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Tula samovar

The Tula samovar (тульский самовар) is a charcoal-fueled water-heating vessel for tea made in Tula, Russia, which by 1850 had some 28 factories producing about 120,000 samovars a year.

Tula-Villa de Reyes Gas Pipeline

The Tula-Villa de Reyes Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto Tula – Villa de Reyes) is a 420 km natural gas pipeline in central Mexico built for the utility CFE.

Tula, Russia

Tula (Тула) is a Russian city, oblast center 185 km from Moscow, first mentioned in 1146. Known for its 1520 kremlin, the 1712 Peter I arms factory, the Arms Museum, samovars, and gingerbread.

Tulaji Angre

Tulaji Angre (तुळाजी आंग्रे), son of admiral Kanhoji Angre, led the Maratha fleet from Vijaydurg until a joint Peshwa and English force captured him in 1756.

Tulancingo

Tulancingo, formally Tulancingo de Bravo, is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, the state's second city, on the route between the Central Plateau and the Gulf coast.

Tulane Green Wave football

Tulane Green Wave football: Tulane University's FBS team in New Orleans, American Conference, playing at Yulman Stadium since 1893. Known for three SEC titles, the unbeaten 1998 season, the 2023 Cotton Bowl win over USC, and its 2025 CFP debut.

Tulane School of Architecture

Tulane School of Architecture, since 2025 the Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment, is Tulane University's New Orleans architecture school, founded 1894, NAAB-accredited B.Arch and M.Arch, housed in renovated Richardson Memorial Hall.

Tulane University

Tulane University, formally the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, tracing its founding to the Medical College of Louisiana of 1834, the Deep South's first medical school.

Tulare County, California

Tulare County, California: Central Valley county created 1852, seat Visalia, population about 485,000. Top US agricultural county ($8.6 billion 2022 crop value, milk leading); named for drained Tulare Lake; Tulare Lake Subbasin under SGMA probation since 2024.

Tulare Lake

Tulare Lake, called Pa'ashi by the Yokuts, was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River in California's San Joaquin Valley, drained by the 1920s for agriculture; it reemerges in wet years such as 2023, and its groundwater subbasin entered SGMA probation in 2024.

Tularemia

Tularemia (rabbit fever, deer fly fever), zoonotic disease from Francisella tularensis; tick-borne and animal-associated, ulceroglandular to pneumonic forms, treated with aminoglycosides, fluoroquinolones, or tetracyclines; Tier 1 bioterrorism agent.

Tulasi (తులసి) (actress)

Tulasi (తులసి), or Tulasi Shivamani, born 1967 in Chennai, is an Indian actress with over 300 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi, a child star turned screen-mother character actress.

Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid

Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid (طليحة بن خويلد) was a soothsayer and chief of the Banu Asad in Najd who claimed prophethood during the ridda, was defeated at Buzakha in 632, and later fought for the Rashidun caliphate.

Tulemaodu Ancient City Site

Tulemaodu Ancient City Site (吐列毛杜古城遗址) is a Jin-dynasty (1115–1234) walled city in Horqin Right Wing Middle Banner, Inner Mongolia, seat of a Jin frontier military command.

Tulenkantajat

Tulenkantajat, Finnish for "Torch Bearers," was a Finnish literary and artistic group of the 1920s known for renewing Finnish poetry and advocating cosmopolitanism; members included Katri Vala and Mika Waltari.

Tulevik

Viljandi JK Tulevik (JK Tulevik Viljandi) is an Estonian football club from Viljandi, founded 1912, 1999 Meistriliiga runners-up, former FC Flora farm team, now an Esiliiga B youth-focused club.

Tuli Mons

Tuli Mons is a volcanic feature on Venus at 13.3°N, 314.6°E in Guinevere Planitia, named in 1997 for the Samoan goddess of creation; low-relief (~600 m) edifice field of small volcanoes, part of the Laufey Regio rise and the Tuli Mons/Uilata Fluctus flow complex.

Tulio de Oliveira

Tulio de Oliveira is a Brazilian-born South African bioinformatician who directs CERI at Stellenbosch University and KRISP, and led the team that identified the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in 2021.

Tulip

Tulip (Tulipa L., Liliaceae): bulbous genus of about 95-98 species native from Europe and the Mediterranean to Mongolia; garden tulip T. gesneriana; Central Asian origin; Tulipmania 1633-1637; many wild species threatened.

Tulip breaking virus

Tulip breaking virus (TBV), a potyvirus spread by aphids, causes the striped "broken" tulips prized in 17th-century Dutch Tulipomania; proven viral by Dorothy Cayley in 1928, it disrupts anthocyanin pigment in pink, red, and purple cultivars.

Tulip cultivation

Tulip cultivation is the horticulture of growing tulips, covering bulb production, greenhouse forcing, classifying 15 cultivar divisions, and breeding; the Netherlands grows about 70% of the world's bulbs.

Tulip divisions

Tulip divisions are the 15 horticultural categories into which registered tulip cultivars are grouped by flower shape and, for the last four divisions, botanical origin, fixed since 1981.

Tulip Era

The Tulip Era (Lâle Devri) was a period of Ottoman history from 1718 to 1730, under Sultan Ahmed III and grand vizier Ibrahim Pasha, ended by the Patrona Halil revolt.

Tulip Fever

Tulip Fever (2017) is Justin Chadwick's period drama, from Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Deborah Moggach's 1999 novel, starring Alicia Vikander and Dane DeHaan; a long-delayed flop scoring 10% on Rotten Tomatoes and $2.4 million at the US box office.

Tulip Interfaces

Tulip Interfaces is a Somerville, Massachusetts software company founded in 2014 by Natan Linder and Rony Kubat out of the MIT Media Lab, building a no-code, AI-native platform for frontline manufacturing operations.

Tulip Joshi

Tulip Joshi (screen name Sanjana; Tulip Vinod Nair) is an Indian actress, born September 11 in Mumbai, who debuted in YRF's Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai (2002), played Kalki in Matrubhoomi (2005), worked in Hindi, Punjabi, and South Indian films, led Star Plus's Airlines, and is now a Vancouver-based artist.

Tulip mania

Tulip mania, also called the Dutch tulip craze, was a speculative boom in tulip bulb prices in the Dutch Republic that collapsed in February 1637.

Tulip Period art

Tulip Period art (Lâle Devri sanatı) is Ottoman art and architecture of 1718–1730 under Ahmed III, known for a new floral style and Levni's miniatures.

Tulip Revolution

The Tulip Revolution was the popular uprising in Kyrgyzstan of March 2005, triggered by flawed parliamentary elections, that ended Askar Akayev's 14-year rule when protesters stormed the government headquarters in Bishkek.

Tulip Siddiq

Tulip Siddiq (born 1982), Labour Co-operative MP for Hampstead and Highgate, niece of Sheikh Hasina and granddaughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman; Economic Secretary to the Treasury 2024–25, resigned January 2025 over Bangladesh corruption allegations she disputes.