cross-checkered repeating pattern (or "sett") of different coloured bands, stripes, or lines of definite width and sequence, woven into woolen cloth (sometimes with silk added). Although such patterns have existed for centuries in many cultures, they have come to be ...
a dicarboxylic acid, one of the most widely distributed of plant acids, with a number of food and industrial uses. Along with several of its salts, cream of tartar (potassium hydrogen tartrate) and Rochelle salt (potassium sodium tartrate), it is ...
the infernal regions of ancient Greek mythology. The name was originally used for the deepest region of the world, the lower of the two parts of the underworld, where the gods locked up their enemies. It gradually came to mean ...
ancient region and town of the Guadalquivir River valley in southwestern Spain, probably identical with the Tarshish mentioned in the Bible. It prospered from trade with the Phoenicians and Carthaginians but was probably destroyed by the latter about 500 BC. ...
Italian violinist, composer, and theorist who helped establish the modern style of violin bowing and formulated principles of musical ornamentation and harmony.
old university city of Estonia, on the Emajogi River. The original settlement of Tarbatu dates from the 5th century; in 1030 the Russians built a fort there called Yuryev. From the 13th to the 16th century, the town was a ...
town, western Syria, situated on the Mediterranean coast opposite Arwad Island. It was founded in antiquity as Antaradus, a colony of Aradus (now Arwad Island). It was rebuilt in AD 346 by Emperor Constantine I and flourished during Roman and ...
the oldest recorded kingdom in western Java. It was established about the 5th century AD, but little is recorded about the kingdom except for a sketchy account by a Chinese traveler and several rock inscriptions discovered near Bogor and in ...
any sticky, hairy plant of the genus Madia of the family Asteraceae, consisting of about 18 species. They are native for the most part to western South America.
small group of people living in the highland rain forest of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Before their existence was first reported by anthropological investigators in 1971, the Tasaday, numbering about 25 individuals, apparently had been living a virtually isolated, primitive ...
city, northern Turkmenistan, in the western Khorezm oasis. The Shavat Canal, which gets its water from the nearby Amu Darya (river), divides the city into northern and southern sections. Originally a fort and the bazaar of western Khwarezm, it became ...
(Arabic: "assimilating"), in Islam, anthropomorphism, comparing God to created things. Both tashbih and its opposite, ta'til (divesting God of all attributes), are regarded as sins in Islamic theology. The difficulty in dealing with the nature of God in Islam arises ...
capital of Uzbekistan and the largest city in Central Asia. Tashkent lies in the northeastern part of the country. It is situated at an elevation of 1,475 to 1,575 feet (450 to 480 metres) in the Chirchiq River valley west ...
(Jan. 10, 1966), accord signed by India's prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri (who died the next day) and Pakistan's president Ayub Khan, ending the 17-day war between Pakistan and India of August-September 1965. A cease-fire had been secured by the ...
(Hebrew: "you will cast"), traditional Jewish religious ceremony, still observed by Orthodox Jews, that entails visiting a body of water following the afternoon service on Rosh Hashana (or, if this falls on the Sabbath, the following day) and reciting biblical ...
city, southeastern Jawa Barat provinsi (West Java province), western Java, west-central Indonesia. The city is located in the mountainous Preanger region, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Bandung, at an elevation of 1,151 feet (351 metres). ...
unitary authority, northwestern South Island, New Zealand. It is bounded by Tasman and Golden bays and Nelson city on the northeast. Administratively, it is bordered by Marlborough unitary authority and Canterbury local government region on the east and by West ...
peninsula in southeastern Tasmania, Australia, connected to the Forestier Peninsula to the north by a narrow isthmus, Eaglehawk Neck. Measuring 17 by 12 miles (27 by 19 km) and occupying 200 square miles (520 square km), the peninsula comprises three ...
section of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, between the southeastern coast of Australia and Tasmania on the west and New Zealand on the east; it merges with the Coral Sea to the north and encloses a body of water about 1,400 ...
greatest of the Dutch navigators and explorers, who discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, and the Fiji Islands. On his first voyage (1642-43) in the service of the Dutch East India Company, Tasman explored the Indian Ocean, Australasia, and the southern ...
island state of Australia, lying about 150 miles (240 kilometres) south of the state of Victoria, from which it is separated by the relatively shallow Bass Strait. Physically, Tasmania forms part of the Great Dividing Range. The state comprises a ...
any member of the extinct Australoid population of Tasmania. The Tasmanians were an isolate population of Aboriginal Australians, not a separate or distinctive population, who were cut off from the mainland when a general rise in the sea level flooded ...
any of three species of evergreen conifers of the genus Athrotaxis, of the deciduous cypress family (Taxodiaceae), native to the temperate rain forests of Tasmania. Two of the species are small trees, 6 to 12 m (20 to 40 feet) ...
stocky carnivorous marsupial with heavy forequarters, weak hindquarters, and a large squarish head. The Tasmanian devil is named for the Australian island-state of Tasmania, its only native habitat. Vaguely bearlike in appearance and weighing up to 12 kg (26 pounds), ...
extinct languages spoken before 1877 by the indigenous people of Tasmania, who are also now extinct. No relationship between the Tasmanian languages and any other languages of the world has been discovered. Scholars originally divided the Tasmanian languages, all of ...
area of remarkable natural beauty and ecological diversity in southwestern, western, and central Tasmania, Australia. Designated a World Heritage site in 1982, its area was extended to some 5,300 square miles (13,800 square km) in 1989. It consists largely of ...
Scottish gem engraver and modeler known for reproductions of engraved gems and for portrait medallions (round or oval tablets bearing figures), both made from a hard, fine-textured substance that he developed with a physician, Henry Quin.
area in southern Algeria where prehistoric rock paintings were discovered in the 19th century. A plateau in the central Sahara, the area is characterized by high cliffs, whose sides are covered with painted scenes. Scholars and archaeologists have been unable ...
greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance, celebrated for his heroic epic poem Gerusalemme liberata (1581; "Jerusalem Liberated"), dealing with the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade.
Italian political writer, literary critic, and poet, remembered for his mock-heroic satiric poem La secchia rapita (The Rape of the Bucket), the earliest and, according to most critics, the best of many Italian works in that genre.
the detection and identification by the sensory system of dissolved chemicals placed in contact with some part of an animal. Because the term taste is commonly associated with the familiar oral taste buds of vertebrates, many authorities prefer the term ...
(Sanskrit: "thou art that"), in Hindu philosophy, the famous expression of the relationship between the individual and the absolute. The statement is frequently repeated in the sixth chapter of the Chandogya Upanisad (c. 600 BC), as the teacher Uddalaka Aruni ...
oasis, southwestern Morocco. Situated in an arid region at the extreme northwestern edge of the Sahara, Tata oasis is located in a canyon watered by three wadis descending from Mount Bani, an outlier of the Anti-Atlas mountains. The oasis contains ...
family of Indian industrialists and philanthropists who founded ironworks and steelworks, cotton mills, and hydroelectric-power plants that proved crucial to India's industrial development.
town and seat of Komarom-Esztergom megye (county), northwestern Hungary. Lying in the valley of the Gallei River, between the Vertes Hills to the south and the Gerecse Mountains to the northeast, the town is Hungary's main mining centre and is ...
rectangular mat used as a floor covering in Japanese houses. It consists of a thick straw base and a soft, finely woven rush cover with cloth borders. A tatami measures approximately 180 by 90 cm (6 by 3 feet) and ...
any member of several Turkic-speaking peoples that collectively numbered more than 5 million in the late 20th century and lived mainly in west-central Russia along the central course of the Volga River and its tributary, the Kama, and thence east ...
northwestern (Kipchak) language of the Turkic subfamily of Altaic languages. It is spoken in the republic of Tatarstan in west-central Russia and in Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and China. There are numerous dialectal forms. The major Tatar dialects are Kazan Tatar ...
narrow passage of the northwest Pacific Ocean from the Sea of Japan (south) to the Sea of Okhotsk between Sakhalin Island (east) and the Asian mainland. From 4.5 to 213 miles (7 to 342 km) in width and 393 miles ...
republic in the east-central part of European Russia. The republic lies in the middle Volga River basin around the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers. Kazan (q.v.) is the capital.
art museums in the United Kingdom that house the national collection of British art from the 16th century and the national collection of modern art. There are four branches: the Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, the Tate Liverpool, ...
American poet, teacher, novelist, and a leading exponent of the New Criticism. In both his criticism and his poetry, he emphasized the writer's need for a tradition to adhere to; he found his tradition in the culture of the conservative, ...
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 a castle town, it developed as a commercial centre for ...
