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Tallit (טַלִּית)

Tallit (טַלִּית), plural tallitot, is the Jewish four-cornered prayer shawl with tzitzit fringes worn mainly at morning services; Ashkenazi versions have black stripes, Sephardi ones are white, and its blue stripes inspired the flag of Israel.

Tallow

Tallow: rendered fat of cattle and sheep, distinct from suet and lard; palmitic, stearic, oleic acids, 40-50 °C melting point; used in frying, feed, soap, oleochemicals, biodiesel; prices rising 2024-2025.

Tallulah (film)

Tallulah is a 2016 Netflix original drama, Sian Heder's feature debut expanded from her short film Mother, starring Elliot Page, Allison Janney, and Tammy Blanchard; a vagabond kidnaps a neglected baby and passes it off as her own, premiering at Sundance 2016.

Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968), Alabama-born American stage, film, radio, and television actress; star of The Little Foxes and Hitchcock's Lifeboat; model for Cruella de Vil.

Tally (robot)

Tally is an autonomous shelf-scanning inventory robot developed by Simbe Robotics of San Francisco, introduced in 2015 and described by its maker as the world's first autonomous shelf-scanning robot.

Tally Hall

Tally Hall, American rock band formed December 2002 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the University of Michigan; five members with colored ties; albums Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (2005) and Good & Evil (2011); on hiatus since 2011.

Tally marks

Tally marks, also called the five-bar gate, are a counting notation in which one stroke is drawn per item and a fifth stroke crosses each group of four.

Tally Solutions

Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian business management software company, founded in 1986 in Bengaluru, whose TallyPrime is the accounting software most widely used by Indian businesses.

Tally trade with Ming China

The tally trade with Ming China (kangō bōeki) was the licensed tribute trade between Japan and China from 1404 to 1547, opened by shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to supplement bakufu finances.

Tally-ho

Tally-ho: English fox-hunting cry (1772, from French taïaut) announcing a sighted fox; also a four-horse fast coach (1823) and the RAF radio call for enemy aircraft sighted.

Talmadge E. King

Talmadge E. King is an American pulmonary physician who was dean of the UCSF School of Medicine from 2015 and is known for research on interstitial lung disease.

Talmberk

Talmberk (German: Thalenberg), also known as Talmberg, is a small Czech village in the Sázava region of Central Bohemia, below the ruins of its 13th-century Gothic castle.

Talmi-Sharruma

Talmi-Sharruma (Talmi-Šarrumma) was a member of the Hittite royal family who ruled Aleppo under Hittite overlordship, appointed king by Mursili II and known from the Aleppo Treaty.

Talmi-Teshub

Talmi-Teššub, also spelled Talmi-Teshub, was a king of Carchemish on the Euphrates, the last known viceroy installed by the Hittite empire, active in the late 13th century BC.

Talmud (תלמוד)

The Talmud (תלמוד), usually the Babylonian Talmud or Bavli, is the central text of rabbinic Judaism: the Mishnah of about 200 CE with its Gemara commentary.

Talmud trials and seizures in the modern era

Modern trials and seizures of the Talmud were state actions against printed Hebrew books, running from the 1757 Kamenets-Podolsk burning through the Russian Empire's censorship regime that ended after 1905.

Talo

Talo is the name of several places, chiefly a mountain in Amhara, Ethiopia (2,623 m per GeoNames; 4,413 m per Natural Earth), an intermittent stream in Oromia, and villages in Indonesia, Mali, and Russia.

Talon.One

Talon.One is a Berlin-based software company, founded in 2015 by Christoph Gerber and Sebastian Haas, providing an API-first promotions and loyalty engine for large retailers and brands.

Talos

Talos (Τάλως), bronze giant of Greek myth, guardian of Crete made by Hephaestus; circled the island thrice daily, threw stones, and died when Medea removed the nail sealing his single vein of ichor.

Talos Dome

Talos Dome, an ice dome on the eastern edge of the East Antarctic Plateau (72°48′S, 159°06′E, about 2315 m), is the site of the 1620 m TALDICE ice core drilled 2004–2008, covering roughly 250,000 years of climate record.

Talos Energy

Talos Energy is a Houston-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company, formed in 2011, focused on offshore assets in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and off Mexico.

Talos the Untamed

Talos the Untamed is a Marvel Comics Skrull warrior, created by Peter David and Gary Frank in Incredible Hulk #418 (1994), born unable to shapeshift, disgraced as Talos the Tamed, and reimagined by Ben Mendelsohn in the MCU's Captain Marvel and Secret Invasion.

Talpidae

Talpidae, the mole family (moles, desmans, shrew moles), is a group of about 43 Eurasian and North American mammal species in 17 genera, mostly fossorial, with spadelike forelimbs and a falciform sixth digit.

Talquetamab

Talquetamab (Talvey, talquetamab-tgvs), Janssen Biotech's bispecific GPRC5D x CD3 T-cell engager antibody for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma; FDA accelerated approval August 2023, boxed warning CRS and ICANS, Tecvayli-Talvey REMS.

Talquetamab plus teclistamab regimen

The talquetamab plus teclistamab regimen is an investigational combination immunotherapy for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, pairing two bispecific antibodies targeting GPRC5D and BCMA, studied in the RedirecTT-1 trial.

Talta

Talta (Tālta) was a king of Ellipi, a kingdom in present-day Luristan in western Iran, who paid tribute to Assyria's Tiglath-pileser III in 737 BC and Sargon II in 716 and 714 BC.

Talud-tablero

Talud-tablero is a Mesoamerican architectural profile in which a sloping talud supports a framed vertical tablero panel, alternating in tiers on pyramids and platforms and most closely identified with Teotihuacan.

Talulah Gosh

Talulah Gosh: Oxford indie pop band (1986-1988), not the later singers named Talulah or Tallulah. Amelia Fletcher and Elizabeth Price's twee-pop/C86 group on 53rd & 3rd; forerunner of Heavenly.

Talulah Riley

Talulah Riley (Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn), English actress, writer, and director born 1985 in Hertfordshire; known for Pride & Prejudice, St Trinian's, Westworld, Pistol, directing Scottish Mussel, novels Acts of Love and The Quickening, and marriages to Elon Musk and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Taluqdari system of Awadh

The Taluqdari system of Awadh (تالقداری) was a land-tenure arrangement in which taluqdars, hereditary estate holders, collected the state's land revenue and answered for it to the government.