Daniel Defoe: Mature life and works.: …his vigorous and witty poem The True-Born Englishman, an enormously popular work that is still very readable and relevant in its exposure of the fallacies of racial prejudice. Defoe was clearly proud of this work, because he sometimes designated himself “Author of ‘The True-Born Englishman’” in later works.

Walt Disney: Major films and television productions: One popular series, called True-Life Adventures, featured nature-based motion pictures such as Seal Island (1948), Beaver Valley (1950), and The Living Desert (1953). The Disney studio also began making full-length animation romances, such as Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), and Peter Pan (1953), and produced low-budget, live-action films,…

Adobe Inc.: Font wars: …technology of its own, called TrueType. For more than a year the dispute, known as the font wars, roiled the computer and publishing worlds before Apple and Adobe reached a compromise. In the wake of the agreement, Microsoft abandoned its PostScript clone and adopted TrueType for its Windows operating systems.

François Truffaut was a French film critic, director, and producer whose attacks on established filmmaking techniques both paved the way for and pioneered the movement known as the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). Truffaut was born into a working-class home. His own troubled childhood provided the

truffle, (genus Tuber), edible subterranean fungus, prized as a food delicacy. True truffles are in the genus Tuber (order Pezizales, phylum Ascomycota) and are native mainly to temperate regions. The different species range in size from as small as a pea to the size of an orange. The

Tasmanian Aboriginal people: The death in 1876 of Truganini, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman who had aided the resettlement on Flinders Island, gave rise to the widely propagated myth that the Aboriginal people of Tasmania had become extinct.

abrasive: Truing, grading, and testing: Nearly all grinding wheels must be finished after they have been baked or fired. In a process called truing, the wheels are cut to final size, and the outside glazed layers resulting from the kiln are removed, making the sides of…

Jenny Holzer: Education and early work: …cultural theory culminated in the Truisms series (1977–79). The works, composed of seemingly familiar slogans such as “Abuse of power comes as no surprise,” were originally presented by Holzer as phrases on anonymous posters and were later presented on T-shirts, billboards, and electronic signs. These texts, fraught with cynicism and…

Trujillo, city, northeastern Honduras, on Trujillo Bay, sheltered from the Caribbean Sea by Cape Honduras. Founded in 1524, the historic city was the first capital of the Spanish colonial province of Honduras, flourishing especially in the early 17th century. In 1531 it was made a bishop’s see, but

Trujillo, city, capital of Trujillo estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. The city lies on a northern outlier of the Cordillera de Mérida, 2,640 feet (805 m) above sea level. Founded in 1556, Trujillo was the site of the 1813 proclamation by the liberator Simón Bolívar, which promised a “fight to

Trujillo, estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. It is bounded on the west by Lake Maracaibo and by the states of Portuguesa on the east, Mérida on the southwest, Barinas on the south, and Zulia on the north. Covered with mountains over most of its area, Trujillo is one of the truly Andean states

Trujillo, town, Cáceres provincia (province), in the Extremadura comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), western Spain, on the Tozo River, a tributary of the Tagus River. It is sited on a hill 25 miles (40 km) east of the provincial capital Cáceres. Trujillo was a town of importance in the

Trujillo, city, Peru, lying in the coastal desert, 343 miles (552 km) north-northwest of Lima. The second oldest Spanish city in Peru, Trujillo was founded in 1534 by Diego Almagro; the following year it was elevated to city status by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro, who named it after his

Carolina, town, northeastern Puerto Rico. Part of metropolitan San Juan, it is located about 12 miles (19 km) east of the capital, on the banks of the Loíza River just above its marshy lowlands near the coast. The town was in 1816 constituted a pueblo, named Trujillo Bajo. In 1857 the barrios

Rafael Trujillo was the dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Trujillo entered the Dominican army in 1918 and was trained by U.S. Marines during the U.S. occupation (1916–24) of the country. He rose from lieutenant to commanding colonel of the national police

Cordillera Central: Duarte Peak, originally known as Mount Loma Tina and then as Trujillo Peak, rises to 10,417 feet (3,175 m); it is thus the highest peak in the West Indies. The rugged, heavily forested slopes of the cordillera have defied all but a few attempts to…

Rafael Trujillo was the dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Trujillo entered the Dominican army in 1918 and was trained by U.S. Marines during the U.S. occupation (1916–24) of the country. He rose from lieutenant to commanding colonel of the national police

Chuuk Islands, cluster of 16 much-eroded high volcanic islands in the Federated States of Micronesia, western Pacific Ocean. The name Chuuk means “high mountains” in the Chuukese language, one of several Malayo-Polynesian languages that are used in the islands. The Chuuk Islands, which form part of

Quinisext Council, council that was convened in 692 by the Byzantine emperor Justinian II to issue disciplinary decrees related to the second and third councils of Constantinople (held in 553 and 680–681). They were the fifth and sixth ecumenical councils—hence the name Quinisext. The two

trullo, conical, stone-roofed building unique to the regione of Puglia (Apulia) in southeastern Italy and especially to the town of Alberobello, where they are used as dwellings. Upon a whitewashed cylindrical wall, circles of gray stone, held in place by lateral opposition and gravity and without

trullo, conical, stone-roofed building unique to the regione of Puglia (Apulia) in southeastern Italy and especially to the town of Alberobello, where they are used as dwellings. Upon a whitewashed cylindrical wall, circles of gray stone, held in place by lateral opposition and gravity and without

Quinisext Council, council that was convened in 692 by the Byzantine emperor Justinian II to issue disciplinary decrees related to the second and third councils of Constantinople (held in 553 and 680–681). They were the fifth and sixth ecumenical councils—hence the name Quinisext. The two

Camilo José Cela was a Spanish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989. He is perhaps best known for his novel La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942; The Family of Pascual Duarte) and is considered to have given new life to Spanish literature. His literary production—primarily novels,

sociology: Social stratification: …by William Julius Wilson in The Truly Disadvantaged (1987). His book uncovered mechanisms that maintained segregation and disorganization in African American communities. Disciplinary specialization, especially in the areas of gender, race, and Marxism, came to dominate sociological inquiry.

David Duchovny: … (2016), Miss Subways (2018), and Truly Like Lightning (2021).

Alan Rickman: …man in the dark comedy Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991) and Colonel Brandon in Ang Lee’s adaption of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1995).

Davidson Nicol: …African Tales (1965) and The Truly Married Woman, and Other Stories (1965), under the name Abioseh Nicol. They centre upon life in the government service and upon the interaction of Africans with colonial administrators in preindependent Sierra Leone. His short stories and poems appeared in anthologies and journals. He also…

Harry S. Truman: Early life and career: …the nation for war, the Truman Committee (officially the Special Committee Investigating National Defense) exposed graft and deficiencies in production. The committee made it a practice to issue draft reports of its findings to corporations, unions, and government agencies under investigation, allowing for the correction of abuses before formal action…

Truman Doctrine, pronouncement by U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman declaring immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Greece, threatened by communist insurrection, and Turkey, under pressure from Soviet expansion in the Mediterranean area. As the United States and the Soviet Union

The Truman Show, American satirical comedy-drama film, released in 1998, about an ordinary man who realizes that his entire life is a reality television show. The film stars Jim Carrey as the title character and was directed by Peter Weir. The Truman Show opened to critical acclaim. It was

Truman State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kirksville, Mo., U.S. It is designated the state’s public liberal arts and sciences institution. The university comprises 10 divisions and offers a range of undergraduate studies and master’s degree programs. Students

Bess Truman was an American first lady (1945–53), the wife of Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States. Bess Wallace, the daughter of David Wallace, a local politician, and Margaret Gates Wallace, came from one of the wealthiest and most prominent families in Independence, Missouri.

Maria Bueno: …captured the Australian Open with Christine Truman, but the others were won with Darlene Hard. Adding to her titles in 1960, she also won the mixed doubles (with Bob Howe) at the French Open.

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States (1945–53), who led his country through the final stages of World War II and through the early years of the Cold War, vigorously opposing Soviet expansionism in Europe and sending U.S. forces to turn back a communist invasion of South

Margaret Truman was an American writer who was the illustrious only daughter of U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman and first lady Bess Truman and carved a literary niche for herself as her parents’ biographer (Harry S. Truman [1973] and Bess W. Truman [1986]) and as the author of a number of best-selling

Bix Beiderbecke: …Missouri, in 1926, Beiderbecke joined Frank Trumbauer, with whom he maintained a close friendship for most of the rest of his life. The two played in the Jean Goldkette band (1927) and in Paul Whiteman’s outstanding pop music orchestra (1928–30), in which Beiderbecke was a featured soloist. Severe alcoholism disrupted…

Ante Trumbić was a Croatian nationalist from Dalmatia who played a leading role in the founding of Yugoslavia. Trumbić entered political life under the Austrian crown, first as a member of the Dalmatian Diet from 1895 and then as representative in the Reichsrat (federal assembly) in Vienna from

Bryan Cranston: …Dalton Trumbo in the biopic Trumbo (2015), and the performance earned Cranston his first Academy Award nomination. In The Infiltrator (2016), Cranston played real-life undercover federal agent Robert Mazur, who, in the 1980s, impersonated a money-laundering businessman in a sting operation that traced enormous sums of money back to Colombian…

Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist who was probably the most talented member of the Hollywood Ten, a group who refused to testify before the 1947 U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities about alleged communist involvement. He was blacklisted and in 1950 spent 11 months

Nathan Lane: The Lion King, The Birdcage, and The Producers: His subsequent theater work included Trumbo (2003), Butley (2003, 2006–07), and Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams (2005).

John Trumbull was an American painter, architect, and author, whose paintings of major episodes in the American Revolution form a unique record of that conflict’s events and participants. Trumbull was the son of the Connecticut governor Jonathan Trumbull (a first cousin to the poet John Trumbull).

John Trumbull was an American poet and jurist, known for his political satire, and a leader of the Hartford Wits). While a student at Yale College (now Yale University), Trumbull wrote two kinds of poetry: “correct” but undistinguished elegies of the Neoclassical school, and brilliant, comic verse

Lebanon: The home of Jonathan Trumbull (1740), American Revolutionary governor of Connecticut, is preserved in Lebanon, and the Revolutionary War office (1727), which served as the governor’s headquarters from which Connecticut’s war effort was directed, is now a museum. Agriculture is the mainstay of the town’s economy. Area 54…

Lyman Trumbull was a U.S. senator from Illinois whose independent views during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras caused him to switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican to the Liberal Republican and back to the Democratic Party in his long political career. Trumbull grew up in

John Sweeney: …president; he was succeeded by Richard Trumka. Two years later Sweeney was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Trümmelbach Falls, waterfalls on the Trümmelbach River, a tributary of the Lütschine, in the Bernese Alps of south-central Switzerland, that consist of five cascades fed by melting snows. The falls are reached by steps, paths, and an electric elevator. The highest fall is 950 feet (290 metres), and

lake: Chemical precipitates: Lake Trummen, also in Sweden, was treated by dredging its upper sediments. In Switzerland, Lake Wiler (Wilersee) was treated by the removal of water just above the sediments during stagnation periods.

triumph, 16th-century card game ancestral to whist. In triomphe, the French variety known to English contemporaries as French ruff, each player received five cards, a trump was turned, and the aim was to win three or more tricks. From this derived écarté and five-card loo. In the English game

bridge: …suit may be designated the trump suit (i.e., any card in that suit may take any card of the other suits), but the methods of designating the trump suit (or of determining that a deal will be played without trumps) differ in the various bridge games, as explained below.

Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago, commercial and residential skyscraper located at 401 North Wabash Avenue along the Chicago River, offering condominiums, retail space, parking facilities, and hotel services. Named after real estate developer Donald Trump, the 98-story building was

Donald Trump: …century his private conglomerate, the Trump Organization, comprised some 500 companies involved in a wide range of businesses, including hotels and resorts, residential properties, merchandise, and entertainment and television.

bridge: …suit may be designated the trump suit (i.e., any card in that suit may take any card of the other suits), but the methods of designating the trump suit (or of determining that a deal will be played without trumps) differ in the various bridge games, as explained below.

Trump Tower, mixed-use skyscraper in Manhattan, New York, located on Fifth Avenue at East 56th Street. It opened in 1983, although work was not completed until the following year. Trump Tower is 664 feet (202 metres) high and has 58 stories. It was the principal residence of its developer and

Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago, commercial and residential skyscraper located at 401 North Wabash Avenue along the Chicago River, offering condominiums, retail space, parking facilities, and hotel services. Named after real estate developer Donald Trump, the 98-story building was

Donald Trump: Early life and business career: …the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative (formerly Trump University), an online education company focusing on real estate investment and entrepreneurialism. The latter firm, which ceased operating in 2011, was the target of class-action lawsuits by former students and a separate action by the attorney general of New York state, alleging fraud. After…

Trump v. Anderson, a legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4, 2024, unanimously overturned a December 2023 decision by the Colorado Supreme Court holding that Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination of 2024, was ineligible to appear on the

Korematsu v. United States: In Trump v. Hawaii (2018), the Supreme Court explicitly repudiated and effectively overturned the Korematsu decision, characterizing it as “gravely wrong the day it was decided” and “overruled in the court of history.”

Major Supreme Court Cases from the 2023–24 Term: Trump v. United States: ” Argued on April 25, 2024. In August 2023 Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on criminal charges stemming from special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The four criminal…

Donald Trump is the 45th and 47th president of the United States (2017–21; 2025– ). Following his inauguration on January 20, 2025, Trump became only the second president to serve two nonconsecutive terms, the first being Grover Cleveland (1885–89; 1893–97). In January 2025, upon his sentencing

Donald Trump is the 45th and 47th president of the United States (2017–21; 2025– ). Following his inauguration on January 20, 2025, Trump became only the second president to serve two nonconsecutive terms, the first being Grover Cleveland (1885–89; 1893–97). In January 2025, upon his sentencing

Donald Trump, Jr. is an American businessman who was an executive vice president in the Trump Organization, his family’s global real-estate company. He was also active in politics, and his father, Donald Trump, Sr., served as the 45th president of the United States (2017–21). Trump Jr. was the

Donald Trump, Jr. is an American businessman who was an executive vice president in the Trump Organization, his family’s global real-estate company. He was also active in politics, and his father, Donald Trump, Sr., served as the 45th president of the United States (2017–21). Trump Jr. was the

Donald Trump, Jr.: younger siblings Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump, lived an extremely affluent lifestyle in New York. After his parents’ high-profile acrimonious divorce in 1992, Trump Jr.’s relationship with his father was strained for a number of years. The elder Trump remarried twice and had two more children, Tiffany Trump and Barron…

Donald Trump, Jr.: …of a real-estate empire, and Ivana Trump, a Czech-born model. The family, which included younger siblings Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump, lived an extremely affluent lifestyle in New York. After his parents’ high-profile acrimonious divorce in 1992, Trump Jr.’s relationship with his father was strained for a number of years.…

Ivanka Trump is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur who was an executive vice president in the Trump Organization, her family’s global real-estate company. She was an adviser to her father, Donald Trump, when he served as U.S. president (2017–21). Ivanka Trump grew up amid great wealth. Her

Melania Trump is a Slovenian American former fashion model who served as first lady of the United States during the administrations (2017–21; 2025– ) of her husband, Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th U.S. president. Melania Trump is only the second foreign-born first lady, after Louisa Adams.

Donald Trump: Style and rhetoric: …Trump put the lesson in The Art of the Deal. As he declared in a tweet in 2012, “When someone attacks me, I always attack back…except 100× more. This has nothing to do with a tirade but rather, a way of life!”

Tel Ḥay: …organization, under the command of Joseph Trumpeldor, Zionist pioneer and former hero of the tsarist army. On March 1, 1920, the settlement was attacked by a large band of Arabs; six of the defenders, including Trumpeldor, were killed. The resistance of Tel Ḥay not only became legendary throughout Jewish Palestine…

Victor Thomas Trumper was an Australian cricketer who, as an outstanding batsman, is best remembered for his ability to perform well under difficult conditions. He played in 48 Test (international) matches from 1899 to 1911 and toured England four times as a member of the Australian team. In

trumpet, brass wind musical instrument sounded by lip vibration against a cup mouthpiece. Ethnologists and ethnomusicologists use the word trumpet for any lip-vibrated instrument, whether of horn, conch, reed, or wood, with a horn or gourd bell, as well as for the Western brass instrument. The

trumpet, in zoology, any of certain snail species, including members of the conch (q.v.) and triton groups (see triton

trumpeter, any of three species of long-legged, round-bodied birds comprising the family Psophiidae (order Gruiformes). All are about 50 centimetres (20 inches) long, inhabit northern South America, and are named for their strident calls, uttered as they roam the jungle floor searching for berries

trumpet creeper, either of two species of ornamental vines of the genus Campsis (family Bignoniaceae, q.v.). Both are deciduous shrubs that climb by aerial rootlets. Campsis radicans, also called trumpet vine and cow itch, is a hardy climber native in eastern and southern United States; it produces

Bignoniaceae, the trumpet creeper or catalpa family of the mint order of flowering plants (Lamiales). It contains about 110 genera and more than 800 species of trees, shrubs, and, most commonly, vines, chiefly of tropical America, tropical Africa, and the Indo-Malayan region. They form an important

honeysuckle: Major species: Trumpet honeysuckle (L. sempervirens) has oval, sometimes joined leaves and climbs high in forest trees. Its orange-scarlet spikes of 5-cm (2-inch) tubular five-lobed flowers and red berries are common throughout eastern North America.

Lepidoptera: Annotated classification: Family Tischeriidae (trumpet leaf miner moths) Approximately 80 species predominantly in North America; not found in Australia or the rest of Oceania. Superfamily Incurvarioidea More than 500 species; all females with an extensible, piercing ovipositor for inserting eggs into plant tissue. Family Incurvariidae

trumpet marine, stringed musical instrument of medieval and Renaissance Europe, highly popular in the 15th century and surviving into the 18th century. It had a long narrow body and one or two strings, which the player’s left thumb touched lightly to produce the notes of the harmonic series, as on

daffodil, (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), bulb-forming plant in the amaryllis family, widely cultivated for its showy, trumpetlike flowers, which emerge in the spring. Daffodils are native to northern Europe and are grown in temperate climates around the world. The daffodil’s popularity has resulted

Petter Dass: …trompet (written 1678–1700; published 1739; The Trumpet of Nordland), a rhyming description of Nordland that depicts, with loving accuracy and homely humour, its natural features, people, and occupations. Written in an easy, swinging metre, it is addressed to the common people.

The Trumpet of the Swan, novel by E.B. White, published in 1970. The book is considered a classic of children’s literature. White’s version of the ugly duckling story involves a mute swan named Louis who becomes a famous jazz trumpet player to compensate for his lack of a natural voice. Aided by

carnivorous plant: Major families: …widely known and much-studied genus Sarracenia, of eastern North America. The sun pitchers, also known as marsh pitcher plants (genus Heliamphora), are native to a limited region in South America and consist of about 23 species. The cobra plant (Darlingtonia californica) is the only member of its genus and is…

Urticaceae: Major genera and species: The trumpet tree (Cecropia peltata), a tropical American species that has hollow stems inhabited by biting ants, is an extremely aggressive invasive species in areas outside its native range.

trumpet creeper: Campsis radicans, also called trumpet vine and cow itch, is a hardy climber native in eastern and southern United States; it produces terminal clusters of tubular, trumpet-shaped orange to orange-scarlet flowers (see photograph). The Chinese trumpet creeper (C. grandiflora) of eastern Asia is a poor climber but produces spectacular…

Jeremiah Clarke: His Trumpet Voluntary was once attributed to Henry Purcell.

bird-of-paradise: The trumpetbird (Phonygammus keraudrenii) is 25 to 32 cm (10 to 12.5 inches) long and has head tufts as well as pointed neck feathers. It is named for the male’s loud call. Others having special names include sicklebills and standardwings.

trumpeter, any of three species of long-legged, round-bodied birds comprising the family Psophiidae (order Gruiformes). All are about 50 centimetres (20 inches) long, inhabit northern South America, and are named for their strident calls, uttered as they roam the jungle floor searching for berries

trumpeter swan, Black-billed species (Cygnus cygnus buccinator) of swan, named for its far-carrying, low-pitched call. About 6 ft (1.8 m) long, with a 10-ft (3-m) wingspan, it is the largest swan, though it weighs less than the mute swan. Once threatened with extinction (fewer than 100 were counted

trumpetfish, (genus Aulostomus), any of the three species of marine fishes that constitute the family Aulostomidae (order Gasterosteiformes), found on coral reefs and reef flats in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and western Pacific oceans. Trumpetfishes have elongated

pitcher plant: Sarraceniaceae: The yellow pitcher plant (S. flava) has bright yellow flowers and a long, green, trumpet-shaped leaf the lid of which is held upright. One species, the green pitcher plant (S. oreophila), is critically endangered and is found in limited areas of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and…

Robert Julius Trumpler was a Swiss-born U.S. astronomer who, in his extensive studies of galactic star clusters, demonstrated the presence throughout the galactic plane of a tenuous haze of interstellar material that absorbs light generally and decreases the apparent brightness of distant clusters.

trumpet marine, stringed musical instrument of medieval and Renaissance Europe, highly popular in the 15th century and surviving into the 18th century. It had a long narrow body and one or two strings, which the player’s left thumb touched lightly to produce the notes of the harmonic series, as on

jueju, a Chinese verse form that was popular during the Tang dynasty (618–907). An outgrowth of the lüshi, it is a four-line poem, each line of which consists of five or seven words. It omits either the first four lines, the last four lines, the first two and the last two lines, or the middle four

error: Truncation error results from ignoring all but a finite number of terms of an infinite series. For example, the exponential function ex may be expressed as the sum of the infinite series 1 + x + x2/2 + x3/6 + ⋯ + xn/n! + ⋯…

police: Nonlethal tactics and instruments: The nightstick carried by police officers was originally made of wood, but most now are made of composite materials.

human cardiovascular system: Origin and development: …sinus venosus, atrium, ventricle, and truncus arteriosus. The characteristic bending of the tube causes the ventricle to swing first to the right and then behind the atrium, the truncus coming to lie between the sideways dilations of the atrium. It is during this stage of development and growth that the…

trundle bed, a low bed, so called from the trundles, or casters, that were attached to the feet so that it could be pushed under the master bed when it was not in use. The bed was intended for servants, who used to sleep in their employer’s room so as to be near at hand. The framework was generally

Annam, French-governed Vietnam or, more strictly, its central region, known in precolonial times as Trung Ky (Central Administrative Division). The term Annam (Chinese: “Pacified South”) was never officially used by the Vietnamese to describe their country, even during the French colonial period.

Trung Sisters were heroines of the first Vietnamese independence movement, who headed a rebellion against the Chinese Han-dynasty overlords and briefly established an autonomous state. Their determination and apparently strong leadership qualities are cited by scholars of Southeast Asian culture as

Hanoi: The contemporary city: …(“One-Pillar”) Pagoda (1049); and the Temple of the Trung Sisters (1142). In addition, the Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, built in the 11th century, was designated in 2010 as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The University of Hanoi, the Revolutionary Museum, the Army Museum, and the…