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Tara, tara or TARA may refer to
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[edit] 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:
- Tara, Queensland, town in Australia
- Tara, Ontario, village in Canada
- Tara, Ethiopia, a village in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
- Tara, Russia, town in Omsk Oblast, Russia
- Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
- Tara Township, Minnesota, USA; several places
- Tara Hills, California, USA
Other:
- Tara Shire Council, Queensland, Australia
- Tara County, New South Wales, Australia
- Tara Station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
- Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
- Tara Boulevard, modern name of U.S. Route 19 and U.S. Route 41 through Jonesboro, where the Tara Plantation was located
- Tara, home of Keith Moon
- Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
- Tara Field, airport in Clayton County, Georgia, USA
[edit] People
- Tara (name), see for a list of people with the name
- Tara (actress), from the Assamese film industry
- Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, English socialite
- Baron Tara, Irish title
- Viscount Tara, Irish title
[edit] Deities
- Tara (Buddhism), a female deity representing enlightened activity and fearlessness
- Tara (Polynesian goddess), a beautiful sea goddess
- In Hinduism:
- 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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 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 (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
[edit] 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)
[edit] Other
- Tara (album), fourth album by black metal band Absu.
- Tara Brooch, an artifact 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
[edit] See also
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