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Toadette

Toadette is a pink female Toad character in Nintendo's Mario franchise, debuting as Toad's unlockable partner in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003); known for the Super Crown power-up turning her into Peachette and for starring in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.

Toadie Rebecchi

Toadie Rebecchi, whose full name is Jarrod Vincenzo "Toadfish" Rebecchi, is a fictional lawyer in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Ryan Moloney from 1995 to 2024.

Toadies

Toadies: Fort Worth, Texas alternative rock band formed 1989, known for "Possum Kingdom" and the platinum 1994 debut Rubberneck on Interscope; broke up 2001, reunited 2008, released The Charmer in 2026.

Toads and Frogs

Toads and Frogs is Richard Guy's (also attributed to Conway) partizan combinatorial game on a 1×n strip: toads move right, frogs left, sliding or jumping one opponent. Six-cell strips realize ↑, ↓, ∗, integers, and switches; 113 distinct values appear in lengths 3–7.

Sep 24, 2026

Toan Viet thi luc

Toan Viet thi luc (Toàn Việt thi lục) is an anthology of Vietnamese poetry in classical Chinese, compiled by Le Quy Don on royal command and completed in 1768.

Oct 15, 2026

Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event

The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, also called the Jenkyns Event, was an episode of global warming and ocean deoxygenation about 183 million years ago in the Early Jurassic.

Toast

Toast: sliced bread browned by dry heat via the Maillard reaction; also the drinking ritual from spiced toast floated in wine. Covers etymology, chemistry, nutrition, and toasting traditions.

Toast (film)

Toast (2010) is a BBC One biographical comedy-drama directed by SJ Clarkson, adapted by Lee Hall from Nigel Slater's memoir Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Freddie Highmore, Oscar Kennedy, and Ken Stott; 6.2 million viewers, Berlinale 2011, Metacritic 57.

Toast (honor)

Toast (honor): a spoken tribute with raised glasses honoring a person or sentiment. Word comes from spiced toast placed in wine; drinking sense attested 1690s; poison-clinking story apocryphal.

Toast of London

Toast of London is a Channel 4 sitcom co-written by Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews, starring Berry as fading actor Steven Toast. Pilot 2012, three series 2013-2015, Rose D'Or-winning.

Toast sandwich

Toast sandwich: a Victorian sandwich of thin cold toast between two slices of bread-and-butter with pepper and salt, from the invalid cookery chapter of Isabella Beeton's 1861 Book of Household Management.

Toaster

A toaster, or electric toaster, is a small kitchen appliance that browns bread with radiant heat from electrical elements; the automatic pop-up toaster has dominated since the 1920s.

Toaster (film)

Toaster is a 2026 Hindi-language Netflix dark comedy directed by Vivek Das Chaudhary, starring Rajkummar Rao as miser Ramakant and Sanya Malhotra; Kampa Film's debut production, released April 15, 2026.

Toastmasters International

Toastmasters International: nonprofit founded by Ralph C. Smedley, first club October 22, 1924, Santa Ana YMCA; peer-led clubs for public speaking via Pathways program, ~270,000 members in 14,000+ clubs across 150 countries.

TOB-STOP-COP trial

TOB-STOP-COP (TOBacco STOP in COPd trial), NCT04088942, a Danish randomized multicenter trial testing high- versus low-intensity smoking cessation in 600 smokers with COPD; registry status withdrawn, no results posted.

Oct 20, 2026

Toba Aquarium

Toba Aquarium (Toba Suizokukan) is a large public aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan, opened in 1955, with about 1,200 species and Serena, Japan's only captive dugong.

Toba Caldera UNESCO Global Geopark

Toba Caldera UNESCO Global Geopark (Kaldera Toba), North Sumatra, Indonesia, designated 2020; supervolcano caldera forming Lake Toba, world's largest volcanic crater lake; 16 geosites, Batak culture, yellow card 2024, green card 2025.

Toba cloistered government

Toba cloistered government (鳥羽院政) was the personal rule of Retired Emperor Toba from behind the throne between 1129 and 1156, the second of three great cloistered governments of late Heian Japan.

Toba Sōjō

Toba Sōjō (鳥羽僧正), also known as Kakuyū, was a Japanese Buddhist abbot of the late Heian period traditionally credited with painting the Chōjū jinbutsu giga scrolls.

Toba Tek Singh (ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ) (short story)

Manto's 1955 Urdu short story ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ (Toba Tek Singh), a Partition satire set in a Lahore asylum where Sikh inmate Bishan Singh dies in no man's land during the 1950 patient exchange.

Tobacco

Tobacco is a Nicotiana plant whose addictive, nicotine-rich leaves are smoked, chewed, or heated; its use causes cancer and more than 7 million deaths each year.

Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026

Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), UK Act given Royal Assent 29 April 2026; bans tobacco sales to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009, licenses retailers, and regulates vapes, nicotine products, displays, promotion and smoke-free places.

Sep 29, 2026

Tobacco cessation counseling

Tobacco cessation counseling is a behavioral intervention in which clinicians help patients stop using tobacco through structured advice, motivational techniques, and follow-up during routine clinical encounters.

Tobacco Control (concept)

Tobacco control: policies reducing tobacco use and smoke exposure, anchored in the WHO FCTC, the first global public health treaty (2003, in force 2005, 183 Parties), implemented through MPOWER measures.

Sep 19, 2026

Tobacco Dock

Tobacco Dock is a Grade I listed 1812 tobacco warehouse in Wapping, East London, relaunched in 2012 as an events venue hosting large-scale electronic music parties.

Tobacco industry

The tobacco industry comprises the firms that grow, process, manufacture, market, and sell tobacco and nicotine products, a market worth about US$927 billion in 2024.

Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement

The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, also known as the Master Settlement Agreement or Tobacco MSA, is a 1998 settlement between four major US cigarette makers and 46 states.

Tobacco monopoly in New Spain

The tobacco monopoly in New Spain (estanco del tabaco) was a Spanish Crown state monopoly on tobacco, created as the Real Renta del Tabaco in 1764 and enforced from 1765 under José de Gálvez.

Tobacco monopoly in the Philippines

The tobacco monopoly in the Philippines (estanco del tabaco) was a Spanish colonial state monopoly on tobacco, established in 1782 by Governor-General José Basco y Vargas.