(Tibetan: "something rolled up"), Tibetan religious painting or drawing on woven material, usually cotton; it has a bamboo-cane rod pasted on the bottom edge by which it can be rolled up.
city, northern Vietnam. It is situated immediately south of the Red River (Song Hong) delta region, about 85 miles (137 km) south of Hanoi, on a small tributary of the Ma River. Connected to Hanoi by road and railway, it ...
city, eastern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It lies in the Kaveri (Cauvery) River delta, about 30 miles (50 km) east of Tiruchchirappalli. An early capital of the Chola (Cola) empire from the 9th to the 11th century, it was ...
Myanmar educator, civil servant, and third secretary general of the United Nations (1962-71). Neutralist by inclination and in practice, he criticized both West and East for actions and attitudes that he considered threatening to world peace.
low, basinlike, alluvial swampy region, a northwestern extension of the Mekong delta, in southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It is bounded on the southeast by the Tien Giang River, the main channel of the Mekong River, and also drains to ...
(Feb. 6, 46 BC), in ancient Roman history, battle during the civil war between the Caesarians and the Pompeians (49-46 BC). It was the final blow delivered by Julius Caesar's forces against the supporters of Pompey the Great. Thapsus was ...
a tract of rolling sand hills located partly in the Indian state of Rajasthan and partly in Pakistan. Covering 77,000 square miles (200,000 square km) of territory, it is bordered by the irrigated Indus plain to the west, the Aravalli ...
French brothers noted for the extent and diversity of their literary production spanning 50 years of collaboration. Many of their early works were published in the periodical Cahiers de la Quinzaine ("Fortnight Account"), edited by Charles Peguy, and one of ...
in Greek religion, one of the chief festivals of Apollo at Athens, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Thargelion (May-June). Basically a vegetation ritual upon which an expiatory rite was grafted, the festival was named after the first ...
eighth king (reigned 1837-46) of the Alaungpaya, or Konbaung, dynasty of Myanmar (Burma), who repudiated the Treaty of Yandabo and nearly brought about a war with the British.
extensive volcanic province on Mars that contains three of the planet's most massive volcanoes. The province is focused on a rise or dome about 8,000 km (5,000 miles) across and 8 km (5 miles) high at the centre. Much of ...
intermittent stream of north-central Iraq, rising from several headstreams in the Sinjar Mountains (west of Mosul) and flowing southward to Lake Tharthar, which is a reservoir 60 miles (100 km) long. The reservoir, formerly a playa lake that varied in ...
people of the Tarai region of the Himalayan foothills located in southern Nepal and in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. In the late 20th century the Tharu in Nepal numbered about 720,000, those in India about 10,000. They ...
large, wooded island of the northernmost Aegean Sea, Kavala nomos (department), Greece. It is located southwest of the delta of the Nestos River in Thrace and has an area of 146 square miles (379 square km) and a total coastline ...
British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979-90), Europe's first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain's longest continuously serving prime minister ...
town, southern Myanmar (Burma), situated on the Tenasserim plains in the northern part of the narrow coastal strip known as Tenasserim. Once a lively seaport, Thaton, because of silting, is now 10 miles (16 km) from the Gulf of Martaban, ...
town, Sindh province, Pakistan, just west of the Indus River, inland from Karachi and the Arabian Sea coast. During the 16th century it was the capital of the Samma dynasty in Lower Sindh. Incorporated as a municipality in 1854, it ...
Protestantism originated in the 16th-century Reformation, and its basic doctrines, in addition to those of the ancient Christian creeds, are justification by grace alone through faith, the priesthood of all believers, and the supremacy of Holy Scripture in matters of ...
the tea family of plants in the order Theales. The Theaceae comprises about 40 genera of trees or shrubs native to temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres, including several ornamental plants, one that is the source of tea. Members ...
tea order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, a division of the subclass Dilleniidae. The members are mostly tropical trees and shrubs. Prominent among them are the plants that produce tea and the ornamental camellia.
in architecture, a building or space in which a performance may be given before an audience. The word is from the Greek theatron, "a place of seeing." A theatre usually has a stage area where the performance itself takes place. ...
in dramatic arts, an art concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama.
a theatrical society founded in New York City in 1918 for the production of high-quality, noncommercial American and foreign plays. The guild, founded by Lawrence Langner (1890-1962), departed from the usual theatre practice in that its board of directors shared ...
any music designed to form part of a dramatic performance, as, for example, a ballet, stage play, motion picture, or television program. Included are the European operetta and its American form, the musical.
French national theatre created in 1920 to bring theatre to the general public. Its first director, Firmin Gemier, had been the director of the Theatre Antoine and had made a number of attempts to create a people's theatre. Initially the ...
an art, concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama, as it is presented in sub-Saharan Africa.
first public playhouse of London, located in the parish of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. Designed and built by James Burbage (the father of actor Richard Burbage), The Theatre was a roofless, circular building with three galleries surrounding a yard. It opened ...
form of theatrical staging in which the acting area, which may be raised or at floor level, is completely surrounded by the audience. It has been theorized that the informality thus established leads to increased rapport between the audience and ...
(French: Free Theatre), independent, private theatre founded in Paris in 1887 by Andre Antoine, which became the proving ground for the new naturalistic drama. Antoine, an amateur actor, was influenced by the naturalistic novels of Emile Zola and by the ...
in English literary history, conflict involving the Elizabethan playwrights Ben Jonson, John Marston, and Thomas Dekker. It covered a period when Jonson was writing for one children's company of players and Marston for another, rival group. In 1599 Marston presented ...
the planning, rehearsal, and presentation of a work. Such a work is presented to an audience at a particular time and place by live performers, who use either themselves or inanimate figures, such as puppets, as the medium of presentation. ...
in 20th-century Western theatre, the general movement away from the dominant 19th-century techniques of naturalism in acting, staging, and playwriting; it was especially directed against the illusion of reality that was the highest achievement of the naturalist theatre.
major city of Boeotia nomos (department), northwest of Athens, Greece, and one of the chief cities and powers of ancient Greece. On the acropolis of the ancient city stands the present commercial and agricultural centre of Thebes. It is situated ...
one of the famed cities of antiquity, the capital of the ancient Egyptian empire at its heyday. Thebes lay on either side of the Nile River at approximately latitude 26° N. The modern town of Luxor, or Al-Uqsur, which occupies ...
archaic term formerly applied to any member of a group of primitive archosaurs ("ruling reptiles") thought to include the ancestral stock of all other archosaurs, including birds, dinosaurs, pterosaurs (extinct flying reptiles), and crocodiles. The name thecodont means "socket-toothed."
in law, crime of taking another person's property without his consent. It is a general term covering the specific crimes of larceny, robbery, and burglary.
South African-born American microbiologist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his development of a vaccine against yellow fever.
any of a group of livestock diseases caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Theileria (Gonderia), transmitted by tick bites. The most serious is East Coast fever of cattle, caused by T. parva; it has 90-100 percent mortality in Africa. ...
problematic order of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing one family (Theligonaceae, sometimes called Cynocrambaceae) and one genus (Theligonum) with three species distributed in the Canary Islands, Mediterranean region, southwestern China, and Japan. The plants are somewhat succulent (fleshy) herbs with separate ...
extinct genus of early and primitive jawless vertebrates that is known from impressions on rocks of Silurian age in Europe and North America, although the genus persisted into the Early Devonian epoch (the Silurian period began 438 million years ago ...
stream in eastern Fort Smith region, Northwest Territories, and central Keewatin region, Nunavut territory, Canada. It drains a major portion of the Barren Grounds (a sub-Arctic prairie region). Arising from several lakes, including Whitefish and Lynx, east of Great Slave ...
South African journalist and short-story writer associated with a brilliant group of young South African writers in the 1950s that included Moses Motsisi, Arthur Maimane, Ezekiel Mphahlele, and Lewis Nkosi.
in the Byzantine Empire, originally, a military unit stationed in a provincial area; in the 7th century the name was applied to large military districts formed as buffer territories against Muslim encroachments in Anatolia.
