Tara

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Contents 1 People 1.1 Titles 2 Places 2.1 Natural features 2.2 Towns 2.3 Other 3 Companies and organizations 4 Fiction 4.1 Comics 4.2 Novels 5 Movies and television 5.1 Characters 5.2 Settings 6 Religion 7 Science 8 Other 9 See also

Tara, tara or TARA may refer to

[edit] People

• Tara (name), a list of people with the name
• Tara (actress), from the Assamese film industry

[edit] Titles

• Baron Tara, Irish title
• Viscount Tara, Irish title

[edit] Places

[edit] 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

[edit] Towns

• Tara, Afghanistan
• 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

[edit] Other

• Shire of Tara, 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] Companies and organizations

• Tara Energy, electricity company in Texas, USA
• Tara expedition, Arctic voyage 2006-8
• Tara Foundation, charity for transgendered people
• Tara Foundation (Ireland), an Irish cultural heritage lobby group
• 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

[edit] Comics

• Tara, a sword and sorcery heroine appearing in DC Comics' Warlord (comics)
• Tara (comics), an android character in Marvel Comics' New Invaders
• Tara Fremont, also called "Tara, the Jungle Girl" and "Too Tall Tara", a superhero character appearing in AC Comics
• Tara Mehta, an incarnate deity character in Virgin Comics' Devi comic book

[edit] Novels

• Tara of Helium, a princess character in the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Tara (Artemis Fowl), a fictional location in the Artemis Fowl series
• Tara Road, novel by Irish writer Maeve Binchy

[edit] Movies and television

• Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
• Tara (2001 film), an American film, also known as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small, starring Isaiah Washington and Ice T

[edit] Characters

• Tara (Kim Possible), a cheerleader character in the Kim Possible
• Tara King, a leading character in The Avengers
• Tara Maclay, a character in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[edit] Settings

• Tara, a planet setting of the Doctor Who serial "The Androids of Tara"
• Tara Plantation, fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind

[edit] Religion

• Tara (Buddhism), a female deity representing enlightened activity and fearlessness
• Tara (Polynesian goddess), a 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] Science

• Tara (genus), 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.
• Battle of Tara, in Ireland in 980

[edit] See also

• Taras