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Temuco: capital of Cautin province and of Araucania region, southern Chile, lying on the Rio Cautin in the heart of the region. It was founded in 1881 as a frontier outpost, after the area was ceded to Chile in a treaty ...
Temur: grandson and successor of the great Kublai Khan; he ruled as emperor of China (from 1295 to 1307) and as great khan of the Mongol Empire. He was the last ruler of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty (1279-1368) to maintain firm ...
Ten Commandments: (Greek deka logoi, "10 words"), list of religious precepts that, according to various passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy, were divinely revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai and were engraved on two tablets of stone. The Commandments are recorded virtually identically ...
Ten Days of Penitence: the first 10 days of the Jewish religious year. See yamim nora'im.
Ten Kingdoms: (907-c. 980), period in Chinese history when southern China was ruled by nine small independent kingdoms, with one more small kingdom in the far north. It corresponded generally with the Five Dynasties period, or rule, in the north; and, like ...
Ten Lost Tribes of Israel: 10 of the original 12 Hebrew tribes, which, under the leadership of Joshua, took possession of Canaan, the Promised Land, after the death of Moses. They were named Asher, Dan, Ephraim, Gad, Issachar, Manasseh, Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon, and Zebulun-all sons ...
Ten Sleep: town, Washakie county, north-central Wyoming, U.S., situated in the Bighorn Basin, west of the Bighorn Mountains, 25 miles (40 km) east of Worland. The site, at the junction of Nowood and Ten Sleep creeks, was an Indian rest stop, so ...
Ten Thousand Immortals: in Persian history, core troops in the Achaemenian army, so named because their number of 10,000 was immediately reestablished after every loss. Under the direct leadership of the hazarapat, or commander in chief, the Immortals, who formed the king's personal ...
Ten Thousand Smokes, Valley of: volcanic region, southern Alaska, U.S., 265 miles (425 km) southwest of Anchorage. The valley was created in 1912 by the eruption of the Novarupta and Mount Katmai volcanoes. Its name derives from the myriad fumaroles (fissures spouting smoke, gas, and ...
Ten, The: group of 10 American painters who first exhibited together in 1898, in New York City, and continued to do so for the next 20 years. Most members of the group painted in an Impressionist style. Although their work did not ...
Tena: town, eastern Ecuador, located in El Oriente region, the tropical rain forest section of Ecuador east of the Andean cordilleras, on an affluent of the Napo River. A missionary settlement, it has a subsistence economy based on some stock raising ...
tenant farming: agricultural system in which landowners contribute their land and a measure of operating capital and management while tenants contribute their labour with various amounts of capital and management, the returns being shared in a variety of ways. Payment to the ...
Tenasserim: narrow coastal region, southeastern Myanmar (Burma), bordered to the east by Thailand and to the west by the Andaman Sea. The Mergui Archipelago, with more than 200 islands of varying sizes, fringes the western shore. Tenasserim is dominated by the ...
Tenby: market town and resort, historic and present county of Pembrokeshire, Wales, on Carmarthen Bay. Though Scandinavian settlement probably occurred there, the town essentially dates from the building of a Norman castle and walled borough in the 12th century; parts of ...
tench: (species Tinca tinca), widely distributed European food and sport fish of the carp family Cyprinidae (order Cypriniformes), noted for its ability to survive low oxygen conditions. The tench is a stout, small-scaled fish with a barbel at each corner of ...
Tench, Watkin: British army officer whose two books about early Australia have become classics.
Tencin, Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin de: French author and literary patroness whose associations with celebrated writers and political personalities ensured her position as one of the prominent social figures of the 18th century.
Tencin, Pierre Guerin de: French statesman, cardinal, and anti-Jansenist of the 18th century.
Tenda Pass: pass (6,135 feet [1,870 m]) in the Maritime Alps, lying on the French-Italian border near the resort of Limone Piemonte. Two parallel tunnels carry a railroad and highway beneath the Tenda Pass to connect Nice, Fr., with Turin, Italy. Some ...
tendinitis: inflammation of the sheaths of the tendons. These sheaths are composed of thin, filmy tissue that permits the sliding motion of tendons within them. The cause of inflammation is irritation of the sheaths by prolonged or abnormal use of the ...
tendon: in anatomy, tissue that attaches a muscle to other body parts, usually bones. Tendons are the connective tissues that transmit the mechanical force of muscle contraction to the bones; the tendon is firmly connected to muscle fibres at one end ...
tendril: in botany, plant organ specialized to anchor and support vining stems. Tendrils may be modified leaves, leaflets, leaf tips, or leaf stipules; they may, however, be derived as modified stem branches (e.g., grapes). Other special plant structures fulfill a similar ...
Tendring: district, administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It occupies the low-lying North Sea coastal tract between the estuaries of the Rivers Stour and Colne in the northeastern corner of Essex. Most of the district's population is concentrated in urban ...
tenebrism: in the history of Western painting, the use of extreme contrasts of light and dark in figurative compositions to heighten their dramatic effect. (The term is derived from the Latin tenebrae, "darkness.") In tenebrist paintings the figures are often portrayed ...
Tenere: physiographic region of the Sahara extending from northeastern Niger into western Chad. Comprising the northwestern part of the Central Sudan depression, this vast level plain of sand extends over approximately 154,440 square miles (400,000 square km). It is bounded by ...
Tenerife: island, largest of the Canary Islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Canarias, Spain. It lies in the Atlantic Ocean opposite the northwest coast of Africa. The island has an area of 795 square ...
Tenes: town, northern Algeria. A small Mediterranean port, it is built on the site of the ancient Phoenician and Roman colonies of Catenna. Ruins of the Roman colony's ramparts and tombs remain, and the Roman cisterns are still in use. Old ...
Tenggerese: second smallest of the ethnic groups indigenous to the island of Java in Indonesia, living mainly on the high slopes of a large volcanic crater in the Tengger Mountains and numbering about 50,000 in the early 1970s. They are believed ...
Tengiz, Lake: salt lake in the northern part of the Saryarqa (Kazak Uplands). The largest lake in northern Kazakstan, it has an area of 614 square miles (1,590 square km) and a maximum depth of more than 20 feet (6 m); it ...
Tengnoupal: district, Manipur state, eastern India. Formerly part of the Central district, it is a hilly region in the Eastern Himalayas south of the Imphal Valley, has an area of 1,303 sq mi (3,375 sq km), and varies in altitude from ...
Tengrela: town, administrative centre (since 1980), of Tengrela departement, extreme northern Cote d'Ivoire, situated on a road connecting the Cote d'Ivoire town of Boundiali (south) with the country of Mali (north). The town serves as a centre for international trade among ...
tengu: in Japanese folklore, a type of mischievous supernatural being, sometimes considered the reincarnated spirit of one who was proud and arrogant in life. Tengu are renowned swordsmen and are said to have taught the military arts to the Minamoto hero ...
Teniers, David, The Elder: Flemish Baroque painter of genre scenes, landscapes, and religious subjects.
Teniers, David, The Younger: prolific Flemish painter of the Baroque period known for his genre scenes of peasant life.
Tenji: 38th emperor of Japan, from 668 to 672, and the ruler who freed the Japanese court from the domination of the Soga family. Tenji implemented a series of reforms that strengthened the central government in accord with the Chinese model ...
Tenjiku: (Japanese: "Indian Style"), one of the three main styles of Japanese Buddhist architecture in the Kamakura period (1192-1333). The style is impressive for the size and multiplicity of its parts. Its unique and most characteristic feature is the elaborate bracketing ...
Tenkalai: one of two Hindu subsects of the Srivaisnava, the other being the Vadakalai. Though the two sects use both Sanskrit and Tamil scriptures and centre their worship on Vishnu, the Tenkalai places greater reliance on the Tamil language and the ...
Tennant Creek: town, central Northern Territory, Australia, on Tennant Creek, which was explored in 1860 by the Scot John McDouall Stuart and named after a South Australian pastoralist. Earliest settlement of the site began in 1872 with the construction of a station ...
Tennant, Frederick Robert: English philosophical theologian, a powerful apologist with a wide range of interests who essayed a harmony of science and religion within an empirical approach to theology.
Tennant, Kylie: married name Kylie Tennant Rodd, nee Kylie Tennant Australian novelist and playwright famed for her realistic yet affirmative depictions of the lives of the underprivileged in Australia.
Tenneco Inc.: diversified American industrial corporation, with major interests in natural-gas pipelines and the construction of heavy equipment. It was also formerly a large producer of petroleum. Headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
Tennent, Gilbert: Irish-born American Presbyterian clergyman, son and brother of three other Presbyterian clergymen. He was one of the leaders of the Great Awakening of religious feeling in colonial America, along with Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.
Tennessee: constituent state of the United States of America. Located in the upper South of the eastern United States, it became the 16th state of the Union in 1796. The geography of Tennessee, an area of 42,144 square miles (109,153 square ...
Tennessee River: central component of one of the world's greatest irrigation and hydropower systems and a major waterway of the southeastern United States. It is formed by the confluence of the Holston and French Broad rivers, just east of Knoxville, Tennessee, and ...
Tennessee State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., part of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee. A historically black university, it still has a largely African American enrollment. Tennessee State is a land-grant school and ...
Tennessee Valley Authority: U.S. government agency established in 1933 to control floods, improve navigation, improve the living standards of farmers, and produce electrical power along the Tennessee River and its tributaries. The Tennessee River was subject to severe periodic flooding, and navigation along ...
Tennessee walking horse: breed of horse that derives its name from the state of Tennessee and from its distinctive gait-the running walk. In a broad sense, it originated from all the ancestors that could do a running walk. Allan F-I (foaled 1886), a ...
Tennessee, University of: state university system based in Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. It is a comprehensive, land-grant institution of higher education. In addition to the main campus there are branch campuses at Chattanooga and Martin, as well as a health science centre at Memphis. ...
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway: American waterway linking the Tennessee River in northeastern Mississippi with the Tombigbee River in western Alabama. The 234-mile (376-kilometre) system of locks and canals along the upper Tombigbee River south to Demopolis, Ala., gives access via the lower Tombigbee to ...
Tenniel, Sir John: English illustrator and satirical artist, especially known for his work in Punch and his illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872).
tennis: game in which two opposing players (singles) or pairs of players (doubles) use tautly strung rackets to hit a ball of specified size, weight, and bounce over a net on a rectangular court. Points are awarded to a player or ...