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Tomakomai (Japan)
city, southern Hokkaido, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. The city was a regional transport and commerce centre in the early 19th century. A pulp and paper industry has operated there since 1910, and chemicals are also produced. Commercial and industrial ports were compl...
Tomalin, Susan Abigail (American actress)
American film actress who transcended the early roles of her career, in which she often played characters who were highly sensual but little else, to become a performer of considerable versatility and emotional depth. In 1996 she won an Academy Award for her unglamorous yet engaging performance as a nun counseling death-row prisoners in Dead Man Walkin...
Tomanivi, Mount (mountain, Fiji)
...Pacific Ocean. Its name means “Great Fiji.” Sighted (1789) by Capt. William Bligh of HMS Bounty, the island is split by a central mountain range with many inactive volcanoes. Tomanivi (formerly Mount Victoria), the highest point in Fiji, rises to 4,344 feet (1,324 metres). The mountain range divides the island climatically into a wet southeastern section (120 inches......
Tomar (Portugal)
city and concelho (municipality), central Portugal, on the Nabão River, a tributary of the Zêzere, northeast of Lisbon. The city contains the 12th-century castle of the Knights Templar and the convent of the Order of Christ (Ordem de Cristo; founded 1314), which played...
Tomara dynasty (Indian dynasty)
one of the minor early medieval ruling houses of northern India. The family is known from scattered sources, and it is impossible to reconstruct its history in any detail. Puranic evidence (writings of the Puranas) gives its early location in the Himalayan region. According to bardic tradition, the dynasty was one of the 36 Rajput tribes. The history of the fa...
Tomarctus (extinct mammal genus)
...than it was tall, with a long tail and a fairly brushy coat. Over the millennia Cynodictis gave rise to two branches, one in Africa and the other in Eurasia. The Eurasian branch was called Tomarctus and is the progenitor of wolves, dogs, and foxes. Some genetic studies suggest that wolves were domesticated as early as 16,300 years ago to serve as livestock in China....
Tomasek, Frantisek (Roman Catholic cardinal)
Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Prague (1977–91), whose cautious but resolute opposition to the Czechoslovak communist regime helped to bring about its peaceful demise in the 1989 Velvet Revolution....
Tomašević, Stephen (ruler of Bosnia)
...Turk intervention also reduced the size and undermined the independence of the Bosnian state until the Turks incorporated it into their empire (1463) and executed the last Kotromanić king, Stephen Tomašević (reigned 1461–63)....
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe (Italian author)
Italian author, duke of Palma, and prince of Lampedusa, internationally renowned for his only completed novel, Il gattopardo (1958; The Leopard)....
Tomasi Kulimoetoke II (Wallisian monarch)
July 26, 1918 Mata-Utu, Wallis [Uvea] IslandMay 7, 2007 Mata-UtuWallisian monarch who as the 50th lavelua (paramount chief, or king, of Wallis) was the longest-serving traditional leader in the French South Pacific island dependency Wallis and Futuna. He was a prominent member of a local f...
Tomaspis saccharina (insect)
...and is a powerful leaper. It is found in Europe and North America. Some African species occur in enormous numbers and secrete large amounts of spittle, which drips from tree branches like rain. The sugarcane froghopper (Tomaspis saccharina) is very destructive in Trinidad. Aphrophora species are serious pests of willow and pine. One group of froghoppers secretes small calcareous.....
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
city, Łódzkie województwo (province), central Poland, on the Pilica River. A textile centre, the city contains synthetic-silk factories as well as carpet factories and leatherworks. A national bison preserve is located in nearby Spalska forest. The city has good road and rail connections to Warsaw and Łódź....
tomatillo (plant)
...tomato (P. pruinosa). Chinese lantern is a name alluding to the showy bladderlike calyx of the mature fruit of P. alkekengi, which has also been known as Japanese lantern. Tomatillos (P. philadelphica, also P. ixocarpa) are raised commercially as vegetables in Mexico....
tomato (fruit)
any fruit of the numerous cultivated varieties of Solanum lycopersicum (formerly Lycopersicon esculentum), a plant of the nightshade family (Solanaceae); also, the fruit of L. pimpinelli folium, the tiny currant tomato. Tomato plan...
tomato big-bud virus
...in appearance from those found normally. Certain viruses can cause enlargement of the leaflike flower parts (sepals) surrounding the base of a blossom in plants of the nightshade family. The tomato big-bud virus appears to affect the sepals of the tomato flower rather specifically. These structures enlarge greatly under the influence of the virus and fuse to form huge bladderlike......
tomato fruitworm (insect)
larva of the moth Heliothis zea (in some classifications H. armigera; family Noctuidae). The smooth, fleshy green or brown caterpillars are serious crop pests before they pupate in the soil. Four or five generations of the pale brown adult moths (wingspan 3.5 cm [about 113 inches]) are produced annually. The larvae feed largely on corn (maize), espe...
tomato hornworm (insect)
...a characteristic dorsal caudal horn, hence the common name hornworm. Two economically destructive North American species, the tobacco, or southern, hornworm (Manduca sexta) and the tomato, or northern, hornworm (M. quinquemaculata), attack tomato, tobacco, and potato crops. These leaf-feeding pests are green and can be 10 cm (4 inches) long. Control includes the....
tomato paste
Tomato sauce is often made from tomato paste. Tomato paste usually contains from 24 to 36 percent tomato solids. Typically, it is procured in drums or flexible multiwall bags. Water is pumped in to flush out the paste and to help in diluting it to the desired concentration for sauce. The resulting tomato puree is then mixed with other ingredients to prepare the sauce....
tomato sauce
Tomato sauce is often made from tomato paste. Tomato paste usually contains from 24 to 36 percent tomato solids. Typically, it is procured in drums or flexible multiwall bags. Water is pumped in to flush out the paste and to help in diluting it to the desired concentration for sauce. The resulting tomato puree is then mixed with other ingredients to prepare the sauce....
tomb (funerary architecture)
in the strictest sense, a home or house for the dead; the term is applied loosely to all kinds of graves, funerary monuments, and memorials. In many primitive cultures the dead were buried in their own houses, and the tomb form may have developed out of this practice, as a reproduction in permanent materials of primeval house types. Thus prehistoric tomb barrows were usually built around a round ...
Tomb of Philip the Bold (work by Sluter and Marville)
Sluter’s latest preserved work, the tomb of Philip the Bold, was first commissioned from Jean de Marville, who is responsible only for the arcaded gallery below the sepulchral slab of black marble from Dinant. Forty figures, each about 16 inches (41 cm) high and either designed or executed by Sluter, made up the mourning procession. Not all the figures are still in position at the tomb; thr...
Tomb of Piero and Giovanni de’ Medici (work by Verrocchio)
...1464. In 1468 Verrocchio is known to have executed a bronze candlestick (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) for the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence. This work was followed by his first major commission, the tomb of Piero and Giovanni de’ Medici in the Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo. Completed in 1472, this sarcophagus, set in an archway, is impressive for its originality of composition and its insp...
“Tomb of the Kings, The” (poetry by Hébert)
...The Torrent), is a collection of violent stories centring on a young boy damaged by his brutal mother. It was followed by a second poetry collection, Le Tombeau des rois (1953; The Tomb of the Kings), which more clearly reveals her inner anguish and intensity of purpose. Quebec publishers became wary of her work, so......
Tomb Raider (electronic game)
action game created in 1996 by British electronic game developers Core Design in partnership with Eidos Interactive Ltd. One of the most influential and critically acclaimed titles of the 1990s, Tomb Raider spawned many sequels and laid the groundwork for its genre with innovative graphics and fluid game play....
Tomba, Alberto (Italian skier)
flamboyant Italian Alpine skier who earned five Olympic medals, including gold in both the slalom and the giant slalom at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and in the giant slalom at the 1992 Games in Albertville, France. In 1995 he won the World Cup slalom and giant sl...
Tombador Mountains (mountains, Brazil)
The Diamantina Upland and its northern extension, the Tombador Mountains, run north across Bahia from the borders of Minas Gerais and constitute the line of greatest elevation. The Diamantina reaches its maximum elevation at Almas Peak (6,070 feet [1,850 metres]). From the east and west of this dorsal ridge descend plateaus that vary in elevation between about 650 and 2,600 feet (200 and 800......
tombak (musical instrument)
goblet-shaped small drum that is widely played in Islamic classical and folk music throughout North Africa, Central Asia, and the ...
Tombalbaye, François (president of Chad)
Lisette was removed by an associate more acceptable to some of the opposition, N’Garta (François) Tombalbaye, a southern trade union leader, who became the first president of the republic. In March 1961 Tombalbaye achieved a fusion of the PPT with the principal opposition party, the National African Party (PNA), to form a new Union for the Progress of Chad. An alleged conspiracy by.....
Tombalbaye, N’Garta (president of Chad)
Lisette was removed by an associate more acceptable to some of the opposition, N’Garta (François) Tombalbaye, a southern trade union leader, who became the first president of the republic. In March 1961 Tombalbaye achieved a fusion of the PPT with the principal opposition party, the National African Party (PNA), to form a new Union for the Progress of Chad. An alleged conspiracy by.....
Tombali (region, Guinea-Bissau)
region located in southern Guinea-Bissau. The Tombali River flows east-west in the western part of the region, while the Cumbijã River flows east-west through the north and the Cacine River flows east-west in the south; all three empty into the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the coastal area is covered with mangrove ...
Tombaugh, Clyde W. (American astronomer)
American astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930 after a systematic search for a ninth planet instigated by the predictions of other astronomers. He also discovered several clusters of stars and galaxies, studied the apparent distribution of extragalactic nebulae, and made observations...
Tombaugh, Clyde William (American astronomer)
American astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930 after a systematic search for a ninth planet instigated by the predictions of other astronomers. He also discovered several clusters of stars and galaxies, studied the apparent distribution of extragalactic nebulae, and made observations...
tombeau (musical form)
...popular in his own time, and much of his music was transcribed from lute tablature into staff notation so that it might reach the growing public of keyboard players. Gaultier also popularized the tombeau, a small piece written to the memory of a great personage....
Tombeau des rois, Le (poetry by Hébert)
...The Torrent), is a collection of violent stories centring on a young boy damaged by his brutal mother. It was followed by a second poetry collection, Le Tombeau des rois (1953; The Tomb of the Kings), which more clearly reveals her inner anguish and intensity of purpose. Quebec publishers became wary of her work, so......
Tombigbee River (river, United States)
river formed in northeastern Mississippi, U.S., by the confluence of the West and East forks near Amory, Miss. The river flows south and southeast for nearly 525 miles (845 km) to merge with the Alabama River; the two form the Mobile River, about 45 miles (70 km) north of Mobile, Ala. Its chief tributary, the Black Warrior River, joins it at Demopolis, Ala. The Tombigbee drains...
Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District
...(3-metre-) deep channel from Mobile to Port Birmingham, Ala. By the 1990s most of the original locks and dams had been replaced by those at Jackson, Demopolis, Warrior, Oliver, and Bankhead. The Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District has since 1964 been engaged in development of the upper Tombigbee and its tributaries. Aberdeen and Columbus, Miss., and Demopolis are the chief......
tombo (land register)
(Portuguese: “register of grants”), register of landholdings in Ceylon, compiled in the early 17th century under the Portuguese, and in the late 17th and 18th centuries under the Dutch. The traditional system of land tenure in Ceylon was a complex one based on both obligatory service and a tax in the form of money or kind. To administer this system efficiently, the Portuguese began ...
tombola (game of chance)
game of chance using cards on which there is a grid of numbers, a row of which constitute a win when they have been chosen at random. Bingo is one of the most popular forms of low-priced gambling in the world....
tombolo (geology)
one or more sandbars or spits that connect an island to the mainland. A single tombolo may connect a tied island to the mainland, as at Marblehead, Mass. A double tombolo encloses a lagoon that eventually fills with sediment; fine examples of these occur off the coast of Italy. The shallower waters that occur between an island and the mainland are the loci of such features because sandbars form t...
Tombouctou (region, Mali)
région, northern Mali, West Africa, bordering Mauritania on the northwest, Algeria on the northeast, and the régions of Gao on the east, and Mopti and Ségou on the south. Timbuktu région was created in 1977 from the western part of Gao région. ...
Tombouctou (Mali)
city in the West African nation of Mali, historically important as a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route and as a centre of Islamic culture (c. 1400–1600). Located on the southern edge of the Sahara, about 8 miles (13 km) no...
Tombs of the Kings, Valley of the (archaeological site, Egypt)
long, narrow defile just west of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. It was part of the ancient city of Thebes and was the burial site of almost all the kings (pharaohs) of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties (1539–1075 bce), from Thutmose I...
Tombs of the Queens, Valley of the (archaeological site, Egypt)
gorge in the hills along the western bank of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. It was part of ancient Thebes and served as the burial site of the queens and some royal children of the 19th and 20th dynasties (1292–1075 bc). The queens’ necropolis is located about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the ...
Tombstone (Arizona, United States)
city, Cochise county, southeastern Arizona, U.S. The site was ironically named by Ed Schieffelin, who discovered silver there in 1877 after being told that all he would find would be his tombstone. (An alternative account holds that the townsite was named for the granite rocks of the nearby Dragoon Mountains, which stand out against the landscape like tombstones.) By 1881 a silv...
tombstone (memorial)
...southern Ethiopia carve wooden tomb posts about 6.5 feet (200 cm) high surmounted by carved heads and shoulders representing deceased nobles or warriors. The Arusi, also of southern Ethiopia, make tombstones of like height, ornamented with engravings filled in with red or black, sometimes showing the deceased in rough relief. Similarly shaped gravestones—sometimes plain, sometimes......
Tomcat (aircraft)
two-seat, twin-engine jet fighter built for the U.S. Navy by the Grumman Corporation (now part of the Northrop Grumman Corporation) from 1970 to 1992. As a successor to the F-4 Phantom II, it was designed in the 1960s with the aerodynamic and electronic capacities to defend U.S. aircraft-carrier operations at long ranges against Soviet aircraft and missiles. D...
Tome (work by Leo I)
...the creed of Constantinople (381; subsequently known as the Nicene Creed), two letters of Cyril against Nestorius, which insisted on the unity of divine and human persons in Christ, and the Tome of Pope Leo I confirming two distinct natures in Christ and rejecting the Monophysite doctrine that Christ had only one nature. The council then explained these doctrines in its own......
Tomé, Narciso (Spanish architect)
The “Transparente” (completed 1732), designed by Narciso Tomé for the cathedral in Toledo, is among the masterpieces of Churrigueresque. Tomé created an arrangement in which the Holy Sacrament could be placed within a transparent vessel that was visible from both the high altar and the ambulatory, seen both by the congregation and the pilgrim. Sculpted clouds, gilded......
Tomei, Marisa (American actress)
The “Transparente” (completed 1732), designed by Narciso Tomé for the cathedral in Toledo, is among the masterpieces of Churrigueresque. Tomé created an arrangement in which the Holy Sacrament could be placed within a transparent vessel that was visible from both the high altar and the ambulatory, seen both by the congregation and the pilgrim. Sculpted clouds, gilded......
Tomelloso (city, Spain)
city, Ciudad Real provincia (province), in Castile–La Mancha comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), south-central Spain. It lies on the plain of La Mancha, northeast of Ciudad Real city. Tomelloso is one of Spain’s leading melon- and wine-pro...
tomentum (zoology)
...the fly is functional as well as decorative. Sometimes the bright colour and pattern of many flies is metallic (e.g., blow flies), but most often the fly is covered with a fine coating called tomentum or dusting. Many flies, particularly those of more highly evolved families, are bristly; and the strongest bristles have a precise location, particularly on the thorax. The arrangement of.....
Tomeo, Javier (Spanish author)
...to the novel; El metro de platino iradiado (1990; “The Metre of Irradiated Platinum”) is considered by many his masterpiece. He was elected to the Spanish Academy in 2004. Tomeo is an Aragonese essayist, dramatist, and novelist whose works, with their strange, solitary characters, emphasize that “normal” is but a theoretical concept. His novels include.....
Tomi sŏlhwa (Korean legend)
...greatly to the development of Korean literature in Chinese. He was renowned for his poetry and his prose. Noteworthy legends that developed during this time include such tales as Tomi sŏlhwa (“Tale of Tomi”), about a woman who undergoes a gruesome ordeal at the hands of a tyrannical king, and Chigwi sŏlhwa......
Tomiki Kenji (Japanese martial arts master)
...Morihei. There are no offensive moves in aikido. As taught by Ueshiba, it was so purely defensive an art that no direct contest between practitioners was possible. Later a student of Ueshiba, Tomiki Kenji, developed a competition style (known as Tomiki aikido) that incorporated aikido techniques. A competitor attempts to score points by swiftly touching an opponent with a rubber or wooden......
Tomioka (Japan)
city, south-central Gumma ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan, on the Kabura River, west of Takasaki. Situated on a local railway between Takasaki and Shimonita, it is the cultural, administrative, and economic hub of the river valley. Tomioka was an early trade centre for cocoons and raw silk and w...
Tomioka Dōsetsu (Japanese artist)
Japanese artist of bunjinga, or “literati painting” (which originated in China and was also called Nanga, or the Southern school of Chinese art). Tomioka’s philosophical view was deeply rooted in Confucianism; and, as a crea...
Tomioka Tessai (Japanese artist)
Japanese artist of bunjinga, or “literati painting” (which originated in China and was also called Nanga, or the Southern school of Chinese art). Tomioka’s philosophical view was deeply rooted in Confucianism; and, as a crea...
Tomioka Yūsuke (Japanese artist)
Japanese artist of bunjinga, or “literati painting” (which originated in China and was also called Nanga, or the Southern school of Chinese art). Tomioka’s philosophical view was deeply rooted in Confucianism; and, as a crea...
Tomis (Romania)
city, capital of Constanţa judeţ (county), southeastern Romania, on the Black Sea. Situated about 125 miles (200 km) east of Bucharest, it is the country’s principal seaport. Since 1960 a coastal conurbation stretching from Năvodari to Mangalia, includi...
Tomislav (ruler of Croatia)
...an independent Croatian state developed with its centre in northern Dalmatia, later incorporating Croatia proper and Slavonia as well. This state grew into a powerful military force under King Tomislav (reigned c. 910–928). Croatia retained its independence under native kings until 1102, when the crown passed into the hands of the Hungarian dynasty. The precise terms of this......
Tomistoma schlegeli (reptile)
The false gavial (Tomistoma schlegeli) looks like a gavial. It is placed by some authorities with the crocodiles in the family Crocodilidae and by others in the family Gavialidae. It is found in Southeast Asia and is also a fish-eater....
tomite (protozoan stage)
...resistant to chemical treatment of the water environment. The mature parasite leaves the host, settles, and forms a cystlike structure that also protects it from chemical treatment. Immature forms (tomites) are produced in quantity within the cystlike structure and then released. A tomite must quickly infect a new host, as it cannot otherwise survive; i.e., it is an obligate parasite. Copper......
tomitsuki (Japanese festival)
...conducted various ceremonies and concocted other means to increase their income. Two of the most important such ceremonies were kaichō (“displaying temple treasures”) and tomitsuki. Kaichō consisted of allowing the people to worship a Buddhist image that was normally kept concealed and not generally displayed. Gradually this ceremony came to be.....
Tomizza, Fulvio (Italian author)
...at personal sympathies that cross cultural boundaries (La suora giovane [1959; The Novice] and Il fratello italiano [1980; “The Italian Brother”]). Fulvio Tomizza also tackled this theme in L’amicizia (1980; “The Friendship”)....
Tomjanovich, Rudy (American basketball player and coach)
...losing seasons. The early Rockets teams were led by a pair of future Hall of Famers—Elvin Hayes, who had starred for the University of Houston, and diminutive Calvin Murphy—as well as by Rudy Tomjanovich, who would later coach the Rockets for 12 seasons. Houston traded for elite centre Moses Malone two games into the 1976–77 season, and that year the Rockets posted the firs...
Tomkins, Thomas (English composer and organist)
English composer and organist, the most important member of a family of musicians that flourished in England in the 16th and 17th centuries....
Tomlin, Bradley Walker (American painter)
American artist whose paintings introduced an elegiac tone to post-World War II abstract art. Following a path independent from art-world trends, in the last five years of his life he produced a body of work notable for its great originality and depth of feeling....
Tomlin, Mike (American football coach)
...wide receiver Hines Ward, and safety Troy Polamalu—they defeated the Seattle Seahawks to gain a fifth Super Bowl title. In 2009 the Steelers, under the leadership of second-year head coach Mike Tomlin, beat the Arizona Cardinals in dramatic fashion to capture their record sixth Super Bowl championship. After missing the play-offs following the 2009 regular season, Pittsburgh captured......
Tomlinson, Alfred Charles (English poet)
English poet whose best work expresses his perceptions of the world with clarity and sensitivity....
Tomlinson, Charles (English poet)
English poet whose best work expresses his perceptions of the world with clarity and sensitivity....
Tomlinson, David (actor)
Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)Dick Van Dyke (Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr.)David Tomlinson (George W. Banks)Glynis Johns (Winifred Banks)Hermione Baddeley (Ellen)...
Tomlinson, H. M. (English writer)
English novelist and essayist who wrote naturally and with feeling about London, the sea, the tropics, and the futility of war....
Tomlinson, Henry Major (English writer)
English novelist and essayist who wrote naturally and with feeling about London, the sea, the tropics, and the futility of war....
Tomlinson, Jane (British health-care activist)
Feb. 21, 1964 Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Eng.Sept. 3, 2007Leeds, West YorkshireBritish cancer activist and fund-raiser who after being diagnosed with incurable cancer, raised £1.75 million (about $3.57 million) for cancer research and charity through a series of donor-sponsored marat...
Tomlinson, LaDainian (American football player)
American professional gridiron football player who was one of the most productive running backs in National Football League (NFL) history....
Tomlinson, Roger (Canadian geographer)
In 1963 the English-born Canadian geographer Roger Tomlinson began developing what would eventually become the first true GIS in order to assist the Canadian government with monitoring and managing the country’s natural resources. (Because of the importance of his contribution, Tomlinson became known as the “Father of GIS.”) Tomlinson built on the work of Tobler and others who...
TOMM40 (genetics)
Genetic screening to determine the status of a gene known as TOMM40 (translocase of outer mitochondrial membrane 40 homolog [yeast]) can be used to provide additional information about the risk of Alzheimer disease and to predict the age of onset. There are several forms of this gene, which differ in their length due to variations that influence the number of repeats of a......
Tommaseo, Niccolò (Italian author)
...little interest in politics and disapproved of the conspiratorial activities of the Carbonari and other revolutionary groups. But in the late 1840s, Manin underwent a change and joined the patriot Niccolò Tommaseo in giving expression to the discontent of the Venetian people under Austrian rule....
Tommaso D’Aquino, San (Italian Christian theologian and philosopher)
Italian Dominican theologian, the foremost medieval Scholastic. He developed his own conclusions from Aristotelian premises, notably in the metaphysics of personality, creation, and Providence. As a theologian he was responsible in his two masterpieces, the Summa theologiae and the Summa co...
Tommotian Stage (geology)
...shelly fauna and a lack of trilobites. It is near the lowest stratigraphic occurrence of this fauna that the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary stratotype has been placed. The fauna includes that of the Tommotian Stage, as applied in Russia, and it has often been referred to as the Tommotian fauna. It is known from many localities around the world, but time correlations lack precision. A general......
Tommy (recording by the Who)
...States (I Can See for Miles, released in 1967, was the group’s only Billboard Top Ten single). It was the 1969 rock opera Tommy—and a memorable performance at Woodstock that summer—that made the Who a world-class album-rock act. In the process, Townshend was recognized as one of rock’s...
Tommy (mammal)
...largest species—the dama gazelle, Grant’s gazelle, and Soemmering’s gazelle—are placed in the genus Nanger (formerly considered a subgenus), and two of the smaller species—Thomson’s gazelle and the red-fronted gazelle, which are closely related enough to be considered sibling, or even the same, species—have become the genus Eudorcas...
Tommy (film by Russell)
...Professione: reporter (1975; The Passenger), in which Nicholson portrays a depressed reporter who assumes a dead man’s identity, and Tommy (1975), director Ken Russell’s garish production of the Who’s rock opera, featuring Nicholson in a supporting singing role as the title character’s doctor....
Tommy Boy Records (American company)
Dance Music Report editor Tom Silverman started up Tommy Boy Records in 1981 in his Manhattan, New York City, apartment on West 85th Street. Producer Arthur Baker helped put the label on the map with hits by Afrika Bambaataa —“Looking for the Perfect Beat” (1982) and “Planet Rock” (1983)—whose robotic rhythms were inspired by European groups like......
Tommy Boy Records: Rocking the Planet from West 85th Street (Tommy Boy Records)
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tommy gun (firearm)
submachine gun patented in 1920 by its American designer, General John T. Thompson. The weapon became famous during the U.S. Prohibition era (1920–33) as the gun used by gangsters. Indeed it became so widely known in that era that it is commonly (but erroneously) believed to be the first submachine gun. It weighed almost 10 pounds (4.5 kg) empty and fired .45-calibre ammunition. The magazin...
Tommygoff (snake)
...with darker brown blotches. The wutu, also South American, is a dangerous snake about 1.2 m long. It is brown, boldly marked on its sides with thick, dark semicircles outlined in yellow. The jumping viper is an aggressive, brown or gray Central American snake with diamond-shaped, crosswise markings on its back. It is usually about 60 centimetres (2 feet) long. It strikes so energetically......
Tomo River (river, Colombia)
...a series of narrow passages among enormous granite boulders. The waters fall in a succession of rapids, ending with the Atures Rapids. In this region, the main tributaries are the Vichada and Tomo rivers from the Colombian Llanos, and the Guayapo, Sipapo, Autana, and Cuao rivers from the Guiana Highlands....
Tomochichi (Yamacraw chief)
...a series of narrow passages among enormous granite boulders. The waters fall in a succession of rapids, ending with the Atures Rapids. In this region, the main tributaries are the Vichada and Tomo rivers from the Colombian Llanos, and the Guayapo, Sipapo, Autana, and Cuao rivers from the Guiana Highlands.......
tomography (radiology)
radiologic technique for obtaining clear X-ray images of deep internal structures by focusing on a specific plane within the body. Structures that are obscured by overlying organs and soft tissues that are insufficiently delineated on conventional X rays can thus be adequately visualized....
Tomonaga Shin’ichirō (Japanese physicist)
Japanese physicist, joint winner, with Richard P. Feynman and Julian S. Schwinger of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 for developing basic principles of quantum electrodynamics....
Tomorrow (American television show)
...Fridays following The Tonight Show, the latest regularly scheduled network program to date. The network continued this trend a few months later, when Tomorrow (1973–82), a talk show hosted by Tom Snyder, was placed in the hour following Tonight on Mondays through Thursdays. In 1975 the topical sketch come...
Tomorrow (novel by Swift)
...In 2003 he published The Light of Day, which explores a private investigator’s relationship with a client convicted of murdering her husband. Swift’s novel Tomorrow (2007) returns to themes of the family as a woman lies awake, thinking to the following day when she must reveal a long-suppressed, life-altering truth to her twin chil...
“Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform” (work by Howard)
In the 1880s Howard wrote To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform. Not published until 1898, this work was reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow. In this book he proposed the founding of “garden cities,” each a self-sufficient entity—not a dormitory suburb—of 30,000 population, and each ringed by an......
Tomorrow Never Dies (film by Spottiswoode)
...the role. His first film in the series, GoldenEye (1995), made more than $350 million worldwide, the most ever for a Bond film at that time. The second, Tomorrow Never Dies (1999), scored record grosses for a Bond film in the United States. Brosnan brought out the human side of the Bond character, and the series producers sought to emphasize......
Tomorrow Never Knows (song by the Beatles)
...the chamber pop ballad Yesterday and the enigmatic folk tune Norwegian Wood (both in 1965) to the hallucinatory hard rock song Tomorrow Never Knows (1966), with a lyric inspired by Timothy Leary’s handbook The Psychedelic Experience (1964). It also included the carnivalesque soundscape of ......
Tomorrow’s Children (album by Seeger)
...Grammy, for At 89 (2008), a collection that found the artist approaching his 90th birthday with undiminished spirit and hope. In 2010 he released Tomorrow’s Children, an album dedicated to environmental awareness that Seeger recorded with the Rivertown Kids, a group of students who attended middle school near Seeger’s hom...
Tomos pisteos (work by Gregory II Cyprius)
Gregory’s stand against Becchus and against the theology of the Roman Catholic church led him to write Tomos pisteos (“Tome on Faith”), which refuted the Latin position that the Holy Spirit proceeded from God the Son as well as God the Father. The text, however, was denounced as unorthodox by the patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch; and, along with a subsequent work of...
Tompion, Thomas (English clockmaker)
English maker of clocks, watches, and scientific instruments who was a pioneer of improvements in timekeeping mechanisms that set new standards for the quality of their workmanship....
Tompkins (county, New York, United States)
county, west-central New York state, U.S., constituting a plateau region that rises to rugged hills in the south. Cayuga Lake, which extends into the county from the northwestern corner, is the site of Taughannock Falls and Allan H. Treman state parks....