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Topsy (elephant)
Topsy was an Asian circus elephant electrocuted at Luna Park, Coney Island, on January 4, 1903, after killing three men; the Edison film 'Electrocuting an Elephant' recorded it, though Thomas Edison himself played no role.
Topsy Lindblom
Topsy Lindblom (Gustaf Lindblom, 1891–1960), Swedish triple jumper who won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold at 14.76 m; later boxing administrator, Idrottsbladet editor, and head of Stockholm's Nalen dance hall.
Topsy-Turvy
Topsy-Turvy (1999) is Mike Leigh's British musical drama about Gilbert and Sullivan creating The Mikado, starring Jim Broadbent and Allan Corduner; it won Oscars for costume design and makeup.
Topzawa Stele
The Topzawa Stele is a Urartian-Assyrian bilingual stele of King Rusa I of Urartu, erected near Topzawa in Iraqi Kurdistan in the 8th century BC.
Toqta
Toqta (Токта), also rendered Tokta or Toktai, was khan of the Golden Horde from 1291 to 1312/13, a son of Mengu-Timur who broke Nogai's power and restored centralized rule.
Toqto'a (Yuan dynasty)
Toqto'a (脱脱, also written Tuotuo or Toktoghan) was a Mongol statesman who served twice as chancellor of the Yuan dynasty and directed compiling the Liao, Jin, and Song histories.
Toque
Toque is a brimless, close-fitting hat that covers several traditions. These include the tall, pleated chef's hat, women's fashion hats, and Canadian knitted winter caps.
TOQUEL
TOQUEL is the stage name of Klaudjo Dhespo, a Greek rapper of Albanian descent, born in 1994 and raised in Heraklion, Crete, and a leading figure in Greek trap.
Toquepala
Toquepala is an open-pit porphyry copper-molybdenum mine in the Tacna Region of southern Peru, operated by Southern Copper Corporation since 1960, with concentrate treated at its Ilo smelter.
Toquinho
Toquinho (Antônio Pecci Filho), born 1946 in São Paulo, is a Brazilian singer and guitarist known for bossa nova and MPB, especially his partnership with Vinicius de Moraes.
Tor (network)
Tor, short for The Onion Router, is a volunteer-run overlay network that anonymizes internet traffic such as web browsing by routing it through relays with layered encryption, deployed in 2002.
Tor Arne Hetland
Tor Arne Hetland (born 1974, Stavanger) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier, 2002 Olympic sprint champion and 2006 team sprint silver medalist, later coach of German, Swiss, Canadian, and Norwegian national teams.
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.