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Tanaav

Tanaav (Hindi for "tension") is SonyLIV's official Indian adaptation of the Israeli series Fauda, set in Kashmir. Directed by Sudhir Mishra; two seasons, 2022 and 2024, starring Manav Vij.

Tanabata (七夕)

Tanabata (七夕), the Japanese Star Festival on July 7, derives from China's Qixi legend of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair), lovers who meet once a year across the Milky Way; wishes are written on tanzaku hung on bamboo.

Tanabata no Kuni (七夕の国)

Tanabata no Kuni (七夕の国, Land of Tanabata) is Hitoshi Iwaaki's 1996–1999 sci-fi mystery manga about a bloodline that can erase spheres of reality, adapted as a 10-episode Disney+ live-action drama in July 2024 starring Kanata Hosoda.

Tanacetum

Tanacetum (tansy genus) is a 134-160 species Asteraceae genus of temperate Eurasia, NW Africa, and North America, including common tansy, feverfew, and pyrethrum daisy, source of pyrethrin insecticides.

Tanacetum parthenium

Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium, formerly Chrysanthemum parthenium) is an aromatic Asteraceae herb native from southeast Europe to the western Himalaya, traditionally used against fever and migraine; parthenolide is its key constituent, with mixed clinical evidence for migraine prevention.

Tanaga

Tanaga Volcano (VNUM 311080), 1,806 m stratovolcano on Tanaga Island, Alaska, central peak of the Sajaka-Tanaga-Takawangha cluster; last erupted 1914; monitored by AVO; main hazard is ash to aircraft.

Tanaga Island

Tanaga Island, an uninhabited Andreanof island in the central Aleutians about 100 km west of Adak, hosts the Tanaga volcanic cluster: Sajaka, Tanaga (1,806 m, last erupted 1914), and Takawangha, sources of 2023 earthquake swarms and ash hazards to aircraft.

Tanagra figurines

Tanagra figurines are mold-made Greek terracotta statuettes, produced from the late fourth century BC and named after the Boeotian town of Tanagra where many were found.

Tanah Lot

Tanah Lot, or Pura Tanah Lot, is a Hindu sea temple on a rock formation off Bali's southwest coast in Tabanan Regency, cut off at high tide.

Tanaica Montes

Tanaica Montes, a 178.55-km mountain range on Mars at 39.55°N, 269.17°E west of Tempe Terra, named by the IAU in 1991; its flanks carry lobate debris aprons, ~100–200 m thick, with buried ice indicating Late Amazonian glaciation.

Tanais

Tanais (Τάναϊς), ancient Greek trading city on the Don delta near Nedvigovka, Russia, founded 3rd century BC; Bosporan Kingdom outpost trading with steppe nomads, sacked by Polemon ca. 8 BC, extinct by 5th century AD.

Tanais Fossae

Tanais Fossae is a fossa system on Mars, IAU-approved in 1991 as a classical albedo name, centered at 38.74°N, 273.51°E with a 172.95 km diameter in quadrangle MC-03.

Tánaiste

Tánaiste is the deputy prime minister of Ireland, a member of the Government nominated by the Taoiseach under the 1937 Constitution and currently held by Simon Harris.

Tanaji Malusare

Tanaji Malusare (तानाजी मालुसरे) was a seventeenth-century Maratha general and subedar under Shivaji, killed on 4 February 1670 leading the escalade that recovered the fort of Kondhana, renamed Sinhagad in his honor.

Tanaka Giichi

Tanaka Giichi (田中義一) was a Japanese army general and politician, the 26th prime minister of Japan from 1927 to 1929, who also held the foreign ministry.

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo (田中貴金属工業) is a Japanese precious metals company founded as a Tokyo bullion dealer in 1885, refining and recycling gold, silver, and platinum group metals.

Tanami Desert

The Tanami Desert is an arid sandplain desert of 184,500 km² spanning the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Australia's third largest named desert, on Warlpiri country with major gold mining at Newmont's Tanami Operations.

Tanami Mine

The Tanami Mine is a large underground gold mine in the remote Tanami Desert of the Northern Territory, Australia, owned and operated by Newmont since 2002.

Tanaya Beatty

Tanaya Beatty (born 1991) is a Canadian First Nations actress known as Rachel Black in Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Dr. Shannon Rivera in The Night Shift, Avery in Yellowstone, and her first lead role as Annie in Through Black Spruce (2018).

Tanba campaign

The Tanba campaign (丹波攻め), also called the Pacification of Tamba, was the conquest of Tamba Province by Oda general Akechi Mitsuhide between 1575 and 1579.

Tanbi-ha

Tanbi-ha (耽美派, "the aesthetic school") was a Japanese literary movement of the late Meiji and early Taishō periods, led by Mori Ōgai and Ueda Bin in opposition to naturalism.

Tancama

Tancama (Huastec for "Hill of Fire") is a pre-Hispanic Huastec-affiliated archaeological site in the Sierra Gorda, Jalpan de Serra, Querétaro, Mexico, occupied about 200 BC to 900 AD, with three plazas, 56 structures, an 18 m ballcourt, and a unique black bear effigy.

Tancheng

Tancheng (昙晟), known as Yunyan Tansheng, was a ninth-century Chinese Chan Buddhist monk who taught on Yunyan Mountain near Changsha and was the teacher of Dongshan Liangjie.

Tanci

Tanci (弹词, "plucking rhymes") is a Chinese chantefable genre in which verse is sung to plucked lute accompaniment, existing as oral storytelling and as fiction written chiefly for reading.

Tancrède Auguste

Tancrède Auguste, born Joseph Antoine Tancrède Auguste, was a Haitian general and businessman who served as president of Haiti from 1912 until his death in 1913.

Tancredo Neves

Tancredo Neves (Tancredo de Almeida Neves, 1910–1985), Brazilian statesman and prime minister 1961–1962, elected president by the 1985 Electoral College with 480 of 686 votes, ending military rule; he died on 21 April 1985 before taking office, and José Sarney succeeded him.

Tancredo Neves Bridge

The Tancredo Neves Bridge, also called the Fraternity Bridge, is an international road bridge over the Iguazu River linking Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, and Puerto Iguazú, Argentina.

Tánczos Barna

Tánczos Barna is a Romanian politician of the UDMR who serves as Deputy Prime Minister and interim Minister of Agriculture, and is a senator for Harghita County.

Tanda power station

Tanda power station is a coal-fired power station operated by NTPC at Tanda in Ambedkar Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India, with a current capacity of 1,320 MW.

Tandai

Tandai (探題) was the title of senior offices of the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates in Japan, most prominently the Rokuhara Tandai, the shogunate's agency in Kyoto.