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Tower of God season 2

Tower of God season 2 (神之塔 第2期), the 2024 anime continuation of SIU's webtoon, produced by The Answer Studio with 26 episodes in two cours, Return of the Prince and Workshop Battle, aired July 7 to December 29, 2024 on Crunchyroll.

Tower of Hananeel

The Tower of Hananeel was a tower in the northern wall of Jerusalem, named in Jeremiah, Zechariah, and Nehemiah as a landmark of the city's extent.

Tower of Hanoi

Tower of Hanoi (Lucas Tower, Tower of Brahma): three-peg disk puzzle invented by Édouard Lucas, sold in Paris in 1883 under the anagram N. Claus de Siam; minimum 2^n − 1 moves, 64-disk legend from de Parville 1884, four-peg Frame–Stewart proved optimal by Bousch 2014.

Tower of Hercules

The Tower of Hercules (Torre de Hércules), known to the Romans as Farum Brigantium, is a 1st-century Roman lighthouse in A Coruña, north-western Spain, and the oldest still in service.

Tower of London

The Tower of London is a historic castle on the Thames in central London, begun by William the Conqueror around 1066 and home to the Crown Jewels.

Tower of Power

Tower of Power is an American funk and soul band formed in Oakland, California, in 1968, known for its five-piece horn section and hits like "What Is Hip?"

Tower of Seneca

Tower of Seneca (Tour de Sénèque, Torra di Seneca), a round medieval keep at 564 m in Pino and Luri, Cap Corse, Corsica; named for the exiled philosopher Seneca by legend, classified a historic monument in 1840.

Tower of Silence

A Tower of Silence, called dakhma in Iran and dokhma among Indian Parsis, is a circular roofless Zoroastrian structure where the dead are exposed to vultures and sunlight.

Tower of the Winds

The Tower of the Winds, known in antiquity as the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes, is an octagonal marble clock tower in the Roman Agora of Athens.

Tower Records

Tower Records, music retail chain founded by Russ Solomon in Sacramento in 1960; peaked at 200+ stores before 2004-2006 US bankruptcy; survives via independent Tower Records Japan and online brand.

Tower Records Shibuya

Tower Records Shibuya (タワーレコード渋谷店) is the flagship Tower Records Japan megastore in Shibuya, Tokyo, opened in 1995 and known as the world's largest single CD shop.

Tower Research Capital

Tower Research Capital is a proprietary high-frequency trading and market-making firm headquartered in New York City, founded in 1998 by Mark Gorton, trading equities, options, futures, FX, and crypto.

Tower Semiconductor

Tower Semiconductor is an Israeli specialty foundry, founded in 1993, that makes analog and mixed-signal chips in fabs across Israel, the United States, Japan, and Italy.

Tower shells

Tower shells (Turritellidae), also called tower snails or screw snails, are marine gastropods with high-spired shells of 15–30+ whorls; unlike most gastropods they are filter feeders, with a Jurassic to Recent fossil record showing body-size stasis.

Tower Stories

Tower Stories (originally Lucca Mortis) is an unfinished Peter Greenaway drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Helen Hunt, about a New York writer visiting Lucca, Italy, exploring death and mortality.

Tower Subway

The Tower Subway is a tube tunnel under the Thames in London, opened in 1870 as the world's first tube railway and today carrying water mains and cables.

Towers of Bologna

The Towers of Bologna are the medieval masonry tower houses of Bologna, Italy, once numbering up to 100; about 22 survive, including the leaning Asinelli and Garisenda towers.

Towing tank

A towing tank is a long, narrow water channel in which a towed scale model of a ship is tested, measuring resistance, propulsion, and seakeeping performance.

Town

A town is a settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city; internationally defined by DEGURBA as a dense cluster of 5,000 to under 50,000 people, with varied national legal and statistical definitions.

Town banks

Town banks: earthen ramparts with external ditches forming medieval British town defences, peaking around 1300. Examples at Tonbridge (bank 10m wide, 4.5m high), Rhuddlan, Montgomery, Usk, and Saxon Lydford; several scheduled monuments.

Town crier

Town crier: a public announcer who proclaims official news aloud, traditionally opening with "Oyez!". Also stadsroeper, praeco. Central to pre-literate communication in Europe, colonial America, and West Africa; now a ceremonial civic role.

Town Hall (near Birmingham)

Town Hall (near Birmingham) covers Birmingham Town Hall, the Grade I listed 1834 Hansom and Welch concert hall in Victoria Square, restored 1996-2007, and separately Sutton Coldfield Town Hall, locally listed Grade A only.

Town Hall (near Dorchester)

Town Hall (near Dorchester) is the Grade I listed 1785-6 Georgian town hall of Bridport, Dorset, by William Tyler RA and mason James Hamilton, with arcaded market ground floor and c.1805 Nepean clock cupola.

Town Hall (near Edinburgh)

Town Hall (near Edinburgh): chiefly the Grade I listed 1754-1760 neoclassical Town Hall on Marygate, Berwick-upon-Tweed, by S and J Worrell and Joseph Dods; also Portobello Town Hall, a 1912-1914 Category B listed hall in Edinburgh.

Town Hall (near Leeds)

Town Hall (near Leeds): Leeds Town Hall, Grade I listed Victorian municipal building on The Headrow, designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, opened by Queen Victoria 1858, 225 ft clock tower; also Morley Town Hall nearby.

Town Hall (near Lincoln)

Town Hall (near Lincoln): the Grade I listed Newark-on-Trent Town Hall and former gaol, built 1774-6 by John Carr of York, listed 1950, restored 1989-91, on Newark's Market Place.

Town Hall (near Liverpool)

Liverpool Town Hall, the Grade I listed Georgian civic building of 1749-54 by John Wood the Elder on Water Street/Dale Street, rebuilt after the 1795 fire with Wyatt's dome; Lord Mayor's venue, register office, and hireable event spaces.

Town Hall (near Reading)

Reading Town Hall (Blagrave Street, RG1 1QH) is a Grade II listed group of municipal buildings, built 1785-1897 by Charles Poulton, Alfred Waterhouse, Thomas Lainson, and Cooper and Howell, housing Reading Museum, concert halls, and the Register Office.

Town Hall (near Redditch)

Redditch Town Hall, Walter Stranz Square, Redditch, Worcestershire, is Redditch Borough Council's headquarters, being refurbished from January 2025 into a community hub housing council, NHS and commercial tenants, after the planned library relocation was cancelled.

Town Hall (near Sheffield)

Sheffield Town Hall, Pinstone Street: Grade I listed Renaissance Revival municipal building (1890–97) by E. W. Mountford, opened by Queen Victoria in 1897, seat of Sheffield City Council, distinct from the derelict Grade II Old Town Hall and Grade II City Hall, now facing a £340m–£450m restoration.