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Tor Bergeron
Tor Bergeron (1891–1977) was a Swedish meteorologist, born in England, the last surviving member of the Bergen School, known for the Wegener–Bergeron–Findeisen precipitation process and air-mass concepts.
Tor Biering‐Sørensen
Tor Biering-Sørensen is a Danish cardiologist, professor of translational cardiology at the University of Copenhagen, who runs pragmatic randomized vaccine trials using Denmark's nationwide health registries.
Tor Books
Tor Books, founded 1980 in New York by Tom Doherty as Tom Doherty Associates, is the flagship Macmillan SFF imprint; Locus best-publisher winner 1988–2024, home of Ender's Game and The Wheel of Time.
Tor Browser
Tor Browser is a free, open-source web browser from the Tor Project that routes traffic through the Tor anonymity network to hide a user's IP address.
Tor de’ Cenci
Tor de' Cenci, a frazione of Rome in Municipio IX on the Via Pontina, named for a medieval Cenci-family tower; site of a Roman villa (1st century BC to 5th century AD) with baths, mosaics, and a late-antique funerary basilica.
Tor di Mezzavia di Frascati
Tor di Mezzavia di Frascati (Torre di Mezzavia), medieval square tower on via Tuscolana at km 11.400 near the via Anagnina junction, halfway between Rome and Frascati; built on a Roman imperial villa with cistern, owned by Mardoni, Annibaldi, and S. Lorenzo nuns.
Tor Heiestad
Tor Heiestad (born 1962, Oslo) is a Norwegian running-target shooter, Olympic gold medalist at Seoul 1988 with 689 points, later 10th at Barcelona 1992, European champion 1990, and a 1986 doping case.
Tor Lund
Tor Lund (1888–1972), Norwegian gymnast and engineer from Bergen, Bergens TF member; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in men's team free system gymnastics (Norway 114.25 points), later a shipbuilding engineer.
Tor Marancia
Tor Marancia, a roughly 200-hectare historic Roman estate on the Via Ardeatina in Rome's Ardeatino quarter, with the Villa dei Numisii, ancient necropolises, and the 2002 Parco di Tor Marancia.
Tor missile system
The Tor missile system, NATO name SA-15 Gauntlet, is a Soviet and Russian short-range surface-to-air missile system combining radars and eight vertical-launch missiles on one tracked vehicle.
Tor Norberg
Tor Norberg (Erik Tor Waldemar Norberg, 1888–1972), Swedish gymnast born in Hålta, Kungälv; won gold in the men's team event, Swedish system, at London 1908 with Sweden scoring 438 of 480, and emigrated to the United States on 8 December 1908. Distinct from two Norberg teammates and from other Olympians named Norberg.
Tor Obrestad
Tor Obrestad (1938–2020) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, biographer, and translator who wrote mainly in Nynorsk, led the Profil modernist circle in the 1960s, and wrote the strike novel Sauda! Streik!
Tor Oil and Gas Field
Tor is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea near Ekofisk, discovered in 1970, and the first shut-in Norwegian field to restart production, in 2020.
Tor tambroides
Tor tambroides (Bleeker, 1854), the Thai or Malaysian mahseer, is a large Southeast Asian cyprinid fish, Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List, long confused with Tor tambra and recently confirmed as a distinct species by genome-scale nuclear markers.
Tor Wager
Tor Wager is an American cognitive neuroscientist at Dartmouth College known for fMRI pain signatures, the Neurosynth platform, and the first fMRI study of placebo effects on pain.
TOR1A
TOR1A (DYT1) is a chromosome 9q34 gene encoding the AAA+ ATPase torsinA; a 3-bp GAG deletion causes DYT-TOR1A, an early-onset, ~30% penetrance autosomal dominant isolated dystonia.
Tora Berger
Tora Berger (born 1981, Hønefoss) is a Norwegian former biathlete, sister of Lars Berger. Two Olympic golds (2010 15 km, 2014 mixed relay), eight world titles, and World Cup overall winner 2012–13 and 2013–14.
Tora Bonnevie
Tora Bonnevie is a Norwegian physician-neuroscientist and associate professor at NTNU in Trondheim who studies memory, space, and time in the human brain, including early Alzheimer's disease.
Tora Bora
Tora Bora ("black caves") is a fortified cave complex in Afghanistan's Safed Koh mountains, Nangarhar province, built by mujahideen and bin Laden, site of the December 2001 battle from which bin Laden escaped to Pakistan, later contested with ISIS-K in 2017.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tora! Tora! Tora! (トラ・トラ・トラ！) is a 1970 US-Japan co-production war film about the Pearl Harbor attack, directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda, based on Farago and Prange, noted for accuracy, the unverified sleeping giant quote, and a Best Visual Effects Oscar.
Toradora! (とらドラ!)
Toradora! (とらドラ!) is a 2006 Dengeki Bunko light novel series by Yuyuko Takemiya and Yasu about Ryuuji Takasu and Taiga Aisaka, adapted into a 25-episode 2008 anime and a Dengeki Daioh manga, with a different anime ending.
Torah (תּוֹרָה)
Torah (תּוֹרָה), also called the Five Books of Moses or Written Torah, is the Hebrew name for the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
Torah ark
The Torah ark, in Hebrew the Aron Kodesh or Holy Ark, is the cabinet in a synagogue that houses the Torah scrolls and serves as the focal point of prayer.
Torah Bright
Torah Bright (Torah Jane Bright), Australian snowboarder born 1986 in Cooma, NSW; Olympic halfpipe gold at Vancouver 2010, silver at Sochi 2014; Australia's most successful Winter Olympian; retired January 2020.
Torah in Islam
Torah in Islam concerns the Tawrat (التوراة), the Torah named eighteen times in the Quran as a revealed scripture praised as guidance and light, whose textual integrity is discussed in Islamic tradition.
Torah scroll (Yemenite)
A Yemenite Torah scroll is a handwritten parchment scroll of the Five Books of Moses following the scribal tradition of Yemenite Jews, one of four recognized Torah scroll traditions.
Toraiwa Jumokuen Botanical Garden
Toraiwa Jumokuen (虎岩樹木園) is a small private arboretum in Iida City, Nagano, Japan, opened by retired teacher Kenichi Ikeda, with labeled trees and flowers near the Sagasaka zazenso habitat and Akiba Kaido road.
Torald Hermann Sollmann
Torald Hermann Sollmann (1874–1965) was an American pharmacologist at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, called the "dean of American pharmacology", and a founding member of ASPET.
Toralf Engan
Toralf Engan is a retired Norwegian ski jumper, among the world's leading jumpers of the early 1960s, who won large-hill gold and normal-hill silver at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
Toramana
Toramana (तोरमाण) was a Hun ruler who built a kingdom from Punjab into central India, bore the imperial title Maharajadhiraja, and died around 515 CE, succeeded by his son Mihirakula.