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Tết

Tết (Tết Nguyên Đán) is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, Vietnam's most important festival, held between late January and mid-February; marked by bánh chưng, lì xì envelopes, ancestor altars, and a measurable Lunar New Year stock-market effect.

Tête-bêche

Tête-bêche (對倒, Duidao) is a 1972 novel by the Hong Kong writer Liu Yichang that interlaces two strangers' parallel lives, and inspired Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love.

Tété-Michel Kpomassie

Tété-Michel Kpomassie, born in Togo in 1941, is a Togolese writer and explorer known for L'Africain du Groenland, the prize-winning account of his sixteen months living among Greenland's Inuit.

TETO PRETO

Teto Preto is a Brazilian electronic and performance art group formed in 2014 in São Paulo, founded and fronted by Laura Diaz as resident act of the Mamba Negra party.

Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak (founded 1951, Sweden, by Ruben Rausing as a subsidiary of Åkerlund & Rausing) is a food packaging company known for tetrahedron and brick beverage cartons and aseptic packaging, sold in over 160 countries.

Tetro

Tetro (2009) is Francis Ford Coppola's self-financed black-and-white drama, his first original screenplay since The Conversation (1974), about estranged brothers in Buenos Aires, starring Vincent Gallo and Alden Ehrenreich, premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.

Tetseo Sisters

The Tetseo Sisters are a four-sister vocal group from Kohima, Nagaland, formed in 1994, who perform Li, the Chokri folk music of the Chakhesang Naga people, at festivals worldwide.

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (黒柳徹子)

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (黒柳徹子), known as Totto-chan, is a Japanese actress, author of Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window, and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 1984, the first from Asia, and host of the long-running talk show Tetsuko's Room since 1976.

Tetsuo Miura

Tetsuo Miura (三浦哲郎, 1931–2010) was a Japanese novelist from Aomori who won the 1961 Akutagawa Prize for Shinobu Kawa, known as Shame in the Blood.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男) is Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 Japanese black-and-white 16mm body horror feature debut, based on The Phantom of Regular Size, about a salaryman whose flesh turns to metal; it won the 1989 Rome Fantafestival Grand Prix.

Tetsuryō! Meet with Tetsudō Musume

Tetsuryō! Meet with Tetsudō Musume (てつりょー!meet with 鉄道むすめ) is a 2026 original TV anime from TOMYTEC's Tetsudō Musume franchise, following the Tetsuryōkai university railway-travel club, produced by East Fish Studio, airing from October 8, 2026.

Tetsuya Kakihara (柿原 徹也)

Tetsuya Kakihara (柿原徹也), born 1982 in Düsseldorf, West Germany, is a Japanese voice actor and Kiramune singer; known for Natsu Dragneel in Fairy Tail, Simon in Gurren Lagann, Garma Zabi in Gundam THE ORIGIN, and Best Rookie Actor at the 1st Seiyu Awards; founded agency Zynchro in 2014.

Tetsuya Komuro

Tetsuya Komuro (小室哲哉) is a Japanese musician and producer from Tokyo, born in 1958, whose productions for trf, globe, and Namie Amuro dominated 1990s J-pop charts.

Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也)

Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, born 1970) is a Japanese video game character designer and director at Square Enix who designed Cloud Strife, Squall Leonhart, Yuna, and Sora.

Tevar (तेवर)

Tevar (तेवर, "Attitude") is a 2015 Hindi action film, a remake of the Telugu hit Okkadu, directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma, starring Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, and Manoj Bajpayee; released 9 January 2015, it flopped at the box office.

Tevaram

Tevaram (தேவாரம்) is a corpus of roughly 800 Tamil devotional hymns to Shiva from the 7th and 8th centuries, written by the poet-saints Sambandar, Appar, and Sundarar.

Tevin Campbell

Tevin Campbell (Tevin Jermod Campbell, born 1976, Waxahachie, Texas), American R&B singer discovered via Quincy Jones and Prince, known for T.E.V.I.N., I'm Ready, 'Can We Talk', three Hot 100 Top 10 hits, five Grammy nominations.

Tevye

Tevye (Tevye der milkhikher, Tevye the Dairyman) is Sholem Aleichem's fictional poor Jewish dairyman, narrator of monologue stories written 1895-1916, later the protagonist of Fiddler on the Roof (1964) played by Zero Mostel and Chaim Topol.

Tewa oral literature

Tewa oral literature is the body of traditional stories, songs, prayers, and ceremonial speech of the Tewa, a Pueblo people of New Mexico and Arizona.

Tex Avery

Tex Avery (Frederick Bean Avery, 1908–1980), American animator and director of Golden Age cartoon shorts; creator or co-creator of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, and Screwy Squirrel at Warner Bros. and MGM.

Tex Ritter

Tex Ritter (Woodward Maurice Ritter, 1905–1974) was an American country singing-cowboy film star and Country Music Hall of Fame (1964) inductee, first country signer of Capitol Records, known for "High Noon" and as father of actor John Ritter.

Tex-Mex

Tex-Mex is a Texas-born regional cuisine blending Mexican, Native American, Spanish, and Anglo traditions; known for chili con carne, nachos, fajitas, yellow cheese, cumin, and flour tortillas, distinct from Mexican food.

Texas (band)

Texas (band): Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1986 by Sharleen Spiteri, Johnny McElhone, and Ally McErlaine, named after the film Paris, Texas. Debut single I Don't Want a Lover (1989); revival album White on Blonde (1997); over 40 million records sold; tenth album Hi (2021) reached British number one.

Texas (TV series)

Texas (1980-1982) was an NBC daytime soap opera and spin-off of Another World, set in Houston as a daytime counterpart to prime-time Dallas, starring Beverlee McKinsey as Iris under executive producer Paul Rauch.

Texas Chainsaw 3D

Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), also released as Texas Chainsaw, is the seventh Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, a John Luessenhop-directed direct sequel to the 1974 original starring Alexandra Daddario, which opened number one but earned a 31 Metascore.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022 film)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) is a Netflix slasher film, the ninth in the franchise and a direct sequel to the 1974 original, directed by David Blue Garcia, starring Elsie Fisher and Olwen Fouéré, with 31% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Texas Flood

Texas Flood: 1983 debut album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble on Epic Records, named for the Larry Davis and Joseph Scott blues song it covers; reached No. 38 on the Billboard 200.

Texas Hold 'Em (song)

"Texas Hold 'Em" (TEXAS HOLD 'EM) is Beyoncé's country lead single from Cowboy Carter (Renaissance Act II), released February 11, 2024 with "16 Carriages"; Rhiannon Giddens plays banjo; first Hot Country Songs No. 1 by a Black woman.

Texas Rangers (2001 film)

Texas Rangers (2001) is a Steve Miner Western starring James Van Der Beek, Dylan McDermott, and Ashton Kutcher, based on George Durham's book Taming the Nueces Strip; a $38 million Miramax/Dimension film that grossed only $763,740 worldwide.

Texas Rising

Texas Rising is a 2015 five-part History channel miniseries, directed by Roland Joffé and starring Bill Paxton as Sam Houston, dramatizing the Texas Revolution after the Alamo and the founding of the Texas Rangers; critics panned its historical accuracy.