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TurboJET TurboJET (Chinese: 噴射飛航) is the brand name for the operations of the Hong Kong-based Shun Tak-China Travel Ship Management Limited (信德中旅船務管理有限公司), which is is established from the joint venture between Shun Tak Holdings Limited (信德集團有限公司) and China Travel International Investment Hong Kong Limited in July 1999. It operates hydrofoil ferry services in southern China.
Turbolift A turbolift ("turbo-elevator" in some sources) is a highspeed human transport device in the Star Trek universe which is similar to an elevator. Turbolifts travel through so-called 'Turboshafts' built into starships or buildings both horizontally and vertically to reach designated destinations.
Turboliner The Turboliner is a trainset built by Rohr Industries in 1976 for Amtrak. The trains were powered by diesel gas-electric turbines and were equipped with third rail shoes to enable entry into the underground tunnels approaching Grand Central Terminal and New York Penn Station in New York City.
TurboLaw TurboLaw is a form of document assembly software for Microsoft Windows created specifically for the Massachusetts legal community. It is sold by Promethean Software Corporation, and is only sold to people who are licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Turbomachinery In mechanical engineering, turbomachinery describes machines that transfer energy between a rotor and a fluid, including both turbines and compressors. While a turbine transfers energy from a fluid to a rotor, a compressor transfers energy from a rotor to a fluid.
Turbomolecular pump A turbomolecular pump is a type of vacuum pump, superficially similar to a turbopump, used to obtain and maintain high vacuum. These pumps work on the principle that gas molecules can be given momentum in a desired direction by repeated collision with a moving solid surface.
Turbonillinae Turbonillinae is one of eleven currently recognised subfamilies of the gastropod family Pyramidellidae; Odostomiinae, Turbonillinae, Chrysallidinae, Cingulininae, Cyclostremellinae, Sayellinae, Syrnolininae, Eulimellinae, Pyramidellinae, Odostomellinae and Tiberiinae. Turbonillinae was introduced by HG Bronn in 1849 and comprises several genera including Bartschella, Careliopsis, Chemnitzia, Cylindriturbonilla, Dunkeria, Pyrgiscus, Ptycheulimella and Turbonilla.
Turbopause The turbopause marks the altitude in the Earth's atmosphere below which turbulent mixing dominates. The region below the turbopause is known as the homosphere, where the chemical constituents are well mixed and display identical height distributions; in other words, the chemical composition of the atmosphere remains constant in this region.
Turbophoresis Turbophoresis is the tendency for particles to migrate in the direction of decreasing turbulence level. The principle tends to segregate particles entrained in high velocity gases axially toward the wall region.
Turbosteamer A turbosteamer is a term used by BMW to describe an alternative non-parasitic hybrid concept based upon a steam engine that converts waste heat energy from an internal combustion engine into supplemental power for the vehicle. The turbosteamer device is affixed to the exhaust system.
Turbot Turbot (pronounced tur-bit]) (family Scophthalmidae, order Pleuronectiformes) are flatfish native to marine or brackish waters of the North Atlantic. The taxon name comes from the Greek language, with skopein meaning "to look" and ophthalmos meaning "eye".
Turbot War The Turbot War of 1995 was an international fishing dispute between Canada and the European Union which ended in Canada arresting a Spanish fishing trawler in international waters. Canada claimed that European Union factory fishing trawlers were illegally overfishing the nose and tail of the Grand Banks, just outside Canada's declared 200 nautical mile (370 km) Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Turbulence In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a flow regime characterized by chaotic, stochastic property changes. This includes low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time.
Turbulence (Hersheypark) Turbulence was to be the new attraction for 2005 at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and it would have been the first installation of a unique vertical roller coaster in the world, and the park's 11th roller coaster. It was a ride designed by Interactive Rides of Logan, Utah.
Turbulence Records Turbulence Records is a trance music record label based in Portsmouth, UK. It began its life back in 2005 with the release of See The Light by Paradise (who also remix regularly for the labels other releases).
Turby wind turbine The Turby is a brand of vertical axis Darrieus wind turbine. The three vertical aerofoil blades have a helical twist of 60 degrees, similar to Gorlov's water turbines Since the wind pulls each blade around on both the windward and leeward sides of the turbine, this feature spreads the torque evenly over the entire revolution, thus preventing the destructive pulsations of the straight-bladed giromill.
Turco-Persian The Turco-Persians were a heterogeneous confederation of certain Turkic, Iranic and Mongol peoples that eventually conquered most of central, western, and southern Asia in the 15th to 17th centuries. The most famous member of this society was Timur.
Turcot syndrome Turcot syndrome is the association between familial adenomatous polyposis and brain tumors like medulloblastoma,malignant glioma. It was first reported by Canadian surgeon Jacques Turcot (1914- ) et al in 1959 and hence carries the first author's name.
Turd Blossom Turd Blossom is a Texan term for a flower which grows from a pile of cow dungThe term has gained notoriety in the United States of America, as reportedly this is one of President] [[George W. Bush's terms of endearment for his chief political advisor, Karl Rove.
Turd, the Bartender Turd the Bartender, (born Jeff Renzetti), is a radio broadcaster, and one of the original cohorts on the nationally syndicated morning drive radio show Mancow's Morning Madhouse. Renzetti is a Chicagoland native and lifelong resident of that city's South Side.
Turdetani The Turdetani were an ancient (pre-Roman) people of the Iberian peninsula (the Roman Hispania), living in the valley of the Guadalquivir in what was to become the Roman Province of Hispania Baetica (modern Andalusia, Spain). Strabo (Geography III, 4, 13) considers them to have been the successors to the people of Tartessos and to have spoken a close relative of the Tartessian language.
Turduli Veteres The Turduli Veteres, or Ancient Turduli were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians and Calaicians or Gallaeci, living south of the estuary of the river Douro, in the north of modern Portugal.
Turdus musicus Turdus musicus is a Norwegian band started in 1998 by Carl Christian Lein Størmer and brothers Juhani and Timo Silvola. The name "Turdus musicus" is latin for "beautiful song of the redwing".
Ture Rangström Ture Rangström (30 November 1884 – 11 May 1947) belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernism to their compositions. In addition to composing Rangström was also a musical critic and conductor.
Tureen A tureen is a broad, deep oval vessel with fixed loop handles and a low domed cover with a knob, used for serving foods such as soups or stews. Tureens may be ceramic—either the glazed earthenware called faience or porcelain—or silver, and customarily they stand on a serving plate en suite.
Turespana Masters The Turespana Masters was a European Tour golf tournament which was played from 1992 to 2000 in several different regions of Spain. Turespana is the Spanish national tourism authority, and it sponsored several golf tournaments in the 1980s and 1990s to promote Spain's role as a major warm weather golf holiday destination in Europe.
Turey Turey is a Puerto Rican comic book magazine that is published since 1989. Originally a comic strip on the now defunct El Mundo newspaper, Turey debuted at Puerto Rico's news stands as a magazine in October of that year.
Turf battles Turf Battles is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) similar in appearance, though not in gameplay, to games such as World of Warcraft. The game revolves mostly around feudal war between groups of players, called "tribes" in the game, to take over "turfs", territories that offer valuable resources that can be used for various purposes in the game.
Turf Classic Stakes The Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Stakes is a American thoroughbred horse race for horses ages three and up and run on Derby Day at Churchill Downs. The race is a major springtime turf event raced at a distance of one and one-eighth miles for a purse of $400,000.
Turf maze Historically, a turf maze is a labyrinth made by cutting a convoluted path into a level area of short grass, turf or lawn. Some had names such as Mizmaze, Troy Town, The Walls of Troy, Julian's Bower, or Shepherd's Race (see #Maze names, below).
Turf Paradise Derby The Turf Paradise Derby is a race for thoroughbred horses held in February at Turf Paradise in Arizona. The Turf Paradise Derby is open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt.
Turf war Turf war is a term that describes a common problem in larger bureaucracies when two divisions fight for access to resources or capital. They can break out due to improper management further up the bureaucratic hierarchy.
Turfan Turfan (Uyghur: تۇرپان; Uyghur Latin: Turpan; Modern Chinese 吐魯番, Pinyin: Tǔlǔfān; ) is an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its population was 254,900 at the end of 2003.
Turfan Depression The Turfan Depression or Turpan Depression (; Uighur: تۇرپان ئويمانلىغى, Turpan Oymanliği) is a fault located around and south of the city-oasis of Turfan, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in far western China, about 150 kilometers southeast of the provincial capital Ürümqi. It includes the second lowest exposed point on the Earth's surface, after the Dead Sea.
Turfan Prefecture Turfan Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 吐鲁番地区; pinyin: Tulufán Dìqū; Uyghur: تۇرپان ۋىلايىتى) is located in eastern Xinjiang, China. It has a area of 69,324 km² and a population of 570,000 (2003).
Turfway Park Turfway Park is an American horse racing track located in Florence, Kentucky, a part of Cincinnati, Ohio's Kentucky suburbs. It conducts live Thoroughbred horse racing during two meets per year, and offers year-round simulcast wagering from tracks across the continent.
Turfway Park Fall Championship Turfway Park Fall Championship is a Grade III event for three-year-olds and up, run at Turfway Park in Kentucky most every year since 1919 except 1972, and a long break from 1934 to 1963. Raced over a mile course on the dirt, it offers a purse of $100,000.
Turgut Aykaç Türgüt Aykaç (born January 1, 1958) is a former boxer from Turkey. At the 1984 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's featherweight division (– 57 kg), alongside with Omar Catari of Venezuela.
Turgut Demirtepe Turgut Demirtepe (born 1969) is a Turkish academic and author, an academic specialist on the Central Asia and Political Science, with particular reference to nation-state building. He is editor of the Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies.
Turgut Reis Turgut Reis (1485-1565) was a Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey later Pasha of Tripoli. Known in different languages under such names as Dragut or Darghouth, the original name in Turkey is Turgut Reis (reis = admiral) or less commonly Torgut Reis as his name appears in several old Turkish and foreign resources.
Turgutlu Turgutlu is a district of Manisa Province of Turkey. Its name derives from the name of the Turkish clan of "Turgut" that had come down from the surrounding mountain regions and had been made to settle at the actual location of the town in the Gediz plain during the reign of Murad II who, it should be recalled, had resided in his favorite town of nearby Manisa on two occasions during his rule, and for rather long periods.
Turhan Bey Turhan Bey (born Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy on March 30, 1922 in Vienna, First Austrian Republic (now Austria)) is an American actor who was a popular Hollywood leading man of the 1940s. His father was a Turkish diplomat and his mother was a Czech industrialist.
Turi Josefsen Turi Josefsen was Vice-President of United States Surgical Corporation (USSC) (headed by her husband, Leon C Hirsch), and CEO of the European division, Auto Suture Europe. She was at one time reportedly the world's highest paid woman CEO.
Turian-Chay State Reserve Turian-Chay State Reserve or Turyanchay State Reserve was established on the area of 12.63 thousand hectares in 1958 for the purposes of protection and restoration of arid forest complexes in Bozdagh and prevention of erosion processes in the mountainous slopes.
Turiasauria Turiasauria is an unranked clade of sauropod dinosaurs, named for the genus Turiasaurus, a gigantic eusauropod from southwestern Europe. The clade also includes two other known members, Galveosaurus and Losillasaurus.
Turiasaurus Turiasaurus (meaning "Turia lizard"; Turia is the Latin name of Teruel) is the name given to a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary. It is believed to be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe, reaching a length of 30 to 37 m (98 to 121 ft), and a weight of 40 to 48 tons, the combined weight of six or seven adult male elephants.
Turibius of Mongrovejo Saint Turibius de/of Mo(n)grovejo or Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo (16 November 1538–23 March 1606) was a Spanish judge of the court of the Inquisition and missionary Archbishop of Lima from the Spanish nobility.
Turiel Turiel, Tûrêl (Aramaic: טויאלר, Greek: Τονριήλ) in later translations was the 18th Watcher of the 20 leaders of the 200 fallen angels that are mentioned in an ancient work called the Book of Enoch. The name is believed to originate from tuwr, el (God) meaning "rock of God".
Turin King List The Turin King List also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is a unique papyrus, written in hieratic, currently in the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) at Turin, to which it owes its modern name. The text dates to Ramesses II and mentions the names of all Egyptian rulers preceded by the register of gods that, as it was believed, ruled over Egypt before the Pharaonic era.
Turin Museum of Natural History The Turin Museum of Natural History (Italian: Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino) was set up in 1978 to contain the natural history collections of the University of Turin. It is located at 36 Via Giolitti, Turin, in a 17th century building which used to be the hospital of San Giovanni Battista.
Turin Papyrus Map The Turin Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian map, generally considered the oldest surviving map of topographical interest from the ancient world. It is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, collected by Bernardino Drovetti (known as Napoleon's Proconsul in Egypt sometime before 1824 and is now preserved in Turin's Museo Egizio.
Turing (programming language) Turing is a Pascal-like programming language developed in 1982 by Ric Holt and James Cordy, then of University of Toronto, Canada. Turing is a descendant of Euclid, Pascal and SP/k that features a clean syntax and precise machine-independent semantics.
Turing degree In computer science and mathematical logic, the Turing degree or degree of unsolvability of a set X of natural numbers is the equivalence class of all sets that are Turing equivalent to X. The concept of Turing degree is fundamental in computability theory.
Turing Days Turing Days is named in memory of Alan Turing, the British mathematician and cryptologist who was one of the founders of computational theory. Turing Days is organised by the Department of Computer Science at Ä°stanbul Bilgi University.
Turing jump In computability theory, the Turing jump or Turing jump operator, named for Alan Turing, is intuitively described as an operation that assigns to each decision problem X a successively harder decision problem X′ with the property that X′ is not decidable by an oracle machine with an oracle for X.
Turing machine Turing machines are extremely basic symbol-manipulating devices which — despite their simplicity — can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer that could possibly be constructed. They were described in 1936 by Alan Turing.
Turing Plus (programming language) Turing+ (Turing Plus) is a concurrent systems programming language based the Turing programming language designed by James Cordy and Ric Holt, then at the University of Toronto, in 1987. Some, but not all, of the features of Turing Plus were eventually subsumed into Object-Oriented Turing.
Turing Police The Turing Police are special officers in the Sprawl, William Ford Gibson's cyberpunk setting. They are agents of the Turing Registry, a body tasked with preventing any artificial intelligence systems from exceeding their built-in limitations, and hunting down hackers who try to interfere with those AIs.
Turing reduction In computability theory, a Turing reduction from a problem A to a problem B, named after Alan Turing, is a reduction which easily solves A, assuming B is easy to solve (Rogers 1967, Soare 1987). More formally, a Turing reduction is a function computable by an oracle machine with an oracle for B.
Turing Scholars The Turing Scholars program, named after the mathematician Alan Turing, is an honors program for computer science majors at The University of Texas at Austin. The program, launched in the fall of 2002, admits approximately fifty students each year.
Turing test The Turing Test is a proposal for a test of a machine's capability to perform human-like conversation. Described by Professor Alan Turing in the 1950 paper "Computing machinery and intelligence," it proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a machine; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test.
Turing's proof First published in January 1937 with the title On Computable Numbers, With an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, Turing's proof was the second proof of the assertion (Alonzo Church proof was first) that some questions are "undecidable": they have neither YES nor NO answers within an axiom framework. In his own words:
Turinsk Turinsk () is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Tura River near its confluence with the Yarlynka, 253 km northeast of Yekaterinburg. Population: 19,313 (2002 Census); 23,189 (1989 Census).
Turion Turion ( from Latin turio=shoot) is a specialised overwintering bud produced by aquatic herbs, especially in the genera Potamogeton, Aldrovanda and Utricularia. They are produced in response to unfavourable conditions such as decreasing day-length or reducing temperature.
Turion 64 Turion 64 is the brand name AMD applies to its 64-bit low-power (mobile) processors. The Turion 64 and Turion 64 X2 processors compete with Intel's mobile processors, initially the Pentium M and currently both of the Intel Core processors.
Turiya In early Hindu philosophy, turiya (also called caturtha) is a state of pure consciousness, or the experience of ultimate reality and truth. It is a fourth state of consciousness that underlies and at the same time transcends three common states of consciousness: (i) the state of waking consciousness (jagrata), (ii) the state of dreaming (svapna), (iii) and dreamless sleep (susupti).
Turk 182 Turk 182 is a 1985 film about the brother of a New York City firefighter who was injured in the course of an off-duty rescue, and was denied disability compensation for his injuries by the city's mayor. After his request for assistance was rejected, the firefighter's brother, played by Timothy Hutton, decides to get revenge by making the mayor (played by Robert Culp) look bad in public.
Turk Farrell Richard Joseph Farrell (April 8 1934 - June 10 1977) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who had a 14-year career from 1956 to 1969. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Colt .
Turk's head knot A Turk's head knot is a decorative knot with a basket weave pattern surrounding a cylinder shaped object with three strands. The name is used to describe the general family of all such knots rather than one individual knot.
Turkana Boy Turkana Boy or Nariokotome Boy is the designation given to fossil KNM-WT 15000KNM-WT 15000: Kenya National Museum; West Turkana; item 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of an 11- or 12-year-old hominid boy who died 1.6 million years ago in the early Pleistocene.
Turkestan Turkestan (; also spelled Turkistan or TĂĽrkistan in Turkish, which literally means "Land of the Turks" in Persian) is a region in Central Asia, which today is largely inhabited by Turkic people. It has been referenced in many Turkic and Persian sagas and is an integral part of Turan (though Turan dwarfs Turkestan in area).
Turkestan legion The Turkestan Legion, also spelled Turkistan legion, was the general name for the military units of exiles and POWs from Central Asia that fought in the German Army during World War II. Notable members of the legion include Baymirza Hayit, who after the war settled in Germany and became a historian of the history of Central Asia and Turkestan, and Turkestani nationalist leader Mustafa Chokaev.
Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent, created on 9 July 1945 after the division of the Central Asian Military District into the Turkestan and Steppe Military Districts.
Turkestan road Turkestan Road is a progressive rock/metal band that combines the intensity of a power trio with the ambition of world music . Since 2001 , the band in its present configuration has been performing in the Phoenix, Arizona area at local clubs.
Turkey at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Turkey (listed as TUR) participated in the 2005 Mediterranean Games in AlmerĂ­a, Spain. With one hundred female and one hundred ninety-six male athletes participating, Turkey garnered seventy-three medals, marking this as its most successful participation in an international multi-sport gaming event in its history.
Turkey at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics Turkey sent 15 athletes, among them 8 women, to the 2006 European Championships in Athletics held between August 7 and August 13, 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The most important Turkish athlete participating was Elvan Abeylegesse.
Turkey at the 2006 World Women's Boxing Championship Turkey (listed as TUR) participated in the 4th World Women’s Boxing Championship held between November 18 and 23, 2006 in New Delhi, India. With twelve women boxers participating, Turkey garnered two medals, one gold and one bronze.
Turkey Bowl Turkey Bowl is a term used to refer to a number of non-professional American football games that take place on or around Thanksgiving Day. While the games themselves are not generally nationally known, Turkey Bowls hold importance for those who participate and it is not uncommon for rivalries to last for decades.
Turkey Calls The different vocalizations of the Wild Turkey are are "gobbles", "clucks", "putts", "purrs", "yelps", "cutts", "cackles" and "kee-kees".
Turkey City Writer's Workshop A peer-to-peer, professional science fiction writer's workshop in Texas modeled after the east coast Milford Writer's Workshop. Writers who have attended Turkey City include Ted Chiang, Paul Di Filippo, Cory Doctorow, Andy Duncan, George Alec Effinger, Mark Finn, Eileen Gunn, Leigh Kennedy, John Kessel, Rick Klaw, George R.
Turkey Day Game Turkey Day Game is a colloquial American term for an annual football game played on Thanksgiving Day. The term “Turkey Day” is itself a colloquial reference to the American national holiday Thanksgiving Day, on which day the traditional meal is a turkey dinner.
Turkey fryer A turkey fryer is an apparatus for deep frying a turkey. Fried turkey has been a long time favorite in the southern part of the United States, and has recently become popular in other parts of the country as well because of the reduced time needed to cook a turkey through a deep frier vs.
Turkey Hill Turkey Hill Minit Markets is a chain of Pennsylvania convenience store/gas stations. A sister company, Turkey Hill Dairy is a dairy processor in Conestoga, Pennsylvania, selling their fresh milk products in Pennsylvania, and their ice creams and drinks from VermontAbout the Dairy to FloridaPennsylvania Dutch Country has a home in Florida and as far west as Ohio.
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest Turkey participted in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 1975, but did not achieve any considerable success until late 1990s. They withdrew from the 1979 contest in Jerusalem, a major disappointment for the selected performers Maria Rita Epik & 21 Peron, who would have performed the song Seviyorum.
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 After two years of selecting an entry for the Eurovision Song Contest internally, Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) decided to return to the public national final system used previously. Ten songs were short-listed by an internal committee at TRT to take part.
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Turkey was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 by Sibel TĂĽzĂĽn, who was internally selected by national broadcaster TRT to represent Turkey with the song SĂĽperstar, which she wrote and composed herself. TRT presented the song that Sibel will sing in a special televised press conference, and presented the video clip which involves Sibel wearing a red hat with the Turkish flag.
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 Turkey has confirmed that they will enter the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. In December 2006, Turkish broadcaster TRT unveiled Kenan DoÄźulu as the country's representative for the next Eurovision Song Contest, due to take place in Helsinki in May 2007.
Turkey in the Straw "Turkey in the Straw" is a well known American folk song dating from the early 19th century. The song's tune was first popularized in the late 1820s and early 1830s by blackface performers, notably George Washington Dixon, Bob Farrell and George Nichols.
Turkey moray The turkey moray, Gymnothorax meleagris, is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Marquesas and Mangaréva, north to the Ryukyu and Hawaiian islands, south to Lord Howe Island, at depths down to 36 m. Its length is up to 1.
Turkey national basketball team The Turkey national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Turkey in international competitions. The team is nicknamed "12 Dev Adam" (literally: "12 Giant Men"); though a new nickname, "12 Cesur Yürek" (12 Brave Hearts) was proposed after the young and inexperienced team's surprising performance in the 2006 World Championship, despite not having star players Hedo Türkoğlu, Mehmet Okur, Mirsad Türkcan, Kerem Tunçeri and Hüseyin Beşok.
Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station is a twin reactor nuclear power station located on a 3,300 acre (13 km²) site 2 miles east of Homestead, Florida, United States, next to Biscayne National Park located about 35 miles (56 kilometers) south of Miami, Florida near the southernmost edge of Miami-Dade County.
Turkey Ponds Turkey Pond and Little Turkey Pond are a connected pair of water bodies located in Merrimack County in central New Hampshire, in the city of Concord. The two ponds' elevations are controlled by a single dam at the outlet of Little Turkey Pond.
Turkey rhubarb Turkey rhubarb is a plant, Rheum palmatum of the family Polygonaceae, also known as Chinese rhubarb and East Indian rhubarb. Closely related to the garden Rhubarb], [[Rheum rhaponticum, it has a similar purgative effect upon the human body.
Turkey slap The term turkey slap refers to the act of a male slapping another person's face with his penis (the "turkey"). The turkey slap draws its name from the resemblance of the male's scrotum to the wattle under a turkey's neck.
Turkey telephone numbering plan Turkey went from six (2+4) to seven digits (3+4) local phone numbers c.1988, at which time Ankara went from 41 to 4.There used to be more than 5000 local area codes of varying lengths (one to five digits) with correspondingly varying local number lengths (seven to three digits).
Turkey Tayac Turkey Tayac (1895 – 1978) was a Piscataway Indian leader and herbal doctor, born in Charles County, Maryland with the Christian name Philip Sheridan Proctor. Turkey Tayac was the last person to have knowledge of Piscataway (one of numerous Eastern Algonquian languages that form a subgroup of a larger Algonquian family of languages) through oral transmission, and was also a highly regarded oral history bearer.
Turkey Television Turkey Television was a television show which aired on Nickelodeon. The show featured clips from The Pink Medicine Show, Russ Abbott's Madhouse, Fish Heads and some selections from "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Turkey Vulture The Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) is the most common vulture in the Americas. Despite the similarity in name and appearance, this species is unrelated to the Old World vultures of the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, hawks, kites and harriers.
Turkey-Germany relations Turkish-German relations have their beginnings in the times of the Ottoman Empire and have culminated in the development of strong bonds with many façades that include economic, military, cultural and social relations. With the pending accession of Turkey to the European Union, of which Germany is the biggest member, and the existence of a huge Turkish diaspora in Germany, these relations have become more and more intertwined over the decades.
Turkey-Iran relations The relations between Iran and Turkey have been generally peaceful since the establishment of the Turkish Republic, but sometimes have also been strained. Contentious issues have included the Kurds in Turkey, close Iranian relations with Armenia and Greece, close relations of Turkey with Israel and Turkish influence in Azerbaijan.

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