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TV Land TV Land is an American cable television network which first started transmissions on April 29, 1996. It is owned by MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, which also owns MTV, Neopets, VH1, Nickelodeon and Noggin.
TV Land Awards The TV Land Awards are American television awards that generally commemorate shows now off the air, rather than in current production as with awards such as the Emmys. Founded in 2003, the awards are hosted and broadcast by the TV Land network.
TV Mania TV Mania was an electronic band founded in 1995 that consisted of keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, both of Duran Duran. This long-running side project, which Rhodes and Cuccurllo returned to whenever work on various Duran Duran projects slowed down, produced more than sixty songs, but has not yet seen commercial release.
TV Mast Niort-Maisonnay The TV Mast Niort-Maisonnay is a 330 metre high guyed mast for TV transmission in Maisonnay, near Niort, France at 0°03' W and 46°12' N. It is one of the tallest constructions of France, taller than Eiffel Tower.
TV Mayhem TV Mayhem was a replacement of Hey Hey It's Saturday, and aired from September 1991 for just six weeks, it was originally to run for 40 weeks. It starred Chris Evans, later to co-host The Big Breakfast in 1992 on Channel 4.
TV Nation TV Nation was a satirical newsmagazine television series written, directed and hosted by Michael Moore that was broadcast in the United States on NBC in the summer of 1994, FOX in the summer of 1995, and in the UK by the BBC. It contained investigative reports into various aspects of American life interspersed with survey results that showed the American public to be less than educated about issues that matter.
TV Newser TV Newser is a blog which deals with the events of the American television news industry. It is followed by a fair number of media executives, among others, and is maintained by Towson University student Brian Stelter.
TV on the Radio TV on the Radio is a New York City avant-garde indie-rock band formed in 2001 whose music spans genres as diverse as free jazz, a cappella/doo-wop, trip-hop and electro. The group has released several EPs including their debut Young Liars (2003), and two acclaimed albums.
TV Offal TV Offal was a British television comedy sketch/archive series that ran on Channel 4, from October 1997, to June 1998, it was written and narrated by comedian and writer Victor Lewis-Smith, who shared writing duties with Paul Sparks. It ran for only seven episodes (including the pilot), and is probably best known for first airing the uncensored Rainbow sketch on national television, as well as the "Gay Daleks" sketches.
TV Patrol Northern Luzon TV Patrol Northern Luzon is the local news network broadcast of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Northern Luzon, shown in the northern Philippine cities of Baguio and San Fernando City, La Union through ABS-CBN Channel 3. The program, a tabloid-style newscast, delivers the freshest news and current affairs issues in Northern Luzon.
TV Patrol Northern Mindanao (Cagayan De Oro) TV Patrol Northern Mindanao (Cagayan de Oro) is the local news network broadcast of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Cagayan de Oro. It has been the most watched news program in Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental.
TV Photog A TV Photog is a television photographer, or a photographer that does both still photography and videography. This can also refer to anyone doing photography with a television camera for taping any type of coverage such as corporate, commercial, event, marketing, public relations, training, or infomercials.
TV Quick TV Quick is a British weekly TV listing magazine published by family-run German company H Bauer PublishingMediaUK - TV Quick information. It features the TV listings of the week from a Saturday to the following Friday and is sold every Tuesday.
TV tray A TV tray or TV dinner tray is a type of collapsable furniture that functions as a small, portable table. It became popular in the 1950s as a way to hold food and beverage items while watching TV, the iconic item being a TV dinner.
TV tuner card A TV tuner card is a computer component that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard drive.
TV turnoff The TV turnoff network (formerly TV-Free America) is an organization that tries to encourage children and adults to watch less television and so have more time for a healthier life and more community participation. It is a grassroots alliance of many different organisations.
TV Times The TV Times is a television listings magazine published in the United Kingdom. It was launched in 1955, but became a national magazine only in 1968, although Channel Television continued to publish its own listings magazine for some years after that (it was feared that the company might go under without the revenue from its own magazine).
TV Typewriter The TV Typewriter was a video terminal that could display 2 pages of 16 lines of 32 upper case characters on a standard television. The Don Lancaster design appeared on the cover of Radio-Electronics magazine in September 1973.
TV-am TV-am was a breakfast television station that broadcast to the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 to 31 December 1992. It made history by being the first national operator of an ITV franchise at breakfast-time, and was broadcast every weekday from 6am to 9.
TV-Anytime TV-Anytime, is a set of specifications for the controlled delivery of multimedia content to a user's digital video recorder (DVR). It seeks to exploit the evolution in convenient, high capacity storage of digital information to provide consumers with a highly personalized TV experience.
TV-B-Gone TV-B-Gone is a type of simple but universal remote control device for turning off television sets. The device was designed to be able to turn off a large majority of the current available brands of television sets.
TV-Industrial complex The TV-Industrial complex is a riff by business author Seth Godin on the Military-industrial complex. It describes the cycle of advertising, demand creation and branding that allowed companies to buy ads, generate profits and buy ever more ads in a never-ending cycle.
TV-U TVU is a television network, owned by Spirit Communications, that supports Christianity by playing safe, clean music by some of the most popular Christian bands (Reliant K, Sanctus Real, Ally and AJ etc.) and some secular bands that contain Christian members, such as Switchfoot (originally Christian before entering the "scene") and Flyleaf.
TV/COM International TV/COM International is a company that developed the Compression NetWORKS digital broadcasting system that evolved into the current DVB-S standard for digital satellite broadcasting. It was used by the short-lived AlphaStar satellite platform for content delivery and conditional access.
TV/VCR combo A TV/VCR combo (sometimes known as a televideo) is a television and VCR built into a single unit. These devices have the advantage (compared to a separate TV and VCR) of saving space, as well as increased portability.
TV2Me TV2Me is a device that enables customers to access their cable or satellite television channels from anywhere in the world via a broadband internet connection, launched in 2003 by Ken Schaffer. This is described as 'spaceshifting', as opposed to 'timeshifting'.
TV3 (Sweden) TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience owned by Modern Times Group (MTG). It was founded on December 31, 1987 by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck as joint Scandinavian channel, but Denmark and Norway soon got their own versions of TV3.
TV3 Winchester TV3 Winchester is a soon-to-launch ABC affiliate serving the Winchester, Virginia area. The station is owned by Gray Television, which also owns WHSV-TV, TV3 Winchester's parent station; the station will thus be available over-the-air on WHSV's DT3 subchannel out of Harrisonburg.
TV30 TV30 is a local public access television station serving the four East San Francisco Bay Area cities collectively known as the "Tri-Valley". The cities include Livermore, Dublin, Pleasanton and San Ramon.
TV80 The Sinclair TV80, also known as the Flat Screen Pocket TV or FTV1, was a pocket television launched by Sinclair Research in 1984. Unlike Sinclair's earlier attempts at a portable television, the TV80 used a flat CRT with a side-mounted electron gun instead of a conventional CRT.
TVB Anniversary Awards TVB Anniversary Awards (Traditional Chinese: 萬千星輝頒獎典禮) is an annual awards ceremony that celebrates the best in TVB programming. It first started as a segment of the TVB Anniversary Special (萬千星輝賀台慶) in 1997 and now is a full two-hour awards ceremony broadcasted annually every November on TVB in Hong Kong.
TVB Jade TVB Jade () is the flagship Cantonese TV channel established by Television Broadcasts Limited. It broadcasts 24-hours a day and offers a variety of programmes including news, drama, variety shows, cartoons and talk shows.
TVB Jade On-Air Identity TVB Jade's on-air identity is similar in principles to its European counterparts, but also have great differences. A typical TVB ident package typically consists of only one to two idents (the record is four), and does not have a unifying theme (with the exception of the "seasons" ident that was aired during the early 90's).
TVB News TVB News (Chinese: 無綫新聞), formally known as the News and Information Division (新聞及資訊部), the newsgathering arm of Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), whose flagship channels, TVB Jade and TVB Pearl, are the premier channels in Hong Kong. The slogan of TVB News is "TVB Cares" (無綫新聞 事事關心).
TVE Internacional TVE Internacional is an internationally-broadcast Spanish language channel run by Spain's national broadcaster, TVE. Programming includes a mix of news, discussion-based programmes and drama and documentaries from TVE's TVE 1 and TVE 2 Spanish networks.
TVi TVi or Tamil Vision International is a Canadian category 2 Tamil language digital cable television channel and is owned by Diversity Media Group who also own and operate CMR- Diversity FM, a multicultural station in Toronto.
TVIXBox TVIX Box is a manufacturer and supplier of home, commercial, portable and personal multimedia players including the TVIX Box line of hard disk drive (HDD) digital multimedia players based in Northern California.
TVMSL TVMSL (TéléVision Mobile Sans Limite) is a project leaded by Alcatel that plans to develop a DVB-H standard suitable for hybrid satellite and terrestrial transmission. Other partners involved in TVMSL are Sagem, Alenia, RFS, Philips, DiBcom, TeamCast, UDcast, CNRS, INRIA, CEA-LETI.
TVMT TVMT is a new full-time cable-only television channel to be provided across Montana cable systems when service commences in January 2007. TVMT will cover both houses of the Montana State Legislature, as well as other hearings staged in the Montana State Capitol at Helena.
TVNZ News 24 TVNZ News 24 is a tentative title for a 24 hour news channel to launch in New Zealand via the FreeView digital television platform in 2007. It will be produced by Television New Zealand, which has received Government funding to launch this channel, and another channel to be launched in 2008.
TVNZ ondemand TVNZ ondemand is a proposed New Zealand online television viewing and downloading service to be offered by Television New Zealand in 2007. It will offer a variety of free and paid content, such as news updates and programmes seen on TVNZ channels (approximately 12 - 24 hours after they are screened).
TVOKids TVOKids - The Space (formerly known as '"The Crawlspace"') launched on April 1, 1994, on TVOntario, as a block of afterschool children's programming dedicated to being non-violent, commercial free, educational, and positive social role modelling. Since younger children are home earlier from school, the programming schedule includes 'younger' shows in the earlier time slots, and more 'mature' shows in the later slots.
TVOntario TVOntario, officially the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, is an educational public television broadcaster in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is owned directly by the provincial government of Ontario.
TVP 3 Katowice TVP Katowice Tower is a 90 metre high telecommunication tower of reinforced concrete at Katowice districts of Metropolis Katowice, Poland. It is the property of Telewizja Polska {TVP} - the Polish national television station.
TVP Polonia TVP Polonia (commonly known also as TV Polonia or Telewizja Polonia) is the international channel of the Telewizja Polska (TVP) , Polish public TV broadcaster. The channel is co-funded by the TVP and the Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
TVP3 TVP3 (known also as Regionalna TrĂłjka or Program 3 Telewizji Polskiej) is a Polish TV channel, run by the public broadcaster , TVP and dedicated to the country's regions. It has regional branches in most of the major Polish cities and, similarly to the French France 3 or Italian Rai Tre, for couple of hours every day it broadcasts regional programming, including local news and reports.
TVR Cerbera Speed 12 The TVR Cerbera Speed 12, originally known as the Project 7/12 was a high performance concept car designed by TVR in 1997. Based in part on then-current TVR hardware, the vehicle was intended to be both the world's highest performance road car and the basis for a GT1 class endurance racer.
TVR Grantura The first model in a long and distinguished line made its debut in 1958, the TVR Grantura. These attractive coupes were built by hand at the TVR factory in Blackpool, England with varying mechanical specifications.
TVR Griffith 200 The Griffith 200: In the US, the make is Griffith and the model is series 200, in the UK the make was TVR and the model is Griffith. This is due to Jack Grifith coming up the idea and securing rights to market the cars in the US at the time.
TVR Griffith 400 The TVR Griffith 400 was a 2 door coupe sports car produced by TVR between 1964 and 1967. It is the successor to the TVR Griffith 200, featuring improved cooling via a larger radiator with twin electric fans, and a redesigned rear with better visibility and MKI Cortina lights.
TVR Speed Six engine The TVR Speed Six (also known as the AJP-6) is the name of a normally aspirated straight-6 engine manufactured by TVR by its TVR Power subsidiary in Coventry, England and used in several of their cars including the TVR Tuscan, TVR Cerbera, TVR Tamora and TVR Sagaris.
TVR Speed Twelve engine The TVR Speed Twelve engine is the name of a V12 engine manufactured by TVR for use in the TVR Speed 12 race car, and later the TVR Cerbera Speed Twelve road car in which on the Cerbera Speed 12 went into production.
TVR's TVR's (Television Viewer Ratings) are the standard buying currency for television advertising in the UK. Television ratings are expressed as a percentage of the potential TV audience viewing at any given time.
TVS Motors TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited (TVS) is the holding company for the TVS Group of companies engaged in the manufacturing of almost all kinds of automotive components, two wheelers and a few other industrial products. They are also into the financial services sector.
TVS Television Network The TVS Television Network was one of several "occasional" national television networks that sprang up in the early 1960s to take advantage of the establishment of independent (mostly UHF) television stations and relaxation of the AT&T long-line usage rates.
TVTV TVTV (short for Top Value Television) was a pioneering video collective founded in the early 1970s by Michael Shamberg, (author of the "do-it-yourself" video production manual Guerrilla Television), Skip Blumberg and other "guerrilla video" makers, using then-revolutionary 1/2" Sony Portapak video equipment, and later embracing the 3/4" video format, to make a series of pioneering social documentaries such as Four More Years (1972), covering the Republican national convention of that year; The World's Largest TV Studio (1972), covering the Democratic national convention of the same year; Adland (1974), an examination of American commercial culture; and later TVTV Looks at the Oscars (1976); TVTV: Superbowl (1976), as well as The TVTV Show (1976), a television special co-produced with NBC television, The Bob Dylan Hard Rain Special (1976), another NBC co-production and Supervision (1976), a multipart PBS series about the birth of television and its cultural impact. Members of the group included Nancy Cain, Al
TVW (Washington) TVW is Washington's public affairs network, providing gavel-to-gavel coverage of Washington's legislative sessions and coverage of the Washington State Supreme Court and public affairs events. It is widely considered the model state level equivalent of C-SPAN.
TVX Broadcast Group The TVX Broadcast Group was a company that owned a group of UHF television stations during the 1980s. Originally known as the Television Corporation, the company was headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, and was founded by Norfolk-area businessman Tim McDonald.
Twa The Twa, also known as Batwa, are a pygmy people, of short stature, who were the oldest recorded inhabitants of the Great Lakes region of central Africa. Current populations are found in the nations of Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, and the eastern portion of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Twango Twango is an online media sharing site that supports multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provides users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing.
Twarres Twarres is a folk/pop band from the Netherlands who perform songs in both English and their native Frisian Language. Their songs are primarily lush, harmonic vocal pop with a focus on acoustic instrumentation such as pianos and violins.
Twashta Kansar Twashta Kansar Community also known as Tambat (Coppersmith) hailing from Maharashtra, India. Mythology says that this community started, when Goddess Parvati gifted the four sons (Indrasen, Bhadrasen, Rudrasen and Dharmapal) of Sahasrajun (during Parshuram time), the art of making exquisite vessels out of copper and other metals.
Tweak (programming environment) Tweak is a graphical user interface (GUI) layer to the Squeak development environment, which in turn is an integrated development environment based on the SmallTalk-80 computer programming language. Tweak is meant to replace an earlier graphic user interface layer called Morphic.
Tweak UI TweakUI is a free user interface customisation application released by Microsoft to aid end users in customising the Windows operating system. By itself, it does not do anything that would not otherwise be possible.
Tweaker (band) Tweaker is an American music project founded by Chris Vrenna in the late 1990s. The style incorporates synthpop, modern jazz and electronica genres, and is characterized by a generally melancholy and sombre sound with distinctive artwork to match.
TweakVista TweakVista is a software tool for Windows Vista that allows modification of various OS-specific functions, most notably the settings surrounding the Desktop Window Manager, User Account Control and Internet Explorer 7 search. First released in July 2005, it is made by Stardock and distributed by Steve Sinchak/Advanced PC Media LLC.
Twee In British English or English English, twee is from "tweet", a baby talk alteration of "sweet". It is used to denote something that is excessively or knowingly sweet, cute, precious, or quaint.
Twee pop Twee pop is a type of indie pop that is known for simple, sweet melodies and lyrics, often combined with jangling guitars. While groups in this style had existed previously, twee pop was first recognised as a distinct genre in 1986, when a number of these bands, including Shop Assistants, Primal Scream and The Pastels, emerged simultaneously, and were showcased on C86, a compilation released by mail-order through New Musical Express (see 1986 in music).
Tweed (cloth) Tweed is a rough, unfinished woollen fabric, of a soft, open, flexible texture resembling cheviot or homespun, but more closely woven. It is made in either plain or twill weave and may have a check, twill, or herringbone pattern.
Tweed Museum of Art The Tweed Museum of Art is a museum located on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth, in Duluth, Minnesota. It has a permanent collection of about 5,000 works covering a range of periods and cultures in art history, with particular strengths in American landscape painting.
Tweed River (New South Wales) The Tweed River is a short river on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia. The region drained by the Tweed River consists mostly of the caldera of a huge, ancient, extinct volcano, the Mount Warning shield volcano.
Tweed Volcano Tweed Volcano was a prehistoric shield volcano in northeastern New South Wales, Australia. Tweed volcano was formed over the East Australia hotspot when it existed over this part of the continent between 23 million and 20 million years ago.
Tweed, Ontario (village) Tweed, Ontario is a community on Stoco Lake and the only urban centre in the Municipality of Tweed in Hastings County, central-eastern Ontario, Canada. Tweed has a population of 1,540 according to the 2001 Canada Census.
Tweeddale Tweeddale is a committee area and lieutenancy area in the Scottish Borders. With a population of 17,394 at the latest census in 2001 Area committee population, Scottish Borders Council it is the second smallest of the 5 committee areas in the Borders.
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (UK Parliament constituency) Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983. In 2005 the constituency was abolished and the area is now represented by Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, Midlothian and Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.
Tweede Kamer The Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal ("Second Chamber of the States-General"), short Tweede Kamer, is the lower house of the States-General (Staten-Generaal), the parliament in the Netherlands. It has 150 seats which are filled through elections using a party-list proportional representation.
Tweedie Tweedie is a sept of Clan Fraser which claims its origins to that of a water sprite in the River Tweed. There is a story of a husband who went off to fight in the crusades and while he was away his young wife became pregnant and so he returned home to find he had a son.
Tweedle Dee Tweedlee Dee is a catchy rhythm and blues nonsense novelty song with a latin-influenced riff written by Winfield Scott for LaVern Baker and recorded by her at Atlantic Records studio in New York City in 1954. It was her first hit.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledee and Tweedledum are characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There and in a nursery rhyme by an anonymous author. The names originally came from a John Byrom poem.
Tweek Tweek is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park, he lived at 17091 Bonanza street in a brown house at the begining of the show and at 27092 in the red house from season 6 onwards. He was introduced during the second season.
Tweener (basketball) A tweener in basketball is a term, sometimes used derisively, for a player who is able to play two positions, but is not ideally suited to play either position exclusively, so he/she is said to be in between. This term is most commonly used only at the highest level of basketball competition, where players must combine extreme physical talent with specialised basketball abilities.
Tweening Tweening, short for in-betweening, is the process of generating intermediate frames between two images to give the appearance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image. Inbetweens are the drawings between the keyframes which help to create the illusion of motion.
Tweespruit Tweespruit is a small dairy farming town in the Free State Province of South Africa. It started out as an experimental farm set up on an old British Boer War settlement which was between "two creeks" hence the name.
Tweeter A tweeter is a loudspeaker designed to produce high frequencies, typically from around 2,000 hertz to 20,000 hertz (20,000 Hz is generally considered to be the upper limit of the human ear). Some tweeters can reach up to 30 to 35 kHz.
Tweeter Center The Tweeter Center can refer to one of a number of different Tweeter Centers, which are amphitheaters located at several sites the United States, all of which are named for Tweeter, a mid to high end audio / video retailer chain with 200 stores nationwide.
Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts is a Live Nation-owned outdoor amphitheater located in Mansfield, Massachusetts, 30 miles south of Boston, Massachusetts, USA at the intersection of I-495 and Route 140. The seating capacity is approximately 19,900.
Tweetsie Railroad Tweetsie Railroad is a family oriented railroad theme park located between Boone and Blowing Rock, North Carolina. In addition to a three-mile ride aboard an authentic steam locomotive, the park features amusement rides and other attractions geared towards families with children.
Tweezers Tweezers are tools used for picking up small objects that are not easily handled with the human hands. They are probably derived from tongs, pincers, or scissors-like pliers used to grab or hold hot objects from the dawn of recorded history.
Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution altered Article II pertaining to presidential elections. Article Two stated that the Electoral College would elect both the President and the Vice President in a single election; the person with a majority would become President and the runner-up would become Vice President.
Twelfth Army (United Kingdom) The British Twelfth Army was formed on May 28, 1945 to take control of operations in Burma from the Fourteenth Army, which was being withdrawn to plan for Operation Zipper, the planned invasion of Malaya by amphibious assault, which was due to take place in August 1945.
Twelfth Council of Toledo The Twelfth Council of Toledo was initiated on 9 January 681 by the new King Erwig. One of its first actions was to release the population from the laws of Wamba and recognise Erwig, anathematising all who opposed him.
Twelfth Letter (Plato) The Twelfth Letter of Plato, also known as Epistle XII or Letter XII, is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato, though it is almost certainly a literary forgery. Of all the Epistles, it is the only one that is followed by an explicit denial of its authenticity in the manuscripts.
Twelfth Night (holiday) Twelfth Night is a holiday in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany, concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas, and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking".Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993 edition.
Twelfth Night Theatre The Twelfth Night Theatre is an established Australian entertainment venue located in Bowen Hills, in Brisbane, Queensland. Entertainers such as Rowena Wallace, Sigrid Thornton, Judith McGrath and Penny Downie have performed there.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, named after the Twelfth Night holiday of the Christmas season. It was probably written in 1600 to 1601; the name of its male lead, Orsino, was probably suggested by that of Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, an Italian nobleman who visited London in the winter of 1600 to 1601.
Twelfth root of two The twelfth root of two is a quantity representing the frequency ratio between any two consecutive notes of a modern chromatic scale in equal temperament. Systems of unequal temperament lacked the ability for free tonal modulation, as intervals in some keys were intolerably bad (which were referred to as "wolf fifths", as an allusion to howling).
Twelve Apostles The Twelve Apostles (, apostolos, Liddell & Scott, Strong's G652, someone sent forth/sent out) were men that according to the Synoptic Gospels and Christian tradition, were chosen from among the disciples (students) of Jesus for a mission. According to the Bauer lexicon, Walter Bauer's Greek-English Lexicon of the NT: "...
Twelve Apostles (Irish counter-intelligence organisation) The Twelve Apostles, more commonly known as The Squad, was the name of an Irish Republican Army unit founded by Michael Collins to counter the intelligence efforts of the British during the Irish War of Independence, principally by means of assassination. It began its work by targeting plainclothes police, members of the G Division of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, and occasionally problematic civil servants.
Twelve bar blues The 12-bar blues has a distinctive form in both lyrics and chord structure. Most commonly, lyrics are in three lines, with the first two lines almost the same with slight differences in phrasing and interjections:
Twelve Bens The Twelve Bens or Twelve Pins (Irish Na Beanna Beola) is a picturesque mountain range in Connemara in the west of Ireland. They are not very big (max 730m) but a pleasant climb in fine weather, with superb views and no congestion.

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