Thomas Toft was one of the most prominent of the English potters working in Staffordshire during the 17th century. The Staffordshire potters were known for the excellence of their slipware, a kind of coarse earthenware decorated with a coloured clay and water mixture of creamlike consistency called

tofu, soft, relatively flavourless food product made from soybeans. Tofu is an important source of protein in the cuisines of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. It is believed to date from the Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce). Tofu is made from dried soybeans that are soaked in water, crushed,

toga, characteristic loose, draped outer garment of Roman citizens. Adopted by the Romans from the Etruscans, it was originally worn by both sexes of all classes but was gradually abandoned by women, then by labouring people, and finally by the patricians themselves. Throughout the history of the

toga: …candidates wore white togas (toga candida); freeborn boys, until puberty, wore a purple-bordered toga (toga praetexta); after reaching puberty, adolescents began to wear the plain man’s toga (toga pura, or toga virilis); people in mourning wore dark colours (toga pulla); and for triumphs and, in the later period, as…

toga: …richly embroidered and patterned (toga picta). After about 100 ce the toga began to diminish in length.

toga: …wore a purple-bordered toga (toga praetexta); after reaching puberty, adolescents began to wear the plain man’s toga (toga pura, or toga virilis); people in mourning wore dark colours (toga pulla); and for triumphs and, in the later period, as worn by consuls, the toga was richly embroidered and patterned…

toga: …mourning wore dark colours (toga pulla); and for triumphs and, in the later period, as worn by consuls, the toga was richly embroidered and patterned (toga picta). After about 100 ce the toga began to diminish in length.

toga: …the plain man’s toga (toga pura, or toga virilis); people in mourning wore dark colours (toga pulla); and for triumphs and, in the later period, as worn by consuls, the toga was richly embroidered and patterned (toga picta). After about 100 ce the toga began to diminish in length.

toga: …the plain man’s toga (toga pura, or toga virilis); people in mourning wore dark colours (toga pulla); and for triumphs and, in the later period, as worn by consuls, the toga was richly embroidered and patterned (toga picta). After about 100 ce the toga began to diminish in length.

Japanese music: Influence of Tang-dynasty China: …was called Tang music (tōgaku). In Japan, as in Korea, the establishment and maintenance of such a music has made it possible for modern listeners to hear foreign versions of famous pieces long forgotten in the country of their origin. For example, there are names of pieces played and…

togavirus, any of three genera of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) of the family Togaviridae. Flaviviruses, once considered to be of the Togaviridae, are now designated as members of a separate family, Flaviviridae. The togavirus genera are Alphavirus, which is carried by mosquitoes, and

togavirus, any of three genera of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) of the family Togaviridae. Flaviviruses, once considered to be of the Togaviridae, are now designated as members of a separate family, Flaviviridae. The togavirus genera are Alphavirus, which is carried by mosquitoes, and

Banda, a people of the Central African Republic, some of whom also live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon and possibly in Sudan. The Banda speak a language of the Adamawa-Ubangi subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family that is related to that of their Gbaya and Ngbandi

Stephen Daldry: …to the big screen with Together, which centres on a couple examining their relationship while under lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Charles Vidor: Rita Hayworth: Cover Girl and Gilda: He then made Together Again (1944), a popular romantic comedy starring Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne as a sculptor and a mayor who is a widow, respectively. In A Song to Remember (1945), Cornel Wilde gave an Academy Award-nominated performance as Frédéric Chopin, and Merle Oberon

North Macedonia: Political process: …for Macedonia, evolved into the Sun Coalition for Europe, which captured nearly one-fourth of the seats in parliament in the 2008 election. Other significant political parties include the Democratic Union for Integration and the Democratic Party of Albanians. At the beginning of the 21st century, a concentrated effort was made…

Bob Dylan: ” In 2009 Dylan released Together Through Life, which debuted at the top of the British and American album charts. He was still actively performing as he entered his 70s, and his 35th studio album, the rootsy Tempest (2012), found him as vigorous as ever. Dylan then turned his attention…

Toggenburg, breed of dairy goat originating in the Toggenburg valley of Switzerland. The oldest breed of dairy goat in the United States, the Toggenburg has proved widely adaptable. It is characterized by a comparatively small, solid-coloured body of any shade of brown, white ears with a dark

Toggenburg Succession, in Swiss history, a long territorial dispute that gave rise to the Old Zürich War (1436–50) and the Second Villmergen War (1712). In the Middle Ages the counts of Toggenburg, as vassals of the German kings or Holy Roman emperors, held extensive possessions in what is now

Toggenburg Succession: …reassert his traditional rights over Toggenburg in order to strengthen Swiss Catholicism provoked the leading Protestant confederates, Zürich and Bern, to undertake the Toggenburg (or Second Villmergen) War, in which they quickly defeated the Abbot’s five Catholic supporters, Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, and Zug. The final settlement, under which the…

toggle mechanism, combination of solid, usually metallic links (bars), connected by pin (hinge) joints that are so arranged that a small force applied at one point can create a much larger force at another point. In the Figure, showing a toggle mechanism at work in a rock-crushing machine, the

electric switch: …of switches; a common type—the toggle, or tumbler, switch—is widely used in home lighting and other applications. The so-called mercury, or “silent,” switch is used extensively for controlling home lighting circuits. The oil switch has its live parts immersed in oil to reduce arcing. The aggregate of switching or circuit-breaking…

Genghis Khan: Early struggles: …felt able to appeal to Toghril, khan of the Kereit tribe, with whom Yesügei had had the relationship of anda, or sworn brother, and at that time the most powerful Mongol prince, for help in recovering Börte. He had had the foresight to rekindle this friendship by presenting Toghril with…

Toghrïl Beg was the founder of the Seljuq dynasty, which ruled in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia during the 11th– 14th centuries. Under his rule the Seljuqs assumed the leadership of the Islamic world by establishing political mastery over the ʿAbbāsid caliphate in Baghdad. The grandson of Seljuq,

Eldegüzid dynasty: In 1191 the Seljuq sultan Toghrïl III defeated and subjugated Qutlugh Inanj (reigned 1191–95), the fourth Eldegüzid ruler. Qutlugh had to retreat to Azerbaijan, where the Eldegüzids held their position until 1225, when the Khwārezm-Shāh, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mingburnu, took over the administration of their territories.

Toghto was a high government official during the later years of China’s Yuan dynasty (1206–1368). He followed his uncle as minister of the right (1340–44) and favoured a centralized approach to government. Under him, positions that had been closed to the Chinese were reopened, many literati

togidashi maki-e, in Japanese lacquerwork, kind of maki-e (q.v.). In this technique, the design is painted in lacquer, and gold or silver powder is sprinkled over it; when the lacquer is dry, another coat is applied to the design to fix the powder. Rō-iro-urushi (black lacquer without oil) is then

Palmiro Togliatti was a politician who led the Italian Communist Party for nearly 40 years and made it the largest in western Europe. Born into a middle-class family, Togliatti received an education in law at Turin University, served as an officer and was wounded in World War I, and became a tutor

road: The master road builders: In 1585 the Italian engineer Guido Toglietta wrote a thoughtful treatise on a pavement system using broken stone that represented a marked advance on the heavy Roman style. In 1607 Thomas Procter published the first English-language book on roads. The first highway engineering school in Europe, the School of Bridges…

Togo, country of western Africa. Lomé, the capital, is situated in the southwest of the country and is the largest city and port. Until 1884 what is now Togo was an intermediate zone between the states of Asante and Dahomey, and its various ethnic groups lived in general isolation from each other.

Tōgō Heihachirō was an admiral who led the Japanese fleet to victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05). In the process, he developed new tactics for engaging an advancing enemy fleet. Tōgō studied naval science in England from 1871 to 1878. After returning to Japan, he served in a number of naval

Akwapim-Togo Ranges: …the Niger River as the Togo Mountains in Togo and as the Atakora Mountains in Benin, and they contain isolated peaks near the Togo border. The Volta River cuts through their complex of closely packed folds at Ajena (Volta) Gorge and is harnessed by the great dam at Akosombo 1…

national flag consisting of three horizontal green stripes, offset by two yellow stripes, and a red canton with a large white star. The flag’s width-to-length ratio is approximately 3 to 5.Under the United Nations trusteeship system set up after World War II, the French had an obligation to move

history of Togo, a survey of the important events and people in the history of Togo. The country, located in western Africa, is home to many ethnic groups, having a mix of some Indigenous groups and immigrants, or descendants of immigrants, from other parts of western Africa. During the colonial

Atakora Mountains, mountain range in western Africa, trending north-northeast. The range begins in the Akwapim Hills of southeastern Ghana (see Akwapim-Togo Ranges) and continues northeasterly to the Niger River through Togo and Benin. The mountains average 2,000 feet (600 metres) in height and

Cunobelinus: …two other sons, Caratacus and Togodumnus, displayed the hostility toward Rome that gave the emperor Claudius an excuse to impose Roman rule on the island.

Togo, country of western Africa. Lomé, the capital, is situated in the southwest of the country and is the largest city and port. Until 1884 what is now Togo was an intermediate zone between the states of Asante and Dahomey, and its various ethnic groups lived in general isolation from each other.

Togoland, former German protectorate, western Africa, now divided between the Republics of Togo and Ghana. Togoland covered 34,934 square miles (90,479 square km) between the British Gold Coast colony to the west and French Dahomey to the east. Inhabited by a mixture of Ewe and other peoples, it

Togo, country of western Africa. Lomé, the capital, is situated in the southwest of the country and is the largest city and port. Until 1884 what is now Togo was an intermediate zone between the states of Asante and Dahomey, and its various ethnic groups lived in general isolation from each other.

Sylvanus Olympio: A leader of the Committee of Togolese Unity after World War II, Olympio was elected president of the first territorial assembly in 1946 and by 1947 was in open (though nonviolent) conflict with Togoland’s French colonial administration. One of his main early concerns was to unite the Ewe people,…

Togon-temür was the last emperor (reigned 1333–68) of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty (1206–1368) in China, under whom the population was provoked into rebellion. Togon-temür became emperor at the age of 13 but proved to be a weak ruler who preferred to spend his time exploring the religious cult of

Mongolia: Finance: …regulating the national currency, the tugrik (tögrög). The establishment of several private-venture and international banks in Ulaanbaatar was followed by periods of consolidation and relative stability, which opened up opportunities to set up services for commercial and private loans and personal banking and to introduce electronic banking, credit cards, and…

To-wang was a Mongolian prince who opposed Manchu rule and supported Mongolia’s independence from China. Concerned with education, he set up a primary school open to commoners, had Buddhist scriptures translated into Mongol, and codified practical advice for herdspeople in a book he circulated

Iva Toguri D’Aquino was a Japanese-American broadcaster from Japan to U.S. troops during World War II, who, after the war, was convicted of treason and served six years in a U.S. prison. She was later pardoned by President Gerald R. Ford. Iva Toguri grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from the

Moorea: Its highest peak is Mount Tohivea, at 3,960 feet (1,207 metres). The chief village, Afareaitu, lies on the east coast overlooked by Muaputa (2,723 feet [830 metres]). Cook (Paopao) Bay and Opunohu (Papetoai) Bay, divided by Mount Rotui, are on the north coast at the centre of what was…

Tōhō Motion Picture Company, leading Japanese motion-picture studio. The company was founded in 1936 by Kobayashi Ichizō, a former businessman who was the creator of an all-girl “opera troupe.” In 1932 he had organized the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre Corporation, subsequently acquiring several

Shimazaki Tōson: A final novel, Tōhō no Mon (“Gate to the East”), incomplete at his death, seems to invoke the Buddhist wisdom of medieval Japan as a way out of the impasse of the present.

Tōhoku, chihō (region), constituting the northern portion of Honshu, Japan. It is bordered to the west by the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and to the east by the Pacific Ocean and includes the ken (prefectures) of Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Yamagata, Miyagi, and Fukushima. Its name is derived from the

Pacific League: …Buffaloes, Saitama Seibu Lions, and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. The regular playing season culminates in the Japan Series, a seven-game series between the respective champion teams of the Pacific and Central leagues.

Tohono O’odham, North American Indians who traditionally inhabited the desert regions of present-day Arizona, U.S., and northern Sonora, Mex. The Tohono O’odham speak a Uto-Aztecan language, a dialectal variant of Piman, and culturally they are similar to the Pima living to the north. There are,

Battle of Horseshoe Bend, battle fought on March 27, 1814, between U.S. federal forces and Creek warriors in central Alabama. The battle, also called the Battle of Tohopeka, yielded a decisive U.S. victory over Native Americans opposed to white expansion into their territories, and it largely

tohorah, in Judaism, the system of ritual purity practiced by Israel. Purity (tohorah) and uncleanness (tumʾah) carry forward Pentateuchal commandments that Israel—whether eating, procreating, or worshiping God in the Temple—must avoid sources of contamination, the principal one of which is the

Ṭohorot, (Hebrew: “Purifications”), the last of the six major divisions, or orders (sedarim), of the Mishna (codification of Jewish oral laws), which was given its final form early in the 3rd century ad by Judah ha-Nasi. Ṭohorot consists of 12 tractates (treatises) that deal with ritual impurity

Tōhō Motion Picture Company: …first successful Japanese-developed wide-screen process, Tohoscope, similar to the American CinemaScope technique. During this period, Tōhō produced many of Kurosawa’s classic films, including Shichinin no samurai (1954; Seven Samurai) and Yojimbo (1961). The studio was perhaps best known, however, for its science fiction offerings, particularly in the kaiju (monster) genre.…

Māui Pōmare: Largely through Pōmare’s efforts, the Tohunga Suppression Act (1907) was passed, which prohibited unqualified medical treatment in native communities.

Colm Tóibín is one of the most widely read writers in contemporary Irish literature. He has published fiction and nonfiction, including travelogues, essays, and criticism. His best-known works include the novels The Blackwater Lightship (1999), The Master (2004), Brooklyn (2009), and The Testament

Israël Querido: …such novels as Menschenwee (1903; Toil of Men), a detailed description of the miseries he witnessed among the people of Beverwijk, where he was then living. Querido also wrote historical novels, including De oude wereld (1919; “The Old World”), in which his rather heavy style is especially obvious.

toile de Jouy, cotton or linen printed with designs of landscapes and figures for which the 18th-century factory of Jouy-en-Josas, near Versailles, Fr., was famous. The Jouy factory was started in 1760 by a Franco-German, Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf. His designs were printed originally from

toile peinte, large sheet of heavy, flexible fabric on which a tapestry cartoon (a full-sized preliminary study from which the finished tapestry is made) has been painted. Unlike cartoons drawn on paper, toiles peintes were intended to be hung as though they were finished tapestries. Most toiles

Celtic literature: The Gaelic Revival: …these is Tomás Ó Criomhthain’s An tOileánach (1929; The Islandman). At one time the Gaeltacht memoirs threatened to become a vogue and inspired the brilliant satirical novel An Béal Bocht (1941; The Poor Mouth) by Flann O’Brien (pseudonym of Brian Ó Nualláin).

New Pittsburgh Courier, newspaper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that is known for promoting economic and political power for African Americans. For many years it published both local and national print editions, which allowed its editors and writers to bring attention to events and influence

construction: Improvements in building services: …Bramah invented the metal valve-type water closet as early as 1778, and other early lavatories, sinks, and bathtubs were of metal also; lead, copper, and zinc were all tried. The metal fixtures proved difficult to clean, however, and in England during the 1870s Thomas Twyford developed the first large one-piece…

Diego Velázquez: Second Italian journey of Diego Velázquez: The Toilet of Venus (1647–51; or The Rokeby Venus) was also probably painted in Italy and is one of the few representations of the female nude in Spanish painting before the 19th century. The theme of the toilet of Venus, the rich colouring and warm…

soap and detergent: Finishing operations: For bath or hand soap, the mass is treated with perfumes, colours, or superfatting agents, is vacuum dried, then is cooled and solidified. The dried solidified soap is homogenized (often by milling or crushing) in stages to produce various degrees of fineness. Air can be introduced…

dressing table, a table used for the toilet. The term originally was applied in the 17th century to small tables with two or three drawers. It soon became common practice to conceal the fittings of the dressing table when they were not in use, and great ingenuity was exercised by 18th-century

cologne, in perfumery, scented solution usually consisting of alcohol and about 2–6 percent perfume concentrate. Originally, eau de cologne was a mixture of citrus oils from such fruits as lemons and oranges, combined with such substances as lavender and neroli (orange-flower oil); toilet waters

Akshay Kumar: …OMG: Oh My God! (2012), Toilet: Ek prem katha (2017; “Toilet: A Love Story”), 2.0 (2018), Good Newwz (2019), and Laxmii (2020). He also starred in the popular Housefull series of comedy films (2010, 2012, 2016, and 2019).

The Child’s Bath, oil-on-canvas painting created in 1893 by American artist Mary Cassatt during her mature period. The work depicts an intimate and tender moment between a woman and a child without indulging in excessive sentimentality. Like much of Cassatt’s work in the early 1890s, The Child’s

Pablo Picasso: The move to Paris and the Rose Period: …especially in 1906 (Two Nudes; La Toilette). His Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906) and a Self-Portrait with Palette (1906) show that development as well as the influence of his discovery of archaic Iberian sculpture.

Japan: Samurai groups and farming villages: …Biwa, specialized wholesale merchants (toimaru) appeared who, as contractors, stored, transported, and sold goods. Further, it became common for many merchants and artisans to form guilds, known as za, organized under the temples, shrines, or civil aristocrats, from whom they gained special monopoly privileges and exemptions from customs duties.

Ogata Kenzan was a Japanese potter and painter, brother to the artist Ogata Kōrin. He signed himself Kenzan, Shisui, Tōin, Shōkosai, Shuseidō, or Shinshō. Kenzan received a classical Chinese and Japanese education and pursued Zen Buddhism. At the age of 27 he began studying with the potter Ninsei

Guy de Maupassant: Mature life and works of Guy de Maupassant: …books of short stories include Toine (1886), Le Horla (1887), Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1888; “The Rose-Bush of Madame Husson”), and L’Inutile Beauté (1890; “The Useless Beauty”). Four more novels also appeared: Mont-Oriol (1887), on the financing of a fashionable watering place; Pierre et Jean; Fort comme la mort…

Turloch O’Connor was the king of Connaught and from 1121 the most powerful Irish prince. In 1118 he divided Munster into two coequal kingdoms; in 1125 he deposed the king of Meath and appointed three kings in his stead; in 1126 he made his son Conchobar king of Dublin and Leinster; and in 1129 he

The Order of the Golden Fleece, order of knighthood founded in Burgundy in 1430 and associated later especially with Habsburg Austria and with Spain. The order was founded by Philip III the Good, duke of Burgundy, at Bruges in Flanders in 1430, to commemorate his wedding there to Isabella of

The Order of the Golden Fleece, order of knighthood founded in Burgundy in 1430 and associated later especially with Habsburg Austria and with Spain. The order was founded by Philip III the Good, duke of Burgundy, at Bruges in Flanders in 1430, to commemorate his wedding there to Isabella of

The Order of the Golden Fleece, order of knighthood founded in Burgundy in 1430 and associated later especially with Habsburg Austria and with Spain. The order was founded by Philip III the Good, duke of Burgundy, at Bruges in Flanders in 1430, to commemorate his wedding there to Isabella of

continental drift: In 1937 Alexander L. Du Toit, a South African geologist, modified Wegener’s hypothesis by suggesting two primordial continents: Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south.

Jakob Daniel Du Toit was an Afrikaaner poet, pastor, biblical scholar, and the compiler of an Afrikaans Psalter (1936) that is regarded as one of the finest poetic achievements of its kind in Dutch, Flemish, or Afrikaans. Du Toit was educated in Pretoria, Rustenburg, and Daljosafat, studied at the

Stephanus Jacobus du Toit was a South African pastor and political leader who, as the founder of the Afrikaner Bond (“Afrikaner League”) political party, was an early leader of Boer/Afrikaner cultural nationalism and helped foment the political antagonism between the British and the Boers in

Namibia: From resistance to liberation struggle: …process had already begun when Herman Toivo ja Toivo and most other SWAPO leaders not already in exile were tried for terrorism and imprisoned on Robben Island in 1968. From 1969 SWAPO had operated along almost all of the northern border—an operation that was easier after Angolan independence in 1975—and…

Iranian languages: Modern Iranian: Tajik, another West Iranian language, is spoken by more than 7,000,000 people widely spread throughout Tajikistan and the rest of Central Asia and is readily intelligible to speakers of Persian, to which it is very closely related, although it is in some respects more archaic.

Tajikistan, landlocked country lying in the heart of Central Asia. It is bordered by Kyrgyzstan on the north, China on the east, Afghanistan on the south, and Uzbekistan on the west and northwest. Tajikistan includes the Gorno-Badakhshan (“Mountain Badakhshan”) autonomous region, with its capital

Tōjō Hideki was a soldier and statesman who was the prime minister of Japan (1941–44) during most of the Pacific theatre portion of World War II. He was subsequently tried and executed for war crimes. A graduate of the Imperial Military Academy and the Military Staff College, Tōjō served briefly as

Tojolabal, Mayan Indians of Chiapas in southeastern Mexico, near the Guatemalan border. The Tojolabal language is closely related to that of the Tzotzil and Tzeltal, their neighbours to the northwest, and to that of the Chuj, to the southeast in Guatemala; and there are many cultural similarities

Tojolabal: The Tojolabal language is closely related to that of the Tzotzil and Tzeltal, their neighbours to the northwest, and to that of the Chuj, to the southeast in Guatemala; and there are many cultural similarities between the groups. The territory inhabited by the Tojolabal is one…

Tok Kenali was a Malay theologian and teacher who became the archetype of the rural Malay religious teacher (alim), with a reputation that spread far beyond his native Kelantan to Sumatra, Java, and Cambodia. Muhammad Yusof, born into a poor peasant family, was taught the fundamentals of the

Tok Pisin, pidgin spoken in Papua New Guinea, hence its identification in some earlier works as New Guinea Pidgin. It was also once called Neo-Melanesian, apparently according to the hypothesis that all English-based Melanesian pidgins developed from the same proto-pidgin. It is one of the three

Toka Gorge, gorge, Hordaland fylke (county), western Norway, near the village of Norheimsund about 25 miles (40 km) east of Bergen. A waterfall flowing into the gorge makes the area a popular tourist spot. Access is via a road from Bergen that has steep grades and many hairpin turns and penetrates

Toka Gorge, gorge, Hordaland fylke (county), western Norway, near the village of Norheimsund about 25 miles (40 km) east of Bergen. A waterfall flowing into the gorge makes the area a popular tourist spot. Access is via a road from Bergen that has steep grades and many hairpin turns and penetrates

Tōkai Bank Ltd., Japanese commercial bank that merged with Sanwa Bank and Asahi Bank to form UFJ Holdings, Inc., in April 2001. Tōkai was established in 1941 through the merger of Itō Bank (established 1881), Nagoya Bank (1882), and Aichi Bank

Japan: The maturity of Edo culture: …his Tōkai dōchu hizakurige (1802–22; Shank’s Mare), a humorous and bawdy tale of adventures on the Tōkaidō. In contrast, Bakin’s lengthy Nansō Satomi hakkenden (1814–42; “Satomi and the Eight Dogs”) is a didactic tale about the attempt to restore the fortunes of a warrior house.

Tōkai Bank Ltd., Japanese commercial bank that merged with Sanwa Bank and Asahi Bank to form UFJ Holdings, Inc., in April 2001. Tōkai was established in 1941 through the merger of Itō Bank (established 1881), Nagoya Bank (1882), and Aichi Bank

Tōkai region, industrial region, central Japan, extending along the Tōkaidō Line (railway) between Tokyo and Nagoya, and occupying areas of Shizuoka ken (prefecture). Tōkai is neither an administrative nor a political entity. It has close economic ties with the Chūkyō Industrial Zone. The region is

Tōkai region, industrial region, central Japan, extending along the Tōkaidō Line (railway) between Tokyo and Nagoya, and occupying areas of Shizuoka ken (prefecture). Tōkai is neither an administrative nor a political entity. It has close economic ties with the Chūkyō Industrial Zone. The region is

Tōkaidō, historic road that connected Ōsaka and Kyōto with Edo (now Tokyo) in Japan. The Tōkaidō was about 515 km (320 miles) long and ran mostly along the Pacific (i.e., southern) coast of the island of Honshu. From ancient times the road was the chief route from the capital city of Kyōto eastward

Tokaj, town, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye (county), northeastern Hungary. Tokaj lies at the confluence of the Bodrog and Tisza rivers. It is known as the home of the golden yellow Tokay wine and has a famous labyrinthine (1 mi [1.5 km]) wine cellar. It is in the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine-producing

Tokay, famous, usually sweet white wine of Hungary, made from the Hungarian Furmint grape. The wine derives its name from the Tokaj district of northeastern Hungary. Though some Tokay is dry, the finest version, Tokaji Aszu, is made from late-ripened grapes affected by Botrytis cinerea, a mold that

Tokaji Aszú, a full-bodied sweet dessert wine made from late-ripened grapes affected by Botrytis cinerea, a mold that concentrates grape sugars and flavours into honeylike sweetness. The grapes are from the Hungarian Furmint or Hárslevelű vines, which are grown in the Tokaj wine region in

tokamak, device used in nuclear-fusion research for magnetic confinement of plasma. It consists of a complex system of magnetic fields that confine the plasma of reactive charged particles in a hollow, doughnut-shaped container. The tokamak (an acronym from the Russian words for toroidal magnetic

fusion reactor: Magnetic confinement: …Energy Research Institute; and the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey, respectively.