Khushwant Singh: Literary works: …his tour de force novel Train to Pakistan (1956), but before that he had published a collection of short stories, The Mark of Vishnu, and Other Stories, in 1950. He followed up Train to Pakistan with The Voice of God, and Other Stories (1957). Singh’s short stories follow a traditional…

Heinrich Böll: …Der Zug war pünktlich (1949; The Train Was on Time) and Wo warst du Adam? (1951; Adam, Where Art Thou?), he describes the grimness and despair of soldiers’ lives. The uneasiness of reality is explored in the life of a mechanic in Das Brot der frühen Jahre (1955; The Bread…

Adeline Dutton Train Whitney was an American writer whose books, largely for young people, reflected her belief that the home was the ultimate key to virtue. Adeline Train was the daughter of a prosperous merchant. In 1843 she married Seth D. Whitney, a merchant more than 20 years her senior. She

World Heritage site: The international conservation movement: American officials Joseph Fisher and Russell Train spearheaded the effort to create such a body, and in 1965 they recommended to the White House Conference on International Cooperation

World Heritage site: The international conservation movement: American officials Joseph Fisher and Russell Train spearheaded the effort to create such a body, and in 1965 they recommended to the White House Conference on International Cooperation

The Train, American war film, released in 1964, that is an exciting and intelligent thriller set during World War II. It is noted for John Frankenheimer’s direction and for strong performances by a cast that included Paul Scofield and Burt Lancaster. The film opens in the closing days of the war,

London: Tudor London: …and formed its armed “trainbands” (trained bands) to defend England against the threatened Spanish invasion.

trainer, in military aviation, an airplane that is designed and used to train pilots to operate advanced aircraft effectively. The complicated modern military airplane requires a high degree of skill on the part of pilots. Military training programs commonly make use of a single-engine aircraft for

fruit farming: Training and pruning: …pruning for form is called training. As the plant approaches maximum fruitfulness and fills its allotted space, maintenance pruning for various purposes becomes increasingly important.

human resources management: …where it is needed; (4) training and development—assisting team members in their continuing personal growth, from pre-employment, preparatory job training to executive development programs; (5) collective bargaining—negotiating agreements and following through in day-to-day administration; (6) rewarding—providing financial and nonfinancial incentives for individual commitment and contribution; (7) general administration—developing

employee training: …with a network of 82 Training and Enterprise Councils in England and Wales and also of 22 Local Enterprise Companies in Scotland. These independent companies, operated by private business leaders, manage a variety of job-training programs on behalf of the British government.

Ethan Hawke: Before Sunrise, Training Day, and Boyhood: …Washington in the crime drama Training Day, directed by Antoine Fuqua. Hawke’s performance as a police officer new to a corrupt narcotics squad earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He continued to collaborate with Linklater in the chamber piece Tape (2001), the ensemble-based Fast Food Nation (2006), and the…

Søren Kierkegaard: A life of collisions: …of Indøvelse i Christendom (1850; Training in Christianity), declared the need “again to introduce Christianity into Christendom.” This theme became more and more explicit as Kierkegaard resumed his writing career. As long as Mynster, the family pastor from his childhood, was alive, Kierkegaard refrained from personal attacks. But at Mynster’s…

reformatory, correctional institution for the treatment, training, and social rehabilitation of young offenders. In England in the mid-19th century, the House of Refuge movement prompted the establishment of the first reformatories, which were conceived as an alternative to the traditional practice

employee training, vocational instruction for employed persons. During and after World War II, in-service training by employers became a common practice. The rapid changeover in industry from peace to war led to training schemes for semiskilled workers, for workers transferred to new jobs, and for

exercise: Physical conditioning refers to the development of physical fitness through the adaptation of the body and its various systems to an exercise program.

nuclear reactor: TRIGA reactors: The training, research, and isotope-production reactors–General Atomic (TRIGA) system is a popular variety of research reactor. It is another tank-type water-cooled system, but its fuel differs from that employed by the plate-fuel research reactors described above. The fuel element of the TRIGA reactor…

transfer of training, influence the learning of one skill has on the learning or performance of another. Will knowledge of English help a person learn German? Are skillful table-tennis (Ping-Pong) players generally good court-tennis players? Can a child who does not know how to add learn to

Danny Boyle: Theater work and Trainspotting: …scored his big breakthrough with Trainspotting. The darkly humorous look at heroin addicts, written by Hodge and featuring Shallow Grave star Ewan McGregor, became an international hit and one of the United Kingdom’s highest-grossing films. MacGregor reteamed with Boyle on the romantic comedy A Life Less Ordinary (1997), but it…

Edinburgh: Cultural life: …the 1930s; and Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting (1993), which examines the city’s nihilistic underbelly at the end of the 20th century. The home of many celebrated writers and publishers past and present—including crime writers Alexander McCall Smith and Ian Rankin and children’s novelist J.K. Rowling—Edinburgh was declared UNESCO’s first City of…

Judd Apatow: He both produced and directed Trainwreck (2015), a comedy written by and starring stand-up comedian Amy Schumer. The film concerns an unabashedly promiscuous young woman who, despite her aversion to romance, falls in love.

personality disorder: …accentuation of one or more personality traits to the point that the trait significantly impairs an individual’s social or occupational functioning. Personality disorders are not, strictly speaking, illnesses, since they need not involve the disruption of emotional, intellectual, or perceptual functioning. In many cases, an individual with a personality disorder…

character, in biology, any observable feature, or trait, of an organism, whether acquired or inherited. An acquired character is a response to the environment; an inherited character is produced by genes transmitted from parent to offspring (their expressions are often modified by environmental

personality: Deviation from trait theory: The idea that traits represent relatively stable behaviours has received criticism from psychologists who point out that behavioral consistency across situations and across time is not the rule. For example, in a study of children’s moral development, the American psychologists Hugh Hartshorne and…

France: Tax reform: …one-tenth of royal revenue; the traites, or customs duty, internal and external; and the aides, or excise taxes, levied on the sale of items as diverse as wine, tobacco, and iron. All the indirect taxes were extremely unpopular and had much to do with the state’s inability to rally the…

Pierre Lyonnet: …anatomy of the goat-moth caterpillar, Traité anatomique de la Chenille, qui ronge le bois de Saule (1760), is one of the most beautifully illustrated works on anatomy ever published. His drawings, engraved on copper plates, distinguished more than 4,000 separate muscles and showed details of nerves and tracheae never before…

Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel: …a French botanist whose book Traité d’anatomie et de physiologie végétale, 2 vol. (1802; “Treatise on Plant Anatomy and Physiology”), earned him recognition as a founder of plant cytology and plant physiology. His most notable contribution to plant cytology was his observation (1809) that each plant cell is contained in…

Auguste-Arthur de La Rive: …d’électricité théorique et appliquée (1854–58; Treatise on Theoretical and Applied Electricity), was translated into several languages. Later, while carrying out research on the discharge of electricity through gases, he discovered that ozone is created when electrical sparks pass through oxygen.

Hector Berlioz: Mature career of Hector Berlioz: …Berlioz produced the leading treatise, Traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration modernes (1844). Much more than a technical handbook, it served later generations as an introduction to the aesthetics of expressiveness in music. As Albert Schweitzer has shown, its principle is as applicable to Bach as to Berlioz, and it is in…

Léon Duguit: …his most important works is Traité de droit Constitutionnel, 5 vol. (1921–25; “Treatise on Constitutional Law”).

Émile Haug: His Traité de Geologie, 2 vol. (1907–11; “Treatise of Geology”), contains his ideas about geosynclines.

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon: …wrote his first important work, Traité de l’éducation des filles (1687; “Treatise on the Education of Girls”). Although generally conservative, the treatise submitted innovative concepts on the education of girls and women and criticized the coercive methods of his day.

Blaise Pascal: Pascal’s life to the Port-Royal years: , The Physical Treatises of Pascal, 1937) and also his Traité du triangle arithmétique. In the last treatise, a fragment of the De Alea Geometriae, he laid the foundations for the calculus of probabilities. By the end of 1653, however, he had begun to feel religious…

Jean-Philippe Rameau: …Paris in 1722, his impressive Traité de l’harmonie (Treatise on Harmony) brought him fame at last and a yearning to return to the capital.

Christiaan Huygens: …Traité de la Lumière (Treatise on Light), already largely completed by 1678, was also published in 1690. In it he again showed his need for ultimate mechanical explanations in his discussion of the nature of light. But his beautiful explanations of reflection and refraction—far superior to those of Newton—were…

Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé: In his Traité de la sainteté et des devoirs de la vie monastique (1683; “Treatise on the Holiness and the Duties of the Monastic Life”), Rancé attacked learning—the central activity of the Maurists—as being contrary to the spirit of monastic life, which he believed should be confined…

Félix Tisserand: …astronomer noted for his textbook Traité de mécanique céleste, 4 vol. (1889–96; “Treatise on Celestial Mechanics”). This work, an update of Pierre-Simon Laplace’s work on the same subject, is still used as a sourcebook by authors writing on celestial mechanics.

Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace: …Traité de mécanique céleste (Celestial Mechanics), appearing in five volumes between 1798 and 1827, summarized the results obtained by his mathematical development and application of the law of gravitation. He offered a complete mechanical interpretation of the solar system by devising methods for calculating the motions of the planets…

Jean Cousin the Elder: Cousin’s Traité de perspective (1560; “Treatise of Perspective”) summarizes his knowledge of art, science, and geometry. After his death, his son, also called Jean Cousin, took over the Paris studio.

René-Just Haüy: …minéralogie (1801; “Treatise on Mineralogy”), Traité de physique (“Treatise on Physics”), written at Napoleon’s request (1803), and Tableau comparatif (“Comparative Table”), his mineralogical classification (1809).

malformation: Animal malformations: Their Traité de Teratologie (1836), which laid the basis for the science of teratology, still remains a valuable source of information. Recent improvements in understanding have come from the application of experimental analytical methods and from increased knowledge of the mechanisms of inheritance—e.g., from genetics.

Adrien-Marie Legendre: In his most important work, Traité des fonctions elliptiques (1825–37; “Treatise on Elliptic Functions”), he reduced elliptic integrals to three standard forms now known by his name. He also compiled tables of the values of his elliptic integrals and showed how they can be used to solve important problems in…

Henri, baron de Jomini: , 1805; Treatise on Grand Military Operations, 1865). Rejoining the army in 1804 as a volunteer, he was appointed staff colonel in 1805 by Napoleon, who had read his book. Jomini served under Marshal Michel Ney at the battles of Ulm (1805), Jena (1806), and Eylau (1806)…

Benedict Augustin Morel: …theory of mental illness in Traité des maladies mentales (1860; “A Treatise on Mental Illness”), in which he coined the term demence-precoce to refer to mental degeneration.

Marie-François-Xavier Bichat: This view he developed in Traité des membranes (1800; “Treatise on Membranes”). Although Bichat did not use the microscope, he distinguished 21 kinds of tissues that enter into different combinations in forming the organs of the body. His Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort (1800; “Physiological Researches on…

history of Europe: Corporate society: …lawyer Charles Loyseau in his Traité des Ordres (1610), but it serves to stress the significance of precedence. It was assumed that society was hierarchical and that each order had divine sanction. Wherever man found himself, at prayer or study, under arms or at work, there were collective rights and…

René Descartes: Physics, physiology, and morals: Despite such arguments, in his Passions of the Soul (1649), which he dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden (reigned 1644–54), Descartes holds that most bodily actions are determined by external material causes.

mathematics: Projective geometry: In 1822 Poncelet published the Traité des propriétés projectives des figures (“Treatise on the Projective Properties of Figures”). From his standpoint every conic section is equivalent to a circle, so his treatise contained a unified treatment of the theory of conic sections. It also established several new results. Geometers who…

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac: …his most significant work, the Traité des sensations, Condillac questioned Locke’s doctrine that the senses provide intuitive knowledge. He doubted, for example, that the human eye makes naturally correct judgments about the shapes, sizes, positions, and distances of objects. Examining the knowledge gained by each sense separately, he concluded that…

Camille Jordan: His Traité des substitutions et des équations algébriques (1870; “Treatise on Substitutions and Algebraic Equations”), which brought him the Poncelet Prize of the French Academy of Sciences, both gave a comprehensive account of Galois’s theory of substitution groups and applied these groups to algebraic equations and…

Jean-Pierre de Crousaz: His Traité du beau (1714; “Treatise on Beauty”) was an attempt to explain subjective differences in aesthetic outlooks. With the encouragement of Cardinal Fleury, he sought to refute the doctrines of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle and the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. His critique of…

Blaise Pascal: Pascal’s life to the Port-Royal years: …Pascal, 1937) and also his Traité du triangle arithmétique. In the last treatise, a fragment of the De Alea Geometriae, he laid the foundations for the calculus of probabilities. By the end of 1653, however, he had begun to feel religious scruples; and the “night of fire,” an intense, perhaps…

Antoine Lavoisier: The chemical revolution: …Traité élémentaire de chimie (Elementary Treatise on Chemistry) that described the precise methods chemists should employ when investigating, organizing, and explaining their subjects. It was a worthy culmination of a determined and largely successful program to reinvent chemistry as a modern science.

classical ballet: Blasis’s Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l’art de la danse (1820) was the first formal codification of classical-ballet technique. As head of the ballet school at La Scala, Milan, he applied his strict methods and emphasis on form; the school became the principal source of…

Louis Maimbourg: …the most famous being his Traité historique de l’établissement et des prérogatives de l’église de Rome et de ses évêques (1685; “Historical Treatise on the Establishment and the Prerogatives of the Church of Rome and its Bishops”), in which his defense of Gallican church liberties greatly displeased Pope Innocent XI,…

Edouard Séguin: In 1846 he published Traitement moral, hygiène et éducation des idiots (“Mental Treatment, Hygiene, and Education of Idiots”), which was quickly recognized as a classic work in psychology.

John Stuart Mill: Early life and career: …of Bentham’s doctrines in the Traités de Législation, which made a lasting impression upon him. The impression was confirmed by the study of the English psychologists and also of two 18th-century French philosophers—Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, who was also a psychologist, and Claude-Adrien Helvétius, who was noted for his emphasis…

Tower of London: Its nickname, Traitors’ Gate, derives from the prisoners brought through it to the Tower, which was long used as a state prison. The armouries that now occupy the White Tower, as well as a later 17th-century brick building alongside, house arms and armour from the early Middle…

Thomas Dixon: …Reconstruction with The Clansman and The Traitor (1907). He wrote other novels and some plays, and as late as 1939 he wrote yet another fictional account of black–white relations in the United States, The Flaming Sword. His nonfiction work includes The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy (1932), written with…

William Carleton: …a two-volume collection of sketches, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (1830), which describes the Ireland of the 19th-century tenant farmer. The writings that followed—e.g., Tales of Ireland (1834), Fardorougha the Miser (1839), and The Black Prophet (1847)—deal with such rural problems as the land question, secret patriotic societies,…

typography: Mechanical composition: …his types were Forum and Trajan, which were based upon the roman capital letters inscribed on Trajan’s Column; Goudy Modern, his most successful text face; and a number of black-letter and display faces. Goudy edited two journals, Typographica and Ars Typographica, in which he expounded his theories of design; he…

Trajan was a Roman emperor (98–117 ce) who sought to extend the boundaries of the empire to the east (notably in Dacia, Arabia, Armenia, and Mesopotamia), undertook a vast building program, and enlarged social welfare. Marcus Ulpius Traianus was born in the Roman province of Baetica (the area

Rome: The Esquiline of Rome: Trajan’s Baths served as models for the Baths of Caracalla and Diocletian, which in turn served as a pattern for the basilica built by Maxentius. The bath building that housed the hot, warm, cold, and exercise rooms and the swimming pool was a huge rectangular…

Trajan’s Bridge, first bridge spanning the Danube River, built east of the Iron Gate Rapids at Turnu Severin by the Roman emperor Trajan (reigned 98–117 ce) to guarantee the supply line of his legions in conquered Dacia. The engineer, probably Trajan’s lieutenant, Apollodorus of Damascus, used

Suez Canal: Construction: …the Romans (who called it Trajan’s Canal), neglected by the Byzantines, and reopened by the early Arabs, that canal was deliberately filled in by the ʿAbbāsid caliphs for military reasons in 775 ce. Throughout, the reason for those changes appears to have been to facilitate trade from the delta lands…

Trajan’s Column, monument that was erected in 106–113 ce by the Roman emperor Trajan and survives intact in the ruins of Trajan’s Forum in Rome. The marble column is of the Roman Doric order, and it measures 125 feet (38 metres) high together with the pedestal, or base, which contains a chamber

forum: …is to this proportion that Trajan’s Forum in Rome was erected early in the 2nd century ad. Commissioned by the emperor Trajan and designed by Apollodorus of Damascus, it measures approximately 920 by 620 feet (about 280 by 190 m) and covers about 25 acres (10 ha). Persons entered through…

Western sculpture: Age of Trajan: …the relief decoration of the Arch of Trajan at Beneventum (Benevento), which is covered with pictorial slabs, the subjects of which are arranged to carry out a carefully balanced and nicely calculated order of ideas. Those on the side facing the city and on one wall of the passageway present…

mariachi: …mariachi bands typically have worn traje de charro, the attire of the cowboys of Jalisco—matching uniforms with tight, ornamented trousers, boots, wide bow ties, sombreros, and short jackets. The traditional ensemble was all-male, but since the 1940s women have played an increasing role in mariachi performance, and by the early…

bullfighting: Act one: The matadors wear the traje de luces, or suit of lights, consisting of a short jacket, a waistcoat, and knee-length skintight trousers of silk and satin, richly beaded and embroidered in gold, silver, or coloured silk (the trousers are skintight so no folds or drapes may be caught on…

ballistics: A trajectory is the path of a shot, subject to the forces of gravity, drag, and lift. Under the sole influence of gravity, a trajectory is parabolic. Drag retards motion along the trajectory. Below the speed of sound, the drag is roughly proportional to the square…

Utrecht, gemeente (municipality), central Netherlands. It lies along the Kromme Rijn (Winding, or Crooked, Rhine), Oude (Old) Rijn, and Vecht rivers and the Amsterdam–Rijn Canal. Its original Roman name, Trajectum ad Rhenum (Ford on the Rhine), later became Ultrajectum, and then Utrecht. The site

Xochimilco: …visit the area in colourful trajineras (flat-bottomed boats). It is still an important market-gardening and flower-producing centre for the city, despite its being surrounded by urban sprawl in the latter part of the 20th century. Downtown Mexico City, 14 miles (23 km) to the north-northwest, can be reached via an…

Avraham Trahtman is a Russian-born Israeli mathematician who solved the road-colouring problem (a variant of the traveling salesman problem). Trahtman earned an undergraduate degree (1967) and a graduate degree (1973) in mathematics from Ural State University, in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg,

Georg Trakl was an Expressionist poet whose personal and wartime torments made him Austria’s foremost elegist of decay and death. He influenced Germanic poets after both world wars. Trakl trained as a pharmacist at the University of Vienna (1908–10). He led an unhappy existence; he was moody and

Tralee, urban district, county seat, and minor seaport at the head of Tralee Bay, County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. The earls of Desmond had their main castle at Tralee in the 14th and 15th centuries. There are remains of the castle wall and of a medieval Dominican abbey. The Roman Catholic

blood transfusion: Transfusion-induced immune reactions: Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) can occur as a complication of transfusion therapy; it can cause severe pulmonary edema and is a life-threatening complication if the patient is not given immediate respiratory support. While the etiology of TRALI remains unclear, it may result from leukocyte…

Aydın: …is the site of ancient Tralles, said to have been founded by the Argives. Aydın was called Güzelhisar (“Beautiful Castle”) under the Turkmen Menteşe emirs in the 13th century. Renamed for the 14th-century ruling dynasty of Aydın, it was annexed to the Ottoman Empire about 1390. Timur (Tamerlane), who conquered…

Welshpool, town, Powys county, historic county of Montgomeryshire, eastern Wales. It lies in the valley of the River Severn, just west of the boundary with Shropshire, England. Welshpool’s charter, granting market rights, dates from 1263. Lying near the English border, the town showed pro-English

streetcar, vehicle that runs on track laid in the streets, operated usually in single units and usually driven by electric motor. Early streetcars were either horse-drawn or depended for power on storage batteries that were expensive and inefficient. In 1834 Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith from

net: Drift nets—which include gill and trammel nets used at the surface and bottom-set nets used on the seabed—capture fish by entangling them. Gill and trammel nets are used principally to catch herring and salmon and are the most common drift nets. In commercial fishing, a long fleet of drift nets,…

Detroit Tigers: …pitcher Jack Morris and shortstop Alan Trammell remained near the top of the standings until 1989, when the Tigers experienced a sudden plummet to last place in the AL. Detroit continued to play poorly throughout most of the following two decades, including an AL-record 119-loss season in 2003.

navigation: The lodestone and the compass card: …and the letter T for tramontana, the name given to the north wind. About 1490 a combination of these evolved into the fleur-de-lis, still almost universally used. The east point, pointing toward the Holy Land, was marked with a cross; the ornament into which this cross developed continued on British…

A Tramp Abroad, jocular travel book by American humorist and novelist Mark Twain that was published in 1880. More than a decade after the enormous success of his first travel book, The Innocents Abroad (1869), a humorous account of the travels of American tourists through Europe, the Holy Land, and

tramp steamer, one of the two principal types of merchant ships as classified by operating method (the other is the ocean liner). The tramp steamer, in contrast to the liner, operates without a schedule, going wherever required to deliver its cargoes. The tramp is a descendant of the early merchant

tramp steamer, one of the two principal types of merchant ships as classified by operating method (the other is the ocean liner). The tramp steamer, in contrast to the liner, operates without a schedule, going wherever required to deliver its cargoes. The tramp is a descendant of the early merchant

The Kid: …film with his popular “Little Tramp” character. It elevated Jackie Coogan to the status of the film industry’s first child superstar.

Charlie Chaplin: Early life and career: …notably in such shorts as The Tramp (1915) and Burlesque on Carmen (1915). He moved on to an even more lucrative job ($670,000 per year) at the Mutual Company Film Corporation. There, during an 18-month period, he made the 12 two-reelers that many regard as his finest films, among them…

Harry Langdon: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926), directed by Edwards and costarring a young Joan Crawford, introduced the fully developed Langdon screen persona. Edwards left the Langdon team before the making of The Strong Man (1926), which was directed by Capra. In this film, Langdon is in love…

trampoline, an elevated resilient webbed bed or canvas sheet supported by springs in a metal frame and used as a springboard for tumbling. Trampolining, or rebound tumbling, is an individual sport of acrobatic movements performed after rebounding into the air from the trampoline. Although rebound

trampoline, an elevated resilient webbed bed or canvas sheet supported by springs in a metal frame and used as a springboard for tumbling. Trampolining, or rebound tumbling, is an individual sport of acrobatic movements performed after rebounding into the air from the trampoline. Although rebound

Ivan Albertovich Puni: …famous first Futurist exhibition, “Tramway V.” This exhibition was a panorama of Cubo-Futurism, at the forefront of which were Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin. The exhibition was received with hostility by the bourgeois press and led to a succès de scandale. Inspired by this response, Puni organized “0.10,” which he…

Tran Dynasty, (1225–1400), rulers of a kingdom that successfully defended Vietnam from the Mongol armies and continued Vietnamese penetration southward down the Indochinese peninsula. The Tran dynasty replaced the Later Ly dynasty (1009–1225), which started the process of Vietnamese expansion south

Tran Hung Dao was a figure of almost legendary proportions in Vietnamese history, a brilliant military strategist who defeated two Mongol invasions and became a cultural hero among modern Vietnamese. By the early 1280s the Vietnamese kingdom faced a growing threat from the Mongols under Kublai

Madame Nhu was a South Vietnamese political figure who was a significant force behind her bachelor brother-in-law Ngo Dinh Diem, who exercised dictatorial powers as president of South Vietnam from 1955 until his assassination in 1963. Tran Le Xuan was born into an aristocratic Buddhist family, but

Kelly Marie Tran is an American actress best known for her performances in the Star Wars movie franchise and the Disney movie Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). However, Tran’s rise to fame came with online harassment. After costarring in Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi (2017), Tran was bullied

Xiangkhoang Plateau, dissected upland of complex geologic structure in north-central Laos. The plateau constitutes a western extension of the northern Annamite Chain; it is drained principally by the Ngum and Ngiap (Nhiêp) rivers to the south and the Khan River to the north, all of which are Mekong

Tran Hung Dao was a figure of almost legendary proportions in Vietnamese history, a brilliant military strategist who defeated two Mongol invasions and became a cultural hero among modern Vietnamese. By the early 1280s the Vietnamese kingdom faced a growing threat from the Mongols under Kublai

sriracha: Vietnamese entrepreneur David Tran, a former major in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, was a big fan of Sriraja Panich. Immigrating to the United States as a refugee after the fall of South Vietnam to communist forces, Tran developed a thicker version of the condiment,…

Kelly Marie Tran is an American actress best known for her performances in the Star Wars movie franchise and the Disney movie Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). However, Tran’s rise to fame came with online harassment. After costarring in Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi (2017), Tran was bullied