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Túpac Amaru II
Túpac Amaru II, born José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera (1738-1781), was a Quechua cacique who led the 1780-1781 Great Rebellion against Spanish rule in Peru, the largest indigenous uprising in colonial Spanish America, and was executed in Cusco on 18 May 1781.
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru, MRTA) was a Peruvian Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organization that fought the Peruvian state from 1984 until the late 1990s.
Túpac Huallpa
Túpac Huallpa, also rendered Toparpa, was a son of the Inca emperor Huayna Capac whom Pizarro installed as puppet Sapa Inca in 1533; he died weeks later.
Túpac Inca Yupanqui
Túpac Inca Yupanqui (Thupa Inka Yupanki) was the tenth Inca emperor, son and successor of Pachacuti, reigning from about 1471 to 1493 and consolidating the empire's borders.
Túpac Katari
Túpac Katari, born Julián Apaza, was an Aymara indigenous leader of Upper Peru who led the siege of La Paz in 1781 and was executed that November.
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), also 2Pac or Makaveli, American rapper and actor, West Coast hip-hop icon. Born Lesane Parish Crooks; son of Black Panther Afeni Shakur; albums 2Pacalypse Now and All Eyez on Me; killed in Las Vegas 1996, killer convicted 2026.
Tupac Yupanqui
Tupac Yupanqui (Thupa Yupanki), also written Topa Inca Yupanqui, ruled the Inca state from 1471 to 1493 and brought most of the Central Andes under Inca rule.
Tupai Medical
Tupai Medical (图湃医疗) is a Chinese medical device startup founded in 2017 as a Tsinghua University technology-transfer project, headquartered in Beijing and known for ophthalmic OCT and surgical microscopes.
Tupaia
Tupaia (tree shrews), genus of 15 Southeast Asian squirrel-like mammals in order Scandentia, closer to primates than rodents; Tupaia belangeri is a key laboratory model for hepatitis, myopia, and stress research.
Tupaia (navigator)
Tupaia (c.1725–1770), Ra'iātean high priest, arioi, and star navigator, joined Cook's Endeavour in 1769 as guide, interpreter, and diplomat, drew the famous 74-island Pacific chart, mediated with Māori, and died in Jakarta in 1770.
Tupaia belangeri
Tupaia belangeri, the northern treeshrew (北树鼩), is a squirrel-like Scandentia mammal from South and Southeast Asia, a dichromat, IUCN Least Concern, and a primate-related biomedical model animal.
Tupaia glis
Tupaia glis, the common treeshrew (Sorex glis, Diard 1820, Penang Island), is a small diurnal Scandentia mammal of the Malay Peninsula region; Least Concern, EOO 273,160 km², monogamous, omnivorous, a taxonomically revised species complex.
Tupaiidae
Tupaiidae, treeshrews, family of the order Scandentia of small Southeast Asian mammals most closely related to primates; genera Tupaia, Dendrogale, Anathana; most species diverged within the past 20 million years.
Tupamaros
Tupamaros (MLN-T), Uruguayan urban guerrilla movement founded 1965, named for Túpac Amaru; rejected rural foco warfare, fought 1963–1973, was crushed by the army in 1972, and later reentered politics via the Frente Amplio.
Tupan Patera
Tupan Patera, a 79-km-wide active volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at 141°W, 19°S, named for a Tupi-Guarani thunder god; persistent hot spot with lava-lake activity, ~26 m³/s effusion, colorful sulfur-lava surface.
Tupanvirus
Tupanvirus (Tupanvirus soda lake, Tupanvirus deep ocean) is a genus of tailed giant Mimiviridae viruses discovered in 2018 in Brazilian soda lakes and deep-ocean sediments, with the longest viral tail known and a nearly complete translation apparatus lacking only the ribosome.
Tupelo Honey
Tupelo honey is a monofloral honey from white tupelo gum trees along Florida's Choctawhatchee, Apalachicola, and Ochlockonee rivers, prized for flavor and resistance to granulation; also a 1971 Van Morrison album and a restaurant chain.
Tupelo, Mississippi
Tupelo, Mississippi: Lee County city of about 38,000 in the Mississippi Hills, birthplace of Elvis Presley, first TVA-electrified city, regional retail and healthcare hub anchored by North Mississippi Medical Center.
Tupi language
Old Tupi (Tupi Antigo, Língua Brasílica) is the extinct classical Tupi-Guarani language of Brazil's coast, documented by Anchieta's 1595 grammar, source of thousands of Portuguese words and place names, surviving through Nheengatu.
Tupi oil field
Tupi is a giant offshore oil field in the Santos Basin pre-salt, Brazil, discovered in 2006 and operated by Petrobras; it was renamed Lula from 2010 to 2020.
Tupi–Guarani languages
Tupi–Guarani languages: largest, most widespread branch of the Tupían family, ~40 living languages from Paraguayan Guaraní (6M+ speakers, co-official in Paraguay) to endangered Aché and Kawahíva; origin ~2500 BP in the Tapajós–Xingu area.
Tupian languages
Tupian languages, also called the Tupi language family, form one of South America's largest language stocks, spoken from Brazil's Atlantic coast to Peru, with roughly 40 to 74 languages.
Tupilak
In Greenlandic Inuit belief, a tupilak was a malevolent spirit secretly created to harm an enemy, later carved in bone, tooth, or stone as a major Greenlandic art form.
Tupilco Profundo Oil and Gas Field
Tupilco Profundo is an onshore oil and gas field in Comalcalco, Tabasco, Mexico, discovered in 2021 and operated by PEMEX, reaching 109.1 thousand barrels per day in 2023.
Tupile Labyrinthus
Tupile Labyrinthus is an 84-km IAU-named labyrinth terrain (intersecting valleys and ridges) in Titan's south polar terrain at 80.5°S, 32.2°W, approved July 20, 2015 and named after the Dune sanctuary planet; it is the type example of a remnant-ridge labyrinth.
Tupinambá oral tradition
Tupinambá oral tradition is the spoken transmission of history, myth, and ritual practice of the Tupinambá people of the Brazilian coast, recorded by French observers from the 1550s.
Tupinambis
Tupinambis, tegus, a genus of large teiid lizards (Daudin, 1803) from northern South America east of the Andes; eight species including T. teguixin, heavily traded for skins, all CITES Appendix II.
Tupinier Islands
Tupinier Islands (Islotes Tupinier), a group of nine small ice-free Antarctic islands off Cockerell Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula, charted by Dumont D'Urville 1837-40; major Chinstrap Penguin colony and Important Bird Area.
Tupkish
Tupkish (Tupkiš) was a Hurrian king of Urkesh, a city at Tell Mozan in northeastern Syria, whose palace is dated to about 2250 BC in the Akkadian period.
Tupkish dynasty of Urkesh
The Tupkish dynasty was the Hurrian ruling house of the ancient city of Urkesh at Tell Mozan in northeastern Syria, founded by King Tupkish around 2250 BC.