Trappist, member of the reformed branch of Roman Catholic Cistercians founded by Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé in France in 1664. The order follows the Rule of St. Benedict and consist of both monks and nuns; the nuns are known as Trappistines. To generate income, most Trappist monasteries

Port Salut cheese, semisoft cow’s-milk cheese first made by Trappist monks on the west coast of France in the mid-1800s. The name later became the registered trademark of the Société Anonyme des Fermiers Réunis for Saint-Paulin, a generic cheese type similar to the original Port Salut, with a mild,

Spitzer Space Telescope: …seven Earth-sized planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, three of which are in the star’s habitable zone, the distance from a star where liquid water can survive on a planet’s surface.

MacKenzie Scott: Career, marriages, and writings: …Bezos published her second novel, Traps, a suspenseful tale about how the lives of four women intersect over four days.

trapshooting, sport in which participants use shotguns for shooting at saucer-shaped clay targets flung into the air from a spring device called a trap. A later variant, skeet shooting, is also included in trapshooting. Trapshooting originated in England in the late 18th century when marksmen, to

Mieczysława Ćwiklińska was an outstanding comic actress renowned for her roles in both operettas and the classics. Ćwiklińska, who came from a Polish theatrical family, made her debut in Warsaw in 1900. She toured Russia in 1906 and in 1910 went to Paris to study voice. In 1918, after appearing in

Traralgon, city, Victoria, Australia. It lies in the Latrobe (La Trobe) Valley, West Gippsland, southeast of Melbourne. First settled in the 1840s, its name is Aboriginal for “crane feeding on frogs.” It became a borough in 1961 and a city in 1964. It serves a dairying, sheep-raising, and

Trás-os-Montes, (Portuguese: “Beyond the Mountain”), historical province of northeastern Portugal, bounded north and east by Spain, south by the gorges of the Douro River, and west by the mountains of Gerês, Cabreira, and Marão. Geologically a part of the Meseta Central (q.v.), the terrain may be

Italy: Politics and the political system, 1870–87: Trasformismo (“transformism”) became the normal way of conducting parliamentary business, for there were few serious disputes among the leading politicians. Virtually all of them accepted the constitutional settlement of 1861, and few disputed foreign and colonial policy, which, in any case, was conducted by foreign…

José Américo de Almeida: A Bagaceira (1928; Trash), his best-known work, deals with a group of sertanejos (independent smallholders) forced by drought to leave their own ranches for a life of near-slavery on tropical sugar plantations. Other works in the same vein are O Boqueirão (1935; “The Canyon”) and Coiteiros (1935; “Bandit-hiders”).

Stephen Daldry: Daldry returned to cinema with Trash (2014), a drama about three boys who stumble upon a political scandal while picking through refuse in the favela they call home. He then reteamed with Morgan on The Crown (2016– ), a Netflix TV series about the life of Elizabeth II; Daldry served…

merganser, any of several species of Mergus, long-bodied, more or less crested diving ducks; though essentially freshwater birds, they are classified with scoters and goldeneyes in the sea duck tribe, Mergini (family Anatidae, order Anseriformes). They are called trash ducks because their flesh is

agricultural technology: Mulch tillage: Mulch tillage has been mentioned already; in this system, crop residues are left on the surface, and subsurface tillage leaves them relatively undisturbed. In dryland areas, a maximum amount of mulch is left on the surface; in more humid regions, however, some of…

Dixy Lee Ray: …excesses of the environmental movement—Trashing the Planet (1990) and Environmental Overkill (1993). While conservative commentators took the message of those volumes as a rallying cry against what they perceived as alarmist attitudes toward environmental problems such as global warming, critics in the scientific community excoriated Ray for misrepresenting scientific…

Battle of Trasimene, (June 217 bce), second major battle of the Second Punic War, in which the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal defeated the Roman army under Gaius Flaminius in central Italy. Many of the Roman troops, mainly infantry, were forced into Lake Trasimene (modern Lake Trasimeno), where

Lake Trasimeno, largest lake of the Italian peninsula in Umbria region, central Italy, 10 miles (16 km) west of Perugia. It has an area of 49 square miles (128 square km) and is shallow, its maximum depth being 20 feet (6 m). The lake it is fed by small streams and has an artificial subterranean

Lake Trasimeno, largest lake of the Italian peninsula in Umbria region, central Italy, 10 miles (16 km) west of Perugia. It has an area of 49 square miles (128 square km) and is shallow, its maximum depth being 20 feet (6 m). The lake it is fed by small streams and has an artificial subterranean

Lake Trasimeno, largest lake of the Italian peninsula in Umbria region, central Italy, 10 miles (16 km) west of Perugia. It has an area of 49 square miles (128 square km) and is shallow, its maximum depth being 20 feet (6 m). The lake it is fed by small streams and has an artificial subterranean

Kate Nichols Trask was an American writer and philanthropist remembered as one of the major forces behind the establishment of the Yaddo community for creative artists. Kate Nichols was of a wealthy family and was privately educated. In November 1874 she married Spencer Trask, a banker and

Kate Nichols Trask was an American writer and philanthropist remembered as one of the major forces behind the establishment of the Yaddo community for creative artists. Kate Nichols was of a wealthy family and was privately educated. In November 1874 she married Spencer Trask, a banker and

Yaddo: …1900 by New York financier Spencer Trask (1844–1909), his wife, the writer Kate, or Katrina, Nichols Trask (1853–1922), and philanthropist George Foster Peabody (1852–1938) for the purpose of providing a place for artists to reside and work in a quiet, secluded atmosphere conducive to creative endeavours.

Henry II was the king of Castile from 1369, founder of the house of Trastámara, which lasted until 1504. The illegitimate son of Alfonso XI of Castile, Henry rebelled against his younger half brother, Peter I (Peter the Cruel), invaded Castile with French aid in 1366, and was crowned king at

Henry III: …dynastic rift and consolidated the house of Trastámara.

Rome: People of Rome: …are the people of the Trastevere (“Across the Tiber”) district. In ancient times, Trastevere was the quarter for sailors and foreigners, whereas the founding fathers eastward across the river were soldiers and farmers. From the Middle Ages a number of palaces there were the homes of powerful families.

breast cancer: Treatment: Herceptin is a manufactured antibody that binds to growth factor receptors on the surface of cancer cells and thereby blocks cell proliferation. Letrozole is used to inhibit the synthesis of estrogen in postmenopausal women who have hormone-dependent breast cancers.

Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), international organization founded to promote the preservation of the Amazon basin and regulate Amazonian development through international cooperation. The Amazon Cooperation Treaty was drafted and signed on July 3, 1978, by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,

Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), international organization founded to promote the preservation of the Amazon basin and regulate Amazonian development through international cooperation. The Amazon Cooperation Treaty was drafted and signed on July 3, 1978, by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,

history of Latin America: Commerce: …well-defined social type, sometimes called tratantes, with a profile sharply distinct from that of the long-distance merchants. Often illiterate, and furthermore without capital, they were recruited from among the most marginal members of local Hispanic society. They, too, were relatively unstable; they were prone to move to another area or…

Giovanni Boccaccio: Petrarch and Boccaccio’s mature years: His Vita di Dante Alighieri, or Trattatello in laude di Dante (“Little Tractate in Praise of Dante”), and the two abridged editions of it that he made show his devotion to Dante’s memory.

Filarete: …is chiefly important for his Trattato d’architettura (“Treatise on Architecture”), which described plans for an ideal Renaissance city.

Sebastiano Serlio: …wrote the influential architecture treatise Tutte l’opere d’architettura, et prospetiva (1537–75; “Complete Works on Architecture and Perspective”).

Francesco di Giorgio: …an original work on architecture, Trattato di architettura civile e militare, which discusses city planning and military architecture, anticipating some of the architectural theories of the high Renaissance. By 1477 he was in the service of Duke Federico da Montefeltro, in Urbino, where he may have participated in the design…

Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia: Tartaglia’s best-known work is Trattato di numeri et misure, 3 vol. (1556–60; “Treatise on Numbers and Measures”), an encyclopaedic treatment of elementary mathematics. He also published translations of Euclid and Archimedes.

Vilfredo Pareto: …Trattato di sociologia generale (1916; Mind and Society), in which he inquired into the nature and bases of individual and social action. Persons of superior ability, he argued, actively seek to confirm and aggrandize their social position. Thus, social classes are formed. In an effort to rise into the elite…

Trogir, port in Dalmatia in southern Croatia. It is located on an island in the Adriatic Sea and is connected by a bridge to the mainland and to the island of Čiovo. It was colonized as Tragurion by Syracusan Greeks c. 385 bce and became a part of the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire in the 6th

Isidor Traube: Traube’s rule relates the surface tension of capillary active organic compounds to the number of the hydrocarbon CH2 groups present in their molecules.

Isidor Traube was a German physical chemist who founded capillary chemistry and whose research on liquids advanced knowledge of critical temperature, osmosis, colloids, and surface tension. In 1882 Traube joined the faculty of the Technische Hochschule, Berlin, and there became professor of

Helen Traubel was an American opera singer, remembered as one of the finest Wagnerian sopranos of her day, who also enjoyed success in popular-music venues. At age 13 Traubel began taking vocal lessons. She left high school a short time later to devote herself full-time to singing, and in 1925 she

Walt Whitman: Later life of Walt Whitman: …many new friends, among them Horace Traubel, who recorded his talk and wrote his biography. The Complete Poems and Prose was published in 1888, along with the eighth edition of Leaves of Grass. The ninth, or “authorized,” edition appeared in 1892, the year of Whitman’s death.

January Insurrection: By the time Romuald Traugutt emerged to provide strong leadership for the revolutionary movement (mid-October), the rebellion had lost its dynamism. The Lithuanian insurrection had been brutally crushed by the “hangman of Vilnius,” Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov; the new viceroy in Poland, Teodor Berg, similarly imposed a harsh regime…

Franz Grillparzer: Der Traum ein Leben (1834; A Dream Is Life) owes much to Grillparzer’s intensive and prolonged studies of Spanish drama. This Austrian Faust ends happily, for the ambitious young peasant Rustan only dreams the adventures that involve him in crime and awakes to a realization of the vanity of earthly…

bone cancer: Causes and symptoms: …to the mistaken conclusion that traumatic injuries can cause bone cancer. Other symptoms that can occur include bone fractures, decreased mobility of a joint, fever, fatigue, and anemia. These symptoms are not specific to bone cancer and can be the result of other, benign processes.

Otto Rank: …Bedeutung für die Psychoanalyse (1924; The Trauma of Birth) caused Rank’s break with Freud and other members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, which expelled him from its membership. The book, which argued that the transition from the womb to the outside world causes tremendous anxiety in the infant that may…

Otto Rank: …Bedeutung für die Psychoanalyse (1924; The Trauma of Birth) caused Rank’s break with Freud and other members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, which expelled him from its membership. The book, which argued that the transition from the womb to the outside world causes tremendous anxiety in the infant that may…

post-traumatic stress disorder: …treatments are antidepressant medication and trauma reexposure. Trauma reexposure is a form of directive psychotherapy that involves encouraging the victim to recount the trauma and, through gradual reexposure to the trauma in memory, change his or her emotional reactions in an effort to come to a new understanding of the…

therapeutics: Trauma surgery: Trauma is one of the leading causes of loss of potential years of life. The explosion in the development of medical instrumentation and technology has made it possible for surgeons to save more lives than ever before thought possible. The intensive care unit…

memory disorder: Traumatic amnesia: On recovery of consciousness after traumatic brain injury, individuals at first typically are dazed, confused, and imperfectly aware of their whereabouts and circumstances. This so-called post-traumatic confusional state may last for an hour or so and in some cases may last as long…

memory disorder: Post-traumatic automatism: Post-traumatic amnesia is sometimes observed after mild head injury without loss of consciousness and with no apparent change in ordinary behavior. A football (soccer) player who is dazed but not knocked out by a blow on the head, for example, may continue to…

traumatic brain injury, any damage to the brain from an applied force. The forces involved can be from direct contact, as in a blunt or penetrating head injury; from a gravitational source such as fierce shaking; or from rotational energy that produces shear stress between the brain and the skull.

pneumothorax: Traumatic pneumothorax is the accumulation of air caused by penetrating chest wounds (e.g, knife stabbing, gunshot) or other injuries to the chest wall, after which air is sucked through the opening and into the pleural sac. Similar injury can be caused by invasive medical procedures,…

stress: Types of stress and effects: Traumatic stress is characterized by the occurrence of a life-threatening event that evokes fear and helplessness. Tornadoes, fires, and wars are examples of events capable of causing traumatic stress; these events sometimes lead to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder.

tropism: …thigmotropism (response to mechanical stimulation), traumatotropism (response to wound lesion), and galvanotropism, or electrotropism (response to electric current). Most tropic movements are orthotropic; i.e., they are directed toward the source of the stimulus. Plagiotropic movements are oblique to the direction of stimulus. Diatropic movements are at right angles to the…

Megan Thee Stallion: Other projects from the 2020s: …freestyles and unreleased tracks, and Traumazine (2022), her second studio album. Megan Thee Stallion described the latter to Essence in 2022 as “the first time I figured out how to talk about what I want to say…I feel like it’s been so easy for people to tell my story for…

Sigmund Freud: The interpretation of dreams: …to emphasize its epochal character; The Interpretation of Dreams), he presented his findings. Interspersing evidence from his own dreams with evidence from those recounted in his clinical practice, Freud contended that dreams played a fundamental role in the psychic economy. The mind’s energy—which Freud called libido and identified principally, but…

Immanuel Kant: Critic of Leibnizian rationalism: …durch Träume der Metaphysik (1766; Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Illustrated by Dreams of Metaphysics). This work is an examination of the whole notion of a world of spirits, in the context of an inquiry into the spiritualist claims of Emanuel Swedenborg, a scientist and biblical scholar. Kant’s position at first…

Stanley Kubrick: Last films: …on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (“Dream Story”), it became yet another controversial entry in Kubrick’s oeuvre. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, then married to each other offscreen, played a modern-day New York City couple whose marriage is tested by a sequence of intense, erotically charged encounters with others. The…

Traun, town, north-central Austria. It lies along the Traun River, just south of Linz. First mentioned in 612, it became the seat of the countship of Traun, which became Abensperg-Traun in the late 16th century. Traditionally an agricultural community with fishing, milling, and brewing enterprises,

Otto Ferdinand, count von Abensperg und Traun was an Austrian field marshal who was one of the ablest military commanders in the wars of the Polish (1733–38) and Austrian Successions (1740–48). Traun was a member of a Protestant noble family, but he converted to Catholicism and entered the Austrian

Alexandre Trauner was a Hungarian-born French motion-picture art director whose studio-built sets—the fairground in Quai des brumes (1938; Port of Shadows), the St. Martin Canal in Hotel du Nord (1938), the metro station in Les Portes de la nuit (1946; Gates of Night)—formed the moviegoing public’s

Alexandre Trauner was a Hungarian-born French motion-picture art director whose studio-built sets—the fairground in Quai des brumes (1938; Port of Shadows), the St. Martin Canal in Hotel du Nord (1938), the metro station in Les Portes de la nuit (1946; Gates of Night)—formed the moviegoing public’s

Icelandic literature: Prose: …stark life of rural Iceland: Jón Trausti (Guðmundur Magnússon), who wrote the cycle Heiðarbýlið (4 vol., 1908–11; “The Mountain Cot”); Gunnar Gunnarsson, whose Kirken på bjerget (1923–28; “The Church on the Mountain”) was written in Danish; and Guðmundur G. Hagalín, known for such novels as Kristrún í

Manchester City FC: Founding and early history: …players from this era include Bert Trautmann, who was goalkeeper for Manchester City from 1949 to 1964, and midfielders Alan Oakes (played 1959–76) and Colin Bell (played 1966–79).

trautonium, electronic musical instrument whose tone is generated by oscillating radio tubes that produce an electronic pulse that is converted into sound by a loudspeaker. A neon light generates weaker frequencies that, controlled by a set of push buttons, affect the upper harmonics (component

Maximilian, count von Trauttmansdorff was an Austrian statesman, confidant of the emperors Ferdinand II and Ferdinand III, chief imperial plenipotentiary during the negotiations of the Peace of Westphalia, and one of the foremost political figures of early 17th-century Europe. After participating

trautonium: The instrument was invented by Friedrich Trautwein in Germany in 1930. The German composer Paul Hindemith, who played the trautonium, wrote a Concertino for Trautonium and Strings (1931).

WMMS: …success of WMMS was deejay Kid Leo (Lawrence J. Travagliante), who ultimately became the station’s program director. By the time Kid Leo joined WMMS in 1973 (after graduating from Cleveland State University), the station had been rocking for five years. By 1976 he had helped take the station to the…

Georges Clemenceau: Early life: …some friends, founded a journal, Le Travail (“Work”), which set forth the views that were to characterize his future political action. It was seized by the police, and, because of an advertisement inviting the workers of Paris to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the Revolution of 1848, Clemenceau was imprisoned…

Albert Camus: Camus’s literary career: …(Workers’ Theatre, later named the Théâtre de l’Équipe), which aimed to bring outstanding plays to working-class audiences. He maintained a deep love of the theatre until his death. Ironically, his plays are the least-admired part of his literary output, although Le Malentendu (Cross Purpose) and Caligula, first produced in 1944…

organized labour: Origins of craft unionism: …vigorous French Catholic movement, the Confédération des Travailleurs Catholiques du Canada, which stands as a unique instance of confessional unionism in North America. Only after World War II did Quebec unionism shed its links to the church and evolve into a secular movement.

Travancore, former princely state in southwestern India, now part of Kerala state. Travancore was in the kingdom of Kerala, or Chera, in the early centuries ce and traded with distant parts of the world. In the 11th century the region fell under the Chola empire. The Hindu kings of the Vijayanagar

Hill Street Blues: …award-winning ensemble cast that included Daniel J. Travanti, Betty Thomas, Robert Prosky, and Ed Marinaro and an innovative and edgy style, overseen by producer Steven Bochco (who later repeated his success with other series, most notably, L.A. Law [1986–94] and NYPD Blue [1993–2005]). The show employed handheld cameras that lent…

cultural globalization: Travel: Since the mid-1960s, the cost of international flights has declined, and foreign travel has become a routine experience for millions of middle- and working-class people. Diplomats, businesspeople, and ordinary tourists can feel “at home” in any city, anywhere in the world. Foreign travel no…

automation: Transportation: With these systems, ticket agents at widely dispersed locations can obtain information about the availability of seats on any flight in a matter of seconds. The reservation systems compare requests for space with the status of each flight, grant space when available, and automatically update the reservation status…

The first—and thus far only—major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration to the United States for a specific nationality was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Since then, immigration and travel to the United States have been restricted to various groups at various times through a

Hermann Alexander, Graf von Keyserling: …Das Reisetagebuch eines Philosophen (1919; The Travel Diary of a Philosopher). Keyserling’s approach to philosophy was essentially nonacademic, and his ideas, which centred on the theme of spiritual regeneration, were often platitudinous or obscure. His other works include: Unsterblichkeit (1907; Immortality), Schöpferische Erkenntnis (1922; Creative Understanding), Wiedergeburt (1927; The Recovery…

Oregon Trail: Guidebooks and other practicalities: Travel guidebooks became available to the emigrants shortly after use of the trail became widespread. One of the earliest and most popular of these was Landsford Hastings’s The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (1845). For Mormons, there was The Latter-day…

travel journalism, a field of journalism encompassing communication about journeys beyond one’s immediate surroundings. More specifically, travel journalism consists of written or multimedia content in which travel serves as a central element of the narrative. An article detailing the best coffee

nonfictional prose: Travel and epistolary literature: The literature of travel has declined in quality in the age when travel has become most common—the present. In this nonfictional prose form, the traveller himself has always counted for more than the places he visited, and in the past, he…

mass transit: Service quality and quantity: …important service quality attribute is travel time from origin to destination. Several factors contribute to travel time. The first is the average speed of the vehicles, determined in part by their rate of acceleration and maximum speed but strongly influenced by the distance between stops and the dwell time at…

escalator: …ramps or sidewalks, sometimes called travelators, are specialized forms of escalators developed to carry people and materials horizontally or along slight inclines. Ramps may have either solid or jointed treads or a continuous belt. Ramps can move at any angle of up to 15°; beyond this incline the slope becomes…

American literature: Critics of the gilded age: Howells’s Traveler from Altruria (1894) pleaded for an equalitarian state in which the government regimented men’s lives. The year 1906 saw the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, first of many works by him that criticized U.S. economic and political life and urged socialism as the…

American Express Company: The company’s travel-related offerings include traveler’s checks, credit cards, corporate and personal travel planning services, tour packages, and agencies for hotel and car-rental reservations. By the early 21st century, American Express operated in more than 40 countries. The company also had a publishing division, which produced such magazines as Travel…

gastroenteritis: include food poisoning, cholera, and traveler’s diarrhea, which develops within a few days after traveling to a country or region that has unsanitary water or food. Traveler’s diarrhea is caused by exposure to enterotoxin-producing strains of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli.

traveler’s tree, (Ravenala madagascariensis), plant of the family Strelitziaceae, so named because the water it accumulates in its leaf bases has been used in emergencies for drinking. The fan of leaves also tends to grow roughly on an east-west line, providing a crude compass for travelers. This,

Abbas Kiarostami: His first feature, Mosāfer (1974; The Traveler), about a rebellious village boy determined to go to Tehrān and watch a football (soccer) match, is an indelible portrait of a troubled adolescent. In the 1980s Kiarostami’s documentaries Avalihā (1984; First Graders) and Mashq-e shab (1989; Homework) offered further insight…

Chinese painting: Song (960–1279), Liao (907–1125), and Jin (1115–1234) dynasties: ” A tall landscape scroll, Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan), bearing his hidden signature, depicts peasants and pack mules emerging from thick woodland at the foot of a towering cliff that dwarfs them to insignificance. The composition is monumental, the detail is realistic, and the…

Travelers Insurance, leading American insurance company with a history of mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs, largely in the insurance and financial services industries. The Travelers Insurance Company was founded in 1864 by James Batterson, a stonecutter. That year it sold the first accident

Travelers Insurance, leading American insurance company with a history of mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs, largely in the insurance and financial services industries. The Travelers Insurance Company was founded in 1864 by James Batterson, a stonecutter. That year it sold the first accident

Grace Hoadley Dodge: …also organized the New York Travelers’ Aid Society in 1907—a group devoted to the protection of migrant and immigrant women, and in 1912 she led efforts to organize the National Travelers’ Aid Society; she contributed as well to the growth of the international travelers’ aid movement.

the Green Book, travel guide published (1936–67) during the segregation era in the United States that identified businesses that would accept African American customers. Compiled by Victor Hugo Green (1892–1960), a Black postman who lived in the Harlem section of New York City, the Green Book

euro sign: Rollout and usage: …2001 the foreign exchange company Travelex sued the European Commission for trademark infringement, asking for £25.5m in damages. Travelex claimed that the euro sign too closely resembled the logo that it had used since 1989 for its interpayment division. The Court of First Instance of the European Communities (renamed the…

United States: The Bill Clinton administration: …White House travel office (“Travelgate”); former associates were indicted and convicted of crimes; and rumors of sexual impropriety persisted—the economy made a slow but steady recovery after 1991, marked by dramatic gains in the stock market in the mid-1990s. Buoyed by the economic growth, Clinton was easily reelected in…

basketball: Rules: Each team of five…

clinic: Public health clinics: …tendency toward the establishment of traveling clinics, such as dental clinics for schoolchildren. Often, no charge is made for service in public health clinics, and for many medical conditions no income restrictions are imposed. A few are operated in connection with hospitals, but most such clinics use public buildings or…

crane: A traveling jib crane is one in which the pulley system is suspended from a trolley, or wheeled carriage, moving along the length of the jib, as illustrated in Figure 2. Such traveling cranes usually have lifting capacities of from 5 to 250 tons. A potentially…

Liu Songnian: …of the Four Seasons and Traveling in Autumn Mountains. Even though the figures in these works are small, the idea of a human in harmony with nature is clear. Landscapes of the Four Seasons, which was remounted as a hand scroll, echoes the new development of bird’s-eye view composition exemplified…

crane: A traveling jib crane is one in which the pulley system is suspended from a trolley, or wheeled carriage, moving along the length of the jib, as illustrated in Figure 2. Such traveling cranes usually have lifting capacities of from 5 to 250 tons. A potentially…

bookmobile, shelf-lined motor van or other vehicle that carries books to rural and urban areas, establishes library service in areas that are too small to justify the creation of a stable branch, and acts as a demonstration model for communities that can afford library service and may choose to

motion-picture technology: Special effects: To create a traveling matte shot, it is necessary to obtain an opaque image of the foreground actors or objects against a transparent background. This is done by exploiting film’s special sensitivity to blue light. In a traditional blue-screen process the actor is posed before a primary blue background,…

Cassandra Wilson: …later Wilson released the album Traveling Miles, a tribute to jazz great Miles Davis. For the album she wrote six new songs inspired by his work and invented lyrics to three of his originals. Wilson’s later albums included Belly of the Sun (2002); Thunderbird (2006); Loverly (2008), which won the…