west to the upper reaches ...
region on the Moon selected as the landing site of the Apollo 17 manned lunar mission. Located at 22° N, 31° E, it is named for the surrounding Taurus Mountains, ...
in logic, a statement so framed that it cannot be denied without inconsistency. Thus, "All men are rational" is held to assert with regard to anything whatsoever that either it ...
the existence of two or more chemical compounds that are capable of facile interconversion, in many cases merely exchanging a hydrogen atom between two other atoms, to either of which ...
Cape Verdean poet who was one of the first Cape Verdeans to be published in the islands' vernacular, Crioulo, a creolized Portuguese with African-language influences.
city and port, Sverdlovsk oblast (province), western Russia, on the Tavda River. Its main industries are locomotive repair, sawmilling, and woodworking. The city's timber complex produces prefabricated houses, veneers, and ...
British composer who was strongly influenced by sacred and spiritual texts. Although some critics dismissed his work as lightweight, Tavener drew praise for making classical music accessible to the masses.
an establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises. Tavern keeping has paralleled the growth of trade, travel, and industry throughout history and virtually worldwide. The Code ...
third largest island of Fiji, in the South Pacific. The island has an area of 168 square miles (435 square km). It lies off the southeast coast of Vanua Levu ...
Italian brothers and filmmakers who combined the social concerns and documentary effects of Neorealism with modernist concerns for outstanding, often poetic, visual and aural effects.
(1758-59), event in Portuguese history that enabled the Marquess de Pombal, chief minister to King Joseph I, to crush the higher nobility and the Jesuits, who had opposed him.
town, southern Myanmar (Burma). It lies at the head of the Tavoy River estuary on the Andaman Sea. Tavoy is a weaving centre and is engaged in coastal trade with ...
port, northeastern Sabah state, East Malaysia. It lies on the northeastern shore of Cowie Harbour, which is an inlet of the Celebes Sea. Once notorious for smuggling with the Philippines ...
("making one," "asserting oneness"), in Islam, the oneness of God, in the sense that he is one and there is no god but he, as stated in the shahadah ("witness") ...
island, southwestern Sulu archipelago, Philippines. It lies between the Celebes Sea (southeast) and the Sulu Sea (northwest). Tawitawi Island is of volcanic origin, is hilly and heavily wooded, and is ...
English economic historian and one of the most influential social critics and reformers of his time. He was also noted for his scholarly contributions to the economic history of England ...
oasis, west-central Tunisia. It is located to the south of Tunisia's steppe region in the jarid (palm) country, which displays a colourful landscape marked by numerous shatts(saline depressions) and ...
in the United States, a court that hears cases involving tax litigation. Originally, a Board of Tax Appeals was set up in 1924 to hear cases in which, for example, ...
body of rules under which a public authority has a claim on taxpayers, requiring them to transfer to the authority part of their income or property. The power to impose ...
American cultural anthropologist who founded the journal Current Anthropology. He was also known for the Fox Project, a study of the culture of the Fox and Sauk Indians.
the yew family, constituting the order Taxales and containing five genera of evergreen trees and shrubs, distributed mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. The plants have many branches, covered with alternate, ...
imposition of compulsory levies on persons or other entities by governments. Taxes are levied in almost every country of the world, primarily to raise revenue for government expenditures, although they ...
city, northern Guerrero estado ("state"), south-central Mexico, on the slopes of Atache Hill, at 5,758 feet (1,755 m) above sea level, in the Sierra de Taxco. The place was a ...
chauffeur-driven automobile available for hire to carry passengers between any two points within a city or its suburbs for a fare determined by a meter or zone system or a ...
the practice of creating lifelike representations of animals, most commonly birds and mammals, by the use of their prepared skins and various supporting structures. Taxidermy may be traced to the ...
ancient city of northwestern Pakistan, the ruins of which are about 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Rawalpindi. Its prosperity in ancient times resulted from its position at the junction ...
the multivariate analysis of many measurable features (taxonomic characters) to produce a biological classification. Because of the complexity of the analysis-many characters are measured on many individuals or a number ...
the so-called deciduous cypress family (order Coniferales), consisting of 10 genera with 15 species of ornamental and timber evergreen trees, native to eastern Asia, Tasmania, and North America. The leaves ...
any unit used in the science of biological classification, or taxonomy. Taxa are arranged in a hierarchy from kingdom to subspecies, a given taxon ordinarily including several taxa of lower ...
in a broad sense, the science of classification, but more strictly the classification of living and extinct organisms-i.e., biological classification. The term is derived from the Greek ...
town, southern Vietnam, situated on a tributary of the Vam Co Tay River, 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) and 25 miles (40 km) ...
