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Tichit
Tichit (Arabic: تيشيت), also spelled Tichitt, is a Saharan oasis town in central Mauritania founded around 1150, a trans-Saharan trade hub now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tichitt culture
The Tichitt culture was a Late Stone Age society of southeastern Mauritania known for its dry stone wall villages, flourishing in the second and first millennia BC.
Ticino
Ticino (Repubblica e Cantone Ticino) is Switzerland's southernmost, entirely Italian-speaking canton, created in 1803 by Napoleon's Act of Mediation from former confederate bailiwicks south of the Gotthard, with Bellinzona as capital and red-blue flag.
Ticino, Val Grande Verbano Biosphere Reserve
Ticino, Val Grande Verbano Biosphere Reserve (Riserva della Biosfera Ticino Val Grande Verbano): UNESCO MAB reserve in Lombardy and Piedmont, Italy, designated 2018 as an extension of the 2002 Valle del Ticino reserve; over 332,000 hectares to the Swiss border, 211 municipalities, core-buffer-transition zonation.
Tick
Ticks (order Ixodida; families Ixodidae and Argasidae) are blood-feeding arachnid ectoparasites with egg, larva, nymph, and adult stages; 1,033 valid species vector Lyme disease, RMSF, and tick-borne encephalitis.
Tick bite
A tick bite is the penetration of skin by an attached, feeding tick, which anchors itself with barbed mouthparts and cement and feeds for minutes to weeks.
Tick infestation
Tick infestation: parasitic hard and soft ticks (Ixodidae, Argasidae) on hosts or premises. Four life stages, blood meal each stage, up to 3-year cycles; major livestock pest and disease vector; controlled with acaricides and integrated management.
Tick paralysis
Tick paralysis is a rapidly reversible neurological condition caused by a neurotoxin from an engorged female tick during feeding, producing ascending flaccid paralysis within 2 to 6 days.
Tick removal and post-bite response
Tick removal and post-bite response covers pulling an attached tick with fine-tipped tweezers, cleaning the wound, and watching for rash or fever for up to 30 days.
Tick-borne disease
Tick-borne disease: illnesses caused by bacteria, viruses, protozoa, or parasites transmitted by infected tick bites, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and alpha-gal syndrome; transmission occurs via tick saliva during feeding.
Tick-borne encephalitis
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), caused by tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), a Flaviviridae Orthoflavivirus with European, Siberian, and Far Eastern subtypes, is an Ixodes tick-borne CNS infection endemic from Europe to Asia, also spread by unpasteurized dairy, preventable by inactivated vaccines such as TICOVAC.
Tick-borne encephalitis vaccine
Tick-borne encephalitis vaccine, also called FSME-IMMUN, TicoVac, or Encepur, an inactivated whole-virus vaccine against TBEV; three-dose schedule, over 87% seroconversion, Ticovac the only US-licensed product since 2021.
Tick-borne encephalitis virus
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), a Flaviviridae Orthoflavivirus with three subtypes (European, Far Eastern, Siberian), is transmitted by Ixodes ticks across Europe and Asia, causing biphasic CNS disease with up to 35% mortality and preventable by inactivated vaccines.
Tick-borne relapsing fever
Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF), also soft tick relapsing fever, is a Borrelia spirochete infection transmitted mainly by Ornithodoros ticks, causing recurrent fever episodes; distinct from louse-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia recurrentis.
Tick, Tick... Boom!
Tick, Tick... Boom! is Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, begun as the 1990 one-man rock monologue Boho Days, reworked by David Auburn into a three-actor Off-Broadway show in 2001, and adapted into a 2021 Netflix film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda starring Andrew Garfield.
Tick, Tick... Boom! (film)
tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) is Lin-Manuel Miranda's feature directorial debut, a Netflix film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, starring Andrew Garfield as composer Jon in 1990 New York, with Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Editing.
Ticker symbol
A ticker symbol, also called a stock symbol, is a short code of one to five letters or digits that identifies a tradable security on a particular market or exchange.
Ticker tape
Ticker tape, also known as stock ticker tape, is the narrow paper strip on which telegraph-linked stock tickers printed share prices and trades as they happened, starting in 1867.
Ticket (티켓)
Ticket (티켓, Tiket) is a 1986 South Korean drama by Im Kwon-taek about women in a Seokcho 'ticket dabang'; Kim Ji-mee's first film as producer for Jimee Films, censored at release, later restored by KOFA.
Ticket resale
Ticket resale, also known as ticket scalping or ticket touting, is the reselling of event tickets on a secondary market, often at markups above face value.
Ticket to Heaven (เด็กชายไม่ไปสวรรค์) (TV series)
Ticket to Heaven (เด็กชายไม่ไปสวรรค์) is a 2026 Thai drama series by GMMTV, set in 1996 at a Catholic boys' school, where a devout student's faith is shaken by love for a classmate.
Ticket to Paradise (2022 film)
Ticket to Paradise is a 2022 romantic comedy directed by Ol Parker, in which George Clooney and Julia Roberts play a divorced couple who travel to Bali.
Ticket to Ride (board game)
Ticket to Ride, Alan R. Moon's 2004 Days of Wonder railway board game (Zug am Zug, Spiel des Jahres), for 2-5 players: collect train cards, claim North American routes, complete destination tickets; USA 1910 expansion, 2025 refresh, Netflix deal.
Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster: American ticketing company founded 1976, wholly owned by Live Nation Entertainment since the 2010 merger; dominant in US primary concert ticketing (about 80% of major venues) and subject of major DOJ and FTC antitrust actions.
Tickets
Tickets: documents or digital credentials entitling holders to admission, travel, or services. From 1520s French estiquet; covers admission, transport, raffle, traffic, political, and IT senses, plus ticketing platforms, fees, and fraud.
Tickets to My Downfall
Tickets to My Downfall is Machine Gun Kelly's fifth studio album, a pop-punk record produced by Travis Barker, released September 25, 2020 on Interscope; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Tickle Me Elmo
Tickle Me Elmo: motorized laughing, shaking plush of Sesame Street's Elmo by Tyco Preschool, released July 1996 at $29.95; 1996's must-have toy, over 1 million sold by Christmas, sparked by Rosie O'Donnell giveaways.
Tickle torture
Tickle torture is prolonged non-consensual gargalesis, the intense laughter-inducing form of tickle, applied to restrained victims; documented in WWII reports, it can meet torture and battery definitions despite the victim's involuntary laughter.
Tickle v Giggle
Tickle v Giggle is an Australian Federal Court decision from 2024. It ruled that removing a transgender woman from a women-only app was unlawful gender identity discrimination.
Tickled
Tickled (2016) is a New Zealand documentary by David Farrier and Dylan Reeve investigating competitive endurance tickling videos, Jane O'Brien Media, and David D'Amato's harassment and blackmail operation; Sundance premiere, dismissed defamation suits, HBO follow-up The Tickle King.