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Talia al Ghul Talia al Ghul () is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, the now-estranged daughter of the supervillain Ra's al Ghul, and a love interest of Batman. She sometimes uses an anglicized form of her name, Talia Head (derived from her father's name, which is Arabic for "Head of the Demon").
Talib Kweli Talib Kweli (born Talib Kweli Greene in Brooklyn, NY on October 3, 1975) is an American rapper from Brooklyn, New York. He is one of the best-known rappers in underground hip-hop, and is frequently critically acclaimed, despite not having seen significant commercial success.
Taliban The Taliban is a Sunni strictly puritanical Islamist movement that effectively ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, and is currently engaged in a protracted guerilla war against NATO forces within Afghanistan.
Talibanization Talibanization is a neologism coined after the rise of the Afghani Taliban describing the process by which a strict and repressive Islamist regime comes to power within which Islamist terrorism and religious persecution of non-Muslims is tolerated or encouraged, in reference to how the Taliban took control of Afghanistan and thereafter harbored the terrorist network of Al Qaeda and conducted such religious persecutions as the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan. Talibanization is often distinguished by a strict imposition of sharia law from the Islamic Jurisprudence of Fiqh, coupled with overt or covert Hesperophobiac (anti-Western) hostilities and harsh treatment of those who adhere to non-Muslim faiths, a policy at times referred to as Islamofascism.
Talicada nyseus The Red Pierrot (Talicada nyseus) is a small but striking butterfly found in South Asia and South-East Asia belonging to the Lycaenids or Blues family. Red Pierrots, flying weakly around and perching on the Kalanchoe plant, are usually noticed by excited children in gardens due to their beautiful striking patterns and colours.
Taliesin (studio) Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin was the home of American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright began the home in 1911 after leaving his first wife, Catherine Tobin, and his Oak Park, Illinois home and studio in 1909.
Taliesin Orchestra The Taliesin Orchestra is a musical group (generally classified as New Age) that specializes in remaking famous songs into orchestra-style melodies. Their debut album, Orinoco Flow: The Music of Enya, was a collection of songs originally created and sung by Enya; it was released in 1996.
Taliesin West Taliesin West was architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school in the desert in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA from 1937 until his death in 1959 at the age of 91. The design was an organic response to the rugged nature of the talus-sloped mountain site, from which Wright plucked the sand, gravel, and stone used as basic construction materials; to the mild winter climate, which permitted natural lighting through a tent-like roof of redwood and canvas; and to the necessity of housing a community of staff and students.
Taligent Taligent was the name of an object-oriented operating system and the company dedicated to producing it. Initially started as a project within Apple Computer to produce a replacement for the Mac OS, it was later spun-off into a joint venture with IBM in order to build a competing platform to Microsoft Cairo and NeXTSTEP.
Talihina, Oklahoma Talihina is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, its name originating from two Choctaw words, tully and hena, meaning either rock or iron road. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Taling Chan Taling Chan () is one of the 50 districts (Khet) of Bangkok, Thailand. Its neighbor, clockwise from north, are Amphoe Bang Kruai of Nonthaburi Province, Bang Phlat, Bangkok Noi, Bangkok Yai, Phasi Charoen, Bang Khae, and Thawi Watthana districts of Bangkok.
Talinum Talinum is a genus of herbaceous succulent plants in the family Portulacaceae whose common names include fameflower and flameflower. Several species bear edible leaves, and Talinum fruticosum is widely grown in tropical regions as a leaf vegetable.
Talinum fruticosum Talinum fruticosum is an herbaceous perennial plant widely grown in tropical regions as a leaf vegetable. Common names include waterleaf, cariru, Surinam purslane, Philippine spinach, Ceylon spinach, Florida spinach, potherb fameflower, Lagos bologi, and sweetheart.
Talish-i Gushtasbi Talish-i Gushtasbi is the historical name of the northern Talysh area, presently a part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. People of northern Talysh are of Iranian stock and speak a northwestern Iranian language called Talysh.
Talisia Talisia is a genus of 52 species of flowering plants in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas. The genus is closely related to Melicoccus, with some species sometimes included in that genus.
Talisker Talisker is an Island Single Malt Scotch whisky produced by the Talisker Distillery, Carbost, Scotland; the only distillery on the Isle of Skye. The distillery is operated by United Distillers and Vintners for Diageo, and is included in their Classic Malts series.
Talislanta Talislanta is a fantasy role-playing game written by Stephen Michael Sechi that was initially released in 1987 by Bard Games. The company also published a second, revised edition of the game but then ceased operations.
Talisman (Sailor Moon) A Talisman is a special weapon, one of three introduced in the third story arc of the Sailor Moon series. Finding the Talismans is a major plot point during this arc because bringing the three together causes an item called the Holy Grail to appear (or, in the English-dubbed anime, the Purity Chalice).
Talisman Centre The Talisman Centre, formerly known as the Lindsay Park Sports Centre, is a multi-sports complex in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The name of the facility was changed in March 2002, after the City of Calgary sold the naming rights for 10 million dollars to Talisman Energy for 30 years.
Talisman Desktop Talisman Desktop is a configurable Windows desktop shell replacement introduced in 1997 by Lighttek Software. It is available in a number of languages including English, French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Russian and Italian.
Talisman of Death Talisman of Death is the eleventh book in the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, written by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, illustrated by Bob Harvey and originally published in 1984. Unlike most of the fantasy Fighting Fantasy books, Talisman of Death is set not in the series' usual fantasy world of Titan, but rather in Smith and Thomson's own world of Orb (also the setting for their Way of the Tiger gamebook series).
Talisman UUV The Talisman UUV is a fully autonomous unmanned mini-sub designed and made by BAE Systems. It has the capability to perform shoreline reconnaissance when the risks may be deemed too high, or conditions unsuitable, for human operators.
Talismen Talismen is a contemporary fantasy-adventure series being told in webcomics, comic books, graphic novels and novels created by Barb Jacobs (1965-) and Steven Philip Jones (1960-). It features the adventures of five exiles from the Land of Dreams, starting when the exiles are age 12 and continuing into their early 20s.
Talitha Cumi (The X-Files) "Talitha Cumi" is the season three finale of The X-Files. Agents Mulder and Scully search for a man who seems to possess strange powers, which leads to the discovery of dangerous secret from Mulder's past.
Talitor Talitor is a private Norwegian company specializing in Closed-circuit television (CCTV) and Digital video recorder solutions. The company was founded by Terje Strand in 1987 and have their headquarters in Rolvsøy on the outskirts of Fredrikstad.
Talk (Unix) talk was a program originally used for live text communication between different users of a single multi-user computer running the Unix operating system. talk eventually accommodated digital conversations between users on different machines as well.
Talk 107 talk107 is a radio station based in Edinburgh, Scotland, broadcasting a phone-in based talk format. It was the UK's first local commercial talk licence to be awarded outside London and is the only station of its kind in Scotland.
Talk box A talk box is a musical sound effects device that allows a musician to modify the sound of a musical instrument by changing the shape of the mouth. The effect can be used to shape the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (such as singing) onto a musical instrument, typically a guitar (its non-guitar use is often confused with the vocoder) and keyboards.
Talk Cinema Harlan Jacobson's Talk Cinema is a movie club. Offered on a subscription basis, Talk Cinema presents an independently curated series of American independent and foreign films screened prior to their theatrical release followed by conversation.
Talk Radio (film) Talk Radio is a 1988 film, starring Eric Bogosian as a controversial "shock jock" It is directed by Oliver Stone, and is based on the real life murder of radio host Alan Berg by Neo-Nazisand the book about those events, Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg] by [[Stephen Singular, and the play by Eric Bogosian and Tad Savinar.
Talk Radio (play) Talk Radio is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play written by Eric Bogosian, based on a concept by Bogosian and Tad Savinar. It centers around Barry Champlain, a Cleveland-area shock jock, on the eve of his radio show's national syndication.
Talk Radio (XM) Talk Radio, often branded on-air as Talk Radio 165, is a talk channel on XM Satellite Radio featuring terrestrial radio show simulcasts from around the country. Talk Radio is a channel for call-in talk shows, even though it was originally begun as a channel for experts and advice shows.
Talk Show (band) Talk Show was an American alternative/hard rock band consisting of Dave Coutts (vocals), Dean DeLeo (guitar), Robert DeLeo (bass), and Eric Kretz (drums). The group was essentially Stone Temple Pilots with Coutts (formerly of the band Ten Inch Men) taking the place of Scott Weiland (now of Velvet Revolver), who was, around this time, working on solo material and struggling with drug addiction.
Talk Shows on Mute "Talk Shows On Mute" is a song by the American alternative rock band Incubus. It was released as the second single from the band's 2004 album, A Crow Left of the Murder, and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Talk to Her Talk to Her (Spanish: Hable con ella) is a 2002 film written and directed by the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin and Rosario Flores. It won the 2002 Academy Award for Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and the 2003 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Talk to Me (Stevie Nicks song) "Talk to Me" is a song from Stevie Nicks' platinum top 20 album Rock a Little. The song made the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 and claimed the Number One spot on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks for two weeks in the 1980s.
Talk to Me (Wild Orchid song) "Talk to Me" was the second single from Wild Orchid's self-titled debut, Wild Orchid. "Talk to Me" made dance chart history when it was the first single by a female group to enter the Hot Dance/Maxi Single Sales chart in the top ten, it also was a minor pop and R&B hit for the trio.
Talk to the hand Talk to the hand (or tell it to the hand) is an English language slang phrase associated with the 1990s. It originated in African American Vernacular English as a contemptuous and urbanized way of saying that no one is listening, and is often elongated to a phrase such as "Talk to the hand, because the ear's not listening" or "Talk to the hand, (be)cause the face don't understand".
Talk to Your Daughter Talk to Your Daughter is an electric blues album by Robben Ford, released in 1988. This album's cover version of the Albert King classic Born Under a Bad Sign was used as a supporting soundtrack in the Clint Eastwood movie Pink Cadillac.
Talkback (recording) In sound recording, talkback refers to the system used in recording studios to enable personnel in the control room to speak or give instructions to personnel in the recording area or booth. While the control room can hear the booth over the studio microphones, the booth hears the control room over a PA or monitor speaker, or in their headphones.
Talkback Classroom Talkback Classroom is a monthly Australian political forum broadcast on ABC Radio National as part of the Life Matters program. The forum is held at the National Museum of Australia, and involves secondary school students from around Australia interviewing various prominent politicians, business and community leaders on current affairs issues.
Talkback Productions Talkback Productions was formed in 1981 by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. The company is one of the UK’s leading production companies and part of the RTL Group, a major European broadcast and content company.
TalkbackTHAMES talkbackTHAMES is a British television production company, a division of FremantleMedia (part of the RTL Group). It was formed by the merger of Talkback Productions and Thames Television, the former ITV franchisee for London on weekdays.
Talkboy The Talkboy was a portable variable speed cassette player and recorder manufactured by Tiger Electronics (now owned by Hasbro) in the early 1990s. Much like other Tiger Electronics devices of the era, this device was primarily marketed to children and teens.
Talkgroup A Talkgroup is a radio channel on a Trunked Radio System. Talkgroups differ from regular or conventional radio channels in that they are not restricted to a certain Radio frequency and may use up to 21 separate frequencies that are assigned by a controller on a Control Channel.
Talkin' Yankees Talkin' Yankees is a Public Access television talk show about the New York Yankees, hosted by Jonah Falcon. Originally the show aired at 11:00 PM EST, to 12:00 AM EST, but on September 18, 2006, the show changed its time slot to 4:00 PM EST, to 5:00 PM, EST.
Talking ATM A Talking ATM is a type of automated teller machine (ATM) that provides audible instructions so that persons who cannot read an ATM screen can independently use the machine. All audible information is delivered privately through a standard headphone jack on the face of the machine or a separately attached telephone handset.
Talking blues The Talking blues was a style of rhythmic speech or near-speech where the melody is free but the rhythm is strict. The music genre or technique developed in the blues in the early 20th century from influences including African music, British folk song, and the music-hall stage (as put by English politician Robert Somers: "Sambo is a natural-born cockney").
Talking Birds Talking birds are birds who can imitate human speech. Talking birds have varying degrees of intelligence and communication capabilities, some like the crows, a highly intelligent bird, are only able to mimic a few words and phrases, while budgerigars have been observed to have a vocabulary of almost two thousand words.
Talking circle A talking circle, is a method used by a group to discuss a topic in an egalitarian and non-confrontational manner. The group members sit in a circle and make comment on the topic of the discussion following a small number of rules:
Talking Heads (plays) Talking Heads is a series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett. The pieces have since been broadcast on BBC Radio, performed in live theatre, and included on the A-level English Literature syllabus and for GCSE.
Talking Movies Talking Movies is a 30-minute entertainment programme made by TTL for the BBC covering reviews and recent developments in the world of film. It is broadcast on BBC World throughout the week and on BBC News 24 at weekends, Talking Movies also makes appearances on BBC Two and BBC America.
Talking point A talking point is an idea which may or may not be factual, usually compiled in a short list with summaries of a speaker's agenda for public or private engagements. Public relations professionals, for example, sometimes prepare "talking points memos" for their clients to help them more effectively conform public presentations with this advice.
Talking Right Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show is a book by Geoffrey Nunberg, who uses his linguistic expertise to explain the electoral failure of the Democratic Party.
Talking Rock Ranch Talking Rock Ranch is a master planned community in Prescott, Arizona and is located just minutes from vibrant Prescott. Prescott is located in Central Northern Arizona, and is located 96 miles northwest of Phoenix.
Talking Statues of Rome The Talking Statues of Rome were a form of anonymous political expression in Rome begun in the 15th century and continuing until the advent of the modern media. Criticisms in the form of poems were posted on well know statues in Rome.
Talking Straight Talking Straight (1988 Bantam Books)ISBN 0-553-05270-5 is a book written by Lee Iacocca, then CEO of Chrysler Motors, with Sonny Kleinfeld. It was written to balance Akio Morita's Made in Japan, a non-fiction book praising Japan's post-war hard-working culture.
Talking to a Stranger Talking to a Stranger is a British television drama, produced by the BBC and made up of four separate plays telling the story of one weekend from the viewpoints of four different members of the same family. Originally transmitted on BBC2 as part of the Theatre 625 anthology strand, the four ninety-minute instalments were shown weekly from October 2 to October 23 1966.
Talking to Americans Talking To Americans was a regular feature presented by Rick Mercer on the Canadian political satire show This Hour Has 22 Minutes. It was later spun off into a one-hour special that aired on April 1, 2001 on CBC Television.
Talking to Dragons Talking to Dragons is a young adult fantasy novel, the fourth and final book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, it is told in first person, from the point of view of sixteen-year-old Daystar, son of Cimorene, a woman who lives at the edge of the Enchanted Forest.
Talking Timbuktu Talking Timbuktu is the 1994, Grammy award-winning collaboration between Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré and American guitarist/producer Ry Cooder. The guitar riff from the song "Diaraby" was selected for the Geo-quiz segment of The World NPR-BBC radio program and was retained by popular demand when put to a vote by the listeners.
Talkman Talkman (PSP-240) is a program developed by Sony Computer Entertainment for the Sony PlayStation Portable video game console. It is a voice-activated translation software application that operates in four languages Japanese, English, Korean, and Chinese (Mandarin).
Talkoot Talkoot (from Finnish: talkoo, almost always used in plural, talkoot) is a group of people gathering to work together, for instance, to build or repair something. The word is borrowed into Finland-Swedish as talko (ett talko, talkot, flera talkon alternatively en talko, talkon, flera talkorbut unknown to most Swedes].
TalkOrigins Archive The TalkOrigins Archive is a popular website that presents mainstream science perspectives on the antievolution claims of young-earth, old-earth, and "intelligent design" creationists. With sections on evolution, creationism, and hominid evolution, the web site provides broad coverage of evolutionary biology and the socio-political antievolution movement.
Talkshow Boy Talkshow Boy (born January 24, 1985), real name Adrian Bailey Trajstman, is a solo electronic musician and self-made 'hard pop' star from Melbourne, Australia. He has used the pseudonyms Adrian K-Sahara and Tomyum Texmex.
TalkShoe TalkShoe is a Web 2.0 Internet radio/podcasting site that uses a Java chat client in conjunction with a conference call bridge to allow users to host or participate in live on-line talk radio shows called "talkcasts" (a portmanteau of "talk" and "broadcast") .
TalkSPORT talkSPORT is the only dedicated national commercial sports and talk radio station, based in London, broadcasting to the United Kingdom providing sports talk, live commentaries, phone-in discussion and talk shows. It is transmitted on 1089 and 1053 kHz across the UK and digitally via: DAB Digital Radio, Freeview, Sky, NTL, Telewest and Homechoice.
Tall Cedars of Lebanon The Tall Cedars of Lebanon of North America is one of the various appendant bodies of Freemasonry, open only to Master Masons in good standing in a regular Masonic Lodge. Unlike the York Rite or Scottish Rite, which convey degrees which extend or expound upon basic craft Masonry, Tall Cedarism is more a social body, like the Shriners.
Tall oil Tall oil, also called liquid rosin or tallol, is a viscous yellow-black odorous liquid obtained as a byproduct of the Kraft process of wood pulp manufacture. The name originated as anglicization of Swedish "tallolja" ("pine oil").
Tall poppy syndrome Tall poppy syndrome (TPS) is a pejorative term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe what is seen as a levelling social attitude. Someone is said to be suffering from tall poppy syndrome when their assumption of a higher economic, social or political position attracts criticism, being perceived as presumptuous, attention seeking or without merit.
Tall ship Tall ship is an informal collective term for some kinds of sailing ships. Contrary to other sailing ship classification terms, tall ship does not describe a particular kind of sailing ship identified by a sail plan — both barques and brigantines, for instance, are tall ships.
Tall shirts Tall Shirts is the name of a country punk/thrash band that enjoyed considerable popularity in the Sydney independent music scene between 1985 and (circa) 1993. Their musical style - a high energy eclectic mix of numerous country/western styles, delivered with outrageous and often X-rated humour - served as a vehicle with which they systematically parodied not only country music, the American South, comic book culture, religion and Australian values, but every level of society in general.
Tall Stacks Tall Stacks, formally known as the Tall Stacks Music, Arts, and Heritage Festival, is a festival held every three or four years in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, which celebrates the city's heritage of the riverboat. The sixth edition was held on October 4 through October 8, 2006.
Tall tale A tall tale is a story that claims to explain the reason for some natural phenomenon, or sometimes illustrates how skilled/intelligent/powerful the subject of the tale was. In either case, the tall tale is fictional and usually obviously so.
Tall Tale Tall Tale, also known as Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill is a 1995 family Western movie starring Patrick Swayze, Nick Stahl, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Scott Glenn, Catherine O'Hara, and Jared Harris.
Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy is located in northern Leon County, Florida just off County Road 12 on the north side of Lake Iamonia. Operating from the old Beadel House, Tall Timbers researches the areas of fire ecology, resource management, forestry, game bird management, and vertebrate ecology.
Tall Trees Tall Trees is a nightclub located on Tolcarne Road in Newquay, Cornwall, England. The club has been voted as number 1 club in the south west for the last two years running by the Ministry of Sound magazine http://www.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a 2006 American comedy film about NASCAR racing. The film is directed by Adam McKay, who co-wrote the film with actor and former Saturday Night Live cast member Will Ferrell.
Tallaght Tallaght (Tamhlacht in Irish), after Dublin City and Cork is the third largest urban concentration in the Republic of Ireland. Situated 13 kilometres south-west of Dublin city, at the foot of the Dublin - Wicklow mountains, it was one of the earliest settlements in the country and one of medieval Ireland's most important monastic centres.
Tallaght Strategy In Irish politics, the Tallaght Strategy was a policy followed by the Fine Gael political party starting in 1987. Under this policy, the Fine Gael opposition party would not oppose economic reforms proposed by the Fianna Fáil minority government in the national interest.
Tallahassee Community College Tallahassee Community College, founded in 1966, is a community college in Tallahassee, Florida that feeds into Florida State University, and has a good relationship with Florida A&M University. It mainly serves the Florida counties of Leon, in which it is located, Gadsden, and Wakulla.
Tallahassee Historic District Zones I And II The Tallahassee Historic District Zones I And II is a historic district in Tallahassee, Florida. One zone runs along Calhoun Street between Georgia and Tennessee Streets; the other along East Park Avenue between Gadsden and Calhoun Streets.
Tallahassee Tigers The Tallahassee Tigers are an American Basketball Association in Tallahassee, Florida The team was announced in the summer of 2006, but chose to begin its innagural season in the fall of 2007. The owners of the team are Jimmy Lyons and A.
Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area The Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area is a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) consisting of Gadsden County, Jefferson County, Leon County and Wakulla County in the state of Florida in the USA. The principal city in the MSA is Tallahassee, located in Leon County.
Tallapaka Annamacharya Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya (1408-1503) is the earliest known musician of South India to compose "sankirtanas" in praise of Lord Venkateswara. Annamacharya is believed to be the incarnation of Lord Venkateswara's nandaka (sword).
Tallapoosa River The Tallapoosa River runs from the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains in Georgia in the United States south and west into Alabama. It is formed by the confluence of McClendon Creek and Mud Creek in Paulding County, Georgia.
Tallåsen Tallåsen, is a village in Ljusdal Municipality, Hälsingland , Gävleborgs län, Sweden about 5 km northwest of Ljusdal, with about 807 inhabitants (2004, Statistics Sweden). The village is mainly a bedroom community; most inhabitants commute to Ljusdal.
Tallboy (furniture) A tallboy is a piece of furniture incorporating a double chest of drawers and a wardrobe on top. Whereas the chest of drawers in its familiar form contains three long and two short drawers, the tallboy has five, six, or seven long drawers, and two short ones.
Tallboy bomb The Tallboy was an earthquake bomb developed by Barnes Wallis and brought into operation by the British in 1944. It weighed five tons and, carried by the Avro Lancaster bomber, was effective against concrete structures against which earlier, smaller bombs had proved ineffective.
Tallensi The Tallensi are a tribal people of northern Ghana, numbering a few tens of thousands. They speak Talni, a language or dialect of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo family, and maintain an agricultural mode of subsistence.
Taller, Stronger, Better "Taller, Stronger, Better" is a song written by Guy Sebastian, Gary Pinto and Phil Turcio and is the first single off Sebastian's upcoming third studio album, Closer to the Sun. The single debuted at number three in the ARIA Charts, and remained in the top ten for six weeks.
Talleres de Córdoba Club Atlético Talleres are a sports club from the city of Córdoba, Argentina, mostly known for their professional football team, currently in the second division. They play the Cordoba Derby against Belgrano.
Tallgrass Aspen Parkland The Tallgrass Aspen Parkland is a Conservation Area located in southeastern Manitoba/northwestern Minnesota. The area is characterized by a mosaic of habitat types, including tallgrass prairie, aspen woodland, sedge meadow wetlands, riparian woodland, and oak savannah.
Tallgrass prairie The tallgrass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America with fire as its primary periodic disturbance. In the past, tallgrass prairies covered a large portion of the American Midwest, just east of the Great Plains, and portions of the Canadian Prairies.
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is a United States National Preserve located in the Flint Hills region of Kansas. The preserve protects a nationally significant example of the once vast tallgrass prairie ecosystem.
Tallgrass Prairie Preserve The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, located in Osage County, Oklahoma near Foraker, Oklahoma, is owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy. It is the largest protected tract of remaining tallgrass prairie in the world.
Tallink Tallink is an Estonian shipping company currently operating cruiseferries and ropax ships from Estonia to Finland, Estonia to Sweden and Latvia to Sweden, as well as high-speed crafts between Helsinki and Tallinn. They also own Silja Line and the Baltic Sea operations of Superfast Ferries.
Tallinn Card The Tallinn Card is a time-limited ticket available to visitors to Tallinn, Estonia. It allows the holder free use of the public transport system, free entry to many museums and other places of interest, and discounts or free gifts from shops or restaurants.
Tallinn TV Tower The Tallinn TV Tower (Tallinna teletorn) is a free-standing structure with an observation deck, built to provide better telecommunication services for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics regatta event (see Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics). It is located near Pirita, six kilometres north-east of Tallinn, Estonia.
Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) (Estonian: Tallinna TehnikaĂĽlikool (TTĂś)) is the only university of technology in Estonia, and one of the three most important institutions of higher education in Estonia generally. It is located in the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn.

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