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120ea1bb37cceb6a828b294ecb2ea5a7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sushruta | Sushruta | Sushruta
Sushruta, also spelled Suśruta, (flourished c. 6th century bce), ancient Indian surgeon known for his pioneering operations and techniques and for his influential treatise Sushruta-samhita, the main source of knowledge about surgery in ancient India.
For Sushruta, the concept of shalya tantra (surgical scienc... |
10182fa0dc4e2368464b44bb65c1d2d9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susunaga | Susunaga | Susunaga
Shisunaga, or Susunaga, the founder, was of obscure origin and may have initially served as Magadhan viceroy at Kashi (Varanasi). Gradually he came to be associated with the early Magadhan capital Girivraja, or Rajgir, and reestablished the city of Vaishali in north Bihar. Shishunaga’s reign, like that…
…a ser... |
0b48b17af69947cf04e37fa4999790fc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sutton-Foster | Sutton Foster | Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster, in full Sutton Lenore Foster, (born March 18, 1975, Statesboro, Georgia, U.S.), American actress and singer whose high-spirited charisma and brightly expressive voice brought her fame in Broadway musical theatre. She won Tony Awards for her lead roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002) and... |
c3a3101b6397ece00e0e00f0c41c8c47 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suttung | Suttung | Suttung
…with honey by the giant Suttung, his blood formed mead that gave wisdom and poetic inspiration to those who drank it. The story of Kvasir’s murder is told in the Braga Raedur (“Conversations of Bragi”), one of the Eddas.
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07e60045c6149b3dc67d7447e709163a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suzan-Lori-Parks | Suzan-Lori Parks | Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks, originally spelled Susan-Lori Parks, (born May 10, 1963, Fort Knox, Kentucky, U.S.), American playwright who was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama (for Topdog/Underdog).
Parks, who was writing stories at age five, had a peripatetic childhood as the ... |
8e8d8fd32c2102af5c9438638aca336b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suzanne-Collins | Suzanne Collins | Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins, (born August 10, 1962, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.), American author and screenwriter, best known for the immensely popular Hunger Games series of young-adult novels.
Collins was the youngest of four children. Because her father was a career officer in the U.S. Air Force, the family mo... |
37844d76aafd8bb0b2b964398e187049 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suzanne-Farrell | Suzanne Farrell | Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell, original name Roberta Sue Ficker, (born August 16, 1945, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.), American dancer especially known for her performances with the New York City Ballet.
Roberta Sue Ficker began studying ballet at the age of eight. In 1960 she won a scholarship to the School of American B... |
55777c564703e7632cd6f4b9e8afefd8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suzuki-Bunji | Suzuki Bunji | Suzuki Bunji
Suzuki Bunji, (born Sept. 4, 1885, Miyagi prefecture, Japan—died March 12, 1946, Sendai, Miyagi prefecture), Japanese Christian who was one of the primary organizers of the labour movement in Japan. An early convert to Christianity, Suzuki, like many of his co-religionists, soon became active in the stru... |
f60a9ff1eb3a6fca228f72d1f43a4c81 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suzuki-Harunobu | Suzuki Harunobu | Suzuki Harunobu
Suzuki Harunobu, original name Hozumi Harunobu, pseudonym (gō) Chōeiken, or Shikojin, popular name (tsūshō) Jirobei, or Jihei, (born 1725?, Edo [now Tokyo], Japan—died July 8, 1770, Edo), Japanese artist of the Ukiyo-e movement (paintings and wood-block prints of the “floating world”), who established... |
d5b9be08b552f114484f28843810015f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suzuki-Toshio | Suzuki Toshio | Suzuki Toshio
… and Takahata Isao and producer Suzuki Toshio. Studio Ghibli is known for the high quality of its filmmaking and its artistry. Its feature films won both critical and popular praise and influenced other animation studios. The headquarters are in Tokyo.
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0208ee55990eb5bf3775badeb4bf039e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Svatopluk | Svatopluk | Svatopluk
… (reigned 846–870) and his nephew Svatopluk (reigned 870–894), extended their territory to include all of Bohemia, the southern part of modern Poland, and the western part of modern Hungary, thereby creating the state of Great Moravia. Rostislav also invited the Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius (wh... |
865b4fe90281fadd5273248f6e3a67e3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sven-Anders-Hedin | Sven Anders Hedin | Sven Anders Hedin
Sven Anders Hedin, (born February 19, 1865, Stockholm, Sweden—died November 26, 1952, Stockholm), Swedish explorer who led through Central Asia a series of expeditions that resulted in important archaeological and geographical findings.
Travels in the Caucasus, Persia, and Mesopotamia when he was 20 ... |
5c9e4cbe0b15f8364acdfb2a6f83fb81 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sverrir | Sverrir | Sverrir
… describes the life of King Sverrir (reigned 1184–1202). The first part was written by Abbot Karl Jónsson under the supervision of the king himself, but it was completed (probably by the abbot) in Iceland after Sverrir’s death. Sturla Þórðarson wrote two royal biographies: Hákonar saga on King Haakon Haakonsso... |
a054921126c643bd1f3b1f3b926f2981 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sverrir-Sigurdsson | Sverrir Sigurdsson | Sverrir Sigurdsson
Sverrir Sigurdsson,, Norwegian Sverre Sigurdsson, (born c. 1149, Faroe Islands—died March 9, 1202, Bergen, Nor.), king of Norway (1177–1202) and one of the best-known figures in medieval Norwegian history. By expanding the power of the monarchy and limiting the privileges of the church, he provoked ... |
0170d3542c5e994ced40499416d33383 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Svyatoslav-Nikolayevich-Fyodorov | Svyatoslav Nikolay Fyodorov | Svyatoslav Nikolay Fyodorov
Svyatoslav Nikolay Fyodorov, (born Aug. 8, 1927, Proskurov, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now Khmelnytskyy, Ukraine]—died June 2, 2000, near Moscow, Russia), Russian eye surgeon who in 1974 developed radial keratotomy (RK), the first surgical procedure to correct myopia (nearsightedness). In Fyodorov’... |
2ef5bc3f6cbbe680ff25fd9843d88ff4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Syama-Sastri | Syama Sastri | Syama Sastri
Syama Sastri.
Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar, and Syama Sastri, contemporaries who lived in the second half of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. The devotional songs that they composed, called kriti, are a delicate blend of text, melody, and rhythm and are the most popular items of a South... |
1c7928e2160483a00a428daf0c0a5fe3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sybil-Thorndike | Dame Sybil Thorndike | Dame Sybil Thorndike
Dame Sybil Thorndike, (born Oct. 24, 1882, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died June 9, 1976, London), English actress of remarkable versatility.
The daughter of a canon of Rochester Cathedral, she performed with Annie Horniman’s company in Manchester (1908–09 and 1911–13), and then joined the O... |
77fabe809f1c006d1b2eb36c5276fc60 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sydney-Camm | Sydney Camm | Sydney Camm
…Hurricane emerged from efforts by Sydney Camm, Hawker’s chief designer, to develop a high-performance monoplane fighter and from a March 1935 Air Ministry requirement calling for an unprecedented heavy armament of eight wing-mounted 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) machine guns. Designed around a 1,200-horsepower, 12-c... |
ef9b04c4a58aa111f036596b92d58b09 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sydney-Greenstreet | Sydney Greenstreet | Sydney Greenstreet
(1944), starring Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Zachary Scott. The movie was a stylish adaptation of an Eric Ambler novel about a mystery writer who becomes involved in a murder investigation. Also from 1944 was The Conspirators, a spy thriller that starred Lorre, Greenstreet, Hedy Lamarr, and ... |
c6ca3acbee5f391c4cd38629e7c87d9e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sydney-M-Lamb | Sydney M. Lamb | Sydney M. Lamb
Sydney M. Lamb, in full Sydney MacDonald Lamb, (born May 4, 1929, Denver, Colo., U.S.), American linguist and originator of stratificational grammar, an outgrowth of glossematics theory. (Glossematics theory is based on glossemes, the smallest meaningful units of a language.)
Lamb obtained his Ph.D. in ... |
b8cc09f1543e7ebfdbfb0f7c4e4c3ce7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sydney-Pollack | Sydney Pollack | Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack, in full Sydney Irwin Pollack, (born July 1, 1934, Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.—died May 26, 2008, Pacific Palisades, California), American director, producer, and actor who helmed a number of popular films, including The Way We Were (1973), Tootsie (1982), Out of Africa (1985), and The Firm ... |
a68f9c377c2f963becf709baa4393d18 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvanus-Thayer | Sylvanus Thayer | Sylvanus Thayer
Sylvanus Thayer (1817–33), who became known as the “father of the military academy” because of his lasting influence upon the West Point physical plant, the library, the curriculum, and the pedagogical method. Under Thayer’s leadership the academy produced military technicians whose skills were adaptabl... |
02537b4eba252793262dd46bbc70a5c2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvestre-Ntibantunganya | Sylvestre Ntibantunganya | Sylvestre Ntibantunganya
…power-sharing coalition government headed by Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, a Hutu. Fighting continued throughout the country during the nearly two years of coalition government.
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7149a768247ff4857963740936271c45 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvia-Ashton-Warner | Sylvia Ashton-Warner | Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Ashton-Warner, original name Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner, married name Sylvia Henderson, (born December 17, 1908, Stratford, New Zealand—died April 28, 1984, Tauranga), New Zealand educator and writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In the field of education, she became known for her... |
defcf5b9c485c070ee6b0b366da196cb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvia-Beach | Sylvia Beach | Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach, in full Sylvia Woodbridge Beach, (born March 14, 1887, Baltimore, Md., U.S.—died Oct. 5, 1962, Paris, France), bookshop operator who became important in the literary life of Paris, particularly in the 1920s, when her shop was a gathering place for expatriate writers and a centre where French... |
f2f9139a2ae09fdcc33244829aa92050 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvie-Germain | Sylvie Germain | Sylvie Germain
Sylvie Germain’s magic realism works on landscapes steeped in history, where the past painfully but also productively encloses the present. Her novel La Pleurante des rues de Prague (1992; The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague) is a dreamlike, surreal evocation of a city…
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2b43ee9f0b1c08b8c3268bc8ae5c16ea | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Symon-Petlyura | Symon Petlyura | Symon Petlyura
Symon Petlyura, in full Symon Vasylevych Petlyura, Petlyura also spelled Petliura, (born May 10, 1879, Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died May 25, 1926, Paris, France), socialist leader of Ukraine’s unsuccessful fight for independence following the Russian revolutions of 1917.
One of the founders of ... |
e8e82faf2d8bfcb963d0370be1d43134 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Syrphax | Syrphax | Syrphax
…followed the pro-Persian tyranny of Syrphax and his family, who were stoned to death in 333 on Alexander the Great’s taking the city. After 50 years of fluctuating fortune, Ephesus was conquered by the Macedonian general Lysimachus and resettled around Coressus and Pion (286–281 bce). Lysimachus introduced col... |
a631d4ca525922c9fed0911c7e2beb2c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/T-Berry-Brazelton | T. Berry Brazelton | T. Berry Brazelton
T. Berry Brazelton, in full Thomas Berry Brazelton, (born May 10, 1918, Waco, Texas, U.S.—died March 13, 2018, Barnstable, Massachusetts), American pediatrician who was one of the pioneers of newborn behavioral research and who authored several influential books on parenting and infant development.
... |
286e4ed97425b930027a8137bcbdd9cd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tachos | Tachos | Tachos
Tachos, also called Takhor, Teos, or Zedhor, second king (reigned 365–360 bc) of the 30th dynasty of Egypt; he led an unsuccessful attack on the Persians in Phoenicia. Tachos was aided in the undertaking by the aged Spartan king Agesilaus II, who led a body of Greek mercenaries, and by the Athenian fleet comman... |
8bac0bff39b0515b3734fc42c6109166 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tadd-Dameron | Tadd Dameron | Tadd Dameron
Tadd Dameron, byname of Tadley Ewing Dameron, (born February 21, 1917, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died March 8, 1965, New York, New York), American jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, especially noted during the bop era for the melodic beauty and warmth of the songs he composed.
Dameron was initi... |
6ac9acf57d3b052c0ff3fc88906212e4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tadeus-Reichstein | Tadeus Reichstein | Tadeus Reichstein
Tadeus Reichstein, (born July 20, 1897, Włocławek, Pol.—died Aug. 1, 1996, Basel, Switz.), Swiss chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for his discoveries concerning hormones of the adrenal cortex.
Reichstein was educated... |
7c49e2efbbaae29802fb85d6a1cf932b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tadeusz-Baird | Tadeusz Baird | Tadeusz Baird
Tadeusz Baird, (born July 26, 1928, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland—died September 2, 1981, Warsaw), Polish composer with a late Romantic lyrical style, often considered the spiritual heir to Alban Berg, Gustav Mahler, and Karol Szymanowski. Baird was a cofounder, with Kazimierz Serocki, of the annual Warsaw... |
526524b7371d7954505b6e0c88397600 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tadeusz-Borowski | Tadeusz Borowski | Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski, (born November 12, 1922, Zhitomir, Ukrainian S.S.R. [now Zhytomyr, Ukraine]—died July 3, 1951, Warsaw, Poland), Polish poet and short-story writer noted for his vigorous, desperate search for moral values that might withstand such realities as the horrors of the Nazi occupation.
Born... |
880a6c84296191fbe7fc67a4ea4b9a7f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tadeusz-Breza | Tadeusz Breza | Tadeusz Breza
Tadeusz Breza published Spiżowa brama (1960; “The Bronze Gate”), a keen description of life in the Vatican. Other writers continued to be concerned with World War II, as did Leopold Buczkowski in the novel Czarny potok (1954; Black Torrent), Roman Bratny in Kolumbowie-rocznik 20 (1957;…
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6176404c01930bceaf717af3f9160cde | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tadeusz-Kosciuszko | Tadeusz Kościuszko | Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kościuszko, English Thaddeus Kosciusko, Polish in full Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kościuszko, (born February 4, 1746, Mereczowszczyzna, Poland [now in Belarus]—died October 15, 1817, Solothurn, Switzerland), Polish army officer and statesman who gained fame both for his role in the American... |
5cbbb3db20eab87886fba9a581a2333c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tadeusz-Mazowiecki | Tadeusz Mazowiecki | Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, (born April 18, 1927, Płock, Poland—died October 28, 2013, Warsaw), Polish journalist and Solidarity official who in 1989 became the first noncommunist premier of an eastern European country since the late 1940s.
After studying law at the University of Warsaw, Mazowiecki entered ... |
a9e9abe2a42cd65c0e4b9c5b5a2de44a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tadeusz-Peiper | Tadeusz Peiper | Tadeusz Peiper
Tadeusz Peiper, the first poet in Poland to advance a poetics opposed to that of the Skamander group of poets (who had turned toward the classical in their effort to forge a modernist poetry), was Zwrotnica’s editor from 1922 to 1923 and again from 1926…
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d4037edb6293948bfc6ab2f5798e0aa5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taejong | Taejong | Taejong
…under the stimulus of King Taejong, who, in 1403, ordered the first set of 100,000 pieces of type to be cast in bronze. Nine other fonts followed from then to 1516; two of them were made in 1420 and 1434, before Europe in its turn discovered typography.
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0f467f1a286456a11b1a3448c6a6eaad | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taewon-gun | Taewŏn-gun | Taewŏn-gun
Taewŏn-gun, also called Yi Ha-ŭng, (born 1821—died 1898), father of the Korean king Kojong.
As regent from 1864 to 1873, Taewŏn-gun inaugurated a far-ranging reform program to strengthen the central administration; he modernized and increased its armies and rationalized the administration. Opposed to any c... |
884a17617aec478705404de8ec6993c4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taj-Mahal-American-musician | Taj Mahal | Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal, original name Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, (born May 17, 1942, New York, New York, U.S.), American singer, guitarist, and songwriter who was one of the pioneers of what came to be called world music. He combined acoustic blues and other African American music with Caribbean and West African music... |
fc0b9d3fd8503ff06bb0a8d6e8e0aeb0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Takasugi-Shinsaku | Takasugi Shinsaku | Takasugi Shinsaku
Takasugi Shinsaku, (born Sept. 27, 1839, Hagi, Nagato province, Japan—died May 17, 1867, Shimonoseki), noted Japanese imperial loyalist whose restructuring of the military forces of the feudal fief of Chōshū enabled that domain to defeat the armies of the Tokugawa shogun, the hereditary military dict... |
14134827b1e881e0fd1489cd2907c978 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taksin | Taksin | Taksin
Taksin, also called Phraya Taksin or Phya Tak, (born April 17, 1734, Ayutthaya [Thailand]—died April 6, 1782, Thon Buri, Thailand), Thai general, conqueror, and later king (1767–82) who reunited Thailand, or Siam, after its defeat at the hands of the Myanmar (Burmese) in 1767.
Of Chinese-Thai parentage, Taksin... |
1ac6fc0ccc3ee4f434db9ba9d191a8e0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Takuan-Soho | Takuan Sōhō | Takuan Sōhō
Takuan Sōhō, (born 1573, Tajima province, Japan—died 1645, Shinagawa, near Edo [Tokyo]), Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest responsible for the construction of the Tōkai Temple. Takuan was a poet, calligrapher, painter, and master of the tea ceremony; he also fused the art of swordsmanship with Zen ritua... |
0a08c98b8dd02f348e6e953e8ed9f239 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Talat-Pasa | Talat Paşa | Talat Paşa
Talat Paşa, in full Mehmed Talat Paşa, (born 1874, Edirne, Ottoman Empire [now in Turkey]—died March 15, 1921, Berlin, Ger.), leader of the Young Turks, Ottoman statesman, grand vizier (1917–18), and leading member of the Ottoman government from 1913 to 1918.
The son of a minor Ottoman official, Talat joi... |
bd3f769dd56d484c74229b462fd22dc7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Talcott-Parsons | Talcott Parsons | Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons, (born Dec. 13, 1902, Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.—died May 8, 1979, Munich, West Germany), American sociologist and scholar whose theory of social action influenced the intellectual bases of several disciplines of modern sociology. His work is concerned with a general theoretical ... |
93672a0f26234822d9cfb22f2610430f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Talia-Balsam | Talia Balsam | Talia Balsam
…his marriage (1989–93) to actress Talia Balsam, Clooney vowed never to remarry, and his various relationships became fodder for the tabloids. In 2014, however, he wed Lebanese English lawyer Amal Alamuddin. The couple had twins, Alexander and Ella, in 2017.
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1835b26bfb68061a58f7192f21601992 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tamba-Yasuyori | Tamba Yasuyori | Tamba Yasuyori
In 982, Tamba Yasuyori completed the 30-volume Ishinhō, the oldest Japanese medical work still extant. This work discusses diseases and their treatment, classified mainly according to the affected organs or parts. It is based entirely on older Chinese medical works, with the concept of yin and yang…
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a7c3a3c1d07d4a9c76245b7b6285d711 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tamenaga-Shunsui | Tamenaga Shunsui | Tamenaga Shunsui
…Colours: The Plum Calendar”), by Tamenaga Shunsui, is the story of Tanjirō, a peerlessly handsome but ineffectual young man for whose affections various women fight. The author at one point defended himself against charges of immorality: “Even though the women I portray may seem immoral, they are all ... |
e37f1032a3b88a5bb331a944955f0e6f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tamim-ibn-Bahr | Tamīm ibn Baḥr | Tamīm ibn Baḥr
A Muslim traveler, Tamīm ibn Baḥr, who visited the city about 821, speaks in admiring terms of this fortified town lying in a cultivated country—a far cry from the traditional picture of the pastoral nomad existence.
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bef12757003856155617f5ada8d5a981 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tammy-Wynette | Tammy Wynette | Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette, original name Virginia Wynette Pugh, (born May 5, 1942, Itawamba county, Mississippi, U.S.—died April 6, 1998, Nashville, Tennessee), American singer, who was revered as the “first lady of country music” from the 1950s to the ’80s, perhaps best known for her 1968 hit “Stand by Your Man.”
W... |
96e4c281d1d4abda75393d990b5bc0c9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tan-Tony | Tony Tan | Tony Tan
Later that year, Tony Tan, the PAP-backed candidate for the largely ceremonial office of president, barely won election over his three opponents.
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71fa5351dcdffefef9872f4fe87bdc69 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tanaka-Tomoyuki | Tanaka Tomoyuki | Tanaka Tomoyuki
Tanaka Tomoyuki, (born April 16, 1910, Ōsaka, Japan—died April 2, 1997, Tokyo), Japanese film producer. Tanaka was associated for nearly 60 years with Japan’s Toho Studios, for which he produced more than 200 films. Of these, his best known are the 22 films in the Godzilla series, beginning with Godzi... |
740670c9da27ca9c510771fad792dde9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tancred-king-of-Sicily | Tancred | Tancred
Tancred, Italian Tancredi, (died Feb. 20, 1194, Palermo), king of Sicily whose brief reign marked the end of the Norman rule there.
An illegitimate son of Duke Roger of Apulia and grandson of Roger II, king of Sicily, Tancred joined an insurrection in 1155 against his uncle William I of Sicily and was imprison... |
6cf83465d126ffd01c81a0cb3d9586f6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tang-Yin | Tang Yin | Tang Yin
Tang Yin, Wade-Giles romanization T’ang Yin, also called Tang Bohu, (born 1470, Wuxian [now Suzhou], Jiangsu province, China—died 1523), Chinese scholar, painter, and poet of the Ming period whose life story has become a part of popular lore.
Tang was a pupil of the great Shen Zhou, a friend of Wen Zhengming,... |
decb4c5686e2140a174755b6e56e6434 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tani-Ryoko | Tani Ryōko | Tani Ryōko
Tani Ryōko, née Tamura Ryōko, (born September 6, 1975, Fukuoka, Japan), Japanese judoka, who became the first woman to win two Olympic titles (2000 and 2004) in judo.
At age eight Tani followed her elder brother to the dojo (school for martial arts) and within months was throwing larger boys in competition.... |
8a64e947e5beedb31fa6c44b5de0c17e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tanizaki-Junichiro | Tanizaki Jun'ichirō | Tanizaki Jun'ichirō
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, (born July 24, 1886, Tokyo, Japan—died July 30, 1965, Yugawara), major modern Japanese novelist, whose writing is characterized by eroticism and ironic wit.
His earliest short stories, of which “Shisei” (1910; “The Tattooer”) is an example, have affinities with Edgar Allan Po... |
6f2480235f58069ba04fe593b8b598c6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tantia-Tope | Tantia Tope | Tantia Tope
Tantia Tope, also spelled Tatya Tope or Tantia Topi, original name Ramchandra Panduranga, (born c. 1813–19, Pune, India—died April 18, 1859, Shivpuri), a leader of the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58. Although he had no formal military training, he was probably the best and most effective of the rebels’ generals.... |
1065b54a0ae7576e10f812c712578201 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tao-Hongjing | Tao Hongjing | Tao Hongjing
Tao Hongjing, Wade-Giles romanization T’ao Hungching, (born 451, Moling, China—died 536, Hua-yang), Chinese poet, calligrapher, physician, naturalist, and the most eminent Daoist of his time.
A precocious child, Tao was a tutor to the imperial court while still a youth. In 492 he retired to Mao Shan, a c... |
4dbbc28256643c1b69b3b219a4e69a04 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tao-Sheng | Tao Sheng | Tao Sheng
Tao Sheng, Pinyin Dao Sheng, secular name Chu, (born c. 360, P’eng-ch’eng, China—died 434), eminent Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar.
Tao Sheng studied in the capital city of Chien-k’ang (Nanking) under Chu Fa-t’ai, spent seven years with Hui Yüan in the monastery at Lu-shan, and then went north to Ch’ang-a... |
22f1c2a40b01803601aee49105537ba5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taoka-Kazuo | Taoka Kazuo | Taoka Kazuo
Taoka Kazuo, byname Kuma (Japanese: Bear), (born March 28, 1912, Sanshōmura, Japan—died July 30, 1981, Amagasaki), Japan’s major crime boss (oyabun), who, after World War II, rose to head a giant crime organization, the Yamaguchi-gumi. Though centred in Kōbe, it had interests and affiliates nationwide and... |
650ac939e3ea67640061df3f03c782eb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tara-Lipinski | Tara Lipinski | Tara Lipinski
Tara Lipinski, in full Tara Kristen Lipinski, (born June 10, 1982, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American figure skater who in 1998 became the youngest female in her sport to win an Olympic gold medal.
American figure skater Tara Lipinski in 1998 became the youngest female in her sport to win an Oly... |
c16348ed926474c48794976958d0594b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tasuku-Honjo | Tasuku Honjo | Tasuku Honjo
Tasuku Honjo, (born January 27, 1942, Kyoto, Japan), Japanese immunologist who contributed to the discovery of mechanisms and proteins critical to the regulation of immune responses and whose work led to the development of novel immunotherapies against cancer. Honjo was recognized for his work with the 20... |
0f39d9f5520a32ec25738b3d7b1bb2ca | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tatiana-Ehrenfest | Tatiana Ehrenfest | Tatiana Ehrenfest
…and his wife, Russian mathematician Tatiana A. Afanassjewa, renounced their religions (Judaism and Christianity, respectively) because such interconfessional marriages were not allowed in Austro-Hungary. Having seriously complicated their chances to find regular academic positions, the couple moved t... |
bb496f7f9159db0c258667a2c0e4e13b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tattenai | Tattenai | Tattenai
Tattenai, also called Sisinnes, (flourished c. 6th–5th century bce), Persian governor of the province west of the Euphrates River (eber nāri, “beyond the river”) during the reign of Darius I (522–486 bce).
According to the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) Book of Ezra, Tattenai led an investigation into the rebui... |
e24f53698cc3c00f4c714095fde62117 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tavis-Smiley | Tavis Smiley | Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley, (born September 13, 1964, Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S.), American talk show host, journalist, and political commentator.
Smiley grew up near Kokomo, Indiana, and attended Indiana University at Bloomington but left in 1988 to work for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. (In 2003 he completed his ba... |
a4e8f7956be4f9eba7058e3aff4a4fbd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Kooser | Ted Kooser | Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser , byname of Theodore Kooser, (born April 25, 1939, Ames, Iowa, U.S.), American poet, whose verse was noted for its tender wisdom and its depiction of homespun America.
Kooser attended Iowa State University (B.S., 1962) and the University of Nebraska (M.A., 1968) and briefly taught high-school Eng... |
276d01eaa679bb6a07a98fbea5e53263 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Teimuraz-I | Teimuraz I | Teimuraz I
…personal, though ornate, poetry of King Teimuraz I; among his works is Tsigni da tsameba Ketevan dedoplisa (“The Book and Passion of Queen Saint Ketevan”), a gruesome account of his mother’s martyrdom written in 1625, soon after her death. Less-inspired authors were content to fabricate sequels to Rustaveli... |
6de8e85c8c4d956d3061fbaf64acbb59 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Telemaco-Signorini | Telemaco Signorini | Telemaco Signorini
…were the critic and theoretician Telemaco Signorini (1853–1901), who used colour with great sensitivity in his usually socially conscious scenes; Silvestro Lega (1826–95), who combined a clearly articulated handling of colour patches with a poetic feeling for his subject; and Raffaello Sernesi (1838... |
a7e2a68e906835224e677b70018c607d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Telly-Savalas | Telly Savalas | Telly Savalas
Assorted Referencesrole of Mitchum
…men include Archer Maggott (Telly Savalas), a rapist; Victor Franko (John Cassavetes), a former gangster; and Robert Jefferson (Jim Brown) and Joseph Wladislaw (Charles Bronson), both convicted killers. After undergoing intense training, the unit parachutes into France ... |
9089368ae12c72582af24f970351919d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Temple-Grandin | Temple Grandin | Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin, (born August 29, 1947, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.), American scientist and industrial designer whose own experience with autism funded her professional work in creating systems to counter stress in certain human and animal populations.
Grandin was unable to talk at age three and exhibit... |
2c9b1ac465e02d8f11bcf1e42e66621b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tenzing-Norgay | Tenzing Norgay | Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay, (Nepalese: “Wealthy-Fortunate Follower of Religion”) Norgay also spelled Norkey or Norkay, original name Namgyal Wangdi, (born May 15, 1914, Tshechu, Tibet [now Tibet Autonomous Region, China]—died May 9, 1986, Darjeeling [now Darjiling], West Bengal, India), Tibetan mountaineer who in 1... |
2a0803925806f8f9dacd4c441b5770ce | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terence-V-Powderly | Terence V. Powderly | Terence V. Powderly
Terence V. Powderly, in full Terence Vincent Powderly, (born January 22, 1849, Carbondale, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died June 24, 1924, Washington, D.C.), American labour leader and politician who led the Knights of Labor (KOL) from 1879 to 1893.
Powderly, the son of Irish immigrants to the United States... |
2785b908a558662376369c7c66a602f0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terpander | Terpander | Terpander
Terpander, (flourished c. 647 bc, Lesbos, Asia Minor [Greece]), Greek poet and musician of the Aegean island of Lesbos.
Terpander was proverbially famous as a singer to the accompaniment of the kithara, a seven-stringed instrument resembling a lyre, which he was said to have invented, and from the name of w... |
b5722d51337f71f8b05d0b7a41c30358 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terry-McMillan | Terry McMillan | Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan, (born October 18, 1951, Port Huron, Michigan, U.S.), American novelist whose work often portrays feisty, independent Black women and their attempts to find fulfilling relationships with Black men.
The daughter of working-class parents, McMillan grew up near Detroit. She was a graduate of... |
ac1704549c93b8a0f9cf07c773a35d56 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terry-Riley | Terry Riley | Terry Riley
Such a work as Terry Riley’s In C, for example, consists basically of a sustained triad on C (lasting, at the performer’s option, anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours), over which fleeting dissonances are occasionally sounded, seldom more revolutionary than an F sharp or B flat. Here again,…
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f1bd1262e78b6b51b2aed3e6a52c9ec8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terry-Schiavo | Terry Schiavo | Terry Schiavo
…centre of the controversy surrounding Terry Schiavo, a brain-damaged Florida woman whose family was locked in a fierce legal battle over whether to remove her from life support. After viewing video footage of Schiavo, Frist challenged the opinion of doctors who had examined her in person, stating that be... |
08eb91b8dd7cd15cacdc5fbcc08d15c4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terry-Southern | Terry Southern | Terry Southern
Terry Southern, (born May 1, 1924, Alvarado, Texas, U.S.—died Oct. 29, 1995, New York, N.Y.), American writer known for his satirical novels and screenplays.
Southern served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was educated at Southern Methodist University, the University of Chicago, Northwestern U... |
6cc13eed7f26adfa993d2c60098a4e63 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Teshome-Gabriel | Teshome Gabriel | Teshome Gabriel
Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar Teshome Gabriel identified a three-phase path along which films have emerged from Third World countries. In the first phase, assimilationist films, such as those of Bollywood in India, follow those of Hollywood in focusing on entertainment and technical virtuosity ... |
0c73303c1fc67097a62e52e6419178c7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tessa-Virtue-and-Scott-Moir | Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir | Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, (respectively, born May 17, 1989, London, Ontario, Canada ; born September 2, 1987, London, Ontario, Canada ), Canadian ice dancers who became the first North Americans to win the Olympic gold medal in ice dancing when they triumphed at the 2010 Olympic Winter ... |
eb798330d88bb00628db31d542ec1f28 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thabit-ibn-Qurrah | Thābit ibn Qurrah | Thābit ibn Qurrah
Thābit ibn Qurrah, in full Al-Ṣābi’ Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, (born c. 836, Syria—died 901, Baghdad, Iraq), Arab mathematician, astronomer, physician, and philosopher, a representative of the flourishing Arab-Islamic culture of the 9th century.
Thābit was a scion of a prominent family settled in ... |
d92e6d1f2a86f4b043e185000aa50308 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thaddeus-Fairbanks | Thaddeus Fairbanks | Thaddeus Fairbanks
The community’s growth began with Thaddeus Fairbanks’ invention (1830) of the platform scale; its development and manufacture became a leading enterprise. Other industries include the production of maple sugar, dairy processing, and the manufacture of tools, machinery, and wood products.
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d4966ab2d936fc9a7a6cf7b5ee0c931a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thanom-Kittikachorn | Thanom Kittikachorn | Thanom Kittikachorn
Thanom Kittikachorn, (born August 11, 1911, Tak, Siam [Thailand]—died June 16, 2004, Bangkok, Thailand), army general and prime minister of Thailand (1958, 1963–71, 1972–73).
Thanom entered the army from the royal military academy in 1931. He was a close associate of Sarit Thanarat and, as commande... |
d5b1061065f795c940795f5c301018cc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/the-Rev-Walter-Hayde-Lini | The Rev. Walter Hayde Lini | The Rev. Walter Hayde Lini
…Land Party”), headed by Father Walter Lini, formed the first parliamentary majority, with Lini as prime minister. The VP retained slim majorities under Lini’s leadership throughout the 1980s. Lini’s government pursued a nonaligned foreign policy, establishing diplomatic and economic ties wit... |
ce50fffb21eaeb8aa6024121a95ad874 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thea-Astley | Thea Astley | Thea Astley
Thea Astley, in full Thea Beatrice May Astley, (born August 25, 1925, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia—died August 17, 2004, New South Wales), Australian author, who in her fiction examined, usually satirically, the lives of morally and intellectually isolated people in her native country.
Astley graduated ... |
5f542f5eb18bfa8ad007039c1a91762b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thelma-Ritter | Thelma Ritter | Thelma Ritter
…Academy Award nomination, as did Thelma Ritter (as Stroud’s overbearing mother) and Telly Savalas (as another Alcatraz inmate).
Thelma Ritter was Oscar nominated for her colourful role as a hard-luck snitch. Hell and High Water (1954) was a more conventional submarine adventure also starring Widmark.
…(K... |
5f918aac89464a9e41e56790e975a26d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thenjiwe-Mtintso | Thenjiwe Mtintso | Thenjiwe Mtintso
Thenjiwe Mtintso, (born November 7, 1950, Soweto, South Africa), South African antiapartheid activist and journalist who occupied various leadership positions within the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) and later served in multiracial governments in South Af... |
6ecbef74974bc35e91b9e38615b1327e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theo-van-Doesburg | Theo van Doesburg | Theo van Doesburg
Theo van Doesburg, pseudonym of Christian Emil Marie Küpper, (born August 30, 1883, Utrecht, Netherlands—died March 7, 1931, Davos, Switzerland), Dutch painter, decorator, poet, and art theorist who was the leader of the De Stijl movement.
Originally van Doesburg intended to pursue a career in the th... |
cd22a9b3b1267b0bbec003ed2fd4ce77 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theo-van-Gogh-Dutch-filmmaker | Theo van Gogh | Theo van Gogh
…2004 she worked with filmmaker Theo van Gogh to create Submission, a jarring, incendiary film depicting Islam as a religion that sanctions the abuse of women. Several weeks after the film aired on Dutch television, van Gogh was murdered—shot and stabbed, with a knife pinning to his body a letter…
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a40864bb2b4f5400b80a6cfd6f4037f3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theo-Van-Rysselberghe | Théo Van Rysselberghe | Théo Van Rysselberghe
Théo Van Rysselberghe, in full Théophile Van Rysselberghe, (born Nov. 23, 1862, Ghent, Belg.—died Dec. 13, 1926, Saint-Clair, Manche, France), Belgian painter, sculptor, and designer who, together with Henry van de Velde, headed the large rank of Belgian artists that adhered to Neo-Impressionism.... |
8c6ab4c05c7799f3f541cd6a69fc7337 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theobald-I-count-of-Blois-Chartres-and-Tours | Theobald I | Theobald I
Theobald I, also called Theobald the Cheat, or Theobald the Old, French Thibaud le Tricheur, or Thibaud le Vieil, (born c. 908—died c. 978), count of Blois, Chartres, and Tours.
Theobald earned his nickname “the Cheat” fighting with his neighbours, among them the kings of France, the dukes of Normandy, and... |
014bc13953443086f457cd7f37c2e718 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodebert-II | Theodebert II | Theodebert II
Theodebert II, (born 586—died 612), Merovingian king of Austrasia.
Theodebert succeeded his father, Childebert II, on the throne of Austrasia in 595 while his brother, Theodoric II, mounted that of Burgundy. Their grandmother Brunhild exercised at first a joint regency over both kingdoms, but in 599 the... |
86796d0024aa49f98894cabb41e29264 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodelinda | Theodelinda | Theodelinda
…dynasty—the family of Agilulf’s wife, Theodelinda—dominated the succession; kings who were not members of this family, such as Rothari and Grimoald of Benevento (662–671), married into it. Grimoald was the only southern duke to claim the throne of Pavia; like Rothari, he fought the Byzantines and made laws... |
e5eec9efc55c96edaa6eee6d0800ea1f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodor-Leschetizky | Theodor Leschetizky | Theodor Leschetizky
Theodor Leschetizky, original name Teodor Leszetycki, (born June 22, 1830, Łańcut, Poland, Austrian Empire [now in Poland]—died November 14, 1915, Dresden, Germany), Polish pianist and teacher who, with Franz Liszt, was the most influential teacher of piano of his time.
Leschetizky studied under Ca... |
6dda2fa42dabd2915efad87a11cd919c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodor-Leutwein | Theodor Leutwein | Theodor Leutwein
Theodor Leutwein, military commander and governor of the colony, was in charge of the German response. Since the Herero were well armed and, moreover, significantly outnumbered the German colonial garrison, he favoured a negotiated settlement of the conflict. He was, however, overruled by the General…
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3c628e616fefb289e5b09073c8397518 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodor-Rshtuni | Theodor Rshtuni | Theodor Rshtuni
…general Procopius and the nakharar Theodor Rshtuni. Unable to prevent the pillage of Dvin in 642, Theodor in 643 gained a victory over another Arab army and was named commander in chief of the Armenian army by the Byzantine emperor Constans II Pogonatus. In 653, after the truce with Muʿāwiyah,…
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ce2cd37549c393018fb298fdd8d6a8f3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Alvin-Hall | Theodore Hall | Theodore Hall
Theodore Hall, original name Theodore Alvin Holtzberg, (born October 20, 1925, Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, U.S.—died November 1, 1999, Cambridge, England), American-born physicist and spy who during World War II worked on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb and also delivered details... |
36b128e9a8b8478d5ee71597b8890018 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Bar-Konai | Theodore Bar Konai | Theodore Bar Konai
Theodore Bar Konai, (flourished 9th century), Syrian scholar and author of a noted collection of annotations on the entire Syriac Bible. The work is also an important historical and theological source on Eastern religious sects during the first millennium of Christianity.
A native of Kaškar, Iraq,... |
e6231bd624e42e9163e69a416bbaa1b8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Duret | Théodore Duret | Théodore Duret
In Madrid he met Théodore Duret, who was later to be one of the first connoisseurs and champions of his work. The following year, The Fife Player (1866), after having been rejected by the Salon jury under the pretext that its modeling was flat, was displayed along with others…
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e974d1f669a9a77eeeb292fff3993254 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-II-Lascaris | Theodore II Lascaris | Theodore II Lascaris
Theodore II Lascaris, (born November 1221—died August 16, 1258), Byzantine emperor of Nicaea who—though not as capable as his grandfather or his father, Theodore I and John III Vatatzes, respectively—was an able ruler, a good soldier, and a man of letters; he succeeded in holding together the pros... |
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