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Tsui, Daniel C. ... Tuckasegee River

Tsui, Daniel C. Chinese-born American physicist who, with Horst L. Stormer and Robert B. Laughlin, received the 1998 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery that the electrons in a powerful magnetic field at very low temperatures can form a quantum fluid whose particles have fractional electric charges. This effect is known as ... Tsukuba Science City city, Ibaraki ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. It is located 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Tokyo just to the south of Mount Tsukuba. Surrounded by farmland, this highly planned research and education community incorporates five towns and one village and covers 110 square miles (285 square km). Tsumeb company town, north-central Namibia. At an elevation of 4,232 feet (1,290 m), the town is a northern terminus of the country's north-south railway and lies on a main trunk highway about 275 miles (440 km) north of Windhoek, the capital. tsumi in the Shinto religion of Japan, a state of defilement or impurity resulting from the commission of unnatural or criminal acts. Incest, contact with the pollution of blood or death, and agricultural vandalism are prominent examples of tsumi. The term also covered sickness, disaster, and error, all beyond the control ... tsunami catastrophic ocean wave, usually caused by a submarine earthquake, by an underwater or coastal landslide, or by the eruption of a volcano. The term tidal wave is frequently used for such a wave, but it is a misnomer, for the wave has no connection with the tides. Tsuruga city, Fukui ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It faces Tsuruga Bay of the Sea of Japan. A flourishing port since early historic times, it was one of the main centres of communication with the Asian mainland and a major shipment centre for the former national capitals of Nara and Kyoto. Tsuruga's ... Tsuruoka city, Yamagata ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, in the Shonai Plain. Tsuruoka developed as a castle town during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867), and most of its buildings are of that period. Traditional industries produce candles, silk textiles, and sake (rice wine). After the Meiji period (1868-1912), large textile and agricultural machinery ... Tsuruya Namboku IV Japanese Kabuki playwright of the late Tokugawa period (1603-1867), known for his plays with supernatural themes and macabre and grotesque characters. Tsushima archipelago, northwestern Nagasaki ken (prefecture), off the coast of southeastern Japan. The islands lie in the Korea Strait separating Japan and Korea, and divide the strait into the Tsushima Strait (west) and the Korea Strait (east). The archipelago consists principally of two rocky islands, Kami and Shimo, which are separated ... Tsushima Current surface oceanic current, the northeastward-flowing branch of the Kuroshio along the west coast of Japan. Entering the Sea of Japan through the Korea Strait, the Tsushima Current issues the East Korea Warm Current as a northern branch. It is primarily a spring and summer current and is barely discernable in ... Tsushima, Battle of (May 27-29, 1905), naval engagement of the Russo-Japanese War, the final, crushing defeat of the Russian navy in that conflict. Tsutsumi Family family of Japanese businessmen who built two vast corporate empires as Japan made the transition from a manufacturing-based to a service-based economy in the late 20th century. Tsuyama city, northeastern Okayama ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. It lies along the upper Yoshii River, in the centre of the Tsuyama basin. A castle was built there in 1442. An important post town during the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603-1867), Tsuyama is still a centre of traditional home industries, producing tabi ... tsuzumi any of a family of Japanese two-headed drums with hourglass-shaped (waisted) bodies. tsuzure Japanese tapestry, the full name of which is tsuzure-nishiki ("polychrome tapestry"). They were usually woven of silk on cotton warp covered with silk, gold, or silver threads. Tsuzure techniques reached Japan from China in the late 15th or early 16th century during the Muromachi (Ashikaga) period (1338-1573). Production was at ... Tsvangirai, Morgan Zimbabwean opposition leader and trade union activist known for his dissent against the policies of Zimbabwe's longtime president Robert Mugabe. He formed a power-sharing government with Mugabe and became prime minister in 2009. Tsvet, Mikhail Semyonovich Russian botanist who developed the adsorption chromatography technique of separating plant pigments by extracting them from leaves with ether and alcohol and percolating the solution through a column of calcium carbonate. Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna Russian poet whose verse is distinctive for its staccato rhythms, originality, and directness and who, though little known outside Russia, is considered one of the finest 20th-century poets in the Russian language. Tswana westerly division of the Sotho, a Bantu-speaking people of South Africa and Botswana. The Tswana comprise several groupings, the most important of which, numerically speaking, are the Hurutshe, Kgatla, Kwena, Rolong, Tlhaping, and Tlokwa. They numbered about four million at the turn of the 21st century. Tu bi-Shevat (Hebrew: "Fifteenth of Shevat"), Jewish festival of the new year of trees, or arbor day. It occurs on Shevat 15 (January or early February), after most of the annual rain in Israel has fallen and when, thereafter, the fruit of a tree is considered, for tithing, to belong to a ... Tu Duc emperor of Vietnam who followed a policy of conservatism and isolation and whose persecution of Christian missionaries foreshadowed the French conquest of Vietnam. Tu Kuang-t'ing , Taoist scholar of the T'ang period who contributed to the development of Taoist liturgical ritual and the blending of the T'ien-shih and Ling-pao scriptures. His ideas on Taoist ritual were especially influential in the articulation of the common Taoist "fasting," or chia, rites and of the liturgies, or chiao, ... Tu-16 one of the principal strategic bombers of the Soviet Union, designed by Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (1888-1972) and first flown in 1952. More than 2,000 of the mid-wing monoplanes were built. Powered by two turbojet engines, it had a maximum speed of 652 miles per hour (1,050 km per hour) at ... Tuam chief market town of the northern part of eastern County Galway, Ireland. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop, the see having been founded by St. Jarlath (c. 550), and the seat of a Protestant bishop. The Protestant cathedral incorporates part of an ancient church built about 1130 ... Tuamotu Archipelago island group of French Polynesia, central South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago comprises 75 atolls, one raised coral atoll (Makatea), and innumerable coral reefs, roughly dispersed northwest-southeast as a double chain for more than 900 miles (1,450 km). It is the largest group of coral atolls in the world. Tuan, Pham Vietnamese pilot and cosmonaut, the first Vietnamese citizen in space. Tuapse city and seaport of Krasnodar kray (territory), southwestern Russia. It lies on a sheltered bay of the Black Sea. Founded in 1838 around a fortress established in 1828, it grew in the 20th century as a major ship-repairing, oil-refining, and oil-export centre. It is linked by pipeline to Grozny and ... Tuareg Berber-speaking pastoralists who inhabit an area in North and West Africa ranging from Touat, Alg., and Ghudamis, Libya, to northern Nigeria and from Fezzan, Libya, to Timbuktu, Mali. Their political organizations extend across national boundaries. In the late 20th century there were estimated to be 900,000 Tuareg. tuatara either of two species of moderately large lizardlike reptiles endemic to New Zealand. Although some geneticists contend that all living tuataras belong to the same species, two species of extant tuataras, Sphenodon guntheri and S. punctatus, are recognized. These two species, and possibly other now-extinct species, inhabited the main islands ... Tuatha De Danann (Gaelic: "People of the Goddess Danu"), in Celtic mythology, a race inhabiting Ireland before the arrival of the Milesians (the ancestors of the modern Irish). They were said to have been skilled in magic, and the earliest reference to them relates that, after they were banished from heaven because of ... tuba deep-pitched brass wind instrument with valves and wide conical bore. The word tuba originally was the name of a straight-built Roman trumpet and was the medieval Latin word for trumpet. Valved bass brass instruments for bands are mentioned as early as 1829, but little is now known about them. In ... Tuban city, northwestern Jawa Timur provinsi (East Java province), northern Java, Indonesia. It is a fishing port on the Java Sea, about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Surabaya. Road and railway link it with Babat to the south, and it is connected by road with Rembang and Kudus to the ... Tubarao city, southeastern Santa Catarina estado (state), southern Brazil. It is the seat of Tubarao municipality, a unit of local government created in 1870. The city lies on the Tubarao River. Crops cultivated in the surrounding coastal plain include grains, beans, coffee, rice, and sugarcane. Iron ore and steel are mined ... Tubb, Ernest American country music singer and songwriter. His first musical influence was the yodeling of Jimmie Rodgers. He became one of the earliest exponents of honky-tonk with hits such as I'm Walking the Floor over You (1941). He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1942, and he became one of the ... tube anemone (genus Cerianthus), any of a group of invertebrate marine animals of the class Anthozoa (phylum Cnidaria) characterized by an elongated polyp (i.e., a hollow stalklike structure with a mouth and tentacles at the upper end); the polyp lives in a tube of slime on the ocean bottom. The genus is ... tube worm any of a number of tube-dwelling marine worms belonging to the annelid class Polychaeta (see polychaete; feather-duster worm; tentacle worm). Other tube-dwelling worms include the horseshoe worm (phylum Phoronida) and the beardworm (phylum Pogonophora). tuber short, thickened, mostly underground stem that constitutes the resting stage of certain seed plants. It bears minute scale leaves, each with a bud that has the potential for developing into a new plant. The potato is a typical tuber, as is the Jerusalem artichoke. The term is also used imprecisely ... tuberculin test procedure for the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection by the introduction into the skin, usually by injection on the front surface of the forearm, of a minute amount of purified protein derivative (PPD) tuberculin. Tuberculin is a protein substance from the tuberculosis-causing bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, first discovered and extracted by Robert ... tuberculosis 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 tissues and form cavities in the lungs. Blood ... tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa), perennial garden plant and only cultivated species of the genus Polianthes of the family Agavaceae, consisting of about 12 species. All members of the genus are native to southwestern North America. The tuberose has long, bright green leaves clustered at the base; smaller, clasping leaves along the stem; ... tubesnout either of the two species of fishes in the family Aulorhynchidae (order Gasterosteiformes). Both species-Aulorhynchus flavidus and Aulichthys japonicus-are marine and restricted to coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomically, they are sometimes placed in the stickleback family, Gasterosteidae. Tubesnouts are named for their extended snouts. Tubingen city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. The city lies along the Neckar River at its junction with the Ammer and Steinlach rivers, south of Stuttgart. Originating as Castra Alamannorum around the castle of the counts palatine of Tubingen (first mentioned in 1078) and recorded as a town in 1231, it ... Tubingen, University of state-supported university at Tubingen, Ger. It was founded in 1477 by Count Eberhard VI (1445-96), later the first duke of Wurttemberg, a civic and ecclesiastic reformer who established the school after becoming absorbed in the Renaissance revival of learning during his travels to Italy. Tubman, Harriet American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led hundreds of bondsmen to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad-an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized for that purpose. Tubman, William V(acanarat) S(hadrach) statesman whose 27 years as Liberia's 17th president constituted the longest tenure in that office in the history of Africa's first republic (proclaimed in 1847). He was responsible for numerous reforms and social policies, including enactment of suffrage and property rights for all female residents of 21 or older; authorization ... Tubuai Islands southernmost archipelago of French Polynesia in the central South Pacific Ocean. Volcanic in origin, the islands are part of a vast submerged mountain chain, probably a southeasterly extension of the Cook Islands (New Zealand). Scattered over an area some 800 miles (1,300 km) long, they comprise five inhabited islands-Raivavae (6 ... tubular bells series of tuned brass (originally bronze) tubes of graded length, struck with wooden hammers to produce a sound. They first appeared in England in an 1886 performance of Arthur Sullivan's Golden Legend in Coventry. Large tubular bells were at first used as a substitute for church bells in towers. Smaller ... Tucana constellation in the southern sky at about 0 hour right ascension and 60 south in declination. Its brightest star is Alpha Tucanae, with a magnitude of 2.9. This constellation contains the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite of the Milky Way Galaxy and one of the nearest galaxies to Earth at ... Tuchman, Barbara author who was one of the foremost American popular historians in the second half of the 20th century. Tucholsky, Kurt German satirical essayist, poet, and critic, best-known for his cabaret songs. Tuckasegee River river, Jackson county, North Carolina, U.S. It rises in the Blue Ridge, in Pisgah National Forest west of Brevard. The Tuckasegee flows some 50 miles (80 km) northwest past Cullowhee, Whittier, and Bryson City, near which it empties into Fontana Lake in the Little Tennessee River. Thorpe Dam (1941), on ...