Taos or TAOS may refer to:
Places
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Taos, Missouri
Taos is a city in Cole County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,150 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Taos was laid out in 1849. The city was named after Taos, New ...
, a city in Cole County, Missouri, United States
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Taos County, New Mexico
Taos County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,937. Its county seat is Taos. The county was formed in 1852 as one of the original nine counties in New Mexico Territory.
Taos County compris ...
, United States
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Taos, New Mexico
Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Cha ...
, a city, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico
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Taos art colony
The Taos art colony was an art colony founded in Taos, New Mexico, by artists attracted by the culture of the Taos Pueblo and northern New Mexico. The history of Hispanic craftsmanship in furniture, tin work, and other mediums also played a rol ...
, an art colony founded in Taos, New Mexico
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Taos Pueblo
Taos Pueblo (or Pueblo de Taos) is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos-speaking (Tiwa) Native American tribe of Puebloan people. It lies about north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico. The pueblos are considered to be one of the oldest c ...
, a Native American pueblo
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Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
Taos Pueblo is a census-designated place (CDP) in Taos County, New Mexico, just north of Taos. The population was 1,264 at the 2000 census.
Geography
Taos Pueblo is located at (36.448735, -105.553979). Rio Pueblo de Taos passes through Taos ...
, a census-designated place in Taos County, New Mexico
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Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico
Taos Ski Valley is a village and alpine ski resort in the southwestern United States, located in Taos County, New Mexico. The population was 69 at the 2010 census. Until March 19, 2008, it was one of four ski resorts in America to prohibit sn ...
, a ski resort village in New Mexico
People and language
* Taos people, or the
Tiwa people
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Taos language
The Taos language of the Northern Tiwa branch of the Tanoan language family is spoken in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico.
Sociolinguistics
In data collected in 1935 and 1937, George L. Trager (1946) notes that Taos was spoken by all members of the Tao ...
, a Tanoan language spoken in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
** The subset of
Puebloan peoples who speak the Taos language
Other
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Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey
The Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey (TAOS) is a robotic survey of the Outer Solar System. TAOS uses an array of four 50 cm aperture telescopes to monitor background stars awaiting the alignment of an Outer Solar System with a star tar ...
(TAOS)
* ''Taos'', a sleeping car built by the Budd Company in 1938 for use on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's passenger train, the ''
Super Chief''
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Taos Hum
Hum may refer to:
Science
* Hum (sound), a sound produced with closed lips, or by insects, or other periodic motion
* Mains hum, an electric or electromagnetic phenomenon
* The Hum, an acoustic phenomenon
* Venous hum, a physiological sensation
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, a phenomenon involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency noise of a humming character and unknown origin
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Taos Revolt, a popular insurrection against the American occupation of New Mexico in 1847 during the Mexican–American War
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TAOS (operating system)
Tao Group was a software company with headquarters in Reading, Berkshire, UK. It developed the Intent software platform, which enabled content portability by delivering services in a platform-independent format called Virtual Processor (VP). T ...
, later renamed to Intent.
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Technology for Autonomous Operational Survivability, a United States Air Force satellite
* Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, a semiconductor light sensor maker now owned by
ams AG
ams-OSRAM AG, formerly known as austriamicrosystems AG (originated from Austria Mikro Systeme) and ams AG (before acquiring Osram), is an Austrian electronics company that designs and manufactures sensors for small form factor, low power, high ...
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Volkswagen Taos, a sport utility vehicle model
See also
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Tao (disambiguation)
Tao is a metaphysical concept found in Taoism, Confucianism, and more generally in ancient Chinese philosophy.
Tao may also refer to:
Comics and video games
* Tao (comics), the fictional character from the comic book WildCATS
* Tao Jun, the fic ...
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