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Tail of the Sun Tail of the Sun (Japan: 太陽のしっぽ / Taiyou no Shippo: Wild, Pure, Simple Life) is a 3D hunting/gathering simulation game in which your ultimate objective is to build a tower of mammoth tusks that reaches the sun. To this end, you must gather enough food for your tribe to thrive and multiply, while exploring a large map full of various creatures and oddities.
Tail O' the Pup Tail O' the Pup is an iconic Los Angeles, California hot dog stand actually shaped like a hot dog. Built in 1946, the small, walk-up stand has been noted as a prime example of "mimic"-type novelty architecture.
Tail packing In computing, tail packing or tail merging is a feature of file systems whereby multiple "tails" of files are "packed" into a single allocation unit (block), in order to conserve space by reducing internal fragmentation. It can be considered a special case of block suballocation where the subblock size is always 1 byte.
Tail recursion In computer science, tail recursion (or tail-end recursion) is a special case of recursion that can be easily transformed into an iteration. Such a transformation is possible if the recursive call is the last thing that happens in a function.
Tail rotor The tail rotor of a helicopter is mounted on the tail of a traditional single-rotor helicopter, close to perpendicular to the main rotor. It is primarily used in order to counteract the yaw motion and the torque that a rapidly turning disk naturally produces.
Tail-chase engagement A tail-chase engagement (or rear-aspect engagement) is one where a surface-to-air missile system or jet aircraft engages another aircraft while the target aircraft is flying away from the attacker. This makes engagement with cannons or infra-red homing missiles easier because of the minimal lateral target movement relative to the attacker and the fact that the hot engine exhaust nozzle(s) are pointing directly at the attacker, making the infra-red seeker's task of tracking the target much easier.
Tailapa II Tailapa II (973 – 997 CE) (or Ahavamalla) had titles Nurmadi Taliapa and Satyashraya Kulatilaka. He re-established the Western Chalukya dynasty after a period of 220 years during which time they had been in eclipse.
Tailevu Tailevu is one of Fiji's fourteen Provinces. One of eight Provinces based in Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island, its 755 square kilometers occupy the south-eastern fringe of the island, along with some central areas.
Tailevu North (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji) Tailevu North Fijian Provincial Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians. (Of the remaining 48 seats, 23 are reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage).
Tailevu North Ovalau (Open Constituency, Fiji) Tailevu North Ovalau Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, are allocated by ethnicity). Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006.
Tailevu Rewa (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji) Tailevu Rewa Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-Fijians. (Of the remaining 52 seats, 27 are reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage).
Tailevu South (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji) Tailevu South Fijian Provincial Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians. (Of the remaining 48 seats, 23 are reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage).
Tailevu South Lomaiviti (Open Constituency, Fiji) Tailevu South Lomaiviti Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, are allocated by ethnicity). Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006.
Tailfin The tailfin era of automobile styling encompassed the 1950s and 1960s, peaking between 1958 and 1960. It was a style developed in the United States but spread its influence worldwide, as cars designed in all parts of the world picked up styling trends from the American automobile industry.
Tailgating Tailgating is the practice of driving on a road too closely behind another vehicle, such as less than the travel distance in two seconds or equivalently, one vehicle-length for every 5 mph of the current speed. It is generally considered to be impolite behaviour, and may also be illegal in some jurisdictions due to its increased potential for causing a car accident.
Tailing pond Tailing ponds are areas of refused mining tailings that are covered with water to prevent dust from blowing away. Tailings ponds are often a somewhat dangerous because the wastes deposited into the ponds are often toxic or corrosive or both.
Taillefer Taillefer (Latin Incisor-ferri, both meaning 'hewer of iron') was the surname of a Norman ioglere (juggler or jester) whose exact name and place of birth are unknown (sometimes his first name is given as "Ivo"). He travelled to England during the Norman Invasion of 1066, in the train of William the Conqueror.
Taillight shark The taillight shark, Euprotomicroides zantedeschia, is a rare sleeper shark of the Dalatiidae family, the only member of the genus Euprotomicroides, found in the subtropical south Atlantic Ocean off South Africa and Uruguay between latitudes 30° S and 37° S. Their length is up to about 42 cm.
Taillon Taillon is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located in Longueuil and in the 1995 Quebec referendum it voted 61% for Quebec to separate.
Taillow are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Taillow in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Taillten Fair The Taillten Fair was an annual event held on Lughnasadh, aka Lammas Eve, (August 1st) in County Meath Ireland. It was the custom for couples to contract "year and a day" trial marriages at the fair.
Tailplane A tailplane, also known as horizontal stabilizer, is a small lifting surface located behind the main lifting surfaces of a fixed-wing aircraft as well as other non-fixed wing aircraft such as helicopters and gyroplanes. However, not all fixed-wing aircraft have tailplanes, such as those configured with canards (where the "tail-plane" is located in front), flying-wing aircraft, where there is no tail, and v-tail aircraft where the fin/rudder and tail-plane are combined to form two diagonal surfaces in a V layout.
Tails Adventure Tails Adventure (well-known in Japan as Tails Adventures) is a videogame developed by Aspect and distributed by Sega at the end of 1995 for the videogame console Sega Game Gear. It is the first game of the Sonic saga who mixes elements of roll and platform.
Tailsitter A tailsitter is a type of VTOL aircraft that launches and lands on its tail, something akin to a Buck Rogers type rocket, such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-X Delta Clipper. One of the most famous examples of this type of aircraft is the Ryan X-13 Vertijet.
Tailspot corydoras The tailspot corydoras, Corydoras caudimaculatus, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Guaporé River basin in Brazil.
Tailstrike Tailstrike is an aviation term that describes an event that occurs during takeoff of an airplane if the pilot pulls up too rapidly, leading to the rear end of the fuselage touching the runway. A tailstrike can also occur during landing if the pilot flares too aggressively.
Tailwater *Tailwater refers to a type of trout fishery. Tailwater fisheries are created at the outflow from large dams, where the size of the reservoir creates a steep temperature gradient, with colder water stored at the bottom of the reservoir near the outlet.
Tailwhip The tailwhip is a bike trick typically performed on a BMX, in which the frame of the bike performs a complete rotation around the front end (bars and forks), which remains stationary throughout the move. The same trick may also be performed on a kick scooter.
Taim Ecological Station The Taim Ecological Station, administered by IBAMA, was created in 1978, having an area of 33 815 hec. It is located in a narrow land strip between the Atlantic Ocean and the Lagoa Mirim, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Taima (whale) Taima is a trainsiet/Icelandic hybrid female killer whale who lives at Sea World Orlando in Florida. Her name means "Crash of Thunder" in a Native American Language and was born tail first around 16:45 EST during a thunderstorm.
Taimak Taimak (born Taimak Guarriello on June 24, 1964) is an American actor and martial artist. Born to an Italian father and African American mother, Taimak has studied Chinese goju, goju-ryu, taekwondo and jujitsu.
Taimei, Kumamoto Taimei (岱明町; -machi) was a town located in Tamana District, Kumamoto, Japan. On October 3, 2005 the town merged with two other towns into the expanded city of Tamana and no longer exists as an independent municipalty.
Taimur bin Feisal His Highness al-Wasik Billah al-Majid Sayyid Taimur bin Faisal bin Turki (1886 – 1965) (Arabic: تيمور بن فيصل بن تركي) was the sultan of Muscat and Oman from October 15, 1913 to February 10, 1932. He was born at Muscat and succeeded his father Faisal bin Turki as Sultan.
Tain Tain (Modern Gaelic: Baile Dhubhthaich, Duthac's town) is a royal burgh in the committee area of Ross and Cromarty, in the Highland area of Scotland. It is on the A9 road which links the south of Scotland with the far north (Caithness).
Tain Burghs (UK Parliament constituency) Tain Burghs, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832, sometimes known as Northern Burghs. It was represented by one Member of Parliament.
Taina Hernandez Taina Hernandez (born in Brooklyn, New York Biography on ABC web site ) is a correspondent for ABC News. She anchors the overnight broadcast "ABC World News Now" and appears regularly on "Good Morning America," and "World News.
Taina Impiö Taina Impiö is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed during the late 1970s. She won a gold medal in the 4 x 5 km at the 1978 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, and finished 5th in the 10 km event at those same championships.
Tainan City Tainan City (台南 or 臺南; Hanyu Pinyin/Tongyong Pinyin: Táinán, Wade-Giles: T'ai-nan; Taiwanese POJ: Tâi-lâm) (lit. “Taiwan south”) is a provincial city of Taiwan Province, Republic of China and is the fourth largest city of Taiwan island after Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung.
Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium(台南市立棒球場) is a multi-use stadium in Tainan, Taiwan. Situated in the southern district of Tainan City, it is currently used mostly for baseball games and has been the home stadium of Uni-President Lions since 1990.
Taint (slang) Taint (also Gooch and Chode) is a term used to refer to the perineum (the region of the human body between the testicles or vagina and the anus). This term has no basis in medical terminology and is most often considered lewd and mildly obscene.
Taint checking Taint checking is a feature in some computer programming languages, such as Perl and Ruby, designed to increase security by preventing malicious users from executing commands on a host computer. Taint checks highlight specific security risks primarily associated with web sites which are attacked using techniques such as SQL injection or buffer overflow attack approaches.
Tainted Blood Tainted Blood (Icelandic: Mýrin) is a crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, originally published in Iceland in 2000. The novel was first published in English as Jar City, but the title was changed for following editions.
Tainted Love / Where did our love Go? - (UK No.1) In early 1981, the then-unknown English synth pop duo Soft Cell was informed by their record label that they would not be recording any further singles unless their follow-up to "Memorabilia" was a chart hit. Soft Cell weighed recording a cover of "The Night" (which was subsequently recorded and released in 2003) but instead opted to record a radically reworked cover version of an obscure 1964 Gloria Jones track penned by Ed Cobb of The Four Preps.
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go EP Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go was an EP by synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell, released in Germany in 1983 on an unknown date. It contained four tracks two of which were on Non-stop Erotic Cabaret (Tainted Love, Say Hello Wave Goodbye) released in 1981.
Tainted Lovers "Tainted Lovers" is a song which came from the PlayStation 2 game, Gitaroo Man. It dips into the realm of heavy metal music as it includes a metal guitar solo, banshee-screaming licks and riffs, and jazz pipes and organs.
Tainter Lake Tainter Lake is a small reservoir in north central Dunn County, Wisconsin, on the Red Cedar River at its confluence with the Hay River. The lake was created by a hydroelectric dam (about 3 miles downstream from the main body of the lake itself) on the Red Cedar at Cedar Falls.
Taio Cruz Taio Cruz, 23, was born in London with Nigerian and Brazilian descent, and is a singer, produer, songwriter and performer. His most notable success has come from 'I Just Wanna Know' which was released on 30th October 2006, and reached a peak of 29 on the UK charts (11.
Taipa-Mangonui Taipa-Mangonui is the name given to a string of small resort settlements in the far north of New Zealand's North Auckland Peninsula, close to the base of the Aupouri Peninsula. The resorts of Taipa, Cable Bay, Cooper's Beach, and Mangonui, all of which lie along the coast of Doubtless Bay, are so close together that they have run together to form one larger settlement with a combined population of 1587 (2001 census).
Taipale Taypale, or Taipale () is a village in Russia, situated on the shore of Lake Ladoga on the Karelian Isthmus, approximately 100 kilometers east-south-east of the post-Winter War border of Finland. River Vuoksi's eastern armlet empties in Lake Ladoga at Taypale.
Taipan Taipans are large (up to 3 metres in length), fast, highly venomous Australian snakes, one of which, the Fierce Snake, has the most toxic venom of any land species worldwide. The taipan was named by Donald Thompson after the word used by the Wik Mungkan Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.
Taipei Taipei City (; Taiwanese: Tâi-pak-chhī) is the provisional capital of the Republic of China. It is Taiwan's center of politics, commercial, mass media, education, and pop culture, and today also is widely considered to be one of the "Gamma world cities".
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), sometimes known as Taipei Representative Offices, is a representative office fulfilling some of the functions of an embassy or consulate general, established by the Republic of China on Taiwan in countries that do not have official relations with the ROC, due to relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) in accordance with the One China Policy. These establishments use the term "Taipei" instead of "Taiwan" or "ROC" since the term "Taipei" avoids implying that Taiwan is a different country or that there are "Two Chinas", the PRC and the ROC.
Taipei Grand Mosque The Taipei Grand Mosque (Chinese: 臺北清真大寺; Hanyu Pinyin: Táiběi Qīngzhēn Dàsì) is the largest and most famous mosque in Taiwan with a total area of 2,747 square meters. Located in the Daan district of Taipei City, it is Taiwan's most important Islamic structure and was registered as a historic landmark on June 26, 1999 by the Taipei City Government.
Taipei Guest House Taipei Guest House (臺北賓館) is a historic baroque-style building on Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan). The building is now under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has been host to many foreign dignitaries
Taipei International Invitational Futsal Tournament The Taipei International Invitational Futsal Tournament () was held from October 27 to October 29, 2006 in Taipei, Taiwan. It was the first international futsal event in Taipei after helding the 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship.
Taipei Main Station Taipei Main Station (台北車站, literally The Taipei Station) refers to the old downtown region in Taipei City, Republic of China ( Taiwan ) where different types of public transport systems converge. The Taipei Railway Station is at the center of this region.
Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center The Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center (TaipeiEx) is a superimposed purpose-built exhibition complex, currently under construction, in Nangang, Taipei, which consists of two exhibition halls one over the other. It is located to the east of the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC), about 15 minutes’ drive from the TWTC along the Huangdong Expressway.
Taipei National University of the Arts The Taipei National University of the Arts (; abbreviation TNUA) is a national university at Kuandu of Beitou District, Taipei City, Taiwan. This university should not be mixed up with National Taiwan University of Arts (; abbreviation NTUA) at Banciao City.
Taipei Open Source Software User Group (TOSSUG) Taipei Open Source Software User Group (TOSSUG) is a group of free software] enthusiasts from [[Taipei and the surrounding area in Taiwan. The group welcomes everyone interested in free software running on all kinds of platforms conforming to the Free Software Definition set by the Free Software Foundation] or the [[Open Source Definition formulated by the Open Source Initiative].
Taipei World Trade Center Taipei World Trade Center, TWTC, was started in January, 1986 by Taiwan's foremost trade promotion organization, the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), to provide a single, modern venue that would combine exhibition space, conference facilities, offices, and hotel accommodation for international business. TWTC combines every possible service that brings together a vast consulting service on trade-related issues, trading partners, suppliers, and markets.
Taipei Youth Program Association The Taipei Youth Program Association (TYPA) is an independent non-profit foundation located on the campus of Taipei American School. TYPA caters to members of the international community in Taiwan; membership is restricted to holders of non-R.
Taipei Zoo The Taipei Zoo (臺北市立動物園) was founded in 1914 as a private zoological garden by a Japanese citizen. The Japanese government in Taipei City, Taiwan bought the property the following year, and opened it as a public park.
Taiping Rebellion The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale revolt against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted by an army and civil administration inspired by Hakka self-proclaimed mystics named Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing. Hong was an unorthodox Christian convert who declared himself the new Messiah and younger brother of Jesus Christ.
Taipoxin Taipoxin is an extremely potent poison developed by purifying the venom of the Australian taipan Oxyuranus scutellatus scutellatus. The toxin causes a gradual reduction to complete stop of evoked and spontaneous release of acetylcholine from motor nerve terminals.
Taira no Munemori (1147-1185) was heir to Taira no Kiyomori, and one of the Taira clan's chief commanders in the Genpei War. As his father Taira no Kiyomori lay on his deathbed, Kiyomori declared, among his last wishes, that all affairs of the clan be placed in Munemori's hands.
Taira no Noritsune (1160-1185) fought in the Genpei War battles of Mizushima, Ichi-no-Tani, and Dan-no-ura alongside his brethren in clan Taira. He is supposed to have died by drowning himself, at Dan-no-ura, while holding a Minamoto warrior under each arm.
Taira no Sadayoshi Taira no Sadayoshi (平貞義) was a governor of Higo and Chikugo provinces in Kyūshū, and a samurai commander for the Taira clan during the Genpei War of the 1180s. Following the war, his life was spared as a result of an intercession by Utsunomiya Tomotsuna.
Taira no Shigehira (1158-1185) was one of the sons of Taira no Kiyomori, and one of the Taira Clan's chief commanders during the Heian period of the 12th century of Japan. Following the Battle of Uji in 1180, Shigehira ordered the burning of Nara (see Siege of Nara).
Taira no Tadamori Taira no Tadamori (ĺąłĺż ç››)(1096-1153) was a Taira clan samurai, father of Taira no Kiyomori, and member of the Kebiishi (Imperial police force). He was also governor of the provinces of Harima, Ise, Bizen, and Tajima.
Tairona The Tairona can be best described as a Chiefdom level society from the region of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the present-day Magdalena and La Guajira Departments of Colombia, South America which goes back at least to the 1st century AD and showed significant demographic growth around in the 11th century. The Tairona people formed one of the two principal linguistic groups of the Chibcha family and were pushed into
Tairus Tairus (Russian: Тайрус, a portmanteau of Тайско (Thai) and Русский (Russian)) is a synthetic gemstone manufacturer. The company is a joint venture between the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Tairus Co.
Taisei Yokusankai The Taisei Yokusankai (大政翼賛会 Imperial Rule Assistance Association, or Imperial Aid Association) was created in 1940 by Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoye. He decided to end party politics in Japan; under the Shintaisen Doctrine he moved to dissolve all the traditional parties.
Taiseki-ji Taiseki-ji (大石寺; full name, 多宝富士大日蓮華山大石寺: Tahō Fuji Dainichirenge-zan Taiseki-ji) is the head temple (総本山: sōhonzan) of the Nichiren Shoshu school of the Nichiren branch of Japanese Buddhism. It is located on the lower slopes of Mt.
Taisen Deshimaru Taisen Deshimaru (birth name: Yasuo Deshimaru) (1914-1982) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. Born in the Saga Prefecture of Kyushu, Deshimaru was raised by his grandfather, a former Samurai before the Meiji Revolution, and by his mother, a devout follower of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism.
Taiser Town Taiser Town is one of the neighborhoods of Malir Development Authority in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It has been established to resettle people displaced due to the construction of Lyari Expressway along the Lyari River.
Taisha joseki The taisha joseki (大斜定石)is the Japanese term for the most celebrated of all joseki (standardized sequences) in the game of go. It is often described in go literature as having a thousand variations (太斜百変, literally 'hundreds'); this is more than a figure of speech, since many hundreds of subvariations have been documented, in high-level games, books and magazine articles.
Taishan Taishan (Mandarin]: Táishān; [[Standard Cantonese|Cantonese: Toisan; Taishan dialect: Hoisan, Other: Toishan, Toisaan) is a coastal county-level city in Guangdong Province, China. The city is located in the Pearl River Delta, southwest of Jiangmen (to which administratively belongs) and 140 kilometers west of Hong Kong, with a population of approximately 1 million. It also contains 95 islands and islets, including the largest island in Guangdong, Shangchuan Island.
Taishan dialect Hoisanese or the Taishan dialect (台山話: Hoi6 saan3 wa6, Cantonese: toi4 saan1 wa4), or Siyi (四邑; after the area of the same name), is a Chinese dialect (or group of very similar dialects) spoken in and around Taishan, a coastal county of the Guangdong province, located southwest of Guangzhou. Hoisanese is grouped within Cantonese, one of the major branches of spoken Chinese.
Taishang Huang Taishang Huang () was a Chinese title, sometimes translated in English as Retired Emperor, Grand Emperor or Emperor Emeritus used throughout East Asia, occasionally given to former emperors who had (at least in name) abdicated voluntarily to their sons. The title originated, however, from Liu Bang (Emperor Gao of Han)'s father Liu Zhijia (劉執嘉), who was honored as such after Liu Bang declared himself emperor in 202, even though Liu Zhijia was never emperor himself.
Taishi, Guangzhou Taishi village (太石村) is a small hamlet (population about 2,000), in the Panyu district of Guangzhou, China. It is most famous for being the flashpoint for democratic election reform in the region during 2005.
Taishō period The Taishō period (Japanese: 大正時代, Taishō-jidai, "period of great righteousness"), or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from 30 July 1912 to 25 December 1926, which coincides exactly with the reign of Emperor Taishō. The health of the new emperor was weak, which prompted the shift in political power from the old oligarchic group of "elder statesmen" (元老 genrō) to the Diet (国会) and the democratic parties.
Taisho, Kochi Taisho (大正町; -cho) was a town located in Hata District, Kochi, Japan. On March 20, 2006 the town merged with two other municipalities forming the new town of Shimanto in Takaoka District and no longer exists as in independent municipality.
Taisia Chenchik Taisia Filippovna Chenchik () (born 30 January, 1936 in Priluki) is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the High Jump. At the national level she competed for Burevestnik, training in Chelyabinsk (1956-62) and in Moscow (1963-69).
Tait (band) Tait is a Christian rock band formed by Michael Tait, one of the members of the legendary Christian band, dc Talk. When dc Talk went on hiatus around 1999, Michael started working unofficially with his own music, and formed the band officially in 2000.
Tait Tower Tait Tower (also known as Tait's Tower and officially as the Tower of Empire) was a tower in the art deco style constructed at the summit of Bellahouston Hill in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow in Scotland as part of the Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938.
Tait-Bryan angles In geometry, Tait-Bryan angles are three angles used to describe a general rotation in three-dimensional Euclidean space by three successive rotations, once about the x-axis, once about the y-axis, and once about the z-axis.
Taita-Taveta District Taita Taveta-District is a region in Kenya found in the Coast Province 200 km NW of Mombasa and 360 km SE of Nairobi city in Latitude 3 20" and 38 15" longitude. The district covers an area of 16,975 km sq.
Taitao Peninsula The Taitao Peninsula (Spanish: "PenĂ­nsula de Taitao") is a westward projection of the mainland of Chile, with which it is connected by the narrow Isthmus of Ofqui, over which the natives and early missionaries were accustomed to carry their boats between the Moraleda Channel and Gulf of Penas. It is situated in the Aysen Region and a part of this peninsula is located inside the boundaries of Laguna San Rafael National Park.
Taitazak Taitazak was the name of a prominent Spanish family, several members of which distinguished themselves as Talmudic authorities. Various opinions have been expressed as to the origin of the name, the exact orthography and signification of which cannot be ascertained.
Taiten Kusunoki Taitem Kusunoki (Japanese: 楠 大典 Kusunoki Taiten, born on March 18, 1967) is the professional name of the anime voice actor Daisuke Fukuda (福田 大典 Fukuda Daisuke). He is originally from Machida, Tokyo.
Taito Waqavakatoga Taito Waqavakatoga is a Fijian political leader and former civil servant who served as President of the Senate from 2001 to 2006, when he retired from that body. He was chosen to represent Rewa Province as one of 14 nominees of the Great Council of Chiefs, and the Senate subsequently elected him to preside over the upper chamber of the nation's legislature.
Taittinger family The Taittinger family are a French family who are famous producers of champagne. Headed by Claude Taittinger (born 1927), a member of the consultative committee of the Banque de France, the Taittinger Group is ranked in the top 250 businesses in France.
Taittiriya Brahmana The Taittiriya Brahmana (TB) is the Brahmana associated with the Taittiriya shakha of the Black Yajurveda. The Taittiriya school is the only school of the Black Yajurveda to have a Brahmana additional to the commentary already interspersed in the Samhita.
Taiwan Taiwan (; Taiwanese: Tâi-oân) is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the territories administered by the Republic of China (ROC), a state whose effective area of administration consists of the island of Taiwan, Lanyu (Orchid Island) and Green Island in the Pacific off the Taiwan coast, the Pescadores in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and Matsu off the southeast coast of the territories administered by the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Taiwan angelshark The Taiwan angelshark, Squatina formosa, is an angel shark of the family Squatinidae found around Taiwan between latitudes 24° N and 22° N, at depths of between 185 and 220 m. Its length is up to 46 cm for an immature female - there are no adult specimens.
Taiwan Affairs Office The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council (Simplified Chinese: 国务院台湾事务办公室 pinyin: Guówùyuàn Táiwān Shìwù Bàngōngshì , sometimes abbreviated to 国台办) is an administrative agency under the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It is responsible for setting and implementing guidelines and policies related to Taiwan, as stipulated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council.
Taiwan Beer Taiwan Beer (台灣啤酒, Táiwān Píjǐu, or 台啤, TáiPí) is a beer brewed by the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation (formerly the Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Monopoly Bureau before privatization). It is currently the most popular beer in Taiwan with a marketshare of almost 80%.
Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, USA Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1966 by Venerable Master Cheng Yen in the impoverished east coast of Taiwan. The Foundation has been contributing to better social and community services, medical care, education and humanism in Taiwan for nearly 40 years.
Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions The Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions (TCTU; 全國產業總工會) is a national trade union center in Taiwan. It was established in 1997, but did not receive official recognition from the government until May 1, 2000.
Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League The Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League () is one of the eight legally-recognised political parties in the People's Republic of China that follow the direction of the Communist Party of China and are member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

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