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(2002 pop. 1.2 million). Located in a valley amid the foothills of the Sahand Mountains in Iran, Tabriz, the capital of the province of East Azerbaijan, is a city just east of Lake Orumiyeh. Hot springs in and around the city were induceme...
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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...
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Joseph-Charles Taché was one of the most vigorous founders of the Patriotic School of Quebec, the literary movement which transformed writing from a sporadic occurrence into a distinctive French-Canadian tradition. His activities ex...
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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 ...
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Cornelius Tacitus was perhaps the greatest historian that the Roman world produced. Though his Annales (Annals, after A.D. 116) and Historiae (Histories, ca. A.D. 100-110) are among the most remarkable works of Latin prose, their extraordi...
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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...
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. It is tact that is golden, not silence. Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents. Tact is knowing h...
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Numerous amounts of students label themselves as readers. Some may be classified under the category reluctant and underachieving readers while others go the extra mile and categorize themselves as avid and eager readers. As an individua...
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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...
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Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Japanese: 栗林忠道 Kuribayashi Tadamichi) ( 1891-07-07 in Nagano prefecture, Japan - 1945-03-23 on Iwo Jima, Japan) was a Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the commander of Japanese defense of ...
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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...
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c. 1223-1295 Italian Physician Founder of a medical school in Bologna, Italy, Taddeo Alderotti was an early advocate of serious medical study and practice. It was because of his efforts that the city authorities extended to medical teacher...
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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...
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The Polish organic chemist Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex. The son of Isidor Reichstein, an engineer, Tadeus Reichstein was ...
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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...
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Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko (1746-1817) was a Polish patriot and a hero in the American Revolution. Tadeusz Kosciuszko was born on Feb. 12, 1746, in the grand duchy of Lithuania, Poland. A member of the small-gentry class, Kosci...
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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...
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KotarbiŃski, Tadeusz(1886–1981) Tadeusz Kotarbiński, a Polish philosopher and logician, was born in Warsaw in 1886. He studied philosophy and the classics at the University of Lvov, where he obtained his doctorate in 1...
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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...
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On May 7, 1997, Serbian Dusan Tadic became the first war criminal convicted of war crimes in the Bosnian War between the Bosnian Muslims and the former Yugoslavia. Tadic had escaped to Munich, Germany, but was extradited to The Hague on Ap...
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The study of the heavens produced the earliest surviving scientific instruments, and the need for accurate astronomical sightings and calculations provided the stimulus for technological and theoretical innovation that would allow mechani...
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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...
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The Taedong River is located in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and flows southwest from the Nangnim mountain range in the northeast region of South P'yongan Province out to the Yellow Sea. With a leng...
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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...
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Yi Sng-gye (1335-1408) was the founder of the Yi dynasty, which lasted until 1910. An able military leader, he unified Korea under Chinese suzerainty. Yi Sng-gye was born in modern Ynghung, the second son of Yi Chach'un. Yi's family, origi...
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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...
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Tae kwon do is a Korean martial art that since the 1950s has become popular around the world. It is estimated that over 20 million people in 140 nations participate in the sport. The origins are unclear, and different scholars suggest Kore...
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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...
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Pia Tafdrup is one of the finest Danish poets of the 1980s and 1990s. Her poetry collections have inspired readers and critics in Denmark and Scandinavia as well as at poetry festivals and readings all over the world. From London, Toronto,...
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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...
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Carmen Tafolla is among the foremost Texas poets to come out of the post-1960s Chicano experience. With most writers of the Chicano Movement, she shares a deep consciousness of social injustice, an identification with life in the barrio, a...
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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 ...
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United States 1947 The Taft-Hartley Act was characterized by labor unions at the time of its passage as "the slave-labor law," and many of its congressional proponents thought that the law would inhibit the power of labor un...
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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...
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Although Genevieve Taggard's poetry was well known in her time to both literary and popular audiences, her work as a poet is now largely forgotten, and she is best known as the author of The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson (1930). A passi...
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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...
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Taha Husayn (sometimes spelled Hussein) (1889-1973) is considered one of Egypt's leading men of letters. Blind from early childhood, he devoted his life to intellectual freedom for the writer, critic, and scholar and to the introduction of...
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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...
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Taharqa (reigned ca. 688-ca. 663 BC) was a Nubian pharaoh of Egypt. He was the last ruler of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, the so-called Ethiopian Dynasty, and was driven out of Lower Egypt by the Assyrians as they began to conquer Egypt. When...
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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...
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Lao is the official language of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Lao is spoken by the political majority, the Lao Loum or Lowland Lao, and by other ethnic groups as a second language. The Lao Loum are composed of the Tai Lao, p...
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