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 Togo, flag of ... Tolentino, Peace of Togo, flag of national flag consisting of three horizontal green stripes, offset by two yellow stripes, and a ... Togo, history of (from the article "Togo") Until 1884 Togoland was an indeterminate buffer zone between the warring states of Asante and ... Togo-Atakora Mountains (from the article "Ghana") ...feet [885 metres]), Mount Djebobo (2,874 feet [876 metres]), and Mount Torogbani (2,861 feet [872 ... Togodumnus (from the article "Cunobelinus") ...to Rome and persuaded Caligula to make preparations to invade Britain. The expedition was assembled, ... Togoland former German protectorate, western Africa, now divided between the Republics of Togo and Ghana. [2 Related Articles] Togolese Progress Party (from the article "Togo") ...held in October under French auspices. Nicolas Grunitzky was appointed premier. Following UN representations, elections ... Togolese Unity, Committee of (from the article "Olympio, Sylvanus") A leader of the Committee of Togolese Unity after World War II, Olympio was elected ... Togon-temur last emperor (reigned 1333-68) of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty (1206-1368) in China, under whom the ... [1 Related Articles] Tohivea, Mount (from the article "Moorea") ...island, the remains of an ancient, half-eroded volcano, lies 12 miles (20 km) northwest of ... Toho Motion Picture Company leading Japanese motion-picture studio. [1 Related Articles] Tohoku chiho (region), located on northern Honshu, Japan, and including the Tohono O'odham North American Indians who traditionally inhabited the desert regions of present-day Arizona, U.S., and northern ... [8 Related Articles] Tohopeka, Battle of (from the article "Jackson, Andrew") ...who were allied with the British and who were threatening the southern frontier. In a ... Tohorot (Hebrew: "Purifications"), the last of the six major divisions, or orders (sedarim), of the Mishna ... [2 Related Articles] Tohoscope (from the article "Toho Motion Picture Company") ...Motion Picture Company, which had been financed by Toho in 1947. The studio reopened and ... Tohunga Suppression Act (from the article "Pomare, Sir Maui") ...health officer in 1900 and worked to improve medical care and hygiene in Maori settlements ... toile de Jouy cotton or linen printed with designs of landscapes and figures for which the 18th-century factory ... toile peinte , large sheet of heavy, flexible fabric on which a tapestry cartoon (a full-sized preliminary ... toilet soap (from the article "soap and detergent") ...or cooling presses, cut to size, and stamped. If soap flakes, usually transparent and very ... toimaru (from the article "Japan") ...merchants increased their activity. Bills of exchange were also used for payments to distant localities. ... Toivo ja Toivo, Herman (from the article "Namibia") ...nationwide participation in the struggle. It greatly alarmed South Africa; a rising crescendo of trials ... Tojibayeva, Mutabar (from the article "Uzbekistan") ...the Andijan events. In January, Saidjahon Zaynabiddinov, an activist who had witnessed the events in ... Tojo Hideki soldier and statesman who was prime minister of Japan during most of World War II ... [5 Related Articles] Tojolabal Mayan Indians of Chiapas in southeastern Mexico, near the Guatemalan border. The Tojolabal language is ... Tojolabal language (from the article "Tojolabal") Mayan Indians of Chiapas in southeastern Mexico, near the Guatemalan border. The Tojolabal language is ... Tok Pisin pidgin spoken in Papua New Guinea, hence its identification in some earlier works as New ... [2 Related Articles] Toka Gorge gorge, Hordaland fylke (county), western Norway, near the village of Norheimsund about 25 miles (40 ... Tokai Bank Ltd. Japanese commercial bank that merged with Sanwa Bank and Asahi Bank to form UFJ Holdings, ... Tokai region industrial region, central Japan, extending along the Tokaido Line (railway) between Tokyo and Nagoya, and ... [1 Related Articles] Tokaido historic road that connected Osaka and Kyoto with Edo (now Tokyo) in Japan. The Tokaido ... [1 Related Articles] Tokaj town, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen megye (county), northeastern Hungary. Tokaj lies at the confluence of the Bodrog and ... [1 Related Articles] Tokaji Aszu a full-bodied sweet dessert wine made from late-ripened grapes affected by Botrytis cinerea, a mold ... tokamak (from the article "nuclear fusion") ...fusion reactions for practical energy production. Soviet scientists achieved a high plasma temperature (about 3,000,000 ... Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (from the article "fusion reactor") ...tokamak facilities are the Joint European Torus (JET), a multinational western European venture operated in ... Tokat city, north-central Turkey. It lies along a tributary of the Yesil River. Surrounded by orchards ... Tokay famous, usually sweet white wine of Hungary, made from the Hungarian Furmint grape. The wine ... [3 Related Articles] tokay gecko (from the article "gecko") ...(Coleonyx variegatus), the most widespread native North American species, grows to 15 ... Toke (from the article "Saxo Grammaticus") ...For this part Saxo depended on ancient lays, romantic sagas, and the accounts of Icelanders. ... Tokelau island territory of New Zealand, consisting of three atolls in the South Pacific Ocean. Tokelau ... [4 Related Articles] Tokelau Council (from the article "Tokelau") ...An administrator is appointed to a three-year term by New Zealand's minister of foreign affairs ... token (from the article "information processing") Information processes are executed by information processors. For a given information processor, whether physical or ... token passing (from the article "telecommunications network") ...to its poll. "Smart" controllers can respond dynamically to nodes that suddenly become very busy ... token-token identity theory (from the article "analytic philosophy") As a result of these and other objections, type-type identity theory was discarded in favour ... Tokhtamysh (from the article "Dmitry (II) Donskoy") ...forces; for his victory Dmitry was honoured with the surname Donskoy ("of the Don"). Shortly ... Toki city, Gifu ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Toki River. During the civil ... Tokiwa Mitsunaga (c. last half of the 12th century, Kyoto, Japan), leading Japanese painter of the 12th ... Toklas, Alice B. (from the article "Stein, Gertrude") ...to London and then to Paris, where she was able to live by private means. ... Tokmak city, northern Kyrgyzstan, on the Chu River. Originally an early 19th-century fort, it became a ... tokoeka kiwi (from the article "kiwi") The genus Apteryx forms the family Apterygidae, order Apterygiformes. Five species of kiwis are recognized: ... Tokoname city, Aichi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the west coast of the Chita ... [1 Related Articles] tokonoma alcove in a Japanese room, used for the display of paintings, pottery, flower arrangements, and ... [4 Related Articles] Tokoroa town, north-central North Island, New Zealand. It lies in the upper Waikato River basin of ... Tokorozawa city, Saitama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Seibu Line (railway), in the ... Tokoyo (from the article "Shinto") ...the present world), and the Hades (Yomi no Kuni, the world after death) were arranged ... Toktogul hydroelectric station (from the article "Syr Darya") ...on the main stream and, in Uzbekistan, the Chorwoq station on the Chirchiq River and ... Tokuda Shusei novelist who, with Masamune Hakucho, Tayama Katai, and Shimazaki Toson, was one of the "four ... [1 Related Articles] Tokugawa Art Museum (from the article "Nagoya") ...Technology (1949), and Nagoya City University (1950). An important landmark is Nagoya Castle, originally built ... Tokugawa Hidetada second Tokugawa shogun, who completed the consolidation of his family's rule, eliminated Christianity from Japan, ... [3 Related Articles] Tokugawa Iemitsu third Tokugawa shogun in Japan, the one under whom the Tokugawa regime assumed many of ... [3 Related Articles] Tokugawa Ienari (from the article "Japan") ...ooku (women's quarter, the shogun's harem), disliked him since he had purged some women who ... Tokugawa Ieshige (from the article "Japan") Under the rule of Yoshimune's son Ieshige, control of government by attendants of the shogun-which ... Tokugawa Ietsuna (from the article "Hotta Masatoshi") statesman who began his career as an adviser to the fourth Tokugawa shogun of Japan, ... Tokugawa Ieyasu the founder of the last shogunate in Japan, the Tokugawa, or Edo, shogunate (1603-1867). [21 Related Articles] Tokugawa Ieyoshi (from the article "Kuroda Nagamasa") noted Japanese warrior who rendered important service to two leaders, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, ... Tokugawa Mitsukuni Japanese feudal lord who began the compilation of the Dai Nihon shi ("History of Great ... [1 Related Articles] Tokugawa Nariaki Japanese advocate of reform measures designed to place more power in the hands of the ... [5 Related Articles] Tokugawa period (1603-1867), the final period of traditional Japan, a time of internal peace, political stability, and ... [28 Related Articles] Tokugawa shogunate (from the article "Hotta Masayoshi") ...dismissed Hotta from office. 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Tokutomi Soho influential Japanese historian, critic, journalist, and essayist and a leading nationalist writer before World War ... Tokuyama city, Yamaguchi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It faces Tokuyama Bay of the Inland Sea. A ... Tokyo to (metropolis), in Honshu, Japan. It is bordered by the ken (prefectures) of Saitama (north), ... [1 Related Articles] Tokyo city and capital of Tokyo to (metropolis) and of Japan. It is located at the ... [20 Related Articles] Tokyo Bay inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the east-central coast of Honshu Island, Japan. Along the ... Tokyo Declaration (from the article "international trade") ...on September 12, 1973, and was attended by representatives of ministerial or comparable level from ... Tokyo Disneyland (from the article "Urayasu") In 1983 Urayasu became the site of Tokyo Disneyland, a theme park duplicating the original ... Tokyo DisneySea (from the article "Urayasu") In 1983 Urayasu became the site of Tokyo Disneyland, a theme park duplicating the original ... Tokyo Fine Arts School (from the article "Fenollosa, Ernest F.") ...the emperor Meiji said to him, "You have taught my people to know their own ... Tokyo International Airport (from the article "Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area") ...rail usually leaves from Tokyo station, in Marunouchi, or Ueno station, a couple of miles ... Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly (from the article "Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area") Legislative authority in the metropolis rests with the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, consisting of 127 members ... Tokyo National Museum the first and foremost art museum in Japan, located in Ueno Park, Tokyo. [2 Related Articles] Tokyo Olympic Games (from the article "Olympic Games") The 1964 Olympics introduced improved timing and scoring technologies, including the first use of computers ... Tokyo Round (from the article "international trade") The Tokyo Declaration was followed by several years of multinational trade negotiations that came to ... Tokyo School of Music (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...faded away and eventually were replaced by more popular children's school songs based on military ... Tokyo Stock Exchange the main stock market of Japan, located in Tokyo, and one of the world's largest ... [4 Related Articles] Tokyo Stock Price Index (from the article "Economic Affairs") ...& Poor's index of 500 large-company stocks (S&P 500) was 3% lower than at the ... Tokyo Trials (from the article "war, law of") ...(that is, violations of the laws and customs of war), and crimes against humanity (such ... Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...school became the Tokyo School of Music by 1890 and included instruction in koto and, ... Tokyo, University of coeducational, state-financed institution of higher learning in Tokyo, the largest of Tokyo's more than 50 ... [3 Related Articles] Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923 earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area near noon on ... Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area metropolitan complex-commonly called Greater Tokyo-along the northern and western shores of Tokyo Bay, on the ... [2 Related Articles] tol informal Bengali school of instruction, usually in grammar, law, logic, and philosophy. Tols were usually ... [1 Related Articles] Tolai (from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") The Tolai people on the coast of the Gazelle Peninsula probably emigrated from southeastern New ... Tolai language (from the article "Melanesian languages") ...the language of the Methodist Mission in the Solomon Islands; Bambatana, a literary language used ... Tolain, Henri-Louis French politician and organizer of workers' associations. 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(from the article "western Africa, history of") ...ruling Afro-American True Whig Party concluded that its maintenance of power depended on an economic ... Tolbiacum, Battle of (from the article "France") ...with varying degrees of success. An Alemannian westward push was blocked, probably as a result ... tolbutamide drug used in the treatment of type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes. Tolbutamide stimulates the release of ... toldo (from the article "South American nomad") ...covered with bark, skins, or brush. When the people moved on they left the frame ... Toldy, John S. (from the article "1940: Other Winners") Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart for The Philadelphia StoryOriginal Story: Benjamin Glazer and John S. Toldy ... Toledan school (from the article "Raimundo, Don") It was probably as a result of Raimundo's encouragement that the Toledan school of translators ... Toledo city, on the western coast of Cebu island, Philippines. It is the site of the ... Toledo provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of ... Toledo city, seat (1835) of Lucas county, northwestern Ohio, U.S., at the mouth of the Maumee ... [2 Related Articles] Toledo city, capital of Toledo provincia (province), in the comunidad ... [10 Related Articles] Toledo War of 1835 (from the article "Michigan") ...was anxious for statehood so that it might undertake a more ambitious program of internal ... Toledo, Alejandro On July 28, 2001, nearly five centuries after Europeans conquered the Incas-and after two years ... [5 Related Articles] Toledo, councils of 18 councils of the Roman Catholic church in Spain, held in Toledo from about 400 ... [4 Related Articles] Toledo, Francisco de (from the article "Peru") It was nearly a decade before unruly conquerors were controlled under Viceroy Andres Hurtado de ... Toledo, Juan Bautista de (from the article "El Escorial") ...with the exception of Philip V, Ferdinand VI, and Alfonso XIII. 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