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TAO (Collective) The TAO Collective or The Anarchy Organization is a Canada-based radical and non-profit computer service provider, offering free email and web hosting in exchange for mutual aid. As the first of its kind in North America, it has helped to spawn another radical tech group called resist.
TAO (software) The ACE ORB (TAO) is a freely available, open-source, and standards-compliant real-time C++ implementation of CORBA based upon the Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE). It attempts to provide efficient, predictable, and scalable quality of service (QoS) end-to-end.
TAP Pharmaceutical Products TAP Pharmaceutical Products was formed in 1977 as a joint venture between the two global pharmaceutical companies, Abbott Laboratories and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. The company markets Prevacid® (lansoprazole) and Lupron Depot® (leuprolide acetate for depot suspension), both leaders in their classes.
TAP Portugal TAP Portugal (Transportes AĂ©reos Portugueses) is the national airline of Portugal, based in Lisbon and a member of the Star Alliance. It operates to destinations in Europe, Africa and North, Central and South America.
TAPESTREA TAPESTREA (Techniques and Paradigms for Expressive Synthesis, Transformation and Rendering of Environmental Audio) is a unified framework and a set of techniques for analyzing, transforming and synthesizing complex environmental sounds. Given one or more recordings, it provides well-defined means to:
TAPPI TAPPI, or Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and co-publisher of Paper360°. Through information exchange, trusted content, and networking opportunities, TAPPI helps members elevate their performance by providing solutions that lead to better, faster, and more cost effective ways of doing business.
TARDIS The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters, but many examples of the form Tardis are found in media and, occasionally, licensed publications. In the 2005 series episode World War Three, the caller ID of the TARDIS is displayed on Rose Tyler's mobile phone as "Tardis calling.
TARDISODE TARDISODEs are mini-episodes of the television programme Doctor Who, created to accompany the 2006 series of the programme. Made by Doctor Who producers BBC Wales, each TARDISODE is approximately 60 seconds long and serves as a prequel to one of the actual 45-minute episodes.
TARGET TARGET (Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System) is an interbank payment system for the real-time processing of cross-border transfers throughout the European Union. It includes 16 national real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems and the ECB payment mechanism (EPM).
TART Trail The TART Trail is a non-motorized recreational trail of 10 miles (16 km) in length that extends from the west side of Traverse City, Michigan to Acme, Michigan. Most, but not all, of the trail follows the 19th-century roadbed of the fomer Chicago and West Michigan Railroad.
TAS 1000 TAS 1000 (2001-2003) was an experimental music collective based in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The band's music was based on sampled answering machine messages, which were looped and set to pop music written to accentuate the messages' natural tonal properties.
TAS classification The TAS classification can be used to assign names to many common types of volcanic rocks based upon the relationships between the combined alkali content and the silica content. These chemical parameters are useful, because the relative proportions of alkalis and silica play an important role in determining actual mineralogy and normative mineralogy.
TAS2R16 TAS2R16 (taste receptor, type 2, member 16) is a human gene that encodes for a receptor that may play a role in the perception of bitterness. Variants of this gene have been linked to an increased risk for alcohol dependence.
TASF reagent The TASF reagent or tris(dimethylamino)sulfonium difluorotrimethylsilicate is a reagent in organic chemistry with structural formula ((CH3)2N)3S+,F2Si(CH3)3-. It is an anhydrous source of fluoride and is used to cleave silyl ether protective groups.
TASH (organization) TASH is an international advocacy association of people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates, and people who work in the disability field. The organization's full name is The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps.
TASSL The Application Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL) is a research lab, as a part of Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP), and Department of Electrical and Computing Engineeing at Rutgers University . It is under the direction of Dr.
TAT-11 TAT-11 is AT&T's 11th transatlantic telephone cable, in operation from 1993, initially carrying 2 x 565 Mbit/s between USA and France. The cable ran between Manasquan in New Jersey, St Hilaire de Riez in France and Oxwich Bay in Wales.
TATB TATB, or triaminotrinitrobenzene, is an aromatic explosive, based on the basic six-carbon benzene ring structure with three nitro functional groups (NO2) and three amine (NH2) groups attached, alternating around the ring.
TATV TATV (Tout Acheter Tout Vendre) is a Canadian French language cable television channel that is only available on cable in Québec. TATV is an illustrated classified advertising service broadcasting platform for individuals and businesses simultaneously on television and the internet.
TAURUS (share trading) Taurus was a program that set to transfer the London Stock Exchange from paper communication to an automated system. It was started in the 1980's and at the time several systems were up and running that achieved this goal but Taurus was to be bigger and better.
TAUVEX TAUVEX is the acronym for the Tel Aviv University UltraViolet EXplorer, a space telescope array designed and constructed in Israel by El-Op Electro-Optical Industries, Ltd. (a division of Elbit systems), for the exploration of the ultraviolet] (UV) sky.
Tết Tết Nguyên Đán (Sino-Vietnamese for Feast of the First Morning, derived from Hán nôm 節元旦), more commonly known by its shortened name Tết, is the most important holiday in Vietnam. It is the Vietnamese New Year which is based on the Chinese calendar, a lunisolar calendar.
Tổng cục 2 Tổng cục 2 tình báo quân đội, or TC2, is a intelligence agency for the government of Vietnam. English translations of its name vary; "Second Central Commission of Military Intelligence" and "General Department No.
Tías, Las Palmas Tías is a Canarian municipality in the southeastern portion of the island of Lanzarote in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands The population is 15,636 (ISTAC, 2003), its density is 242.0/km² and the area is 61.
Tímea Nagy Timea Nagy (born August 22, 1970 in Budapest) is a Hungarian fencer who has won two Olympic gold medals in Individual Épée. She became world champion in this particular discipline at the 2006 World Fencing Championships.
Tímea Vágvölgyi Tímea Vágvölgyi (born November 20, 1975 in Budapest, Hungary) is a pornographic actress and female wrestler. After the fall of the Berlin wall, Vágvölgyi was one of the first pornographic actresses from Eastern Europe.
Tír na nÓg Tír na nÓg (, called in English the Land of Eternal Youth or the Land of the Ever-Young, was the most popular of the Otherworlds in Irish mythology, perhaps best known from the myth of Oisín and Niamh of the Golden Hair. It was where the Tuatha Dé Danann or sídhe settled when they left Ireland's surface, and was visited by some of Ireland's greatest heroes.
Tír na nÓg (band) Tír na nÓg was an Irish band of the early 1970s, consisting of Leo O'Kelly and Sonny Condell. Their music mainly consisted of their own compositions, based on strong Celtic roots and typically featuring intricate acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing.
Tàipíng guǎngjì The Extensive Records of the Taiping Era () is a collection of stories compiled under the editorship of Li Fang, first published in 978. The book is divided into 500 volumes (juan 卷) and consists of about 3 million words.
Tågkompaniet Tågkompaniet or Svenska Tågkompaniet AB is a Swedish railway company that operates franchises in Northern Sweden and Greater Stockholm. The company was founded in 1999 by three former railway employees in Statens Järnvägar and the investment company Småföretagsinvest/Fylkinvest.
Tårnby Tårnby is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Copenhagen County on the island of Amager just east of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality includes the islands of Saltholm and Peberholm, and covers an area of 65 km².
TĂĽbinger Stift TĂĽbinger Stift is a hall of residence and teaching of the Protestant Church in WĂĽrttemberg, located in the university city of TĂĽbingen. It was founded in 1536 by Duke Ulrich for WĂĽrttemberg born students who want to be ministers or teachers.
Tüm-igd All Turkey Progressive Youth Association (Turkish: Tüm İlerici Gençlik Derneği TÜM-İGD) has been the biggest youth association in Turkey. Now All Turkey Progressive Youth (Tüm-İgd) is continuing their mission.
TĂĽnde Vaszi TĂĽnde Vaszi (born 18 April 1972 in PiĹźcolt/Piskolt, Romania) is a Hungarian long jumper. Her greatest success so far is the bronze medal at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics, and her personal best is 6.
Türkmenabat Türkmenabat (Cyrillic Turkmen: Түркменабат; formerly Chardzhou, also spelled as Chardjui, Charjou, Chardzhev, Chärjew or Charjew; Cyrillic Turkmen: Чәрҗев; Russian: Чарджоу) is a town in Turkmenistan, capital of the Lebap Province. As of 1999, it had a population of approximately 203,000 people.
TĂĽrkmeneli TĂĽrkmeneli is the name given, starting under the Ottoman Empire, to a geographical and cultural region in Turkey along the northern banks of the Tigris, densely inhabited by the Turkmen (in the Turkish context of the term)
Tórshavn Tórshavn () (Danish: Thorshavn,(Norwegian: Torshavn Icelandic: Þórshöfn, Swedish: Torshamn) is the capital of the Faroe Islands. The city is located in Tórshavn municipality on southern Streymoy island and has 19,000 inhabitants.
TĂłrshavn Cathedral TĂłrshavner Cathedral (in Faroese: Havnar Kirkja, or DĂłmkirkjan) is the second oldest received church of the Faroe Islands, on Tinganes in the old town of TĂłrshavn. Painted white, and roofed with slate, it was established in 1788.
TÜBİTAK The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu - TÜBİTAK) is the main body responsible for organizing research and development activities on the national level in Turkey, with headquarters located in Ankara. It was established by President Cemal Gürsel and the bill 278 passed on July 24, 1963, with the primary advisory duty of providing guidance to the government's plans and policies in the new era of planned economy subsequent to the first 5-year development plan of the country.
TĂşcume Purgatorio (purgatory) is the name by which local people refer to the dozens of prehispanic pyramids, enclosures and mounds found on the plain around La Raya Mountain, south of the La Leche River. This is the site of TĂşcume (Tucume), covering an area of over 540 acres and encompassing 26 major pyramids and platforms.
TĂşpac Amaru TĂşpac Amaru (died September 24 1572) (Thupaq Amaru in modern Quechua), was the last indigenous leader of the Inca people in Peru . The son of Manco Inca Yupanqui (also known as Manco Capac II), he was made a priest and the guardian of his father's body.
Túpac Amaru II Túpac Amaru II (March 19, 1742 Peru – May 18 1781) — born José Gabriel Condorcanqui — was the leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Although unsuccessful, he later became a mythical figure in the Peruvian struggle for independence and indigenous rights movement and an inspiration to a myriad of causes in Peru.
TĂşpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement The TĂşpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement or Movimiento Revolucionario TĂşpac Amaru (MRTA) was a communist guerrilla movement active in Peru from 1984 to 1997. It was led by NĂ©stor Cerpa Cartolini until his death in 1997.
TĂşrĂł Rudi TĂşrĂł Rudi is the name of a chocolate bar popular in Hungary. The bar is composed of a thin outer coating of a slightly plain or dark chocolate and an inner filling based on the Hungarian speciality of TĂşrĂł, a savoury paste made with curd.
TĂşrĂłc TĂşrĂłc (-Hungarian, in Latin: Thurotzium, comitatus Thurociensis, in German: Turz, in Slovak: Turiec) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in north-western Slovakia, where it is only an informal designation of the corresponding territory.
TĂŞte-bĂŞche In philately, tĂŞte-bĂŞche (French for "head-to-tail", lit. "head-to-head") is a joined pair of stamps in which one is upside-down in relation to the other, produced intentionally or accidentally.
TËЯRA TËЯRA is Konami's in-house rock band that composes music for beatmania IIDX, Dance Dance Revolution, pop'n music, Guitar Freaks, and DrumMania. They first debuted in pop'n music 8 with their song STARS ☆☆☆.
Tâb Tâb is a board game played in several Arab countries, or a family of similar board games played in Northern Africa and South-western Asia, from Persia to West Africa and from Turkey to Somalia, where a variant called deleb is played.
Târnave Vineyard The Târnave Vineyard is the largest vineyard in Transylvania, gathering the vigour of the wine planted between the rivers Târnava Mare and Târnava Mică. It is located inside the triangle formed by the localities: Blaj – Sighişoara – Bălăuşeri.
Tây Bồi Tây Bồi, is a term used for a type of verbal communication which consists of "massacred" French words mixed with Vietnamese words spoken by non French-educated Vietnamese, usually those who worked as servants in French households or milieus. Literally, it means "French(Tây)[of- or spoken by] male servants(Bồi)".
Tây Sơn Dynasty The name of Tây Sơn is used in many ways referring back to the period of peasant rebellions and decentralized dynasties established between the eras of the Lê and Nguyễn dynasties in history of Vietnam. Sometimes the name Tây Sơn is used to refer to the leaders of this revolt (the Tây Sơn brothers), sometimes it is used as the name of the war (the Tây Sơn Uprising) or it could also refer to the brothers' form of innovative governmental rule (the Tây Sơn Dynasty).
Týr (band) Týr is a band that hails from the Faroe Islands. They fuse heavy metal and folk music, and signed a worldwide deal with Austria's Napalm Records in early 2006, while they were previously signed to the Faroese record label Tutl.
Táin Bó Cúailnge Táin Bó Cúailnge ("the driving-off of cows of Cooley", more usually rendered The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin) is the central tale in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four great cycles that make up the surviving corpus of Irish mythology. It is recorded in Old and Middle Irish, and is written mainly in prose, with some verse sections, especially at moments of heightened tension or emotion.
Táins Táins, or cattle raids, are one of the genres within the Ulster Cycle of ancient Irish literature.The convention of forming the plural of táin by adding an "s", while not a proper in the context of Old Irish, has been followed since these tales were translated about a century ago
Tán Tuǐ Tán Tuǐ () is a martial arts routine based on kicks. Created in Northern China by Chinese Muslims, tan tui is composed of a series of forms, which emphasize blocking, stances, footwork, and most of all, kicks.
Táncház Táncház (pronounced , approx. "tants-hoz") is an aspect of the Hungarian roots revival of traditional culture which began in the early 1970s, and remains an active part of the national culture across the country, especially in cities like Budapest.
Tárogató The tárogató (Romanian: taragot) refers to two different woodwind instruments, both of them Hungarian. Up to about the 18th century, the tárogató was a type of shawm, with a double reed, conical bore, and no keys.
Távora affair The Távora affair was a political scandal of the 18th century Portuguese court. The events triggered by the attempted murder of King Joseph I of Portugal in 1758 ended with the public execution of the entire Távora family and its closest relatives in 1759.
TĂ©kumel TĂ©kumel: Empire of the Petal Throne is a fantasy world created by Professor Muhammad Abd-el-Rahman Barker over the course of several decades. In this imaginary world, huge empires with medieval levels of technology vie for control using magic, large standing armies, and ancient technological devices.
Télé Distribution Française Télé Distribution Française, or TDF, is a time signal service, broadcast on shortwave radio by the French "Laboratoire primaire du temps et des frequences" (LPTF). This time signal is generated by an extremely accurate cesium fountain atomic clock.
Télé-Québec Télé-Québec is the television network operated by the provincial government of Quebec, Canada. Known legally as Société de télédiffusion du Québec (Quebec Television Broadcasting Corporation), the network was launched on January 19, 1975 as "Radio-Québec".
Télé-université Télé-université is a component of the University of Quebec at Montreal. Sometimes abbreviated to Téluq, it was the first French language distance education university in the world and the only one in North America before it became a component of UQAM in June 2005.
Télébec Télébec is a telephone company located in the province of Quebec in Canada. It serves various sectors like the James Bay territory area, the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, parts of central and southern Québec and parts of the Outaouais region.
Télébec Mobilité Télébec Mobilité is the division of Télébec which sells wireless services in several (mostly rural) areas of Quebec, Canada, including the James Bay territory area, the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, parts of central and southern Québec and parts of the Outaouais region.
Téléfrançais Téléfrançais was a French language children's television show, produced by TVOntario in 1985 and 1986. The series of 30 episodes has become a popular teaching tool, and is used by many educators to teach French as a second language to elementary school children.
Télématin Télématin is a news and advice show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30-9:00 am CET and on TV5 in Canada weekday mornings from 5:45/6:00-8:00 North American Eastern Time, depending on the day of week.
Télérama Télérama is a weekly French magazine owned by the French daily newspaper Le Monde. Its primary contents are television and radio program listings, though the magazine also prints film, theatre, music, and book reviews, as well as cover stories and feature articles of cultural interest.
Télévision Numérique Terrestre TNT (Télévision Numérique Terrestre) is the national digital terrestrial service for France. France was quite late in the deployment of digital terrestrial television (DVB-T) known under the acronym of TNT (Télévision Numérique Terrestre ), however it has formally arrived on the 31 March 2005 after a short testing period.
Télesphore-Damien Bouchard Télesphore-Damien Bouchard (December 20 1881 – November 13, 1962) was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as Liberal leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1936 to 1939, after Liberal leader Adélard Godbout lost the 1936 election and also narrowly lost his own seat.
Ténéré The Ténéré is a desert region in the south central Sahara. It comprises a vast plain of sand stretching from northeastern Niger into western Chad, occupying an area of over 154,440 square miles (400,000 km²).
Tériade Tériade (real name Stratis Eleftheriades - Στρατής Ελευθεριάδης) (1889-1983) was a native of Mytilene who went to Paris in 1915 at the age of eighteen to study law, but who instead became an art critic, patron, and, most importantly, publisher.
Tétouan Tétouan (Arabic: تطوان (meaning eyes in the Berber language)), also spelled Tetuan, sometimes Tettawen or Tettawan, is the capital and cultural centre of the region Tangier-Tétouan (Tanja) in the north of Morocco, the only open port of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, a few miles south of the Strait of Gibraltar, and about 40 mi (60 km) E.S.
Tältprojektet Tältprojektet - The Tent Project (Sweden, 1977) was a huge musical theater performance on the history of the Swedish working class, which toured the country the summer of 1977 in a huge circus tent. The group included over 100 people, musicians, actors, and members of some of the biggest progg bands of Sweden at the time, most notable Nationalteatern.
Tänapäev Tänapäev is an Estonian publishing house established in 1999 and headquartered in Tallinn. The main subjects it publishes are translated and original fiction, history, politics, biographies and children literature.
Tõnis Lukas Tõnis Lukas (born 5 June, 1962 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian politician. He is co-chairman of the Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica, member of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu), and former Minister of Education.
Tõnu Õim Tõnu Õim (born June 16, 1941 in Tallinn) is an Estonian grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the only man to have won the ICCF World Championship in correspondence chess twice, in 1983 and 1999.
Tôn Đức Thắng Tôn Đức Thắng (August 19, 1888 - March 30, 1980) was the second and final President of North Vietnam and the first President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He served as President, initially of North Vietnam from September 2 1969 and later of the united Vietman until his death on March 30, 1980.
Töölö Töölö (Swedish Tölö) is the collective name for the districts Etu-Töölö (Swedish Främre Tölö) and Taka-Töölö (Swedish Bortre Tölö) in Helsinki, Finland. The districts are located next to the city centre, occupying the western side of the Helsinki Peninsula.
Töregene Khatun Töregene Khatun was a Khatun and ruled as regent of the Mongol Empire from the death of her husband Ögedei Khan in 1241 until the election of her eldest son Güyük Khan in 1246. She was effective in the exercise of power in a society that was traditionally led only by men.
Tøger Seidenfaden Tøger Seidenfaden (born April 28, 1957) is a Danish journalist and political scientist, since 1993 editor-in-chief of the broadsheet newspaper Politiken. He was editor-in-chief of Weekendavisen between 1987 and 1992 and managing director of TV 2 in 1992-1993.
Tølløse municipality Tølløse municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in northeastern West Zealand County on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 126 km², and has a total population of 9,832 (2005).
Tønder Tønder (German: Tondern) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in South Jutland County on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 185 km², and has a total population of 12,462 (2005).
Tønder lace Tønder lace is a point-ground type of handmade bobbin lace identified with the Tønder region since about 1850, although lace of many types has been made there since as early as 1650. The handmade lace industry gradually ceased to be economically important to the region after the introduction of machine-made lace, although it never died out entirely, and is still made today, mostly by hobbyists.
Tørring-Uldum municipality Tørring-Uldum municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Vejle County on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 189 km², and has a total population of 12,519 (2005).
TÉLÉTOON Rétro TÉLÉTOON Rétro is a recently licensed category 2 specialty programming channel based on the TÉLÉTOON programming block TÉLÉTOON Rétro. This service will consist of classic animation and classic animation-related programs from Canada and around the world, including animated movies, specials, series and shorts, all of which commenced production at least ten years prior to their exhibition.
Tākitimu In Māori tradition, Tākitimu was the name of one of the canoes that brought the first Maori to New Zealand. After sailing to New Zealand from Hawaiki under the command of the chief Ruawharo, it was turned into stone at Murihiku in the far south of the South Island.
Tāne In Māori mythology, Tāne (also Tāne Mahuta) is the god of forests and of birds, and the son of Ranginui and Papatuanuku, the sky father and the earth mother, who lie in a tight embrace. Their many children live in the darkness between them (Grey 1956:2).
Tāwhaki In Māori mythology, Tāwhaki is a semi-supernatural being associated with lightning and thunder. While he has some god-like attributes, in the legends he is described as 'a man from this world' (Paraone 1850).
Tălmăcel Tălmăcel (Hungarian: Kistalmács) is a village under the administration of the town of Tălmaciu in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothills of the Cindrel Mountains, 20 km south of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographical area.
Tămâioasă Românească Tămâioasă Românească () is a grape variety used for the production of high-quality aromatic wines, Tămâioasă are natural sweet or semi-sweet wines, with alcohol content of 12%-12.5% and imposing originality, offered by their yellow-golden colour, complex flavour resembling field flowers and honey, persistent rich taste, where alcohol, sugar and acidity reach a perfect harmony.
Tămădău Affair The Tămădău Affair (Romanian: Afacerea Tămădău, Înscenarea de la Tămădău - "the Tămădău frameup" - or Fuga de la Tămădău - "the Tămădău flight") was an incident that took place in Romania in the summer of 1947, the source of a political scandal and show trial.
Tărtăria tablets The Tărtăria tablets are three tablets, discovered in Tărtăria, Romania. They bear incised symbols that have been the subject of considerable controversy among archaeologists, some of whom claim that the symbols represent the earliest known form of writing in the world.
Tba(band) tba are an Australian punk band based in South Australia who are mainly influenced by 1990's punk bands such as MxPx, NOFX, Millencolin and The Cootees. They formed in 2004 and have so far recorded two home made albums, Greatest Hits!?
Tbilisi Tbilisi (Georgian თბილისი , ) is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura (Mtkvari) River, at . Tbilisi is sometimes credited as Tiflis (or Tifflis), which is its Medieval name and the city covers an area of 372 km² (144 square miles) and has 1,093,000 inhabitants.
Tbilisi Metro The Tbilisi Metro (, Tbilisis Metropoliteni; in the Soviet times also ) is a rapid transit Metro system in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Opened in 1966 it became the fourth Metro system in the former Soviet Union.
Tbilisi Sioni Cathedral The "Sioni" Cathedral of the Dormition is a Georgian Orthodox Cathedral in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. It is commonly known as the "Tbilisi Sioni" to distinguish it from several other churches across Georgia bearing the name Sioni.
Tbilisi State University Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University (TSU) (Georgian: თბილისის ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი) is a university established on January 26, 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Over 30,000 students are enrolled and the total number of collaborators is approximately 5,000.
Tboli The Tbolis are one of the indigenous peoples of South Mindanao. From the body of ethnographic and linguistic literature on Mindanao they are variously known as Tboli, T'boli, Tböli, Tiboli, Tibole, Tagabili, Tagabeli, and Tagabulu.
TB2D Skypirate The Douglas TB2D Skypirate (also known as the Devastator II) was a torpedo bomber intended for service with the United States Navy's Midway class aircraft carriers; they were too large for earlier decks. Two prototypes were completed, but the dedicated torpedo bomber was becoming an outdated concept and with the end of World War II the type was no longer needed, so the project was cancelled.
TBC Bank The Leading Commercial Bank (TBC Bank) in Georgia (Georgian: თიბისი ბანკი). The Bank was established in 1992, within a decade it became the largest bank in Georgia, currently maintaining its position and holding 27% of the country’s banking assets and 30% of the country’s banking deposits.

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