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Tocks Island Dam controversy

The Tocks Island Dam controversy was a two-decade dispute over a proposed Army Corps dam on the Delaware River that ended in 1976 with the project shelved.

Toco toucan

Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco), largest toucan of central and eastern South America; huge hollow yellow-orange bill acts as a controllable thermal radiator; Least Concern, CITES Appendix II.

Tocofersolan

Tocofersolan (tocophersolan, vitamin E TPGS) is a water-soluble d-alpha-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate pro-drug. Marketed as Vedrop for pediatric cholestasis-related vitamin E deficiency; also an FDA-approved excipient and P-glycoprotein inhibitor used in drug delivery.

Tocolosida

Tocolosida (Tocolosium) was a Roman fort and settlement in Mauretania Tingitana, Morocco, about 4 km south of Volubilis; terminus of the road from Tingis, garrisoned by Ala Augusta Gallorum.

Tocolytic

Tocolytics (tocolytic drugs) are medications that slow uterine contractions to delay preterm birth about 48 hours, allowing corticosteroids, magnesium sulfate, or transfer; classes include nifedipine, atosiban, betamimetics, indomethacin.

Tocopherol

Tocopherol, the tocopherol family of vitamin E compounds (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, delta-tocopherol), fat-soluble antioxidant nutrients; alpha-tocopherol is the only form meeting human requirements, RDA 15 mg/day, EU upper limit 300 mg/day.

Tocumen International Airport

Tocumen International Airport, also known as Aeropuerto Internacional de Tocumen, is Panama City's main airport and Copa Airlines' connecting hub, the busiest in Central America.

Tocumwal

Tocumwal, a Murray River town in Berrigan Shire, NSW, site of the Southern Hemisphere's largest 1942 wartime aerodrome, RAAF base to 1960, the Tocumwal Aviation Museum, gliding, and a 2021 population of 2,862.

Tod Browning

Tod Browning (Charles Albert Browning Jr., 1880–1962), American director of Dracula (1931) and Freaks (1932); former sideshow performer who made ten films with Lon Chaney and shaped early Hollywood horror.

Tod Machover

Tod Machover is an American composer and inventor who directs the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab, known for technology-infused operas like Death and the Powers.

Toda lattice

The Toda lattice is a model of particles on a line interacting through exponential nearest-neighbor forces, introduced by Morikazu Toda in 1967 and a standard integrable nonlinear system.

Toda people

The Toda, or Todas, are a Dravidian-speaking pastoral community of India's Nilgiri plateau, numbering roughly 1,600, known for buffalo-centered dairies that serve as temples and for pukhoor embroidery.

Tōdai-ji (東大寺)

Tōdai-ji (東大寺), or Todai Temple, is a Buddhist temple complex in Nara, Japan, founded in the eighth century and known for its colossal bronze Great Buddha, consecrated in 752.

Tōdaiji

Tōdaiji (東大寺) is a Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan, founded by Emperor Shōmu as head of the state temple system and home to a colossal bronze Vairocana Buddha dedicated in 752.

Todar Mal

Raja Todar Mal was the finance minister of the Mughal emperor Akbar and architect of the dahsala land-revenue settlement, whose rent-roll shaped Indian land taxation into the British period.

Todas las sangres

Todas las sangres is a 1964 indigenist novel by José María Arguedas, his longest and most ambitious work, depicting a Peru of racial and social contrasts.

Todavía te amo

Todavía te amo is a 2027 TelevisaUnivision telenovela by Carlos Bardasano, starring Scarlet Gruber and Brandon Peniche, adapting Delia Fiallo's Emilia for Mexico, premiering at 21:30 on Las Estrellas.

Today (American TV program)

Today (NBC Today, the Today show) is NBC's American morning news-and-entertainment program, premiering January 14, 1952; created by Pat Weaver, now anchored by Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin, broadcasting four weekday hours from Studio 1A, Rockefeller Center.

Today Is the Day (group)

Today Is the Day is an American noise rock and experimental metal band formed in Nashville in the early 1990s and led by guitarist Steve Austin, with fourteen studio albums.

TODAY trial

TODAY (Treatment Options for type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth), NCT00081328, was an NIDDK-funded US randomized trial of 699 youth aged 10-17 comparing metformin alone, metformin plus rosiglitazone, and metformin plus intensive lifestyle intervention for glycemic failure.

Today's House

Today's House (오늘의집) is a Korean interior and lifestyle platform operated by Seoul-based Bucketplace, which grew from a photo-sharing community into furniture commerce and interior construction services.

Today's Special

Today's Special is a Canadian children's TV series produced by TVOntario, created by Clive VanderBurgh, running 1981 to 1987 with 121 episodes set in a department store where mannequin Jeff comes to life.

Todd A. Fehniger

Todd A. Fehniger, also published as Todd Fehniger, is an American immunologist and oncologist, a Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, whose laboratory identified cytokine-induced memory-like NK cells.

Todd A. Thompson

Todd A. Thompson is a theoretical astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, where he chairs the Astronomy Department and led the 2019 identification of a low-mass black hole.

Todd A. Verdoorn

Todd A. Verdoorn is an American molecular pharmacologist who held a tenured pharmacology position at Vanderbilt University Medical Center from 1991 to 1997 and received a Presidential Early Career Award.

Todd Achilles

Todd Achilles (Theodore Todd Baker Achilles) is an independent 2026 U.S. Senate candidate in Idaho challenging Jim Risch; a former Democratic Idaho House member (District 16B, 2024–2025), Army tank commander, and tech executive who pledged not to caucus with either party.

Todd Akin

Todd Akin (1947-2021), Missouri Republican congressman 2001-2013, lost the 2012 Senate race to Claire McCaskill after his 'legitimate rape' pregnancy claim; also served six terms in the Missouri House.

Todd Alquist

Todd Alquist is a fictional character in the AMC drama Breaking Bad, played by Jesse Plemons, a polite meth cook and enforcer for his uncle Jack's gang.

Todd B. Marder

Todd B. Marder (Todd Benjamin Marder) is an American organometallic and boron chemist who held the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg from 2012 to 2023.

Todd Barry

Todd Barry (born 1964) is an American deadpan stand-up comedian and actor from New York and South Florida, creator of the 2014 all-improvised Crowd Work Tour special, known for The Wrestler, Louie, and Flight of the Conchords.