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TW or tw may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Tomorrow's World'', a British TV series * ''Total War'' (series), a computer strategy game series * ''Trade Wars'', a 1984 online space trading game * '' Tribal Wars'', an online strategy game * The Wanted, a British boy band * James TW, English singer-songwriter *The Wiggles, an Australian children's band Companies * Time Warner, a media company * Taylor Wimpey, a housebuilding company * Towers Watson, a consulting firm, NYSE and NASDAQ symbols TW * T'way Air, IATA code TW since 2010 * Trans World Airlines, IATA code TW until 2001 Places * Tunbridge Wells, a town in Kent, UK * Twickenham postcode area, UK, in Greater London and Surrey, England * Taiwan (ISO code TW) * Tsuen Wan, in Hong Kong * Tumwater Other uses * .tw, a top-level Internet domain (Taiwan) * Shorthand of Technical Writer or Technical Writing * Terawatt, a unit of power * Tiger Woods (born 1975), American golfer * Transgender woman * Trigger warning, alertin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomorrow's World
''Tomorrow's World'' is a British television series about contemporary developments in science and technology. First broadcast on 7 July 1965 on BBC1, it ran for 38 years until it was cancelled at the beginning of 2003. The ''Tomorrow's World'' title was revived in 2017 as an umbrella brand for BBC science programming. Content ''Tomorrow's World'' was created by Glyn Jones to fill a half-hour slot in the 1965 BBC summer schedule. Jones and his wife conceived the show's name the night before the ''Radio Times'' went to press. In its early days the show was edited by Max Morgan-Witts and hosted by veteran broadcaster and former Spitfire pilot Raymond Baxter. For some years it had an instrumental theme tune composed and performed by John Dankworth. During the 1970s the programme attracted 10 million viewers per week. The programme was usually broadcast live, and as a result saw the occasional failure of its technology demonstrations. For example, during a demonstration of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the China, People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its Urbanization by country, highly urbanized population is concentrated. The combined Free area of the Republic of China, territories under ROC control consist of list of islands of Taiwan, 168 islands in total covering . The Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, largest metropolitan area is formed by Taipei (the capital), New Taipei City, and Keelung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated countries. Tai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TouchWiz
TouchWiz is a discontinued user interface developed by Samsung Electronics with partners, featuring a full touch user interface. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as an operating system. TouchWiz was used internally by Samsung for smartphones, feature phones and tablet computers, and was not available for licensing by external parties. The Android version of TouchWiz also comes with the Samsung-made app store Samsung Galaxy Store, Galaxy Apps. It was replaced by Samsung Experience in 2017 with the release of Android Nougat, Android 7.0 "Nougat", because not all phones running the latter were using Samsung Experience, some still retained TouchWiz. Samsung, Samsung's approach to its TouchWiz UI was distinct from its Android (operating system), Android version updates. While Android updates brought new features and improvements to the operating system, Samsung often customized its UI separately. This meant that even if two devices ran the same Android version history, Android ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tupamaros West-Berlin
The Tupamaros West-Berlin (TW) were a small German Marxist organization which carried out a series of bombings and arsons at the end of the 1960s. In 1969 Dieter Kunzelmann, Georg von Rauch, and a few others traveled to Jordan to train at a Fatah camp, forming the Tupamaros on their return to Germany. The group took their name from the Uruguayan Tupamaros. The TW had a core membership of about 15 people. Their first action was an attempted bombing of West Berlin's Fasanenstrasse Synagogue#Jewish Community Center, Jewish Community Centre on November 9, 1969 (the anniversary of Kristallnacht); the bomb, supplied by the undercover government agent Peter Urbach, failed to explode. Translated into English by Sign and Sight. This was followed in the fall of 1969 by a number of bombings and arsons targeting police, judges, and US and Israeli targets.Kundnani 97 The TW claimed responsibility for these attacks under a variety of different names in order to exaggerate the size of their mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
