A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 tercio ... Terrassa tercio (from the article "Italy") ...in offensive as well as defensive maneuvers. In the fighting against France for the Kingdom ... tercio de banderillas (from the article "bullfighting") Act two begins when a trumpet call announces the tercio de banderillas, ... Tercom (from the article "cruise missile") ...(550 miles per hour) and weighed from 1,200 to 1,800 kg (2,700 to 3,900 pounds) ... Terebella (from the article "annelid") ...surface of anterior end; body divided into thorax and abdomen; tube of mucoid substance to ... Terebellida (from the article "annelid") ...divided lobed membrane; anterior segments long; dwelling tube mucoid, coated with sand or shell fragments; ... Terebrantia (from the article "thrips") ...the right mandible is atrophied, resulting in an asymmetrical mouthcone; wings, when present, bear long ... Terebratulida (from the article "lamp shells") ...spiral structure (brachidium); punctate or impunctate, usually biconvex; delthyrium open or closed; more than 300 ... Teredo (from the article "shipworm") The most economically important shipworms, i.e., those causing the most damage, are members of the ... terefah any food, food product, or utensil that, according to the Jewish dietary laws (kashruth, q.v.), ... [2 Related Articles] Terek River river that rises in northern Georgia and flows north and then east through Russia to ... [3 Related Articles] Terem Palace (from the article "Moscow") ...Square is a group of palaces of various periods. The Palace of Facets-so called from ... Terence after Plautus the greatest Roman comic dramatist, the author of six verse comedies that were ... [9 Related Articles] Terengganu traditional region of northeastern West Malaysia (Malaya), bounded by those of Kelantan (north and northwest) ... [1 Related Articles] Tereno (from the article "Plata, Rio de la") ...is the common language. In Brazil, however, miscegenation was less general, and some groups of ... Terentia (from the article "Maecenas, Gaius") Maecenas shared Augustus' dynastic hopes and worked for the eventual succession of Marcellus, the emperor's ... terephthalic acid (from the article "carboxylic acid") ...of wasps). Tannins are used in making leather, and gallic acid is employed in the ... terere (from the article "Paraguay") ...sugar spirit, are popular drinks. Yerba mate, the local herbal tea, is consumed year-round-chilled in ... Teresa (from the article "Afonso I") ...Leon, had granted the county of Portugal to Afonso's father, Henry of Burgundy, who successfully ... Teresa of Avila, Saint Spanish nun, one of the great mystics and religious women of the Roman Catholic church, ... [11 Related Articles] Teresa, Blessed Mother founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women ... [4 Related Articles] Tereshkova, Valentina Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to travel into space. On June 16, 1963, she was ... [3 Related Articles] Teresina city, capital of Piaui estado (state), northeastern Brazil. The city lies along ... [1 Related Articles] Teresopolis city, central Rio de Janeiro estado (state), southwestern Brazil. It lies in ... Tereus in Greek legend, king of Thrace, or of Phocis, who married Procne, daughter of Pandion, ... Terevaka, Mount (from the article "Easter Island") ...kilometres) east of Pitcairn Island and 2,200 miles west of Chile. Forming a triangle 14 ... Terfel, Bryn The recording Something Wonderful, an album of the music of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ... [1 Related Articles] Tergat, Paul (from the article "Track and Field Sports") ...gold came up short in 2004, ran the fastest marathon of the year. In the ... Terhiyn Tsagaan, Lake (from the article "Mongolia") ...the saline Lake Uvs, which is nearly 1,300 square miles in area, and the freshwater ... Terhune, Albert Payson American novelist and short-story writer who became famous for his popular stories about dogs. Terhune, Mary Virginia Hawes American writer who achieved great success with both her romantic novels and her books and ... Teriaroa (from the article "French Polynesia") ...from the Marquesas migrated to the Hawaiian Islands about 300 CE and reached the Society ... Terillus (from the article "Himera") ...(modern Grande) River, on the northern coast of Sicily. It was founded in about 649 ... teriyaki (Japanese: "glossy broil"), in Japanese cuisine, foods grilled with a highly flavoured glaze of soy ... Terjan, Battle of (from the article "Uzun Hasan") ...By 1469 he had occupied all of Iran. Uzun Hasan's support of the Karamanids, however, ... Terjung's Comfort Index (from the article "climate") ...to human activity through what they may indicate about agricultural potential and natural environment, they ... Terjung, Werner H. (from the article "climate") An interesting example of a method based on the energy balance of Earth's surface is ... Terkel, Studs American author and oral historian who chronicled the lives of Americans from the Great Depression ... [3 Related Articles] Terkhen-Khatun (from the article "Nizam al-Mulk") ...however, Malik-Shah had become less acquiescent. Nizam al-Mulk also antagonized the sultan's favourite courtier, Taj ... terkibbend (from the article "Turkish literature") The tercibend and terkibbend are more-elaborate stanzaic forms. Both ... term in the visual arts, element consisting of a sculptured figure or bust at the top ... term (from the article "spectroscopy") ...quantum number, mJ, specifies the orientation of the atom as a whole; mJ can take ... term in logic, the subject or predicate of a categorical proposition (q.v.), or statement. Aristotle so ... [6 Related Articles] term life insurance (from the article "life insurance") The four basic types of life insurance contracts are term life, whole life, variable life, ... term limit (from the article "Algeria") ...29, the FLN won 30.5% of the seats, and its coalition partners won an additional ... term loan (from the article "business finance") A term loan is a business credit with a maturity of more than 1 year ... Terman, Frederick Emmons American electrical engineer known for his contributions to electronics research and antiradar technology. [2 Related Articles] Terman, Lewis Madison American psychologist who published the individual intelligence test widely used in the United States, the ... [7 Related Articles] Termez city and administrative centre of Surkhandarya oblast (province), Uzbekistan, and a port of the Amu ... Termier, Henri-Francois-Emile French geologist known for his studies of the stratigraphy (study of stratified rocks) and paleontology ... Termier, Pierre-Marie geologist known for his studies of the Eastern Alps. Termier was a professor at the ... terminal anecdysis (from the article "crustacean") ...from a few days in small forms to a year or more in some of ... terminal ballistics (from the article "ballistics") ...disciplines. Internal and external ballistics, respectively, deal with the propulsion and the flight of projectiles. ... terminal bronchiole (from the article "respiration, human") ...of the bronchioles, devoid of cartilage, gain their stability from their structural integration into the ... terminal bud (from the article "angiosperm") ...leafy shoots (branches) at the nodes, which arise from buds (dormant shoots). Lateral branches develop ... terminal caesura (from the article "caesura") ...most frequently in the middle of the line (medial caesura), but in modern verse its ... terminal cisterna (from the article "muscle") ...saclike membranes. Each segment of the sarcoplasmic reticulum forms a cufflike structure surrounding a myofibril. ... terminal control area (from the article "airport") ...en route air traffic control instructions as it flies through successive flight information regions (FIRs). ... terminal Doppler weather radar (from the article "radar") ...weather hazard to aircraft in the process of landing or taking off from an airport ... terminal ganglion (from the article "nervous system, human") ...from the base of the skull to the coccyx; these are referred to as paravertebral ... terminal hair (from the article "hair") ...the soles of the feet, undersurfaces of the fingers and toes, and a few other ... terminal handler (from the article "computer science") ...work was required of the operating system with the advent of interactive computing, in which ... terminal moraine (from the article "moraine") A terminal, or end, moraine consists of a ridgelike accumulation of glacial debris pushed forward ... terminal pedestal (from the article "term") ...the body of the figure, with feet sometimes indicated at its base. The pillar itself ... terminal phase (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...the missile is capable of placing on a ballistic trajectory toward a target. By midcourse ... terminal velocity steady speed achieved by an object freely falling through a gas or liquid. A typical ... Terminalia genus of about 200 species of trees of the family Combretaceae. Some species are commercially ... Terminalia (from the article "Terminus") ...and might be slain; a fine was later substituted for the death penalty. From this ... terminating judgment (from the article "Lewis, C.I.") ...problems are instead a matter of the subjective interpretations that individuals make about their sensory ... termination (from the article "chain reaction") ...with the original reactants, producing stable products and another intermediate, whether of the same or ... termination (from the article "Native American") The ultimate goals of assimilationist programming were to completely divest native peoples of their cultural ... termination statement (from the article "applied logic") This seeming impasse can be broken, in effect, by importing truth into the sphere of ... terminator (from the article "Moon") With binoculars or a small telescope, an observer can see details of the Moon's near ... Termini Imerese town, northern Sicily, Italy, on the Golfo (gulf) di Termini Imerese (an inlet of the ... Terminillo, Mount (from the article "Lazio") ...of Roma, Frosinone, Latina, Rieti, and Viterbo. In the east Lazio is dominated by the ... Terminos Lagoon lagoon in southwestern Campeche state, at the base of the Yucatan Peninsula, eastern Mexico. An ... Terminus (Latin: Boundary Stone), originally, in Roman cult, a boundary stone or post fixed in the ... termite any of a group of cellulose-eating insects, the social system of which shows remarkable parallels ... [10 Related Articles] termite savanna (from the article "savanna") ...In Kenya old termite mounds, which are raised above the general soil surface, also provide ... Termite Terrace (from the article "animation") Less edgy than the Fleischers but every bit as anarchic were the animations produced by ... Termopsinae (from the article "termite") The family Kalotermitidae and the subfamily Termopsinae (family Hodotermitidae) make their nests in the wood ... terms of trade relationship between the prices at which a country sells its exports and the prices paid ... [2 Related Articles] tern any of about 40 species of slender, graceful water birds that constitute the subfamily Sterninae, ... [3 Related Articles] ternary compound (from the article "semiconductor device") Ternary compounds can be formed by elements from three different columns, as, for instance, mercury ... ternary form in music, a form consisting of three sections, the third section normally either a literal ... [3 Related Articles] Ternate Island one of the northernmost of a line of Indonesian islands stretching southward along the western ... [1 Related Articles] terne metal (from the article "lead processing") Terne metal, an alloy of lead and typically 10 to 15 percent tin, is used ... terneplate steel sheet with a coating of terne metal, an alloy of lead and tin applied ... Terni city, capital of Terni provincia, Umbria regione, central Italy. It lies along the Nera River, ... Ternifine site of paleoanthropological excavations located about 20 km (12 miles) east of Mascara, Algeria, known ... [1 Related Articles] terno (from the article "Philippines") ...In the urban areas, many men wear an intricately embroidered shirt, the barong, for casual ... Ternopil city, western Ukraine. It lies along the upper Seret River, 70 miles (115 km) east ... Ternstroemia japonica (from the article "Theaceae") ...have small yellow-green flowers and glossy leaves with prominent, sunken veins. A similar species, Cleyera ... terokara (from the article "Native American music") ...the Tropical Forest also have a musical bow for which they use a clay pot ... Terpander Greek poet and musician of the Aegean island of Lesbos. terpen (from the article "Zuiderzee") ...that are now the West Frisian Islands. From about AD 400 these low-lying sandflats were ... terpene any of a class of hydrocarbons occurring widely in plants and animals and empirically regarded ... [4 Related Articles] terpinene (from the article "isoprenoid") ...already been mentioned, and the oxygenated derivatives alpha-terpineol and terpin (terpin hydrate) are commercially important ... terpineol (from the article "isoprenoid") ...filament. Few commercial uses, other than as flavourings, exist for the monocyclic monoterpene hydrocarbons. Menthol, ... terpinolene (from the article "isoprenoid") ...above), an oil of normal boiling point 178 °C (352 °F), is a major component ... Terpsichore in Greek religion, one of the nine Muses, patron of lyric poetry and dancing (in ... [1 Related Articles] terra (from the article "Venus") Two striking features are the continent-sized highland areas, or terrae-Ishtar Terra in the northern hemisphere ... Terra Australis Incognita (from the article "Antarctica") About AD 650, however, long before European geographers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ... terra caida (from the article "Amazon River") ...upland extends both north and south to the horizon. Occasionally these bluffs are undercut by ... terra firme (from the article "Brazil") ...as the watercourse approaches the Atlantic, but no delta extends into the ocean. The basin's ... Terra Fria (from the article "Tras-os-Montes") ...Douro River, and west by the mountains of Geres, Cabreira, and Marao. Geologically a part ... Terra Lliure (from the article "Spain") Other autonomous communities have had similar but much smaller and less significant illegal organizations whose ... Terra Museum of American Art (from the article "Libraries and Museums") ...disaster in the Darfur region of The Sudan, the British Museum dropped the admission fee ... terra preta dos Indios (from the article "Amazon River") ...Small areas are underlain with basaltic and diabasic rocks, with reddish soils ( Terra Quente (from the article "Tras-os-Montes") ...physically into two regions. Terra Fria in the north is a monotonous sequence of rolling ... terra rossa (from the article "Montenegro") A distinctive feature of Montenegro is the accumulations of terra rossa in its coastal area. ... terra roxa (from the article "Amazon River") ...fertility because of their lack of phosphate, nitrogen, and potash and their high acidity. Small ... terra sigillata ware bright-red, polished pottery used throughout the Roman Empire from the 1st century BC to the ... [3 Related Articles] Terra, Gabriel (from the article "Uruguay") In 1930 the Colorado presidential candidate, Gabriel Terra, successfully maneuvered through the political vacuum created ... terra-cotta (Italian: "baked earth"), literally, any kind of fired clay but, in general usage, a kind ... [14 Related Articles] terra-cotta army (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...of the earth below, with rivers of liquid mercury driven by mechanical contrivances. Excavations around ... terrace (from the article "beach") ...tide height, and sediment composition and distribution. The following, however, constitute some of the profile ... terrace cultivation method of growing crops on sides of hills or mountains by planting on graduated terraces ... [4 Related Articles] terrace vase (from the article "Marieberg pottery") ...in evidence during the period when Sten was manager. The factory produced tureens with applied ... Terracina town and episcopal see, Lazio (Latium) region, south central Italy, on the Golfo (gulf) di ... terraferma (from the article "Venice") Although Venice may aptly be regarded as an isolated sea city, it has always had ... terrain (from the article "tactics") Finally, in tactics (as in strategy) there is the topographical element to consider. Land warfare ... Terramare culture (from the article "Western architecture") From 1500 BC in Emilia, in northern Italy south of the Po River, the Terramare ... terrane (from the article "Cambrian Period") Several terranes (fault-bounded fragments of the Earth's crust) seem to have been located near or ... terrapin a term formerly used to refer to any aquatic turtle but now restricted largely, though ... [1 Related Articles] terrarium enclosure with glass sides, and sometimes a glass top, arranged for keeping plants or terrestrial ... 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