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Tahoua

(Encyclopedia)Tahoua touˈä [key], town (1988 pop. 51,607), SW Niger. A major administrative center, it is a farming community and trade center frequented by Tuareg and Fulani pastoral nomads. Gypsum and phosphate...

Titus , epistle of the New Testament

(Encyclopedia)Titus, letter of the New Testament. With First and Second Timothy, it comprises the Pastoral Epistles, purportedly written by St. Paul. Titus resembles First Timothy in detail; it consists of points r...

Sánchez, Florencio

(Encyclopedia)Sánchez, Florencio flōrānˈsyō sänˈchās [key], 1875–1910, Uruguayan playwright. His many plays concern pastoral life in the region of the Río de la Plata. Sánchez's style owes much to the n...

Ribeiro, Bernardim

(Encyclopedia)Ribeiro, Bernardim bərnərdēmˈ rēbāˈro͝o [key], 1482?–1552?, Portuguese poet. Ribeiro was a figure at the Lisbon court and is said to have gone mad after an unhappy love affair. Saudades, or ...

Corumbá

(Encyclopedia)Corumbá ko͝oro͞ombäˈ [key], city, Mato Grosso do Sul state, SW Brazil, on the Paraguay River. A ...

Coffin, Henry Sloane

(Encyclopedia)Coffin, Henry Sloane, 1877–1954, American Presbyterian clergyman, b. New York City. He was pastor of the Madison Ave. Presbyterian Church in New York City (1905–26), lecturer (1904–9), associate...

Jammes, Francis

(Encyclopedia)Jammes, Francis fräNsēsˈ zhäm [key], 1868–1938, French poet. He lived most of his life in the Pyrenees. Jammes is usually grouped with the symbolists, but he is distinguished from them by the si...

ranz des vaches

(Encyclopedia)ranz des vaches räNz dā väsh [key], type of Alpine folk melody of irregular melodic and rhythmic form used to call cattle. It is played on the alphorn by Swiss herders, or sung, with or without wor...

Encina, Juan del

(Encyclopedia)Encina or Enzina, Juan del both: hwän dĕl ānthēˈnä [key], 1469?–c.1530, Spanish dramatist, musician, and poet, b. Encino. He served as court musician to the duke of Alba in Italy, and in 1513 ...

Great Artesian Basin

(Encyclopedia)Great Artesian Basin, c.670,000 sq mi (1,735,300 sq km), between the Eastern Highlands and the Western Plateau, E central Australia, extending S from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, to NE South A...