Paul Taylor was an American modern dancer and choreographer noted for the inventive, frequently humorous, and sardonic dances that he choreographed for his company. Entering Syracuse University in 1947 on a scholarship, Taylor took painting classes and joined the swim team. He began dance training

Paul W. Taylor was an American philosopher best known for his book Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (1986), which promulgated the biocentric viewpoint in environmental ethics and was a foundational work of environmental philosophy. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on

Paul W. Taylor was an American philosopher best known for his book Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (1986), which promulgated the biocentric viewpoint in environmental ethics and was a foundational work of environmental philosophy. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on

Peter Taylor was an American short-story writer, novelist, and playwright known for his portraits of Tennessee gentry caught in a changing society. From 1936 to 1937 Taylor attended Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, then the center of a Southern literary renaissance led by poets Allen

Peter Taylor was an American short-story writer, novelist, and playwright known for his portraits of Tennessee gentry caught in a changing society. From 1936 to 1937 Taylor attended Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, then the center of a Southern literary renaissance led by poets Allen

broken windows theory: The theory in practice: …with disorder, criminal justice scholar Ralph Taylor found that no distinct pattern of relationships between crime and disorder emerged. Rather, some specific disorderly acts were linked to some specific crimes. He concluded that attention to disorder in general might be an error and that, while loosely connected, specific acts may…

Richard Taylor is a New Zealand filmmaker who was cofounder of the Academy Award-winning prop-design and special-effects company Weta Workshop. Taylor was best known for his work on the film trilogy The Lord of the Rings (2001–03), directed and adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels by New Zealand

Red River Campaign: However, Confederate troops under General Richard Taylor confronted the Union forces at Sabine Crossroads, near Mansfield, and defeated them on April 8. Shortly afterward the Union withdrew from the area, though the fleet barely escaped capture by the Confederates and destruction in the rapids. The failure of the Red River…

Richard E. Taylor was a Canadian physicist who in 1990 shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall for his collaboration in proving the existence of quarks, which are now generally accepted as being among the basic building blocks of matter. Taylor attended the

Richard E. Taylor was a Canadian physicist who in 1990 shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall for his collaboration in proving the existence of quarks, which are now generally accepted as being among the basic building blocks of matter. Taylor attended the

Frank Borzage: MGM tenure: …Remarque, three former soldiers (Robert Taylor, Robert Young, and Franchot Tone) suffer from abject poverty in Germany after World War I and fall in love with the same woman (Sullavan), who is dying of tuberculosis.

ARPANET: Roots of a network: …1964, and two years later Robert Taylor became IPTO director. Taylor would become a key figure in ARPANET’s development, partly because of his observational abilities. In the Pentagon’s IPTO office, Taylor had access to three teletype terminals, each hooked up to one of three remote ARPA-supported time-sharing mainframe computers—at Systems…

Rod Taylor was an Australian-born American actor who achieved considerable success in Hollywood during the 1950s and ’60s. His notable roles include the time-traveling inventor in The Time Machine (1960) and the hero in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller The Birds (1963). Taylor was born to

Rod Taylor was an Australian-born American actor who achieved considerable success in Hollywood during the 1950s and ’60s. His notable roles include the time-traveling inventor in The Time Machine (1960) and the hero in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller The Birds (1963). Taylor was born to

Queen: …1951, Leicester, Leicestershire, England), and Roger Taylor (original name Roger Meddows-Taylor; b. July 26, 1949, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England).

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shorthand: History and development of shorthand: …that of the British stenographer Samuel Taylor, who invented a system in 1786 that was based on that of one of his predecessors. Taylor’s method was adapted into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, German, Dutch, Hungarian, and other languages.

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was a British physicist. He taught at Cambridge University from 1911 to 1952. He made important discoveries in fluid mechanics, as well as significant contributions to the theory of the elastostatic stress and displacement fields created by dislocating solids, the quantum

Richard Taylor is a New Zealand filmmaker who was cofounder of the Academy Award-winning prop-design and special-effects company Weta Workshop. Taylor was best known for his work on the film trilogy The Lord of the Rings (2001–03), directed and adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels by New Zealand

chromatography: Subsequent developments: …were reported in 1938 by T.I. Taylor and Harold C. Urey, who used a zeolite. The method received much attention in 1942 during the Manhattan Project as a means of separating the rare earths and transuranium elements, fission products of uranium, and other elements

Octavia Spencer: …the director of The Help, Tate Taylor, was a close friend of both Spencer and Kathryn Stockett (who wrote the 2009 novel on which the movie was based), and both felt that Spencer was right for the part of the forthright housemaid Minny Jackson. Spencer shone in the role, and…

Platonism: Renaissance and later Platonism: …anti-Christian Neoplatonic influence, that of Thomas Taylor “the Platonist” (1758–1835), who published translations of Plato, Aristotle, and a large number of Neoplatonic works in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Taylor was as militant in his pagan Platonism as was Gemistus Plethon. His ideas had a strong influence on…

Tom Taylor was an English journalist and biographer and also one of the most popular dramatists of his time. He is perhaps best known today as the author of the play Our American Cousin (1858) and as a longtime staff member and, from 1874, the editor of the magazine Punch. After attending school in

Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States (1849–50). Elected on the ticket of the Whig Party as a hero of the Mexican-American War (1846–48), he died only 16 months after taking office. Taylor’s parents, Richard Taylor and Mary Strother, migrated to Kentucky from Virginia shortly

Athens: …the Lucy Cobb Institute, theTaylor-Grady House, the Joseph Henry Lumpkin House, and the Church-Waddel-Brumby house (believed to be the oldest structure in Athens, 1820). Many of these buildings are popular tourist attractions as exquisite examples of Federal and Greek Revival design. Athens is the site of Athens Academy (1967),…

Anya Taylor-Joy is an actress who broke through with her lauded performance in the 2015 horror film The Witch and became an international star with the lead role in the Netflix period drama miniseries The Queen’s Gambit (2020). David O. Russell, who directed Taylor-Joy in the movie Amsterdam

Taylorism, System of scientific management advocated by Fred W. Taylor. In Taylor’s view, the task of factory management was to determine the best way for the worker to do the job, to provide the proper tools and training, and to provide incentives for good performance. He broke each job down into

history of Arabia: Central and northern Arabia: The oasis of Taymāʾ in the northern Hejaz emerged briefly into the limelight when the Neo-Babylonian king Nabu-naʾid (Nabonidus, reigned c. 556–539 bce) took up his residence there for 10 years and extended his power as far as Yathrib. A few important monuments of this time are known.

Julie Taymor is an American stage and film director, playwright, and costume designer known for her inventive use of Asian-inspired masks and puppets. In 1998 she became the first woman to win a Tony Award for best director of a musical, for her Broadway production of The Lion King, derived from

Āl Bū Saʿīd dynasty: …ʿĪsā ibn Ṣāliḥ and Sultan Taymūr ibn Fayṣal (reigned 1913–32), by virtue of which Sultan Taymūr ruled over the coastal provinces and Imam ʿĪsā over the interior. Opposition broke out again in 1954 when the tribes appealed to Saudi Arabia for aid in establishing an independent principality, but Sultan Saʿīd…

Arabic literature: The short story: …real maturity: if Muḥammad’s brother Maḥmūd Taymūr was certainly the most prolific, both Yaḥyā Ḥaqqī and Maḥmūd Ṭāhir Lāshīn were the most accomplished craftsmen.

Arabic literature: The short story: …pioneer figure of the school, Muḥammad Taymūr, died at an early age, but the other members of the group elaborated on his efforts and brought the genre to a level of real maturity: if Muḥammad’s brother Maḥmūd Taymūr was certainly the most prolific, both Yaḥyā Ḥaqqī and Maḥmūd Ṭāhir Lāshīn…

Lena River: Study and exploration: …and in 1912 the icebreakers Taymyr and Vaygach surveyed and mapped the delta. Further surveying was conducted between World Wars I and II, when a complete and detailed description was compiled. During the postwar Soviet period, research on the Lena was conducted by the Yakut branch of the Academy of…

Taymyr, former autonomous okrug (district), north-central Siberian Russia. In 2007 Taymyr was subsumed under Krasnoyarsk kray (territory). It lies on the hilly Taymyr Peninsula, the most northerly part of the Eurasian continent, and extends south to the northern edge of the Central Siberian

Taymyr Peninsula, northernmost extension of the Eurasian landmass, in north-central Siberia in Krasnoyarsk kray (region), northeastern central Russia. The northernmost point of the peninsula is Cape Chelyuskin, north of which lie Vilkitsky Strait and Severnaya Zemlya. To the west of the peninsula

nature worship: The sun as a subordinate deity: Siberian people such as the Taymyr Samoyed (whose women pray in spring to the sun goddess in order to receive fertility or a rich calving of the reindeer) or the Tungus worship sun goddesses. They make sacrifices to the sun goddess, and her symbols are embroidered on women’s clothes.

Taymyr Peninsula, northernmost extension of the Eurasian landmass, in north-central Siberia in Krasnoyarsk kray (region), northeastern central Russia. The northernmost point of the peninsula is Cape Chelyuskin, north of which lie Vilkitsky Strait and Severnaya Zemlya. To the west of the peninsula

tayra, (Eira barbara), weasel-like mammal of tropical forests from southern Mexico through South America to northern Argentina. The tayra is short-legged, yet slender and agile, weighing from 2.7 to 7 kg (5.95 to 15.4 pounds). The body, measuring about 60–68 cm (24–27 inches), is covered with

tayra, (Eira barbara), weasel-like mammal of tropical forests from southern Mexico through South America to northern Argentina. The tayra is short-legged, yet slender and agile, weighing from 2.7 to 7 kg (5.95 to 15.4 pounds). The body, measuring about 60–68 cm (24–27 inches), is covered with

Ctesiphon, ancient city located on the left (northeast) bank of the Tigris River about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of modern Baghdad, in east-central Iraq. It served as the winter capital of the Parthian empire and later of the Sāsānian empire. The site is famous for the remains of a gigantic

Finland: The 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries: In 1595, however, by the Peace of Täysinä, the existing de facto boundary, up to the Arctic Ocean, was granted official recognition by the Russians. By the Peace of Stolbovo (Stolbova; 1617), Russia ceded Ingermanland and part of Karelia to the kingdom of Sweden-Finland. The population of the ceded territories…

Saad al-Hariri: Education and early career: …his father’s political party, the Future Movement (Tayyār al-Mustaqbal). A powerful Sunni bloc, the Future Movement was the largest contingent within the March 14 coalition (named to commemorate the day in 2005 when massive anti-Syrian protests took place in Beirut), which opposed Syrian influence in Lebanon’s affairs. Although the coalition…

Taza, city, north-central Morocco. Located south of the Rif Mountains, the city is composed of two formerly separate towns built on separate terraces overlooking a mountain valley. The old town (medina) is at an elevation of about 1,900 feet (580 metres) above sea level and is surrounded by

Atlas Mountains: Transportation: …through the Atlas along the Taza Pass, which breaks the continuity of the mountain system between Er-Rif and the Middle Atlas. Passes are natural routes across the mountain barriers and thus constitute strategic points. The focal point of communication in the Great Kabylie, for example, is Tizi Ouzou, at the…

Atlas Mountains: Transportation: …through the Atlas along the Taza Pass, which breaks the continuity of the mountain system between Er-Rif and the Middle Atlas. Passes are natural routes across the mountain barriers and thus constitute strategic points. The focal point of communication in the Great Kabylie, for example, is Tizi Ouzou, at the…

Douglas Sirk: Films of the early to mid-1950s: Taza, Son of Cochise (1954), released in 3-D before being issued in the standard format, was a nominal sequel to Universal’s 1952 The Battle at Apache Pass.

Tanzania: Transportation: The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) rail line, running between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri-Mposhi on the Zambian border, was built with Chinese aid in the early 1970s. It provided the main outlet to the sea for Zambia’s copper exports prior to the political changes in South…

Turkish literature: Movements and poets: …style of poetry was termed tâze-gûʾî (“fresh speech”) or tarz-i nev (“new style”). (By the early 20th century it had come to be known as poetry of the Indian school, or Sabk-i Hindī.) In the late 16th century the two most important figures had been the Indian-born poet Fayzî and…

Niger: Relief: …north to south these are Tazerzaït, where Mount Gréboun reaches an elevation of 6,379 feet (1,944 metres); Tamgak; Takolokouzet; Angornakouer; Bagzane; and Tarouadji. To the northeast is a series of high plateaus, which form a bridge between the Ahaggar Mountains of Algeria and the Tibesti Mountains of Chad. From west…

Islamic world: Expansion in Iran and beyond: …the name for this mourning, taʿziyyeh, also came to be applied to passion plays performed to reenact events surrounding al-Ḥusayn’s martyrdom. Through the depths of their empathetic suffering, Shīʿites could help to overturn the injustice of al-Ḥusayn’s martyrdom at the end of time, when all wrongs would be righted, all…

Islam: The mystics: For the Persian-speaking countries, the Taẓkerat ol-Owlīyāʾ (“Memoirs of the Saints”) of Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (died c. 1220) has become the storehouse of legendary material about the early Sufi mystics. ʿAṭṭār’s Persian epics (especially his Manṭeq al-ṭayr, The Conference of the Birds) also contain much material that was used by…

Lambessa, Algerian village notable for its Roman ruins; it is located in the Batna département, 80 miles (128 km) south-southwest of Constantine by road. The remains of the Roman town (Lambaesis) and camp include two triumphal arches, temples, an aqueduct, an amphitheatre, baths, and many private

Arabic literature: Poetry: Taʾabbaṭa Sharran (“He Who Has Put Evil in His Armpit”) and al-Shanfarā are among the best known of the ṣuʿlūk poets.

Michel Aoun: Exile and return: …late October, known as the Ṭāʾif Accord, and it enjoyed widespread support among the war-weary Lebanese. Aoun staunchly opposed the agreement, however, for allowing Syrian troops to remain in Lebanon to oversee the Accord’s implementation. A year later, in October 1990, Aoun was forcibly ousted by Syrian-led forces, and the…

Al-Ṭāʾif, city, western Saudi Arabia. Lying at an elevation of 6,165 feet (1,879 metres) on a tableland southeast of Mecca, it is the country’s principal summer resort. Once the seat of the pagan goddess Allat, it is revered now as the site of the tomb of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, a cousin of the

Hodeidah: The Treaty of Al-Ṭāʾif of that year returned the city and the Yemeni Tihāmah to Yemen; the latter, in turn, recognized Saudi Arabia’s possession of Asir. The city was seat of a semiautonomous administration under one of the Yemeni imam’s (leader’s) sons until proclamation of the…

taifa, a faction or party, as applied to the followers of any of the petty kings who appeared in Muslim Spain in a period of great political fragmentation early in the 11th century after the dissolution of the central authority of the Umayyad caliphate of Córdoba. After the dictatorship of

Al-Taʾmīm, muḥāfaẓah (governorate), in northeastern Iraq, created from the northern part of Kirkūk muḥāfaẓah. It encompasses the eastern part of the alluvial plain of the Tigris River and the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. Its economy is based on petroleum and dry-farm agriculture, which

al-ʿUmarī: He wrote at-Taʾrīf bi-al-muṣṭalaḥ ash-sharīf, a comprehensive study of the principles of Mamlūk administration, and Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār, an encyclopaedic compendium also relating to administrative practices.

Muḥammad I Askia: Organization of the Songhai empire: …who accompanied Muḥammad, wrote in Taʾrīkh al-fattāsh that the jinn of Mecca had had Muḥammad named caliph and had told him what his rights were over the former vassal groups of the Sonnis. By the time he returned in 1497 or 1498, he was a leader deeply converted to Islam.…

Islamic world: Trans-Saharan Islam: …history of Songhai, or al-Saʿdī’s Taʾrīkh al-Sūdān (completed in 1655). By the end of the period of consolidation and expansion, Muslims in the Sudanic belt were being steadily influenced by North African Islam but were also developing distinctive traditions of their own.

al-Yaʿqūbī: …a history of the world, Tāʾrīkh ibn Wāḍiḥ (“Chronicle of Ibn Wāḍiḥ”), and a general geography, Kitāb al-buldān (“Book of the Countries”).

Islamic arts: Nature and elements of Islamic music: …also imbued with ethos (Arabic taʾthīr), a specific emotional or philosophical meaning attached to a musical mode. Rhythms are organized into rhythmic modes, or īqāʿāt (singular īqāʿ), cyclical patterns of strong and weak beats.

Bāṭinīyah: …could be arrived at through taʾwīl (allegorical interpretations); thus, every statement, person, or object could be scrutinized in this manner to reveal its true intent. They further stated that Muḥammad was only the transmitter of the literal word of God, the Qurʾān, but it was the imam (leader) who was…

Judaism: The five fasts: Taʿanit Esther (Fast of Esther), which commemorates Esther’s fast (compare Esther 4:16), is first mentioned in gaonic literature. The commemorative aspects of the fasts are closely associated with their penitential aspects, all of which find expression in the liturgy. Thus, Jews not only relive the tragic history…

Taʿizz, city, southwestern Yemen, in the Yemen Highlands. It is one of the country’s chief urban centres and a former national capital. The Ayyūbid dynasty under Tūrān Shāh, brother of Saladin, which conquered Yemen in 1173–74, made its capital first at Zabīd and then moved it to Taʿizz. The

ʿAbd Allāh was a political and religious leader who succeeded Muḥammad Aḥmad (al-Mahdī) as head of a religious movement and state within the Sudan. ʿAbd Allāh followed his family’s vocation for religion. In about 1880 he became a disciple of Muḥammad Aḥmad, who announced that he had a divine

taʿlīq script, in Arabic calligraphy, cursive style of lettering developed in Iran in the 10th century. It is thought to have been the creation of Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn ʿAlī of Fars, but, because Khwājah ʿAbd al-Malik Buk made such vast improvements, the invention is often attributed to him. The rounded

tashbīh: Both tashbīh and its opposite, taʿṭīl (divesting God of all attributes), are regarded as sins in Islāmic theology. The difficulty in dealing with the nature of God in Islām arises from the seemingly contradictory views contained in the Qurʾan (Islāmic scripture). On the one hand God is described as unique…

punishment: Punishment in Islamic law: …in Islamic law are called taʿzīr crimes (discretionary crimes), and their punishment is left to the discretion of the qāḍī (judge), whose options are often limited to traditional forms (imprisonment or corporal punishment) but who may also feel obliged to enforce punishments dictated by local customs and mores. The imposition…

Islamic world: Expansion in Iran and beyond: …the name for this mourning, taʿziyyeh, also came to be applied to passion plays performed to reenact events surrounding al-Ḥusayn’s martyrdom. Through the depths of their empathetic suffering, Shīʿites could help to overturn the injustice of al-Ḥusayn’s martyrdom at the end of time, when all wrongs would be righted, all…

terbium (Tb), chemical element, a rare-earth metal of the lanthanide series of the periodic table. Terbium is a moderately hard, silvery white metal that is stable in air when in pure form. The metal is relatively stable in air even at high temperatures, because of formation of a tight, dark oxide

tuberculosis (TB), infectious disease that is caused by the tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In most forms of the disease, the bacillus spreads slowly and widely in the lungs, causing the formation of hard nodules (tubercles) or large cheeselike masses that break down the respiratory

Tupolev: …notable Soviet airplanes including the TB-1 (ANT-4), the world’s first all-metal, twin-engine, cantilever-wing bomber and one of the largest planes built in the 1920s. Two Tupolev aircraft from the early 1930s, the giant, eight-engine ANT-20 airliner (Maksim Gorky) and the ANT-25 bomber, set world records for size and long-distance flights,…

microplastics: Properties: …polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), are typically also present in microplastics, and many of these chemical additives leach out of the plastics after entering the environment.

Tbilisi, capital of the republic of Georgia, on the Mtkvari (Kura) River at its dissection of the Trialeti (Trialetsky) and Kartli (Kartliysky, or Kartalinian) ranges. Founded in 458 (in some sources, 455), when the capital of the Georgian kingdom was transferred there from Mtskheta, the city had a

theatre missile defense (TMD), deployment of nuclear and conventional missiles for the purpose of maintaining security in a specific region, or theatre. The purpose of theatre missile defense (TMD) is to protect allies from local threats in their region or to address specific security issues and

Tasaday: …more culturally advanced Manubo-Blit or Tboli tribes who had acted the part of more primitive peoples at the prompting of Marcos’ assistant on national minorities. Nevertheless, linguistic evidence obtained during the earlier anthropological study, however incomplete, seemed to indicate that the Tasaday were indeed isolated, though the Philippine government may…

tributyl phosphate, an organic liquid solvent used in the extraction of uranium and plutonium salts from reactor effluents, as a solvent for nitrocellulose and cellulose acetate, and as a heat-exchange medium. A phosphorus-containing compound with molecular formula (C4H9)3PO4, it is prepared by

metallurgy: Matte smelting: …are the Noranda, TBRC (top-blown rotary converter), and Mitsubishi processes. The Noranda reactor is a horizontal cylindrical furnace with a depression in the centre where the metal collects and a raised hearth at one end where the slag is run off. Pelletized unroasted sulfide concentrate is poured into the…

metallurgy: Matte smelting: …are the Noranda, TBRC (top-blown rotary converter), and Mitsubishi processes. The Noranda reactor is a horizontal cylindrical furnace with a depression in the centre where the metal collects and a raised hearth at one end where the slag is run off. Pelletized unroasted sulfide concentrate is poured into the…

Akiyama Toyohiro: In 1966 he joined the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), a Japanese television company, as a reporter. After working for the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service in London for four years (1967–71), he was transferred to the TBS Division of Foreign News and eventually served as the chief TBS correspondent in…

WarnerMedia: Warner: …were sold in 1986 to Turner Broadcasting System, which in turn merged with Time Warner Inc. in 1996.) Television also presented new opportunities for Warner Brothers, where the hit series Maverick (1957) and 77 Sunset Strip (1958) were made. In 1967 Jack Warner sold his remaining stake in the company…

electronic strategy game: …types of electronic strategy games: turn-based strategy (TBS) and real-time strategy (RTS). Although some TBS games have experimented with multiplayer support, the slow pace of waiting for each player to finish managing all of his or her resources and units has limited their appeal. On the other hand, players expect…

technetium (Tc), chemical element, synthetic radioactive metal of Group 7 (VIIb) of the periodic table, the first element to be artificially produced. The isotope technetium-97 (4,210,000-year half-life) was discovered (1937) by the Italian mineralogist Carlo Perrier and the Italian-born American

airport: Air traffic control: …the aircraft passes into the terminal control area (TCA). Within this area, there may be a greatly increased density of air traffic, and this is closely monitored on radar by TCA controllers, who continually instruct pilots on how to navigate within the area. The aircraft is then brought into the…

tricarboxylic acid cycle, the second stage of cellular respiration, the three-stage process by which living cells break down organic fuel molecules in the presence of oxygen to harvest the energy they need to grow and divide. This metabolic process occurs in most plants, animals, fungi, and many

cricket: The Cricket Council and the ECB: The Cricket Council, comprising the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB), the National Cricket Association (NCA), and the MCC, was the result of these efforts. The TCCB, which amalgamated the Advisory County Cricket Committee and the Board of Control of Test Matches at Home, had responsibility for all first-class and…

dioxin, any of a group of aromatic hydrocarbon compounds known to be environmental pollutants that are generated as undesirable by-products in the manufacture of herbicides, disinfectants, and other agents. In popular terminology, dioxin has become a synonym for one specific dioxin,

Chad Basin, vast depression in Central Africa that constitutes the largest inland drainage area on the continent. Lake Chad, a large sheet of fresh water with a mean depth of between 3.5 and 4 feet (1 and 1.2 metres), lies at the centre of the basin but not in its lowest part. The area is lined

Lake Chad, freshwater lake located in the Sahelian zone of west-central Africa at the conjunction of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. It is situated in an interior basin formerly occupied by a much larger ancient sea that is sometimes called Mega-Chad. Historically, Lake Chad has ranked among

Chad, landlocked country in north-central Africa. The terrain is that of a shallow basin that rises gradually from the Lake Chad area in the west and is rimmed by mountains to the north, east, and south. Natural irrigation is limited to the Chari and Logone rivers and their tributaries, which flow

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the most popular Russian composer of all time. His music has always had great appeal for the general public in virtue of its tuneful, open-hearted melodies, impressive harmonies, and colourful, picturesque orchestration, all of which evoke a profound emotional response.

Afghanistan: Daily life and social customs: …have continued to wear the chador (or chadri, in Afghanistan), the full body covering mandated by the Taliban. This has been true even of those women of the middle class (most in Kabul) who had shed that garment during the communist era. Some men have shaved or trimmed their beards,…

Alexander Tcherepnin was a Russian-born American pianist and composer, known for his stylistic mixture of Romanticism and modern experimentation—e.g., with a nine-note scale and with complex rhythms. In smaller forms his work was often coloured by Russian and Chinese motifs. The son of the composer

Nikolay Tcherepnin was a prominent Russian composer of ballets, songs, and piano music in the nationalist style of Russian music. Tcherepnin studied law and then entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. He was conductor of the Belayev symphony

Nikolay Tcherepnin was a prominent Russian composer of ballets, songs, and piano music in the nationalist style of Russian music. Tcherepnin studied law and then entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. He was conductor of the Belayev symphony

Nikolay Tcherepnin was a prominent Russian composer of ballets, songs, and piano music in the nationalist style of Russian music. Tcherepnin studied law and then entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. He was conductor of the Belayev symphony

Nikolay Tcherepnin was a prominent Russian composer of ballets, songs, and piano music in the nationalist style of Russian music. Tcherepnin studied law and then entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. He was conductor of the Belayev symphony

Nathalie Sarraute was a French novelist and essayist, one of the earliest practitioners and a leading theorist of the nouveau roman, the French post-World War II “new novel,” or “antinovel,” a phrase applied by Jean-Paul Sartre to Sarraute’s Portrait d’un inconnu (1947; Portrait of a Man Unknown).