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Two Thousand Guineas The Two Thousand Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 thoroughbred flat horse race for three-year-old colts and fillies run over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres) on the Rowley Mile course at Newmarket Racecourse, Newmarket, Suffolk, England in late April / early May. It is one of five United Kingdom Classic Races.
Two Treatises of Government The Two Treatises of Government (or Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, And His Followers, are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter is an Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government) is a work of political philosophy anonymously published in 1689 by John Locke.
Two Tribes "Two Tribes" is the title track of the second single by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records in May 1984 (see 1984 in music). The song was later included on the album Welcome To The Pleasuredome.
Two Twisted Two Twisted is an Australian TV mystery drama which premiered on the Nine Network on 14 August, 2006. Narrated by Bryan Brown, who also produced the series' predecessor, Twisted Tales, each episode of the series contains two short half-hour stories, that have a twist ending.
Two wrongs make a right Two wrongs make a right is a logical fallacy that occurs when it is assumed that if one wrong is committed, another wrong will cancel it out. Like many fallacies, it typically appears as the hidden major premise in an enthymeme—an unstated assumption which must be true for the premises to lead to the conclusion.
Two Way Monologue EP Sondre Lerche's Two Way Monologue EP was released in UK retail stores in the summer of 2005. Soon after it was then made available worldwide through Apple's itunes music store and other online vendors such as amazon.
Two Weddings and a Funeral Two Weddings and a Funeral is the season finale of season one of Tru Calling. When Harrison is killed and he asks for help, Tru’s day rewinds, where she finds herself repeatedly thwarted by Jack as she tries to save Harrison’s life.
Two Weeks with the Queen Two Weeks with the Queen (ISBN 0-399-22249-9) is a 1990 novel by an Australian author, Morris Gleitzman, about a boy who, while living with relatives in England, seeks an audience with the Queen of England in his search for a cure for his brother's illness.
Two Whatevers The Two Whatevers (Simplified Chinese: 两个凡是; Traditional Chinese: 兩個凡是; Pinyin: Liǎng gè fán shì) refers to the statement that "We will resolutely uphold whatever policy decisions Chairman Mao made, and unswervingly follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao gave". This statement was contained in a joint editorial, entitled "Study the Documents Well and Grasp the Key Link", printed on February 7 1977 in Renmin Ribao (People's Daily), the journal Hongqi (Red Flag) and Jiefangjun Bao (Liberation Army Daily).
Two Women Two Women (Original title: La Ciociara The Woman from Ciociaria (a region in Central Italy)) is a 1960 Italian language film which tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. When both are raped by Goumiers serving in the French Army, the daughter suffers a nervous breakdown.
Two World Wars, One World Cup This is a football song sung by supporters of the English National Team. It is especially directed at the German fans, making reference to the world wars that were fought in the 20th century, and how England defeated West Germany to win the 1966 World Cup.
Two Yanks in England The Everly Brothers recorded "Two Yanks in England" for the Warner Brothers label (W/WS 1646) between 16 May and 2 June 1966. The backing band on most of the recordings are actually The Hollies and eight of the twelve songs featured are credited to 'L.
Two Years' Vacation Two Years' Vacation (Deux ans de vacances) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1888. The story tells of the fortunes of a group of schoolboys marooned on a deserted island in the South Pacific, and of their struggles to overcome adversity.
Two You Four You "Two You Four You" is Tackey and Tsubasa's 2nd album to be released under avex trax. The album was released on November 15,2006, over two and a half years after their debut album "2wenty 2wo", and contains a total of four previously released singles.
Two-A-Days Two-A-Days is a reality-show on MTV that chronicles the teens at Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama, a suburb of nearby Birmingham. It follows members of the highly-rated Hoover High football team during the football season, while they balance athletics with school and relationships.
Two-A-Days (football) Two-A-Days, or sometimes known as Hell Week, is a term in football to describe when a football team has practice twice a day: in the morning, and in the afternoon or evening. Two-A-Days are usually done the beginning of fall, such as the end of July or mid-August, but are sometimes done on a daily basis for some teams.
Two-body problem In classical mechanics, the two-body problem is to determine the motion of two point particles that interact only with each other. Common examples include a satellite orbiting a planet, a planet orbiting a star, two stars orbiting each other (a binary star), and a classical electron orbiting an atomic nucleus.
Two-color system The two-color system of projection is a name given to a variety of methods of projecting a full-color image using (only) two different single-color projectors. James Clerk Maxwell first suggested he had discovered such a projection system, but it was not reproduced until the 1950s, when Edwin Land accidentally noticed a similar effect while working on his three-color system of projection.
Two-decker A two-decker is a sail warship, which carried her guns on two fully-armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck) but this was not a continuous battery so were not counted.
Two-dimensional gas A two-dimensional gas is a collection of N objects which are constrained to move in a planar or other two-dimensional space in a gaseous state. The objects can be: ideal gas elements such as rigid disks undergoing elastic collisions; elementary particles, or any object in physics which obeys laws of motion.
Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, commonly abbreviated as 2-DE or 2-D electrophoresis, is a form of gel electrophoresis commonly used to analyze proteins. In 1-D electrophoresis, proteins (or other analytes) are separated in one dimension, so that all the analytes will lie along a line but be separated from each other by some property.
Two-element Boolean algebra The two-element Boolean algebra is the simplest Boolean algebra, one having just two elements, named 1 and 0 by convention. Paul Halmos's name for this algebra, 2, has some following in the literature and will be employed here.
Two-empire system The two-empire system is the top-level biologicial classification system in general use before the establishment of the three-domain system. Some biologists prefer the two-empire system over the three-domain system, in that the three-domain system overemphasizes the division between Archaea and Bacteria.
Two-factor authentication Two-factor authentication (T-FA) (or dual factor authentication) is any authentication protocol that requires two independent ways to establish identity and privileges. This contrasts with traditional password authentication, which requires only one authentication factor (such as knowledge of a password) in order to gain access to a system.
Two-fingers salute The two-fingers salute is a salute given using only the middle and index fingers, while bending the other fingers at the second knuckle, and with the palm facing the signer. This salute is used by Polish military and uniformed services and by Cub Scouts.
Two-fluid model Two-fluid model is a traffic model to represent an urban non-freeway traffic network. Established around 1970s by Nobel prize winner scientist Ilya Prigogine and Robert Herman, two-fluid model of town traffic successfully explain quality of traffic in a town/city or metropolitan area.
Two-front war In military terminology, a two front war is a war that is waged on two separate fronts, usually opposite each other. It is usually executed by two or more separate forces simultaneously or near-simultaneously, in the hope that their opponent will be forced to split their fighting force to deal with both threats, therefore reducing their odds of success.
Two-Fisted Tales Two-Fisted Tales was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s. The war comic, published by Bill Gaines, originated in November 1950 when Harvey Kurtzman suggested to Gaines that they publish an adventure comic.
Two-graph In mathematics, a two-graph is a set of (unordered) triples chosen from a finite vertex set X, such that every (unordered) quadruple from X contains an even number of triples of the two-graph. A regular two-graph has the property that every pair of vertices lies in the same number of triples of the two-graph.
Two-hit wonder A two-hit wonder is an artist, unlike a one-hit wonder, that has two major hit singles before fading into obscurity. Like one-hit wonders a two-hit wonder usually has one significantly successful album while subsequent albums aren't as successful.
Two-in, two-out In firefighting, the policy of two-in, two-out mandates that firefighters never go into a dangerous situation in a fire or rescue incident alone. There should always be (at least) two firefighters together when they enter a location and one of them cannot come out of the situation or building unless both do.
Two-lane freeway A two-lane freeway or two-lane expressway is a freeway or expressway with only one lane in each direction, and usually no median barrier. It may be built that way because of constraints, or may be intended for expansion once traffic volumes rise.
Two-level pylon A two-level pylon is a pylon at which the circuits are arranged in two levels on two crossbars. Two-level pylons are usually designed to carry on the lowest crossbar four and at the upper crossbar two conductors, but there are also other variants, e.
Two-level system In quantum mechanics, a two-level system is a system in which there are two physical states of different energy. That is, if we take the time-independent Hamiltonian to be H, then we say that the two levels are psi_a and psi_b with corresponding energy eigenvalues E_a and E_b, which may or may not be different.
Two-man rule The two-man rule is a control mechanism designed to prevent accidental or malicious launch of nuclear weapons by a single individual. In the case of a missile silo command crew, both operators must agree that the launch order is valid, and must each complete a set of tasks independently and in proper order to launch.
Two-Nation Theory The Two-Nation Theory was the basis for the Partition of India in 1947. It stated that Muslims and Hindus were two separate nations by every definition, and therefore Muslims should have a separate homeland in the Muslim majority areas of British India, to enable them to live according to the teachings of Islam.
Two-page spread The phrase two-page spread is a redundant term commonly misused to refer to a spread in editorial or book design and format. The term spread refers to two adjacent, facing pages in a magazine or other publication, featuring a single image (such as a photograph or piece of artwork) or a themed group of images (such as a flowchart or collection of maps).
Two-part tariff A two-part tariff is a price discrimination technique in which the price of a product or service is composed of two parts - a lump-sum fee as well as a per-unit charge. As with all price discrimination techniques, it may only occur in partially or fully monopolistic markets.
Two-party system A two-party system is a form of party system where two major political parties dominate the voting in nearly all elections. As a result, all, or nearly all, elected offices end up being held by candidates endorsed by the two major parties.
Two-phase commit protocol In computer networking and databases, the two-phase commit protocol is a distributed algorithm that lets all nodes in a distributed system agree to commit a transaction. The protocol results in either all nodes committing the transaction or aborting, even in the case of network failures or node failures.
Two-photon absorption Two Photon Absorption (or TPA) refers to the simultaneous absorption of two photons of identical or different frequencies in order to excite a molecule from its ground state to a two-photon allowed excited state.
Two-photon excitation microscopy Two-photon excitation microscopy is a fluorescence imaging technique that allows imaging living tissue up to a depth of one millimeter. Two-photon excitation may in some cases be a viable alternative to confocal microscopy due to its deeper tissue penetration and reduced phototoxicity.
Two-photon physics Two-photon physics, also called gamma-gamma physics, is a branch of particle physics for the interactions between two photons. If the energy in the center of mass system of the two photons is large enough, matter can be created.
Two-pinned Lewis A Two-pinned Lewis is a stone-lifting device consisting of two 13 mm diameter steel pins, linked by a short chain. The pins are inserted into opposing holes that are drilled into the top of the stone at about 15 degrees from vertical, and at least 75 mm deep.
Two-point Two-point is a position in English horse-back riding used when jumping, named because the rider has two points (both legs) in contact with the saddle. It consists of supporting yourself using leg and stirrup, keeping the heels down, closing the hip angle, and lifting the buttocks out of the saddle while keeping the head and shoulders up.
Two-point conversion In American football and Canadian football, a team may try to score a two-point conversion (score two points) instead of an extra point (one point) immediately after it scores a touchdown. In a two-point conversion attempt, the team that just scored must run a play from close to the opponent's goal line (5-yard line in Canadian, 3-yard line in amateur American, 2-yard line in professional American) and advance the ball across the goal line as if it were a normal touchdown.
Two-point equidistant projection The two-point equidistant projection is a map projection first described by Hans Maurer in 1919 Distances from any point on the map to two control points scale to the geodesic] distances of the same points on the sphere. The projection is commonly used in [[National Geographic Society atlases for maps of Asia.
Two-point tensor Two-point tensors, or double vectors, are tensor-like quantities which transform as vectors with respect to each of their indices and are used in continuum mechanics to transform between reference ("material") and present ("configuration") coordinates.
Two-pore channel Two-pore channels: This small family of 2 members putatively forms cation-selective ion channels. They are predicted to contain two KV-style six-transmembrane domains, suggesting they form a dimer in the membrane.
Two-price advertising Two-price advertising is the sales and marketing practice of showing customers two prices, a supposed normal price and a lower price which is claimed to be a special offer or discount; but where in fact the stated normal price is a fiction.
Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data Storage Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data Storageis a general term refering to a method of data storage where the data is addressed by 2-photon excitation within an optically thick disk substrate. Two-photon 3-D optical data storage is a technology that is under development in several academic and commercial groups around the world, and aims to provide data storage at a density of the order of 1 TB in a DVD-sized disk.
Two-round system The two round system (also known as the second ballot or runoff voting) is a voting system used to elect a single winner. Under runoff voting, the voter simply casts a single vote for her or his favourite candidate.
Two-second rule (road) The two-second rule is a safety guideline for use when driving a car or other motor vehicle on conventional roads, suggesting the minimum distance one ought to be from the vehicle in front. The claim is that the distance travelled in two seconds is that said minimum.
Two-sided Laplace transform In mathematics, the two-sided Laplace transform or bilateral Laplace transform is an integral transform closely related to the Fourier transform, the Mellin transform, and the ordinary or one-sided Laplace transform. If f(t) is a real or complex valued function of the real variable t defined for all real numbers, then the two-sided Laplace transform is defined by the integral
Two-sided markets Two-sided markets, also called two-sided networks, are economic networks having two distinct user groups that provide each other with network benefits. Example markets include credit cards, comprised of cardholders and merchants; HMOs (patients and doctors); operating systems (end-users and developers), travel reservation services (travelers and airlines); and video games (gamers and game developers).
Two-square cipher The Two-square cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique. It was developed to ease the cumbersome nature of the large encryption/decryption matrix used in the four-square cipher while still being slightly stronger than the Playfair cipher.
Two-stage-to-orbit A two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO or DSTO - Double/Dual-Stage-To-Orbit) launch vehicle is a spacecraft in which two distinct stages provide propulsion consecutively in order to achieve orbital velocity. It is intermediate between the more common system with more stages, such as the three-stage-to-orbit system, and a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) launcher, which does not exist yet.
Two-state solution The two-state solution is the name for a class of proposed resolutions of the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict now explicitly backed by the Israeli and United States governments. There are many different proposals under this rubric, which differ substantially in their details, although all share a basic concept (reflected in the name).
Two-stroke cycle The two-stroke cycle of an internal combustion engine differs from the more common four-stroke cycle by completing the same four operations (intake, compression, power, exhaust) in only two strokes (linear movements of the piston) rather than four. Thus, there is a power stroke per piston for every engine revolution, instead of every second revolution.
Two-stroke oil Two-stroke oil (also referred to as two-cycle oil, 2-cycle oil, or 2-stroke oil) is an engine oil intended for use in two-stroke engines like those in many lawnmowers, motorscooters, auto-rickshaws, snow throwers (blowers), chain saws, toy engines such as those in model airplanes, certain gardening equipment like weed/grass trimmers, leaf blowers, soil cultivators, etc. Since these lightweight engines do not feature oil sumps to collect and recycle oil like conventional engines, oil is mixed into the fuel mixture for distribution throughout the engine and is ultimately burned along with the fuel resulting in a distinctive odor.
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists are part of a larger sub-group of Baptists that is commonly referred to as "anti-mission" Baptist. This sub-group includes the Duck River and Kindred Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Old Regular Baptists, some Regular Baptists, and some United Baptists.
Two-Spirit Two-Spirit (also two spirit or twospirit) is a term for third gender people (for example, woman-living-man) that are among many, if not most, Native American and Canadian First Nations tribes. It usually implies a masculine spirit and a feminine spirit living in the same body.
Two-tailed test The two-tailed test is a statistical test used in inference, in which a given statistical hypothesis will be rejected when the value of the statistic is either sufficiently small or sufficiently large. The test is named after the "tail" of data under the far left and far right of a bell-shaped normal data distribution, or bell curve.
Two-third rule For safety reasons, railway lines are assessed and a speed limit imposed on trains running on that line. Many factors can effect the speed limit of a particular line including the state of the track, the curvature of the track, the number of stations, the individual features of stations or junctions and the stopping distances of trains running on that track are examples of such factors.
Two-tier health care Two-tier health care is a form of national health care system that is used in most developed countries. It is a system in which a guaranteed public health care system exists, but where a private system operates in parallel.
Two-tier system The two-tier system, in the context of labor relations, is a type of contract employed by companies to scale back negotiated wages and/or benefits. When a two-tier system is in place in a new contract, workers hired before ratification of that contract have a wage progression table (or benefits) different from those hired after ratification.
Two-toed sloth The two extant species of two-toed sloths are Linnaeus's and Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth. However, the name "two-toed" for these sloths is a misnomer as they both have three toes; they only have two fingers, though.
Two-Timers TWO-TIMERS (aka 2X, 2-X) is an American hip-hop group originating from Simi Valley and Ventura/LA County area, California which has had yet to be made albums soon in the future — 5 1 5 0 hopefully in 2008-09. Two-Timers was formed in 2005, but has only been known as a local underground rap group these past years.
Two-Tone Two-Tone is a fictonal character originally created by Dodie Smith for her books "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" and "The Starlight Barking" and also used in the 1996 live action movie "101 Dalmatians" and subsequently used in the Disney animated series 101 Dalmatians: The Series.
Two-way deterministic finite automaton In computer science, a two-way deterministic finite automaton (2DFA) is an abstract machine, a generalized version of the deterministic finite automaton (DFA) which can revisit characters already processed. As in a DFA, there are a finite number of states with transitions between them based on the current character, but each transition is also labelled with a bit indicating whether the machine will move its position in the input to the left or right.
Two-way radio A two-way radio is a radio that can both transmit and receive (a transceiver), unlike a broadcasting receiver which only sends content one way. A push-to-talk button is often present to activate the transmitter.
Two-way street A two-way street is a street that allows vehicles to travel in both directions. On most two-way streets, especially main streets, a line is painted down the middle of the road to remind drivers to stay on their side of the road.
Two-wire circuit A two-wire circuit is characterized by supporting transmission in two directions simultaneously, as opposed to four wire circuits, which have separate pairs for transmit and receive. In either case they are twisted pairs.
Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT) is a high-precision long distance time and frequency transfer mechanism used between time bureaux to determine and distribute time and frequency standards.
Two-Way Stretch Two-Way Stretch is a British comedy film of 1960, about a group of prisoners who plan to break out of jail, commit a robbery, and then break back into jail again, thus giving them the perfect alibi - that they were behind bars when the robbery occurred. However, their plans are disrupted by the arrival of a strict new Chief Prison Officer, played by Lionel Jeffries.
Twofour Twofour is a UK independent broadcast production company and corporate communications agency. The company produces over 250 hours of primarily factual entertainment content a year for UK and International TV networks and satellite channels.
TwoMorrows Publishing TwoMorrows Publishing is a publisher of magazines about comic books, founded in 1994 by John and Pam Morrow out of their small advertising agency in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its products also include books and DVDs.
TwoOStwo twoOStwo is one of the commercial software products developed by Parallels Software Studio. The Workstation software consists of a virtual machine suite for Intel x86-compatible computers which allows the creation and execution of multiple x86 virtual computers simultaneously.
Twospined angelfish The twospined angelfish, dusky angelfish, or coral beauty (Centropyge bispinosa), is an omnivorous marine angelfish. Some individuals have a dark purplish blue body with yellow to red stripes, and usually an electric blue rim; in others are orange stripes dominate, with the purple distributed in spots.
Twosret Queen Twosret Sitre Meryamun was a Queen of Egypt and the last Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty. She reigned over Egypt for two years from about 1188-1186 BC, according to traditional Egyptian chronology and succeeded her step-son Siptah, who suffered from ill-health (probably polio).
Twrch Trwyth Twrch Trwyth is the name of a particularly potent wild boar Culhwch is instructed to hunt in the Middle Welsh prose tale Culhwch and Olwen. Twrch is named as the son of Prince Tared, cursed into the form of a wild creature; he has poisonous bristles, and carries a pair of scissors, a comb and a razor on his head, between his ears.
Twycross Zoo Twycross Zoo (The World Primate Centre) is a zoo in Twycross, in Leicestershire (on the A444 between the M42 and the A5), England, founded in 1963. It is notable for having the largest primate collection in the world, including breeding populations of bonobos (the UK's only collection of our closest living relatives), chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, penguins, camels, and otters along with large numbers of monkey and lemur species.
Twyford Forest Twyford Forest, more recently known as Twyford Wood, and once known as Witham Wood, is a commercial wood around , in Lincolnshire, England owned by the Forestry Commission, England, an agency of the British Government and managed by its subsidiary, Forest Enterprise (England). About a third of the wood is long-established and the rest was planted with oak (Quercus robur) and conifers soon after 1950, around the runways of an airfield of the Second World War period.
Twyford Wood Twyford Wood, formerly known as Twyford Forest, is a commercial wood around in Lincolnshireowned by the Forestry Commission, England, an agency of the British Government and managed by its subsidiary, Forest Enterprise (England). About a third of the wood is long-established and the rest was planted with conifers, soon after 1950 around the runways of an airfield of the World War II period.
Twyford, Berkshire Twyford is a large village/small town and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. It is situated, at , in the heart of the Thames Valley on the A4 between Reading and Maidenhead, close to Henley-on-Thames and Wokingham.
Twyford, Hampshire Twyford is a village in Hampshire, England, approximately three miles south of Winchester and near the M3 motorway and Twyford Down. The village lies on the River Itchen, which passes through nearby watermeadows, and has been important economically for its residents.
Twyford, Norfolk Twyford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the A1067 road, some 12 km (8 miles) south-east of the town of Fakenham and 28 km (17 miles) north-west of the city of Norwich.
Twyman-Green interferometer A Twyman-Green interferometer is a variant of the Michelson interferometer principally used to test optical components. The setup of the Twyman-Green interferometer is similar to that of the Michelson interferometer (cf.
TW 400 The TW 400 is a type of tram vehicle formerly used on the tramways of Hanover, Germany, built from 1956 to 1958 by DĂĽwag. Some units underwent remodeling to prepare them for being used on the Hanover Stadtbahn network but they were never used for this purpose.
TW 6000 The TW 6000 is a type of articulated light rail vehicle used on the Hanover Stadtbahn system, originally manufactured by DĂĽwag, AEG, Kiepe and Siemens, the later batches being built by LHB (now part of Alstom).
TW3 (Albany, NY) TW3 is a is a cable television station broadcast on Time Warner Cable systems in the Capital District of New York and that area's suburbs including Saratoga County, the southern Adirondack region, the Mohawk Valley, and most of Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
TWA Corporate Headquarters' Building The TWA Corporate Headquarters' Building was the corporate headquarters of Trans World Airlines until 1958 when the airline moved its headquarters to New York City. The building was located at 1735 Baltimore Avenue in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, although the area is now known as the Crossroads Arts District.
TWA Flight 159 On November 6, 1967, TWA Flight 159, a Boeing 707, while on its takeoff roll, passed Delta Flight 379, a DC-9 stuck on the runway. The first officer heard a loud bang and, believing a collision had occurred, aborted the takeoff.
TWA Flight 513 TWA Flight 513, registration NC86513, Star of Lisbon, was a Lockheed Constellation operated by Transcontinental and Western Air on a training flight on July 11, 1946 when it crashed near Reading, Pennsylvania. Electrical wiring in the baggage compartment arced starting a fire.
TWA Flight 514 TWA Flight 514, registration N54328, was a Boeing 727-231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus, Ohio, to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on December 1, 1974. All 85 passengers and 7 crewmembers were killed.
TWA Flight 553 TWA Flight 553, registration N1063T, was a Douglas DC-9-15 enroute from Pittsburgh to Dayton that collided in mid-air with a Beechcraft Baron over Urbana, Ohio on March 9, 1967. All 21 passengers, and four crew members, were killed, along with the pilot of the Beechcraft.
TWA Flight 599 Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 599 was a Fokker F-10 Trimotor en route from Kansas City, Missouri to Los Angeles, California on March 31, 1931. It crashed ten miles south of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas; all eight on board died.
TWA Flight 840 (1969) In August 1969, leaders in the Palestinian left-wing organization PFLP learned that Yitzak Rabin, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States was scheduled to be aboard the Rome to Athens flight. Two operatives, Leila Khaled and Salim Issawi hijacked the plane.
TWA Flight 847 TWA Flight 847 was an international Trans World Airlines flight which was hijacked by Organization for the Oppressed of the Earth, a group with alleged links to Hezbollah, on Friday morning, June 14, 1985, while flying from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy. The aircraft with its passengers and crew endured a three-day intercontinental ordeal during which one passenger, a U.
TWEA The True Worshipper Ecclesiastical Association was founded in August 2005 by Derick Mckinnely Fuller as a non-profit Christian ministry committed to establish a correlating 21st Century Christian academic community that solely advances the scholastic understanding of Christian laypeople.

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