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Trivium (band) Trivium are a Metalcore-influenced thrash metal band from Orlando, Florida. They formed in 2000 after the band's original singer saw Matt Heafy performing at the high school talent show Their most recent album The Crusade] peaked at #25 on the US [[Billboard 200 and inside the Top 10 in the UK].
Triwizard Tournament The Triwizard Tournament is a fictional tournament featured in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It was established in the late thirteenth century and continued to the early fourteenth century as a friendly competition between the three most prestigious magical schools in Europe, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Great Britain, Beauxbatons Academy of Magic in France, and Durmstrang Institute for Magical Study (presumably in eastern Europe, as one of its students, Viktor Krum, played for the Bulgarian National Quidditch Team).
Trix MacMillan Beatrix MacMillan, or simply Trix, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. The Eighth Doctor first met her in the novel Time Zero by Justin Richards, but it was not until the novel Timeless by Stephen Cole that she went on to become one of his companions.
Trixi Worrack Beatrix "Trixi" Worrack (born 28 September 1981 in Cottbus) is an elite professional road racing cyclist and the 2003 German national road race champion. Career highlights include winning the 2005 Primavera Rosa (the women's Milan Sanremo), capturing the overall title at the 2004 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Feminin and competing in the women's road race and time trial at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Trixie Belden Trixie Belden is the title character in a series of 'girl detective' mysteries written between 1948 and 1986. The first six books were written by Julie Campbell, who also wrote the Ginny Gordon series, then continued by various in-house writers from Western Publishing under the pseudonym Kathryn Kenny.
Trizeal Trizeal is a Japanese shoot 'em up arcade game developed by Triangle Service, a small Japanese videogame development company. Running on Sega NAOMI hardware, the game was ported to the Sega Dreamcast in 2005, making it one of the few officially licensed games to be released for the system after it went out of production.
Trnavské Automobilové Závody Trnavské Automobilové Závody (TAZ) was an automobile manufacturer in Trnava that produced cars between 1973 and 1999. When the company folded the manufacturing rights to the van TAZ 1500 (earlier Skoda 1203M) was bought by Ocelot Auto.
Trnopolje camp Trnopolje camp was a detention camp (also referred to as ghetto, prison and concentration camp) in the village of Trnopolje near the city of Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War from 1992-1995. The camp was established and ran by the authorities of Republika Srpska to confine and detain Bosniak and Bosnian Croat civilian population.
Tro (song) Tro is a ballad in Swedish, written and sung by Swedish pop singer Marie Fredriksson in the Swedish pop duo Roxette. She had a wit with the song in 1996, when it was released as a single and was on her album "I en tid som vĂĄr".
Tro Breizh Tro Breizh (Breton for "Tour of Brittany") is a Catholic pilgrimage that links the towns of the seven founding saints of Brittany. These seven saints were Celtic monks from Britain from around the 5th or 6th century who brought Christianity to Armorica and founded its first bishoprics.
Troas (planet) Troas is a fictional planet that serves as the setting for the science fiction novellas "Sucker Bait" by Isaac Asimov and "Question and Answer" by Poul Anderson as part of a proposed Twaine Triplet. It may have been created by Dr.
Trobar clus Trobar clus, or closed form, was the style of poetry used by troubadours for their more discerning audiences, and it was only truly appreciated by an elite few. It was developed extensively by Marcabru, but by 1200 its inaccessibility led to its disappearance.
Trobar leu The trobar leu, or light style of poetry, was the most popular style used by the troubadours. Its accessibility gave it a wide audience, though modern readers may find its somewhat formulaic nature tiresome after a while.
Trobriand Cricket Trobriand Cricket is an anthropological documentary about the people of the Trobriand Islands and their unique innovations to the game of cricket. They were first exposed to the game by Christian missionaries, who thought the game would discourage war among the natives.
Trobriand Islands The Trobriand Islands (today officially known as the Kiriwina Islands) are a 170 mi² archipelago of coral atolls off the eastern coast of New Guinea. They are situated in Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea.
Trocadero Trocadero is the name of several restaurants and clubs throughout the world. The name dates to the Battle of Trocadero in southern Spain, in which a citadel held by liberal Spanish forces that was taken by the French troops sent by Charles X, in 1823, was commemorated in the Place du Trocadéro, Paris.
Trocadero (band) Trocadero is a band based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that consists of Nico Audy-Rowland, Wendy Mittelstadt, and Brandon Erdos. Other guest musicians include Philadelphia Telepants, Sandy Casey, Susan Hsia, and Karen Langlie.
Trocadero (San Francisco) In San Francisco, California, at the turn of the 20th century, the Trocadero was a lively roadhouse, offering gambling at the roulette tables and dancing, as well as the best trout pond in California. It was opened in 1892, in a wooden building that had been brought round the Horn and was by reputation the first house built in San Francisco west of Twin Peaks, the "rancho" of the Greene family.
Trocadero Theatre The Trocadero Theatre opened in 1870 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offering musical comedies, then vaudeville and burlesque. Later still it was refurbished for use as an art house cinema and fine arts theatre.
Trockenbeerenauslese Trockenbeerenauslese is a German and Austrian wine term and type of dessert wine meaning "selected dried berries." Often abbreviated to TBA, it is one of the German wine classification levels in the QmP category and the one requiring the highest must weight.
Trodat Trodat is one of the largest self-inking rubber stamp manufacturers in the world. Founded by Franz Just in Vienna, Austria, in 1912, moved to Wels (where the headquarters is still located) by Walter, the son of the founder, after WW II in 1951, because Vienna was in the Soviet Zone of the divided city at that time.
Trodel/Barbara Schwarz Barbara Schwarz is an illegal immigrant from Germany living in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is known for filing a record number of requests under the United States Freedom of Information Act, for filing a large number of lawsuits dismissed as frivolousSUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Schwarz v.
Troels Rasmussen Troels Rasmussen (born April 7 1961) is a Danish former football (soccer) player, who played as a goalkeeper for Danish clubs Vejle Boldklub and AGF. He played 391 games for AGF, and scored 5 goals on penalty kicks.
Troezen Troezen (pronounced , ), modern: Troizina or Trizina is a small town in the northeastern Peloponnese, located southwest of Athens and a few miles south of Methana. It is also the name of the surrounding municipality, with seat in Galatas.
Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu The Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu is dedicated to the memory of long-time Real Madrid president Santiago Bernabéu. It is a friendly tournament organised each year by Real Madrid at the beginning of the season, somewhere around the end of August or the beginning of September.
Troff macro The troff typesetting system includes sets of commands called macros that are run before starting to process the document. These macros include setting up page headers and footers, defining new commands, and generally influencing how the output will be formatted.
Trogdor TROGDOR THE BURNiNATOR is a fictional dragon that is a part of the Homestar Runner series of animated cartoons. Another character of the series, Strong Bad, created him when a fan e-mail requested him to display his "skills of an artist" by drawing a dragon.
Trogir Trogir (Italian Traù, Latin Tragurium, Greek Tragurion, Hungarian Tengerfehérvár) is a historic town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in Split-Dalmatia county, Croatia, with a population of 10,907 (2001) and a total municipality population of 13,322 (2001). Trogir is situated 27 km west of Split, geographically located at .
Troglodytes (wren) Troglodytes is a genus of small passerine birds in the wren family. The genus name (Greek troglodytai, from trogle, "a hole" and dyein, "to enter") refers to the tendency of these wrens to enter small crevices and similar as they forage for food.
Trogon The trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniformes which contains only one family, the Trogonidae. Alternatively, they might constitute a member of the basal radiation of the order Coraciiformes (Johansson & Ericson, 2003).
Trohmania Trohmania derives from the lead guitarist from the 2001 pop/punk band Fall Out boy, Joe Trohman. Trohmania is the variations of showmanly ways that Joe Trohman performs music to an audience and by showmanly this means not the music he plays or style but the way in which he throws the guitar about for example spinning at highspeed while still playing guitar or swinging the guitar in front of him and stll playing as shown in the 2005 single sugar were goin down at the intro.
Trocha from JĂşcaro to MorĂłn The Trocha from JĂşcaro to MorĂłn was a fortified military line built between 1869 and 1872 in Cuba by slave work force and Chinese immigrants to impede the pass of insurrectionist forces to the western part of the island during the 1st War of Independence (1868-1878) and was 68 km long between Jucaro and Moron.
Trochaic substitution A trochaic substitution occurs when a trochee replaces an iamb in a verse of poetry that employs iambic pentameter as its meter. Specifically, a two-syllable foot comprising a slacked syllable followed by a stressed syllable (- /) is replaced by a two-syllable foot comprising a stressed syllable followed by a slacked syllable (/ -).
Trochanteric fossa The medial surface of the Upper extremity of femur, of much less extent than the lateral, presents at its base a deep depression, the trochanteric fossa (digital fossa), for the insertion of the tendon of the Obturator externus, and above and in front of this an impression for the insertion of the Obturator internus and Gemelli.
Trochetia Trochetia is a genus of flowering plants from the family of Malvaceae (formerly in the Sterculiaceae, but this family is now classified as a subfamily in the Sterculiaceae) endemic to the Mascarenes. It was first described by A.
Trochetiopsis The genus Trochetiopsis consists of two extant species and one extinct species endemic to the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic ocean. The wood of all the species is attractively coloured and is used in island inlay work.
Trochetiopsis ebenus St Helena ebony (Trochetiopsis ebenus) is not related to the ebony of commerce but is instead a member of the cocoa family (Sterculiaceae). It is now critically endangered in the wild, being reduced to two wild individuals on a cliff, but old roots are sometimes found washed out of eroding slopes (relicts of its former abundance).
Trochetiopsis erythroxylon Although the St Helena Redwood (Trochetiopsis erythroxylon) is now extinct in the wild, it was formerly abundant enough in the upland parts of the island of St Helena for early settlers in the 17th century to use the timber to make their homes.
Trochetiopsis melanoxylon The dwarf ebony (Trochetiopsis melanoxylon) of the island of St Helena is related to Trochetiopsis ebenus (the St Helena ebony) but is now quite extinct. It differed fron St Helena ebony by having much smaller flowers, sepals hairless on their interior surfaces and leaves densely hairy on both surfaces (St Helena ebony is densely hairy only on the lower surfaces of the leaves).
Trochlea of humerus The medial portion of the articular surface of the humerus is named the trochlea, and presents a deep depression between two well-marked borders; it is convex from before backward, concave from side to side, and occupies the anterior, lower, and posterior parts of the extremity.
Trochlear fovea Near the nasal part of the interior surface of the frontal bone is a depression, the trochlear fovea, or occasionally a small trochlear spine, for the attachment of the cartilaginous pulley of the Obliquus oculi superior.
Trochlear nerve The trochlear nerve (the fourth cranial nerve, also called the fourth nerve or simply IV) is a motor nerve (a “somatic efferent” nerve) that innervates a single muscle: the superior oblique muscle of the eye. An older name is pathetic nerve, which refers to the dejected appearance (head bent forward) that is characteristic of patients with fourth nerve palsies.
Trochlear process The two oblique grooves of the lateral surface of the calcaneus are separated by an elevated ridge, or tubercle, the trochlear process (peroneal tubercle, or fibular trochlea of calcaneus), which varies much in size in different bones.
Trochleitis Trochleitis is inflammation of the superior oblique tendon trochlea apparatus characterized by localized swelling, tenderness, and severe pain. This condition is an uncommon but treatable cause of periorbital pain.
Trochodendrales Trochodendrales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. This order was recognised in the Cronquist system, as comprising the families Tetracentraceae and Trochodendraceae, each consisting of a single species.
Trochodendron Trochodendron aralioides is a flowering plant, the sole species in the genus Trochodendron. It is also often considered the sole species in the family Trochodendraceae, though some botanists include the very distinct genus Tetracentron in the same family.
Trochus Island (Queensland) Trochus Island is an island in Newcastle Bay at the mouth of Escape River and Middle River not far from Jackey Jackey Creek adjacent to the Jardine River Resource Reserve Jardine River National Park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia, in the Cape York Peninsula about 30 km South East of Bamaga.
Troianata Troianata (Greek: Τροϊανάτα) is a village located 11 km ESE of Argostoli and about 41 km W of Poros in the municipality of Argostoli on the island of Kefalonia. Troianata is linked with a road linking Travliata and Michata and to the Argostoli-Sami Road (GR-50) which links with Sami and are surrounded by the hills of Omalon with a few hilltops to the south and more to the north, forests lies to the south and to the hilltops and some mixed forests, grasslands, pastures, olive groves and farmlands covers the valley areas, a view of the Krani plain as well as the Argostoli area, Lixouri and parts of Paliki can also be seen.
Troides helena Common Birdwing (Troides helena) (Linnaeus, 1758) is a beautiful and large butterfly belonging to the Swallowtail (Papilionidae family). It is often found in the wildlife trade due to its popularity with butterfly collectors.
Troika (ride) The Troika is an amusement park ride, designed and manufactured by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in the early 1980's. The ride is available in both transportable and permanent forms, although due to the total weight and size of the ride (35 tons, plus an additional 27 tons for the temporary base and platform), transportable Troikas are unpopular and uncommon.
Troika Games Troika Games was a computer game developer focused on computer role-playing games. It was founded in 1998 by three key members of the team behind the RPG Fallout -- Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky and Jason Anderson -- after they left Interplay.
Troilus In Greek mythology, Troilus is a Trojan prince and one of the many sons of Priam. In medieval and Renaissance versions of the legend of the Trojan War, Troilus falls in love with Cressida, whose father has defected to the Greeks because he can foresee the sack and genocide of Troy.
Troilus and Cressida The History of Troilus and Cressida is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1602, shortly after the completion of Hamlet. It was published in quarto in two separate editions, both in 1609.
Troilus and Criseyde Troilus and Criseyde is Geoffrey Chaucer's poem in rhyme royal (rime royale) re-telling the tragic love story of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and Criseyde. Many Chaucer scholars regard this as his best work, even including the better known but incomplete Canterbury Tales.
Trois mouvements de Petrouchka Igor Stravinsky, wrote two pieces for Arthur Rubinstein. The piece "Piano-Rag-Music" and after this brief composition, which was relatively rarely performed by the great pianist, Igor Stravinsky accomplished one of the most extraordinary masterworks of the century for the piano.
Trois-Rivières (electoral district) Trois-Rivières (formerly known as Three Rivers and Trois-Rivières Métropolitain) is an electoral district in Quebec, Canada that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1892 and from 1935 to the present.
Trois-Rivières, Quebec Trois-Rivières is a city in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada, located along the densely populated Quebec City-Windsor Corridor at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers. It was created in 2002 from the amalgamation of six towns and municipalities.
Troisdorf Troisdorf is a town in Germany, in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, located ca. 22 kilometers south of Cologne and 13 kilometers north east of Bonn (7' 9" east, 50' 49" north, total area: 62,17 square kilometers, altitude: 48 - 134,4 m).
Troisvierges Troisvierges (Luxembourgish: Ă‹lwen, German: Ulflingen) is a commune and town in northern Luxembourg, in the canton of Clervaux. The two highest hills in Luxembourg, the Kneiff (560 m) and Buurgplaatz (559 m), are located in the commune.
Troitsky Bridge Building Competition The Troitsky Bridge Building Competition is an annual event that takes place at Concordia University in Montreal Canada in the spring, during Engineering Week. Teams of engineering students from universities across Canada, as well as some from the United States and Europe, design and build model bridges out of popsicle sticks, toothpicks, white glue and dental floss.
Trojan (astronomy) In astronomy, the adjective Trojan refers to asteroids or moons that share the same orbit as a larger planet or moon, but does not collide because it orbits within one of the two Lagrangian points of stability, L4 and L5, which results in it always orbiting 60° ahead of or behind the larger object.
Trojan (Racing team) Trojan was an automobile manufacturer and a Formula One constructor from the United Kingdom. The complete history can be found at car producer Trojan Limited founded by Leslie Hounsfield] in 1914 in [[Purley Way, Croydon, South London and produced cars and especially delivery vans until 1964.
Trojan (video game) Trojan, known as Tatakai no Banka(闘いの挽歌) or "Requiem for War" in Japan, is a 2D, side scrolling video game similar to Tiger Road, or Kung Fu. It was developed by Capcom and released in the United States in 1986 by Romstar.
Trojan asteroid The Trojan asteroids are a large group of objects that share the orbit of the planet Jupiter around the Sun. Viewed from a coordinate system that is fixed on Jupiter, they appear to orbit one of the two Lagrangian points of stability, L4 and L5, that lie 60° ahead of and behind Jupiter in its orbit.
Trojan Genealogy of Nennius The Trojan genealogy of Nennius was written in the Historia Brittonum of Nennius and was created to merge Greek mythology with Christian themes. It was probably written by the Welsh monk Nennius in the 5th century, although there is little known about him.
Trojan Gundulić Trojan Gundulić, a merchant from Dubrovnik, is remembered for his participation in the printing of the first book in Belgrade, The Four Gospels ("Cetvorojevadjelje") in Serbian language. Gundulic started as a barber in his hometown and remained in this trade after his arrival to Belgrade.
Trojan horse (computing) In the context of computer software, a Trojan horse is a program that contains or installs a malicious program (sometimes called the payload or 'trojan'). The term is derived from the classical myth of the Trojan Horse.
Trojan Horse The Trojan Horse is part of the myth of the Trojan War, as told in Virgil's Latin epic poem The Aeneid. The events of this myth take place after Homer's Iliad, and before both Homer's The Odyssey and Virgil's The Aeneid.
Trojan Knights The Trojan Knights are the "Guardians of Tradition" for the University of Southern California. The Knights were founded in 1921 by Harry Pryor, Harry Kennedy, and Lindley Bothwell, who felt the need for an organization that espoused the traditions of USC and embodied the five attributes of a Trojan: faithful, scholarly, skillful, courageous, and ambitious.
Trojan moon A Trojan moon is a natural satellite of a planet occupying the L4 or L5 equilateral Lagrangian points of a primary-moon system. They are named by analogy with the Trojan asteroids, which occupy the L4 and L5 points of the Sun-Jupiter system.
Trojan Nuclear Power Plant Trojan Nuclear Power Plant was a pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plant in Rainier, Oregon, United States, and the only nuclear power plant to be built in Oregon. After only sixteen years of service it was closed by its operator, Portland General Electric (PGE), almost twenty years before the end of its design lifetime.
Trojan of Łękno Trojan of Lekno - (Polish Trojan z Łekna), member of the Pałuk family, who owned the site on which the town of Chodzież was founded. All that is known about him is that between 1434 and 1450 he held the office of chief judge for the Kalisz province.
Trojan Range The Trojan Range () is a mountain range rising to 2,135 m, extending northward from Mount Francais along the east side of Iliad Glacier, Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955 and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for the Trojans, one of the opposing sides in the Trojan War in Homer's Iliad.
Trojan skinhead Trojan Skinheads (also known as Traditional Skinheads or Trads) are individuals who identify with the skinhead subculture's heyday in the late 1960s, when ska music was at its most popular in the United Kingdom, and there was a heavy emphasis on clothing style.
Trojan Shrine The Trojan Shrine, more commonly known as Tommy Trojan, is one of the most recognizable figures of school pride at the University of Southern California. The life-size bronze statue sits in the center of the USC campus and serves as a popular meeting spot for students, as well as a centerpiece for a number of campus events.
Trojan Vision Trojan Vision is a student television station operated by students at the University of Southern California through the School of Cinematic Arts. Established in 1998, Trojan Vision is a member of the Open Student Television Network (OSTN), which televises student programming throughout the United States.
Trojan War The Trojan War was waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor, by the armies of the Achaeans (Mycenaean Greeks), after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, of which the two most famous are the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer.
Trojans F.C. Trojans Football Club is a football club from Derry, Northern Ireland, currently playing in the Northern Irish Intermediate League. The club is based in the Creggan area of Derry and also has teams competing at all levels in the Derry and District League and produced the Derry City midfielder Kevin Deery, among others.
Troll A troll is a fearsome member of a mythical anthropomorph race from Scandinavia. Their role ranges from fiendish giants – similar to the ogres of England – to a devious, more human-like folk of the wilderness, living underground in hills, caves or mounds.
Troll (angling) Trolling is a method of fishing in which some form of bait, such as a fishing lure or a living fish, is drawn on a line through the water. Trolling from a moving boat is a technique of Big-game fishing and is used when fishing from boats to catch large open-water species such as tuna and marlin.
Troll (Internet) In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who enters an established community such as an online discussion forum and intentionally tries to cause disruption, often in the form of posting messages that are inflammatory, insulting, or off-topic, with the intent of provoking a reaction from others.
Troll (The 10th Kingdom) In the 2000 film The 10th Kingdom by Simon Moore, the Trolls of the Nine Kingdoms are a warlike species; the Troll's 3rd Kingdom are like the 'Sparta' to the 4th Kingdom's 'Athens', they hate each other. The Trolls were ruled by Relish the Troll King, who is survived by his two sons: half-brothers Burly and Bluebell; and his daughter, Burly and Bluebell's half-sister—Blabberwort; after Relish was poisoned by the Evil Queen.
Troll 2 Troll 2 is a 1990 horror film by Claudio Fragasso under the pseudonym Drake Floyd. The main plot is about a family trip in which a young boy named Joshua is chased by man-eating goblins in a town called Nilbog ("Goblin" spelled backwards, as Joshua realizes).
Troll airfield Troll airfield is a 3 km air strip located near the Norwegian Troll Antarctic research station. It was constructed on the ice shelf and opened for service February 2005 to facilitate logistics for the research in the area.
Troll A platform The Troll A platform is a huge platform for production of gas; one of the largest and most complex engineering projects in history. Built by Norwegian Contractors for Norske Shell, the platform was a televised sensation when it was towed into the North Sea in 1996, where it is operated by Statoil.
Troll Bridge (film) Troll Bridge is a live action movie adaptation of a short story by Terry Pratchett; the company responsible is Snowgum Films. It is currently in production; principal photography was completed in 5 days during October 2004.
Troll doll Troll dolls, originally known as Leprocauns and also known as Dammit dolls, Wishniks, Treasure Trolls, and Norfins, became one of America's biggest toy fads beginning in the autumn of 1963, and lasting throughout 1965. With their brightly colored hair and cute faces, they were featured in both Life Magazine and Time Magazine in articles which commented on the "good luck" they would bring to their owners.
Troll in popular culture The following is a list of appearances made by trolls (a race of legendary creatures originally from Scandinavia) in various works of popular fiction. For information on trolls in Scandinavian culture, please see the main article.
Troll Wall The Troll Wall (Norwegian: Trollveggen) is part of the mountain massif Trolltindene (Troll Peaks) in the Romsdal valley, near Ă…ndalsnes and Molde, on the Norwegian west coast. Troll Wall is the tallest vertical rock face in Europe, 1100 meters from the base to the summit at its tallest.
Trollech Trollech is a band from Plzeň in the Czech Republic that produces black metal music. The band was formed by Lord Morbivod and Asura Godwar Gorgon's Ray in 1999 and started performing live but they did not release their first album until 2001.
Trolley (horse-drawn) Among horse-drawn vehicles, a trolley was a goods vehicle with a platform body with four small wheels of equal size, mounted underneath it, the front two on a turntable undercarriage. The wheels were rather larger and the deck proportionately higher than those of a lorry.
Trolley and lift van The trolley was a platform body with four relatively small wheels mounted underneath it, the front two on a turntable undercarriage. It was drawn by a pair of horses and the driver's seat was mounted on the headboard.
Trolley dodger Trolley dodger was a pejorative term of Manhattanites for residents of Brooklyn, New York from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. The term, relating to Brooklyn's preponderance of trolley lines, is the basis of the name of Major League Baseball team the Los Angeles Dodgers (which was originally based in Brooklyn, named such in 1891 when their field in Eastern Park was bordered on two sides by trolley tracks) and the now-defunct NFL team the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Trolley Museum of New York The Trolley Museum of New York, a non-profit organization, is located at 89 East Strand, Kingston, New York. The museum is open to the public on a seasonal schedule, but volunteer activities relating to the preservation of historic transit are year-round.
Trolley park In the United States, trolley parks, which started in the 19th century, were picnic and recreation areas at the ends of streetcar lines, created by the streetcar companies to give people a reason to use their services on weekends. These parks consisted of picnic groves and pavilions, and often held events such as dances, concerts, and fireworks.
Trolley pole Trolley poles are usually tapered cylindrical poles of wood or metal, used to transfer electricity from a "live" overhead wire to the control and propulsion equipment of a trolley car, tram or trolley bus. This system of current collection was an 1880 invention of Frank J.
Trolley problem The trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics, first introduced by Philippa Foot, but also extensively analysed by Judith Jarvis Thomson and, more recently, by Peter Unger. Similar problems have traditionally been addressed by criminal lawyers and are sometimes regulated in penal codes, especially in civil legal systems.
Trolley Plaza Apartments The Trolley Plaza Apartments is a tall 28-storey apartment building and parking garage occupying the property between Clifford Street and Grand River Avenue, at 1431 Washington Boulevard in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It stands across Grand River Ave.
Trolley Troubles Trolley Troubles is a 1927 animated short subject, produced and directed by Walt Disney. The cartoon is noted for being the first appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character that Disney and Ub Iwerks created for Universal Pictures and Charles B.
Trolleybus A trolleybus (also known as electric bus, trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram or simply trolley) is a bus powered by two overhead electric wires, from which it draws electricity using two trolley poles. Two poles are required in order to accommodate the return current, which cannot pass to the ground as in the case of an electric tram or streetcar since trolleybuses use rubber tires, rather than steel wheels on rail.

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