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Tamang: people of Nepal living in the mountains northwest, north, and east of the Kathmandu Valley. Their numbers were estimated to be about 690,000 in the late 20th century. The Tamang speak a language of the Tibeto-Burman family. They are Buddhist ... [1 Related Articles]
Tamanghasset: town, southern Algeria. Located in the mountainous Ahaggar (Hoggar) region on the Wadi Tamanghasset, the town originated as a military outpost, guarding trans-Saharan trade routes. It has become an important way station on the north-south asphalt road called the Trans-Sahara ... [1 Related Articles]
Tamano: city, Okayama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on a channel of the Inland Sea, opposite Takamatsu, on Shikoku. The city is composed of the former towns of Tama, Hibi, and the port of Uno. Tamano was a small fishing village during ...
Tamaqua: borough (town), Schuylkill county, east-central Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Little Schuylkill River. The area was settled in 1799, and its name derives from the Iroquois Indian word for "land of the beaver." After the opening of the horse-drawn Little Schuylkill ...
Tamar: (from the article "David") ...that provided precedents for the resolution of conflict or for establishing the rights of succession. Thus, David's third son, Absalom, murdered the eldest son, Amnon, for the latter's rape of Tamar, the former's sister and the latter's half sister. After ...
Tamar Valley: (from the article "Caradon") Calstock and Gunnislake in the Tamar valley are linked with Plymouth by a branch railway and have become residential areas. The lower Tamar valley is an area of intensive cultivation whose mild local climate is relatively free of frosts. Strawberries ...
Tamar, River: tidal estuary in northern Tasmania, Australia, formed by the confluence of the North and South Esk rivers. It extends 40 miles (65 km) northwest to enter Bass Strait at Port Dalrymple, the mouth of the estuary. The latter was named ...
Tamar, River: river in southwestern England, rising within 4 miles (6 km) of the Bristol Channel and flowing south to the English Channel by Plymouth Sound. For most of its length of 61 miles (98 km), it forms the historic boundary between ...
Tamara: (from the article "Georgia, flag of") ...white and cherry (or carnelian) red (as well as black) for their flags. Most of these banners were carried by military forces or used by royalty, since modern national flags did not exist. Queen Tamara, or Tamar (1184-1213), the most ...
Tamara: (from the article "Los Islands") small archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, off Conakry, the capital of Guinea, West Africa. They provide protection for the port of Conakry and include Tamara (Factory), Kassa, Roume (Crawford), Blanche (White), and De Corail (Coral) and several smaller islets. Tamara, ...
tamarack: (from the article "larch") The most widely distributed North American larch is tamarack, hackmatack, or eastern larch (L. laricina). The bracts on its small cones are hidden by the scales. Eastern larch trees mature in 100 to 200 years. This species may grow 12 ...
tamarau: (from the article "tamarau") (species Anoa mindorensis), small species of buffalo (q.v.).fauna of the PhilippinesPhilippinesPlant and animal life
Tamaricaceae: (from the article "desert") ...and temperate margins of the developing deserts. It has been suggested that many typical modern desert plant families, particularly those with an Asian centre of diversity such as the chenopod and tamarisk families, first appeared in the Miocene (23.7 to ...
tamarin: (from the article "tamarin") any marmoset species belonging to the genus Saguinus or Leontopithecus.cotton-top tamarinCotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus).Infrogmation
tamarind: (species Tamarindus indica), evergreen tree, of the pea family (Fabaceae), native to tropical Africa. It is widely cultivated in other regions as an ornamental and for its edible fruit. The tree grows to about 24 m (80 feet) tall and ... [1 Related Articles]
Tamarindus: (from the article "savanna") ...Nigeria thickets comprising a few fire-sensitive rainforest tree species from genera such as Diospyros, Ficus, and Tamarindus grow on rocky knolls lacking grass. These rocky "islands," protected from fire and cattle, ...
tamarisk: (genus Tamarix), any of 54 species of shrubs and low trees (family Tamaricaceae) that, with false tamarisks (Myricaria, 10 species), grow in salt deserts, by seashores, in mountainous areas, and in other semiarid localities from the Mediterranean region to central ... [2 Related Articles]
tamarisk manna scale: (from the article "homopteran") Although few homopterans produce food for man, the tamarisk manna scale, Trabutina mannipara, is thought to have produced the biblical manna for the children of Israel. The females produce large quantities of honeydew that solidify in thick layers on plant ...
Tamarix mannifera: (from the article "manna") ...Both are spiny-branched shrubs less than 1 m (about 3 feet) tall and are native to Turkey. An edible, white honeylike substance known as manna forms drops on the stem of a tamarisk tree, Tamarix mannifera. A scale insect either ...
Tamaro, Susanna: (from the article "Italian literature") ...arcane and enigmatic tales of La grande Eulalia (1988; "The Great Eulalia"), the first of many successful books by Paola Capriolo. Best-selling and widely translated author Susanna Tamaro achieved overnight commercial success with the sentimental Va' dove ti porta il ...
Tamarugal, Pampa del: (from the article "Chile") ...it appears as a plateau with elevations between 2,000 and 4,000 feet. Saline sediments that washed down during the Tertiary and Quaternary periods created the rich nitrate deposits found in the Tamarugal Plain and Carmen Salt Flat, where the once-bustling ...
tamas: (from the article "Samkhya") ...physiopsychological factors. The highest one is sattva, which is illumination, enlightening knowledge, and lightness; the second is rajas, which is energy, passion, and expansiveness; the third is tamas ("darkness"), which is obscurity, ignorance, and inertia. To these correspond moral models: ...
tamasha: erotic form of Indian folk drama begun in the early 18th century in Maharashtra. In all other forms of Indian folk theatre, men are cast in the major roles. The leading female role in tamasha, however, is played by a ... [2 Related Articles]
Tamashek language: (from the article "Niger") ...as Songhai proper, Zarma, and Dendi. The language of the Fulani is Fula; in Niger it has two dialects, eastern and western, the demarcation line between them running through the Boboye district. Tamashek is the language of the Tuareg, who ...
tamashiro: (from the article "tamaya") ...strict Shinto households, the tamaya is placed on a lower level than the commonly found family altar, the kamidana ("god-shelf"). It contains a mirror or a tablet (tamashiro) listing the names of the deceased family members.
Tamaulipas: estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It is bounded by the United States (Texas) to the north, the Gulf of Mexico to the east, and the states of Veracruz to the south, San Luis Potosi to the southwest and ... [1 Related Articles]
tamaya: in the Shinto religion of Japan, a memorial altar dedicated to the spirits of deceased ancestors. The tamaya is not found in all homes observing Shinto because Buddhist practices dominate Japanese funerary rites. But in priestly or strict Shinto households, ...
Tamayo y Baus, Manuel: Spanish dramatist who, with Adelardo Lopez de Ayala y Herrera, dominated the Spanish stage in the mid-19th century. He was a key figure in the transition from Romanticism to Realism in Spanish literature. [1 Related Articles]
Tamayo, Rufino: Mexican painter who combined modern European painting styles with Mexican folk themes. [1 Related Articles]
Tamazight language: (from the article "Algeria") ...Algerians speak one of several dialects of vernacular Arabic. These are generally similar to dialects spoken in adjacent areas of Morocco and Tunisia. Modern Standard Arabic is taught in schools. The Amazigh language (Tamazight)-in several geographic dialects-is spoken by Algeria's ...
Tamba: (from the article "pottery") ...Prefecture), which may have exceeded Seto in the size of its production; Bizen (Okayama Prefecture), which has produced an excellent unglazed stoneware from the Heian period to the 20th century; Tamba (Kyoto Prefecture); Shigaraki (Shiga Prefecture); and Echizen (Fukui Prefecture). ...
Tamba Yasuyori: (from the article "medicine, history of") Beginning in AD 608, when young Japanese physicians were sent to China for a long period of study, Chinese influence on Japanese medicine was paramount. In 982, Tamba Yasuyori completed the 30-volume Ishinho, the oldest Japanese medical work still extant. ...
Tambacounda: town, southeastern Senegal. It is situated about 250 miles (400 km) east-southeast of Dakar. The town is in a tall-grass and acacia savanna area known for its varied agricultural potential. Crops grown include millet, sorghum, cotton, corn (maize), peanuts (groundnuts), ...
Tambao: (from the article "Burkina Faso") ...gold deposits near Sebba and Dori-Yalogo in the north are known to exist. Reserves of nickel, bauxite, zinc, lead, and silver are being studied. The country's substantial manganese deposits at Tambao in the northeast potentially represent Burkina's most important resource ...
tambaqui: (from the article "Vegetarian Piranhas") ...produce fragrant organic latexes, oils, resins, and acids that help fish locate trees that are about to fruit, as well as fruit that has already dropped into the water. One large characin, the tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), has developed nasal flaps ...
Tamberlik, Enrico: Italian tenor best known for his remarkable high notes.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja: (from the article "magic") ...and humanities. Central to the challenge to the traditional magic-religion-science paradigm was Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality (1990), in which Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah deconstructs the European history of the progress model and the work ...
Tambo Viejo: (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...of Pisco, Ica, Nazca, and Acari. At Cahuachi, in Nazca, this included a ceremonial centre consisting of six pyramids, which were terraced and adobe-faced natural hills associated with courts. Tambo Viejo in Acari was fortified, which supports inferences drawn with ...
Tambo, Adelaide: South African political activist was a prominent figure in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. As a teenager she joined the black nationalist African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, where she met Oliver Tambo. They were married in ...
Tambo, Mr.: (from the article "minstrel show") ...parts, was established by the Christy company and changed little thereafter. In part one the performers were arranged in a semicircle, with the interlocutor in the centre and the end men-Mr. Tambo, who played the tambourine, and Mr. Bones, who ...
Tambo, Oliver: president of the South African black-nationalist African National Congress (ANC) from 1969. He spent more than 30 years in exile (1960-90). [5 Related Articles]
tambon: (from the article "Thailand") ...elected provincial assemblies have little power, but they serve as incubators for local politicians who may later be elected to the National Assembly. In 1997, communes (tambon), units consisting of several villages, were given increased powers and ...
Tambopata River: (from the article "Puerto Maldonado") port city, southeastern Peru. It lies at the confluence of the Tambopata and Madre de Dios rivers, at 840 feet (256 m) above sea level in the hot, humid rain forest known as the selva (jungle). It ...
Tambora, Mount: dormant volcanic mountain on the northern coast of Sumbawa island, Indonesia. Now 9,354 feet (2,851 m) high, it erupted violently in 1815, when it lost much of its top and caused the death of 50,000 islanders and destroyed the homes ... [6 Related Articles]
tambour: embroidery worked on material that has been stretched taut on a tambour frame, which consists of two wooden hoops, one slightly larger than the other, fitting close together. The embroidery is worked with a needle or a tambour hook. When ...
tamboura: long-necked fretless Indian lute. It has a hollow neck, measures about 40-60 inches (102-153 cm) in length, and usually has four metal strings tuned (relative pitch) c-c'-c'-g or c-c'-c'-f. Precision tuning is achieved by inserting bits of wool or silk ... [1 Related Articles]
tambourine: small frame drum (one whose shell is too narrow to resonate the sound) having one or two skins nailed or glued to a shallow circular or polygonal frame. The tambourine is normally played with the bare hands and often has ... [4 Related Articles]
Tambov: oblast (province), western Russia. It occupies an area of 13,250 square miles (34,300 square km) on the low, level plain of the Oka and Don rivers. The natural vegetation is forest-steppe on rich soils, but much of it has been ...
Tambov: city and administrative centre of Tambov oblast (province), western Russia. It lies along the upper Tsna River. Founded in 1636 as a fortress on the Belgorod defensive line, in 1779 it became the centre of a province. Growth came slowly, ...
Tambraparni River: (from the article "Tirunelveli") city, southern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It lies along the Tambraparni River, slightly upstream from the city of Palayankottai (Palamcottah). Its name is derived from the Tamil words tiru ("holy"), nel ("paddy"), and veli ("fence"), referring to a legend ...
Tamburini, Antonio: Italian operatic baritone, particularly noted for his starring roles in the works of Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini. [1 Related Articles]