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Telescope Peak
Telescope Peak, highest summit of the Panamint Range at 11,049 ft (3,368 m), is the tallest mountain in Death Valley National Park, California, overlooking Badwater Basin, North America's lowest point.
Telescopic handler
A telescopic handler, commonly called a telehandler, is a mobile lifting machine with a telescoping boom that combines a forklift's load capacity with a crane's reach, used mainly in construction and agriculture.
Telescopic sight
A telescopic sight, also known as a rifle scope, is a magnifying optical sight placing a reticle inside a small refracting telescope, most commonly mounted on firearms.
Telescopium
Telescopium, the Telescope, is a faint southern constellation created by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille at the Cape of Good Hope in 1751 and 1752, covering 252 square degrees south of Sagittarius and Scorpius.
Telesina
Telesina, also called Teresina, is an Italian poker variant based on five-card stud, played with a stripped deck, one hole card and four exposed cards per player.
Telesis Bio
Telesis Bio Inc. is a San Diego company in DNA and mRNA synthesis, formed in 2011 by Synthetic Genomics and known for the BioXp systems and Gibson SOLA platform.
Teleskop
Teleskop (Телескоп) was a Moscow literary journal founded and edited by Nikolai Nadezhdin from 1831 to 1836, closed by Tsar Nicholas I after publishing Chaadaev's First Philosophical Letter in 1836.
Telespazio
Telespazio is an Italian satellite services company headquartered in Rome, founded in 1961, jointly owned by Leonardo and Thales, and operating the Fucino Space Centre.
Telesphorus
Telesphorus was the eighth bishop of Rome, serving from about 127/128 to 137/138 under Hadrian, the only early pope whose martyrdom is reliably attested, and a keeper of Sunday Easter.
Telesterion
Telesterion (Τελεστήριον), the great roofed initiation hall at Eleusis, Attica, where the Eleusinian Mysteries were enacted; rebuilt from Mycenaean Megaron B through classical (Ictinos, Koroibos) and Roman phases, destroyed by Alaric's Goths.
Teletext
Teletext, also known as Text-tv, is a one-way broadcast information service delivering pages of text and graphics inside the television signal, first launched as the BBC's Ceefax in 1974.
Teletherapy (radiation therapy)
Teletherapy, also called external-beam radiation therapy, treats cancer by directing ionizing radiation from a source outside the body at a defined target volume, one of radiotherapy's two main forms alongside brachytherapy.
Telethonin
Telethonin (titin cap, T-cap, TCAP) is a 167 amino acid, 19 kDa striated-muscle Z-disc protein that crosslinks two titin N-termini; TCAP variants cause LGMDR7 and are reported in cardiomyopathy.
Telethonin-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R7
Telethonin-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R7 (LGMDR7), formerly LGMD2G, is a rare autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy caused by TCAP gene variants that eliminate telethonin, causing progressive limb weakness with onset from infancy to adulthood.
Teletoon at Night
Teletoon at Night (formerly The Detour) was Teletoon's Canadian English late-night adult animation block, successor to Teletoon Unleashed (2001), ended April 1, 2019 when programming moved to Adult Swim Canada.
Teletransportation paradox
The teletransportation paradox is a thought experiment introduced by Derek Parfit in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons, where a person is scanned, destroyed, and rebuilt from new matter elsewhere.
Teletubbies
Teletubbies, British preschool TV series (テレタビーズ in Japan) created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for Ragdoll, first aired on BBC 31 March 1997; 365 episodes, Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po, sold to 120+ countries, later DHX/WildBrain reboots.
Teleutskiy Vzvoz-I
Teleutskiy Vzvoz-I (Телеутский Взвоз-I) is a multi-period burial complex on the Ob River in Altai Krai, Russia: an Early Bronze Age Elunin culture cemetery (c. 1740–1660 BC) and a Mongol-period, Golden Horde barrow group of the Karmatskaya culture.
Televangelism
Televangelism is television-based religious preaching, mainly evangelical Christian, financed by viewer donations; term popularized by Hadden and Swann (1981), with US origins in 1950s revivalism, 1980s scandals, and global spread.
Televerket (Sweden)
Televerket was the Swedish state telecommunications agency, growing from the 1853 Telegraph Administration, that ran Sweden's phone networks until it became the state-owned company Telia AB in 1993.
Televisa
Televisa, formally Grupo Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications corporation founded in 1973 that runs cable networks and Sky satellite TV and is TelevisaUnivision's largest shareholder.
Television
Television is a medium for transmitting moving images and sound to receivers, developed from radio technology in the 1930s and dominant in the late twentieth century.
Television (band)
Television: American rock band formed in New York in 1973, led by Tom Verlaine with Richard Lloyd, Richard Hell, and Billy Ficca; CBGB pioneers whose 1977 album Marquee Moon shaped post-punk.
Television advertisement
Television advertisement (TV commercial, spot): paid promotional message broadcast on TV. Key facts: US commercial broadcasting began with WEAF's 1922 radio ad; cigarette ads banned 1970; children's ad limits 10.5/12 minutes per hour; streaming now 46.6% of ad-supported viewing.
Television antenna
A television antenna, also called a TV aerial, captures over-the-air broadcast TV signals and delivers them to a television tuner, with indoor, rooftop, VHF, and UHF designs.
Television broadcaster
A television broadcaster, also called a TV broadcaster, is an organization licensed to transmit television programming over the public airwaves, distinct from cable operators and streaming services.
Television Centre, London
Television Centre, also known as BBC Television Centre, is the BBC's former television production complex in White City, west London, opened in 1960 and sold in 2012.
Television channel
A television channel is a scheduled sequence of programs delivered by a broadcaster over terrestrial, cable, satellite, or internet platforms; the BBC launched the first regular channel in 1936.
Television channel frequencies
Television channel frequencies: the VHF/UHF bands and channel numbering plans for terrestrial TV. 6 MHz channels in the Americas and Korea (ch 2 at 54–60 MHz, UHF 14 at 470 MHz), 7/8 MHz in ITU Region 1; channel 37 reserved; 600 MHz repack ended US UHF at channel 36.
Television content quotas in Australia
Television content quotas in Australia require commercial broadcasters to air 55% Australian content and 250 first-release points yearly, and from 2026 major streaming services to invest 10% of program expenditure in local programs.