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Tonna galea

Tonna galea, also known as Dolium galea, is the giant tun, a large sea snail in the tun shell family Tonnidae described by Linnaeus in 1758.

Tonna perdix

Tonna perdix, the Pacific partridge tun (ウズラガイ), is a large Indo-Pacific tun shell snail, up to 20 cm, that buries in sand by day and preys on sea cucumbers using sulfuric acid secretion.

Tonnato (The Bear)

Tonnato is season 4, episode 9 of The Bear (June 25, 2025), written by Joanna Calo and Christopher Storer, in which Donna apologizes to Carmy and he cooks her a chicken dinner.

Tonne

The tonne, also called the metric ton or megagram, is a unit of mass equal to exactly 1,000 kilograms, adopted in 1879 and accepted for use with the SI.

Tönnersjöheden-Årshultsmyren

Tönnersjöheden-Årshultsmyren, Ramsar Site 1131 in Halland and Kronoberg, Sweden, designated 19 November 2001, is a 12,388-hectare mire complex with fens, raised bogs, red-listed species, and Natura 2000 and nature reserve protection.

Tonnoidea

Tonnoidea is a superfamily of predatory marine gastropods including tun shells, tritons, helmet shells, and frog shells, with about 361 species that subdue echinoderm prey with sulfuric-acid saliva.

Toño Fuentes

Toño Fuentes, born Antonio José Fuentes López, was a Colombian musician and entrepreneur who founded Discos Fuentes in Cartagena in 1934, the first record label in Colombia.

Toño Y Freddy

Toño y Freddy are a Mexican regional Mexican duo from Nuñez, Michoacán, formed by Marco Antonio Macedo and Alfredo Cárdenas after years in La Dinastía de Tuzantla.

Tonometry

Tonometry is the clinical measurement of intraocular pressure, the fluid pressure inside the eye, used to diagnose ocular hypertension and track the pressure reductions that stop glaucoma progression.

Tonopah Test Range

Tonopah Test Range (TTR), also called Tonopah Ballistics Test Range, is a Sandia National Laboratories range in Nye County, Nevada, established 1957 for DOE/NNSA nuclear weapon delivery, ballistics, and stockpile flight testing.

Tonopah, Nevada

Tonopah is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Nye County, central Nevada, and the county seat, grown from a silver strike in 1900 into one of the richest mining camps of the American West.

Tons of Rock

Tons of Rock is Norway's largest rock and metal festival, held each June at Ekebergsletta in Oslo since 2019 after starting in 2014 at Fredriksten Fortress in Halden; it drew 150,000 visitors from 80 countries in 2024.

Tonsil

Tonsil: lymphoid tissue of Waldeyer's ring (palatine, adenoid, tubal, lingual tonsils) guarding the pharynx; prone to tonsillitis, treated by tonsillectomy with modest proven benefit.

Tonsil squamous cell

Tonsil squamous cell (CL:1001577) is the squamous epithelial cell of the tonsil, covering the palatine tonsil surface and lining its crypts; the crypt reticulated epithelium is the site of most HPV-positive tonsillar cancers.

Tonsil stones

Tonsil stones (tonsilloliths) are small calcified biofilm lumps forming in tonsillar crypts, made of calcium, debris, and bacteria. Main symptom is halitosis; CT studies find them in about 25-40% of patients.

Tonsillectomy

Tonsillectomy is surgery to remove the palatine tonsils, done under general anesthesia through the mouth, mainly for recurrent tonsillitis or sleep-disordered breathing; recovery takes about two weeks.

Tonsillitis

Tonsillitis, infection of the palatine tonsils, usually viral or group A strep; self-limiting in about a week, treated with self-care, penicillin for strep, and rarely tonsillectomy for recurrent severe cases.

Tonson Group; Ratanarak Group family businesses

Tonson Group is a privately owned investment company founded in 2006 and based in Bangkok, held within the orbit of the Ratanarak family, the Thai business house behind Channel 7 and Siam City Cement.

Tonsure

Tonsure, from Latin tonsura (tondere, to shear), is the Christian practice of shaving or cutting head hair as a sign of religious dedication, with Roman (Peter), Eastern (Paul), and Celtic (John) forms; abolished as a Catholic requirement by Paul VI in 1972.

Tontine

Tontine, proposed by Lorenzo de Tonti in 1652, is a financial arrangement where members pool capital to receive payouts while alive before their shares pass to survivors.

Tonto

Tonto is the fictional Native American companion of the Lone Ranger, created for Detroit radio in 1933, played by John Todd, Chief Thundercloud, Jay Silverheels, Michael Horse, and Johnny Depp, and famous for the criticized 'Tonto-speak' stereotype.

Tonto National Forest

Tonto National Forest is a 2.9-million-acre U.S. National Forest in central Arizona, created in 1905 to protect the Salt River watershed above Roosevelt Dam, spanning Sonoran Desert to the Mogollon Rim.

Tonton Macoute

Tonton Macoute (Tonton Makout), Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale: Haitian paramilitary and secret police created by François Duvalier in 1959, repressed opposition until 1986, disbanded after Jean-Claude Duvalier's fall.

Tontowi Ahmad

Tontowi Ahmad (Owi), born 1987 in Banyumas, Indonesian mixed doubles badminton player; with Liliyana Natsir he won Rio 2016 Olympic gold, World titles 2013 and 2017, and three All England crowns before retiring in 2020.

Tõnu Õnnepalu

Tõnu Õnnepalu, who also writes as Emil Tode, is an Estonian writer whose 1993 novel Piiririik, translated as Border State, became one of Estonia's most translated works.

Tony (2026 film)

Tony (2026) is an A24 biographical coming-of-age drama directed by Matt Johnson, starring Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain during a fictionalized 1975 summer working in a Provincetown, Massachusetts restaurant kitchen, based loosely on Kitchen Confidential.

Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott, Australia's 28th prime minister (2013–2015) and member for Warringah 1994–2019, deposed by Malcolm Turnbull in 2015, elected unopposed federal president of the Liberal Party in May 2026.

Tony Abbott onion video

Tony Abbott onion video: 13 March 2015 clip of Australian PM Tony Abbott biting a raw Tasmanian onion, skin and all, spread via ABC Vine; prompted Onions Australia thanks, a second bite, and the 2015 #putoutyouronions trend when he was ousted.

Tony Accardo

Tony Accardo (Anthony Joseph Accardo, 1906-1992), "Joe Batters" and "Big Tuna," boss of the Chicago Outfit from the 1940s to his death, a former Capone driver and bodyguard whose only conviction, a 1960 tax fraud case, was reversed in 1962.

Tony Adams

Tony Adams (born 1966, Romford) is an English former centre-back and captain who spent his whole career at Arsenal (1983–2002), winning four league titles, and later managed Wycombe, Portsmouth, Qabala, and Granada.