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Tenerife airport disaster

The Tenerife airport disaster was the 1977 runway collision of KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, killing 583 people.

Tenerife South Airport

Tenerife South Airport, also known as Reina Sofía Airport, is an international airport in southern Tenerife that opened in 1978, handling nearly 14 million passengers in 2025.

Tenet (film)

Tenet is a 2020 action science-fiction thriller written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan, starring John David Washington, in which a CIA operative uses time inversion to stop a future catastrophe.

Tenet Healthcare

Tenet Healthcare is a healthcare services company operating acute care and specialty hospitals and, through its USPI subsidiary, the largest ambulatory surgery platform in the United States.

Teneurin intracellular, N-terminal

Teneurin intracellular, N-terminal (Ten_N, IPR009471, Pfam PF06484) is the ~45 kDa cytoplasmic domain of type II transmembrane teneurin proteins, cleavable and nuclear-translocating for transcriptional regulation, with EF-hand, SH3-binding, and NLS features.

Teng Haibin

Teng Haibin (滕海滨), Chinese artistic gymnast born 1985 in Beijing; 2004 Olympic pommel horse champion (9.837), 2003 world pommel horse co-champion, three world team golds, 2010 Asian Games all-around winner, later coach of Xiao Ruoteng and Zou Jingyuan.

Teng Xiu

Teng Xiu (滕修), courtesy name Xianxian, was a general of Eastern Wu who, after Wu's fall in 280, served the Jin dynasty as Governor of Guangzhou.

Teng Yin

Teng Yin (滕胤) was an Eastern Wu statesman of the Three Kingdoms period who served as co-regent for Sun Liang and died opposing the regent Sun Lin.

Teng-Leong Chew

Teng-Leong Chew is a cell biologist and imaging scientist who has directed the Advanced Imaging Center at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2014, studying the actin cytoskeleton and mitochondria.

Tenga

Tenga, styled TENGA, is a Japanese sexual wellness company founded by Koichi Matsumoto in Tokyo in 2005, known for consumer-grade design of male masturbators, with over 90 million units shipped.

Tengchong

Tengchong (腾冲) is a city and volcanic field in western Yunnan, China, near Myanmar, with Holocene volcanoes (Dayingshan, Maanshan, Heikongshan), the Rehai geothermal field, and intraplate volcanism on the SE Tibetan Plateau margin.

Tengela

Tengela, also written Tenguella, was a Fula warlord of the western Sudan who fought the Mali Empire for decades and was killed by Askia of Gao's forces in 1512.

Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck

Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck (Sinking of the Van der Wijck) is an Indonesian novel by Hamka, serialized in 1938, telling of a doomed love ended by rigid custom and a shipwreck.

Tengger Caldera

Tengger Caldera (Kaldera Tengger), a 16-km-wide caldera complex in East Java, Indonesia, on the Sunda arc; five overlapping stratovolcanoes, with active Mount Bromo, Ngadisari and Sandsea calderas, and heavy tourism.

Tengger Desert Solar Park

The Tengger Desert Solar Park is a cluster of photovoltaic power stations on the southeastern edge of the Tengger Desert near Zhongwei, in Ningxia, northwest China, including a 13 GW renewable base.

Tenggerese people

Tenggerese, also called Wong Tengger or Tengger Javanese, are about 90,000 Hindu Javanese highlanders around Mount Bromo, East Java, preserving a Majapahit-era priesthood, an archaic Javanese dialect, and the annual Yadnya Kasada crater-offering rite.

Tengiz

Tengiz, or Lake Tengiz (Kazakh: Теңіз, meaning "sea"), is a large salt lake with no outlet in north-central Kazakhstan, a Ramsar and World Heritage site hosting the northernmost greater flamingo colony.

Tengiz Field

Tengiz Field is a supergiant oil field in western Kazakhstan near the Caspian Sea, discovered in 1979 and developed by Tengizchevroil, a partnership between Kazakhstan and Chevron.

Tengizchevroil

Tengizchevroil is a Kazakhstani oil and gas partnership formed on April 6, 1993 between Kazakhstan and Chevron, developing the supergiant Tengiz and Korolev fields in western Kazakhstan.

Tengizchevroil Future Growth Project power station

The Tengizchevroil Future Growth Project power station is a 650 MW captive gas-fired power station at the Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan, commissioned in 2025.

Tengkorak

Tengkorak, Indonesian for "Skull", is a grindcore and death metal band from Jakarta formed in 1993, fronted by vocalist M. Hariadi "Ombat" Nasution and sung in Indonesian and English.

Tengku Fahad Mua'adzam Shah

Tengku Fahad Mua'adzam Shah, also spelled Tengku Fahd, Tengku Arif Temenggong of Pahang, is the youngest son of the late Sultan Ahmad Shah and brother of Sultan Abdullah; he leads the Sultan Ahmad Shah Environment Trust and Pahang Rangers futsal club.

Tengku Muhammad Taufik

Tengku Muhammad Taufik is a Malaysian corporate executive and chartered accountant who has led the state-owned national oil company Petronas as president and group CEO since July 2020.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (Ku Li) is a Malaysian politician and Kelantan prince, an MP from 1974 until losing Gua Musang in 2022, who nearly beat Mahathir for the UMNO presidency in 1987.

Tengku Zatashah

Tengku Zatashah Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, Selangor princess, daughter of Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah; social advocate behind #SayNo2Plastic and #ZeroFoodWastage (2016), L'Oréal Paris alumna, InNature Berhad director, Legion d'Honneur recipient.

Tenglong Data (Tenglong Holding Group)

Tenglong Data (腾龙数据), part of Tenglong Holding Group, is a Beijing-based Chinese data center developer founded in 2015 by Ren Shaolong, known for a reported record RMB 26 billion Series A in 2019.

Tenglong Holding Group (腾龙控股集团)

Tenglong Holding Group (腾龙控股集团), also Tamron Holding Group, is a Beijing-based data center developer founded in 2015 by Ren Shaolong, known for announcing a $3.7 billion financing round in 2019.

Tengri

Tengri, also known as Täñre or Tanri, is the sky deity worshipped by Turkic and Mongolic peoples of Inner Asia from ancient times to today.

Tengri Bögü Qaghan

Tengri Bögü Qaghan (牟羽可汗), personal name Alp Qutlugh, was the third ruler of the Uyghur Khaganate, reigning 759 to 779 and making Manichaeism the state religion.

Tengri Khan

Tengri Khan (登里可汗) was a khagan of the Huige (Uyghur) empire who in 762 led a large army south to help the Tang court destroy the rebel Shi Chaoyi.