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Tiresias to Viking spacecraft

To be, or not to be

Tocqueville, Alexis de

To err is human, to forgive divine

Tolkien, J. R. R.

Tom, Dick, and Harry

Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of

tongue-in-cheek

Too many cooks spoil the broth

too many irons in the fire

toot one’s own horn

Torquemada, Tomás de

Torquemada, Tomás de

“The Tortoise and the Hare”

Toscanini, Arturo

totalitarianism

to the manner born

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

Trafalgar, Battle of

transcendentalism

transcontinental railroad

transfer payment

transfusion, blood

transgenic species

transitive verb

transubstantiation

Treasure Island

tree of knowledge of good and evil

“Trees”

trial and error

Trinidad and Tobago

Tristan and Iseult

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Capricorn

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

Truman, Harry S.

Truman-MacArthur controversy

Truth is stranger than fiction

Truth, Sojourner

tubal pregnancy

Tubman, Harriet

Turnabout is fair play

Turner, Joseph Mallord William

turn over a new leaf

Turn the other cheek

turn the tables

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Tweed, William Marcy

Twelfth Night

Twenty-third Psalm

“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”

Two heads are better than one

Two’s company, three’s a crowd

two shakes of a lamb’s tail

two strings to one’s bow

Two wrongs don’t make a right

type A personality

type B personality

Tyrannosaurus rex

“The Ugly Duckling”

ultraviolet radiation

uncertainty principle

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Underground Railroad

under the weather

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

unemployment compensation

unified field theory

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Unitarian Universalist Association

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

United States Information Agency

unsaturated fats

upper-case letters

upward mobility

urinary bladder

valence electrons

valley of the shadow of death

value-added tax

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

van Gogh, Vincent

Vanity of vanities; all is vanity

Variety is the spice of life

Vatican City State

Velázquez, Diego de

venereal diseases

Venus de Milo

Verdi, Giuseppe

Versailles, Palace of

Versailles, Treaty of

vested interest

Veterans Administration

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Vichy government

victimless crime

Victorian period

Victoria, Queen

Vienna, Congress of

Vietnam Memorial

Viking spacecraft

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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