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Terence T. Evans Judge Terence Thomas Evans (born 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In 1979 Evans was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to be a Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Terence Tao Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the UCLA.
Terence Trent D'Arby's Soular Return Terence Trent D'Arby's Soular Return was recorded as Terence Trent D'Arby's sixth studio album, but was ultimately not released under Java Records as planned. The artist bought back the rights to the songs and in 2001 released many of the tracks and with some new ones as Wildcard.
Terence Winter Terence Winter is an American screenwriter and television producer most notable for his work on the HBO series The Sopranos, for which he began writing during the show's second season. Winter wrote or co-wrote many fan-favorite episodes, including the infamous "Pine Barrens" episode, in which Christopher and Paulie get lost in the woods; "Unidentified Black Males", involving Meadow's boyfriend Finn getting a job at a mob-run construction site; and "Long Term Parking", for which Winter received a 2004 Emmy Award, for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series.
Terence Yin Terence Yin (Chinese: 尹子維; pinyin: Yin Zi Wei) (born May 19, 1975 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a Hong Kong film actor. Raised in Los Angeles, California, he attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1997.
Terence Young (director) Stewart Terence Herbert Young (June 20, 1915 – September 7, 1994) was a British film director, born in Shanghai, China, was public-school educated, and read Oriental History at St Catharine's College in the University of Cambridge (like the fictional James Bond - see below). He was probably best known for directing three films, including the first, in the James Bond series: Dr.
Terence Zuber Terence Zuber received an doctor's degree at the university of WĂĽrzburg, Franconia, FR of Germany in 2003. He is an American historian, best known for advancing the controversial thesis that the Schlieffen Plan as generally understood was a post-World War I fabrication.
Terengganu Terengganu (Jawi: ترڠڬانو, formerly spelled Trengganu or Tringganu) is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman ("Abode of Faith").
Terentius Maximus Terentius Maximus was a Roman also known as the False Nero who rebelled during the reign of Titus, but was suppressed. He resembled Nero in appearance and in action, as he was known to perform singing with the accompaniment of the lyre.
Terephthalic acid Terephthalic acid is one isomer of the three phthalic acids. It finds important use as a commodity chemical, principally as a starting compound for the manufacture of polyester (specifically PET), used in clothing and to make plastic bottles.
Terephthaloyl chloride Terephthaloyl chloride (TCL, 1,4-benzenedicarbonyl chloride) is the acid chloride of terephthalic acid and is one of two monomers used to make Kevlar, the other being p-phenylenediamine, which is also used in some hair sprays. Its CAS reference number is 100-20-9 and its chemical formula is 8422.
Tereré Tereré is an infusion of mate, similar to chimarrão but prepared with cold water (rather than with hot water), and in a slightly larger vessel. It is common in northeastern Argentina, southern and western Brazil, and Paraguay.
Teresa (TV series) Teresa is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 1989. The telenovela was starred by Salma Hayek (Frida) in the title role and showcased stars such as Gael García Bernal (Y tu mamá también), the diva Irma Dorantes, Mario Iván Martínez (Like Water for Chocolate) and the Spanish actor Daniel Giménez Cacho (Bad Education).
Teresa Berganza The Spanish opera singer Teresa Berganza (born 16 March 1935) is a well-known mezzo-soprano most closely associated with the roles of Rossini, Mozart, and Bizet. She is admired for her technical virtuosity, musical intelligence and beguiling stage presence.
Teresa Billington-Greig Teresa Billington-Greig (1877 - 1964) was a suffragette who created the Women's Freedom League. She left another suffrage organisation the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union) as she considered the leadership too autocratic.
Teresa Carpenter Teresa Carpenter is a Pulitzer prize winning, bestselling American author. She was born in Independence, Missouri, and lives with her husband Steven Levy (Newsweek columnist and author of Hackers) in New York's Greenwich Village.
Teresa Carpio Teresa Carpio is a singer, born in Hong Kong but now living in Canada, known for her powerful voice, diverse repertoire and bubbly personality, who has enjoyed substantial popularity in Hong Kong and other countries, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s. Her father is Filipino and her mother Chinese.
Teresa Carreño Maria Teresa Carreño (December 22 1853 - June 12 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, and conductor. Born into a musical family, she was at first taught by her father and her talent was recognized at an early age.
Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex The Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex (Complejo Cultural Teresa Carreño), or more commonly the Teresa Carreño Theater (Teatro Teresa Carreño), is one of the most important Theaters of Caracas and Venezuela, where symphonic and popular concerts imagine frequently, operas, ballet and theater. It is located near the Seat of the museums, the Caobos Park and the Athenian of Caracas,in the cultural zone of the city.
Teresa Ceglecka-Zielonka Teresa Ceglecka-Zielonka (born March 08, 1957 in Namysłów) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5280 votes in 21 Opole district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
Teresa de Cartagena Teresa de Cartagena (ca1425-?) was a Spanish author and nun who fell deaf between 1453-1459, which influenced her two known works Arboleda de los enfermos (Grove of the Infirm) and Admiraçión operum Dey (Wonder at the Works of God).
Teresa de la Parra Teresa de la Parra (October 5, 1889 – April 23 1936) was a Venezuelan novelist. She was born Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo in Paris, the daughter of Rafael Parra Hernáiz, Venezuelan Ambassador in Berlin, and Isabel Sanojo de Parra.
Teresa Gambaro Teresa Gambaro (born 29 November 1958), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Petrie, Queensland. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was educated at the Queensland University of Technology.
Teresa Gutierrez Teresa Gutiérrez was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the United States presidential election, 2004, representing the Workers World Party (WWP) as the running mate of John Parker. The Parker/Gutierrez ticket was also endorsed by the Liberty Union Party of Vermont.
Teresa Keane Teresa Catherine Keane (born February 21, 1953) is a Nurse Practitioner and Green Party activist who ran in the 2004 race for the United States Senate as a representative of the state of Oregon. Keane ran on a populist, anti-war, environmentalist platform, and gathered 2.
Teresa Kok Teresa Kok Suh Sim (, born 31 March 1964) is a Malaysian politician and a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP). She is one of the first women from the Opposition to be elected into the Malaysian parliament's Lower House (Dewan Rakyat).
Teresa Lourenco Teresa Lourenco is an Trinidadian model. She was 14 and having been brought by her parents from the warm cocoon of life in the West Indies to the cool glistening beauty of Hamburg, Germany, it was only a matter of time before she was stopped and that life-changing question was posed.
Teresa Morgan Dr Teresa Morgan is Nancy Bissell Turpin Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Oriel College, Oxford, where she is also Senior Dean. Dr Morgan is Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Regent's Park College, and Lecturer in Classical Languages, Faculty of Classics, Oxford University.
Teresa Motos Teresa Motos Izeta (born December 29, 1963 in GuipĂşzcoa) is a former field hockey player from Spain, who was a member of the Women's National Team that surprisingly won the golden medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona). Motos also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where Spain finished in 8th and last position.
Teresa Piotrowska Teresa Piotrowska (born February 05, 1955 in Tczew) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 16716 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list.
Teresa Wentzler Teresa Wentzler, American artist and counted cross-stitch designer known especially for her fantasy-inspired designs. She self-publishes her current work through her Montoursville, Pennsylvania-based TW Designworks business (launched in late 1998), however many of her earlier cross-stitch designs are available through Leisure Arts, Inc.
Teresa, Princess of Beira Princesa dona Maria Teresa of Braganza (pron. or []; English: Mary Theresa; Ajuda, Lisbon, April 29 1793-Trieste, January 17 1874) was a Portuguese princess and heir to the throne of Portugal between 1793 and 1795, until her younger brother AntĂłnio Pio was born.
Terese Capucilli Terese Capucilli is an American modern dancer best known for her work with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Capucilli was one of the dancers to revive Martha Graham's lead roles after Graham went into retirement in the 1960s.
Teresina Teresina (formerly written Theresina) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of PiauĂ­ and the only inland capital in the northeastern region of the country. The central part of the city is situated between the ParnaĂ­ba and Poti rivers, as a result, the city is sometimes referred to as the "Mesopotamia of the Northeast.
Tereza Benešová Tereza Benešová (born October 10 1977) was an adult model from the Czech Republic who was active from 1995-1997. She was arrested for and pleaded guilty in 2001 to helping fellow Czech adult model Lucie Faubert (aka Regina Hall) and Ronal Eppinger traffic high-priced prostitutes from the Czech Republic to the United States.
Tereza Marinova Tereza Marinova () (born September 5, 1977 in Pleven) is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump.
Terfeziaceae The Terfeziaceae, or desert truffles, is a family of truffles endemic to arid and semi-arid areas of the Mediterranean Region, North Africa, and the Middle East, where they are live in ectomycorrhizal association with Helianthemum species. This group consists of three genera, Terfezia, Tirmania, and Mattirolomyces.
Terhathum District Terhathum district, a part of Kosi zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Terhathum as its district headquarters, covers an area of 679 sq km and has a population (2001) of 113,111.
Terhorst Terhorst (in Limburgs dialect: Terhoorsj) is a little hamlet of 33 houses and part of the village of Banholt (in Limburgs dialect: Tebannet), which is in the municipality of Margraten in the province of Limburg. In the middle of the village, Terhorst has its own little chapel built in 1949 and every year in August there is the traditional annual Chapel party (kapelfeest).
Teri Hatcher Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and author. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-starring with Dean Cain.
Teri Hope Teri Hope (born Natalie Hope Ronson in February 1939) is an American model and actress She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Don Bronstein and Mike Shea.
Teri Weigel Teri Weigel (born February 24, 1962) is a pornography actress and former Playboy centerfold. Teresa Susan Weigel grew up in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and began her career as a lingerie catalog model for companies such as Saks Fifth Avenue.
Teriazoume Teriazoume was a song which represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest. It was performed in Malmö by the experienced singer Evridiki, who herself had provided backing vocals for the Cypriot entries of 1983, 1986 and 1987.
Teribus ye teri odin Teribus ye teri odin was the war cry of the men of Hawick at the Battle of Flodden Field, and still preserved in the traditions of the town. The full chorus was often sung at festive gatherings, not only in the gallant old border town itself, but in the remotest districts of Canada, the United States and Australia, wherever Hawick men, and natives of the Scottish Border congregated to keep up the remembrance of their native land, and haunts of their boyhood.
Terik The Terik people are a Kalenjin group inhabiting parts of the Kakamega and Nandi Districts of western Kenya, numbering about 120,000 people. They live wedged in between the Nandi, Luo and Luhya (Luyia) peoples.
Terisiare In the fantasy trading card game Magic:The Gathering, Terisiare was a large continent in the northern hemisphere of Dominaria. It is seen in several different times stretching several thousand years, with differing politics each time.
Teriyaki Teriyaki (照り焼き, テリヤキ), in the Western sense, is a Japanese cooking sauce for fish or meat which has been cut or sliced and broiled or grilled in a sweet soy sauce marinade. The word derives from the word teri, which refers to a shine or luster given by the sauce, and yaki, which refers to the cooking method (grilling or broiling).
Terje Bakken Terje "Valfar" Bakken was the lead singer and founder of the Norwegian Black/Folk Metal band Windir. Windir was started as a one-man project, but it was expanded into a full band with the release of their 3rd album, 1184.
Terje Isungset Terje Isungset (born 1964) is a Norwegian musician (primarily as a percussionist) and composer. From his background in jazz and Scandinavian music, he has designed musical instruments from non-traditional materials including ice.
Terje Langli Terje Bjarte Langli (born February 3 1965 in Steinkjer) is a former Norwegian cross country skier for Henning IL and a former skiing waxer for the norwegian cross-country skiing national team. He won two medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville with a gold in the 4 x 10km relay and a bronze in the 30 km.
Terje Nohr Terje Nohr is a singer-songwriter/guitarist who currently recides in Bodø, Norway. He has played with a lot of well-known norwegian artists throughout the years, such as Halvdan Sivertsen, Ola Bremnes and Ottar "Big Hand" Johansen.
Terje Rypdal Terje Rypdal (born 23 August 1947 in Oslo) is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. The distorted guitar tone he favors, frequently embellished with his use of volume swells, has more in common with rock music than with the cleaner sounds associated with jazz guitarists.
Terje Søviknes Terje Søviknes is a Norwegian politician who was the first representative of the Progress Party to become mayor of a Norwegian municipality, namely Os, Hordaland. He is especially known for his politics toward private businesses and care for senior citizens.
Terje Wold Terje Wold (1899–1972) was the Norwegian Minister of Justice 1939–1945, as well as head of the Ministry of Trade 1940–1942, a member of the government delegation in 1945, and as such also head of the Ministry of Education and Church Affairs.
Terji Skibenæs Terji Skibenæs, born in Tórshavn, the capitol of the Faeroes, on December 27'th 1982, is the guitarist of the Faeroese Viking Metal Band Týr. He grew up in and currently lives in Skipanes on the Faeroese island Eysturoy.
Terk Terk is an animated gorilla, a character in the Disney film Tarzan and the animated TV series The Legend of Tarzan. Terk was loosely adapted from the ape character Terkoz in the original novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, on which the film is based.
Terl Bryant Terl Bryant is a drummer and percussionist who works extensively as a session musician, has contributed to many top flight recordings to much critical acclaim. For his early career he was a member of the influential Christian progressive and celtic folk themed band Iona.
Terling Terling is a village in the county of Essex, United Kingdom, between the town Witham and the villages of Great Leighs and Hatfield Peverel. The village was mentioned in the Domesday book and, in 1991 had a population of 741.
Terlingua, Texas Terlingua, Texas is a small village in southwestern Brewster County located near the Rio Grande. Terlingua is near the Texas villages of Lajitas and Study Butte, as well as the Mexican villages of Santa Elena and Boquillas.
Term (architecture) In Classical architecture a term or terminal figure is a human head and bust that continues as a square tapering pillarlike form. If the bust is of Hermes as protector of boundaries in ancient Greek culture, it may be called a herm.
Term algebra In universal algebra, a term algebra is an algebraic structure which is freely generated from a signature specifying the operations of the algebra (including constants, which are nullary operations). For example, free magmas are isomorphic to term algebras generated from a signature consisting of one binary operation (the multiplication operation of the magma) plus a set of constants.
Term Count Model Like the Vector Space Model (or term vector model) which followed, the Term Count Model had been in use even before the advent of search engines and the Internet for searching text in information retrieval (IR) systems, indexing and relevancy rankings.
Term life insurance Term life insurance is the original form of life insurance and is considered to be pure insurance protection because it builds no cash value. This is in contrast to permanent life insurance such as whole life, universal life, and variable universal life.
Term limit A term limit is a legal restriction that limits the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. Term limits are found usually in presidential and semi-presidential systems as a method to curb the potential for dictatorships, where a leader effectively becomes "president for life".
Term of patent The term of a patent is the maximum period during which it can be maintained into force. It is usually expressed in number of years either starting from the filing date of the patent application or from the date of grant of the patent.
Term of patent in the United States In the United States, under current patent law, the term of patent is either 20 years from the earliest claimed filing date or 17 years from the issue date, depending on the filing date and the issue date (provided that the maintenance fees are paid in due time):
Term sheet A term sheet is a bullet-point document outlining the material terms and conditions of a business agreement. After a Term Sheet has been "executed", it guides legal counsel in the preparation of a proposed "final agreement".
Terma (Buddhism) Terma are key Tibetan Buddhist and Bön teachings, originally esoterically secreted and/or elementally encoded by Guru Padmasambhava and his consorts in the 8th century for future discovery at auspicious times. As such, they represent the only tradition of continuing revelation in Buddhism.
Terman Middle School Terman Middle School Home of the Tigers is presently located on 655 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto], [[California within the Palo Alto Unified School District. As far as middle schools go, Terman's competition is with JLS and Jordan Middle Schools.
Termatosaurus Termatosaurus ("end lizard", because it came from the end of the Upper Triassic) was a genus of phytosaur, an extinct crocodile-like aquatic animal, although twice it has been confused with dinosaurs (once accidently). Its remains come from the Upper Triassic of Europe.
Terme River The Terme River (; Greek: Θερμοδών, Thermedon) is in the border of Terme district, located in central northern Turkey between the cities Ordu and Samsun. The river flows about 50 km east of the coastal town Samsun into the Black Sea.
Termessos Termessos (or Thermessos) was a Pisidian city built at a height of 1050 meters in the Taurus Mountains(modern day Antalya province, Turkey). Termessos constitutes an unusual synthesis of a large number of rare plants and animal species, which are under protection in the Termessos National Park.
Termina is a fictional land from the video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. It is composed of various environments ranging from swamps and forests to mountains and canyons, all of which surround the main city at its center, Clock Town, in each of the cardinal directions.
Terminal (application) The Terminal is an application included with Apple's Mac OS X operating system, and is also present in OS X's progenitor, OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP. On Mac OS X, Terminal is located in the "Utilities" folder.
Terminal (telecommunication) In the context of telecommunications, a terminal is a device which is capable of communicating over a line. Examples of terminals are telephones, fax machines, and network devices - printers, work stations, routers in a VoIP network.
Terminal and nonterminal symbols In computer science, terminal and nonterminal symbols are those symbols that are used to construct production rules in a formal grammar. Whereas terminal symbols form the parts of strings generated by the grammar, nonterminal symbols map to the names of productions in the grammar, and generate strings by substitution either of other nonterminals or of terminals (or some combination of these).
Terminal area chart In United States and Canadian aviation, Terminal Area Charts (TACs) are aeronautical charts intended for navigation under Visual Flight Rules that depict areas surrounding major airports (primarily those with Class B airspace.
Terminal Aerodrome Forecast In meteorology and aviation, TAF is a format for reporting weather forecast information, particularly as it relates to aviation. "TAF" is an acronym of Terminal Aerodrome Forecast or, in some countries, Terminal Area Forecast.
Terminal Burrowing Behavior Terminal burrowing behavior is a term used to describe a paradoxical undressing sometimes observed in human cases of life-threatening hypothermia. People exhibiting such behavior shed their clothing in what is believed to be a primitive autonomous response originating from the brain stem.
Terminal City Terminal City are two comic book limited series published by DC Comics under their Vertigo imprint in 1996 and 1997, with, respectively nine and five issues. Dean Motter was the writer and Michael Lark was the artist for the series.
Terminal City (magazine) Terminal City was the name of a free independent weekly magazine created and edited by Darren Atwater. Terminal City was distributed in the Vancouver area until October 2005, at which time its publication was terminated by its new staff.
Terminal Control Area A Terminal Control Area or Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA) is an aviation term to describe a volume of controlled airspace set up at the confluence of airways in the vicinity of one or more major airports to protect traffic climbing out from and descending into the airports. As such it is a larger version of a Control Area.
Terminal Control Center A Terminal Control Center (also known as Terminal Radar Approach CONtrol or TRACON in the United States) is an Air Traffic Control Center usually located within the vicinity of a large airport. Typically, the Terminal Control Center controls aircraft within a 30-50 nautical mile (56 to 93 km) radius of the airport between the surface and 10,000 feet.
Terminal degree A terminal degree is the generally accepted highest academic degree in a field of study. While an academic (or research) doctorate is considered the terminal degree in most academic fields of study, professions may consider specific professional degrees as the terminal degree, and some fields have, through custom, terminal degrees which are not doctorates.
Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase, also known as TdT and terminal transferase, is a specialized DNA polymerase expressed in immature, pre-B, pre-T lymphoid cells, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma cells. TdT adds N-nucleotides to the variable, diversity, and joining exons during antibody gene recombination.
Terminal Frost "Terminal Frost" is an instrumental from Pink Floyd's 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason. As with both parts of "A New Machine", a live version was never officially released by the band.
Terminal hair Terminal hair is developed hair, which is generally longer, coarser, thicker, and darker than the shorter and finer vellus hair. Phases of growth in terminal hair are more apparent than in vellus hair; terminal hair generally has a longer anagen phase.
Terminal High The term Terminal High is noun used to describe a Feeling one has during the after effects of smoking Marijuana. Although the term high, or stoned when being used in this context does not necessarily have the same definition of terminal high.
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD - formerly "Theater High Altitude Area Defense") is a United States Army project to develop an anti-ballistic missile defense system, against theater or regional threats. The THAAD system is intended to engage incoming missiles by firing its own interceptor missile at the threat, which are then destroyed by colliding with them, utilizing hit-to-kill-technology.
Terminal illness Terminal illness is a medical term popularized in the 20th century for an active and progressive disease which cannot be cured and is expected to lead to death and/or death due to symptoms of disease. Palliative care is often prescribed to manage symptoms and improve quality of life.
Terminal Illness Insurance Terminal Illness Insurance (known as Accelerated Death benefit in North America) pays out a capital sum if the policyholder is diagnosed with a terminal illness from which the policyholder is expected to die within 12 months of diagnosis, by a physician who specialises in that illness or condition.
Terminal Island Terminal Island is an artificial island located in Los Angeles County, California between Los Angeles Harbor and Long Beach Harbor. Originally a mudflat known to the Spanish as Isla Raza de Buena Gente, and later called Rattlesnake Island, it has officially been Terminal Island since 1918.
Terminal MarĂ­timo de Ponta da Madeira The Ponta da Madeira Maritime Terminal, owned by mining company CVRD, sits next to the public port of Itaqui, in the state of MaranhĂŁo, in northern Brazil. It was chosen as the terminus of the Estrada de Ferro Carajas, where trains unload iron ore for shipping overseas, mainly to Europe and Eastern Asia.
Terminal One Mall Terminal One Mall (commonly abbreviated as Terminal or T1 by the locals) is a shopping mall located at the heart of the busy town of Seremban in Malaysia. It is a popular hangout for ACS and Methodist High School students as they are situated opposite the mall.
Terminal Radar Service Area In United States aviation, a Terminal Radar Service Area (TRSA) is a delimited airspace in which radar and air traffic control services are made available to pilots flying under instrument flight rules or (optionally) visual flight rules for the purposes of maintaining aircraft separation.
Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks The Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks is a "Switching and Terminal Railroad" according to the AAR. It operates on about 75 miles ( km) of track and is a subsidiary of the Alabama State Port Authority.
Terminal Railway Post Office Terminal railway post offices were sorting facilities which were established by the Railway Mail Service to speed the distribution of parcel post. These offices were usually located in or near railroad stations in major cities or junction points.
Terminal Reality Terminal Reality is a video game development and production company based out of Lewisville, Texas. Founded in 1994 by ex-Microsoft employee Mark Randel and former Mallard Software general manager Brett Combs, Terminal Reality develops a variety of games including racing games (such as 4x4 EVO 2), 3D action games (such as BloodRayne), and more.
Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (TRFLP or sometimes T-RFLP) is a molecular biology technique initially developed for characterizing bacterial communities in mixed-species samples. The technique has also been applied to other groups including soil fungi.
Terminal sedation Terminal sedation (also known as palliative sedation, or sedation for intractable distress in the dying/of a dying patient) is the practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a patient's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative drug.

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