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Tsai Eng-meng (Want Want China)
Tsai Eng-meng, also known as Cai Yanming (蔡衍明), is a Taiwanese food-industry billionaire who took over his family business in 1987 and built it into Want Want China.
Tsai Hong-tu
Tsai Hong-tu (蔡宏图) is a Taiwanese business executive who chairs Cathay Financial Holdings, Taiwan's largest listed financial group, with a Forbes-estimated net worth of US$8.5 billion.
Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文)
Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), born 1956, president of Taiwan 2016–2024 and first female head of state; DPP chair, former MAC chair and trade negotiator; legalized same-sex marriage, extended conscription, grew GDP to NT$23.5 trillion.
Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮)
Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮), born 1957 in Kuching, Malaysia, is a Taiwan-based slow-cinema director of the Second New Wave, winner of the Venice Golden Lion for Vive L'Amour and known for long takes and his muse Lee Kang-sheng.
Tsai–Lenz method
The Tsai–Lenz method is a two-stage, closed-form algorithm for hand-eye calibration, estimating rotation first and then translation, published by Tsai and Lenz of IBM in 1989.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж)
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж), born 1963, Mongolian democracy-movement leader, journalist, twice prime minister, and president of Mongolia 2009–2017; first non-MPRP president, known for death-penalty abolition and the third-neighbour foreign policy.
Tsakonian language
Tsakonian (Τσακωνική, Tsakonika) is a Hellenic language of the Peloponnese, Greece, the only living descendant of ancient Doric Laconian, not mutually intelligible with Modern Greek, moribund with a few thousand mostly elderly speakers.
Tsallis distribution
The Tsallis distribution is a probability distribution proportional to a q-exponential function, obtained by maximizing Tsallis entropy; it was introduced by Constantino Tsallis in 1988.
Tsallis entropy
Tsallis entropy, also called nonextensive entropy, is a one-parameter family of entropies proposed by Constantino Tsallis in 1988, generalizing Boltzmann–Gibbs–Shannon entropy and underpinning nonextensive statistical mechanics.
Tsampa (རྩམ་པ)
Tsampa (རྩམ་པ; 糌粑, Zanba) is roasted highland barley flour, the no-cook staple food of Tibetan and Himalayan foodways, kneaded with butter tea into dough and central to plateau agriculture, trade, and ceremony.
Tsampikos Kottos
Tsampikos Kottos is a physicist at Wesleyan University who works on wave transport and mathematical physics, known for PT-symmetric electronic circuits and a 2022 exceptional-point accelerometer in Nature.
Tsander (Zander) (lunar crater)
Tsander (Zander), Gazetteer Feature ID 6100, is a 159.94-km IAU-approved impact crater on the Moon's far side at 5.39°N, 149.69°W, with the 55.09-km satellite crater Tsander B.
Tsar
Tsar, also spelled czar (царь), is a Slavic royal title derived from Caesar and borne by the monarchs of Russia from 1547, as well as by those of Bulgaria and Serbia.
Tsar Bell (Царь-колокол)
Tsar Bell (Царь-колокол, Tsarsky Kolokol): monumental bronze bell cast 1733–1735 by Ivan and Mikhail Motorin for Empress Anna Ioannovna; about 202 tons, 6.14 m tall; cracked in the 1737 Kremlin fire, never rung, displayed in the Moscow Kremlin.
Tsar Bomba (Царь-бомба)
Tsar Bomba (Царь-бомба) was the Soviet hydrogen bomb code named Big Ivan, detonated over Novaya Zemlya in 1961 at 50 megatons, the largest nuclear test in history.
Tsar Cannon (Царь-пушка)
The Tsar Cannon (Царь-пушка), also known as Tsar Pushka, is a large bronze bombard cast in 1586 by Andrei Chokhov, displayed in the Moscow Kremlin.
Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich
Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (Царь Фёдор Иоаннович) is a verse tragedy by Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, banned for decades before opening the Moscow Art Theater in 1898.
Tsar Tank (Царь-танк)
The Tsar Tank (Царь-танк), also known as the Netopyr or Lebedenko Tank, was a giant experimental Russian three-wheeled armored vehicle built in 1915 that bogged down at its only trial.
Tsardom of Russia (Русское царство)
Tsardom of Russia (Русское царство), also Tsardom of Muscovy or Moscow State: the Russian state from Ivan IV's 1547 coronation as tsar to Peter I's 1721 proclamation of empire, marked by Kazan's conquest, the Time of Troubles, and autocracy.
Tsardom of Vidin
The Tsardom of Vidin (Видинско царство), also called the Bdin Tsardom, was a medieval Bulgarian state ruled by Ivan Sratsimir from 1371 until its Ottoman conquest in 1396.
Tsarevich Dmitry of Uglich
Tsarevich Dmitry of Uglich (Царевич Дмитрий) was the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, who died at Uglich in 1591 in disputed circumstances that fueled the Time of Troubles pretenders.
Tsarevich Egg
The Tsarevich Egg is a 1912 Imperial Fabergé egg of lapis lazuli, given by Tsar Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra at Easter 1912 for their heir Alexei's eighth birthday.
Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (Иван Иванович)
Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich (Иван Иванович), heir of Ivan the Terrible, died in November 1581 at Alexandrova Sloboda after his father struck him with a pointed staff; his death triggered the succession crisis ending the Rurik dynasty.
Tsarist autocracy
Tsarist autocracy, also known as Tsarism or Russian absolutism, was the unlimited rule of Russia's tsars, who answered to no church, nobility, or law until 1917.
Tsarskaya
Tsarskaya (now Novosvobodnaya), a village in the northwestern Caucasus, Russia, site of Maykop-culture dolmens excavated by Veselovsky in 1898, source of the earliest known fur garment in Eastern Europe.
Tsarskoye Selo (Царское Село)
Tsarskoye Selo (Царское Село), now Pushkin, is a former Romanov imperial residence 25 km south of Saint Petersburg, home to the Catherine Palace with the Amber Room, the Alexander Palace of Nicholas II, and the Imperial Lyceum of Pushkin.
Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
The Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum (Царскосельский лицей) was an elite Russian school founded in 1811, best known for Alexander Pushkin's class of 1817; in 1843 it moved to St Petersburg as the Imperial Alexander Lyceum.
Tsavo East National Park
Tsavo East National Park, Kenya's largest national park (about 13,747 km², established April 1948), is a semi-arid savanna in Taita Taveta County known for red-dusted elephants, the Yatta Plateau, the Galana River, and over 500 bird species.
Tsavo Man-Eaters
Tsavo Man-Eaters: two maneless male lions that killed railway workers building the Uganda Railway bridge at Tsavo, Kenya, in 1898; shot by John Henry Patterson; victim counts range from 28 to 135, with isotope analysis suggesting about 35; skins and skulls at Chicago's Field Museum.
Tsawwassen
Tsawwassen (scəw̓aθən, "Land Facing the Sea") is a seaside town on a peninsula in southwestern Delta, British Columbia, near the US border and BC Ferries terminal; 2021 population 23,940, adjoining Tsawwassen First Nation, whose treaty took effect April 3, 2009.