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Tarebia granifera

Tarebia granifera, the quilted melania (Thiara granifera), is a parthenogenetic thiarid freshwater snail native to Southeast Asia, invasive in the Americas, Hawaii, and South Africa, reaching up to 21,000 snails per square meter and used as schistosomiasis biocontrol.

Tareekh-e Adab-e Urdu

Tareekh-e Adab-e Urdu ("History of Urdu Literature") is best known as Jameel Jalibi's widely read four-volume history of Urdu literature, begun in Lahore in 1975.

Tarek El Moussa

Tarek El Moussa is an American real estate investor and television personality who co-hosted HGTV's Flip or Flop with Christina Haack from 2013 to 2022 and built a house-flipping business.

Tarek Fatah (طارق فتح)

Tarek Fatah (طارق فتح), 1949–2023, Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author; founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress; columnist for the Toronto Sun; wrote Chasing a Mirage and The Jew Is Not My Enemy; died of cancer in Toronto at 73.

Tarek Mansour

Tarek Mansour is an American entrepreneur, born in California and raised in Lebanon, who co-founded the event-contracts exchange Kalshi in 2018 and serves as its CEO.

Tarekeniwal

Tarekeniwal is the name attached to pyramid Beg. N 19, a royal pyramid in the North Cemetery at Meroë; his reign dates remain hypothetical, since Meroitic chronology rests on tomb sequences.

Tarell Alvin McCraney

Tarell Alvin McCraney, American playwright and screenwriter from Miami's Liberty City, author of The Brother/Sister Plays and In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, basis of the Oscar-winning film Moonlight; MacArthur fellow, former Yale playwriting chair, Geffen Playhouse artistic director.

Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman

Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Australian-American activist, founded SumOfUs (now Ekō) in 2011, led New Media Ventures 2020-2022, co-founded Golden Gate Institute for AI, and was Aaron Swartz's fiancée.

Tarenflurbil

Tarenflurbil (MPC-7869, Flurizan, R-flurbiprofen) is a γ-secretase modulator developed by Myriad Genetics to lower Aβ42 in Alzheimer disease; its phase 3 trials failed and development was discontinued in 2008.

Tarentola

Tarentola, wall geckos (Phyllodactylidae) of the Mediterranean, Macaronesia, and the Americas; includes the Moorish gecko T. mauritanica; Miocene radiation, Cape Verde species flock, generalist urban and island predators.

Tareq Al Sadhan

Tareq Al Sadhan is a Saudi banking executive who led Riyad Bank from 2019 to 2024 and became Group CEO of the Saudi National Bank in 2024.

Tareq Salahi

Tareq Salahi, American winery owner and reality TV figure of Oasis Winery, Hume, Virginia; known for the 2009 White House state dinner gate-crashing and the family dispute that closed the winery.

Tarfaya Strip

The Tarfaya Strip, also known as the Cape Juby Strip, is a coastal territory in southern Morocco that Spain held as the southern zone of its protectorate from 1912 until returning it to Morocco in 1958.

Targa Florio

Targa Florio, Sicilian open-road motor race in the Madonie mountains, founded by Vincenzo Florio, first run 6 May 1906, won by Alessandro Cagno; 61 editions to 1977, World Championship round 1958-1973, Porsche 11 wins, a rally since 1978.

Targa Resources

Targa Resources is an American midstream energy company that gathers and processes natural gas, fractionates natural gas liquids, and exports LPG from the Texas Gulf Coast.

Targa top

A targa top is a car body style with a removable roof panel over the front seats and a fixed roll bar, named for the 1965 Porsche 911 Targa.

Target

A target is an object, person, place, or value at which an action, attack, or effort is directed; the word began as a term for a small shield.

Target archery

Target archery: shooting arrows at stationary circular ring targets at fixed distances, up to 90 m; recurve at 70 m, compound at 50 m. Olympic sport since 1972, governed by World Archery.

Target audience

A target audience is the specific group of consumers most likely to be interested in a product or service, and the focus of a marketing campaign.

Target Australia

Target Australia: Australian department store chain founded 1926 in Geelong as a drapery store, renamed Target Australia Pty Ltd in 1973, owned by Wesfarmers' Kmart Group since 2007, unrelated to US Target Corporation.

Target Canada

Target Canada was Target Corporation's Canadian retail subsidiary, launched in 2013 on 220 Zellers leases bought for $1.8 billion, reaching 133 stores before a 2015 CCAA wind-down costing about $7 billion.

Target Center

Target Center, Minneapolis arena opened October 1990, home of the NBA Timberwolves and WNBA Lynx, city-owned, 20,000 seats, $145 million 2017 renovation, second-oldest NBA arena.

Target Corporation

Target Corporation, formerly the Dayton Hudson Corporation, is an American general-merchandise discount retailer operating 1,978 stores with $106.6 billion in net sales in fiscal 2024.

Target costing

Target costing is a cost management method that subtracts a desired profit margin from a market-determined selling price, then designs the product to meet that cost.

Target engagement assay

A target engagement assay measures whether a drug or chemical probe binds its intended molecular target inside intact cells rather than only in purified-protein preparations, validating compound-target interactions in drug discovery.

Target Field

Target Field, Minneapolis ballpark home of MLB's Minnesota Twins since April 12, 2010; first outdoor home since Metropolitan Stadium, $545 million cost, LEED Platinum, 2014 All-Star Game.

Target fixation

Target fixation is an attentional phenomenon in which a person becomes so focused on an object or hazard that they steer toward it, a risk known especially in motorcycling.

Target group

A target group, often called a target audience or target population, is the specific set of people a program or message is intended to reach and influence.

Target Malaria

Target Malaria is a nonprofit research consortium developing gene drive mosquitoes to suppress malaria-transmitting populations, with field work in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Uganda, funded by the Gates Foundation and Open Philanthropy.

Target market

A target market, also called target marketing, is the group of people a business tries to reach through marketing, defined by shared demographics, geography, lifestyle, or buying behavior.