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Twelve-step program
Twelve-step program: recovery principles first codified by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA, Big Book, "How It Works"), founded by Bill Wilson and Robert Smith in 1935; adapted by other mutual-help groups and by Twelve-Step Facilitation (TSF) therapy from Project MATCH.
Twelve-string guitar
A twelve-string guitar is an acoustic or electric guitar with twelve strings in six courses, fretted as single notes, producing a loud, shimmering, chorus-like sound.
Twelve-tone technique
Twelve-tone technique (dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism): a composition method devised by Arnold Schoenberg in 1921–1923, drawing all material from a fixed ordering of the twelve chromatic pitch classes, transformed by four row forms into forty-eight variants.
Twelve-Year Science Plan (1956–1967)
The Twelve-Year Science Plan (十二年科学规划) was the first comprehensive science and technology plan of the People's Republic of China, setting 57 major tasks across 13 fields in 1956.
Twelver Shi'ism
Twelver Shi'ism, also called Ithna 'ashariyah, is the largest branch of Shi'a Islam, defined by twelve Imams ending with the Mahdi, hidden since 874 and expected to return at Judgement.
TWENDY-ONE
TWENDY-ONE (トゥウェンディ・ワン) is a humanoid assistive robot unveiled in 2007 by Waseda University's Sugano Laboratory, designed to help elderly people with care and kitchen tasks.
TWENTE trial
TWENTE trial: Dutch single-center randomized noninferiority trial (NCT01066650) comparing Medtronic Resolute zotarolimus-eluting and Abbott Xience V everolimus-eluting stents in 1,391 real-world PCI patients; similar target vessel failure at 1, 2, and 5 years.
Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Twentieth Amendment, the Lame Duck Amendment, ratified January 23, 1933, moved presidential terms to January 20 and congressional terms to January 3, set pre-inaugural succession rules, and was sponsored by Senator George Norris.
Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt, also known as Dynasty 20, was the last dynasty of the New Kingdom, ruling from about 1186 to 1069 BCE.
Twentieth-century theatre
Twentieth-century theatre: the 1900–2000 theatrical culture of Europe and North America, also called modern theatre, marked by realism's mainstream dominance, the avant-garde retheatricalization of roughly 1900–1930, political and workers' theatre, stage censorship until 1968 in Britain, and electric-light scenography.
Twenty (스물) (film)
Twenty (스물, Seumool) is a 2015 South Korean coming-of-age comedy-drama by Lee Byeong-heon starring Kim Woo-bin, Lee Jun-ho, and Kang Ha-neul as three 20-year-old friends; it opened No. 1 in Korea with over 3 million admissions.
Twenty Bucks
Twenty Bucks is a 1993 American comedy-drama directed by Keva Rosenfeld, following a $20 bill through Minneapolis; written by Endre and Leslie Bohem from a 1935 script, starring Linda Hunt, Brendan Fraser, and Elisabeth Shue.
Twenty five
Twenty-Five (cúig is fiche) is Ireland's national trick-taking card game: five-card hands, 5 points per trick, first side to 25 wins, with the 5 of trumps, jack of trumps and ace of hearts as top cards.
Twenty four
Twenty four, also called the 24 game or 24 points, is a Chinese mental-arithmetic card game from 1960s Shanghai: combine four numbers once each with +, -, x, divide to make exactly 24, first solver wins the cards.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a 1924 poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
Twenty nine
Twenty-Nine (29) is a South Asian four-player partnership trick-taking card game using 32 cards, with Jack and Nine ranking highest, bidding on four cards, hidden trump, and a 28-point pack, played in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
Twenty One Pilots
Twenty One Pilots (TØP): American duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun from Columbus, Ohio, formed 2009; genre-blending rock with the Dema concept saga across Blurryface (2015) to Breach (2025); Grammy for "Stressed Out".
Twenty six
Twenty six is the name of two unrelated traditional games: a trick-taking card game for 2 to 6 players, and a dice game popular in Midwest taverns in the 1920s to 1950s.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is Jules Verne's 1869–1870 adventure and science fiction novel about Captain Nemo, the submarine Nautilus, and the prisoners Professor Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land.
Twenty Twenty Six
Twenty Twenty Six is a 2026 BBC Two six-part mockumentary by John Morton, the third Ian Fletcher series after Twenty Twelve and W1A, set at a bleeped-name FIFA-style World Cup organizing body in Miami.
Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après, 1845) is Dumas and Maquet's sequel to The Three Musketeers, set in 1648 during the Fronde, splitting the four friends across opposing sides and ending with Charles I's execution.
Twenty Years at Hull-House
Twenty Years at Hull-House is a 1910 autobiography by social reformer Jane Addams, recounting her childhood and the first two decades of Hull-House, the Chicago settlement house she co-founded in 1889.
Twenty Years' Anarchy
Twenty Years' Anarchy: Byzantine political crisis, 695–717, from Justinian II's overthrow to Leo III's accession; six violently deposed emperors, theme-army politics, and the Arab siege of Constantinople.
Twenty-eight (card game)
Twenty-eight (28, Irupathiyettu) is a Kerala, India four-player partnership trick-taking card game with a 32-card deck, Jack and Nine highest in every suit, 28 card points, hidden trump, and bidding from 14.
Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse (英名二十八衆句)
Eimei nijūhasshūku (英名二十八衆句), Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse, an 1866–1867 series of 28 ōban muzan-e woodblock prints, 14 each by Yoshitoshi and Yoshiiku, published by Sanoya Tomigoro, depicting murders from kabuki and history.
Twenty-Eight Mansions
The Twenty-Eight Mansions (二十八宿, èrshíbā xiù) are 28 constellations along the celestial equator that served as the coordinate skeleton of traditional Chinese astronomy, marking the Moon's nightly lodging places, for over two millennia.
Twenty-eighth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-eighth Dynasty of Egypt, also called Dynasty 28, was a native Egyptian dynasty of the single pharaoh Amyrtaeus, who reigned about 404 to 398 BC.
Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1967, clarifies presidential succession, lets a president fill a vice-presidential vacancy, and covers presidential inability.
Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, also called the Kushite or Nubian Dynasty: kings from Napata in Kush who ruled Egypt (c. 747–656 BC) as pharaohs, from Piye's conquest through Taharqo until Assyrian invasions ended their rule.
Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Twenty-first Amendment (1933) repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, ending national Prohibition. Its Section 2 preserves state power over alcohol; it is the only amendment ratified by state conventions and the only one to repeal another.