Introduction: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the third longest suspension span in the world at the time. It was suppose to have been revolutionary in it design, and it was know for it tendency to sway windstorm. Nevertheless, on Novembe...

Fantasy writer Tad Williams has travelled a very colorful career path on his way to--and in addition to--becoming a successful author of novels for fans of imaginative fiction. Singing in a rock band, teaching school, working on the crew o...

Tadao Ando (born 1941) is one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese architects. His designs are often compared to those of Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier and obviously take some inspiration from their work. Characteristics of his work in...

c. 1300-1366 Italian Architect and Painter Floods in 1333 destroyed a bridge, built in 1177, that crossed the Arno River in Florence, and 12 years later, the city unveiled a new bridge, designed by the painter Taddeo Gaddi. The Ponte Vecch...

There is broad critical agreement that Tadeusz Borowski's stories are among the best that have been written by any writer, in any language, about the German concentration camp at Auschwitz. Borowski explored what Primo Levi called "the gre...

Tadeusz Konwicki belongs to that group of prominent contemporary Polish writers who since the early 1970s have gained unprecedented popularity abroad. With his works widely read in both Europe and America, Konwicki's success is mainly owin...

Tadeusz Rózewicz is one of the most original twentieth-century Polish writers. His poetry, drama, and prose works, which have gained him a high reputation at home and abroad, are both innovative and controversial. World War II and i...

The T'aebaek Mountain range in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula is part of the geological "backbone" of the region. This range runs parallel to the coast from Kangwon Province in the north and through North Kyo...

Wang Kon (877-943) was the founder of the Korean Koryo dynasty and a descendant of a powerful clan at Songdo which controlled maritime trade on the Yesong River. The legends of his ancestors and his rise to power bespeak the clan's intimat...

Taejonggyo (the Religion of the Divine Progenitor; sometimes spelled Daejonggyo) was founded by Na Ch'ol (1863–1916) in 1901, a time when Christian missionaries were challenging the traditional religious beliefs and practices...

Hungsn Taewn'gun (1820-1898) was a Korean imperial regent and the father of king Kojong. Even after the personal rule by Kojong was inaugurated, Taewn'gun was one of the most powerful figures in the last decades of the Yi dynasty. Hungsn T...

Great Britain 1900-1901 The Taff Vale case centered on a brief but bitterly fought strike waged by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) against the management of the Taff Vale Railway Company in South Wales in August 1900. T...

TAFSĪR is an Arabic word meaning "interpretation"; it is, more specifically, the general term used in reference to all genres of literature which are commentaries upon the Qurʾān. The word tafsīr ...

TAFTĀZĀNĪ, AL- (AH 722–791?/1322–1389 CE), more fully Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftāzānī; master of a range of intellectual disciplines inclu...

John Taggart is one of the most important figures of what one might call the third generation of twentieth-century American experimental poets. He grew up with the innovations of the High Modernists--Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Wallace St...

SOURCE: Hussein, Aamer. “The Seller of Jellabas.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4603 (21 June 1991): 21. In the following review, Hussein asserts that Ben Jelloun uses a compressed prose style and structure to focus on an individual mi...

Tai chi chuan (taijiquan), sometimes referred to in English as Chinese shadow boxing, is a centuries-old martial arts system. Legend holds that tai chi chuan ("supreme ultimate boxing") was first developed by Zhang Sanfeng, a...

Tai Shan (Mount Tai) is located in central Shandong Province, China, to the north of the town of Tai'an. The main peak, Jade Emperor, is 1,545 meters (5,069 feet) above sea level. Mount Tai is a tilted fault-block mountain with extr...

TAIJI. In the Yi jing (Book of Changes; a wisdom book in ancient China that is widely believed to have been a major source of inspiration for Confucianism and Daoism), the term Taiji ("great ultimate") signifies the origin an...

Refers to the water stored on-site to wash ore and receive waste tailings as a residue. This provides both a water supply and a sediment trap. Two serious environmental problems ensue. The water leaches out metals and other dangerous eleme...

The Tailor of Gloucester is a children's novel by Beatrix Potter that was first published in October 1903.[1] It is traditionally read to children on Christmas eve, just before bed time.[2]...

Life is like a ladder, the higher you climb, the more expansive your view is....

In 1841, an Englishman and a Chinaman worked together to secure English rights to the Chinese island of Hong Kong. Only a few years later both were dismissed from their posts, the one (in theory) for getting something of too little worth, t...