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tabor - Proper names, Acronym, Other

A small double-headed side drum with snares, known from mediaeval times. It was often played with one stick, the player at the same time blowing a three-holed pipe to accompany dancing.

Proper names

Places

Mount Tabor (disambiguation page) Tábor, Czech Republic Tabor, Iowa, USA Tabor, South Dakota, USA Tabor Island, a phantom island also known as Maria Theresa Reef

Organizations

Tabor Academy, an independent preparatory school in Massachusetts, USA Tabor College, Australia is a national multicampus Christian Liberal arts institution Tabor College, Kansas is a four-year Christian liberal arts institution in Hillsboro, Kansas Studien und Lebensgemeinschaft Tabor, Germany is a Lutheran Bible College in Marburg, Germany Taborites

Personal names

Horace A. Tabor, a nineteenth-century millionaire miner and U.S. Senator David Tabor, physicist Tabor, the wartime pseudonym of general Stanisław Tatar, chief of staff of the Armia Krajowa Tabor is also a Biblical name Tabor (character), in the animated television series Swat Kats

Acronym

Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), a statewide referendum question adopted in Colorado and proposed in Maine

Other

Tabor (formation), a type of a camp or military formation Tabor (Morocco), a type of a military unit in Morocco Tabor (instrument), a military snare drum
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