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Tusken Raiders

Tusken Raiders (Sand People, タスケン・レイダー) are nomadic Tatooine desert raiders in Star Wars, first seen in A New Hope (1977), known for gaderffii sticks, unmasking taboos, Fort Tusken attacks, and their Disney-era recasting as an indigenous colonized people.

Tussar silk

Tussar silk (tasar, tussah): non-mulberry silk from wild Antheraea moths, mainly Antheraea mylitta, reared outdoors on Terminalia and sal trees in India; coarse golden fiber, 1,586 MT produced in 2023-24, GI-tagged in Jharkhand.

Tusshar Kapoor (तुषार रवि कपूर)

Tusshar Kapoor (तुषार रवि कपूर), born 1976, is a Hindi film actor and producer, son of Jeetendra, brother of Ekta Kapoor. Debut Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai (2001); known for Lucky in the Golmaal comedies; single father via surrogacy; produced Laxmii.

Tussilago

Tussilago, coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), a monotypic Asteraceae genus of temperate Eurasia; cough remedy and vegetable containing hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids, invasive in North America.

Tusson tumuli

Tusson tumuli (nécropole mégalithique de Tusson): five Neolithic collective-tomb mounds aligned on a ridge near Tusson, Charente, France, mid-5th millennium BC; the 139 m Gros Dognon ranks among Europe's largest, with quarries radiocarbon-dated 4600-4050 BC.

Tusun Pasha

Tusun Pasha (طوسون باشا) was an Ottoman Egyptian commander, son of Muhammad Ali Pasha, who led the campaign against the first Saudi state from 1811.

Tut (miniseries)

Tut is a 2015 three-part, six-hour Spike TV miniseries dramatizing Tutankhamun's reign, starring Avan Jogia and Ben Kingsley, directed by David Von Ancken, with a rumored $50 million budget and mixed reviews (37% Tomatometer, Metascore 46).

Tut Land Park

Tut Land Park (ملاعب توت لاند) is a children's amusement park in Giza Governorate, Egypt, part of the Pharaonic Village on a Nile island near Cairo, with Egyptian-themed rides including the Rocket drop tower.

Tut Nyuot

Tut Nyuot (born 2004) is a British actor of Sudanese descent, known as Arthur Baker in The Long Walk (2025), Troy in Animol (2026), and roles in Small Axe, Steve, and The Witcher: Blood Origin.

Tuta (email)

Tuta, formerly Tutanota, is a German end-to-end encrypted email service launched in 2014 and renamed in 2023; in 2024 it became the first email provider to deploy post-quantum encryption in production.

Tuta absoluta

Tuta absoluta (syn. Phthorimaea absoluta), the South American tomato pinworm, is a gelechiid moth native to South America; detected in Spain in 2006, it spread across Afro-Eurasia and devastates tomato crops, with losses up to 100% and widespread insecticide resistance.

Tutameia

Tutameia (Tutaméia – Terceiras Estórias, meaning 'trifles, almost nothing') is a 1967 collection of very short stories by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa, his last book published in his lifetime.

Tutammu

Tutammu, also spelled Tutammû or Tutamu, was the last king of Patina, a Syro-Anatolian kingdom of the Amuq plain, deposed by Tiglath-pileser III in 738 BCE when Assyria annexed his realm.

Tutanchamun

Tutanchamun, titled Tutankhamun in English, is a set-collection board game by Reiner Knizia first published by Amigo in 1993, in which players collect artifact tiles along a river.

Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun (Tutankhaten), 18th Dynasty pharaoh 1336–1327 BCE, restored Egypt's old religion after Akhenaten; his nearly intact tomb KV62, found by Howard Carter in November 1922, made him Egypt's most famous king.

Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger

Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger, also called King Tut's iron dagger (JE 61585), is a 34.2 cm gold-hilted dagger found in 1925 on the pharaoh's mummy; its blade contains 10.8 wt% nickel and 0.58 wt% cobalt, proving it was forged from an octahedrite meteorite around 1361–1352 BCE.

Tutankhamun's mummy

Tutankhamun's mummy, the body of the 18th-Dynasty pharaoh found in tomb KV62 in 1922, still kept in the Valley of the Kings; examined by X-rays, the 2005 CT scan, and contested 2010 DNA studies of his family and pathologies.

Tutankhamun's trumpets

Tutankhamun's trumpets are a bronze and a silver trumpet from the 18th Dynasty reign of Tutankhamun, found in tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings in 1922.

Tute (Individual)

Individual Tute (Tute individual) is the two- or three-player, no-partnership form of the Spanish marriage-type point-trick game Tute: 10 cards each, stock draw after tricks, singing 20s and 40s, most points wins.

Tute arrastrado

Tute arrastrado (also Tute Indómito) is the three-player individual variant of the Spanish trick-taking card game Tute: 13 cards each, no stock, strict follow-suit and must-beat rules, king-horse cantes, capote, and chip payments with an optional pot.

Tute cabrero

Tute cabrero, an individual reverse-scoring Tute variant from Argentina and Uruguay for 3-6 players with a 40-card Spanish deck; middle point totals lose, four losses eliminate, capote and singing rules apply.

Tute subastado

Tute subastado (Auction Tute), Spanish bidding variant of Tute: players bid points each hand, highest bidder picks trump and plays solo against the others, winning only by meeting the bid.

Tutejšyja

Tutejšyja (Тутэйшыя, "people from here") is the historic self-designation of locals in the Belarusian-Lithuanian borderlands, also the name of Janka Kupala's 1922 play and a 1980s writers' society.

Tutelary deity

Tutelary deity, also tutelar, guardian deity: a usually minor god or spirit protecting a place, person, group, or activity, e.g. Roman genius, Vietnamese Thành hoàng, Hittite LAMMA gods, Hindu kuladevatā.

Tutelina Corona

Tutelina Corona, a corona and nova on Venus at 29°N 348°E south of Sedna Planitia, about 180 km across, IAU-named 1997 for a Roman harvest goddess, with a 500–800 m central rise.

Tuticorin NTPL power station

The Tuticorin NTPL power station is a 1,000 MW coal-fired power station at Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India, owned by NLC Tamil Nadu Power Limited, with both units operating since 2015.

Tuticorin Thermal Power Station

Tuticorin Thermal Power Station (TTPS) is a state-owned coal-fired power station at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, India, owned by TANGEDCO with five 210 MW units.

Tutinama

Tutinama (طوطی‌نامه, Tales of a Parrot) is a 14th-century Persian collection of fifty-two moralizing tales told by a parrot, best known through an illustrated Mughal manuscript of about 1560.

Tutkheperre Shoshenq

Tutkheperre Shoshenq, officially Shoshenq IIb, was a poorly attested pharaoh of the early Twenty-Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known from monuments at Bubastis and finds at Abydos.

Tutorial

A tutorial is small-group teaching with one teacher and very few students, centered on the students' prepared work; rooted in Oxford's Socratic tutorial system, it shows positive effect sizes in tutoring, statistics, and medical education research.