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Tuwanuwa (ancient city, 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 Ereğli); Parsuhanda (Purushkhanda; probably modern Acemhöyük); and Lusna (classical Lystra). With the exception of....
Tuwata (ancient religion)
...a bird and a hare, as on the Kültepe seals, and he stands on a stag, his sacred animal. From descriptions of the statues it appears that this is the deity denoted in the texts by the logogram KAL, to be read Kurunda or Tuwata, later Ruwata, Runda. The war god also appears, though his Hittite name is concealed behind the logogram ZABABA, the name of the Mesopotamian war god. His Hattian.....
Tuwatis (king of Tabal)
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 Kızıl), ruled over at least 20 vassal kings. Apparently, however, Assyria’s great military efforts in this period overtaxed its strength. Near the end of Shalmaneser’s reign a rebellion broke out, and it took...
Ṭuwayq Mountains (mountains, Saudi Arabia)
...plateau gives way in the centre and east to a series of escarpments arching from north to south, including Al-Khuff, Jilh Al-ʿIshār, and, the longest and highest of these, the Ṭuwayq Mountains. With a length of some 800 miles (1,300 km), the Ṭuwayq Mountains constitute the backbone of the most densely settled part of Najd, of which Riyadh is a part; the......
Ṭuways (Islamic singer)
...and most of the famous musicians of the town came under her tutelage. Also famed were the female musician Jamīla, around whom clustered musicians, poets, and dignitaries; the male musician Ṭuways, who, attracted by the melodies sung by Persian slaves, imitated their style; and Ṣāʾib Khāthir, the son of a Persian slave. Songs were generally accompanied.....
Tuwhare, Hone (New Zealand author)
Oct. 21, 1922 Kaikohe, Northland, N.Z.Jan. 16, 2008Dunedin, N.Z.Maori poet who made an international impression and became the first widely celebrated Maori poet with his initial collection, No Ordinary Sun (1964). Tuwhare’s poetry, written in English, has a conversational ton...
Tuwim, Julian (Polish poet)
lyric poet who was one of the leaders of the 20th-century group of Polish poets called Skamander....
tuxedo (clothing)
...continued to wear a black frock coat with gray striped trousers for formal day wear and a black tailcoat and trousers with a white waistcoat for evening wear if ladies were present. In America, the tuxedo, or dinner, jacket was beginning to provide a more comfortable alternative; the term derives from the fact that the style was introduced in the millionaire district of Tuxedo Park in the state...
Tuxpan (Veracruz, Mexico)
city, northern Veracruz estado (state), east-central Mexico. It lies along the Tuxpan River, 7.5 miles (12 km) from the river’s mouth on the Gulf of Mexico. Despite its hot, humid climate, Tuxpan is a commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. The principal source of income is petroleum ...
Tuxpan de Rodríguez Cano (Veracruz, Mexico)
city, northern Veracruz estado (state), east-central Mexico. It lies along the Tuxpan River, 7.5 miles (12 km) from the river’s mouth on the Gulf of Mexico. Despite its hot, humid climate, Tuxpan is a commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. The principal source of income is petroleum ...
Tuxtla (Mexico)
city, capital of Chiapas estado (state), southeastern Mexico. It lies at about 1,740 feet (530 metres) above sea level, 7.5 miles (12 km) west of the Grijalva River and about 240 miles (390 km) east of Oaxaca. ...
Tuxtla Guitiérrez (Mexico)
city, capital of Chiapas estado (state), southeastern Mexico. It lies at about 1,740 feet (530 metres) above sea level, 7.5 miles (12 km) west of the Grijalva River and about 240 miles (390 km) east of Oaxaca. ...
Tuy Hoa (Vietnam)
city, south-central Vietnam. An agricultural centre and fishing port on the South China Sea coast near the mouth of the Da Rang River, it is the focus of a fertile, densely populated agricultural lowland devoted to sugarcane, cotton, and rice. Many of the Vietnamese farmers of the Tuy Hoa region were recru...
tuyere (nozzle)
...has been preheated to temperatures from 900° to 1,250° C (1,650° and 2,300° F), together with injected fuel such as oil or natural gas, is blown into the furnace through multiple tuyeres (nozzles) located around the circumference of the furnace near the top of the hearth; these nozzles may number from 12 to as many as 40 on large furnaces. The preheated air is, in tu...
Tuyra, Rio (river, Panama)
stream in eastern Panama, 106 miles (170 km) long. It rises in the Darién highlands (Serranía del Darién) and flows south-southeast then north and west past El Real de Santa María, where it receives the Chucunaque River, and then northwest to La Palma on the Gulf of San Miguel (Pacific Ocean). It ...
Tuyuhun (people)
...At the same time, he strengthened his defenses in the north by repairing the Great Wall. In the northwest in the area around the Koko Nor (Qinghai Hu; “Blue Lake”), he defeated the Tuyuhun people, who from time to time raided the border territories....
Tuz Gölü (lake, Turkey)
saline lake occupying a depression in the dry central plateau of Turkey, 65 miles (105 km) northeast of Konya. It lies at an elevation of 2,970 feet (905 m). For most of the year this very shallow (3–6 feet [1–2 m]) and saline lake has an area of about 580 square miles (1,500 square km). Normally about 50 miles (80 km) long and 3...
Tuz, Lake (lake, Turkey)
saline lake occupying a depression in the dry central plateau of Turkey, 65 miles (105 km) northeast of Konya. It lies at an elevation of 2,970 feet (905 m). For most of the year this very shallow (3–6 feet [1–2 m]) and saline lake has an area of about 580 square miles (1,500 square km). Normally about 50 miles (80 km) long and 3...
Tuzigoot National Monument (park, Arizona, United States)
archaeological site in central Arizona, U.S. It is located in the Verde River valley, 2 miles (3 km) east of Clarkdale; Montezuma Castle National Monument is about 20 miles (32 km) southeast. The monument, established in 1939, occupies an area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 square km); its name is from an ...
Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
town, northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, situated in the Tuzla Basin. Tuzla has long been associated with local deposits of rock salt. In the 10th century it was called Soli (Salts), and its present name is from the Turkish tuz, “salt.”...
TV (broadcasting)
It was a year in which more consumers were able, and apparently willing, to view Internet content on their televisions. Some new high-definition television (HDTV) units—dubbed “smart TVs”—came equipped with the ability to accept streaming Wi-Fi signals of Internet video content from home computer networks. Research firm Forrester Research, Inc. predicted that TVs with.....
TV (aviation)
...facilities, a mixture of mobile equipment and complex fixed stacking and movement systems must be used. The fixed systems, which require complex engineering design and maintenance, are known as transfer vehicles (TVs) and elevating transfer vehicles (ETVs)....
TV Bra for Living Sculpture (work by Paik)
...created installations of numerous television sets programmed with their own experimental and sometimes abstract videos, creating sculptures that are internally kinetic. Paik’s TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969), in which the performance artist and cellist Charlotte Moorman played the cello topless with two small video-playing TV monitors attached to her chest,...
TV Guide (American magazine)
...the company in new directions—founding the magazine Seventeen (1944), acquiring several television and radio stations, and developing TV Guide (1953), which became one of the most popular magazines in the United States. In 1988 Annenberg sold his interests in Triangle for a reported $3.2 billion....
TV Land (American television company)
...cable services dedicated to news, sports, movies, shopping, and music, entire cable channels were devoted to cooking (Food Network), cartoons (Cartoon Network), old television (Nick at Nite, TV Land), old movies (American Movie Classics, Turner Classic Movies), home improvement and gardening (Home and Garden Television [HGTV]), comedy (Comedy Central), documentaries (Discovery Channel),......
TV on the Radio (American rock group)
American alternative rock group known for multilayered musical collages that mix sonic experimentation with accessible pop hooks. The lineup consisted of vocalist Tunde Adebimpe (byname of Babatunde Omoroga Adebimpe; b. Feb. 25, 1975St. Louis, Mo., U.S....
TV remote control
...(CNN), and a host of other targeted audiences. People in some cities went from 3 to 50 choices on the day their cable was installed. The installation of cable also provided an opportunity to add remote-control devices to old TV sets. With so many new choices, and the ability to move from channel to channel without leaving one’s chair, viewers began to watch TV in a more participatory fas...
TV rock (mineral)
borate mineral, NaCaB5O6(ΟおみくろんH)6·5H2O, that consists of hydrated sodium and calcium borate. Individual crystals are colourless and have a vitreous lustre, whereas the more common nodular, rounded, or lenslike crystal aggregates (often resembling cotton balls) are white and have a silky or ...
TV Typewriter (computer terminal)
In September 1973 Radio Electronics published an article describing a “TV Typewriter,” which was a computer terminal that could connect a hobbyist with a mainframe computer. It was written by Don Lancaster, an aerospace engineer and fire spotter in Arizona who was also a prolific author of do-it-yourself articles for electronics hobbyists. The TV......
TV-am (British company)
In 1983 Dyke was recruited by TV-am, a new company broadcasting at breakfast time on Britain’s main commercial channel in opposition to the BBC. TV-am was in serious trouble, losing viewers and money. Employing various populist devices, including the introduction of a segment for children dominated by a puppet rodent named Roland Rat, Dyke restored TV-am’s fortunes. In 1987 he return...
TV—Too Big a Dose of Reality? (reality show)
Strictly speaking, reality programming—unscripted and unrehearsed programs in the form of sporting events, talk shows, documentaries, Candid Camera, and the like—had been part of the television landscape from the earliest days of broadcasting. Later, in 1973, it became more deliberate ...
TVA (government agency, United States)
U.S. government agency established in 1933 to control floods, improve navigation, improve the living standards of farmers, and produce electrical power along the Tennessee River and its tributaries. The Tennessee River was subject to severe periodic fl...
“Tvä människor” (work by Dreyer)
...and religious persecution, set in 17th-century Denmark, that won international recognition and substantially contributed to the revival of the Danish cinema; Tvä människor (1945; Two People); and Ordet (1955; The Word), winner of the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival, dramatizes the complex relationship between social good and spiritual good in an...
Tvardovsky, Aleksandr Trifonovich (Soviet author)
...Union’s leading writers, and a good number of them were either censured or denied further publication there for expressing impermissible political views. Under the liberal editorship of Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1958–70), Novy Mir was the first to publish Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962). The censorship of the magazine i...
Tvaṣṭar (Iranian god)
...Genesis 1–3. What is primarily emphasized is the power and majesty of Ahura Mazdā as creator of heaven and earth. However, beside Ahura Mazdā is an ancient Indo-Iranian god called Thvarshtar (Vedic Tvaṣṭar; “Artisan”), who also appears in Zoroaster’s system of the Beneficent Immortals under the name Spanta Manyu (“the Beneficent......
TVC (military technology)
...engines known as thrust-vector motors or thrusters. This technique of introducing small corrections into a missile’s flight path by slightly altering the force vector of its engines is known as thrust-vector control....
Tver (Russia)
city and administrative centre of Tver oblast (region), western Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the upper Volga and Tvertsa rivers....
Tver (historical principality, Russia)
medieval principality located in the region northwest of Moscow and centring on the city of Tver and including the towns of Kashin, Mikulin, Kholm, Dorogobuzh, and Staritsa. Descendants of Prince Yaroslav Yaroslavich (brother of Alexander Nevsky and son of Yaroslav Vsevolodovich) founded the principality in 1246. Under their ...
Tver (oblast, Russia)
oblast (region), western Russia. It extends from the morainic Valdai Hills in the southwest, across the broad, swampy plain of the upper Volga River, to the shore of the huge Rybinsk Reservoir in the northea...
Tverskaya Prospekt (street, Moscow, Russia)
In the Soviet period much more open space was created, especially by constructing large squares such as Manezhnaya. Many streets were widened—in particular, Tverskaya Prospekt (called Gorky Prospekt, for Russian novelist Maksim Gorky, from 1932 to 1992), one of Moscow’s principal radial roads, which is lined with large shops, hotels, and offices. The Garden Ring itself has been widen...
Tverskoye Knyazhestvo (historical principality, Russia)
medieval principality located in the region northwest of Moscow and centring on the city of Tver and including the towns of Kashin, Mikulin, Kholm, Dorogobuzh, and Staritsa. Descendants of Prince Yaroslav Yaroslavich (brother of Alexander Nevsky and son of Yaroslav Vsevolodovich) founded the principality in 1246. Under their ...
Tvrdoglavi (work by Janevski)
...jaseni (1952; “The Village Beyond the Seven Ash Trees”). His most ambitious work was a cycle of six novels that deals with Macedonian history and includes Tvrdoglavi (1965; “The Stubborn Ones”), a novel articulating the Macedonian people’s myths and legends of remembering and interpreting their history. Prewar playwrights,...
Tvrtko I (ruler of Bosnia)
probably the greatest ruler of Bosnia, ruling as Bosnian ban (provincial lord, subservient to the king of Hungary) from 1353 and king of the Serbs and Bosnia from 1377. ...
Tvrtko Kotromanić (ruler of Bosnia)
probably the greatest ruler of Bosnia, ruling as Bosnian ban (provincial lord, subservient to the king of Hungary) from 1353 and king of the Serbs and Bosnia from 1377. ...
TWA (American corporation)
former American airline that maintained extensive routes in the United States and to Europe, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. TWA was absorbed by American Airlines in 2001....
Twa (people)
one of the best-known of the many Pygmy groups scattered across equatorial Africa. Like all other African Pygmies, the Twa, averaging about 5 feet (1.5 m) in height, are a people of mixed ancestry, probably descendants of the original inhabitants of the equatorial rainforest. They live in the high mountains and plains around Lake Kivu...
Twachtman, John Henry (American painter)
painter and etcher, one of the first American Impressionists....
Twain, Mark (American writer)
American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
Twain, Shania (Canadian musician)
Canadian musician who, with her mix of country melodies and pop vocals, became one of the most popular crossover artists of the mid-1990s....
twaite shad (fish)
The Allis (or Allice) shad (A. alosa) of Europe is about 75 cm (30 inches) long and 3.6 kg (8 pounds) in weight. The twaite shad (A. finta) is smaller....
Twara (people)
Only limited agricultural activity is carried on in the vicinity by the Twara Bedouin, for whom Al-Ṭūr is a traditional gathering place. Their crops include dates, vegetables, and barley. Stock raising is economically important; camels, donkeys, sheep, and goats are raised, but the Twara must migrate seasonally to find pasture for their flocks. Al-Ṭūr has also......
Twardowski, Kazimierz (Polish philosopher)
...universities in continental Europe, finally taking his doctoral degree in 1912 at the Polish University of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), then a part of Austria. His dissertation was approved by Kazimierz Twardowski, who, for his wide-ranging influence on Polish intellectual life, is known as the father of contemporary Polish philosophy. Twardowski, like Edmund Husserl (the founder of......
Twardowski, Samuel (Polish author)
Polish poet, diarist, and essayist who was very popular in his time....
Twarz mężczyzny (work by Kuncewiczowa)
...against Russian rule, Kuncewiczowa was two years old when her family returned to Warsaw. She studied at the universities of Kraków, Warsaw, and Nancy (France). Her first novel, Twarz mężczyzny (1928; “The Face of the Male”), established her gift as a writer who excelled in penetrating psychological portraits expressed with subtle irony and......
twayblade (plant)
any member of either of two genera of orchids, family Orchidaceae: Liparis and Listera. Liparis, also known as false twayblade, with about 320 species, is distributed worldwide. Each plant has broad, paired leaves, and most have dull-coloured, purplish flowers borne in a terminal spike. The flowers of the large twayblade (...
“Twee vrouwen” (novel by Mulisch)
...(1959; The Stone Bridal Bed), in which an American pilot involved in the bombing of Dresden returns to the city years later, won him an international audience. Twee vrouwen (1975; Two Women; filmed 1979) explored love between two women. Perhaps his most popular work is his novel De aanslag (1982; The Assault; filmed 1985), in which one family betrays another.....
tweed (fabric)
any of several fabrics of medium-to-heavy weight, rough in surface texture, and produced in a great variety of colour and weave effects largely determined by the place of manufacture. The descriptions “Scottish,” “Welsh,” “Cheviot,” “Saxony,” “Harris,” “Yorkshire,” “Donegal,” and “West of Engl...
Tweed, Blanche Oelrichs Thomas Barrymore (American writer and performer)
American writer and performer who produced poetry and plays, acted onstage, and did readings for radio....
Tweed River (river, Australia)
principal river of the North Coast district, New South Wales, Australia, usually associated with the Clarence and Richmond rivers. Of its three arms, two rise in the McPherson Range and the third in the Tweed Range of the Eastern Highlands. The river ...
Tweed, River (river, United Kingdom)
river in the Scottish Borders council area of southeastern Scotland, flowing eastward for 97 miles (156 km) and forming for 17 miles (27 km) the border with England. For the last 2 miles (3 km) of its course, the Tweed flows through England before entering the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed....
Tweed, William Magear (American politician)
American politician who, with his “Tweed ring” cronies, systematically plundered New York City of sums estimated at between $30,000,000 and $200,000,000....
Tweed, William Marcy (American politician)
American politician who, with his “Tweed ring” cronies, systematically plundered New York City of sums estimated at between $30,000,000 and $200,000,000....
Tweeddale, John Hay, 2nd earl and 1st marquess of, Earl of Gifford, Viscount of Walden, Lord Hay of Yester (Scottish statesman)
British statesman and lord high chancellor of Scotland from 1692 to 1696....
Tweedie, Jill Sheila (British journalist)
British journalist and author (b. May 22, 1936, Egypt--d. Nov. 12, 1993, London, England), was a columnist for The Guardian from 1969 to 1988 and on that paper’s women’s pages was one of the first to write about such feminist subjects as the treatment of women during childbirth, bride burning in India, t...
Tweedledee and Tweedledum (fictional characters)
fictional characters in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass (1872). In keeping with the mirror-image scheme of Carroll’s book, Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two rotund little men who are identical except that they are left-right reversals of each other. In the 18th century, before Carroll created the characters, the words tweedledum and ...
Tweedledum and Tweedledee (fictional characters)
fictional characters in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass (1872). In keeping with the mirror-image scheme of Carroll’s book, Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two rotund little men who are identical except that they are left-right reversals of each other. In the 18th century, before Carroll created the characters, the words tweedledum and ...
Tweedsmuir Hills (hills, Scotland, United Kingdom)
...Annandale, and Eskdale—extend northward from this plain into the surrounding forested and moor-covered hills of the Southern Uplands, including the Lowther Hills and the Tweedsmuir Hills, which reach an elevation of 2,696 feet (822 metres) at White Coomb. Dumfriesshire lies entirely within the council area of Dumfries and Galloway....
Tweedy, Jeff (American musician)
American band led by singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy that spun off from the group Uncle Tupelo in the mid-1990s and evolved from its alternative country roots into one of the most successful and multifaceted rock groups of its time. The original members were Jeff Tweedy (in full Jeffrey Scott Tweedy; b. August 25,......
Tweedy, Jeffrey Scott (American musician)
American band led by singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy that spun off from the group Uncle Tupelo in the mid-1990s and evolved from its alternative country roots into one of the most successful and multifaceted rock groups of its time. The original members were Jeff Tweedy (in full Jeffrey Scott Tweedy; b. August 25,......
tweeter (electroacoustical device)
...into parts that are reproduced by different kinds of speakers designed for a particular frequency range. The low-frequency speaker is called a woofer, and the high-frequency speaker is called a tweeter. In many sound reproduction systems a third, or midrange, speaker is also used, and in a few systems there are separate “subwoofers” and “supertweeters” to reproduce.....
tweezer (tool)
...pins were stronger, tidier, and more attractive than the fish bones and thorns they replaced for securing clothing; even in the 3rd century bc there were shapes resembling the modern safety pin. Tweezers were invented, but whether for depilatory or surgical purpose is unknown; there are artifacts presumed to be scalpels. Plates, nails, and rivets also developed early....
tweezers (tool)
...pins were stronger, tidier, and more attractive than the fish bones and thorns they replaced for securing clothing; even in the 3rd century bc there were shapes resembling the modern safety pin. Tweezers were invented, but whether for depilatory or surgical purpose is unknown; there are artifacts presumed to be scalpels. Plates, nails, and rivets also developed early....
twelf (number)
The number 12 is strongly associated with the heavens—the 12 months, the 12 signs of the zodiac, and the 12 stations of the Moon and of the Sun. The ancients recognized 12 main northern stars and 12 main southern stars. There are 24 = 2 × 12 hours in the day, of which 12 are daytime and the other 12 nighttime. The number 12 is the product of the sacred and...
Twelfth Amendment (United States Constitution)
amendment (1804) to the Constitution of the United States repealing and revising presidential election procedures....
Twelfth Imam (Shīʿite imam)
(disappeared 878), 12th and last imam, venerated by the Ithnā ʿAsharīyah, or Twelver sect, the main body of Shīʿite Muslims. It is believed that Muḥammad al-Mahdī al-Ḥujjah has been concealed by God (a doctrine known as ghaybah, or occultation) and that he will reappear in time as the mahdi, or mes...
Twelfth Mile Stone (South Africa)
city, Western Cape province, South Africa. It lies east of Cape Town within the Cape Peninsula urban area. Originally a village called Twelfth Mile Stone, Bellvi...
Twelfth Night (work by Shakespeare)
comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1600–02 and printed in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of an authorial draft or possibly a playbook. One of Shakespeare’s finest comedies, Twelfth Night precedes the great tragedies and problem plays...
“Twelfth Night; or, What You Will” (work by Shakespeare)
comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1600–02 and printed in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of an authorial draft or possibly a playbook. One of Shakespeare’s finest comedies, Twelfth Night precedes the great tragedies and problem plays...
twelve (number)
The number 12 is strongly associated with the heavens—the 12 months, the 12 signs of the zodiac, and the 12 stations of the Moon and of the Sun. The ancients recognized 12 main northern stars and 12 main southern stars. There are 24 = 2 × 12 hours in the day, of which 12 are daytime and the other 12 nighttime. The number 12 is the product of the sacred and...
Twelve Apostles (rock formation, Victoria, Australia)
...than 200 native species, but also as a cultural centre, preserving and transmitting indigenous knowledge through guided tours into the protected bushlands. Off the southwest coast of Victoria, the Twelve Apostles, a spectacular formation of limestone sea stacks, are part of Port Campbell National Park; the historic collapse of one of the stacks occurred in 2005....
Twelve Apostles, Cathedral of (cathedral, Moscow, Russia)
...was restored a few years later. At its foot is the enormous Tsar Bell, cast in 1733–35 but never rung. Nearby is the Tsar Cannon, cast in 1586. Beside the gun are located the mid-17th-century Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles and the adjoining Patriarchal Palace....
Twelve Apostles, Council of the (Mormon governing body)
The “General Authorities” of the church are the First Presidency (the church president and two councillors), the Council of the Twelve Apostles, the First Quorum of Seventy, and the presiding bishop and two councillors, who manage the church’s property and welfare programs. All are “sustained in office” by the regular and now ritualized vote of confidence at the....
Twelve Articles (German religious document)
...ideas as solutions to the problems at hand. The clearest evidence of the Reformation’s impact on the shaping of what some modern scholars call “the revolution of the common man” are the Twelve Articles drawn up for the Swabian peasantry by an Evangelical cleric and associate of Zwingli’s. Article 3 of this document asserts, “The Bible proves that we are free, ...
Twelve Bens (mountains, Ireland)
...and many islands, peat bogs, and lakes. It is known for its austerely grand scenery, Connemara ponies, and tweeds. North of the Clifden-Galway road are the sharp-peaked quartzite ranges of the Twelve Bens and Maumturks, with many summits more than 2,000 feet (610 metres) high. The population of the region is concentrated in a narrow coastal belt in which the cultivable land was built up......
Twelve Chairs, The (work by Ilf and Petrov)
In 1928 they published the first fruit of their collaboration, Dvenadtsat stulyev (The Twelve Chairs), a rollicking picaresque novel of farcical adventures within a framework of telling satire on Soviet life during the New Economic Policy (NEP) period. The work was an instant success, and its rogue-hero—the irrepressible Ostap Bender—became overnight, and remained, one....
Twelve Colleges building (building, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Farther back, the Twelve Colleges building (Trezzini, 1722–42), originally intended to house the supreme governmental bodies of Peter, is now the home of the city’s state university. The building is divided into 12 identical but independent sections and runs at right angles to the Neva embankment, which is fronted at that point by the facades of the main building of the Academy of......
Twelve Conclusions (English historical work)
...subtleties of Wycliffe, who probably wrote few or none of the popular tracts in English formerly attributed to him. The most complete statement of early Lollard teaching appeared in the Twelve Conclusions, drawn up to be presented to the Parliament of 1395. They began by stating that the church in England had become subservient to her “stepmother the great church of......
Twelve Days of Christmas
...the baptism, and the first miracle of the Lord at Cana (John 2:1 ff.). In the latter half of the century Eastern and Western churches adopted each other’s incarnation festival, thus establishing the 12-day celebration from Christmas to Epiphany. The particular emphasis in the Eastern feast upon the baptism of Christ led to special liturgical ceremonies of the blessing of waters and the.....
Twelve Deities (Japanese masks)
.... Bugaku masks sometimes have movable parts and have attenuated features intended to convey the characters of the fictional persons whom they represent. The masks called the “Twelve Deities” (1486; Tō Temple, Kyōto), carved by Buddhist sculptors, are among the oldest and best-known examples. A bugaku program usually begins with a selection......
Twelve Gods (paintings by Shoga)
...he was associated in Kyōto, as well as for individual court noblemen who used his paintings in their private religious observances. Of his butsuga, the most important was a group of the “Twelve Gods,” painted on screens, in 1191, for the Tō Temple. The painting of the Moon deity, the only one of the 12 that is extant, exemplifies the style of iconography intro...
Twelve Monkeys (film by Gilliam [1995])
...Fisher King (1991), starring Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, and Mercedes Ruehl in an Academy Award-winning performance. Gilliam offered a much darker take on time travel with 12 Monkeys (1995), starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt, and he garnered a Golden Palm nomination at the Cannes film festival for his adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s ...
Twelve Months of Flowers, The (work by Casteels)
...referred to as “bough pots.” The best known English illustrations of Georgian flower arrangements are those designed by the Flemish artist Peter Casteels for a nursery catalog called The Twelve Months of Flowers (1730). Since the flowers in each bouquet are numbered and keyed to a list at the bottom of the plate, and are one-of-a-kind collections, they are not truly......
Twelve O’Clock High (film by King [1949])
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Twelve Patriarchs, Testaments of the (pseudepigrapha)
pseudepigraphal work (not in any biblical canon) purporting to present the last words of the 12 sons of Jacob—founders of the 12 tribes of Israel. The book is an imitation of the “blessing of Jacob” described in chapter 49 of Genesis, but, unlike its model, this work contains lengthy moral exhortations based on the supposed sin or virtue of each patriarch....
Twelve Peoples, League of the
...city-states in Etruria itself. These city-states, similar to the Greek poleis, consisted of an urban centre and a territory of fluctuating size. Numerous sources refer to a league of the “Twelve Peoples” of Etruria, formed for religious purposes but evidently having some political functions; it met annually at the chief sanctuary of the Etruscans, the Fanum Voltumnae, or shrine......
Twelve Prophets, The (Old Testament)
book of the Hebrew Bible that contains the books of 12 minor prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. In most other versions of the Old Testament, each of these 12 is treated as a separate book (e.g., the ...
Twelve Tables, Law of the (Roman law)
the earliest written legislation of ancient Roman law, traditionally dated 451–450 bc....
Twelve, The (Christianity)
(from Greek apostolos, “person sent”), any of the 12 disciples chosen by Jesus Christ; the term is sometimes also applied to others, especially Paul, who was converted to Christianity a few years after Jesus’ death. In Luke 6:13 it is stated that Jesus chose 12 from his disciples “whom he named apostles,” and in Mark ...
Twelve, The (work by Blok)
...he wrote in 1918—but he felt that it was an inescapable stage in history. Blok expressed this outlook in the novel in verse Dvenadtsat (1918; The Twelve) and the poem Skify (1918; “The Scythians”). Many early readers of The Twelve regarded its depiction of Christ ...
Twelve, The (Old Testament)
book of the Hebrew Bible that contains the books of 12 minor prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. In most other versions of the Old Testament, each of these 12 is treated as a separate book (e.g., the ...