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Tong Guan
Tong Guan (童贯, 1054–1126) was a Song dynasty eunuch official and general who held supreme military command under Emperor Huizong for about twenty years before his execution in 1126.
Tong Wars
Tong wars were violent conflicts between rival Chinese-American tongs, notably the Hip Sing Tong and On Leong Tong, in New York, San Francisco, and other Chinatowns from the 1880s to the 1920s, fought over gambling, opium, prostitution, and territory.
Tong Wen
Tong Wen (佟文), Chinese judoka born 1983 in Tianjin, +78 kg. Olympic gold 2008, bronze 2012; seven world titles 2003-2011, joint female record with Ryoko Tani; 2010 clenbuterol ban overturned by CAS.
Tong Yabghu Qaghan
Tong Yabghu Qaghan (統葉護可汗) was khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate from 618, ruling from the Tarim Basin to the Caucasus and controlling the Silk Road.
Tong, Lewis
Tong (Tunga) is a crofting township on the Isle of Lewis, parish of Stornoway, near the Sands of Tong. Known for its 1808 former parish manse (listed 2007) and the 1919 land raid on Tong Farm under Lord Leverhulme.
Tonga
Tonga (Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian island nation of 171 islands in the South Pacific, the only Pacific country never colonized.
Tonga praise poetry
Tonga praise poetry refers to two unrelated praise-poetry traditions: Kuyabila, the cattle praise poetry of the Tonga people of Southern Zambia, and the royal praise verse of Polynesian Tonga.
Tonga Ridge
Tonga Ridge is an undersea ridge in the South Pacific Ocean forming the frontal arc of the Tonga-Kermadec subduction system, where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Indo-Australian plate.
Tonga sports association and national olympic committee
TASANOC (Tonga Sports Association and National Olympic Committee) is Tonga's National Olympic Committee, IOC-recognized in 1984, serving 41 national federations and fielding Team Tonga at the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, and Pacific Games.
Tonga Trench
The Tonga Trench is an oceanic trench in the South Pacific Ocean where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Australian Plate, reaching a depth of 10,882 meters.
Tongan castaways
The Tongan castaways were six schoolboys who ran away in June 1965, were shipwrecked on the uninhabited island of 'Ata, and survived 15 months until rescue.
Tongan literature
Tongan literature is the oral and written literary expression of the Tongan people, encompassing oral genres like genealogical song and legend alongside writing introduced by missionaries in the early 1800s.
Tongan oral literature
Tongan oral literature is the body of poetry, song, genealogy, and legend transmitted by speech and performance in the Tongan language rather than in writing, best known through the lakalaka, Tonga's national dance.
Tongan paʻanga
The Tongan paʻanga is the currency of Tonga, issued by the National Reserve Bank and divided into 100 seniti. Introduced in 1967, it is pegged to a currency basket.
Tongariro
Tongariro: active andesitic volcanic complex of a dozen-plus cones in New Zealand's Taupō Volcanic Zone, 1,978 m, built over ~275,000 years; Te Māri craters erupted in 2012; Ngāuruhoe is its main vent; heart of a dual World Heritage national park.
Tongariro Alpine Crossing
The Tongariro Alpine Crossing, also called the Tongariro Crossing, is a 19.4-20.2 km one-day volcanic traverse in Tongariro National Park, New Zealand: Mangatepopo to Ketetahi, Red Crater highest point, Emerald Lakes, ~100,000 summer walkers.
Tongariro National Park
Tongariro National Park, New Zealand's first national park (fourth in the world), created from the 1887 Ngāti Tūwharetoa gift of the Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu summits; dual World Heritage site since 1993.
Tongbai hydroelectric plant
The Tongbai hydroelectric plant, formally the Tongbai Pumped Storage Power Plant (桐柏抽水蓄能电站), is a 1,200 MW pumped-storage station in Tiantai County, Zhejiang, China, fully commissioned in 2006.
Tongcheng
Tongcheng (同程), known today as Tongcheng Travel Holdings, is a Chinese online travel platform headquartered in Suzhou, founded in 2002 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 2018.
Tongcheng Life (同程生活)
Tongcheng Life (同程生活) was a Suzhou-based community group-buying grocery platform founded in 2018 by He Pengyu, which raised over US$300 million before filing for bankruptcy in July 2021.
Tongcheng school
The Tongcheng school (桐城派) was the most influential ancient-style prose school of the Qing dynasty, named for Tongcheng county in Anhui and led by Fang Bao, Liu Dakui, and Yao Nai.
Tongcheng Travel (同程旅游)
Tongcheng Travel (同程旅游) is a Chinese online travel agency in Suzhou, listed in Hong Kong since 2018 and known for distribution through Tencent's Weixin and Mobile QQ.
Tongcheng Travel's abandoned acquisition of Guangzhou Lüjin Technology
Tongcheng Travel's abandoned acquisition of Guangzhou Lüjin Technology was a planned 2024 purchase of the Guangzhou fintech company for up to RMB 1.15 billion, scrapped in August 2024.
Tongchuan power station
Tongchuan power station, also called the Huaneng Tongchuan Zhaojin Power Plant, is a coal-fired power station in Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China, whose two 600 MW air-cooled units were commissioned in 2007.
Tongchuan, Shaanxi
Tongchuan (铜川) is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi, China, with about 803,700 people. A coal and cement city once called "the city invisible on satellites," it was designated resource-depleted in 2009 and is transitioning its economy.
Tongchuang Purun (同创普润)
Tongchuang Purun (同创普润), formally Shanghai Tongchuang Purun New Materials, is a Shanghai company founded by Yao Lijun in 2012 that makes ultra-high-purity tantalum, copper, and aluminum for semiconductor sputtering targets.
Tongchuang Weiye
Tongchuang Weiye (同创伟业) is a Chinese venture capital and private equity firm founded in Shenzhen in 2000 by Zheng Weihe and Huang Li, listed on the NEEQ and known for 100 portfolio IPOs.
Tongchuanshi
Tongchuanshi (Tongchuan Shi, 铜川市) is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi, China, north of Xi'an. A former coal and cement base producing 70% of Shaanxi's coal, it was named resource-exhausted in 2009 and now pivots to tourism around the Yaozhou kilns, Sun Simiao, and Zhaojin.
Tongdian
The Tongdian (通典, "Comprehensive Statutes") is a 200-juan Chinese institutional history compiled by Du You and presented to Emperor Dezong, founding the comprehensive-statutes genre of historiography.
Tongdo Fantasia
Tongdo Fantasia (통도환타지아) is a theme park in Yangsan, South Korea, opened in 1993 near Tongdosa Temple; once drawing over a million visitors a year, it closed in 2020 and is now abandoned.