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Towards Zero
Towards Zero (1944) is an Agatha Christie detective novel, the last of five featuring Superintendent Battle, in which circumstances converge on a murder at Lady Tressilian's clifftop home Gull's Point, first published by Dodd, Mead (June 1944) and Collins (July 1944).
Towazugatari
Towazugatari (とはずがたり) is a five-volume autobiographical diary by the court lady Go-Fukakusa-in Nijō, recounting her service to retired Emperor Go-Fukakusa and later travels as a nun.
Towboat
A towboat is a shallow-draft, flat-hulled vessel built to push barges on rivers and canals. Despite the name, it pushes rather than pulls its cargo, called the tow.
Towed array sonar
Towed array sonar is a line of hydrophones in a flexible hose towed behind a surface ship or submarine, detecting submarines at ranges of tens to hundreds of kilometers.
Towel
A towel is a piece of absorbent cloth or paper used for wiping or drying a wet body, surface, or object, most often after washing or bathing.
Towel Day
Towel Day, held every May 25 since 2001, is a fan tribute to Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which fans carry towels, the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have, first proposed by D Clyde Williamson two weeks after Adams's death.
Tower
A tower is a structure tall in proportion to its base, serving purposes such as defense, prayer, signaling, or observation rather than habitation, with forms that usually taper upwards.
Tower 22 drone attack
Tower 22 drone attack: January 28, 2024 one-way drone strike by Islamic Resistance in Iraq on a US logistics base in northeastern Jordan, killing three Army Reserve soldiers and prompting US strikes on 85+ targets in Iraq and Syria.
Tower 42
Tower 42, formerly the NatWest Tower, is a 42-storey skyscraper at 25 Old Broad Street in the City of London. Completed in 1980, it was the City's first skyscraper.
Tower Arch Partners
Tower Arch Capital, L.P., filing as Tower Arch Partners, is a lower-middle-market private equity firm in Draper, Utah, founded in 2013 by four former Huntsman Gay Global Capital professionals.
Tower Bersama Infrastructure
Tower Bersama Infrastructure is an Indonesian telecommunications infrastructure company, founded in 2004, that builds and leases towers to mobile operators such as Telkomsel, XLSmart, and Indosat.
Tower block
A tower block, also called a high-rise building, is a multi-storey residential building entered through one point and served by a single lift and stair shaft.
Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge across the River Thames in London, built between 1886 and 1894 and still legally required to open for river traffic.
Tower Buildings
Tower Buildings: name shared by several British listed buildings, chiefly the Grade I Blackpool Tower complex (1891-94, Maxwell and Tuke, 518 ft tower), plus tenements in Wapping, Liverpool's Tower Building, and blocks in Lockerbie, Wigan, and Birnam.
Tower City Center
Tower City Center is a mixed-use retail, office, and hotel development in downtown Cleveland, opened March 1990 within the former Cleveland Union Terminal complex at Public Square, developed by Forest City Enterprises and later repositioned by Dan Gilbert's Bedrock.
Tower Cloud
Tower Cloud Inc. was a fiber-to-the-tower backhaul and dark fiber provider founded by Ron Mudry in 2006 in St. Petersburg, Florida, acquired by CS&L for $230 million in 2016.
Tower crane
A tower crane is a fixed lifting machine with a vertical mast supporting a rotating jib; mounted on site, it lifts greater loads and reaches greater heights than mobile cranes.
Tower defense
Tower defense (TD) game genre: static towers stop enemy waves along paths or player-built mazes; from Rampart and Warcraft III mods through Flash Element TD, Desktop Tower Defense, and Plants vs. Zombies to mobile hits like Bloons TD 6.
Tower Dungeon
Tower Dungeon (タワーダンジョン) is Tsutomu Nihei's dark fantasy manga serialized in Monthly Shōnen Sirius since October 2023, following farmboy Yuva climbing the sky-borne Dragon Tower with the Royal Guard to rescue Princess Ignelia.
Tower earthing
Tower earthing, also called tower grounding, is the system of electrodes and buried conductors that bonds a transmission tower to the earth so lightning current is safely dissipated.
Tower erection
Tower erection is the stage of overhead transmission line construction in which tower steel is assembled and raised on its foundations, using piecemeal, gin pole, crane, or helicopter methods.
Tower foundation
A tower foundation is the buried structure that anchors a transmission tower to the ground, designed mainly for uplift, and accounting for 15% to 35% of an overhead line's cost.
Tower Hamlets London Borough Council elections
Tower Hamlets council elections: every four years the borough elects a directly elected Executive Mayor and 45 ward councillors. Systems changed from supplementary vote to first past the post in 2023; in 2026 Aspire won 33 of 45 seats on 32.25% of votes.
Tower Heist
Tower Heist (2011) is a Brett Ratner heist comedy starring Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, and Alan Alda, in which defrauded condo staff rob a Madoff-like swindler's penthouse; originally developed as 'Trump Heist' with an all-black cast.
Tower Hill
Tower Hill, open ground north and west of the Tower of London in Trinity Square, was London's public execution site for Tower prisoners, about 125 beheadings and hangings from 1388 to 1780, memorialized by 29 names.
Tower house
A tower house is a compact multi-storey fortified residence, the dominant castellated home of lords and lairds in late medieval Ireland, Scotland, and northern England.
Tower Island
Tower Island (Isla Torre) is an uninhabited Antarctic island, 9 km long and 305 m high, marking the northeast end of the Palmer Archipelago; named by Edward Bransfield on 30 January 1820.
Tower of Babel
Tower of Babel: Genesis 11:1-9 story in which God confuses humanity's single language and scatters people, explaining linguistic diversity; linked to Babylon's ziggurat Etemenanki and debated as punishment, empire critique, or pluralism myth.
Tower of David (מגדל דוד)
The Tower of David (Migdal David), also called the Jerusalem Citadel, is an ancient citadel at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, now home to the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum.
Tower of God (신의 탑)
Tower of God (신의 탑) is a Naver Webtoon fantasy series by SIU, running since June 30, 2010, in which Baam climbs a vast Tower after Rachel. 653 episodes, 5.3 billion views, two anime seasons, and the Urek Mazino spin-off distinguish it.