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Twentynine Palms, California

Twentynine Palms is a Mojave Desert city in San Bernardino County, California, incorporated 1987, gateway to Joshua Tree National Park and home of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center; population about 28,000.

Twerking

Twerking: a dance of rapid hip thrusts and buttock shaking in a low squat, from the New Orleans bounce scene (DJ Jubilee, 1993); the word itself is attested from 1820.

TWG Global

TWG Global is a private holding company founded by Mark Walter and Thomas Tull, with over $40 billion in enterprise value and holdings including the Los Angeles Dodgers.

TWG Motorsports

TWG Motorsports is the motorsports division of TWG Global, launched February 25, 2025 under CEO Dan Towriss. It owns Cadillac F1 (with GM), Andretti Global, Spire Motorsports, Wayne Taylor Racing, and a stake in Walkinshaw Andretti United.

TWG Tea

TWG Tea is a Singapore luxury tea brand founded in 2008 by Taha Bouqdib under The Wellness Group, revived by OSIM's 2011 investment, with over 1,000 teas, tea salons in about 19 countries, and 1837 heritage branding now being removed.

Twi literature

Twi literature is the written and oral literary work in Twi, the group of Akan dialects spoken in southern Ghana, with a printed tradition beginning in 1858.

Twice (トゥワイス)

Twice (트와이스, トゥワイス) is a nine-member K-pop girl group formed by JYP Entertainment via SIXTEEN in 2015: five Korean, three Japanese, one Taiwanese member; known for ONCE fandom, Billboard 200 peaks, and Japan dome and stadium touring records.

Twice as Tall

Twice as Tall is the fifth studio album by Nigerian singer Burna Boy, released in August 2020 and winner of Best Global Music Album at the 2021 Grammys.

Twice exceptional

Twice exceptional (2e) students are gifted learners who also have a disability such as ADHD, autism, or dyslexia. Masking between gift and disability, jagged Wechsler profiles, and poor Full Scale IQ gatekeeping drive underidentification; support combines gifted and special education.

Twice Upon a Time (1983 film)

Twice Upon Time is a 1983 American animated comedy-fantasy feature. George Lucas executive produced this film, which was directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson.

Twice Upon a Time (Doctor Who)

Twice Upon a Time is the Doctor Who 2017 Christmas special (25 December 2017), written by Steven Moffat and directed by Rachel Talalay, in which Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor meets David Bradley's First Doctor and regenerates into Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor.

Twickenham

Twickenham, southwest London town in Richmond upon Thames, home of English rugby and the RFU's Allianz Stadium; faces a £660m stadium upgrade and a riverside redevelopment.

Twickenham Stadium

Twickenham Stadium, officially Allianz Stadium since August 2024, is the RFU-owned home of England rugby in southwest London; 82,000 seats, 1909 opening, men's World Cup finals 1991 and 2015, 2025 women's final.

Twifo

Twifo, also spelled Twifu, is an Akan people and traditional state in Ghana's Central Region, one of the earliest Akan forest kingdoms and a major gold-trading power.

Twiggy

Twiggy (Dame Lesley Lawson, née Hornby, born 1949) is the English model named the Daily Express's Face of '66, the defining face of 1960s Swinging London, later an actress, singer, M&S face, and ANTM judge; not the ZZZ character or other namesakes.

Twiggy Ramirez

Twiggy Ramirez is the former stage name of Jeordie Osbourne White (born 1971), American bassist, guitarist, and songwriter for Marilyn Manson (1993–2002, 2008–2017), A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, and Goon Moon; dismissed in October 2017 after abuse allegations.

Twilight

Twilight, also called twilight glow, is the period before sunrise and after sunset when the atmosphere is partially illuminated by the Sun below the horizon, in stages named civil, nautical, and astronomical.

Twilight (1998 film)

Twilight (1998) is a Robert Benton neo-noir detective drama starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, and Reese Witherspoon, unrelated to the 2008 vampire film; released by Paramount March 6, 1998, grossing $15 million domestically.

Twilight (2008 film)

Twilight is a 2008 American romantic fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen.

Twilight (Meyer novel)

Twilight (2005) by Stephenie Meyer, first of the Twilight Saga, the YA vampire romance of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen in Forks, Washington; 160 million copies sold, five films, dream-origin story.

Twilight (novel series)

The Twilight Saga: Stephenie Meyer's four-novel young-adult vampire romance (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, 2005–2008, Little, Brown), plus Midnight Sun and Life and Death; over 160 million copies sold in 49 languages and a $3.4 billion film franchise.

Twilight (soundtrack)

Twilight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the song album for the 2008 film Twilight, featuring artists like Paramore and Muse, and selling over two million units.

Twilight anesthesia

Twilight anesthesia, also called conscious sedation or twilight sleep, is a colloquial term for moderate sedation/analgesia: relaxed, responsive patients breathing on their own during endoscopy, dental, and minor surgical procedures, per the ASA sedation continuum.

Twilight of the Gods (TV series)

Twilight of the Gods is a 2024 Netflix adult animated series by Zack Snyder, Jay Oliva, and Eric Carrasco: 8 episodes about Sigrid's vengeance on Thor after a wedding massacre, cancelled after one season.

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (九龙城寨之围城)

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (九龙城寨之围城) is a 2024 Soi Cheang Hong Kong action film set in 1980s Kowloon Walled City, adapted from Yu Er's novel; Hong Kong's second-highest-grossing Chinese-language film and 2025 Film Awards Best Film.

Twilight Struggle

Twilight Struggle (GMT Games, 2005) is a two-player card-driven Cold War board game by Ananda Gupta and Jason Matthews covering 1945-1989; BGG average 8.226, former BGG #1, over 200,000 copies sold.

TWILIGHT trial

TWILIGHT (NCT02270242) was a randomized, double-blind trial showing that after 3 months of DAPT, ticagrelor monotherapy reduced bleeding versus ticagrelor plus aspirin after PCI without more ischemic events.

Twilight Zone (Ariana Grande song)

"Twilight Zone" (stylized lowercase) is a 2025 synth-pop song by Ariana Grande from eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead, written with Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh, peaking at number 5 in the UK and 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Twilight Zone accident

1982 helicopter crash during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie at Indian Dunes, California, killed Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Chen; John Landis's manslaughter trial ended in acquittal but reshaped set-safety rules.

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) is a Warner Bros. anthology film directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller, remaking three TV episodes; its production was marred by a fatal 1982 helicopter crash.