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Tabitha Yim Tabitha Yim (born November 2, 1985 in Los Angeles) of Korean American descent, is a former United States Women's Artistic Gymnastics elite. Touted as a junior international elite to watch for her expressive dance and strong balance beam performances, Tabitha quickly progressed as one of the major gymnasts in the 2001-2004 gymnastics squad.
Tabitha's Secret Tabitha's Secret was a band formed in March of 1993 in Orlando, Florida. It was originally comprised of lead singer Rob Thomas, John Goff and Jay Stanley on guitar, Brian Yale on bass, and Chris Smith playing drums.
Tabla The tabla (Urdu: تبلہ, Hindi: तबला, tubblaa) (or pronounced Thabla in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in the classical, popular and religious music of the Indian subcontinent and in Hindustani classical music. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres.
Table (database) In relational databases, SQL databases, and flat file databases, a table is a set of data elements (values) that is organized using a model of horizontal rows and vertical columns. The columns are identified by name, and the rows are identified by the values appearing in a particular column subset which has been identified as a candidate key.
Table (verb) In parliamentary procedure, table as a verb has two auto-antonymic meanings, both arising as a shorthand for to place on the table. These contrasting meanings arise depending on whether one is considered as placing a motion on the table to suspend discussion on it, or to commence discussion; the former is used in the US and the latter in the rest of the world, although which meaning is intended in a particular context may not always be clear.
Table A In English company law, Table A refers to the default form of Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association for companies limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales where the incorporators do not choose to use modified forms. Table A is promulgated by subsidiary legislationThe Companies (Tables A to F) Regulations 1985, SI 1985/805, and the Companies (Tables A to F) (Amendment) Regulations 1985, SI 1985/1052; they have also been amended ad hoc by other subsidiary legislation from time to time, for example under The Companies Act 1985 (Electronic Communications) Order 2000, SI 2000/3373.
Table Bay Table Bay (Afrikaans Tafelbaai) is a natural inlet overlooked by Cape Town (founded 1652) and is at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula, which stretches south to the Cape of Good Hope. It was so named because it is dominated by the flat-topped Table Mountain.
Table Bluff Cemetery There are two cemeteries near the community of Table Bluff in California. Accourding to one source cemetery is "less than a mile north of the town of Loleta];" and "both are west of Highway 101 and south of [[Eureka.
Table Canon A Table Canon is a retrograde and inverse canon (music) meant to be placed on a table in between two musicians who both read the same line of music in opposite directions. Seeing that both parts are included in each single line, a second line is not needed.
Table d'hĂ´te Table d'hĂ´te is a French phrase which literally means host's table but is used to indicate a menu where multi-course meals with limited choices are charged at a fixed rate. Such a menu may also be called prix fixe ("fixed price").
Table dance Table dance, or bartop dancing, is typically an erotic dance performed at a patron's table, as opposed to on a stage. In some jurisdictions, a table dance may be an alternative to a lap dance, due to laws preventing exotic dancers from making contact with customers.
Table football Table football (also called foosball or rods) is a table-top game based on football (soccer). The origins of the game are unclear, but most historians agree that the first tables probably appeared in France or Germany in the 1880s-1890s.
Table grape Table grapes are grapes intended for consumption while they are fresh, as opposed to grapes grown for wine production, juice production, or for drying into raisins. Depending on the market for wine and table grapes, low quality wine may contain some grapes that could also be sold as table grapes, particularly Thompson Seedless.
Table hockey games A table hockey game, also called rod hockey game or board hockey, is a game for two players, derived from ice hockey. The game consists of a representation of a hockey rink; the players score goals by hitting a small puck into the opposing "net" with cutout figures that represent hockey players.
Table Mountain National Park Table Mountain National Park, previously known as the Cape Peninsula National Park, is a national park in Cape Town, South Africa, proclaimed on May 29, 1998 for the purpose of protecting the natural environment of the Table Mountain Chain, and in particular the rare fynbos vegetation. The park is managed by South African National Parks.
Table Mountain Wilderness The Table Mountain Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Monitor Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately 98,000 acres, and is administered by the Toiyabe National Forest.
Table of consonants The following tables show all the consonants listed by the International Phonetic Alphabet. The first table contains consonants articulated in the front part of the mouth, and the second table contains consonants articulated in the back part of the mouth.
Table of contents A table of contents, usually headed simply "Contents," is a list of the parts of a book or document organized in the order in which the parts appear. The contents usually includes the titles or descriptions of the first-level headers, such as chapter titles in longer works, and often includes second-level or section titles (A-heads) within the chapters as well, and occasionally even third-level titles (subsections or B-heads).
Table of integrals Integration is one of the two basic operations in calculus. While differentiation has easy rules by which the derivative of a complicated function can be found by differentiating its simpler component functions, integration does not, so tables of known integrals are often useful.
Table of lunar month correspondences This is a table of lunar month correspondences. The correspondences given are NOT exact; however, aside from the first few days and last few days of a lunar month, they are true (if this author is not mistaken).
Table of Opposites The Table of Opposites of Pythagoras is the oldest surviving of many such tables propounded by philosophers. Aristotle, from whom we get our knowledge of the Pythagorean table, has his own list of opposites (stingy/spendthrift).
Table of Ranks Table of Ranks (Табель о рангах; Tabel o rangakh) was a formal list of positions and ranks in military, government, and court of Imperial Russia. It was introduced by Peter the Great in 1722 in his struggle with the existing hereditary nobility, or boyars.
Table of the Elements Table of the Elements is an Atlanta-based American record label. It concentrates on rereleased and specially-recorded experimental music, including many of the great avant garde musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries — John Cale, Tony Conrad and La Monte Young, for instance — as well as less well-known artists such as Loren Mazzacane Connors, Derek Bailey and David Grubbs.
Table of vowels This table lists all the vowels of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Where vowels appear in pairs, the vowel to the left of the bullet (•) corresponds to an unrounded vowel and the vowel to the right of the bullet corresponds to a rounded vowel.
Table radio Table radio is a term used to describe a small, self-contained radio receiver used as an entertainment device. Most such receivers are limited to radio functions, though some have compact disc or audio cassette players and clock radio functions built in; some models also include shortwave or satellite radio functionality.
Table Rock Wilderness The Table Rock Wilderness is a small pocket wilderness in the western Cascade Mountains in the northwestern portion of Oregon. The wilderness area protects about nine square miles (roughly 5,500 acres) of mature timber in the Molalla River drainage, some 19 miles southeast of the town of Molalla and 50 miles south of Portland.
Table Rock, Niagara Falls Table Rock is named for the site on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. At one point, a flat rock or 'table' jutted out over the Horseshoe Falls and opposite of the vantage point at Prospect Point Park on the American side.
Table steel guitar The table steel guitar is a type of electric steel guitar intermediate between the lap steel guitar and the pedal steel guitar. Table steel guitars typically have multiple necks and/or more than six strings per neck, and are too large to be easily played in lap steel fashion.
Table Shuffleboard Table Shuffleboard (also known as American shuffleboard) is a game in which players push metal pucks/weights along a smooth wooden table into a scoring area at the opposite end of the table. After all eight pucks have been played on one end, only the winning puck or group of pucks scores (according to the points marked on the board).
Table talk Table talk refers to informal conversation, generally at the dining table or in small get-together, which an important person indulges into with the purpose that message conveyed through such talks should get widely disseminated. Collections of such table talks by royal persons, celebrities, and other important personalities dating back to the 3rd century exist.
Table tennis at the Summer Olympics Table tennis competition has been in the Summer Olympic Games since 1988, with singles and doubles events for both men and women. Athletes from China have dominated the sport, winning a total of 33 medals in 20 events.
Table tennis styles Table tennis is unique among racket sports in that it supports a large variety of different styles of players. As players' levels increase, the diversity of styles decreases slightly, because technically weak styles are quickly eliminated.
Table Tennis at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games Table tennis at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games took place in the Ninoy Aquino Stadium, Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Malate, Manila, Philippines. The participants are competing to win at least one of the 4 gold medals at stake.
Table wine In the United States, table wine is used as a legal definition to differentiate standard wine from stronger (higher alcohol content) fortified wine or sparkling wine. In common usage, its definition is similar to the European one (see below).
Table-engine A table engine is a variety of stationary steam engine where the cylinder is placed on top of a table-shaped base, the legs of which stand on the baseplate which locates the crankshaft bearings. The piston rod protrudes from the top of the cylinder and has fixed to it a cross-head which runs in slides attached to, and rising from, the cylinder top.
Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique The Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois regnes de la nature was an illustrated encyclopedia of plants, animals and minerals, notable for including the first scientific descriptions of many species, and for its attractive colored engravings. It was published in Paris by Charles Joseph Panckoucke, from 1788 on.
Tableless web design Tableless Web design is a method of web design and development without resorting to the use of HTML tables for page layout control purposes. Instead of HTML tables, style sheet languages such as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to arrange elements and text on a web page.
Tableround A tableround is a traditional academic feast known at universities in most Middle and Eastern European countries. At a tableround, tables usually are placed in the form of a U or a W, the participants drink beer and sing commercium songs.
Tables (board game) Tables is a general name given to a class of board games similar to backgammon, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points". Players roll dice to determine the movement of pieces.
Tables of Toledo Gerard of Cremona (1114–1187) edited for Latin readers the Tables of Toledo (Toledan Tables), the most accurate compilation of astronomical/astrological data (ephemeris) ever seen in Europe at the time. The Tables were partly the work of Al-Zarqali, known to the West as Arzachel, a mathematician and astronomer/astrologer who flourished in Cordoba in the eleventh century.
Tablespace A tablespace is a storage location where the actual data underlying database objects can be kept. It is the logical portion of the database used to allocate storage for all DBMS managed objects, such as table data, indexes, or stored procedures.
Tablet Hotels Tablet Hotels is an online travel agency based in New York City, specializing in independent and boutique hotels around the world. Properties are listed by invitation only, and are selected by a committee made up of hoteliers, architects, designers, travel writers and photographers.
Tablet PC A tablet PC is a notebook- or slate-shaped mobile computer. Its touch screen or digitizing tablet technology allows the user to operate the computer with a stylus or digital pen, or a fingertip, instead of a keyboard or mouse.
Tabletop game Tabletop game is a general term used to refer to card games (including collectable card games), board games, parlor games, role-playing games, miniature wargames, tile-based games and other games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface. The term is used distinguish these types of games from sports and video games, which today enjoy more popularity than most tabletop games.
Tablets of Destiny In Mesopotamian mythology, the Tablet of Destinies (not, as frequently misquoted in general works, the 'Tablets of Destiny') was envisaged as a clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing, also impressed with cylinder seals, which, as a permanent legal document, conferred upon the god Enlil his supreme authority as ruler of the universe.
Tablets of Fate The Tablets of Fate were created by Lord Ao of Abeir-Toril in order to sustain the balance of good and evil, law and chaos. Written on the Tablets are the areas of which each of the gods of the Forgotten Realms rule over.
Tablets of stone The Tablets of Stone or Stone Tablets, also known as the Tablets of Law, (in Hebrew: Luchot HaBrit - "the tablets [of] the covenant") refers to the two pieces of special stone inscribed with the Ten Commandments when Moses ascended Mount Sinai as recorded in the Book of Exodus. refers to the tablets as the Tablets of Testimony because they give insight into the nature of God, and they have also been known as the Tables of Law.
Tableware Tableware are the cutlery, eating utensils (such as forks, knives and spoons), drinkware, and dishware used when setting a table for dining. The particular set of objects varies from culture to culture and from meal to meal.
TablEdit Tablature Editor TablEdit Tablature Editor is a computer program that allow musicians to create, edit, print and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass guitar.
Tablighi Jamaat Tablighi Jamaat ("Proselytizing Group") (Arabic: تبليغي جماعت, also Tabliq) is a Muslim missionary and revival movement. They usually limit their activities to within the Muslim community itself, their main aim being to bring spiritual awakening to the world's Muslims.
Tablighi Jamaat and allegations of terrorism The Tablighi Jamaat movement is an Islamic organization founded in what is now Pakistan in the early twentieth Century, as a response to Christian evangelists working among poor and poorly educated Muslims in British India.
Tablinum In Roman architecture, a tablinum (or tabulinum, from tabula, board, picture) was a room generally situated on one side of the atrium and opposite to the entrance; it opened in the rear on to the peristyle, with either a large window or only an anteroom or curtain. The walls were richly decorated with fresco pictures, and busts of the family were arranged on pedestals on the two sides of the room.
Tablist Tablist - 1.> One who uses vinyl records to play music with multiple record maneuvering techniques to mix, scratch, blend, chop, juggle and edit sounds of the original recording to make different sounds all part of one song or track.
Tabloid A tabloid is a newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format (23½ by 14¾ inches; or 597 mm × 375 mm) per spread; to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed for free (often in a smaller, tabloid-sized newspaper format); or to a newspaper that tends to emphasise sensational crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous innuendos about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and other so-called "junk food news" (often in a smaller, tabloid-sized newspaper format).
Tabloid Baby Tabloid Baby is a tabloid television memoir by veteran journalist and television news producer Burt Kearns, published in 1999, about his years as producer on tabloid television shows like A Current Affair and Hard Copy. Regarded as the definitive work on the rise and fall of the tabloid television genre.
Tabloid Magazine "Tabloid Magazine" is the third single lifted from The Living End's gold and Top 5 album, Modern Artillery. Features a killer live version of the classic "All Torn Down", plus special acoustic versions of "Who's Gonna Save Us" and "What Would You Do" and a previously unreleased track.
Tabloid talk show Tabloid talk shows are a genre of American television talk-shows that achieved peak viewership during the late 20th century, ran mostly during the day, and were distributed mostly through syndication. The genre is believed to have originated with Phil Donahue and the increased viewership and personal confessions of Oprah Winfrey are believed to have popularizedand revolutionized it.
Tabo, Himachal Pradesh Tabo is a small town in the district of Lahaul and Spiti on the banks of the Spiti River in Himachal Pradesh, India. The town lies on the road between Reckong Peo and Kaja, the sub-divisional headquarters of Spiti.
Tabom People The Tabom People refers to the Afro-Brazilian community in Accra. The Tabom People is an Afro-Brazilian community of former slaves, who decided to come back to the African continent of their ancestors, after they bought their own freedom in Brazil.
Taboo A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) against words, objects, actions, discussions, or people that are considered undesirable by a group, culture, or society. Breaking the taboo is usually considered objectionable or abhorrent.
Taboo (1999 film) Gohatto (御法度) aka Taboo (1999) is a Japanese film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It shows life in a samurai training school during the bakumatsu period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century, specifically concentrating on the issue of homosexuality in the partially closed environment.
Taboo (album) Taboo is the name of two soundtrack albums for the Boy George hit stage musical, Taboo. The first, published in 2002, features the original West End cast, and a second album was published in 2004 featuring the original cast of the Broadway production.
Taboo (game) Taboo is a word guessing party game commercially available from Hasbro. The object of the game is for a player to have their partner guess the word on their card without using the word itself or five additional words listed on the card.
Taboo (Wildstorm) Taboo is the name of a fictional character from the Wildstorm universe that first appeared in Backlash #1 in 1994, she quickly became a major supporting character in the series and Backlash's main love interest.
Taboo against naming the dead The taboo against naming the dead is a kind of taboo on the dead whereby the name of a recently deceased person, and any other words similar to it in sound, may not be uttered. It is observed by peoples so widely separated from each other as the Nenets of Siberia and the Toda of Southern India; the Mongols of Tartary and the Tuareg of the Sahara; the Ainu of Japan and the Akamba and Nandi of Eastern Africa; the Tinguian of the Philippines and the inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands, of Borneo, of Madagascar, and of Tasmania.
Tabor College, Australia Tabor College Australia, originally called The House of Tabor, is a tertiary Christian Education Centre offering a range of courses from certificate to post-graduate in the areas of counselling, education, ministry, performing arts and mission.
Tabora Tabora is the capital city of Tanzania's Tabora Region with a population of 127,880 (2002 census). It was founded by Arab traders in 1852 but was captured in 1891 and became an administrative centre of German East Africa, when it was known as Weidmannsheil.
Tabot Tabot (ታቦት, sometimes spelled tabout), is a Ge'ez (as well as Amharic) word referring to a replica of the Tablets of Law, onto which the Biblical Ten Commandments were inscribed, used in the practices of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Tabot can also refer to a replica of the Ark of the Covenant.
Tabriz Maragheh Tabriz Maragheh or The Collection of History is a multi volumed text purporting to be a world history back to creation. It incluids large sections on Iran, India and a section on European history, extremely unusual for a middle eastern history.
Tabs (stage) Tabs or House tabs are the main curtains used to separate the stage from the auditorium in a proscenium theatre. In smaller theatres, they usually consist of two curtains which part horizontally (known as a traveler.
Tabu (film) Tabu (also called Tabu, a Story of the South Seas) is a 1931 film which tells the story of two lovers in the South Seas, who must escape their village when the girl is chosen as the holy maid to the gods. The actors are billed as Reri, Matahi, Hitu, Jean and Jules.
Tabu Ley Rochereau Tabu Ley Rochereau (born 1940) is the leader of Orchestre Afrisa International and one of Africa's most influential vocalists and prolific songwriters. Along with guitarist Dr Nico Kasanda, Tabu Ley pioneered soukous; he internationalised his music by fusing elements of Congolese folk music with Cuban, Caribbean, and Latin American rhumba.
Tabua A tabua is a polished tooth of a sperm whale that is an important cultural item in Fijian society. They were traditionally given as gifts for atonement or esteem (called sevusevu), and were important in negotiations between rival chiefs.
Tabubil, Papua New Guinea The town of Tabubil is a small settlement of around 10,000 people, situated in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. The town was established, and exists mainly to serve the former gold mine of Ok Tedi which is currently mining copper, under a joint initiative between the PNG government, and Australian mining giant, BHP.
Tabuik Tabuik is the local manifestation of the Shi'a Muslim Remembrance of Muharram among the Minangkabau people in the coastal regions of West Sumatra, Indonesia, particularly in the city of Pariaman. The festival includes reenactments of the Battle of Karbala, and the playing of tassa and dhol drums.
Tabuk Province Tabuk (also spelled Tabouk) (Arabic: تبوك) is a province of Saudi Arabia, located along the north-west coast of the country, facing Egypt across the Red Sea. It has an area of 108,000 km² and a population of 560,200 (1999).
Tabuk Sniper Rifle The Tabuk Sniper Rifle is made from a modified Yugoslav AK derivative; the Zastava M70 rifle adding a telescopic sight, a skeletonized rear stock with a cheek piece. Its barrel is longer than the standard (non-paratrooper) AK whose nominal length is 415 mm / 16.
Tabula Capuana The Tabula Capuana ("Tegola di Capua" Etruscophiles like to call it), now conserved in Berlin, represents the second most extensive surviving Etruscan text, after the linen book the (Liber Linteus) used in Egypt for mummy wrappings, now at Zagreb. (The third longest Etruscan inscription now being the cast bronze inscription found at Cortona in 1992, the Tabula Cortonensis).
Tabula rasa Tabula rasa (Latin: scraped tablet or clean slate) refers to the epistemological thesis that individual human beings are born with no innate or built-in mental content, in a word, "blank", and that their entire resource of knowledge is built up gradually from their experiences and sensory perceptions of the outside world.
Tabula Rasa (Buffy episode) "Tabula Rasa" is the eighth episode in season 6 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It explores the characters not as they are, but as they could be, after they lose their memory to a spell gone awry.
Tabular Islamic calendar The Tabular Islamic Calendar (also called the Fatimid Calendar) is a rule-based variation of the Islamic calendar. It has the same year numbers and months, but the months are determined by arithmetic rules rather than by observation or astronomical calculations.
Tabular-grain film Tabular-grain film is a type of photographic film that includes T-max films from Kodak (with Kodak's T-grain emulsion), Delta films from Ilford and the Fuji Neopan films. The silver halide crystals in the film emulsion are flatter and more tabular (hence T-Grain).
Tabularium The Tabularium was the official records office of ancient Rome, and also housed the offices of many city officials. Situated within the Forum Romanum, it was on the front slope of the Capitoline Hill, below the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, to the southeast of the Arx and Tarpeian Rock.
Tabulate coral The tabulate corals, forming the order Tabulata, are an extinct form of coral. They are almost always colonial, forming colonies of individual hexagonal cells known as corallites defined by a skeleton of calcite, similar in appearance to a honeycomb.
Tabun (nerve agent) Tabun or GA (Ethyl N,N-dimethylphosphoramidocyanidate) is an extremely toxic substance that is one of the world's most dangerous military weapons. Because it fatally interferes with normal functioning of the mammalian nervous system, it is classified as a nerve agent.
Tabun, Israel The Tabun Cave was occupied intermittently during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic ages (half a million to some 40,000 years ago). In the course of this extremely long period of time, deposits of sand, silt and clay of up to 25 m.
Tacacá Tacacá is a soup common to Northern Brazil, particularly the states of Amazonas and Pará, and is well loved and widely consumed. It is made with jambú (a native variety of paracress), and tucupi (a broth made with wild cassava), as well as dry shrimps and small yellow peppers.
Tacarpo The Tacarpo is an agricultural traditional tool of the Peruvian AmazonĂ­a, of approximately 2 m long and 4 cm of diameter. It is made of the trunk or the branch of a tree of hard wood; one of its ends is cut to make a point.
Tacca Tacca is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the order Dioscoreales, native to tropical regions of Africa and southeastern Asia. In older texts, the genus was treated in its own family Taccaceae, but the 2003 APG II system incorporates it into the family Dioscoreaceae.
Tacco TACCO is the military abbreviation for "TACtical COordinator" and is the aircrew member responsible for coordinating the activities of the part of the crew responsible for the tactical operation of the aircraft and its systems. The TACCO may, depending on the country, be the Mission Commander of the crew.
Tacfarinas Tacfarinas was a Numidian military leader who rebelled against Rome. He is mentioned by Tacitus in his Annales as a former ally of Rome who had provided men to the army auxiliary corps and had probably served himself in the Roman auxiliary.
Tacchini (crater) Tacchini is a lunar crater on the northwestern edge of the Mare Smythii, near the eastern limb of the Moon. It lies just to the south of the prominent Neper crater, and was designated 'Neper K' before being given its current name by the IAU.
Tacinga Tacinga is a genus in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to northeast Brazil (from northeast Minas Gerais to southern Rio Grande do Norte, including Bahia, Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco and ParaĂ­ba). Once thought to be monotypic, the genus now comprises 6 species.
Tacit assumptions Tacit assumptions include the underlying agreements or statements made in the development of a logical argument, course of action, decision, or judgment that are not explicitly voiced nor necessarily understood by the decision maker or judge. Often, these assumptions are made based on personal life experiences, and are not consciously apparent in the decision making environment.
Tacit collusion Tacit collusion occurs when cartels are illegal or overt collusion is absent. This is also known as price leadership, as firms may stay within the law but still tacitly collude by monitoring each other's prices and keeping them the same.
Tacit extension In logic and mathematics, a tacit extension is in formal respects the simplest or the logically least committal of the several possible set operations that are inverse to the set-theoretic operation of projection.
Tacit programming The tacit programming is a programming paradigm in which a function definition does not include information regarding its arguments. The simplicity behind this idea allows its use on several programming languages, such as J programming language and APL.
Tacit relocation Tacit Relocation in Scots Law is a principle whereby leases of land or buildings are renewed on the same conditions as previously existed if no notice of termination is given within the requisite period, subject to a maximum period of one year, applying in perpetuity until such notice is given.
Tacitean studies Tacitus is remembered first and foremost on his place as Rome's greatest historian, the equal—if not the superior—of Thucydides, the ancient Greeks' foremost historian. Tacitean studies, however, extend far beyond the field of history.
Tacitus (crater) Tacitus is a lunar impact crater located to the northwest of Catharina crater, at the northern extension of the Rupes Altai ridge line. Directly west is the Almanon crater, and to the northeast is Cyrillus crater.

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