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Tower Hill Botanic Garden The Tower Hill Botanic Garden, in Boylston, Massachusetts, USA, is a 132 acre (534,000 m²) botanical garden with spectacular views of Mount Wachusett and the Wachusett Reservoir. It was founded in 1986 by the Worcester County Horticultural Society and scheduled to be fully complete in 2040.
Tower Hill Memorial The Tower Hill Memorial is a national war memorial on the south side of Trinity Square Gardens, just to the north of the Tower of London. It commemorates those from the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets who died during both world wars and have no known grave.
Tower Hotel The Tower Hotel, also known as Tower Hotel Group, are a subsidiary of FBD Insurance and are located in Dublin, Waterford and Derry in Ireland. They take their name from Reginald's Tower, an ancient Viking structure in Waterford that still stands today.
Tower Island Tower Island () is 8 km (5 mi) long and 305 m high, lying 32 km (20) mi northeast of Trinity Island and marking the northeast extent of Palmer Archipelago. Named on January 30, 1820, by Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, who described it as a round island.
Tower mill A Tower Mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. It is thought to have been invented in Western Europe in the 17th century.
Tower of Babel According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the heavens. God, observing the unity of humanity in the construction, resolves to destroy the tower and confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing any such future efforts.
Tower of Cabin Tower of Cabin is an unusual spinoff of the fantasy computer role-playing game series called Xak by the Japanese developer Microcabin. Tower of Cabin was released just before Microcabin decided to discontinue the development of Xak III for MSX.
Tower of Geburah The Tower of Geburah is the third book in a series of fantasy stories called the Archives of Anthropos written by John White. Geburah is about three children from our world who travel to the magical land of Anthropos.
Tower of Hallbar The Tower of Hallbar, also known as Hallbar Tower and Braidwood Castle, is a 16th century tower house, located to the west of the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The tower is situated above the Fiddler Burn, 3.
Tower of Hanoy Tower of Hanoy is a solitaire card game which only uses 9 playing cards. It is based on the actual Tower of Hanoi game, where the object is to transfer discs from one peg to another without disturbing their order.
Tower of Jewels The Tower of Jewels is the centerpiece of Lakeside Amusement Park at the town of Lakeside, just west of Denver, Colorado. One of the tallest buildings in Colorado when it was built, it stands 150 feet tall and features over 5,000 lights.
Tower of Kamianiec The Tower of Kamianiec, sometimes erroneously called the White Tower (Belarusian: Белая вежа, Bielaya Vieža), is the main landmark of the town of Kamianiec in Belarus. Erected in 1271-1289 by architect Oleksa as a frontier stronghold on the northern border of the principality of Volhynia principality, it is the only such tower remaining to this day in the area.
Tower of London Test The Tower of London is a well known and somewhat controversial test used in applied clinical neuropsychology for the assessment of executive functioning. The test consists of two boards with pegs and several beads with different colors.
Tower of Shadows Tower of Shadows was a horror/fantasy anthology comic book published by Marvel Comics that under this and a subsequent name ran from 1969-1975. It featured work by such notable creators as writer-artists Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Johnny Craig, and Wally Wood, writer-editor Stan Lee, and artists including John Buscema, Gene Colan, Tom Sutton, Barry Windsor-Smith (as Barry Smith), and Bernie Wrightson.
Tower of the Winds The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion (timepiece), is an octagonal Pentelic marble tower on the Roman agora in Athens. It was supposedly built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, but according to other sources might have been constructed in the 2nd century BC before the rest of the forum.
Tower of truth A term used to describe the highest state of peace and elevation in the religion of scientology. At this state, all inpurities have been cleansed from an individual and they are one step closer to seeking enlightenment from the alien Zargon who started life on this planet.
Tower of Terror (roller coaster) Tower Of Terror is a steel roller coaster at Dreamworld in the Gold Coast, Australia. It is currently the fifth fastest roller coaster in the world, but has been reported to be the fastest and tallest roller coaster in the Southern Hemisphere Opening January 23], [[1997, it held the world's fastest roller coaster record for two months before Superman: The Escape, an identical ride opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California.
Tower Of Babel (computer game) Tower Of Babel is a computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST and Acorn Archimedes systems programmed by Pete Cooke, developed by Rainbird Software and released by Microprose Software in 1990. It is a puzzle game played on a three-dimensional tower-like grid viewed in vector graphics with filled polygons.
Tower running Tower running is a sport, which involves running up tall man-made structures. Usually the races take place on the internal staircases of skyscrapers, but the term can cover any foot race which involves a course that ascends up a man-made structure.
Tower Ridge Tower Ridge is one of several ridges protruding north west from the summit plateau of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the United Kingdom. The ridge starts close to the Charles Inglis Clark hut in Coire Leis and terminates close to the highest point of the mountain.
Tower Stories Tower Stories: the Autobiography of September 11th, 2001 (ISBN 0-9748684-5-0) is a literary "time capsule" compiled by New York City author Damon DiMarco immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center. Created as a living documentary, the book features oral histories from a broad range of contributors, including policemen, firemen, paramedics, reporters, volunteers from all walks of life, escapees from the towers, eyewitnesses, WTC structural engineers, political experts, political dissidents, small business owners in Manhattan, children and others were polled for their first-person experiences of September 11, 2001 and the days that followed.
Tower Subway The Tower Subway is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in central London, close — as the name suggests — to the Tower of London. Its alignment runs between Tower Hill on the north side of the river and Vine Lane (off Tooley Street) to the south.
Tower testing station A tower testing station is a special plant for testing various design for towers for transmission lines and similar uses. A tower testing station consists of two steel stands and one or more foundations, on which a sample of the tower can be built.
TowerGroup TowerGroup is a financial services technology research and advisory firm. Established in 1993, TowerGroup has been an independent source for information and advice on the critical business and technology issues impacting the global financial services industry.
Towers (Boston University) The Towers is one of the three Boston University dormitories traditionally intended for freshmen and sophomores, the others being Warren Towers and West Campus. The building comprises two towers, each eight floors high and linked at ground level by a single story structure housing common facilities.
Towers of Chevron Renaissance Towers of Chevron Renaissance is the major part of the Chevron Renaissance development. The complex occupied the block of the land, which stretched from the east (Gold Coast Highway) to the west (Ferny Avenue), from the south (half way towards Cavill Avenue) to the north (Elkhorn Avenue).
Towersey Village Festival Towersey Village Festival is an annual festival of folk and world music and traditional dance held in the village of Towersey in Oxfordshire, in the United Kingdom. It has taken place every August bank holiday weekend since its founding in 1965.
Towing capacity A vehicle specification setting the upper limit to the weight of a trailer it can tow. There are many safety considerations to properly towing a caravan or trailer (vehicle) / travel trailer starting with vehicle towing capacity and ranging through equalizer hitches to properly (& legally) connecting the safety chains.
Town A town is a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. Generally, a "town" is thought of as larger than a village but smaller than a "city.
Town & Country (film) Town & Country is a 2001 film starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton and directed by Peter Chelsom. It is a romantic comedy in which Beatty plays a New York architect Porter Stoddard and Keaton plays his wife Ellie.
Town & Country Mall Town & Country Mall was an upscale shopping mall in Houston, Texas, competing with the then upscale West Oaks Mall and neighboring Memorial City Mall. It was supposed to surpass the older Memorial City Mall but never did due to its location.
Town (New Jersey) A Town in the context of New Jersey local government refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. While Town is often used as a shorthand to refer to a Township, the two are not the same.
Town and country planning in the United Kingdom Town and Country Planning is the land use planning system by which the British government seeks to maintain a balance between economic development and environmental quality in the United Kingdom. The essential framework for the system was set in the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, with a critical addition in 1955 of green belts, which were introduced via a Government Circular.
Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 is a Statutory Instrument which revoked and replaced the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1972 as amended by the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) Order 1983. The 1987 order has since been amended by the Use Classes (Amendment) Order 2005
Town and Country Planning Association The Town and Country Planning Association is England's oldest environmental charity. It was founded as the Garden Cities Association in 1899 by Ebenezer Howard, initially to promote the development of Garden Cities.
Town and gown Town and gown is a term used to describe the two communities of a university town; "town" being the non-academic population and "gown" the university community, especially in ancient seats of learning such as Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews. The metaphor is historical in its connotation but continues to be used in the literature on urban higher education and in common parlance.
Town and village enterprises Town and village enterprises (TVEs) are a type of commercial activity or manufacturing concern that has developed in mainland China since the beginning of economic opening under Deng Xiaoping in the early 1980s. TVEs are located in towns and rural areas.
Town ball The game of town ball, sometimes called townball, is a descendant of rounders, and often thought to be a stepping stone from rounders to modern baseball. It was generally played in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Town class cruiser (1910) The Town class was a class of light cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). These vessels were long-range cruisers, suitable for patrolling the vast expanse covered by the British Empire.
Town class destroyer The Town class destroyers were warships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy in exchange for military bases in the Bahamas and elsewhere, as outlined in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between Britain and United States, signed on 2 September 1940. They were known as "four-pipers" or "four-stackers" because they had four smokestacks (later classes of destroyers typically had one or two).
Town Called Malice Featuring one of the most easily-recognisable bass-lines in British music history, "Town Called Malice" is a song recorded by The Jam from the album The Gift. It was a double A-side single release featuring "Precious" as the flip side.
Town Center at Boca Raton Town Center at Boca Raton, is a very large, "high-end" enclosed shopping mall located in Boca Raton, Florida, in the United States. It is the largest conventional shopping mall within Palm Beach County, Florida.
Town Center Improvement District The Town Center Improvement District (TCID) was formed in 1993 by the Texas, USA legislature as a governmental agency charged with promoting and maintaining economic development in The Woodlands Town Center area. In 2001, TCID created a special Economic Development Zone to assist in the expansion of the Pavilion (see below).
Town Center Mall Town Center Mall, lesser known by its official name Town Center at Cobb, is a shopping mall located in Kennesaw, Georgia near Atlanta. Opened in 1986, the mall was originally anchored by Rich's, Macy's and Sears.
Town Commissioners Town Commissioners were elected local government bodies established in urban areas in the island of Ireland in the nineteenth century. Larger towns with commissioners were converted to urban districts by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, with the smaller commissions continuing to exist beyond partition in 1922.
Town Councils in the Republic of Ireland The term Town Council was introduced into Local government in the Republic of Ireland by the Local Government Act 2001. From 1 January 2002 the existing Urban District Councils and boards of Town Commissioners were renamed as Town Councils.
Town Creek, Alabama Town Creek is a town in Lawrence County, Alabama, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 1,216.
Town Creek, Maryland Town Creek is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland. Town Creek lies on the Potomac River within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park across the river from Okonoko, West Virginia.
Town Destroyer Town Destroyer, also translated as Town Taker, Burner of Towns, or Devourer of Villages, was a nickname given to George Washington by Iroquois Indians. The name in its original language(s) has been given variously as "Caunotaucarius", "Conotocarious", and "Hanadahguyus.
Town hall meeting A Town hall meeting is an informal public meeting derived from the traditional town meetings of New England. Similarly to those meetings, everybody in a community is invited to attend, voice their opinions, and hear the responses from public figures and elected officials, although attendees rarely vote on an issue.
Town Hall (Seattle) Town Hall is a cultural center/performance hall located on Seattle, Washington, USA's First Hill. Built as the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, from 1916 to 1922, it was sold to its current owners in 1998 and reopened in 1999.
Town Hall Kaiserslautern The Town Hall Kaiserslautern was the tallest town hall in Germany at its inaugauration in 1968. It has 25 floors above ground, from which the three uppermost are only used as storage or for operational devices.
Town Hall Theatre Town Hall Theatre is in Centerville Ohio, Originally built in 1908 Town Hall Theatre use to be the city's Town Meeting Hall along as serving for many other things such as graduations etc. It served as government offices until 1985.
Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail The Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail is the longest trail designed for non-motorized traffic maintained by the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department and watched after by a local non-profit named Town Lake Trail Foundation. It is 10.
Town meeting A town meeting is a meeting where an entire geographic area is invited to participate in a gathering, often for a political or administrative purpose. It may be to obtain community suggestions or feedback on public policies from government officials, or to cast legally binding votes on budgets and policy.
Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne The Town Moor is a large area of common land in Newcastle upon Tyne. It covers an area larger than Hyde Park and Hampstead Heath combined, stretching from the city centre and Spital Tongues in the south out to Kenton to the west, Gosforth to the north and Jesmond to the east.
Town of Albany The Town of Albany was a Local Government Area of Western Australia for the town of Albany (; post code: 6330) in the Great Southern region of Western Australia on Great Southern Highway, 410km south-south-east of the capital, Perth.
Town of Bassendean The Town of Bassendean is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 10 km² in northeastern metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia and lies about 12 km northeast of the Perth CBD and 6 km from Midland.
Town of Cambridge The Town of Cambridge is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of 22 km² in metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia, and had a population of just over 22,000 as of the 2001 census.
Town of Claremont The Town of Claremont is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 5 km² in western metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia and lies about 9 km west of the Perth CBD.
Town of Cottesloe The Town of Cottesloe is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 4 km² in western metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia and lies about 11 km west of the Perth CBD.
Town of Narrogin The Town of Narrogin is a Local Government Area of Western Australia for the town of Narrogin (; post code: 6312) in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia on Great Southern Highway, 192km south-east of the capital, Perth. It has a population of 4,424 (ABS 2001).
Town of Northam The Town of Northam is a Local Government Area of Western Australia for the town of Northam (; post code: 6401) in the inner Wheatbelt region of Western Australia on Great Eastern Highway, 96 km north-east of the capital, Perth. It has a population of 6,137 (ABS 2001).
Town of Port Hedland The Town of Port Hedland is a Local Government Area of Western Australia for the town and district of Port Hedland (; post code: 6721) in the Pilbara Region. It has a population of 13,020 (ABS 2001)Census 2001, Australian Bureau of Statistics, of which only a few hundred live outside the settlement boundaries.
Town Pavilion The Town Pavilion is a 38-story skyscraper located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, which was built in 1986. At 591 feet (180 metres), it is the second tallest building in Kansas City (behind One Kansas City Place) and third tallest in Missouri (behind One Metropolitan Square in St.
Town twinning Town twinning is a concept whereby towns or cities in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links. In Europe, such pairs of towns are known as twin towns, friendship towns or, in German, partner towns (Partnerstädte); in North America and Australasia, the term sister cities is used for the same concept; and brother cities (города-побратимы) is the term in the former Soviet bloc.
Town Tavern The Town Tavern was a famous jazz club in Toronto, Canada, from the 1950s through to the late 1970s. The art deco building hosted an afterhours jazz club with rehearsal bands for a while before it was bought and turned into a workout club, and then resold again.
Town Topics (newspaper) The Princeton Town Topics is a free weekly newspaper distributed to every household of the New Jersey municipalities of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, and parts of Hopewell Borough, Hopewell Township, West Windsor Township, Lawrence Township, Pennington, Montgomery Township, and South Brunswick Township, with an estimated readership of 30,000.
Towne Lake, Georgia Towne Lake is located about two miles due west of downtown Woodstock, Georgia in an area formerly known (at least to longtime locals) as "Thousand Acre Woods", originally part of the Little River State Wildlife Management Area, which has since completely succumbed to suburban development. The community was developed in the late 1980's as an upscale residential enclave, but has become a bustling commercial area as well.
Towne Mall Towne Mall is a shopping mall located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky and is managed by The Macerich Company. It is the only dominant and regional shopping destination serving an eight-county region with 247,000 people and 100,000 households.
TownePlace Suites TownePlace Suites, a division of the Marriott International hotel chain, was officially unveiled in Newport News, Virginia on February 23, 1997. Less than ten years later, there are now 123 TownePlace Suites operating across the United States.
Townhouse Historically in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in many other countries, a townhouse (or a "house in town") was a residence of a peer or member of the aristocracy in the capital or major city. Most such figures owned one or more country houses in which they lived for much of the year.
Townies Townies was a short-lived situation comedy broadcast in 1996 by ABC. It was set in Gloucester, Massachusetts and starred Molly Ringwald, Jenna Elfman, Bill Burr, Conchata Ferrell, Lauren Graham, and Ron Livingston.
Townley Grammar School for Girls Townley Grammar School For Girls, previoulsy known as Bexley technical high school for girls. is on Townley Road Bexleyheath it is the most consistently good performing school academically in the london borough of bexley.
Townley Vase The Townley VaseHeight 93cm. is a large Roman marble vase of the second century CE, discovered by the Scottish antiquarian and dealer in antiquities Gavin Hamilton in excavating a Roman villaSaid to have been a villa of Antoninus Pius.
Towns of SkĂĄne The notion of towns and cities in SkĂĄne is problematic as the Scanian usage of the Swedish terms for city/town and village differ somewhat from that in the rest of Sweden, and may be considered related to the Danish usage. Unfortunately, this causes sometimes considerable confusion, not the least in the context of translations from Swedish.
Towns of Sweden The Towns of Sweden consists of the chartered Cities of Sweden, up to 1971, and other Towns that never received this distinction. Towns typically make up the centre of a municipality, but a municipality could also contain several towns.
Towns of the United Kingdom In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a town is traditionally any settlement which has received a charter of incorporation, more commonly known as a town charter, approved by the monarch. In Scotland, the equivalent is known as a burgh, pronounced burra.
Townsend and Townsend and Crew Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP was established in 1860, and is a full-service intellectual property law firm with more than 170 attorneys. The firm provides many legal services and also advises clients with regard to antitrust and complex business disputes.
Townsend Coleman Townsend Coleman (born May 1954) is an American actor. Among his most notable roles are Michaelangelo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Wayne Gretzky on ProStars, the voice of the title character on The Tick, the speaking voice of rock star Riot of the Stingers on Jem, Gobo in the animated version of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, the voice of Scott Howard on the animated Teen Wolf and many others.
Townsend Cromwell Townsend Cromwell was an oceanographer who discovered the Cromwell current whilst researching drifting in the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean. He died in 1958 when his plane crashed while he was en route to an oceanography expedition.
Townsend discharge The Townsend discharge is a gas ionisation process where an initially very small amount of free electrons, accelerated by a sufficiently strong electric field, give rise to electrical conduction through a gas by avalanche multiplication: when the number of free charges drops or the electric field weakens, the phenomena ceases. It is a process characterized by very low current densities: in common gas filled tubes, typical magnitude of currents flowing during this process range from about 10^{-18}A to about 10^{-5}A, while applied voltages are almost constant.
Townsend Observatory Townsend Observatory, owned and administered by the University of Canterbury, is part of the Arts Centre of Christchurch, New Zealand, and open on clear Friday evenings from 8pm - 10.30pm, March to October (winter months between daylight saving).
Townsend's Solitaire The Townsend's Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) is a medium-sized thrush, and the solitaire native to North America. It ranges from British Columbia and Alberta south to northern Mexico, preferring montane woodlands.
Townsend, Ontario Townsend is a planned community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada that was founded in 1970. While there used to be some commercial activity (variety store, hairdressing salon, and other numerous small businesses), the community now consists of almost purely residential and government-use property.
Townshend Acts The Townshend Acts are the mainly used name for two Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1767 having been proposed by Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, just before his death. These laws placed a tax on common products imported into the American Colonies, such as lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea (though they did not place a tax on silk).
Townshend Ministry Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department by George I on September 1714. He would be the de facto leader of this Whig ministry as Northern Secretary until 1717, when he was demoted to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in favour of the First Stanhope/Sunderland Ministry.
Township (New Jersey) A township, in the context of New Jersey local government, refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. It is a political entity as any typical town, city or municipality, collecting property taxes and providing services such as maintaining roads, garbage collection, water, sewer, schools, police and fire protection.
Township (Scotland) In the Highlands and Islands of Scotland a crofting township means a group of agricultural smallholdings (each with its own few hectares of pasture and arable land (in-bye land)) holding in common a substantial tract of unimproved upland grazing. Like older Scottish landmeasurements, such as the davoch, quarterland and oxgang, the extent of a township often varies according to the quality of the land it is on, and this can range from a hundred to a few thousand hectares.
Township (South Africa) In South Africa, the term township usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban residential areas that, under Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (black Africans, Coloureds and Indians) who lived near or worked in areas that were designated "white-only". Soweto (actually a group of townships) and Alexandra are two of the most well-known of these.
Townsite A townsite is a legal subdivision of land that is platted for the development of a town or community. In the historical development of the United States, Canada, and other former British colonial nations, the filing of a townsite plat was often the first legal act in the establishment of a new town or community.
Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre The Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre (TATSICC) is a cultural exhibit venue for the Indigenous community in North Queensland, located in the Reef HQ Complex in Townsville's City Centre, it showcases Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture, traditions and heritage to the local, national and international markets. Ian Frazer Mixed feelings Long-time campaigners for a cultural centre for indigenous people, Ernie and Maud Hoolihan say the new centre is not the meeting place they envisaged 30 years ago but it's better than nothing.
Townsville CBD, Queensland Townsville CBD is the Central Business District of Townsville, Queensland. The CBD is also the Main Government centre in Queensland outside the South-East, and is also considered as the Economic Centre of North Queensland.
Townsville Crocodiles The Townsville Crocodiles are a basketball team competing in the Australian National Basketball League. Since being established for the 1993 NBL season, the Crocodiles have enjoyed financial stability and sustained community support, but on-court success has eluded them.
Townsville Hospital The Townsville Hospital is the main tertiary care hospital and only public hospital of the Cities of Townsville and Thuringowa, Queensland, and one of many Queensland state run public hospitals. The current hospital was completed in October 2001, and is located in the suburb of Douglas.
Townsville Institute Townsville Institute (Abbreviation: TI; Chinese: 城景é«çş§ä¸ĺ¦) was one of the four original centralised institutes (CI) in Singapore and one of the pre-university centres in Singapore that offers a three-year curriculum leading to the Singapore Cambridge (UCLES) General Certificate of Education Advanced Level examination.
Townsville Primary School Townsville Primary School is a co-educational primary school in Singapore, founded in 1983, and officially opened in 1985 by Singapore's then-Minister of State for Defence, Trade and Industry, Lee Hsien Loong. Queen Elizabeth II paid the school an official visit in 1989.
Townsville Ring Road The Townsville Ring Road, now known as the Ring Road (due to most of the road being in Thuringowa City) is the future A1/M1 (Bruce Highway) Route that will eventually bypass the city of Townsville, Australia. The road will be built in 4 stages with the first three stages going to be two-laned, or a super-2 expressway.
Towpath A towpath is a road or track that runs alongside the banks of a river, canal or other inland waterway. The purpose of a towpath is to allow a land vehicle, beast of burden or a team of human pullers to tow a boat, often a barge.
Towpath murder The towpath murder was a legal case in 1953, arising from the murders of 16-year-old Barbara Songhurst and 18-year-old Christine Reed. The girls had been on a bicycle trip on Sunday 31 May 1953, and were seen cycling along a towpath beside the Thames in Teddington at around 11am.
Tower Hill Memorial The Tower Hill Memorial is a national war memorial on the south side of Trinity Square Gardens, just to the north of the Tower of London. It commemorates those from the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets who died during both world wars and have no known grave.
Tower Hotel The Tower Hotel, also known as Tower Hotel Group, are a subsidiary of FBD Insurance and are located in Dublin, Waterford and Derry in Ireland. They take their name from Reginald's Tower, an ancient Viking structure in Waterford that still stands today.
Tower Island Tower Island () is 8 km (5 mi) long and 305 m high, lying 32 km (20) mi northeast of Trinity Island and marking the northeast extent of Palmer Archipelago. Named on January 30, 1820, by Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, who described it as a round island.
Tower mill A Tower Mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. It is thought to have been invented in Western Europe in the 17th century.
Tower of Babel According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the heavens. God, observing the unity of humanity in the construction, resolves to destroy the tower and confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing any such future efforts.
Tower of Cabin Tower of Cabin is an unusual spinoff of the fantasy computer role-playing game series called Xak by the Japanese developer Microcabin. Tower of Cabin was released just before Microcabin decided to discontinue the development of Xak III for MSX.
Tower of Geburah The Tower of Geburah is the third book in a series of fantasy stories called the Archives of Anthropos written by John White. Geburah is about three children from our world who travel to the magical land of Anthropos.
Tower of Hallbar The Tower of Hallbar, also known as Hallbar Tower and Braidwood Castle, is a 16th century tower house, located to the west of the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The tower is situated above the Fiddler Burn, 3.
Tower of Hanoy Tower of Hanoy is a solitaire card game which only uses 9 playing cards. It is based on the actual Tower of Hanoi game, where the object is to transfer discs from one peg to another without disturbing their order.
Tower of Jewels The Tower of Jewels is the centerpiece of Lakeside Amusement Park at the town of Lakeside, just west of Denver, Colorado. One of the tallest buildings in Colorado when it was built, it stands 150 feet tall and features over 5,000 lights.
Tower of Kamianiec The Tower of Kamianiec, sometimes erroneously called the White Tower (Belarusian: Белая вежа, Bielaya Vieža), is the main landmark of the town of Kamianiec in Belarus. Erected in 1271-1289 by architect Oleksa as a frontier stronghold on the northern border of the principality of Volhynia principality, it is the only such tower remaining to this day in the area.
Tower of London Test The Tower of London is a well known and somewhat controversial test used in applied clinical neuropsychology for the assessment of executive functioning. The test consists of two boards with pegs and several beads with different colors.
Tower of Shadows Tower of Shadows was a horror/fantasy anthology comic book published by Marvel Comics that under this and a subsequent name ran from 1969-1975. It featured work by such notable creators as writer-artists Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Johnny Craig, and Wally Wood, writer-editor Stan Lee, and artists including John Buscema, Gene Colan, Tom Sutton, Barry Windsor-Smith (as Barry Smith), and Bernie Wrightson.
Tower of the Winds The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion (timepiece), is an octagonal Pentelic marble tower on the Roman agora in Athens. It was supposedly built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, but according to other sources might have been constructed in the 2nd century BC before the rest of the forum.
Tower of truth A term used to describe the highest state of peace and elevation in the religion of scientology. At this state, all inpurities have been cleansed from an individual and they are one step closer to seeking enlightenment from the alien Zargon who started life on this planet.
Tower of Terror (roller coaster) Tower Of Terror is a steel roller coaster at Dreamworld in the Gold Coast, Australia. It is currently the fifth fastest roller coaster in the world, but has been reported to be the fastest and tallest roller coaster in the Southern Hemisphere Opening January 23], [[1997, it held the world's fastest roller coaster record for two months before Superman: The Escape, an identical ride opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California.
Tower Of Babel (computer game) Tower Of Babel is a computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST and Acorn Archimedes systems programmed by Pete Cooke, developed by Rainbird Software and released by Microprose Software in 1990. It is a puzzle game played on a three-dimensional tower-like grid viewed in vector graphics with filled polygons.
Tower running Tower running is a sport, which involves running up tall man-made structures. Usually the races take place on the internal staircases of skyscrapers, but the term can cover any foot race which involves a course that ascends up a man-made structure.
Tower Ridge Tower Ridge is one of several ridges protruding north west from the summit plateau of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the United Kingdom. The ridge starts close to the Charles Inglis Clark hut in Coire Leis and terminates close to the highest point of the mountain.
Tower Stories Tower Stories: the Autobiography of September 11th, 2001 (ISBN 0-9748684-5-0) is a literary "time capsule" compiled by New York City author Damon DiMarco immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center. Created as a living documentary, the book features oral histories from a broad range of contributors, including policemen, firemen, paramedics, reporters, volunteers from all walks of life, escapees from the towers, eyewitnesses, WTC structural engineers, political experts, political dissidents, small business owners in Manhattan, children and others were polled for their first-person experiences of September 11, 2001 and the days that followed.
Tower Subway The Tower Subway is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in central London, close — as the name suggests — to the Tower of London. Its alignment runs between Tower Hill on the north side of the river and Vine Lane (off Tooley Street) to the south.
Tower testing station A tower testing station is a special plant for testing various design for towers for transmission lines and similar uses. A tower testing station consists of two steel stands and one or more foundations, on which a sample of the tower can be built.
TowerGroup TowerGroup is a financial services technology research and advisory firm. Established in 1993, TowerGroup has been an independent source for information and advice on the critical business and technology issues impacting the global financial services industry.
Towers (Boston University) The Towers is one of the three Boston University dormitories traditionally intended for freshmen and sophomores, the others being Warren Towers and West Campus. The building comprises two towers, each eight floors high and linked at ground level by a single story structure housing common facilities.
Towers of Chevron Renaissance Towers of Chevron Renaissance is the major part of the Chevron Renaissance development. The complex occupied the block of the land, which stretched from the east (Gold Coast Highway) to the west (Ferny Avenue), from the south (half way towards Cavill Avenue) to the north (Elkhorn Avenue).
Towersey Village Festival Towersey Village Festival is an annual festival of folk and world music and traditional dance held in the village of Towersey in Oxfordshire, in the United Kingdom. It has taken place every August bank holiday weekend since its founding in 1965.
Towing capacity A vehicle specification setting the upper limit to the weight of a trailer it can tow. There are many safety considerations to properly towing a caravan or trailer (vehicle) / travel trailer starting with vehicle towing capacity and ranging through equalizer hitches to properly (& legally) connecting the safety chains.
Town A town is a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. Generally, a "town" is thought of as larger than a village but smaller than a "city.
Town & Country (film) Town & Country is a 2001 film starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton and directed by Peter Chelsom. It is a romantic comedy in which Beatty plays a New York architect Porter Stoddard and Keaton plays his wife Ellie.
Town & Country Mall Town & Country Mall was an upscale shopping mall in Houston, Texas, competing with the then upscale West Oaks Mall and neighboring Memorial City Mall. It was supposed to surpass the older Memorial City Mall but never did due to its location.
Town (New Jersey) A Town in the context of New Jersey local government refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. While Town is often used as a shorthand to refer to a Township, the two are not the same.
Town and country planning in the United Kingdom Town and Country Planning is the land use planning system by which the British government seeks to maintain a balance between economic development and environmental quality in the United Kingdom. The essential framework for the system was set in the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, with a critical addition in 1955 of green belts, which were introduced via a Government Circular.
Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 is a Statutory Instrument which revoked and replaced the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1972 as amended by the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) Order 1983. The 1987 order has since been amended by the Use Classes (Amendment) Order 2005
Town and Country Planning Association The Town and Country Planning Association is England's oldest environmental charity. It was founded as the Garden Cities Association in 1899 by Ebenezer Howard, initially to promote the development of Garden Cities.
Town and gown Town and gown is a term used to describe the two communities of a university town; "town" being the non-academic population and "gown" the university community, especially in ancient seats of learning such as Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews. The metaphor is historical in its connotation but continues to be used in the literature on urban higher education and in common parlance.
Town and village enterprises Town and village enterprises (TVEs) are a type of commercial activity or manufacturing concern that has developed in mainland China since the beginning of economic opening under Deng Xiaoping in the early 1980s. TVEs are located in towns and rural areas.
Town ball The game of town ball, sometimes called townball, is a descendant of rounders, and often thought to be a stepping stone from rounders to modern baseball. It was generally played in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Town class cruiser (1910) The Town class was a class of light cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). These vessels were long-range cruisers, suitable for patrolling the vast expanse covered by the British Empire.
Town class destroyer The Town class destroyers were warships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy in exchange for military bases in the Bahamas and elsewhere, as outlined in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between Britain and United States, signed on 2 September 1940. They were known as "four-pipers" or "four-stackers" because they had four smokestacks (later classes of destroyers typically had one or two).
Town Called Malice Featuring one of the most easily-recognisable bass-lines in British music history, "Town Called Malice" is a song recorded by The Jam from the album The Gift. It was a double A-side single release featuring "Precious" as the flip side.
Town Center at Boca Raton Town Center at Boca Raton, is a very large, "high-end" enclosed shopping mall located in Boca Raton, Florida, in the United States. It is the largest conventional shopping mall within Palm Beach County, Florida.
Town Center Improvement District The Town Center Improvement District (TCID) was formed in 1993 by the Texas, USA legislature as a governmental agency charged with promoting and maintaining economic development in The Woodlands Town Center area. In 2001, TCID created a special Economic Development Zone to assist in the expansion of the Pavilion (see below).
Town Center Mall Town Center Mall, lesser known by its official name Town Center at Cobb, is a shopping mall located in Kennesaw, Georgia near Atlanta. Opened in 1986, the mall was originally anchored by Rich's, Macy's and Sears.
Town Commissioners Town Commissioners were elected local government bodies established in urban areas in the island of Ireland in the nineteenth century. Larger towns with commissioners were converted to urban districts by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, with the smaller commissions continuing to exist beyond partition in 1922.
Town Councils in the Republic of Ireland The term Town Council was introduced into Local government in the Republic of Ireland by the Local Government Act 2001. From 1 January 2002 the existing Urban District Councils and boards of Town Commissioners were renamed as Town Councils.
Town Creek, Alabama Town Creek is a town in Lawrence County, Alabama, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 1,216.
Town Creek, Maryland Town Creek is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland. Town Creek lies on the Potomac River within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park across the river from Okonoko, West Virginia.
Town Destroyer Town Destroyer, also translated as Town Taker, Burner of Towns, or Devourer of Villages, was a nickname given to George Washington by Iroquois Indians. The name in its original language(s) has been given variously as "Caunotaucarius", "Conotocarious", and "Hanadahguyus.
Town hall meeting A Town hall meeting is an informal public meeting derived from the traditional town meetings of New England. Similarly to those meetings, everybody in a community is invited to attend, voice their opinions, and hear the responses from public figures and elected officials, although attendees rarely vote on an issue.
Town Hall (Seattle) Town Hall is a cultural center/performance hall located on Seattle, Washington, USA's First Hill. Built as the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, from 1916 to 1922, it was sold to its current owners in 1998 and reopened in 1999.
Town Hall Kaiserslautern The Town Hall Kaiserslautern was the tallest town hall in Germany at its inaugauration in 1968. It has 25 floors above ground, from which the three uppermost are only used as storage or for operational devices.
Town Hall Theatre Town Hall Theatre is in Centerville Ohio, Originally built in 1908 Town Hall Theatre use to be the city's Town Meeting Hall along as serving for many other things such as graduations etc. It served as government offices until 1985.
Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail The Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail is the longest trail designed for non-motorized traffic maintained by the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department and watched after by a local non-profit named Town Lake Trail Foundation. It is 10.
Town meeting A town meeting is a meeting where an entire geographic area is invited to participate in a gathering, often for a political or administrative purpose. It may be to obtain community suggestions or feedback on public policies from government officials, or to cast legally binding votes on budgets and policy.
Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne The Town Moor is a large area of common land in Newcastle upon Tyne. It covers an area larger than Hyde Park and Hampstead Heath combined, stretching from the city centre and Spital Tongues in the south out to Kenton to the west, Gosforth to the north and Jesmond to the east.
Town of Albany The Town of Albany was a Local Government Area of Western Australia for the town of Albany (; post code: 6330) in the Great Southern region of Western Australia on Great Southern Highway, 410km south-south-east of the capital, Perth.
Town of Bassendean The Town of Bassendean is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 10 km² in northeastern metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia and lies about 12 km northeast of the Perth CBD and 6 km from Midland.
Town of Cambridge The Town of Cambridge is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of 22 km² in metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia, and had a population of just over 22,000 as of the 2001 census.
Town of Claremont The Town of Claremont is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 5 km² in western metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia and lies about 9 km west of the Perth CBD.
Town of Cottesloe The Town of Cottesloe is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 4 km² in western metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia and lies about 11 km west of the Perth CBD.
Town of Narrogin The Town of Narrogin is a Local Government Area of Western Australia for the town of Narrogin (; post code: 6312) in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia on Great Southern Highway, 192km south-east of the capital, Perth. It has a population of 4,424 (ABS 2001).
Town of Northam The Town of Northam is a Local Government Area of Western Australia for the town of Northam (; post code: 6401) in the inner Wheatbelt region of Western Australia on Great Eastern Highway, 96 km north-east of the capital, Perth. It has a population of 6,137 (ABS 2001).
Town of Port Hedland The Town of Port Hedland is a Local Government Area of Western Australia for the town and district of Port Hedland (; post code: 6721) in the Pilbara Region. It has a population of 13,020 (ABS 2001)Census 2001, Australian Bureau of Statistics, of which only a few hundred live outside the settlement boundaries.
Town Pavilion The Town Pavilion is a 38-story skyscraper located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, which was built in 1986. At 591 feet (180 metres), it is the second tallest building in Kansas City (behind One Kansas City Place) and third tallest in Missouri (behind One Metropolitan Square in St.
Town twinning Town twinning is a concept whereby towns or cities in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links. In Europe, such pairs of towns are known as twin towns, friendship towns or, in German, partner towns (Partnerstädte); in North America and Australasia, the term sister cities is used for the same concept; and brother cities (города-побратимы) is the term in the former Soviet bloc.
Town Tavern The Town Tavern was a famous jazz club in Toronto, Canada, from the 1950s through to the late 1970s. The art deco building hosted an afterhours jazz club with rehearsal bands for a while before it was bought and turned into a workout club, and then resold again.
Town Topics (newspaper) The Princeton Town Topics is a free weekly newspaper distributed to every household of the New Jersey municipalities of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, and parts of Hopewell Borough, Hopewell Township, West Windsor Township, Lawrence Township, Pennington, Montgomery Township, and South Brunswick Township, with an estimated readership of 30,000.
Towne Lake, Georgia Towne Lake is located about two miles due west of downtown Woodstock, Georgia in an area formerly known (at least to longtime locals) as "Thousand Acre Woods", originally part of the Little River State Wildlife Management Area, which has since completely succumbed to suburban development. The community was developed in the late 1980's as an upscale residential enclave, but has become a bustling commercial area as well.
Towne Mall Towne Mall is a shopping mall located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky and is managed by The Macerich Company. It is the only dominant and regional shopping destination serving an eight-county region with 247,000 people and 100,000 households.
TownePlace Suites TownePlace Suites, a division of the Marriott International hotel chain, was officially unveiled in Newport News, Virginia on February 23, 1997. Less than ten years later, there are now 123 TownePlace Suites operating across the United States.
Townhouse Historically in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in many other countries, a townhouse (or a "house in town") was a residence of a peer or member of the aristocracy in the capital or major city. Most such figures owned one or more country houses in which they lived for much of the year.
Townies Townies was a short-lived situation comedy broadcast in 1996 by ABC. It was set in Gloucester, Massachusetts and starred Molly Ringwald, Jenna Elfman, Bill Burr, Conchata Ferrell, Lauren Graham, and Ron Livingston.
Townley Grammar School for Girls Townley Grammar School For Girls, previoulsy known as Bexley technical high school for girls. is on Townley Road Bexleyheath it is the most consistently good performing school academically in the london borough of bexley.
Townley Vase The Townley VaseHeight 93cm. is a large Roman marble vase of the second century CE, discovered by the Scottish antiquarian and dealer in antiquities Gavin Hamilton in excavating a Roman villaSaid to have been a villa of Antoninus Pius.
Towns of SkĂĄne The notion of towns and cities in SkĂĄne is problematic as the Scanian usage of the Swedish terms for city/town and village differ somewhat from that in the rest of Sweden, and may be considered related to the Danish usage. Unfortunately, this causes sometimes considerable confusion, not the least in the context of translations from Swedish.
Towns of Sweden The Towns of Sweden consists of the chartered Cities of Sweden, up to 1971, and other Towns that never received this distinction. Towns typically make up the centre of a municipality, but a municipality could also contain several towns.
Towns of the United Kingdom In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a town is traditionally any settlement which has received a charter of incorporation, more commonly known as a town charter, approved by the monarch. In Scotland, the equivalent is known as a burgh, pronounced burra.
Townsend and Townsend and Crew Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP was established in 1860, and is a full-service intellectual property law firm with more than 170 attorneys. The firm provides many legal services and also advises clients with regard to antitrust and complex business disputes.
Townsend Coleman Townsend Coleman (born May 1954) is an American actor. Among his most notable roles are Michaelangelo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Wayne Gretzky on ProStars, the voice of the title character on The Tick, the speaking voice of rock star Riot of the Stingers on Jem, Gobo in the animated version of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, the voice of Scott Howard on the animated Teen Wolf and many others.
Townsend Cromwell Townsend Cromwell was an oceanographer who discovered the Cromwell current whilst researching drifting in the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean. He died in 1958 when his plane crashed while he was en route to an oceanography expedition.
Townsend discharge The Townsend discharge is a gas ionisation process where an initially very small amount of free electrons, accelerated by a sufficiently strong electric field, give rise to electrical conduction through a gas by avalanche multiplication: when the number of free charges drops or the electric field weakens, the phenomena ceases. It is a process characterized by very low current densities: in common gas filled tubes, typical magnitude of currents flowing during this process range from about 10^{-18}A to about 10^{-5}A, while applied voltages are almost constant.
Townsend Observatory Townsend Observatory, owned and administered by the University of Canterbury, is part of the Arts Centre of Christchurch, New Zealand, and open on clear Friday evenings from 8pm - 10.30pm, March to October (winter months between daylight saving).
Townsend's Solitaire The Townsend's Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) is a medium-sized thrush, and the solitaire native to North America. It ranges from British Columbia and Alberta south to northern Mexico, preferring montane woodlands.
Townsend, Ontario Townsend is a planned community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada that was founded in 1970. While there used to be some commercial activity (variety store, hairdressing salon, and other numerous small businesses), the community now consists of almost purely residential and government-use property.
Townshend Acts The Townshend Acts are the mainly used name for two Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1767 having been proposed by Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, just before his death. These laws placed a tax on common products imported into the American Colonies, such as lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea (though they did not place a tax on silk).
Townshend Ministry Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department by George I on September 1714. He would be the de facto leader of this Whig ministry as Northern Secretary until 1717, when he was demoted to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in favour of the First Stanhope/Sunderland Ministry.
Township (New Jersey) A township, in the context of New Jersey local government, refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. It is a political entity as any typical town, city or municipality, collecting property taxes and providing services such as maintaining roads, garbage collection, water, sewer, schools, police and fire protection.
Township (Scotland) In the Highlands and Islands of Scotland a crofting township means a group of agricultural smallholdings (each with its own few hectares of pasture and arable land (in-bye land)) holding in common a substantial tract of unimproved upland grazing. Like older Scottish landmeasurements, such as the davoch, quarterland and oxgang, the extent of a township often varies according to the quality of the land it is on, and this can range from a hundred to a few thousand hectares.
Township (South Africa) In South Africa, the term township usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban residential areas that, under Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (black Africans, Coloureds and Indians) who lived near or worked in areas that were designated "white-only". Soweto (actually a group of townships) and Alexandra are two of the most well-known of these.
Townsite A townsite is a legal subdivision of land that is platted for the development of a town or community. In the historical development of the United States, Canada, and other former British colonial nations, the filing of a townsite plat was often the first legal act in the establishment of a new town or community.
Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre The Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre (TATSICC) is a cultural exhibit venue for the Indigenous community in North Queensland, located in the Reef HQ Complex in Townsville's City Centre, it showcases Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture, traditions and heritage to the local, national and international markets. Ian Frazer Mixed feelings Long-time campaigners for a cultural centre for indigenous people, Ernie and Maud Hoolihan say the new centre is not the meeting place they envisaged 30 years ago but it's better than nothing.
Townsville CBD, Queensland Townsville CBD is the Central Business District of Townsville, Queensland. The CBD is also the Main Government centre in Queensland outside the South-East, and is also considered as the Economic Centre of North Queensland.
Townsville Crocodiles The Townsville Crocodiles are a basketball team competing in the Australian National Basketball League. Since being established for the 1993 NBL season, the Crocodiles have enjoyed financial stability and sustained community support, but on-court success has eluded them.
Townsville Hospital The Townsville Hospital is the main tertiary care hospital and only public hospital of the Cities of Townsville and Thuringowa, Queensland, and one of many Queensland state run public hospitals. The current hospital was completed in October 2001, and is located in the suburb of Douglas.
Townsville Institute Townsville Institute (Abbreviation: TI; Chinese: 城景é«çş§ä¸ĺ¦) was one of the four original centralised institutes (CI) in Singapore and one of the pre-university centres in Singapore that offers a three-year curriculum leading to the Singapore Cambridge (UCLES) General Certificate of Education Advanced Level examination.
Townsville Primary School Townsville Primary School is a co-educational primary school in Singapore, founded in 1983, and officially opened in 1985 by Singapore's then-Minister of State for Defence, Trade and Industry, Lee Hsien Loong. Queen Elizabeth II paid the school an official visit in 1989.
Townsville Ring Road The Townsville Ring Road, now known as the Ring Road (due to most of the road being in Thuringowa City) is the future A1/M1 (Bruce Highway) Route that will eventually bypass the city of Townsville, Australia. The road will be built in 4 stages with the first three stages going to be two-laned, or a super-2 expressway.
Towpath A towpath is a road or track that runs alongside the banks of a river, canal or other inland waterway. The purpose of a towpath is to allow a land vehicle, beast of burden or a team of human pullers to tow a boat, often a barge.
Towpath murder The towpath murder was a legal case in 1953, arising from the murders of 16-year-old Barbara Songhurst and 18-year-old Christine Reed. The girls had been on a bicycle trip on Sunday 31 May 1953, and were seen cycling along a towpath beside the Thames in Teddington at around 11am.
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