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Tufa

Tufa is a porous calcium carbonate rock precipitated from ambient-temperature, carbonate-rich spring, stream, and lake waters, distinguished from thermal travertine; it records paleoclimate and is threatened by nutrient-driven eutrophication.

Tufa- and travertine-depositing spring

A tufa- or travertine-depositing spring is a spring whose calcium-bicarbonate-rich water deposits calcium carbonate as stone, building dams and cascades like those at Plitvice Lakes.

Tufal Khan

Tufal Khan (تفل خان) was a minister of Berar who ruled as regent for Burhan Imad Shah from 1562 until Ahmadnagar conquered the kingdom in 1574.

Tuff

Tuff, also known as ashstone or volcanic tuff, is a volcanic rock formed when ash and pyroclastic fragments from an explosive eruption consolidate, and it is used as a building stone.

Tuff Hedeman

Tuff Hedeman (Richard Neale Hedeman, born 1963, El Paso, Texas), American bull rider; PRCA world champion 1986, 1989, 1991 and PBR world champion 1995; PBR co-founder and president 1992-2003.

Tuffaceous sandstone

Tuffaceous sandstone is a sand-grade sedimentary rock containing 25% to 75% volcanic particles, chiefly pyroclastic material such as volcanic glass and ash, mixed with ordinary sand grains, intermediate between sandstone and tuff.

Tuffeau stone

Tuffeau (pierre de tuffeau) is a soft, 48–51% porous white Turonian limestone from the Loire Valley, France, used since Gallo-Roman times for châteaux, troglodyte dwellings, and restoration work.

Tufted angioma

Tufted angioma, formerly known as angioblastoma of Nakagawa, is a rare, benign blood vessel tumor that usually forms on the skin of infants and young children.

Tufted puffin

Tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata), largest puffin, North Pacific auk breeding from Big Sur, California to Hokkaido; ~3 million birds, mostly Alaska; carries up to ~20 fish crosswise; declining at southern range edges.

Tufted titmouse

Tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor), eastern North American crested songbird of the Paridae; gray with black forehead and rusty flanks, peter-peter-peter song, cavity nester, range expanded ~300-500 miles north, population ~11-12 million.

Tufts Medical Center

Tufts Medical Center, Boston academic medical center descended from the 1796 Boston Dispensary founded with Paul Revere and Samuel Adams; 415-bed principal teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine, Level I trauma center, flagship of Tufts Medicine.

Tufts University

Tufts University (Pax et Lux), private research university founded 1852 near Boston; four campuses, ten schools; R1 Carnegie; Fletcher School oldest graduate-only international relations school; FY2025 endowment $2.8 billion.

Tug McGraw

Tug McGraw (Frank Edwin McGraw, 1944–2004), left-handed screwball relief pitcher for the Mets and Phillies; 180 saves, 1969 and 1980 World Series champion, "Ya Gotta Believe" mantra, father of Tim McGraw.

Tug of war

Tug of war, or rope pulling, is an eight-a-side team strength sport governed by TWIF (founded 1960), an Olympic event 1900-1920 and a World Games sport since 1981, with weight classes by combined team weight.

Tug of War (Paul McCartney album)

Tug of War, Paul McCartney's third solo album (26 April 1982, Parlophone), produced by George Martin after Wings' split; features Here Today and Ebony And Ivory with Stevie Wonder; UK number one, 1983 Grammy nominee.

TUG1

TUG1 (taurine up-regulated 1, LINC00080) is a human lncRNA gene at 22q12.2, discovered in taurine-treated mouse retinal cells, a p53-regulated PRC2-binding transcript dysregulated in cancers, kidney disease, and autoimmune disease.

Tuga za jug

T'ga za jug (Т'га за југ, "Longing for the South") is an 1860 elegy by Konstantin Miladinov expressing homesickness for his native Struga and Ohrid.

Tugboat

A tugboat, also called a fleet tug, is a powerful small boat that pulls or pushes larger ships and barges in harbors, restricted waters, and at sea.

Tugela Falls

Tugela Falls, South African tiered waterfall on the Tugela River in the Drakensberg's Amphitheatre, KwaZulu-Natal; 948 m over five tiers, tallest drop 411 m; Africa's highest and rival to Angel Falls for world's tallest by total height.

Tugger train

A tugger train (German: Routenzug) is an in-plant material handling system in which a towing tractor pulls linked trailers along fixed, timed routes, delivering parts to production stations.

Tuggeranong

Tuggeranong is a district of southern Canberra, Australia, established in 1973 as the city's third satellite town. Its name means 'cold plain'; the 2021 Census recorded 89,461 residents.

Tughlaq (play)

Tughlaq is a thirteen-scene historical play in Kannada by Girish Karnad, published in 1964, dramatizing the fourteenth-century Delhi Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq, whose idealism ends in tyranny.

Tughlaq Durbar

Tughlaq Durbar (துக்ளக் தர்பார்), aka Tughlaq Darbar, is a 2021 Tamil political comedy-drama directed by Delhi Prasad Deenadayal, starring Vijay Sethupathi as a scheming politician with a conscience-driven split personality; it premiered on Sun TV on 10 September 2021 and streamed on Netflix.

Tughlaq dynasty

Tughlaq dynasty, third dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate (1320–1414), founded by Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq; reached greatest extent under Muhammad bin Tughlaq, declined after Firuz Shah and Timur's 1398 sack.

Tughlaqabad Mound

Tughlaqabad Mound, Delhi: the raised ground (up to 70 ft) bearing Tughlaqabad Fort, the walled capital built by Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, 1320–1325, third city of Delhi, abandoned within a generation.

Tughlugh Timur

Tughlugh Timur (Туғлуқ Темур) was a Chagatayid prince who became the first khan of Moghulistan, ruling from 1347 or 1348 until his death in 1362 or 1363.

Tughluq Shah II

Tughluq Shah II (تغلق خان), who reigned as Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq Shah II, was Sultan of Delhi from 1388 to 1389; the young grandson of Firuz Shah Tughluq was seized and killed by conspirators in February 1389.

Tughra (طغرا)

Tughra (طغرا, Turkish tuğra): the ornate calligraphic monogram and seal of an Ottoman sultan, bearing his name, father's name, titles, and "eternally victorious," used on firmans and coins from Orhan I until 1922.

Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent

The tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent (Kanuni Sultan Süleyman tuğrası) is the calligraphic imperial monogram of Ottoman sultan Suleiman I, applied to every royal edict of his reign.

Tughril Beg

Tughril Beg (طغرل بیک) founded the Great Seljuk state, ending Buyid rule in Baghdad in 1055 and ruling Iran and Iraq as sultan until his death in 1063.