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Turtle Bay, Manhattan
Turtle Bay is a Midtown East Manhattan neighborhood, roughly East 43rd to 53rd Streets, Lexington Avenue to the East River, named for a filled-in cove; home to the United Nations headquarters and Turtle Bay Gardens.
Turtle Farm (Sri Lanka)
Turtle farms, or sea turtle hatcheries, are private tourist attractions on Sri Lanka's south-west coast that buy turtle eggs, rebury them in sand enclosures, and display hatchlings; first established in 1956, they are debated as conservation or commercial ventures.
Turtle Hatchery Hikkaduwa
Turtle Hatchery Hikkaduwa, also called Sea Turtle Hatchery and Rescue Centre, is a private sea turtle hatchery on Galle Road, Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, established 1986, destroyed in the 2004 tsunami, criticized for egg purchase and tank headstarting practices.
Turtle Island
Turtle Island is a 1974 collection of poetry and prose by the American poet Gary Snyder, published by New Directions and winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Turtle leech
Turtle leeches are glossiphoniid freshwater leeches, mainly Placobdella and Placobdelloides, that parasitize turtles by proboscis blood-feeding on shell and soft tissues; notable species include Placobdella parasitica and Placobdelloides siamensis, vectors of Haemogregarina blood parasites.
Turtle Rock Studios
Turtle Rock Studios is an American video game studio founded in 2002 by Chris Ashton and Phil Robb, best known for the cooperative zombie shooter Left 4 Dead and Back 4 Blood.
Turtle shell
Turtle shell: the bony carapace and plastron enclosing all turtles, over 50 bones integrating ribs and vertebrae; evolved stepwise from Eunotosaurus through Odontochelys to Proganochelys, originally for burrowing and ballast, now mainly protection.
Turtle ship (거북선)
The turtle ship (geobukseon) was a spiked-roof Korean warship of the Joseon dynasty, famous in Admiral Yi Sun-sin's victories against Japan in the Imjin War.
Turtle soup
Turtle soup, historically made from green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas), was an 18th-to-20th-century European and American luxury dish; mock versions used calf's head, and the CITES Appendix I listing in 1981 ended the authentic dish.
Turtle tank
The turtle tank is a Russian field-modified tank covered in welded sheet metal to block Ukrainian FPV kamikaze drones, first seen in April 2024 near Krasnohorivka.
TurtleBot
TurtleBot is a low-cost, open-source personal robot kit and entry-level mobile robotics platform for education and research with ROS, created at Willow Garage in 2010.
Turtlemint
Turtlemint, formally Turtlemint Fintech Solutions Limited, is a Mumbai-based insurtech company founded in 2015 by Dhirendra Mahyavanshi and Anand Prabhudesai that distributes insurance through advisors and has been listed on Indian exchanges since 2026.
Turtles all the way down
"Turtles all the way down" is shorthand for an explanation that only pushes the question back a step instead of settling it, popularized by Stephen Hawking.
Turtles All the Way Down (film)
Turtles All the Way Down is a 2024 Max streaming drama directed by Hannah Marks, adapted from John Green's 2017 novel, starring Isabela Merced as Aza Holmes, a teenager with OCD; 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 64.
Turtles All the Way Down (novel)
Turtles All the Way Down, John Green's 2017 Dutton YA novel, follows Indianapolis teen Aza Holmes, who lives with OCD while chasing a fugitive billionaire's $100,000 reward; a Hannah Marks film adaptation premiered on Max in 2024.
Turtles Can Fly
Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand) is a 2004 Kurdish-language war drama by Iranian Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi, the first feature made in post-Saddam Iraq, set in a refugee camp before the 2003 US invasion and winner of San Sebastián's Golden Shell.
Turtuk
Turtuk is a Balti village in Nubra Valley, Ladakh, about 8 km from the Line of Control on the Shyok River at 2,900 m. Captured by India on 17 December 1971 and opened to tourism in 2010, it is India's only Balti-populated village.
Turtur
Turtur (wood doves) is a genus of five small African doves in Columbidae, established by Boddaert in 1783; distinct from the European turtle dove Streptopelia turtur, with forest and savannah lineages.
Turukkaeans
The Turukkaeans (Turukku, also spelled Turukkeans) were a Hurrian-speaking, clan-based nomadic people of the Zagros mountains, known chiefly from the Old Babylonian archives of Mari and Shemshara.
Turum
Turum: name of two ancient Roman places, a road station in Raetia (Bavaria, Pleiades 119005, Antonine Itinerary, near Dorfen or Tögling) and an Apulian town (Turini) known only from Pliny, possibly Turi or Thuriae.
Turun Palloseura
Turun Palloseura (TPS), Turku multi-sport club founded 1922; football side FC TPS plays in Veikkausliiga with 8 Finnish titles, 3 Finnish Cups; also ice hockey (11 titles) and floorball.
Turuñuelo
Turuñuelo, also called Casas del Turuñuelo, is a two-storey Tartessic building near Guareña, Badajoz, Spain, built in the 6th century BC and preserved under a tumulus.
Turya (Avesta)
Turya (Avestan Tūirya-), also rendered Turanian, is a people named in the Avesta alongside Sairima, Dāha, and Sāinu as non-Aryan groups contrasted with the airya, attested in the Farvardīn and Ard Yašts.
Tusamitamab ravtansine
Tusamitamab ravtansine (SAR408701), Sanofi's anti-CEACAM5 antibody-drug conjugate carrying the maytansinoid DM4 (DAR 3.8), was discontinued after phase 3 CARMEN-LC03 missed PFS and OS endpoints versus docetaxel in NSCLC.
Tuscaloosa County
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama: west-central county, seat and largest city Tuscaloosa, home of the University of Alabama. Established February 1818; 227,036 residents in 2020, 241,368 estimated 2025; fifth-most populous of 67 Alabama counties.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: county seat on the Black Warrior River, state capital 1826-1846, home of the University of Alabama (opened 1831), population 99,600 in 2020, struck by an EF-4 tornado April 27, 2011.
Tuscan cuisine
Tuscan cuisine (cucina toscana) is the regional cooking of Tuscany, Italy, defined by cucina povera, saltless pane sciocco, bread soups like ribollita, bistecca alla fiorentina, Pecorino Toscano PDO, and Chianti wines.
Tuscan dialect
Tuscan dialect (Dialetto toscano) is the group of Romance varieties spoken in Tuscany, central Italy, known for the gorgia aspiration and as the base of standard Italian through Florentine and Dante.
Tuscan Islands Biosphere Reserve
Tuscan Islands Biosphere Reserve (Riserva della Biosfera Isole di Toscana), a UNESCO MAB site designated 2003, extended 2015, covering seven Tuscan Archipelago islands and surrounding sea, 1,079,540 ha, coordinated by the Tuscan Archipelago National Park.
Tuscan Mining Park UNESCO Global Geopark
Tuscan Mining Park UNESCO Global Geopark (Parco Minerario Toscano) is a geopark in the Colline Metallifere of southern Tuscany, Italy, designated in 2015 and protecting 3,000 years of mining heritage.