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TWA Flight 800

TWA Flight 800 was a scheduled international passenger flight that broke up over the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996. The accident killed all 230 people on board.

TWA Flight Center

The TWA Flight Center, also known as the TWA Terminal, is an airline terminal at New York's JFK Airport designed by Eero Saarinen, opened in 1962 and reopened as the TWA Hotel in 2019.

Twan Lammers

Twan Lammers is a scientist in pharmaceutics and nanomedicine who heads the Department of Nanomedicine and Theranostics at RWTH Aachen University Clinic, known for smart cancer nanomedicine.

Twan Mrat Naing (ထွန်းမြတ်နိုင်)

Twan Mrat Naing (ထွန်းမြတ်နိုင်), also spelled Tun Myat Naing, co-founded the Arakan Army in April 2009 in Kachin State and leads it as Commander-in-Chief and ULA chairman, seeking confederation status for Arakan.

Twanisha Terry

Twanisha "TeeTee" Terry (born 1999, Miami) is an American sprinter, USC alum, Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist at Paris 2024, and multi-time World Championships relay champion with 100m bests of 10.74/10.82.

Twat

Twat is a taboo English slang noun, especially British, meaning the female genitalia and, as an insult, an unpleasant or stupid person. First attested in the 1650s of unknown origin; famous for Browning's innocent misuse in Pippa Passes.

Tweaker (song)

Tweaker is the January 3, 2025 debut single by GELO (LiAngelo Ball), a viral early-2000s-nostalgia rap hit that reached #1 on Spotify Viral and led to a reported $13 million Def Jam deal.

Tweaker Poem

Tweaker Poem is a 2026 six-track EP by electronic duo Frost Children (Angel and Lulu Prost), released July 10 via RCA Records; made in a 24-hour Tokyo session after a stalking ordeal, about parasocial obsession.

Twee Tommen

Twee Tommen ("Two Mounds") are two Gallo-Roman burial tumuli near Klein-Vorsen, Montenaken, Gingelom, Limburg, Belgium, protected since 1979, excavated in 1863, and among Flanders' best-preserved tumuli.

Tweed

Tweed: textured woollen fabric, twill or herringbone weave; name from an 1830s misreading of "twill". Harris Tweed, its protected variant, is legally required to be handwoven in Scotland's Outer Hebrides under the 1993 Act and Orb mark.

Tweed Heads

Tweed Heads is a NSW city at the Tweed River mouth, twinned across the state border with Coolangatta, Queensland. Key facts: 2021 census population 63,721, median age 48; Major Regional Centre of Tweed Shire; tourism worth about $1 billion a year.

Tweed New Haven Airport

Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN), also called Tweed-New Haven Airport, is Southern Connecticut's airport in New Haven, opened 1931, renamed 1961 for manager Jack Tweed, served by Avelo and Breeze with 34 nonstop destinations and an approved runway and terminal expansion.

Tweede Asem

Tweede Asem, Afrikaans for Second Breath, is a phase of Afrikaans poetry from about 1917 to 1934, including the younger Twintigers poets like A. G. Visser.

Tweedie distribution

The Tweedie distributions are a family of exponential dispersion models where variance is a power of the mean, including the normal, Poisson, gamma, and inverse Gaussian as special cases.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, proverbial pair of near-identical twins from a 1725 John Byrom epigram on Handel and Bononcini, an 1805 nursery rhyme, and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

Tweedy Bird Loc

Tweedy Bird Loc (Richard or Rodney Johnson, born 1967, died 2020) was a Compton gangsta rapper, Kelly Park Compton Crip, and Bloods & Crips co-founder; albums 187 Ride By (1992) and No Holds Barred (1994), known for diss tracks against Eazy-E and Tim Dog.

Tweek x Craig

Tweek x Craig, South Park season 19 episode 6 (production code 1906), written by Trey Parker, aired October 28, 2015 on Comedy Central; satirizes yaoi 'shipping' fandom using over 1,500 real fan art submissions about the Tweek–Craig 'Creek' pairing.

Tweenies

Tweenies: British BBC preschool TV series (6 September 1999 to 24 July 2002, 390 episodes) by Tell-Tale Productions, creators Iain Lauchlan and Will Brenton, featuring costumed characters Bella, Milo, Fizz, and Jake.

Tweet (singer)

Tweet (Charlene Keys, born 1971) is an American R&B and neo-soul singer from Rochester, New York, known for "Oops (Oh My)" and the 2002 album Southern Hummingbird, a Missy Elliott and Timbaland collaborator distinct from the social media platform Twitter.

Tweet (social media)

A tweet is a short message posted on Twitter, the social media service rebranded as X in 2023, though the platform now calls it a post.

Tweeter

A tweeter is the high-frequency loudspeaker driver in a multi-way speaker system, reproducing frequencies from about 2 kHz to 20 kHz and beyond via a small diaphragm.

Tweety

Tweety (Tweety Bird, Tweety Pie) is Warner Bros.' yellow canary from Looney Tunes, created by Bob Clampett, debuting in A Tale of Two Kitties (1942) as pink bird Orson, redesigned by Friz Freleng, paired with Sylvester in Oscar-winning Tweetie Pie (1947), voiced by Mel Blanc.

Tweezer-array rearrangement

Tweezer-array rearrangement is the process of moving neutral atoms between optical tweezers to turn a randomly loaded array with gaps into a defect-free one for quantum computing.

Tweezers

Tweezers, called spring forceps in surgery, are a hand-held tool of two elastic arms whose tips close over small objects when squeezed; known since First Dynasty Egypt.

Twelfth Air Force

Twelfth Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force, activated in 1942 for the invasion of North Africa and headquartered at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Twelfth Amendment (1804) changed the U.S. Electoral College so electors vote separately for President and Vice President, replacing the runner-up system after the Jefferson-Burr tie of 1800, with contingent election in House and Senate.

Twelfth Doctor

The Twelfth Doctor is Peter Capaldi's incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2013-2017), following Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor. Three series under Steven Moffat, companions Clara, River Song, Nardole, and Bill Potts, ending in Twice Upon a Time.

Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt

Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty 12): Middle Kingdom dynasty founded by Amenemhat I, ruling c. 1990-1809 BC from Itjtawy, with Senusret III, Amenemhat III's Faiyum works, and queen Sobekneferu as its last ruler.

Twelfth grade

Twelfth grade, the senior year of secondary school, is the final year before graduation. Covers diploma requirements in Texas, Ontario, Ohio, and Massachusetts, senior-year transition programs, and research on work intensity and readiness.

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, or What You Will is Shakespeare's comedy of shipwrecked twins, disguise, and mistaken identity in Illyria, likely written 1601, first performed 2 February 1602 at Middle Temple, and first printed in the 1623 First Folio.