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- (from the article "Buddhism") ...of sophisticated doctrinal instruction and miracle-working powers supposedly conferred by the Esoteric rituals enabled Zhenyan leaders to gain the confidence of the court, especially of Emperor Tai-tsung (762-779/780), who rejected Daoism in favour of Zhenyan Buddhism.
- Taibai, Mount
- (from the article "China") ...to divide China proper into two parts-North and South. The elevation of the mountains varies from 3,000 to 10,000 feet (900 to 3,000 metres). The western part is higher, with the highest peak, Mount Taibai, rising to 12,359 feet (3,767 ...
- Taichang
- (from the article "China") ...absorbed the energies of officialdom, while the harassed emperor abandoned more and more of his responsibilities to eunuchs. The decline of bureaucratic discipline and morale continued under the Taichang emperor, whose sudden death after a reign of only one month ...
- Taidu
- (from the article "Taidu") name by which the Venetian traveler Marco Polo referred to the city of Beijing, China, which at that time was the capital of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty (1206-1368).for more related to this topicBeijing
- Taieri River
- river in southeastern South Island, New Zealand. It rises in the Lammerlaw Range and flows 179 miles (288 km) north and southeast in a great arc-across the Maniototo Plains, around the Rock and Pillar Range, and across the Taieri Plains-to ...
- TAIEX
- (from the article "Taiwan") ...Citigroup acquired the Bank of Overseas Chinese; ABN AMRO took over the troubled Taitung Business Bank; and HSBC agreed to take over the troubled Chinese Bank. Taiwan's main stock exchange, the TAIEX, hit a series of seven-year highs during mid-2007, ...
- taifa
- a faction or party, as applied to the followers of any of the petty kings who appeared in Muslim Spain in a period of great political fragmentation early in the 11th century after the dissolution of the central authority of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Taifun
- (from the article "rocket and missile system") The only significant antiaircraft rocket development by the Germans was the Taifun. A slender, six-foot, liquid-propellant rocket of simple concept, the Taifun was intended for altitudes of 50,000 feet. The design embodied coaxial tankage of nitric acid and a mixture ...
- taiga shield
- (from the article "Canada") A vast transitional zone, the taiga shield, comprising some 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of mixed boreal and tundra growth, connects the northern forest and the tundra region. Generally, the trees in this subarctic zone, with its cold, dry ...
- Taigen Sonjin
- (from the article "Shinto") ...some Taoist influence. The school's doctrines were largely the work of Yoshida Kanetomo (1435-1511). Its fundamental kami (the source of all things and beings in the universe) was Taigen Sonjin (the Great Exalted One). According to its teaching, if one ...
- Taihang Mountains
- mountain range of northern China, stretching some 250 miles (400 km) from north to south and forming the boundary between Shanxi and Hebei provinces and between the Shanxi plateau and the North China Plain. Some Western writers have erroneously called ... [4 Related Articles]
- Taihape
- town, south-central North Island, New Zealand. It lies along the Hautapu River, 7 miles (11 km) above the latter's confluence with the Rangitikei. It was founded in 1894 as a coaching station on a track leading east to Hastings and ...
- Taiho code
- (AD 701), in Japan, administrative and penal code of the Taiho era early in the Nara period, modeled on the codes of the Chinese T'ang dynasty (618-907) and in force until the late 8th century. Although the first work on ... [5 Related Articles]
- taiji
- in Chinese philosophy, the ultimate source and motive force behind all reality. In the Book of Changes (Yijing), the ancient philosophical text in which the concept is first mentioned, taiji is the source and union of the two primary aspects ... [4 Related Articles]
- Taik
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...groups of Turkmen warriors (also called Oguz, Ghuzz, or Oghuz), originally from Central Asia, began to move into Azerbaijan and to encroach upon the Armenian principalities of Vaspurakan, Taik, and Ani along the easternmost border of the Byzantine Empire. Armenian ...
- Taika era reforms
- ("Great Reformation of the Taika Era"), series of political innovations that followed the coup d'etat of AD 645, led by Prince Nakano Oe (later the emperor Tenji; q.v.) and Nakatomi Kamatari (later Fujiwara Kamatari; q.v.) against the powerful Soga clan. ... [7 Related Articles]
- taiko
- any of various Japanese forms of barrel-shaped drums with lashed or tacked heads, usually played with sticks (bachi). When the word combines with another for the name of a specific type of drum, the t euphonically changes to d, thus ... [3 Related Articles]
- Taiko Josetsu
- priest and painter, regarded as the first of the long line of Japanese Zen Buddhist priests who painted in the Chinese-inspired suiboku (monochromatic ink painting) style. [2 Related Articles]
- Taiko land survey
- (from the article "Japan") ...Hideyoshi adopted several major policies to accomplish this end: a comprehensive land survey (kenchi), the disarmament of the peasantry, and the separation of the classes. The so-called Taiko land survey played a crucial role in this process. Taiko was a ...
- tail
- in zoology, prolongation of the backbone beyond the trunk of the body, or any slender projection resembling such a structure. The tail of a vertebrate is composed of flesh and bone but contains no viscera. In fishes and many larval ... [5 Related Articles]
- tail fan
- (from the article "malacostracan") ...unsegmented. The pleopods are typically reduced, or even lost, in many burrowers. The swimming crabs use paddlelike fifth thoracic legs for propulsion. Abrupt swimming propulsion is provided by the tail fan. In amphipods the tail fan (consisting of three pairs ...
- tail feather
- (from the article "bird") ...the surface of the bird, streamlining it for flight and often waterproofing it. The basal portion may be downy and thus act as insulation. The major contour feathers of the wing (remiges) and tail (rectrices) and their coverts function in ...
- tail pulse
- (from the article "radiation measurement") ...when all the charge has been collected, and then exponentially decays back to zero with a characteristic time set by the time constant of the measuring circuit. This type of signal pulse is called a tail pulse, and it is ...
- tail rhyme
- a verse form in which rhymed lines such as couplets or triplets are followed by a tail-a line of different (usually shorter) length that does not rhyme with the couplet or triplet. In a tail-rhyme stanza (also called a tail-rhymed ...
- tail rotor
- (from the article "helicopter") ...in the construction of a fixed-wing aircraft and a helicopter is of course the latter's use of a rotor instead of a wing. There are many other critical additions, however, including the use of a tail rotor to offset torque. ...
- tail-to-tail coupling
- (from the article "isoprenoid") The structures of most triterpenes and tetraterpenes show that they were formed by establishment of a tail-to-tail bond (carbon 4 to carbon 4) between two smaller units: in the structural formula of the important triterpene hydrocarbon squalene, for example, the ...
- tail-tube buoy
- (from the article "lighthouse") ...which need to be replaced every year or two. In order to increase the service interval and also to accommodate more powerful lights, rechargeable batteries with onboard generators are used. Some tail-tube buoys, which tend to oscillate vertically with the ...
- Taila II
- (from the article "India") Taila II (reigned 973-997), who traced his ancestry to the earlier Calukyas of Vatapi, ruled a small part of Bijapur. Upon the weakening of Rashtrakuta power, he defeated the king, declared his independence, and founded what has come to be ...
- tailcoat
- (from the article "dress") ...dress slowly became stereotyped, etiquette having laid down detailed regulations for the attire to be worn for different occasions, for different times of day, and by the various social classes. The tailcoat, waisted and padded on the chest, was de ...
- tailed frog
- (Ascaphus truei), the single species of the frog family Ascaphidae (order Anura). It is restricted to cold, clear forest streams of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. It is one of many species that disappears when ... [2 Related Articles]
- tailings
- (from the article "mineral processing") ...Such a suspension can simulate a fluid with a higher density than water. When ground ores are fed into the suspension, the gangue particles, having a lower density, tend to float and are removed as tailings, whereas the particles of ...
- taille
- the most important direct tax of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy in France. Its unequal distribution, with clergy and nobles exempt, made it one of the hated institutions of the ancien regime. [4 Related Articles]
- Tailleferre, Germaine
- (from the article "Six, Les") ...and Richard Strauss, as well as against the chromaticism and lush orchestration of Claude Debussy. Les Six were Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, and Germaine Tailleferre. The French critic Henri Collet originated the label Les ...
- tailless whip scorpion
- any of 70 species of the arthropod class Arachnida that are similar in appearance to whip scorpions (order Uropygi) but lack a telson, or tail. They occur in hot parts of both North and South America, Asia, and Africa, where, ... [2 Related Articles]
- tailor
- (from the article "dress") Toward 1350 a great change occurred in costume. Clothes increasingly were tailored to fit and display the human figure. The ability to tailor garments improved. More and better fabrics were now reaching the West from Italy and farther east. But ...
- tailorbird
- any of the nine species of the genus Orthotomus, of the Old World warbler family Sylviidae, that sew together the edges of one or more leaves to contain the nest. A tailorbird makes a series of holes with its long ... [1 Related Articles]
- tailpiece
- (from the article "stringed instrument") ...outward and downward from the waist to the lower corners. A line joining the crosses of the fs marks the approximate position of the bridge. The lower ends of the strings are held by the long tailpiece below the bridge, ...
- tailslide
- (from the article "surfing") ...riders to move their craft freely around the wave and have transformed surfing into a gymnastic dance. Today the wave is the apparatus upon which surfers perform spectacular maneuvers such as "tailslides" (withdrawing the fins from the wave and allowing ...
- tailwind
- (from the article "airport") ...be considered up to about 15 km (10 miles) from the runways. Runway configurations must also ensure that, for 95 percent of the time, aircraft can approach and take off without either crosswinds or tailwinds that would inhibit operations. At ...
- taima
- (from the article "kamidana") ...a household or a shop. The kamidana usually consists of a small cupboard or shelf on which are displayed articles of veneration and daily offerings. At the centre of the shrine stands the taima, an inscribed board from the main ...
- Taima-dera
- (from the article "tapestry") ...vines, ducks, lions, etc., and were found in relatively remote areas of Central Asia along the silk-trade route. In comparison is the more sophisticated 8th-century k'o-ssu that hangs in the Taima-dera, a temple near Nara, Japan. Based on the story ...
- Taimuri
- (from the article "Hazara") ...include those dwelling in the northern foothills of the Safid Kuh Selseleh-ye (Paropamisus Mountains); and a group on the border of Iran known as Hazara in Iran and as Taimuri, or Timuri, in Afghanistan.
- Tainan
- (from the article "Dates of 2004") ...mi) of the Earth, the closest encounter between an asteroid and the planet ever recorded, though scientists believe closer encounters occur without being noticed.
- Taine, Hippolyte
- French thinker, critic, and historian, one of the most esteemed exponents of 19th-century French Positivism. He attempted to apply the scientific method to the study of the humanities. [6 Related Articles]
- Taino
- Arawakan-speaking people who at the time of Christopher Columbus's exploration inhabited what are now Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Once the most numerous indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino may ... [11 Related Articles]
- Taino language
- (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") ...foothills of the Andes. A great many communities still speak Arawakan languages in Brazil, and other groups of speakers are found in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname. Taino, a now-extinct Arawakan language, once predominated in the Antilles ...
- tainoya
- (from the article "shinden-zukuri") ...their houses on the same Chinese models as had been used in designing the Imperial Palace. The complex centred on the shinden, which faced south on an open court. The eastern and western tainoya, or subsidiary living quarters, were attached ...
- Tainter, Charles Sumner
- American inventor who, with Chichester A. Bell (a cousin of Alexander Graham Bell), greatly improved the phonograph by devising a wax-coated cardboard cylinder and a flexible recording stylus, both superior to the tinfoil surface and rigid stylus then used by ...
- Taipa
- (from the article "Macau") ...eastern side of the estuary. Macau comprises a small, narrow peninsula projecting from the mainland sheng (province) of Kwangtung and includes the islands of Taipa and Coloane. Extending up a hillside and overlooking La-Pa Island is the ...
- taipan
- any of three species of highly venomous snakes (family Elapidae) found from Australia to the southern edge of New Guinea. Taipans range in colour from beige to gray and pale brown to dark brown. Some taipans also experience seasonal colour ...
- Taipei
- province-level municipality and capital of Taiwan (Republic of China). It is situated on the Tan-shui River, almost at the northern tip of the island of Taiwan, about 15 miles (25 km) southwest of Chi-lung (Keelung), which is its port on ... [10 Related Articles]
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