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Tanzanian women's cricket team The Tanzanian women's cricket team is the team that represents the country of Tanzania in international women's cricket. They played their first internationals as part of the African regional qualifiers for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup in December 2006, when they played Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Tanzawa Tanzawa(Japanese:丹沢：same in romaji) is a mountain area, in the Kanto plain. Although the name is not formally recognized by the authorities, it covers the Northwestern part of Kanagawa prefecture and it touches the prefectural borders of Shizuoka Prefecture to the West and the Yamanashi prefecture to the North.
Tanzim Tanzim (Organization in Arabic) is a faction of the Palestinian al-Fatah movement. It is seen as a more militant "new guard" within Fatah, as opposed to the "old guard" which supported the Oslo peace process.
Tanzimat The Tanzimat (Ottoman Turkish: تنظيمات) meaning reorganization of the Ottoman Empire was a period of reformation that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876. The modernization (westernization) of Empire effectively associated with the Tanzimat reforms.
Tanzwut Tanzwut is a German industrial and medieval rock band comprised of members from the folk band Corvus Corax. Their name directly translates to "dance rage", which differs from the intended "fury dance".
Tao Tao or Dao (道, Pinyin: Dào, pronounced "doew" (Cantonese) or "doe"(Mandarin)) is a Chinese character meaning ‘Way’. In ancient China this word gained a special currency referring to the Way of Nature or of Heaven.
Tao II the Brave Sekenenra Tao II, (also Seqenenra Taa), called "The Brave", was one of the last of the local kinglets of the Theban region of Egypt in the Seventeenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period. The dates of his reign are uncertain, but he may have rose to power in the decade ending in 1560 B.
Tao Li Tao Li (Chinese: 陶李, Pinyin: Táo Lǐ; born 10 January 1990 in Hubei, China) is a competitive swimmer with Singaporean citizenship since 2005 after she moved to the country in 2002."Asian Games: Singapore's Tao Li wins women's 50m butterfly gold medal", Channel NewsAsia, 2006-12-08, URL last accessed 2006-12-08.
Tao Nan School Tao Nan School (Abbreviation: TNS; Chinese: ), is a co-educational primary school in Singapore. One of the five Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan schools, along with Ai Tong School, Chongfu Primary School, Kong Hwa School and Nan Chiau Primary School, Tao Nan School is among the 30 popular primary schools listed by the Ministry of Education.
Tao people The Tao (), commonly known by the misnomer Yami (雅美), are a Taiwanese aboriginal people, native to tiny outlying Orchid Island. The Tao are an Austronesian people linguistically and culturally closer to the Ivatan peoples of the Batanes islands of the Northern Philippines than to other aboriginal peoples of mainland Taiwan.
Tao Qian Táo Qián () (365-427), also known as Táo Yuānmíng (陶淵明), born in Xunyang Chaishang (now Jiujiang in Jiangxi province ). T'ao Yüan-ming , was one of the most influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poets.
Tao Qian (Three Kingdoms) Tao Qian (132 - 194) was governor of Xuzhou (徐州) province during the late Eastern Han Dynasty of China. The indcident for which he is perhaps best known for is the death of Cao Cao's father Cao Song in his territory.
Tao Ren Tao Ren (道 蓮 Japanese: Tao Ren; Pinyin: Dào Lián or Dao4 Lian2), known as Tao Len or Lenny in the English anime and English video games, is a character from the anime and manga Shaman King. Ren's name sometimes is seen in Western order, Ren Tao, in artwork in the Shaman King manga.
Tao Ruspoli Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American documentary film maker, photographer, and flamenco guitarist. He is the son of Italian actor and aristocrat Prince Dado Ruspoli and American actress Debra Berger.
Tao Te Ching The Tao Te Ching ( []), roughly translatable as The Book of the Way and its Virtue (see below), is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 600 BCE by the Taoist sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court.
Tao Yin Tao Yin ( "guide and pull") exercises were an ancient precursor of qigong, specifically the variety known as neigong, and was practised in Chinese Taoist monasteries for health and spiritual cultivation. Attested from at least 500 BC.
Tao-Klarjeti Tao-Klarjeti is the term conventionally used in modern history writing to describe the historic south-western Georgian principalities, now forming part of north-eastern Turkey and divided among the provinces of Erzurum, Artvin, Ardahan and Kars. Tao and Klarjeti were originally only the names of the two most important provinces of the Georgian lands that stretched from the “Georgian Gorge” (Turk.
Taoiseach's residence There is no official residence for the Taoiseach (prime minister of Ireland). In the 1970s, plans were made to turn the former Apostolic Nunciature, (formerly the Under Secretary's Lodge) into an official residence.
Taoism Taoism (pronounced and often written as Daoism (dow-ism)) is the English name for a religious and philosophical tradition in China. While there is a great deal of debate over how and if Taoism should be subdivided, some scholars have divided it into the following three categories.
Taoism in Korea Taoism was introduced to Korea from China during the Three Kingdoms period, and remains as a minor but significant element of Korean thought. Although Taoism did not dominate over Buddhism or Confucianism, it permeated all strata of the Korean populace, integrating with its native animism as well as Buddhist and Confucian institutions, temples, and ceremonies.
Taoist diet While there are many different historical and modern schools of Taoism, with different teachings on the subject, it is safe to say that many Taoists regard their diet as extremely important to their physical, mental and spiritual health in one way or another, especially where the amount of qi in the food is concerned.
Taoist music The importance of music in Taoist ceremony is demonstrated by revealing how central beliefs are reflected through elements of music such as harmony, instrumentation and rhythm. The ritual celebrating the birth of Quan Yin was observed at the Evergreen Taoist Church of Australia, Deagon to identify structure, role of participants, music forms and instrumentation.
Taoist Tai Chi Taoist Tai Chi is a form of Tai Chi developed by Moy Lin-shin that he started teaching in Toronto, Canada after he moved there in 1970. For this Moy modified the orthodox Yang style Tai Chi Chuan form, integrating it with his knowledge of other internal arts, such as Lok Hup Ba Fa.
TaoLinux TaoLinux was an free software GNU/Linux distribution which aimed to be 100% compatible with and based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. On 14th June, 2006, the lead developer announced that he would be retiring from the project and provided instructions for users to point their systems to update servers from CentOS in order to continue receiving updates, effectively converting their TaoLinux installations into CentOS installations.
Taor Taor (Macedonian: Таор; Greek: Tαυρίσιο) is a small village near Skopje (southern outskirts), in the Republic of Macedonia. Its ancient name was Tauresium (in the province of Illyricum) and it was the birthplace of the great Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
Taoranting Park The Taoranting Park is located to the north of Beijing's Southern Railway Station in the southern part of the city. A former location for literati to get together, while most of Beijing's gardens were reserved only for imperial families during the Qing Dynasty, it gained its name from a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi.
Taoro Taoro was one of the nine menceyatos located in today's La Orotava which divided Tenerife in which after the death of great mencey Tinerfe, Taoro became divided. The old kingdom was located in what are now the municipalities of Puerto de la Cruz, La Orotava, La Matanza de Acentejo, Los Realejos and Santa Ăšrsula.
Taosi Taosi (陶寺) is an archaeological site in Xiangfen County, Shanxi, China. Taosi is considered to be part of the late phase of the Longshan culture in southern Shanxi, also known as the Taosi phase (2300 BC - 1900 BC).
Taotie The taotie (饕餮 Pinyin: Tāotiè, Wade-Giles: t'ao t'ieh), known as Totetsu in Japanese, is a motif commonly found on ritual bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou Dynasty. The design typically consists of a zoomorphic mask.
Taoyuan County (Taiwan) Taoyuan County (; POJ: Thô-hn̂g-kōan) is a county of the Republic of China, located in the northwestern part of the island, next to Taipei County. Taoyuan City is located in this county and serves as the seat of Taoyuan County.
Tap (transformer) A transformer tap is a connection point along a transformer winding that allows the number of turns to be selected. By this means, a transformer with a variable turns ratio is produced, enabling voltage regulation of the secondary side.
Tap (valve) A tap is a valve for controlling the release of a liquid or gas. In the British Isles and normally in the Commonwealth the word is used for any everyday type of valve, particularly the fittings that control water supply to bathtubs and sinks.
Tap converter The tap converter is a variation on the cycloconverter, invented in 1981 by New York City electrical engineer Melvin Sandler and perfected in 1982 through 1984 by graduate students Mariusz Wrzesniewski, Bruce David Wilner, and Eddie Fung. Whereas the cycloconverter switches among a variety of staggered input phases to piece together an extremely jagged output signal, the tap converter synthesizes a much smoother signal by switching among a variety of (obviously synchronized) transformer output taps.
Tap City Tap City is the New York City Tap dance Festival, dedicated to the love of tap dance all over the world. Founded in 2001, and now celebrating it's sixth year anniversary, Tap City features classes, performances, and residencies for anyone from beginners to professionals.
Tap Code The Tap Code is a code, commonly used by prisoners in jail to communicate with one another. The method of communicating is usually by "tapping" either the metal bars or the walls inside the cell, hence its name.
Tap dance The American style of rhythmic foot stomping known as tap dance was born in the United States during the 19th century, and today is popular all around the world. The name comes from the tapping sound made when the small metal plates on the dancer's shoes touch a hard floor.
Tap guitar Tap guitar is a class of guitar that is played primarily by tapping on the strings. Any guitar can be played this way, but there are various specialty brands of instruments that are designed specifically for this technique.
Tap Rack Bang A well known term that details the initial standard procedure for fixing a semi automatic pistol that has ceased firing. To use the more specialist language - it is the standard drill for clearing stoppages on semi-auto pistols.
Tap Seac Multi-sports Pavillion Tap Seac Multisport Pavillion (Portuguese: Pavilhão Polidesportivo Tap Seac; Traditional Chinese: 塔石體育館) is an indoor sporting arena located in Macao Peninsula, Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The capacity of the arena is 6,000 people and was opened in 2004.
Tapa (Filipino cuisine) Tapa refers to dried or cured beef or venison (deer meat), although, other meat or fish can also be turned into tapa. As a way to preserve precious meat, native Filipinos prepare thin slices and cure them in salt, and some spices.
Tapa cloth Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a bark cloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga and Samoa, but as far afield as Java, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii. In French Polynesia it has completely disappeared, except for some villages in the Marquesas.
Tapa, Estonia Tapa is a town in Lääne-Viru County, Estonia. It is located at the junction of the country's Tallinn-Narva (east-west) and Tallinn-Tartu (north-south) railroad lines, making it an important centre of transit for freight (mainly Russian oil) as well as rail passengers.
Tapaculo The tapaculos are a group of small suboscine passeriform birds with numerous species, found in South America. They are usually placed in a distinct family Rhinocryptidae; more recent research (Rice, 2005) indicates that they might be better merged into the Formicariidae as tribe Rhinocryptini, as they are closer to the antthrushes than either is to the formicariid antpittas.
Tapachula Tapachula is a municipio (municipality) and city with a hot, humid climate in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is located in southern part of the state on the Soconusco coastal plain, near the border with Guatemala, at 14.
Tapai Tapai or tape (both spellings commonly pronounced tah-peh), sometimes refered to as peuyeum, is a traditional fermented food found throughout much of East- and Southeast Asia. It is a sweet or sour alcoholic paste
Tapairu In the mythology of Mangaia in the Cook Islands, the Tapairu are elves or fairies, who are named after the four daughters of Miru, the deformed goddess of the underworld. They were said to have been present when mortals danced in honor of their brother, Tau-Titi.
Tapaktuan Tapaktuan, a a beautiful town in the south west of the special territory (daerah istimewa) of Aceh on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Tapaktuan is south of the town Meulaboh, that was very near the epicenter of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
Tapan Kaikki: Bloodshed Tapan Kaikki: Bloodshed (I will kill everyone in English) is a freeware, game developed by the Finnish Errorfree Productions. It is the fourth game in the Tapan Kaikki series, coming after the original Tapan Kaikki, Tapan Kaikki 2 and Ultimate TK.
Tapan Sinha Tapan Sinha is a well respected Bengali Indian Bollywood based film director. Although he is primarily based in the Hindi language film industry, he has also made films in regional languages like Bengali and Oriya in the past.
TapantĂ­ National Park TapantĂ­ National Park, sometimes called OrosĂ­ National Park, is a National Park in the Pacific La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the edge of the Talamanca Range, near Cartago. It protects forests to the north of ChirripĂł National Park, and also contains part of the OrosĂ­ River.
Tapanui The picturesque town of Tapanui lies in West Otago in New Zealand's South Island, close to the boundary with Southland region. A forestry town, it lies between the foot of the Blue Mountains and the Pomahaka River.
Tapanui Branch The Tapanui Branch was a railway line located near the border of the regions of Southland and Otago, New Zealand. Although the name suggests that it terminated in Tapanui, its furthest terminus was actually in Edievale.
Tapas (Sanskrit) Tapas (tápas) in Sanskrit means "heat". In Vedic religion and Hinduism, it is used figuratively, denoting spiritual suffering, mortification or austerity, and also the spiritual ecstasy of a yogin or tāpasá (a Vrddhi derivative meaning "practicer of tapas").
Tapas Acupressure Technique Tapas Acupressure Technique, a type of alternative medicine treatment, was developed bij Tapas Flemming from Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Techniques. TAT is a form of energy psychology reported to be very usable form trauma, phobias and allergies.
Tapash Baisya Tapash Baisya () (born 25 December 1982 in Sylhet) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. Tapash Baisya is one of Bangladesh's best pace bowlers to date, having taken 36 Test wickets, although they have come at a bowling average of nearly 60.
Tape ball A tape ball is a tennis ball wrapped in colourful, sticky tape and fibres and used in playing cricket. This modification of the tennis ball gives it greater weight, extra bounce and speed while still being easier to play with than the conventional cricket ball.
Tape bias Tape bias (also AC bias) is a high-frequency signal (generally from 40 to 150 kHz) added to the audio signal recorded on an analog tape recorder. Magnetic tape has a nonlinear response at low signal strengths (see coercivity); bias increases the signal quality of most audio recordings significantly compared to unbiased recordings by pushing the signal into the linear zone of the tape's transfer function.
Tape delay (broadcasting) In radio and television, tape delay refers to the practice of intentionally delaying broadcast of live material. A short delay is often used to prevent profanity or other undesirable material from making it to air, including more mundane problems such as technical malfunctions or coughing.
Tape library In computer storage, a tape library (sometimes called a tape silo or tape jukebox) is a storage device which contains one or more tape drives, a number of slots to hold tape cartridges, a barcode reader to identify tape cartridges and an automated method / robot for loading tapes. These devices can store immense amounts of data.
Tape loop Tape loops are loops of prerecorded magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns. A measure of recorded magnetic tape is cut and spliced end to end, creating a circle or loop which can be played continuously, usually on a reel to reel machine.
Tape music Tape music is a form of music which began soon after tape recording was invented, as people could now create sounds that were for the first time identical with each performance. Users of this new technology began to develop a new musical ethic around the idea of the created artificial sound; as now music no longer had to be related to live performance of instruments, but now, the recording itself is the performance.
Tape Op Tape Op began as a photocopied zine about lofi/low budget recording in 1996 by, ex-Vomit Launch bassist, Larry Crane of Jackpot Studios in Portland, Oregon. It was sold primarily in alternative book and music stores, alongside zines like ANSWER Me!
Tape recorder A tape recorder, tape deck, reel-to-reel tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sound using magnetic tape for storage. It records a fluctuating signal by moving the tape across a tape head that polarizes the magnetic domains in the tape in proportion to the audio signal.
Tape relay A tape relay is a method of retransmitting TTY traffic from one channel to another, in which messages arriving on an incoming channel are recorded in the form of perforated tape, this tape then being either fed directly and automatically into an outgoing channel, or manually transferred to an automatic transmitter for transmission on an outgoing channel.
Tape replay keyboard A tape replay keyboard is a musical instrument that uses pre-recorded analog tapes to produce sound when a key is pressed. Examples of tape replay keyboards include the Chamberlin, the Mellotron, and the Birotron.
Tape trading The practice of Tape trading is an unofficial method of distribution of demo tapes encompassing musical genres such as punk, hardcore, thrash metal and death metal other taped music such as recordings of live shows were also distributed this way, prevalent during the 1980's and 1990's. Tape trading was a postal system reliant, penfriend style nature of an underground network that relied heavily on the cooperation of fans of different musical genres worldwide as well as the acts being promoted this way themselves eschewing any copyright in order to further spread their notoriety.
Tape-Automated Bonding Tape-automated bonding is a process that places bare chips onto a printed circuit board (PCB) by attaching them to a polyamide film. The film is moved to the target location, and the leads are cut and soldered to the board.
Tape-out In electronics, tape-out is the name of the final stage of the design of an integrated circuit such as a microprocessor, the point at which the description of a circuit is sent for manufacture. A modern IC has to go through a long and complex design process before it is ready for tape-out.
Tapejara Tapejara (from a Tupi word meaning "the old being") is a genus of Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous Period. The Tapejara genus showed wide diversity in size, and each species bore a differntly sized/shaped crest that may have been used to signal and display for other Tapejara, much as toucans use their bright bills to signal to one another.
Tapejaridae Tapejaridae ("the old beings") are a family of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the early Cretaceous period. Members are currently known from Brazil and China, where the most primitive genera are found, indicating that the family has an Asian origin.
Tapepack Tapepacks are a collection of audio cassettes that feature live recordings of a music event/s. This form of distributing music is used predominantly in the Drum and Bass/Jungle & Happy hardcore scene in the UK.
Taper pin Taper pins are tools used for enlarging holes usually for mechanical, Machine Tapers or body modification purposes. They are typically designed as long metal rods with one end having a slightly larger diameter than the other.
Taperoo, South Australia Taperoo (pronounced , located at , postcode 5017) is a north-western suburb of Adelaide 18km from the CBD, on the [LeFevre Peninsula]] in the state of South Australia, Australia and falls under the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is adjacent to Osborne and Largs North.
Tapestries MUCK Tapestries MUCK (frequently informally shortened to "Taps") is an adults-only social and roleplaying MUCK popular within the furry fandom. The overall theme of the game is a world of anthropomorphic animal characters who may have sex freely in the public areas of the game world.
Tapestry (DHT) Tapestry is a distributed hash table which provides a decentralized object location, routing, and multicasting infrastructure for distributed applications. It is composed of a peer-to-peer overlay network offering efficient, scalable, self-repairing, location-aware routing to nearby resources.
Tapestry of Nations The Tapestry of Nations was a parade at the Epcot theme park in Walt Disney World, Florida, USA, that ran around the World Showcase Lagoon from 1999 to 2001, after which it was rethemed as Tapestry of Dreams. The parade had a unity and world peace theme and featured a variety of large puppets and massive rotating drum units.
Tapetum lucidum The tapetum lucidum (Latin: "bright carpet") is a reflecting layer immediately behind, and sometimes within, the retina of the eye of many vertebrates (though not humans); it serves to reflect light back to the retina, increasing the quantity of light caught by the retina. This improves vision in low light conditions, but can cause the perceived image to be blurry from the interference of the reflected light.
Taphians In Homeric Greece the islands of Taphos lay in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Acarnania in northwestern Greece, home of sea-going and piratical inhabitants, the Taphians. Penelope mentions the Taphian sea-robbers when she rebukes the chief of her suitors (Odyssey, book xi), and it is disguised as "Mentes", "lord of the Taphian men who love their oars," that Athena accepts the hospitality of Telemachus and speeds him on his journey from Ithaca to Pylos (Odyssey i).
Taphius In Greek mythology, Taphius founded the city Taphos on the island of the same name, and was its king. He also gave his name to the Taphians, a people that inhabited Taphos and nearby islands, which formed part of Odysseus's kingdom at the time of the Trojan War.
Taphonomy Taphonomy is the study of a decaying organism over time. The term taphonomy, (from the Greek taphos meaning burial, and nomos meaning law), was introduced to paleontology in 1940 by Russian scientist, Ivan Efremov, to describe the study of the transition of remains, parts, or products of organisms, from the biosphere, to the lithosphere, i.
Taphrinomycotina Taphrinomycotina is a subdivision of the Ascomycota (fungi which form their spores in a sac-like ascus) and is more or less the same thing as the older taxon Archaeascomycetes. They are characterized by the fact that:
Tapia de Casariego Tapia de Casariego (Eonavian: Tapia) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by the Cantabrian Sea, on the east by El Franco, on the south and west by Castropol.
Tapihana Paraire Paikea Tapihana Paraire Paikea , also known as Dobson, is a former New Zealand politician and Ratana morehu who won the Northern Maori seat for Labour in 1943. He was elected following the death of his father Paraire Karaka Paikea who was the former member and held the Parliamentary seat until his own death in 1963.
Tapinocephalus Tapinocephalus is a genus of large herbivorous dinocephalian reptiles that lived during the Middle Permian Period. These stocky, barrel-bodied animals were characterised by a massive bony skull roof and short weak snout.
Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone The Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone is a geological stratum and is the thickest faunal zone of the Beaufort Group, in which has been found a rich variety of early therapsids. The name refers to Tapinocephalus, a genus of large herbivorous dinocephalian reptiles that lived during the Middle Permian Period.
Tapio Mäkelä Tapio Mäkelä (born October 12, 1926 in Nastola on Jamsä) is a former Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. He won the 4 x 10 km gold and the 18 km silver at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.
Tapio Rautavaara Kaj Tapio "Tapsa" Rautavaara (March 8, 1915 – September 25, 1979) was a Finnish athlete, performing artist and actor. He won the gold medal in the javelin at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and many other top placements in international javelin competitions.
Tapioca Tapioca is an essentially flavourless starchy ingredient, or fecula, produced from treated and dried cassava (manioc) root and used in cooking. It is similar to sago and is commonly used to make a milky pudding similar to rice pudding.
Tapioca Express Tapioca Express (品客多; pinyin: Pìnkèduō) is a Taiwanese American fast food chain specializing in bubble tea, coffee, and a variety of fruit juices and slushes, occasionally including sushi and some light Asian snacks. Tapioca Express has locations in California, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Hawaii, Washington, and Canada.
Tapir Tapirs (IPA:ˈteɪpər, pronounced as in "taper", or IPA:təˈpɪər, pronounced as in "tap-ear") are large browsing mammals, roughly pig-like in shape, with short, prehensile snouts. They inhabit jungle and forest regions of South America, Central America, and Southeast Asia.
Tapirapé The Tapirapé indigenous people were one of the few tribes that survived the Portuguese and French conquest of Brazil in 1500 and the subsequent colonization of the country, keeping with little changes most of their culture and customs. Stationed deep into the Amazon forest, they didn't appear to have had direct contact with Europeans until around 1910, and even then that contact was sporadic until the 1950’s.
Taplejung District Taplejung district, a part of Mechi zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Fungling as its district headquarters, covers an area of 3,646 sq km and has a population (2001) of 134,698.
Taplow railway station Taplow railway station is a railway station in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, close by Slough, Berkshire, England. The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western (FGW) from London Paddington, 36 km (22½ miles) to the east, to Reading stations, using class Class 165, Class 166 and on rare occasion, class 180 DMU trains.
Tapoli The Tapoli were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians, to whom they were a dependent tribe, living just north of the river Tagus, around the border area of modern day Portugal and Spain.
Tapovan Tapovan ( sanskrit) comes from the two root words Tapasya - meaning specifically austerity, and more generally spiritual practice, and Vana, meaning forest, or wilderness. Tapovan then translates as forest of spiritual practice, wild place for practicing austerities, etc.
Tappan Zee The Tappan Zee (or Tappan Sea) is a natural widening of the Hudson River, approximately 3 mi (5 km) across at its widest, in southeastern New York State in the United States. It stretches for approximately 10 mi (16 km) along the boundary between Rockland and Westchester counties, downstream from Croton Point to Irvington.
Tappan Zee High School Tappan Zee High School is a public high school located in Orangeburg, New York, with approximately 1,000 students. The school is home to students grades 9-12 and is part of the South Orangetown Central School District.
Tapper Zukie Tapper Zukie (pronounced Tappa, born David Sinclair, 1955, Kingston, Jamaica) is a highly influential Reggae artist and producer/DJ. Tapper (spelt "tappa") was the nickname given to him by his grandmother in his youth, while Zukie was the name that came from his friends' association as a young boy, their gang called "The Zukies".
Tappet A tappet in mechanical engineering is a projection which imparts a linear motion to some other component within an assembly. Properly speaking, a tappet is only that part of a rocker arm which makes contact with an intake or exhaust valve stem above the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine.
Tappi Tíkarrass Tappi Tíkarrass was a famous Icelandic punk/pop band which added elements of funk, disco and jazz to their music, marking a difference from other traditional bands at that time. The band is also considered the first serious music project of now renowned singer Björk Guðmundsdóttir.

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