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Taishan Panshi San

泰山磐石散 (Taishan Panshi San), also 泰山磐石饮, a 12-ingredient Ming-dynasty Chinese medicine formula from Jingyue Quanshu that tonifies qi and blood to secure the fetus against threatened and habitual miscarriage.

Taishan power station

Taishan power station (神华国华粤电台山电厂) is a bituminous coal-fired power station at Tongluowan in Taishan City, Guangdong, China, with seven units totaling 5,000 MW online between 2003 and 2011.

Taishanese (台山话)

Taishanese (台山话, Hoisan-wa, Toishanese), the representative Siyi (四邑) Yue dialect of Taishan, Jiangmen, Guangdong, with about 4 million speakers, ten tones, and a historic role as the dominant Chinese language of North American Chinatowns.

Taishi Ci

Taishi Ci (太史慈), courtesy name Ziyi, was a military officer of the late Eastern Han who served Kong Rong, Liu Yao, and the Sun regime.

Taishi Code

The Taishi Code (泰始律), also called the Jin Code, was the penal code of China's Western Jin dynasty, completed in 267 and promulgated in 268.

Taishi Takenobu

Taishi Takenobu (竹延 大志) is a Japanese applied physicist and professor at Nagoya University since 2016, known for controlled amphoteric doping of carbon nanotubes and room-temperature chiral light-emitting diodes.

Taishin Financial Holdings

Taishin Financial Holdings, later TS Financial Holding Co., Ltd., was a Taiwanese bank-led financial holding company founded in 2002 and renamed in 2025 after merging with Shin Kong Financial Holding.

Taishō (era)

Taishō (大正) is the Japanese era name for the years 1912 to 1926, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Taishō and known for the liberal period called Taishō Democracy.

Taishō Democracy

Taishō Democracy (大正デモクラシー) is the name historians give to Japan's democratic and liberal movements and era of party-based government, from about 1905 to the mid-1920s.

Taishō Political Change

The Taishō Political Change (大正政変) was the fall of Katsura Tarō's cabinet in February 1913 amid Japan's first Movement for the Defense of Constitutional Government.

Taishū bungaku

Taishū bungaku (大衆文学), also called taishū bungei, is Japanese mass literature written for popular entertainment, in contrast with junbungaku, or pure literature, taking shape after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.

Taison

Taison (Taison Barcellos Freda, born 1988, Pelotas) is a Brazilian left winger for PAOK; ex-Shakhtar Donetsk captain with six Ukrainian league titles, 8 Brazil caps, and Copa Libertadores 2010 winner with Internacional.

Taissa Farmiga

Taissa Farmiga (born 1994), American actress, youngest sister of Vera Farmiga; known for American Horror Story (Violet, Zoe), The Nun's Sister Irene, The Bling Ring, and Gladys Russell in The Gilded Age.

Taisui (太岁) (biological object)

Taisui (太岁), or "unidentified biological objects," are large meat-like objects unearthed from soil in China, recorded since the Shan Hai Jing; analyses variously identify them as microbial mats, slime mold complexes, or polyvinyl alcohol masses.

Tait D. Shanafelt

Tait D. Shanafelt, also published as Tait Shanafelt, is an American hematologist-oncologist, Stanford's first chief wellness officer since 2017, known for burnout research and the E1912 CLL trial.

Tait Reynolds

Tait Reynolds (born 2007) is an American college football quarterback for the Clemson Tigers, a true freshman from Queen Creek, Arizona who became Clemson's starter in September 2026; a two-sport star, he was Arizona's 2024 high school player of the year and won a 6A baseball title.

Taita (Luwian king)

Taita (Luwian Taitas) was the earliest known king of Palistin, an early Iron Age kingdom of the 'Amuq plain and northern Syria, dated to the 11th or 10th century BC.

Taitagan Island

Taitagan Island, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines (Cebuano and Filipino: Taitagan Island), a low 5-metre island in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao at 5.18°N, 120.05°E, near Languyan; distinct from a second Taitagan Islet in the Philippines.

Taitailei

Taitailei is an alternate name for the Taitao Peninsula (Península de Taitao), a Chilean peninsula in Aysén near the Chile Triple Junction, known for ridge subduction, the Taitao ophiolite, and its role as a biogeographic barrier.

Taite

Taite, also written Taidu, was a Hurrian city of the Mitanni kingdom in Upper Mesopotamia during the Late Bronze Age, sought in the Khabur region.

Taitō (台東区)

Taitō (台東区), a Tokyo special ward formed 15 March 1947 by merging Shitaya and Asakusa wards, covers 10.11 km² with about 200,000 residents; it contains Sensō-ji, Ueno Park, and the Tokyo National Museum.

Taito (株式会社タイトー)

Taito Corporation is a Japanese video game and amusement company headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1953, best known for the 1978 arcade hit Space Invaders.

Taiwan (district)

District (區) is a second-level administrative division of Taiwan, existing only under the six special municipalities and three cities. Unlike townships, districts are not self-governing: district offices are city-government branches headed by mayor-appointed district heads, except six indigenous districts.

Taiwan (landform)

Taiwan, called Formosa by 16th-century Portuguese sailors, is a mountainous island of about 36,000 square kilometers east of the Asian mainland, with more than 200 peaks above 3,000 meters.

Taiwan and weapons of mass destruction

Taiwan (Republic of China) never built nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons but ran a covert nuclear program from 1964 until US pressure shut it down in 1988; it ratified the NPT in 1970 and accepts IAEA safeguards.

Taiwan Beer (台湾啤酒)

Taiwan Beer (台湾啤酒) is a lager brand brewed by the state-owned Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation in Taipei, the dominant beer in Taiwan since its origins in 1919.

Taiwan Business Bank

Taiwan Business Bank (台湾中小企业银行) is a standalone Taiwanese commercial bank specializing in small and medium-sized enterprise lending, with 124 domestic branches and 8 overseas branches.

Taiwan Cogeneration

Taiwan Cogeneration Corporation (TCC; 台湾汽电共生) is a Taiwanese company that builds and operates cogeneration and gas-fired power plants, founded in 1992 by Taiwan Power Company.

Taiwan Cooperative Financial

Taiwan Cooperative Financial (合作金庫金融控股股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese financial holding company built around Taiwan Cooperative Bank, the bank with Taiwan's most extensive branch network, established in 2011.

Taiwan Crime Stories (台湾犯罪故事)

Taiwan Crime Stories (台灣犯罪故事) is a 2023 Disney+ Taiwanese crime anthology of 12 episodes in four units, inspired by real cases: train derailment insurance fraud, family annihilation, schoolteacher murder, and military wrongful conviction.