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83007511ba02592c9671751cd0eed2cf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thorkell-the-Tall | Thorkell the Tall | Thorkell the Tall
Thorkell the Tall, (born late 950s, southern Sweden—died after 1023), Viking warrior and chieftain who gained renown during his lifetime for his fighting prowess and who played a notable role in English history in the 11th century.
Little is known of Thorkell’s early life. He was born into a prominen... |
7e85cdb0caf641bccc32b046f2d2a832 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thorleif-Haug | Thorleif Haug | Thorleif Haug
Thorleif Haug, (born Sept. 28, 1894, Lier, Nor.—died Dec. 12, 1934, Drammen), Norwegian Nordic skier who won three gold medals and a bronze at the inaugural Winter Olympics at Chamonix, France, in 1924. His bronze medal was revoked 50 years later.
Haug dominated the Nordic events at the 1924 Games, winni... |
605f1023f6d0fa6dc5eecdd55b54e6ce | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thorstein-Veblen | Thorstein Veblen | Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen, in full Thorstein Bunde Veblen, (born July 30, 1857, Manitowoc county, Wisconsin, U.S.—died Aug. 3, 1929, near Menlo Park, California), American economist and social scientist who sought to apply an evolutionary, dynamic approach to the study of economic institutions. With The Theor... |
0f8068152d6b5f44444145d23092d0cc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thorsteinn-Erlingsson | Thorsteinn Erlingsson | Thorsteinn Erlingsson
Thorsteinn Erlingsson, (born September 27, 1858, Fljótshlíd, Iceland—died September 28, 1914, Reykjavík), Icelandic poet whose satirical and rebellious writing was always softened by his own humanity.
Erlingsson was a farmer’s son. He attended the University of Copenhagen, where he spent 13 years... |
15a2287bfa5ef04e6d5e4c07b78e827f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thurstan | Thurstan | Thurstan
Thurstan, also spelled Turstin, (born, Bayeux, Fr.—died Feb. 6, 1140, Pontefract, Yorkshire, Eng.), archbishop of York whose tenure was marked by disputes over precedence with the see of Canterbury and with the Scottish bishoprics. He was made archbishop by King Henry I in 1114, but had to wait for consecrat... |
02151601d8053711bb92025d6a2c0f51 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thutmose-I | Thutmose I | Thutmose I
Thutmose I, (flourished 2nd millennium bce), 18th-dynasty king of ancient Egypt (reigned 1493–c. 1482 bce) who expanded Egypt’s empire in Nubia (in present-day Sudan) and also penetrated deep into Syria.
While Thutmose was the son of a nonroyal mother, he may have strengthened his claim to the throne by ma... |
778685d39b511622bf3d88a95f89f52e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thutmose-III | Thutmose III | Thutmose III
Thutmose III, (died 1426 bce), king (reigned 1479–26 bce) of the 18th dynasty, often regarded as the greatest of the rulers of ancient Egypt. Thutmose III was a skilled warrior who brought the Egyptian empire to the zenith of its power by conquering all of Syria, crossing the Euphrates (see Tigris-Euphrat... |
1d2af3cae90eee22a4a9b05f5112e6f5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tianqi | Tianqi | Tianqi
Tianqi, Wade-Giles romanization T’ien-ch’i, personal name (xingming) Zhu Youjiao, posthumous name (shi) Zhedi, temple name (miaohao) (Ming) Xizong, (born 1605, China—died 1627, China), reign name (niaohao) of the 16th and penultimate emperor (reigned 1620–27) of the Ming dynasty, under whose rule the infamous e... |
49e46617216ed355f4ee91c10f7767a5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tiglath-pileser-II | Tiglath-pileser II | Tiglath-pileser II
Tiglath-pileser II, (flourished 10th century bc), king of Assyria (c. 965–c. 932 bc). He apparently ruled effectively, as a successor addressed him by a title reserved for mighty monarchs. Otherwise, little is known of the period other than that Assyria was beginning to emerge from its collapse of... |
2c51d2ced430b7233f8cf6b31a71ba24 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tigranes-II-the-Great | Tigranes II The Great | Tigranes II The Great
Tigranes II The Great, Tigranes also spelled Tigran, orDikran, (born c. 140—died c. 55 bc), king of Armenia from 95 to 55 bc, under whom the country became for a short time the strongest state in the Roman East.
Tigranes was the son or brother of Artavasdes I and a member of the dynasty founded ... |
1a5c3fe71f6b91bca81d113a191daa47 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tilsa-Tsuchiya | Tilsa Tsuchiya | Tilsa Tsuchiya
A painter of Japanese-Peruvian descent, Tilsa Tsuchiya, used aspects of her Peruvian heritage to create her own folklore, notably of “birdwomen.” One of her paintings (1974) transformed the vertical, biomorphically carved “hitching-post” sun stone at Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas, into a figur... |
aa653ab637045dfc1036cd19673be388 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Buckley | Tim Buckley | Tim Buckley
…the Velvet Underground and for Tim Buckley. He was first noticed as a songwriter, and his compositions were recorded by performers such as Tom Rush, the Byrds, and Linda Ronstadt before he recorded his eponymous debut album in 1972 (featuring the Top Ten hit “Doctor My Eyes”). Part of a…
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711ab09a7114631e642de52f02f7f64d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Farron | Tim Farron | Tim Farron
Tim Farron, byname of Timothy James Farron, (born May 27, 1970, Preston, Lancashire, England), British politician who was leader of the Liberal Democrats (2015–17).
Farron studied politics at Newcastle University, where he was the first Liberal Democrat to be elected president of the student union. At the a... |
4d0820e6a64290437842f484652b5459 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Fischer | Tim Fischer | Tim Fischer
Tim Fischer, in full Timothy Andrew Fischer, (born May 3, 1946, Lockhart, New South Wales, Australia—died August 22, 2019, Albury, New South Wales), Australian politician who served as National Party leader for nearly a decade (1990–99).
Fischer was educated at Xavier College, Melbourne. He saw military se... |
ce1baf496ad357ca3466c1c8dc57eab3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Flannery | Tim Flannery | Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery, byname of Timothy Fridtjof Flannery, (born January 28, 1956, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Australian zoologist and outspoken environmentalist who was named Australian of the Year in 2007 in recognition of his role as an effective communicator in explaining environmental issues and in bri... |
22ca5189b4aae0349041c1b3fd843a67 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Horton | Tim Horton | Tim Horton
Tim Horton, byname of Miles Gilbert Horton, (born January 12, 1930, Cochrane, Ontario, Canada—died February 21, 1974, near St. Catharines, Ontario), Canadian professional ice hockey player and entrepreneur, who was a defenseman in the National Hockey League (NHL), helping the Toronto Maple Leafs win four St... |
a6fc89582ee04a2872ea3523adad0194 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-OBrien | Tim O'Brien | Tim O'Brien
Tim O’Brien, in full William Timothy O’Brien, (born October 1, 1946, Austin, Minnesota, U.S.), American novelist noted for his writings about American soldiers in the Vietnam War.
After studying political science at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota (B.A., 1968), O’Brien fought in Vietnam. When he re... |
26b7a6d98a2cd0e50a49b99911fb1e0b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Paterson | Tim Paterson | Tim Paterson
American computer programmer Timothy Paterson, a developer for Seattle Computer Products, wrote the original operating system for the Intel Corporation’s 8086 microprocessor in 1980, initially calling it QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), which was soon renamed 86-DOS. A year later, fledgling company... |
2d7c72481d15f9361ddae98590d7b6d0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Timoleon-of-Corinth | Timoleon of Corinth | Timoleon of Corinth
Timoleon of Corinth, (died after 337 bc), Greek statesman and general who championed the Greeks of Sicily against the rule of tyrants and against Carthage.
When, in 344, aristocrats of Syracuse appealed to their mother city of Corinth against their tyrant Dionysius II, Timoleon was chosen to lead a... |
e800c425ef91305461a0b6b464344783 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Timothy-B-Schmit | Timothy B. Schmit | Timothy B. Schmit
Later members included Timothy B. Schmit (b. October 30, 1947, Sacramento, California) and Paul Cotton (b. February 26, 1943, Los Angeles, California).
…20, 1947, Wichita, Kansas), and Timothy B. Schmit (b. October 30, 1947, Sacramento, California).
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9697d7811b84fa9e1daa8a382b58ccd2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Timothy-McVeigh | Timothy McVeigh | Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh, in full Timothy James McVeigh, (born April 23, 1968, Pendleton, New York, U.S.—died June 11, 2001, Terre Haute, Indiana), American domestic terrorist who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The explosion, which killed 168 people, was the deadliest terrorist inciden... |
d0c8a9672e3d0a1667f0c1a12eaa6c90 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Timothy-Pickering | Timothy Pickering | Timothy Pickering
Timothy Pickering, (born July 17, 1745, Salem, Massachusetts [U.S.]—died January 29, 1829, Salem), American Revolutionary officer and Federalist politician who served (1795–1800) with distinction in the first two U.S. cabinets.
During the American Revolution, Pickering served in several capacities un... |
068afc2ca0edaf2214a4b972f3d11890 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Timur-Shah | Tīmūr Shah | Tīmūr Shah
His son Tīmūr remained behind as viceroy of the Punjab and married the daughter of India’s puppet emperor ʿĀlamgīr II. Tīmūr was driven out in 1758 by a force of Sikhs, Mughals, and Marathas, but in 1759–61 Aḥmad Shah swept the Marathas from the Punjab and destroyed…
…was succeeded by his son, Tīmūr Shah, wh... |
5f6e052a9627ee3ccac734cb9dde1628 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tina-Fey | Tina Fey | Tina Fey
Tina Fey, byname of Elizabeth Stamatina Fey, (born May 18, 1970, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American writer and actress whose work on the television shows Saturday Night Live (SNL)—she was its first female head writer (1999–2006)—and 30 Rock (2006–13) helped establish her as one of the leading comedian... |
dc8d881aecd0cfcf5a36c0d870177070 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tippu-Tib | Tippu Tib | Tippu Tib
Tippu Tib, also called Muhammed Bin Hamid, (born 1837—died June 14, 1905, Zanzibar [now in Tanzania]), the most famous late 19th-century Arab trader in central and eastern Africa. His ambitious plans for state building inevitably clashed with those of the sultan of Zanzibar and the Belgian king Leopold II. ... |
866f6a7634c7ed3994dac97d8e37a104 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tirigan | Tirigan | Tirigan
…when Utu-khegal of Uruk defeated Tirigan, the last king of the Gutian dynasty. Although the Guti, from their home in the Zagros, continued to menace the subsequent dynasties and kingdoms, they were never again able to take control of southern Mesopotamia.
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8464baa831000c8ff9f632043a9aea3c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Titian/Late-life-and-works | Late life and works | Late life and works
The large number of masterpieces in portraiture that Titian continued to create throughout the rest of his life is astounding. Pope Paul III and his grandson, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, began to compete with Emperor Charles V for Titian’s services. At the request of the pope, the painter travelled... |
1ab6a69ffddfaac60b4b4015e34ff364 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tito-Rodriguez | Tito Rodríguez | Tito Rodríguez
…Rican heritage, most notably bandleaders Tito Rodríguez, Tito Puente (a virtuoso timbale player and vibraphonist), and Eddie Palmieri (a pianist who brought progressive jazz influences into the mix). Frequently but not always up-tempo, or “hot,” salsa grew to incorporate increasingly diverse influences ... |
4026ca005a326f46842c61d76adfa84d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Titus?anchor=ref34106 | Titus | Titus
Titus, in full Titus Vespasianus Augustus, original name Titus Flavius Vespasianus, (born Dec. 30, 39 ce—died Sept. 13, 81 ce), Roman emperor (79–81), and the conqueror of Jerusalem in 70.
Titus was the Roman emperor from 79 to 81 CE. He is also known for being the conqueror of Jerusalem.
Titus commanded a Roman... |
7262952e741e7478e8475c768b52db31 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/To-wang | To-wang | To-wang
To-wang, orTogtokhtör, (flourished 19th century), Mongolian prince who opposed Manchu rule and supported Mongolia’s independence from China. Concerned with education, he set up a primary school open to commoners, had Buddhist scriptures translated into Mongol, and codified practical advice for herdspeople in a... |
7acf8e177370f76a0a1d1bf34c75825c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tobias-Smollett | Tobias Smollett | Tobias Smollett
Tobias Smollett, in full Tobias George Smollett, (baptized March 19, 1721, Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scot.—died Sept. 17, 1771, near Livorno, Tuscany [Italy]), Scottish satirical novelist, best known for his picaresque novels The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pick... |
d39b7b7dfcff7cf7bf22fab7d6659d3c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tod-Browning | Tod Browning | Tod Browning
Tod Browning, original name Charles Albert Browning, (born July 12, 1880, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.—died October 6, 1962, Malibu, California), American director who specialized in films of the grotesque and macabre. A cult director because of his association with fabled silent star Lon Chaney and his pro... |
2311f0987f259e962923a7500c811ef0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Todd-Gitlin | Todd Gitlin | Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin, in full Todd Alan Gitlin, (born January 6, 1943, New York City, New York, U.S.), American political activist, author, and public intellectual best known as a media analyst and as an internal critic of the American left.
Gitlin was born into a liberal Jewish family and attended public schools i... |
a5407f398cce75f5df295bb588b4ecaa | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Todd-Haynes | Todd Haynes | Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes, (born January 2, 1961, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American screenwriter and director known for films that examine fame, sexuality, and the lives of people on the periphery of mainstream society.
Haynes graduated from Brown University in 1985 with a B.A. in art and semiotics. In 1987 he ea... |
53028722e993d0668ad7042c0dffbd75 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Todd-Matshikiza | Todd Matshikiza | Todd Matshikiza
Todd Matshikiza, (born 1920/21, Queenstown, S.Af.—died March 4, 1968, Lusaka, Zambia), journalist, writer, and musician noted for his score for the musical play King Kong (1960) and for his short stories.
Matshikiza divided his career from the start between musical and literary activities. Trained as ... |
0e32b004ff1364a9113b480a9e6dd31c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Todd-Storz | Todd Storz | Todd Storz
Station owners Todd Storz in Omaha, Nebraska, and Gordon McLendon in Dallas, Texas, created the format (tightly timed records with brief reports on news, weather, and sports, plus occasional features and constant time checks and station promotion) used first by about 20 stations in 1955 and by…
…founders of ... |
29a77cddbd63816ea29c6a6a82fbf7dd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tokugawa-Yoshinobu | Tokugawa Yoshinobu | Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Tokugawa Yoshinobu, original name Tokugawa Keiki, (born Oct. 28, 1837, Edo, Japan—died Jan. 22, 1913, Tokyo), the last Tokugawa shogun of Japan, who helped make the Meiji Restoration (1868)—the overthrow of the shogunate and restoration of power to the emperor—a relatively peaceful transition.
Born... |
f838d70ddfdf001aef6ed12774b42dc7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Cotton | Tom Cotton | Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton, in full Thomas Bryant Cotton, (born May 13, 1977, Dardanelle, Arkansas, U.S.), American politician who was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 2014 and began representing Arkansas the following year. He previously was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (2013–15).
Cotton was ... |
ca65b5f0421c940f1586e020b55938a0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Dempsey | Tom Dempsey | Tom Dempsey
…through the 1982 season, and Tom Dempsey, who kicked an NFL-record (tied in 1998) 63-yard game-winning field goal in 1970. In 1983 the team’s fans adopted a long-standing chant used at local high school and collegiate football games. The chant (“Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say dey gonna beat…
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d145dae153ef7aae0af9712567ea0824 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Holland | Tom Holland | Tom Holland
Tom Holland’s scene-stealing turn as the webslinger breathed new life into a character who had been experiencing diminishing returns at the box office. In Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) Holland led an impressive ensemble cast in a sly action comedy that traced the slow and often painful…
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ff8ffd217ab21fdbb138370ba96b8263 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Lea | Tom Lea | Tom Lea
…the spectacle to English-speaking readers: Tom Lea’s The Brave Bulls (1949) and Barnaby Conrad’s Matador (1952), the former about a Mexican matador and the latter about a doomed Spaniard.
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d31ea5a26e60d9f5619b29745235dad3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Petty | Tom Petty | Tom Petty
Tom Petty, in full Thomas Earl Petty, (born October 20, 1950, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.—died October 2, 2017, Santa Monica, California), American singer and songwriter whose roots-oriented guitar rock arose from the new-wave movement of the late 1970s and resulted in a string of hit singles and albums.
At a... |
85f71217bff196a05823177096a17940 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Stoppard | Tom Stoppard | Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard, original name Tomas Straussler, in full Sir Tom Stoppard, (born July 3, 1937, Zlín, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]), Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose work is marked by verbal brilliance, ingenious action, and structural dexterity.
Stoppard’s father was working in ... |
913473e8c5f6ac93013543284aa17f8a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-T-Hall | Tom T. Hall | Tom T. Hall
Tom T. Hall, originally Thomas Hall, (born May 25, 1936, Olive Hill, Kentucky, U.S.), American songwriter and entertainer, popularly known as the “Storyteller,” who expanded the stylistic and topical range of the country music idiom with plainspoken, highly literate, and often philosophical narratives. His... |
ae72e437b76f975abdd62178d6627dd5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tomas-de-Iriarte | Tomás de Iriarte | Tomás de Iriarte
…former friend and fellow fabulist Tomás de Iriarte, and, because of an anonymous attack on Iriarte that contained criticisms of the church, Samaniego was imprisoned in a monastery in 1793.
Tomás de Iriarte—a Neoclassical poet, dramatist, theoretician, and translator—produced successful comedies (e.g.,... |
b8f780c332d7c3d9a8dedb4383204e00 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Bennett | Tony Bennett | Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett, original name Anthony Dominick Benedetto, (born August 3, 1926, Astoria, Queens, New York, U.S.), American popular singer known for his smooth voice and interpretive abilities with songs in a variety of genres.
Bennett, the son of a grocer, spent his boyhood in Astoria, New York, studying si... |
9c6d7b88ac20629af711cd8ab59284da | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Blair | Tony Blair | Tony Blair
Tony Blair, in full Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, (born May 6, 1953, Edinburgh, Scotland), British Labour Party leader who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007). He was the youngest prime minister since 1812 and the longest-serving Labour prime minister, and his 10-year tenure as prime ... |
e210fe308caaa95f00b216e90b779fd1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Dorsett | Tony Dorsett | Tony Dorsett
Tony Dorsett, byname of Anthony Drew Dorsett, Sr., (born April 7, 1954, Rochester, Pa., U.S.), American gridiron football player who is widely considered one of the best running backs in the sport’s history.
A four-year starter and three-time All-American at the University of Pittsburgh, Dorsett set colle... |
a71d5839133458b6bae295d5e5ebbc1a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Franciosa | Tony Franciosa | Tony Franciosa
…the late 1960s and by Tony Franciosa in a 1975–76 television series.
Tony Franciosa appeared in the TV series (1975–76) that followed, but the character bore little resemblance to Martin’s interpretation.
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8a426ae54ddc4d2b9b69beaeff5b6a02 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Hawk | Tony Hawk | Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk, in full Anthony Frank Hawk, (born May 12, 1968, San Diego, California, U.S.), American professional skateboarder who—through his technical innovations, successful equipment and apparel companies, and tireless promotional work—helped the sport of skateboarding enter the mainstream at the end of the... |
ea04adc7e964de2cd9f4fb884975d48b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Martin-American-scholar | Tony Martin | Tony Martin
…disputes between Lefkowitz and Afrocentrist Tony Martin created strife between Black and Jewish intellectuals and made Afrocentrism vulnerable to charges of anti-Semitism. Critics further have argued that Afrocentrism’s search for exclusively African values sometimes comes perilously close to reproducing r... |
a8cd41bbb0659c9b648a52fec0446348 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Meehan | Tony Meehan | Tony Meehan
…2011, Winchester, Hampshire), and drummer Tony Meehan (byname of Daniel Meehan; b. March 2, 1943, London—d. November 28, 2005, London). Later members included drummer Brian Bennett (b. February 9, 1940, London) and bassist John Rostill (b. June 16, 1942, Birmingham, West Midlands—d. November 26, 1973, Engl... |
1b4a7f2014fdb4788fe97a1030dee7eb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-OReilly | Tony O'Reilly | Tony O'Reilly
Tony O’Reilly, byname of Sir Anthony John Francis O’Reilly, (born May 7, 1936, Dublin, Ireland), Irish rugby union player and business executive who reached notable heights in both fields. He played 29 Test (international) matches for Ireland and set British Lions (now the British and Irish Lions) record... |
73ef63ef29bf4bda3aea761abe63ab2c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Randall | Tony Randall | Tony Randall
Klugman starred opposite Tony Randall as Felix Unger and earned two Emmys (1971 and 1973) for his portrayal. The show ended in 1975, and the following year Klugman made his debut as a Los Angeles medical examiner in Quincy, M.E. The popular drama ran until 1983, earning him…
…career of an adman (Tony Randa... |
2405747a6a917d23c68feaf114dd633e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Rice | Tony Rice | Tony Rice
…his influential collaboration with guitarist Tony Rice on older country tunes (inaugurated in 1980 with the album Skaggs & Rice). In the realm of bluegrass, Skaggs shifted his focus to the traditional sound of the genre’s founding generation. He established Skaggs Family Records and formed the band Kentucky ... |
b6f62198b2e0bc5456ca2d60af5ae106 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Torcuato-Fernandez-Miranda-y-Hevia | Torcuato Fernández-Miranda y Hevia | Torcuato Fernández-Miranda y Hevia
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda y Hevia, (born November 10, 1915, Asturias, Spain—died June 19, 1980, London, England), Spanish jurist and politician. A leading figure in the Falangist movement under Gen. Francisco Franco, Fernández-Miranda surprised many of his extremist supporters by be... |
1598f79ae9aa4d26855820dbccd5a3f6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Torcuato-Luca-de-Tena-y-Alvarez-Ossorio | Torcuato Luca de Tena y Alvarez-Ossorio | Torcuato Luca de Tena y Alvarez-Ossorio
…weekly in 1903 by journalist Torcuato Luca de Tena y Alvarez-Ossorio, who later (1929) was made the marqués de Luca de Tena by King Alfonso XIII in recognition of his accomplishments with ABC. The paper became a daily in 1905 and after 1929 published a Seville edition.
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615d40811c5c4af281c009bb59569ae9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tosa-Mitsuoki | Tosa Mitsuoki | Tosa Mitsuoki
Tosa Mitsuoki, original name Tosa Fujimitsu, also called Tsuneaki, (born 1617, Sakai, Japan—died November 14, 1691, Kyōto), Japanese painter of the early Edo period (1603–1867) who revived the Tosa school of painting (founded in the 15th century and devoted to the Yamato-e, or paintings specializing in s... |
da3b7a4908f8a356b494dca0d0b20841 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toussaint-Charbonneau | Toussaint Charbonneau | Toussaint Charbonneau
…newly hired interpreters—a French Canadian, Toussaint Charbonneau, and his Shoshone wife, Sacagawea, who had given birth to a boy, Jean Baptiste, that February. The departure scene was described by Lewis in his journal:
…by French Canadian fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau and became one of his pl... |
fb7298865f7a42d6a6cbaa6c2a147d3b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tove-Ditlevsen | Tove Ditlevsen | Tove Ditlevsen
Tove Ditlevsen was another important poet, as well as a novelist and short-story writer, unattached to any group; her often intensely personal work reflects the loneliness of life in the poorer quarters of Copenhagen.
…against an industrial background, of Tove Ditlevsen. Perhaps Denmark’s boldest origina... |
a2970fa1dc9310bd79f1c6c85aa89a52 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Townes-Van-Zandt | Townes Van Zandt | Townes Van Zandt
…musical idols, Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt, country music “outlaws” of long standing. Earle’s debut album as a performer, Guitar Town (1986), won praise from critics and was a commercial success, with both its title track and “Goodbye’s All We Got Left” reaching the Top Ten on the country…
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6ec6f28d9068f8ffb847be28e32ffb10 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toyo-Ito | Toyo Ito | Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito, Japanese Itō Toyo-o, (born June 1, 1941, Seoul, Korea [now in South Korea]), Japanese architect known for his innovative designs and for taking a fresh approach to each of his projects. Ito held that architecture should consider the senses as well as physical needs, and his philosophy doubtless cont... |
3f6fa3afb9705052dbf3d391d4e17191 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toyotomi-Hideyoshi | Toyotomi Hideyoshi | Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, original name Hiyoshimaru, (born 1536/37, Nakamura, Owari province [now in Aichi prefecture], Japan—died Sept. 18, 1598, Fushimi), feudal lord and chief Imperial minister (1585–98), who completed the 16th-century unification of Japan begun by Oda Nobunaga.
He was the son of a pea... |
5f4a5978c56dd2c5b855d1ec22bc8456 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tracey-Emin | Tracey Emin | Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin, in full Tracey Karima Emin, (born July 3, 1963, Croyden, Greater London, England), British artist noted for using a wide range of media—including drawing, video, and installation art, as well as sculpture and painting—and her own life as the subject of her art. Her works were confessional, pro... |
9ad1ec3397b0b6b7db9ec1567320f1bd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tracey-Ullman | Tracey Ullman | Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman, byname of Trace Ullman, (born December 30, 1959, Slough, England), British-American actress, singer, and writer who was a uniquely gifted mimic and comic, perhaps best known for a series of self-titled sketch-comedy programs in the United States.
Ullman was born to a Polish father and Brit... |
20458705b258eef3c9f44c42dd0d28e4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Trafford-Leigh-Mallory | Trafford Leigh-Mallory | Trafford Leigh-Mallory
Trafford Leigh-Mallory, (born July 11, 1892, Mobberley, Cheshire, England—killed November 14, 1944, in flight over France), British air marshal who commanded the Allied air forces in the Normandy Invasion (1944) during World War II.
Leigh-Mallory was educated at the University of Cambridge, rece... |
c7ac73f7c46a2f8e4c5f5bda52ddc8aa | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Traidenis | Traidenis | Traidenis
…quite likely that another chieftain, Traidenis, founded the dynasty that subsequently became known as that of Gediminas, who acceded to the throne about 1315 and ruled until his death in 1341 or 1342. Although Lithuanian expansion into the lands of the Kiev realm, which had been destroyed by the Mongols,…
Tr... |
df594155e4566491416dc308e194c567 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Trevor-Howard | Trevor Howard | Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard, in full Trevor Wallace Howard, (born September 29, 1916, Cliftonville, Kent, England—died January 7, 1988, Bushey, Hertfordshire), British actor who was best known for his portrayal of a sensitive doctor in love with a married woman in the bittersweet film Brief Encounter (1945).
Howard ma... |
5a2f45a4d463e8501c3714864ae5c184 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Trevor-Nunn | Trevor Nunn | Trevor Nunn
Trevor Nunn, in full Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, (born January 14, 1940, Ipswich, Suffolk, England), English theatre director who, as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC; 1968–86) and the Royal National Theatre (RNT; 1997–2003), was known for his innovative stagings of Shakespeare’s works a... |
f533d9a64d32c71004ef2ce9f5eca9f7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Triestine-Giuliana-Morandini | Triestine Giuliana Morandini | Triestine Giuliana Morandini
Triestine Giuliana Morandini set her first novel, I cristalli di Vienna (1978; Bloodstains), in the time of the German occupation of Vienna, and in La prima estasi (1985; “The First Ecstasy”) Elisabetta Rasy, moving on from criticism to fiction, endeavoured to re-create the mystic and…
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27950bb56df25a237898ad77303cfa4b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tripti-Mitra | Tripti Mitra | Tripti Mitra
…Mitra and his actress wife Tripti, who worked in the Left-wing People’s Theatre movement in the 1940s. With other actors they founded the Bahurupee group in 1949 and produced many Tagore plays including Rakta Karabi (“Red Oleanders”) and Bisarjan (“Sacrifice”).
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ca3dfc867814ef9a59222be639c0cb3a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tristan-lHermite | Tristan l'Hermite | Tristan l'Hermite
Tristan l’Hermite, pseudonym of François l’Hermite, (born c. 1601, La Marche, Fr.—died Sept. 7, 1655, Paris), dramatist and poet, one of the creators of French classical drama. Long overshadowed by his contemporary Pierre Corneille, he was rediscovered in the late 19th century and continues to excit... |
cc411601ed26678115e83fce0db74988 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Troy-Perry | Troy Perry | Troy Perry
Troy Perry, full name Troy Deroy Perry, (born July 27, 1940, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.), American religious leader, gay rights and human rights activist, and founder of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), better known as Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC). Open to all in... |
5039881df0ea23c3702183c3d7807ddd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Truong-Chinh | Truong Chinh | Truong Chinh
Truong Chinh, original name Dang Xuan Khu, (born Feb. 9, 1907, Ha Nam Ninh province, Vietnam—died Sept. 30, 1988, Hanoi), Vietnamese scholar and statesman, a leading North Vietnamese communist intellectual.
While a high school student at Nam Dinh, Truong Chinh became an activist in the anticolonialist mov... |
01453a00491f95ef4b6a462ef216ae2a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tsai-Ing-wen | Tsai Ing-wen | Tsai Ing-wen
Tsai Ing-wen, (born August 31, 1956, Fang-shan township, P’ing-tung county, Taiwan), educator and politician who was the first female president of Taiwan (2016– ).
Tsai, who was of Hakka descent, was one of nine children born to a wealthy business family. She spent her early childhood in coastal southern... |
e84e1d67454165c8f1cd0fa1b903fd6b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tsubouchi-Shoyo | Tsubouchi Shōyō | Tsubouchi Shōyō
Tsubouchi Shōyō, pseudonym of Tsubouchi Yūzō, (born June 22, 1859, Ōta, Fukui prefecture, Japan—died Feb. 28, 1935, Atami), playwright, novelist, critic, and translator who occupied a prominent position in Japanese letters for nearly half a century. He wrote the first major work of modern Japanese li... |
e4030a19bbbfa17706ddaec20743a584 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tsung-Dao-Lee | Tsung-Dao Lee | Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee, (born November 24, 1926, Shanghai, China), Chinese-born American physicist who, with Chen Ning Yang, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957 for work in discovering violations of the principle of parity conservation (the quality of space reflection symmetry of subatomic particle inter... |
a0c60827eb8bac4c44ffb87de79433e9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tu-Duc | Tu Duc | Tu Duc
Tu Duc, original name Nguyen Phuoc Hoang Nham, (born Sept. 22, 1829, Hue, Vietnam—died July 9, 1883, Hue), emperor of Vietnam who followed a policy of conservatism and isolation and whose persecution of Christian missionaries foreshadowed the French conquest of Vietnam.
The son of Emperor Thieu Tri, Prince Ngu... |
fdb4c50be174c33be528a0a739781687 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tudor-Arghezi | Tudor Arghezi | Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Arghezi, pseudonym of Ion N. Theodorescu, (born May 21, 1880, Bucharest, Rom.—died July 14, 1967, Bucharest), Romanian poet, novelist, and essayist whose creation of a new lyric poetry led to his recognition as one of the foremost writers in Romania. He produced his best work in the years before Wo... |
1a458b1d061658386c4d2435061bf1b0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tukulti-Ninurta-I | Tukulti-Ninurta I | Tukulti-Ninurta I
Tukulti-Ninurta I, (reigned c. 1243–c. 1207 bc), king of Assyria who asserted Assyrian supremacy over King Kashtiliashu IV, ruler of Kassite-controlled Babylonia to the southeast, and subjugated the mountainous region to the northeast and, for a time, Babylonia.
A promoter of cultic ritual, Tukulti-N... |
0e659e04b519ae4458251d6180157c9f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tun-Haji-Abdul-Razak-bin-Hussein | Tun Haji Abdul Razak bin Hussein | Tun Haji Abdul Razak bin Hussein
Tun Haji Abdul Razak bin Hussein, (born March 11, 1922, Pekan, Pahang state, Federated Malay States [now Malaysia]—died Jan. 14, 1976, London, Eng.), prime minister, foreign minister, and defense minister of Malaysia from 1970 to 1976.
A lawyer by training, Abdul Razak joined the civil... |
17bb929e7135e9dc511a9695886909ef | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tuotilo | Tuotilo | Tuotilo
Tuotilo (died 915), a monk of Sankt Gallen (in what is now Switzerland), is credited with the invention of tropes. Notker Balbulus (died 912) is notable for his association with the sequence, a long hymn that originated as a trope added to the final syllable…
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d76305be3821ba87067b39fdffd27811 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Turgut-Ozal | Turgut Özal | Turgut Özal
Turgut Özal, (born Oct. 13, 1927, Malatya, Turkey—died April 17, 1993, Ankara), Turkish politician, prime minister from 1983 to 1989 and president from 1989 to 1993.
Özal studied electrical engineering at Istanbul Technical University, where he met the future prime minister Süleyman Demirel. Özal became a... |
6b6c94730a961f78d8e221b138dcfb2b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Turlough-OCarolan | Turlough O'Carolan | Turlough O'Carolan
Turlough O’Carolan, also called Terence Carolan, (born 1670, near Nobber, County Meath, Ireland—died March 25, 1738, Alderford, County Roscommon), one of the last Irish harpist-composers and the only one whose songs survive in both words and music in significant number (about 220 are extant).
O’Caro... |
86789d5917672877ff2f2631c82c38f2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tutankhamun?utm_medium=mendel-homepage&utm_source=oyr&utm_campaign=oyr-1&utm_term=20201117 | Tutankhamun | Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun, also spelled Tutankhamen and Tutankhamon, original name Tutankhaten, byname King Tut, (flourished 14th century bce), king of ancient Egypt (reigned 1333–23 bce), known chiefly for his intact tomb, KV 62 (tomb 62), discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. During his reign, powerful advise... |
75c09895d3084c16fcf28048c8814a28 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tyagaraja | Tyagaraja | Tyagaraja
Tyagaraja, (born May 4, 1767, Madras Presidency [Tamil Nadu], India—died January 6, 1847, Madras Presidency [Tamil Nadu]), Indian composer of Karnatak songs of the genre kirtana, or kriti (devotional songs), and of ragas. He is the most prominent person in the history of southern Indian classical music, and ... |
c48c6aa519848dfb81e2e41f6cb7d37f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tyrone-Davis | Tyrone Davis | Tyrone Davis
…Dakar label, whose singles by Tyrone Davis—“Can I Change My Mind?” (1969) and “Turn Back the Hands of Time” (1970)—were classics of wistful regret.
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ffa8c44b8b55c9194373d10d862a3c9a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tyrtaeus | Tyrtaeus | Tyrtaeus
Tyrtaeus, (flourished middle of the 7th century bc, Sparta [Greece]), Greek elegiac poet, author of stirring poetry on military themes supposedly composed to help Sparta win the Second Messenian War.
Greek tradition after the 6th century claimed that Tyrtaeus was a schoolmaster from Athens or Miletus, sent to... |
3331c17b30e741b577fb3071f85bac73 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/U-Thant | U Thant | U Thant
U Thant, (born Jan. 22, 1909, Pantanaw, Burma [now Myanmar]—died Nov. 25, 1974, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Myanmar educator, civil servant, and third secretary general of the United Nations (1962–71). Neutralist by inclination and in practice, he criticized both West and East for actions and attitudes that he con... |
24aed0ddd4145aae7e6ed15e4348bdb5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Uday-Hussein | Uday Hussein | Uday Hussein
…grooming one of his sons—Uday or Qusay—to succeed him. Both were elevated to senior positions, and both mirrored the brutality of their father. Moreover, Saddam continued to solidify his control at home, while he struck a profoundly defiant and anti-American stance in his rhetoric. Though increasingly fea... |
87958a7a2f16da553f71da96fb14fe3f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ueda-Akinari | Ueda Akinari | Ueda Akinari
Ueda Akinari, pseudonym of Ueda Senjiro, (born July 25, 1734, Ōsaka, Japan—died Aug. 8, 1809, Kyōto), preeminent writer and poet of late 18th-century Japan, best known for his tales of the supernatural.
Ueda was adopted into the family of an oil and paper merchant and brought up with great kindness. A ch... |
5c7e5d9dca0fc1643756cbc52f4a1f30 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Uesugi-Norimasa | Uesugi Norimasa | Uesugi Norimasa
In 1552 Uesugi Norimasa, who had inherited the position of kanrei, or governor-general, of Kantō and whose family had long been the most powerful in the area, was defeated by the Hōjō clan and took shelter with Torachiyo, whom he adopted as his son. Torachiyo then changed…
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730c0dba52a6e049c98d17f0bb9edca0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ugaki-Kazushige | Ugaki Kazushige | Ugaki Kazushige
Ugaki Kazushige, (born June 1868, Okayama prefecture, Japan—died April 30, 1956, Tokyo), Japanese soldier-statesman, who in the years before World War II headed the so-called Control Faction of the Japanese army, a group that stressed the development of new weapons and opposed the rightist “Imperial W... |
157aa8fb9634a69ea580262f03b2d5da | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ulay | Ulay | Ulay
…with Frank Uwe Laysiepen (byname Ulay), a like-minded German artist. Much of their work together was concerned with gender identity, most notoriously Imponderabilia (1977), in which they stood naked while facing each other in a museum’s narrow entrance, forcing visitors to squeeze between them and, in so doing, t... |
67a608bfe4a28c35aa16239805e8f82d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ulf-Jarl | Ulf Jarl | Ulf Jarl
…when his regent in Denmark, Ulf Jarl, the husband of his sister Estrid, joined the king of Norway and the king of Sweden in a coalition against Denmark. Though Canute was defeated at the Battle of the Holy River, Sweden, terms were made. Scandinavian sources attribute to Canute the death…
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a65b0665bad4de15435aa92419d4615b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ulf-Merbold | Ulf Merbold | Ulf Merbold
Ulf Merbold, (born June 20, 1941, Greiz, Ger.), German physicist who was the first European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut to go into space, as a payload specialist aboard the U.S. Spacelab-1 flight from Nov. 28 to Dec. 8, 1983. He was also the first ESA astronaut to fly to the Russian space station Mir, in ... |
4e7af6687ce122e6ca383d95979534ed | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Uli-Hoeness | Uli Hoeness | Uli Hoeness
…outstanding German players, such as Uli Hoeness and Paul Breitner, Bayern began accumulating trophies at a remarkable rate. It won the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1967, its first Bundesliga title in 1968–69, the Intercontinental Cup in 1976, and three European Cups (now known as the Champions League) in a... |
cf73f47888f52441d8cb49f4e53cde93 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ullor | Ullor | Ullor
Ullor wrote in the classical tradition, on the basis of which he appealed for universal love, while Vallathol (died 1958) responded to the human significance of social progress.
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8abe06b0572ba7336632cb5ebfe92620 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ulrich-Wehling | Ulrich Wehling | Ulrich Wehling
Ulrich Wehling, (born July 8, 1952, East Germany), German skier who was the only three-time winner of the Nordic combined (two ski jumps totaled, plus a 15-km race) in Olympic history. In doing so, he was the first male competitor who was not a figure skater to win three consecutive gold medals in the s... |
7636d64bd6a28f5812b8f3b14ac4c418 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ulugh-Muhammad | Ulugh Muḥammad | Ulugh Muḥammad
…the Kazan khanate, its founder Ulugh Muḥammad (c. 1437–45) bequeathed the throne to his able son Maḥmud (or Maḥmutek), who reigned with conspicuous success between 1445 and 1462. Maḥmud’s brothers, however, fled for sanctuary to Vasily II of Moscow, who set up a puppet khanate for one of them (Kasim)…
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