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Town Hall (near Tynemouth)
The Town Hall near Tynemouth, built in North Shields in 1844 to John Dobson's design, served as the Borough of Tynemouth's civic center until 1974.
Town Hall (near Warrington)
Warrington Town Hall (Bank Hall), a 1750 James Gibbs Palladian mansion on Sankey Street, Warrington, Grade I listed, council-owned since the early 1870s, with Grade II listed Coalbrookdale Golden Gates of 1862.
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen (Bremer Rathaus und Roland), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004: Gothic town hall of 1405-1409 with Weser Renaissance façade, New Town Hall of 1909-1913, and the 1404 Roland statue, symbols of Bremen's civic autonomy.
Town hall meeting
Town hall meeting: a public forum where officials answer audience questions, and, in its original New England form (from Dorchester, 1633), a direct-democracy legislature where voters debate budgets and bylaws themselves.
Town Hall Ventures
Town Hall Ventures is a New York venture capital firm, founded in 2018 by Andy Slavitt and David Whelan, investing in healthcare for underserved and government-program populations.
Town Magistrates
Town Magistrates, or Магистраты, were elected urban administrative and judicial bodies for townspeople in the Russian Empire, created by Peter the Great in the early 1720s.
Town Musicians of Bremen
Town Musicians of Bremen (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten), Grimm fairy tale KHM 27 first published 1819: donkey, dog, cat, rooster flee masters, never reach Bremen, rout robbers; ATU 130, Marcks statue 1953.
Town of Bamberg
Town of Bamberg: UNESCO World Heritage site (inscribed 11 December 1993, criteria ii and iv) covering 142 ha of Bamberg's old town in Bavaria, with Bergstadt, Inselstadt, and Gärtnerstadt districts and the Bamberg model of conservation.
Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales
Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005): Supreme Court case holding that a restraining-order holder has no due process property interest in police enforcement of the order, after Castle Rock, Colorado police failed to act on Jessica Gonzales's reports.
Town of Luang Prabang
Town of Luang Prabang (Ville de Luang Prabang) is the UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1995 covering the former royal capital of Laos, on a Mekong-Nam Khan peninsula, valued for its Lao-French colonial architectural fusion and now threatened by tourism growth and the upstream Luang Prabang hydropower dam.
Town of Salem
Town of Salem: online social deduction game by BlankMediaGames (Steam release 15 Dec 2014, now owned by Digital Bandidos) for 7-15 players with Town, Mafia, and Neutral alignments; sequel Town of Salem 2 launched 25 Aug 2023 as free to play.
Town-class cruiser (1936)
The Town-class cruiser (1936) was a class of ten large light cruisers built for the British Royal Navy between 1934 and 1939, named after British cities.
Town–community name pairs in Wisconsin
Town–community name pairs in Wisconsin are populated places that gazetteers classify inconsistently, as unincorporated communities, historic entries, post-office names, or "orphans" that could be a community, post office, or railroad siding.
Towneley Plays
The Towneley Plays, traditionally called the Wakefield Cycle, are 32 medieval English mystery plays, including the celebrated Second Shepherds' Play, surviving in a single manuscript.
Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt (1944–1997), born John Townes Van Zandt in Fort Worth, Texas, was an American singer-songwriter of country-folk songs like "Pancho and Lefty" and "If I Needed You"; not related to Steven Van Zandt. His fame came mostly after his January 1, 1997 death.
Townes-Brocks syndrome
Townes-Brocks syndrome, also called REAR syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant disorder featuring imperforate anus, malformed ears with hearing loss, and thumb malformations, caused by SALL1 gene variants.
Towngas
Towngas is the trading name of The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited, founded in 1862 and serving over 2 million Hong Kong customers.
Towngas Smart Energy
Towngas Smart Energy, formerly Towngas China, is a Hong Kong-listed energy utility owned by Towngas, supplying piped gas to 18 million mainland customers and expanding into renewables.
Townhouse
A townhouse, also called a townhome, is a multistory single-family dwelling sharing a party wall with a neighbor, ranging from aristocratic London houses to North American suburbs.
Townley Haas
Townley Haas (Francis Townley Haas), American swimmer born 1996 in Richmond, Virginia; Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at Rio 2016, two-time Olympian, four-time world relay champion, and 10-time NCAA champion for Texas.
Townsend (Martian crater)
Townsend crater, a 92 km wide impact crater on Mars at 51.88S, 21.03E, named for Marjorie Townsend, first woman to manage a NASA spacecraft launch; IAU approved February 3, 2025.
Townsend discharge
The Townsend discharge is a dark, low-current electrical discharge in a gas, sustained by electron avalanches and secondary electrons at the cathode, named for John Townsend.
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts, also called the Townshend Duties, were measures enacted by Britain's Parliament in 1767 to tax the American colonies, named for Charles Townshend.
Township
Township: an administrative division below county level, from Old English tunscipe. US civil townships (17,000, mostly Northeast/Midwest, 36 sq mi), English parish subdivisions, and Chinese township-level divisions.
Township (South Africa)
Township (South Africa): apartheid-designated residential areas, formerly called locations, for Black, Coloured, and Indian residents; now lower-income, densely populated urban peripheries housing about 40% of households, distinct from informal settlements.
Township (Taiwan)
A township in Taiwan is a township-level subdivision below the county level, one of Taiwan's 368 township-level divisions, forming a local self-government with an elected mayor and council.
Township (United States)
Township (United States): civil township, a county subdivision and one of five Census Bureau local government types (16,214 in 2022, mainly Northeast and Midwest), and the six-mile-square survey township of the 1785 Land Ordinance PLSS.
Township and Village Enterprises
Township and Village Enterprises (乡镇企业) are rural Chinese enterprises owned or financed by rural collectives or farmers, renamed from commune and brigade enterprises in 1984.
Township theatre
Township theatre is a South African genre of performance created in and for the black townships, beginning with music and movement and shaped by apartheid and protest against it.
Township-level divisions of China
Township-level divisions of China are the country's towns and townships, the lowest formal government level, with 18,085 towns and 10,314 townships at the end of 2017.