The temperance movement and the Eighteenth Amendment. 1  In the United States an early wave of movements for state and local prohibition arose from the intensive religious revivalism of the 1820s and â30s, which stimulated movements toward perfectionism in human beings, including temperance and abolitionism.
TIL (or T.I.L.) typically is an abbreviation for Today I Learned when used on the web at sites like Reddit.com or Digg.com TIL may also mean Until, later. TIL may also stand for That is Lame.
'Tetra' means four, and the tetrahedron has four sides. If you were going to be very pedantic, you could describe a cube as a hexahedron, but people tend not to! The mathematical word for a solid shape like these is a polyhedron (poly means many). By the way, the plural is polyhedra.