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Tuscany

Tuscany (Toscana) is an ordinary-statute region of central Italy, 22,990 km², capital Florence, ten provinces, about 3.7 million residents in 276 municipalities, manufacturing- and tourism-driven economy.

Tuscarora migration

The Tuscarora migration was the movement of the Tuscarora people from eastern North Carolina northward between 1713 and 1803 to join the Iroquois Confederacy as its sixth nation.

Tuscarora people

Tuscarora (Skarù∙ręʔ, Hemp People), an Iroquoian people of North Carolina defeated in the 1711-1713 Tuscarora War, adopted as the sixth nation of the Haudenosaunee around 1720-1723, now centered in Niagara County, New York.

Tuscarora War

The Tuscarora War was a colonial conflict in eastern North Carolina that began in 1711 when Tuscarora warriors attacked settlements along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers, ending in their defeat.

Tuscola–Pisgah rivalry

The Tuscola–Pisgah rivalry (The Mill vs. the Hill) is the annual Haywood County, NC high school football game between Waynesville's Tuscola Mountaineers and Canton's Pisgah Black Bears, dating to 1966 (roots 1922), with Pisgah leading 31-28-1 as of 2024.

Tusculan Disputations

The Tusculan Disputations (Tusculanae disputationes) is a five-book philosophical work Cicero wrote in Latin in 45 BC at his villa at Tusculum, dedicated to Brutus.

Tush Push

Tush Push (Brotherly Shove): Philadelphia Eagles' short-yardage quarterback sneak with teammates pushing Jalen Hurts forward; over 80% conversion since 2022, survived a 22-10 NFL ban vote in May 2025.

Tushar Gandhi (तुषार आरुण गांधी)

Tushar Arun Gandhi (तुषार आरुण गांधी), born 1960, is an Indian author and activist, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, founder-president of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, author of Let's Kill Gandhi, and a critic of the BJP-RSS.

Tushhan

Tushhan (Tušhan) was an Assyrian provincial capital on the Tigris, at modern Ziyaret Tepe in southeastern Turkey, refounded by Ashurnasirpal II in 882 BC and captured by the Babylonians in 611 BC.

Tushino Camp

The Tushino Camp (Тушинский лагерь) was the fortified camp and rival tsarist residence of False Dmitry II near Moscow, occupied from 1608 to 1610 during the Time of Troubles.

Tushita Tesserae

Tushita Tesserae is an IAU-approved (2000) tessera terrain feature on Venus, 1,400 km across, centered at 42°S, 54°E, formerly named Hikuleo Tesserae, named for a Hindu deity of resignation to fate.

Tusholi Corona

Tusholi Corona, a 350-km-wide corona on Venus at 69.5°N 101.2°E, IAU-named in 1985 for the Chechen and Ingush fertility goddess, with four volcanoes and a 200-km-wide eastern trough.

Tushpa

Tushpa (Urartian Tušpa; Assyrian Turušpa) was the capital of the Urartian kingdom, built on a sheer rock on the shore of Lake Van, near modern Van, Turkey.

Tushratta

Tushratta (Tušratta) was king of Mitanni from about 1360 to 1335 BCE, who corresponded with Amenhotep III and Akhenaten, resisted the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I, and died by assassination.

Tushratta–Amenhotep III marriage negotiations

The Tushratta–Amenhotep III marriage negotiations, recorded in 13 Amarna letters, saw Mitanni's king Tushratta send his daughter Tadukhipa to marry Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the mid-14th century BC.

Tusi (drug)

Tusi (tusibí, tuci, pink cocaine) is a variable pink powder drug concoction from Colombia, usually ketamine plus MDMA and other drugs, rarely containing cocaine or 2C-B despite its name.

Tusi Sites

Tusi Sites (土司遗址) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in south-west China, inscribed in 2015, made up of three former Tusi chiefdoms in Hunan, Hubei, and Guizhou provinces.

Tusi system

The Tusi system (土司制度) was rule through hereditary native chieftains in southwest China, begun under the Yuan and lasting more than 600 years through the Ming and Qing.

Tušimice Power Station

Tušimice Power Station (Czech: Elektrárny Tušimice) is a brown-coal-fired power station near Kadaň in the Czech Republic, owned and operated by ČEZ, with an 800 MW plant commissioned in 1974–1975.

TuSimple

TuSimple is an American autonomous trucking company founded in 2015 in San Diego, best known for completing the first fully driverless semi-truck run on public roads in December 2021.

Tusk

A tusk is an elongated, specialized tooth whose crown extends outside the closed mouth, occurring in elephants, narwhals, walruses, and pigs as tools, weapons, or display structures.

Tusk (2014 film)

Tusk is a 2014 American body-horror comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, in which podcaster Wallace Bryton, played by Justin Long, is victimized in Manitoba by a retired seafarer.

Tusk (album)

Tusk is Fleetwood Mac's 1979 experimental double album, the follow-up to Rumours. 20 tracks, 72 minutes, $1.4 million cost, 4 million sold, US No. 4, UK No. 1, driven by Lindsey Buckingham.

Tusk shell

Tusk shell (Scaphopoda, tooth shell): marine burrowing mollusks with curved tubular shells open at both ends, feeding on foraminiferans via captacula; 2023 genomics places them as sister to Bivalvia (Diasoma), split ~520 Ma.

Tusk Venture Partners

Tusk Venture Partners is a New York City venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Bradley Tusk and Jordan Nof that backs startups in highly regulated markets like fintech.

Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African Americans trained as military aviators in the US Army Air Forces, serving in World War II from 1941 to 1946.

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

The Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site is a National Park Service site at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, commemorating America's first African American military pilots of World War II.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee), 1932-1972, was a U.S. Public Health Service experiment on 600 Black Alabama men with and without syphilis, without consent, withholding penicillin treatment until its 1972 exposure and the 1997 Clinton apology.

Tuskegee University

Tuskegee University, founded July 4, 1881 by Booker T. Washington in Tuskegee, Alabama, is a private, state-related HBCU and the only private 1890 land-grant institution, with 3,366 students and president Mark A. Brown.

Tuskegee, Alabama

Tuskegee, Alabama: county seat of Macon County, founded 1833, incorporated 1843, home of Tuskegee University (1881), the Tuskegee Airmen, and the 1932–1972 syphilis study; population 9,395 (2020).