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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Korean art of unarmed combat that is based on the earlier form of Korean self-defense known as tae kyon and on karate. The name tae kwon do was officially adopted for this martial art in 1955 after that name had been submitted by the South...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Family of closely related languages spoken in Southeast Asia and southern China by more than 80 million people. According to a widely used classification, Tai comprises three branches. The Southwestern group includes Thai, the national lan...

Open coniferous forest (&see; conifer) growing on swampy ground that is commonly covered with lichens. It is the characteristic vegetation of the subpolar region of northern Eurasia (principally Russia, including Siberia, and Scandinavia) ...

Tai-Kadai languages are used by more than 85 million speakers in Southeast Asia and southern China. Depending on criteria used, between forty and a hundred spoken languages can be recognized. All of these are tonal, with over two hundred d...

Tailings are produced when metallic ores are ground into a fine powder to free the metal-bearing mineral. Its maximum particle size of about 0.08 in (2 mm) is small enough to retain water and support plant growth. Fine dust is one potentia...

'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches. Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast. May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay ...

City (pop., 2005 est.: 754,917), southwestern Taiwan. It is one of the oldest urban settlements on the island. The Han Chinese settled there as early as 1590. The Dutch arrived in the city in 1623 and stayed until they were driven out in 1...