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Turlough Hill Power Station

Turlough Hill Power Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in the Wicklow Mountains, County Wicklow, Ireland, generating up to 292 MW and the Republic's only pumped storage station.

Turma do Pagode

Turma do Pagode is an eight-member pagode group from the Zona Norte of São Paulo, formed in 1994 and known for the hits "Lancinho" and "Camisa 10".

Turmeric

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a perennial herb of the ginger family whose rhizomes are ground into a bright yellow spice used in South Asian cuisine and medicine.

Turmero

Turmero is a city in Aragua state, Venezuela, capital of Santiago Mariño municipality, founded 27 November 1620 as the doctrina parish of Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria; known for its Candelaria festival, Samán de Güere tree, and 20th-century urban growth.

Turms Planitia

Turms Planitia is a 622-km-wide plain on Mercury, centered at 31.05°S, 350.81°W in the H-14 Debussy quadrangle; IAU-named March 14, 2017 after the Etruscan messenger god equivalent of Mercury.

Turn (angle)

A turn, also known as a round angle, is a unit of plane angle equal to one complete rotation around a point, or 360 degrees and 2π radians.

Turn A Gundam (ターンAガンダム)

Turn A Gundam (∀ガンダム) is Sunrise's 50-episode 1999–2000 Gundam 20th-anniversary TV anime directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, with Syd Mead mecha designs, following Moonrace scout Loran Cehack and the Moonlight Butterfly.

Turn Blue (album)

Turn Blue is the Black Keys' eighth studio album, released May 13, 2014 on Nonesuch. Produced by Danger Mouse with Auerbach and Carney, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.

Turn Down for What

Turn Down for What is a 2013 Columbia single by DJ Snake and Lil Jon, a trap-dubstep party track. UK peak 23, 61 weeks on the Dance chart; ISRC USUM70731278, ISWC T-914019054-1; Daniels-directed video.

Turn Left, Turn Right (向左走·向右走)

Turn Left, Turn Right (向左走·向右走) is a 2003 Hong Kong romantic comedy by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai, adapted from Jimmy Liao's illustrated book, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Gigi Leung as neighbors who keep missing each other in Taipei; Warner Bros.' first Mandarin co-production.

Turn of the Tide

Turn of the Tide (Rabo de Peixe) is a Portuguese Netflix crime drama created by Augusto Fraga, inspired by a 2001 cocaine shipment that washed ashore in the Azores; three seasons, 2023–2026, 19 episodes.

Turn on red

Turn on red, also known as right on red, is a traffic rule permitting a turn at a red light after stopping, common in the United States.

Turn on, tune in, drop out

"Turn on, tune in, drop out" is the 1966-1967 counterculture slogan popularized by ex-Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary, reportedly at Marshall McLuhan's suggestion, urging psychedelic use, spiritual tuning-in, and withdrawal from mainstream society, famously delivered at the 1967 Human Be-In.

Turn state's evidence

Turning state's evidence, also called turning King's or Queen's evidence, is when a defendant testifies against accomplices in exchange for reduced charges or a lighter sentence.

Turn the Lights Back On

Turn the Lights Back On: Billy Joel single released February 1, 2024 by Columbia Records, written with Freddy Wexler, Arthur Bacon, and Wayne Hector; his first new pop song since 2007's All My Life, debuted at No. 62 on the Hot 100.

Turn Up Charlie

Turn Up Charlie is a 2019 British Netflix comedy-drama, also called a manny comedy, created by Idris Elba and Gary Reich: a washed-up DJ nannies his friend's daughter; eight episodes, cancelled April 2020.

Turn-About Ranch

Turn-About Ranch: Christian residential treatment program and working cattle ranch in Escalante, Utah, founded 1989; known for Dr. Phil referrals, a 2016 staff killing, and abuse lawsuits.

Turn-based role-playing game

Turn-based role-playing game: RPG genre where combat proceeds in discrete turns (ATB, CTB, press-turn variants). D&D-derived, dominant in JRPGs; revived by Baldur's Gate 3, Metaphor, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Turn: Washington's Spies

Turn: Washington's Spies is an AMC historical drama (2014–2017, four 10-episode seasons) created by Craig Silverstein from Alexander Rose's book about the Culper Ring, starring Jamie Bell as Abraham Woodhull; praised by audiences, criticized by historians for inaccuracy.

Turn! Turn! Turn!

Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) is a Pete Seeger folk song from Ecclesiastes 3, first recorded in 1962 and made a 1965 Billboard number one by the Byrds.

Turnagain Arm

Turnagain Arm is a 48-mile hypertidal estuary of Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, named by Captain Cook in 1778, with a 9 m tidal range, a daily tidal bore, and tidal flats studied for earthquake-like sediment deformation.

Turnberry (golf course)

Turnberry, now Trump Turnberry, is an Ayrshire, Scotland links resort whose Ailsa Course hosted The Open in 1977, 1986, 1994, and 2009, famed for the 1977 Duel in the Sun, since absent from the rota.

Turner & Hooch

Turner & Hooch is a 1989 American buddy-cop comedy starring Tom Hanks as a neat-freak detective partnered with a slobbery dog who is his only murder witness.

Turner & Hooch (TV series)

Turner & Hooch (TV series): 2021 Disney+ comedy sequel to the 1989 Tom Hanks film, starring Josh Peck as Scott Turner Jr. with a French Mastiff; 12 episodes, canceled after one season.

Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) was Ted Turner's Atlanta media company, built from a billboard business and UHF station WTCG into CNN, TNT, Cartoon Network, and TCM, acquired by Time Warner in 1996 and now within Warner Bros. Discovery.

Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is a commercial-free classic-film cable channel launched by Ted Turner on April 14, 1994 with Gone with the Wind, drawing on Turner's MGM and pre-1948 Warner Bros. libraries, hosted by Robert Osborne and later Ben Mankiewicz, now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

Turner Construction

Turner Construction Company is a New York City-based general contractor, the largest in the United States by revenue, founded in 1902 and owned by Germany's HOCHTIEF.

Turner Field

Turner Field was a baseball park in Atlanta and home of the Atlanta Braves from 1997 to 2016, converted from Centennial Olympic Stadium and named for Ted Turner.

Turner Hill (baseball)

Turner Hill (born 1999, Marietta, Ohio) is a Giants outfielder, undrafted out of Marietta College, signed from the Frontier League in 2023; MLB debut August 15, 2026.

Turner Prize

Turner Prize, annual British contemporary art award founded in 1984 by Tate's Patrons of New Art and named for J. M. W. Turner; given for an outstanding exhibition by an artist born or working in Britain, with a four-artist shortlist, £25,000 winner's purse, and a history of controversy.