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Tara, tara or TARA may refer to Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

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Places

Natural features:

  • Hill of Tara, home of the ancient High Kings of Ireland
  • Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland
  • Tara Mountain and Tara National Park in Serbia
  • Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
  • Tara River, name of several rivers
  • Salar de Tara, salt pan in Chile

Towns: The Hill of Tara (Irish Teamhair na Rí, Hill of the Kings), located near the River Boyne, is a long, low limestone ridge that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Leinster, Ireland. ... Tara Hill (Torrchoill in Irish) is an isolated hill near the Irish Sea coast in North County Wexford, Ireland. ... Tara mountain is located in western Serbia, from 1000 to 1,500 metres a. ... Tara ) is a town and peninsula located in Fujitsu District, Saga, Japan. ... There are three rivers called Tara: Tara River (Russia) Tara River (Montenegro) Tara River (Greece) Category: ... Los Flamencos National Reserve is a nature reserve located in the commune of San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta Region of Chile. ...

Other: Tara is a town and Local Government Area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, located 300 kilometres south west of the state capital, Brisbane. ... Tara is a small village in southwestern Ontario, Canada. ... For the Zone of this name in the Amhara Region, see Oromia Zone. ... Tara (Та́ра) is a town in the north of Omsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia. ... Tara ) is a town and peninsula located in Fujitsu District, Saga, Japan. ... Tara Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Minnesota: Tara Township, Swift County, Minnesota Tara Township, Traverse County, Minnesota This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Tara Hills is a census-designated place located in Contra Costa County, California. ...

Tara Shire Council is a Local Government Area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. ... Tara County, New South Wales is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. ... Tara Station Not to be confused with Tara Street railway station. ... Tara Street railway station, May 2006 Tara Street is the busiest railway station in Ireland, with over 25,000 passengers using it daily. ... U.S. Route 19 is a north-south United States highway. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: U.S. Route 41 U.S. Route 41 is a north-south United States Highway that runs from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Miami, Florida. ... Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 – September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. ... Tara Anglican School for Girls is an independent school for girls in North Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia. ... Tara Field is a municipal airport located about 3 miles or 5km west of Hampton, Georgia, on the far south side of metro Atlanta in western Henry County. ...

People

  • Tara (name), see for a list of people with the name
  • Tara (actress), from the Assamese film industry
  • Baron Tara, Irish title
  • Viscount Tara, Irish title

Tara (IPA pronunciation: , ) is a unisex given name, most popular in the Indian sub continent. ... Tara,born on 1944 in Imphal, Manipur, India is an Assamese Film Actress She was one of the most popular actresses from Assam. ... Baron Tara is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. ... Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara (1585 - 1655) was an Irish soldier of the seventeenth century. ...

Deities

  • Tara (Devi), a Mahavidya of Mahadevi, Kali or Parvati.
  • Another name for Taraka, the second wife of Brihaspati
  • Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali, who married Vali's brother and successor, Sugriva, after Vali's death.

White Tara Tara or Arya Tara, also known as Jetsun Dolma in Tibetan, is a female Buddha typically associated with Buddhist tantra practice as preserved in Tibetan Buddhism. ... Tara is a beautiful sea goddess in Polynesian mythology. ... This article is about the Hindu goddess. ... Taraka is the name of two characters from Hindu mythology. ... In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Vali was the monkey-King of Kishkindha, a son of Indra and the elder brother of Sugriva. ... In Hinduism, Sugriva was the younger brother of Vali. ...

Companies and organizations

  • Tara Energy, electricity company in Texas, USA
  • Tara expedition, Arctic voyage 2006-8
  • Tara Foundation, charity for transgendered people
  • Tara (Israel), dairy co-operative
  • Tara Labs, manufacturer of high-end audio products
  • Tara Newz, Bengali news channel
  • Tara (Northern Ireland), loyalist group

The Tara Expedition is a research expedition through the ice of the Arctic. ... The Tara Foundation is a charity organization dedicated to the support of low-income and disabled transgender people. ... Tara logo Tara (Hebrew: ) is an agricultural cooperative (co-op) in Israel specializing in milk and dairy products. ... TARA Labs is a manufacturer of a high-end audio cables from Ashland, Oregon. ... TARA, the premier Bengali channel from Broadcast Worldwide, broadened its horizon by transforming itself into the first Bengali TV network of two channels - TARA NEWZ, the first 24 hour Bengali news channel and TARA MUZIK, the first 24 hour Bengali music channel. ... Tara was a loyalist movement in Northern Ireland that espoused a brand of evangelical Protestantism. ...

Fiction

Characters:

  • Tara King, one of The Avengers (TV series)
  • Tara of Helium, a fictional character appearing in the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Tara Fremont, or called "Tara, the Jungle Girl" and "Too Tall Tara", a fictional character appearing in AC Comics
  • Tara Maclay, a character in the cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Tara (comics), gynoid member of the New Invaders
  • Tara, a sword and sorcery heroine appearing in DC Comics' Warlord series
  • Tara Mehta, from the Devi comic book by Virgin Comics.
  • Tara (Kim Possible), a cheerleader in Kim Possible

Other: Tara King is a model who worked with Playboy in the late 1990s. ... A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, McClurg, 1917 Barsoom is a fictional version of the planet Mars invented by author Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. ... Tara Fremont (right) with Garganta (left) on the cover of Femforce #64 Tara Fremont (a. ... Tara Maclay (born October 16, 1980 and died May 7, 2002 in Sunnydale, California)[1] is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the cult television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... For other uses, see Buffy the Vampire Slayer (disambiguation). ... The gynoid known as Tara was a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe. ... The Warlord was a sword and sorcery comic book published by DC Comics from 1976 - 1989. ... Tara Mehta is a comic book character from the Devi comic book by Virgin Comics. ... This page is for minor characters in the fictional universe of Disneys animated television series Kim Possible. ...

  • Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
  • Tara (2001 film), an American film known in the USA as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small and starring Isaiah Washington and Ice T
  • Tara Plantation, fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
  • "The Androids of Tara", a Doctor Who serial (in which Tara is the name of a planet)
  • Tara Road, novel by Irish writer Maeve Binchy

Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Tara is a 2001 film, know in the United States as Hood Rat. ... Tara, the fictional plantation found in Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, was located near Jonesborough (now Jonesboro), Georgia. ... The Androids of Tara is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from November 25 to December 16, 1978. ... Tara Road (1998, ISBN 0385335121) is a novel by Maeve Binchy. ...

Science

  • Tara (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
  • tara tree in Peru
  • TARA, acronym for the Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique.
  • Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T (mtDNA)

Species see text Tara is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). ... Binomial name (Molina) Kuntze Caesalpinia spinosa (commonly known as Tara or Spiny Holdback) is a small tree or thorny shrub of 3-5 m high with sheets bipinnadas, with 2-3 pairs of pinnas each one with 7-8 pairs of oblong - elliptical folíolos, subsésiles, of rounded apex... The Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer, or TARA, is a type of lie detection technique that relies upon cognitive chronometry. ... Haplogroup T is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. ...

Other

  • Tara (album), fourth album by black metal band Absu.
  • Tara Brooch, an artefact from Ireland
  • tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
  • Hurricane Tara, name of three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
  • Tara (monkey), appeared in several films
  • Battle of Tara, in Ireland in 980

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Tara Brooch. ... ISO 4217 Code XPF User(s) New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna Inflation 2. ... The name Tara has been used for three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. ... Tara is a Capuchin monkey who played Jack in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, [SHE]he also appeared in [Babe: Pig in the city]. Tara did not return for the other Pirates of the Caribbean movies because she did not like being near the water. ... The Battle of Tara took place in 980. ...

See also


  Results from FactBites:
 
Goddess Tara - Crystalinks (893 words)
Tara is the Feminine Goddess Archetype in Hindu Mythology.
As White Tara, she rose from a lotus blooming in the lake that formed from the first tear of compassion of great bodhisattva Avalokiteswara (whose human incarnation is the Dalai Lama), and is considered his consort.
Tara is sometimes shown with eyes on the soles of her feet and the palms of her hands.
Tara (Buddhism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3050 words)
Tara is also known as a saviouress, as a heavenly deity who hears the cries of beings experiencing misery in samsara.
Tara then became very popular as an object of worship and was becoming an object of Tantric worship and practice by the 7th century C.E. With the movement and cross-pollination of Indian Buddhism into Tibet, the worship and practices of Tara became incorporated into Tibetan Buddhism.
Tara then, embodies certain ideals which make her attractive to women practitioners, and her emergence as a Bodhisattva can be seen as a part of Mahayana Buddhism's reaching out to women, and becoming more inclusive even in 6th century C.E. India.
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