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 tail feather ... Takefu tail feather (from the article "bird") ...the surface of the bird, streamlining it for flight and often waterproofing it. The basal ... tail pulse (from the article "radiation measurement") ...when all the charge has been collected, and then exponentially decays back to zero with ... tail rhyme a verse form in which rhymed lines such as couplets or triplets are followed by ... tail rotor (from the article "helicopter") ...in the construction of a fixed-wing aircraft and a helicopter is of course the latter's ... tail-to-tail coupling (from the article "isoprenoid") The structures of most triterpenes and tetraterpenes show that they were formed by establishment of ... tail-tube buoy (from the article "lighthouse") ...which need to be replaced every year or two. In order to increase the service ... Taila II (from the article "India") Taila II (reigned 973-997), who traced his ancestry to the earlier Calukyas of Vatapi, ruled ... tailcoat (from the article "dress") ...dress slowly became stereotyped, etiquette having laid down detailed regulations for the attire to be ... tailed frog (Ascaphus truei), the single species of the frog family Ascaphidae (order Anura). It is restricted ... [2 Related Articles] tailings (from the article "mineral processing") ...Such a suspension can simulate a fluid with a higher density than water. When ground ... taille the most important direct tax of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy in France. Its unequal distribution, with ... [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. ... tailless whip scorpion any of 70 species of the arthropod class Arachnida that are similar in appearance to ... [2 Related Articles] tailor (from the article "dress") Toward 1350 a great change occurred in costume. Clothes increasingly were tailored to fit and ... tailorbird any of the nine species of the genus Orthotomus, of the Old World warbler family ... [1 Related Articles] tailpiece (from the article "stringed instrument") ...outward and downward from the waist to the lower corners. A line joining the crosses ... tailslide (from the article "surfing") ...riders to move their craft freely around the wave and have transformed surfing into a ... tailwind (from the article "airport") ...be considered up to about 15 km (10 miles) from the runways. Runway configurations must ... taima (from the article "kamidana") ...a household or a shop. The kamidana usually consists of a small cupboard or shelf ... Taima-dera (from the article "tapestry") ...vines, ducks, lions, etc., and were found in relatively remote areas of Central Asia along ... Taimuri (from the article "Hazara") ...include those dwelling in the northern foothills of the Safid Kuh Selseleh-ye (Paropamisus Mountains); and ... Tainan (from the article "Dates of 2004") ...mi) of the Earth, the closest encounter between an asteroid and the planet ever recorded, ... Taine, Hippolyte French thinker, critic, and historian, one of the most esteemed exponents of 19th-century French Positivism. ... [6 Related Articles] Taino Arawakan-speaking people who at the time of Christopher Columbus's exploration inhabited what are now Cuba, ... [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 ... tainoya (from the article "shinden-zukuri") ...their houses on the same Chinese models as had been used in designing the Imperial ... Tainter, Charles Sumner American inventor who, with Chichester A. Bell (a cousin of Alexander Graham Bell), greatly improved ... Taipa (from the article "Macau") ...eastern side of the estuary. Macau comprises a small, narrow peninsula projecting from the mainland ... taipan any of three species of highly venomous snakes (family Elapidae) found from Australia to the ... Taipei province-level municipality and capital of Taiwan (Republic of China). It is situated on the Tan-shui ... [10 Related Articles] Taipei 101 (from the article "Heights of Buildings") In 2003 the Taipei 101 (Taipei Financial Center) building in Taipei, Taiwan, exceeded the records ... Taiping (from the article "Xuanzong") In 712 the ineffectual Ruizong abdicated in favour of his son (who took the temple ... Taiping town, northwestern Peninsular (West) Malaysia. The town is situated on a coastal plain just west ... Taiping Rebellion (1850-64), radical political and religious upheaval that was probably the most important event in China ... 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Taira Takamune (from the article "Taira Family") ...of the drain on the finances, collateral Imperial branches were given surnames (the Imperial family ... tairo in Japanese history, office of senior minister or chief councillor, the highest administrative post in ... [1 Related Articles] Tairona Indians of the northern Colombian Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, known only from occasional references ... [2 Related Articles] Tairov, Aleksandr Yakovlevich original name Aleksandr Kornblit founder and producer-director (1914-49) of the Kamerny (Chamber) Theatre in Moscow, ... [2 Related Articles] Taishan Niangniang (from the article "Tai, Mount") ...Daoism, changed to Taiyue Dadi ("Grand Emperor of Mount Tai"). In Ming times (1368-1644) the ... Taisho the 123rd ruling descendant of the Japanese imperial family, the emperor who reigned from 1912 ... [1 Related Articles] Taisho period (from the article "education") ...intensified leftist movement and the terrible Kanto earthquake of 1923 caused uncertainty and confusion among ... taishogoto (from the article "autoharp") The Japanese autoharp is based on the nichigenkin, a type of two-stringed ... Tait, Archibald Campbell archbishop of Canterbury, remembered primarily for his efforts to moderate tension in the Church of ... Tait, Peter Guthrie Scottish physicist and mathematician who helped develop quaternions, an advanced algebra that gave rise to ... [1 Related Articles] Taittinger, Pierre (from the article "fascism") ...and 12 parliamentary deputies. Other fascist movements in France included the short-lived Faisceau (1925-28), led ... Taitu (from the article "Addis Ababa") ...of the Ethiopian state. Its immediate predecessor, Entoto, was situated on a high tableland and ... Taiwan island, located about 100 miles (161 km) off the southeast coast of the China mainland. ... [77 Related Articles] Taiwan earthquake of 1999 earthquake that began at 1:47 AM local time on Sept. 21, 1999, below an epicentre ... Taiwan Major League (from the article "baseball") ...1982. Taiwan, which has produced several Little League world champion teams, has two professional leagues, ... Taiwan Relations Act (from the article "Taiwan") ...position that there is but one China and that Taiwan is part of China. It ... Taiwan Strait arm of the Pacific Ocean, 100 miles (160 km) wide at its narrowest point, lying ... [1 Related Articles] Taiwan, flag of national flag consisting of a red field (background) with a blue canton incorporating a white ... Taiwan, history of (from the article "Taiwan") Taiwan was known to the Chinese as early as the 3rd century AD, but settlement ... Taiwan-Pacific Allies Summit (from the article "Palau") ...U.S. Pres. George W. Bush and Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin had instigated. Palau maintained its ... Taiwudi (from the article "Daoism") ...of the Southeast, and Kou was given concrete temporal power of a sort that the ... Taiyetos Mountains mountain range, southern Peloponnese, Greece. The maximum elevation is approximately 7,905 feet (2,371 m) in ... [2 Related Articles] Taiyo Japanese magazine published from 1895 to 1928 and especially known for its literary criticism, Japanese ... Taiyuan city and capital of Shanxi sheng (province), China. One of the greatest ... [1 Related Articles] Taiyue Dadi (from the article "Tai, Mount") ...people returned to Mount Tai for judgment. The name of the most important spirit, originally ... Taize community (from the article "Grandchamp and Taize communities") two associated Protestant religious communities founded in the mid-20th century in Switzerland and France.Protestant monasticism Taizhou city, southwest-central Jiangsu sheng (province), eastern China. It is situated about 30 ... taizo-kai (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...images was the ryokai mandara ("mandala of the two worlds"), which consisted of two parts-the ... Taizong temple name (miaohao) of the second emperor of the Song dynasty (960-1279) ... [2 Related Articles] Taizong temple name (miaohao) of the second emperor (reigned 626-649) of the Tang ... [10 Related Articles] Taizu temple name (miaohao) of the leader of the nomadic Juchen (Chinese: Nuzhen, ... [1 Related Articles] Taizu temple name (miaohao) of the Chinese emperor (reigned 960-976), military leader, and ... [3 Related Articles] taj brimless hat, usually conical or curved on top, worn by men and women in Muslim ... Taj Mahal mausoleum complex in Agra, northern India, on the southern bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River. ... [10 Related Articles] Taj, Imtiaz Ali (from the article "South Asian arts") Imtiaz Ali Taj (1900-70) was a bridge between Agha Hashr and contemporary Pakistani playwrights. His ... Taj-ul-Masjid (from the article "Bhopal") ...as matches, sealing wax, and sporting goods. Just south lie two large lakes, around which ... Tajik the original Iranian population of Afghanistan and Turkistan. The Tajiks constitute almost four-fifths of the ... [14 Related Articles] Tajikistan country lying in the heart of Central Asia. It is bordered by Kyrgyzstan on the ... [30 Related Articles] Tajikistan, flag of horizontally striped red-white-green national flag with a central gold crown. The flag's width-to-length ratio is ... Tajikistan, history of (from the article "Tajikistan") The Tajiks are the direct descendants of the Iranian peoples whose continuous presence in Central ... Tajimi city, Gifu ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Toki River, northeast of ... Tajong-gyo modern Korean millenarian sect that originated in the late 19th century. Tajong-gyo was formulated by ... [1 Related Articles] Tajumulco Volcano mountain peak in southwestern Guatemala. The highest peak in Central America, Tajumulco rises essentially from ... [1 Related Articles] tajwid (from the article "Arabic literature") ...and Christianity: the Qur'an is primarily an oral phenomenon, something to be recited and intoned ... taka-maki-e (from the article "lacquerwork") ...or silver placed on the surface; togidashi, the design built up to the surface in ... Takacs, Karoly Hungarian athlete who twice won Olympic gold medals in rapid-fire pistol shooting despite having his ... Takada (from the article "Jyoetsu") ...Niigata ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the lower reaches and mouth of the ... Takadiastase (from the article "Takamine, Jokichi") In his private laboratory, Takamine developed, from a fungus grown on rice, a starch-digesting enzyme ... Takahama Kyoshi haiku poet, a major figure in the development of haiku literature in modern Japan. [1 Related Articles] Takahashi Korekiyo (from the article "Prime ministers of Japan") ...of domestic crises. The military revolt in Tokyo in February 1936 marked the high point ... Takahashi Satomi (from the article "Nishida Kitaro") ...his loyalty to his nation and for his alleged metaphysical obscurantism by Marxist philosophers and ... Takahashi Yuichi Japanese Western-style painter active in the late Tokugawa and Meiji periods. [1 Related Articles] Takahashi, Hisako In February 1994 Morihiro Hosokawa exercised his right as prime minister to select Hisako Takahashi ... takahe (species Notornis mantelli), rare flightless bird of New Zealand that was thought to have become ... [2 Related Articles] Takahira, Kogoro (from the article "Root-Takahira Agreement") ...with Japan. Therefore, on the heels of a visit by an impressive U.S. fleet to ... Takakia (from the article "bryophyte") ...however, are less than 1 millimetre in size (the moss Ephemerum). Leaves are arranged in ... Takakkaw Falls cataract on the Yoho River, and a major feature in the northern part of Yoho ... Takama-no-Hara (from the article "Shinto") Two different views of the world were present in ancient Shinto. One was the three-dimensional ... Takamatsu city and capital of Kagawa ken (prefecture), Shikoku, Japan, facing the Inland Sea. It was ... Takamatsu, Princess (from the article "Japan") ...Baseball's Seattle Mariners had a league-leading .372 batting average and a record 262 hits, breaking ... Takami-musubi no kami (from the article "musubi") ...of deities are associated with musubi. In the accounts of the creation of heaven and ... Takamine, Jokichi biochemist and industrial leader whose most important achievement was the isolation of the chemical adrenalin ... [1 Related Articles] Takamoto, Iwao American animator worked at Walt Disney Studios on such classic films as Cinderella (1950), ... Takamura Koun Japanese sculptor who worked to preserve the art of wood carving. Takanonami (from the article "Wrestling") Two veteran ozeki, Takanonami and Musoyama, as well as former top division rikishi ("strong man") ... Takao Sofue (from the article "cultural anthropology") ...language in which they write has not been as readily accessible to foreigners as have ... Takaoka city, Toyama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the lower reaches of the Sho River. The ... Takapuna (from the article "North Shore") ...of Auckland city across Stanley Bay, and it faces Rangitoto Channel to the east. North ... Takarazuka city, Hyogo ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the northeastern slope of Mount Rokko. The city ... [1 Related Articles] Takarli, Fu'ad al- Iraqi jurist and writer was regarded as one of the best Iraqi writers of his ... Takasago city, Hyogo ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Inland Sea. It long served as a ... Takasaki city, Gumma ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It is situated northwest of Tokyo along the Karasu ... Takashimaya Co., Ltd. oldest department-store company in Japan. The company traces its history back to a cotton-goods store ... Takasugi Shinsaku noted Japanese imperial loyalist whose restructuring of the military forces of the feudal fief of ... Takatsuki city, Osaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Yodo River, midway between ... Takayama city, Gifu ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Miya River. It contains many old buildings ... Takayanagi 77 structure (from the article "microscope") ...surface reconstruction. The reconstruction of the silicon surface designated (111) has been studied in minute ... Takayasu's disease (from the article "connective tissue disease") Takayasu arteritis, with variants called pulseless disease, branchial arteritis, and giant-cell arteritis of the aorta, ... Takaze River (from the article "Eritrea") The Eritrean highlands are drained by four major rivers and numerous streams. Two of the ... Takebe Katahiro Japanese mathematician of the wasan ("Japanese calculation") tradition (see mathematics, East Asian: ... Takeda Izumo II (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...puppet was created in which mouth, eyes, eyebrows, and fingers could move, encouraging writers to ... Takeda Shingen one of the most famous of the military leaders who struggled for mastery of the ... Takeda Shrine (from the article "Kofu") ...increasing viticulture, and developing nearby hot springs. Locally mined rock crystal became the basis of ... Takedda, kingdom of (from the article "Niger") In the 14th century (possibly also earlier and later) the Tuareg-controlled kingdom of Takedda, west ... Takefu city, Fukui ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It is situated on the alluvial fan of the ...

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