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- (from the article "elephant") Elephant tusks are enlarged incisor teeth made of ivory. In the African elephant both the male and the female possess tusks, whereas in the Asian elephant it is mainly the male that has tusks. When present in the female, tusks are small, thin, and often of a uniform thickness. Some ...
- tusk shell
- any of several marine mollusks of the class Scaphopoda. There are four genera of tusk shells (Dentalium is typical and most common) and more than 350 species. Most tusk shells live in fairly deep water, sometimes to depths of about 4,000 metres (13,000 feet); many deep-sea species are cosmopolitan in ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tusk, Donald
- (from the article "Poland") ...km (120,728 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 38,110,000 | Capital: Warsaw | Chief of state: President Lech Kaczynski | Head of government: Prime Ministers Jaroslaw Kaczynski and, from November 16, Donald Tusk | history of PolandPolandThe constitution of 1997...League ...
- Tuskegee
- city, seat of Macon county, east-central Alabama, U.S., adjacent to Tuskegee National Forest, about 40 miles (65 km) east of Montgomery. It was founded in 1833, and its name was a variation of Taskigi, a nearby Creek Indian village. Fort Decatur (built 1814), near the city on the Tallapoosa River, ...
- Tuskegee Airmen
- black servicemen of the U.S. Army Air Forces who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during World War II. They constituted the first African-American flying unit in the U.S. military. [1 Related Articles]
- Tuskegee syphilis study
- American medical research project that earned notoriety for its unethical experimentation on African American patients in the rural South. [1 Related Articles]
- Tuskegee University
- private, coeducational, historically black institution of higher education in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S. Its establishment as a school for training African American teachers was approved by the Alabama state legislature in 1880; the school still serves a predominantly black student body. [5 Related Articles]
- Tusquets, Esther
- (from the article "Spanish literature") The Generation of 1968 was recognized in the 1980s as a distinct novelistic group. It includes Esther Tusquets, Alvaro Pombo, and Javier Tomeo, together with nearly a dozen others who belong to this group chronologically if not by reason of aesthetic or thematic similarities. Tusquets is best known for a ...
- Tussaud, Marie
- French-born founder of Madame Tussaud's museum of wax figures, in central London.
- Tussman, Malka Heifetz
- (from the article "Yiddish literature") Born in Ukraine, Malka Heifetz Tussman immigrated to the United States in 1912. She lived in Chicago; in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and in California. She published her poems in many journals, including In zikh. Tussman's early poetry, as evinced in her first book, Lider (1949; ...
- tussock bellflower
- (from the article "bellflower") ...bellflower (Campanula americana), native to moist woodlands of North America, has flowering spikes that may reach 2 m (6 feet) high and has saucer-shaped flowers with long, curved styles. Tussock bellflower, or Carpathian harebell (C. carpatica), with lavender to white, bowl-shaped, long-stalked flowers, several to the stem, has many forms. ...
- tussock grassland
- (from the article "grassland") ...too cold for trees to grow-i.e., beyond the forest limits of high mountains or at high latitudes. A characteristic type of grassland in cool, moist parts of the Southern Hemisphere is tussock grassland, dominated by tussock or bunch grasses that develop pedestals of matted stems, giving the vegetation a lumpy ...
- tussock moth
- any of a group of moths (order Lepidoptera), the common name for which is derived from the hair tufts, or tussocks, found on most larval forms. The family, which occurs in both Eurasia and the New World, includes several species that are destructive to shade and forest trees: the gypsy ... [2 Related Articles]
- Tusun
- (from the article "Saudi Arabia") ...independent viceroy of Egypt, the task of crushing those the Ottomans viewed as heretics. An Egyptian force landed on the Hejaz coast under the command of Muhammad 'Ali's son Tusun. Sa'ud inflicted a severe defeat on the invaders, but reinforcements enabled Tusun to occupy Mecca and Medina in 1812. The ...
- Tutammu
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...conquered Arpad, and a large group of princes, among them the kings of Kummuhu, Que, Carchemish (where a King Pisiris reigned), and Gurgum, offered their submission to the Assyrians. King Tutammu of Patina, who had been strategically safe as long as Arpad had not been conquered, also was defeated and ...
- Tutankhamen
- king of Egypt (reigned 1333-23 BC), known chiefly for his intact tomb discovered in 1922. During his reign, powerful advisers restored the traditional Egyptian religion and art, both of which had been set aside by his predecessor Akhenaton, who had led the "Amarna revolution." [16 Related Articles]
- tutelle
- (from the article "devolution") ...of new schools or streets. As the size and responsibilities of subnational governments grew, however, most mayors objected to the centralization of power, known as the tutelle ("supervision"). To somewhat reduce the scope of power exercised by the central government, the socialist government of Pres. Francois Mitterrand...
- Tuticorin
- town, southern Tamil Nadu state, southern India. The town lies on the Gulf of Mannar, east of Tirunelveli, to which it is connected by road and rail. It developed from a small fishing village into a flourishing Portuguese colony in the 16th century and further expanded during Dutch and British ...
- Tutin, Dame Dorothy
- British actress (b. April 8, 1931, London, Eng.-d. Aug. 6, 2001, London), was one of the British theatre's most accomplished leading ladies during a 50-year stage career. Tutin's varied repertoire included most of the leading female characters in Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Ibsen, as well as Sally Bowles in the original ...
- Tutong
- (from the article "Brunei") ...coastal plain in the north, which gives way to rugged hills in the south. The country's highest point is Pagon Peak (6,070 feet [1,850 metres]), in the southeast. Brunei is drained by the Belait, Tutong, and Brunei rivers in the western segment and by the Pandaruan and Temburong rivers in ...
- tutor
- (from the article "Roman law") Persons under the age of puberty (14 for males, 12 for females) needed tutores if they were not under patria potestas. Such tutors could be appointed under the will of the father or male head of the household. Failing such an appointment, the guardianship went to certain prescribed relatives; if ...
- tutorial
- (from the article "computer-assisted instruction") ...the university level and even in some preschool programs. Instructional computers are basically used in one of two ways: either they provide a straightforward presentation of data or they fill a tutorial role in which the student is tested on comprehension.
- tutoring
- (from the article "Education") The $2.5 billion tutoring business in the United States began including preschool children in order to prepare them for the primary grades' increasingly higher academic demands. During 2005-06 the nationwide tutoring firm Sylvan Learning Centers included prekindergarten literacy tutoring in all of its 1,200 centres, while...
- TutorVista
- (from the article "Education") India became the world's leading source of academic coaching by offering high-quality tutoring over the Internet at low cost. TutorVista, a typical India-based tutoring business, began with one teacher and one student in 2005 and had grown to 500 teachers and more than 2,000 students in 12 countries by early ...
- Tutsi
- ethnic group of probable Nilotic origin, whose members live within Rwanda and Burundi. The Tutsi formed the traditional aristocratic minority in both countries, constituting about 9 percent and 14 percent of the population, respectively. The Tutsis' numbers in Rwanda were greatly reduced by a government-inspired genocidal campaign against them in ... [15 Related Articles]
- Tutte, William Thomas
- British-born Canadian mathematician (b. May 14, 1917, Newmarket, Suffolk, Eng.-d. May 2, 2002, Waterloo, Ont.), deciphered a crucial clue to the Nazis' so-called Tunny code as a member of the secret code-breaking team at Britain's Bletchley Park during World War II. Tutte studied chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge, where, as ...
- Tuttle, Elbert Parr
- U.S. lawyer and judge who supported the civil rights movement in the South while serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (1954-81) and presiding there as chief judge (1961-67). He enforced racial integration of public schools, including the University of Georgia in 1961, and was awarded ...
- Tuttle, Richard
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") Significant monographic surveys of work by artists Richard Tuttle and Smithson toured multiple venues during the year and provided in-depth examinations of two of the key figures to emerge in American art during the mid-1960s. The Smithson retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, presented sculptures, ...
- Tuttle, William Julian
- American makeup artist transformed the appearances of actors performing for MGM studios with his masterful application of cosmetics. His work for the film 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)-in which actor Tony Randall was featured as such disparate characters as Merlin, Medusa, and the Abominable Snowman-earned Tuttle an honorary Academy ... [1 Related Articles]
- tutu
- standard skirt worn by female ballet dancers, consisting of four or five layers of silk or nylon frills; the skirt is attached to a sleek-fitting bodice. (Originally tutu designated a short, trouserlike petticoat worn under a dancer's costume.) The prototype of the Romantic tutu, extending to within about 12 inches ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tutu, Desmond
- South African Anglican cleric who in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa. [3 Related Articles]
- Tutub
- modern Khafaji, ancient Sumerian city-state located in the Diyala Valley east of Baghdad, Iraq. Tutub was of greatest significance during the Early Dynastic Period (c. 2900-2334 BC), and important remains have been found dating to that period-particularly the temple oval. Tutub was excavated between 1930 and 1938 by investigators ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tutuila Island
- largest island in American Samoa, in the south-central Pacific Ocean, about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northeast of New Zealand. Some 18 miles (30 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) across at its widest point, the island has a densely wooded, broken, mountainous backbone culminating at a height of 2,142 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tutul Xiu
- (from the article "Uxmal") ...the other great cities of the north, was abandoned (c. 1450). Before abandonment, the ruling family of the city, like the Itza of Chichen or the Cocom of Mayapan, was the Tutul Xiu.
- Tutuola, Amos
- Nigerian author of richly inventive fantasies. He is best known for the novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town (1952), which was the first Nigerian book to achieve international fame. [2 Related Articles]
- Tutwiler, Julia Strudwick
- American educator and reformer who was responsible for making higher education in Alabama more readily available to women through her association with several colleges and universities. She was also active in the state's prison reform.
- Tuuk, H. N. van der
- (from the article "Austronesian languages") The first analysis of Austronesian languages to make use of the comparative method of linguistics is attributed to the Dutch-Indonesian scholar H.N. van der Tuuk, whose comparisons during the 1860s and '70s showed that various languages in the Philippines and Indonesia could be related to a common ancestor through recurrent ...
- Tuva
- republic in south-central Siberia, Russia. Tuva borders northwestern Mongolia and occupies the basin of the upper Yenisey River. Its relief consists of two broad basins, the Tuva and Todzha, drained by two main tributaries of the Yenisey River. High mountain ranges, including the Eastern Sayan and Western Sayan mountains to ... [1 Related Articles]
- Tuva Basin
- (from the article "Russia") ...they are succeeded eastward by the V-shaped system of the Western Sayan and Eastern Sayan, which rise to 10,240 and 11,453 feet (3,121 and 3,491 metres), respectively, and which enclose the high Tuva Basin. Subsidiary ranges extend northward, enclosing the Kuznetsk and Minusinsk basins.
- Tuvaella
- (from the article "Silurian Period") ...Realm, is represented by the low-diversity Clarkeia (brachiopod) fauna from Gondwanan Africa and South America. A northern temperate zone is represented by the low-diversity Tuvaella (brachiopod) fauna mostly restricted to Mongolia and adjacent parts of Siberia. The Tuvaella fauna also has been discovered in northwestern China, which apparently...
- Tuvalu
- country in the west-central Pacific Ocean. It is composed of nine small coral islands scattered in a chain lying approximately northwest to southeast over a distance of some 420 miles (676 kilometres). The capital is Fongafale, on Funafuti Atoll. With colonial Kiribati, Tuvalu formed the unit known as Gilbert and ... [23 Related Articles]
- Tuvalu Trust Fund
- (from the article "Tuvalu") Tuvalu's well-managed Tuvalu Trust Fund, which invested in major economies and funded a significant part of the government budget, started 2007 in good shape, but the fund was likely to suffer from global credit problems that emerged late in the year. Income from the lease of the country's ".tv" Internet ...
- Tuvalu, flag of
- national flag consisting of a light blue field (background) with nine yellow stars in the fly half and, in the canton, the Union Jack. The width-to-length ratio of the flag is 1 to 2.
- Tuvaluan language
- (from the article "Tuvalu") The Tuvaluans are Polynesian, and their language, Tuvaluan, is closely related to Samoan. Nui, however, was heavily settled in prehistoric times by Micronesians from the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati). English is taught in the schools and widely used. The vast majority of the population belongs to the Church of Tuvalu ...
- Tuvan
- any member of an ethnolinguistic group inhabiting the autonomous republic of Tuva in south-central Russia; the group also constitutes a small minority in the northwestern part of Mongolia. The Tuvans are a Turkic-speaking people with Mongol influences. They live among the headwaters of the Yenisey River, in an area that ... [3 Related Articles]
- Tuve, Merle Antony
- American research physicist and geophysicist who developed the radio-wave exploration method for the ionosphere. The observations he made provided the theoretical foundation for the development of radar.
- Tuwanuwa
- (from the article "Anatolia") The geographic identity of place-names in Hittite historical texts has always been a subject of controversy, but some of those mentioned in the Edict of Telipinus are known: Tuwanuwa (classical Tyana, near modern Bor); Hupisna (classical Heraclea Cybistra; modern Eregli); Parsuhanda (Purushkhanda; probably modern Acemhoyuk); and Lusna (classical Lystra). With ...
- Tuwatis
- (from the article "Anatolia") At this time Tuwatis, the king of Tabal (roughly coinciding with the Hittite Lower Land of the empire period, including Lycaonia and Cappadocia to the south of the Kizil), ruled over at least 20 vassal kings. Apparently, however, Assyria's great military efforts in this period overtaxed its strength. Near the ...
- Tuwayq Mountains
- (from the article "Riyadh") ...plateau gives way in the centre and east to a series of escarpments arching from north to south, including Al-Khuff, Jilh Al-'Ishar, and, the longest and highest of these, the Tuwayq Mountains. With a length of some 800 miles (1,300 km), the Tuwayq Mountains constitute the backbone of the most ...
- Tuways
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...and most of the famous musicians of the town came under her tutelage. Also famed were the female musician Jamila, around whom clustered musicians, poets, and dignitaries; the male musician Tuways, who, attracted by the melodies sung by Persian slaves, imitated their style; and Sa'ib Khathir, the son of a ...
- Tuwhare, Hone
- (from the article "New Zealand literature") ...or nothing of the Maori language. In 1966 Jacqueline Sturm, wife of the poet James K. Baxter, became the first Maori writer to appear in a major anthology of New Zealand short stories. By that time, Hone Tuwhare, the first Maori poet to make a strong impression in English, had ...
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