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Tillaberi Region
Tillaberi Region (région de Tillabéri), western Niger, capital Tillaberi city; 97,251 km2, about 3.37 million people (2018). Part of Liptako-Gourma tri-border zone with Mali and Burkina Faso; Niger's region most affected by jihadist violence and displacement.
Tillage
Tillage: mechanical soil manipulation in farming for weed control, seedbed preparation, and residue incorporation. Ranges from conventional tillage (<15% residue) to no-till; affects erosion, carbon, and yields.
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Tillakaratne Dilshan (TM Dilshan), Sri Lankan cricketer 1999-2016, opening batsman and off-spin all-rounder; inventor of the Dilscoop; 10,290 ODI runs, 5,492 Test runs, 2009 ICC T20I Cricketer of the Year.
Tillandsia
Tillandsia, the air plants, is a genus of about 700 accepted species of usually epiphytic bromeliads native to tropical and subtropical America, absorbing water through leaf trichomes, using CAM photosynthesis, and including Spanish moss and the weevil-threatened T. utriculata.
Tille Höyük
Tille Höyük is an archaeological mound on the west bank of the Euphrates in Adıyaman Province, Turkey, excavated by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara from 1979 to 1990.
Tiller
A tiller is a bar or lever fitted to the head of a boat's rudder that the helmsman moves directly to steer, standard on small sailboats and outboard motors.
Tilletia
Tilletia (bunt fungi, Tilletiales) is a smut fungus genus infecting grasses; T. caries, T. controversa, and T. indica cause common, dwarf, and Karnal bunt of wheat, quarantine diseases marked by fishy-smelling teliospore-filled grains.
Tilli-Hanum Planitia
Tilli-Hanum Planitia, a 2,300 km diameter lowland plain on Venus at 54°N 120°E, named in 1997 for the heroine of the Azeri Ker-ogly epic; dotted with small shield volcanoes and mapped for dyke swarms.
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen, born Tillie Lerner, was an American writer and activist known for Tell Me a Riddle (1961) and Silences (1978), a study of why women and working-class writers go unheard.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), Mack Sennett's six-reel Keystone slapstick feature starring Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, and Mabel Normand, adapted from Tillie's Nightmare; often called the first American feature-length comedy.
TILLING
TILLING (Targeting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes) is a reverse-genetics method, introduced in 2000, that screens chemically mutagenized populations for point mutations in a chosen gene without transgenic material.
Tillman Gerngross
Tillman Gerngross is an American professor of engineering at Dartmouth College and a serial biotechnology co-founder whose companies include GlycoFi, sold to Merck for about $400 million in 2006, Adimab, and Alector.
Tillotama Shome
Tillotama Shome, Indian actress (born 1979, Kolkata), debut Alice in Monsoon Wedding (2001); known for Qissa, Sir (Filmfare Critics winner 2021), Delhi Crime 2, The Night Manager, and producing Baksho Bondi (Berlinale 2025).
Tillu Square
Tillu Square, also (టిల్లు)², is a 2024 Telugu crime comedy sequel to DJ Tillu, directed by Mallik Ram, starring Siddhu Jonnalagadda and Anupama Parameswaran, released 29 March 2024, grossing about ₹126.75 Cr worldwide.
Tilly Fleischer
Ottilie "Tilly" Fleischer (1911–2005), German javelin thrower of Eintracht Frankfurt, won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics with 45.18 m, the first German gold of those Games, and bronze at Los Angeles 1932.
Tilly Keeper
Tilly Keeper (Matilda Elizabeth Keeper) is an English actress, not the AI persona Tilly Norwood, born 1997 in London. She played Louise Mitchell in EastEnders 2016–2020 and Lady Phoebe in You season 4, and Darcy in Queenie.
Tilly Metz
Tilly Metz, born in 1967, is a Luxembourgish politician of The Greens who has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2018 and is known for her work on health and cancer policy.
Tilly Norwood
Tilly Norwood is an AI-generated character marketed as Hollywood's first "AI actress," created by Dutch producer Eline Van der Velden and introduced in July 2025.
Tilly Ramsay
Tilly Ramsay (Matilda Elizabeth Ramsay, born 2001) is an English TV presenter, cook, and influencer, daughter of Gordon Ramsay; known for CBBC's Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch, Strictly 2021, MasterChef Junior judging, and Prime Video's Dish It Out.
Tilly Smith
Tilly Smith, English schoolgirl from Oxshott, Surrey, recognized 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami warning signs on Mai Khao Beach, Phuket, prompting evacuation of about 100 people; honored by Clinton at UN.
Tillya tepe
Tillya Tepe (Tillia Tepe, "Hill of Gold"), Bactrian Gold hoard: six 1st-century CE nomad noble burials near Sheberghan, Afghanistan, excavated 1978 by Viktor Sarianidi, yielding about 20,000 gold objects mixing Greek, Indian, Chinese, and steppe art.
Tillya Tepe crown
The Tillya Tepe crown is a collapsible gold crown from the first century CE, excavated in 1978 from the tomb of a nomadic woman at Tillya Tepe in northern Afghanistan.
Tilman B. Drüeke
Tilman B. Drüeke, born 1942, is a German-born, French-based nephrology researcher long at Necker Hospital in Paris and Inserm, known for the CREATE trial and work on secondary hyperparathyroidism.
Tilman E. Self III
Tilman Eugene Self III, born 1968 in Macon, Georgia, is a United States district judge for the Middle District of Georgia, appointed by President Trump in 2018.
Tilman Esslinger
Tilman Esslinger is a German physicist, professor of Quantum Optics at ETH Zurich since 2001, known for experiments on Bose–Einstein condensates and degenerate Fermi gases in optical lattices.
Tilman Fertitta
Tilman J. Fertitta (born 1957), Houston billionaire, sole owner of Fertitta Entertainment: Landry's restaurants (600+ properties), Golden Nugget casinos, Houston Rockets, Connecticut Sun purchase, and 2026 Caesars acquisition; U.S. ambassador to Italy.
Tilman Pfau
Tilman Pfau is a German atomic physicist who directs the 5th Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart, known for ultracold dipolar quantum gases and Rydberg atoms.
Tilman Riemenschneider
Tilman Riemenschneider (ca. 1460–1531) was a German late Gothic woodcarver and sculptor in Würzburg, famed for unpainted limewood altarpieces at Münnerstadt, Rothenburg, and Creglingen, and later imprisoned in the 1525 Peasants' Revolt.
Tilman Sauerbruch
Tilman Sauerbruch, born 1946, is a German hepatologist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Bonn, known for fragmenting gallstones with extracorporeal shock waves and studying portal hypertension.
Tilmapur Mound
Tilmapur Mound (Asapur), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh: a small 0.6 m earthen archaeological mound on the Benares-Ghazipur road, ASI-protected since 1926, occupied from Late NBP through Sunga, Kusana, and Gupta periods, now heavily encroached.