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Torus palatinus
Torus palatinus, or palatal torus, is a benign bony exostosis on the midline hard palate, present in roughly 20% of US adults and 0.4–61.7% across populations, more often in females, usually needing no treatment.
Torvaianica
Torvaianica (Torvajanica), a seaside frazione of Pomezia on the Lazio Tyrrhenian coast about 30 km south of Rome; sandy family beaches, fishing tradition from Minturno, Torre del Vajanico origin, Roman villa of via Siviglia, Zoomarine, coastal erosion.
Torvill and Dean
Torvill and Dean: Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, English ice dancers, 1984 Sarajevo Olympic champions whose Bolero free dance earned perfect 6.0s from all nine judges; also World, European champions, 1994 Olympic bronze.
Torwa State
Torwa State, called Butua by the Portuguese, was a Kalanga-ruled kingdom in southwestern Zimbabwe, based at Khami from about 1450 until conquest by Changamire Dombo around 1685.
Torx
Torx, also known as star bit or hexalobular, is a six-lobed screw drive system developed by Camcar in 1967, standardized in ISO 10664 for its resistance to camout.
Tory
Tory is a political term in the United Kingdom, originating in the mid-17th century as a derogatory label for supporters of the Duke of York during the 1679-81 succession dispute.
Tory Belleci
Tory Belleci (Salvatore Paul Belleci), American TV host and model maker born 1970 in Monterey, California; ILM model builder, MythBusters Build Team daredevil (2003-2014), later White Rabbit Project, The Explosion Show, Motor MythBusters, Mythfits podcast.
Tory Burch
Tory Burch: American luxury lifestyle brand founded in 2004 by designer Tory Burch, known for the Reva ballet flat, Double T logo, accessible-luxury positioning, near-$2 billion 2023 revenue, and the Tory Burch Foundation for women entrepreneurs.
Tory Burch LLC
Tory Burch LLC is an American accessible-luxury lifestyle brand founded by designer Tory Burch in New York in 2004, selling handbags, shoes, and ready-to-wear through roughly 400 stores worldwide.
Tory Lanez
Tory Lanez (Daystar Shemuel Shua Peterson), Canadian rapper and singer born 1992 in Ontario; fuses rap and R&B. Debut I Told You (2016) Top Ten in Canada and US with multi-platinum "Say It" and Grammy-nominated "Luv"; serving a ten-year prison sentence for the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion.
Tory Patterson
Tory Patterson is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Owl Ventures, an education technology firm with about $2.5 billion under management and roughly 100 portfolio companies.
Torymidae
Torymidae (torymid wasps), a family of metallic Chalcidoidea wasps with large hind coxae and long female ovipositors; 49 genera, 890 species after Megastigmidae was split off in 2017; includes biocontrol agent Torymus sinensis.
Torzhok-Minsk-Ivatsevichy Gas Pipeline
The Torzhok-Minsk-Ivatsevichy gas pipeline (Russian: Газопровод "Торжок-Минск-Ивацевичи") is a natural gas pipeline from Torzhok in Russia through Minsk to Ivatsevichy in Belarus, built from 1971.
Torzhok-Smolensk-Mazyr-Dolyna Gas Pipeline
The Torzhok-Smolensk-Mazyr-Dolyna Gas Pipeline is a 1,300 km natural gas pipeline running from Torzhok in Russia through Mazyr in Belarus to Dolyna in Ukraine, in operation since 1994.
TOS-1
TOS-1, nicknamed Buratino, is a Soviet and Russian 220 mm multiple rocket launcher on a T-72 chassis that fires thermobaric and incendiary rockets at short range.
Tosa Domain
Tosa Domain (土佐藩) was the Edo-period domain covering Tosa province, granted to Yamauchi Kazutoyo after the Battle of Sekigahara and ruled by his clan from Kōchi Castle until it became Kōchi Prefecture in 1871.
Tosa Kinnōtō
The Tosa Kinnōtō (土佐勤王党, Tosa Loyalist Party) was a sonnō jōi organization in Japan's Tosa domain, founded by Takechi Hanpeita in 1861 and suppressed after the 1863 coup.
Tosa Mitsunobu
Tosa Mitsunobu (土佐光信, active 1469 to about 1525) was a Japanese Muromachi-period painter who headed the court Painting Office and established the Tosa school of classical courtly painting.
Tosa Mitsuoki
Tosa Mitsuoki (土佐光起, 1617–1691) was a Japanese painter of the early Edo period who revived the Tosa school of yamato-e in Kyoto, restoring his family's hereditary court painting post in 1654.
Tosa Nikki
Tosa Nikki (土佐日記, "The Tosa Diary") is a Japanese travel diary attributed to Ki no Tsurayuki, written in kana and regarded as the first kana diary.
Tosa school
The Tosa school (土佐派, Tosa-ha) is a school of Japanese painters that carried on the native yamato-e court tradition from the 15th century to the end of the Edo period.
Tosafot (תוספות)
Tosafot (תוספות) are medieval Jewish novellae on the Talmud, written in France and Germany from the 12th to 14th centuries and printed opposite Rashi's commentary.
Tosatoxumab
Tosatoxumab (AR-301, KBSA301, Salvecin) is a fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody neutralizing Staphylococcus aureus alpha-toxin, developed by Aridis Pharmaceuticals as an antibiotic adjunct for S. aureus ventilator-associated pneumonia; its first Phase 3 missed the primary endpoint but showed benefit in patients over 65.
Tosca
Tosca, Puccini's 1900 three-act opera with libretto by Illica and Giacosa after Sardou's La Tosca, premiered at Rome's Teatro Costanzi; a verismo thriller about Floria Tosca, Cavaradossi, and Scarpia, famous for "Vissi d'arte".
Tosca Musk
Tosca Musk (born 1974, Pretoria) is a South African-born filmmaker, sister of Elon Musk, and cofounder-CEO of Passionflix, a 2017 streaming service adapting romance novels for the female gaze, with budgets under $10 million and 15-day shoots.
Toscana FSRU
The Toscana FSRU is a floating LNG regasification terminal moored off the Italian coast between Livorno and Pisa, covering about 8 percent of Italian gas demand.
Toscanos
Toscanos (Los Toscanos) is a Phoenician settlement founded between about 740 and 730 BC at the mouth of the río Vélez in Vélez-Málaga, southern Spain.
Tosefta (תוספתא)
The Tosefta (תוספתא), also called Tosephtah, is a rabbinic compilation of tannaitic traditions parallel to the Mishnah, with six orders and 59 tractates, redacted in the Land of Israel.
Tosen Jordan
Tosen Jordan (トーセンジョーダン), Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse foaled 2006 by Jungle Pocket; won the 2011 Tenno Sho (Autumn) G1 in a Tokyo track-record 1:56.1, second in the 2011 Japan Cup, later a stallion.
Tosh.0
Tosh.0 (also written TOSH.0), an American Comedy Central clip-comedy series hosted by Daniel Tosh, ran 12 seasons from June 4, 2009 to 2020 and featured viral-video commentary plus its signature Web Redemption segment.