They fail, and they alone, who have not striven....

When a vertebrate encounters substances that are capable of causing it harm, a protective system known as the immune system comes into play. This system is a network of many different organs that work together to recognize foreign substanc...

Whether on the scaffold high Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall....

The British soldier and author Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known as Lawrence of Arabia, coordinated the Arab Revolt against the Turks with British military operations. He became a legendary figure, and it is difficult to assess his...

A pioneering political journalist, T. H. White (1915-1986) gained prominence for his indepth coverage of American political campaigns. His book The Making of the President--1960 helped to alter the style and character of presidential campa...

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer....

Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world....

T. S. Eliot is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor/publisher. In 1910-1911, while still a student, he wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and other poems whic...

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King....

Writer T. A. Barron, a self-described "wandering bard," has said in an on-line interview that is posted on the Amazon.com cyber bookstore home page, that his life has always been filled with words. The former Rhodes Scholar spent much of h...

Well-loved and popular pediatrician, T. Berry Brazelton was born on May 10, 1918 in Waco, Texas, to Thomas Berry Brazelton and Pauline (Battle) Brazelton. His first experiences with babies and children were during his own childhood, when h...

That thing in the Dumpster--and he refused to call it human, let alone a baby--was nobody's business but his and China's. That's what he'd told his attorney, Mrs. Teagues, and his mother and her boyfriend,and he'd told them over and over ...

T.F. Powys was a writer of short stories in that period between 1920 and 1940 when some of the finest short stories in English were written in England and the United States by such acknowledged masters as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfiel...

Japanese physicist who developed the concept of "strangeness" independently of Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann. During the 1950s and 1960s, as new subatomic particles were rapidly discovered, physicists faced the daunting cha...

Taupotiki Wiremu Ratana (1870-1939) was the founder of the Ratana Church and a major force in the spiritual, political, and material development of the New Zealand Maori people. Taupotiki Wiremu (Bill) Ratana was born on January 25, 1870, ...

The T-38 Talon is a twin-engine, high-altitude, supersonic jet used by NASA to train pilot astronauts. The world's only supersonic trainer, it is among the most versatile of modern aircraft, and is known for its ease of maintenance,...

Taban lo Liyong is one of the liveliest figures on the African literary scene. His works are so unconventional in form and style that few critics know what to make of him or how to respond appropriately to the stimulation his writings prov...

Logical symbols are part of a modern logical system for expressing rational thought and common patterns of reasoning. These symbols are used to clearly represent often times highly complex logical relationships between statements. There ar...

Table tennis is the ultimate game of quickness, timing, and coordination. This enjoyable game takes minutes to learn, but years to master. The competition is fierce, but the rewards are plentiful. Do you think you're up to the challenge? ...

TABOO is a social prohibition or restriction sanctioned by suprasocietal (innate) means or a socially sanctioned injunction alleged to have the force of such a prohibition. Taboo stands at the intersection of human affairs and the forces o...

Tabulating machines, or punched card machines, were the earliest automated data processing devices. They include keypunch machines, collators, sorters, reproducers, and tabulators. By the late 1980s, virtually all tabulating machines had b...

Tachihara Masaaki's life and work represent a process of resolution of dichotomies, which gives the Western reader a unique perspective on Japanese society and culture in the twentieth century. The dichotomies include problems of identity ...