edgepedia

Edgepedia

519,064 articles

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.

Toran Bruce Richards

Toran Bruce Richards (born 1998) is a British software developer and entrepreneur who created AutoGPT in 2023, an open-source AI agent that became one of GitHub's most-starred repositories.

Toranomon Incident

The Toranomon Incident (虎ノ門事件) was a failed assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito by anarchist Namba Daisuke in Tokyo on 27 December 1923; the cabinet resigned.

Toratau UNESCO Global Geopark

Toratau UNESCO Global Geopark, in Bashkortostan, Russia, designated 2026 as Russia's second UGGp after Yangan-Tau; features the Toratau, Yuraktau, and Kushtau shikhans, remnants of a 280-300-million-year-old barrier reef.

Torave Ramayana

Torave Ramayana (ತೊರವೆಯ ರಾಮಾಯಣ) is a sixteenth-century Kannada retelling of the Ramayana by Narahari of Torave, the epic's most widely circulated Kannada version and a principal text of Karnataka's gamaka recitation tradition.

Toray Industries

Toray Industries, Inc. (東レ株式会社) is a Japanese advanced-materials company founded in 1926, the world's leading carbon fiber maker and sole supplier of airframe structural material for the Boeing 787.

Torben C. Rick

Torben C. Rick is an American archaeologist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Torben Daeneke

Torben Daeneke is an Australian inorganic chemist at RMIT University in Melbourne who leads the Liquid Metal Research Group, working on liquid metal catalysis and two-dimensional materials.

Torben G. Andersen

Torben G. Andersen is a financial econometrician, the Sharp Professor of Finance at Northwestern's Kellogg School since 1991, best known for making daily volatility observable through realized volatility.

Torben Grael

Torben Schmidt Grael, Brazilian sailor born 1960 in São Paulo, first sailor with five Olympic medals (2 gold, Star class with Marcelo Ferreira), 2008/09 Volvo Ocean Race winner, Luna Rossa tactician, brother of Lars, father of Martine.

Torben Heick Jensen

Torben Heick Jensen (born 1965) is a Danish molecular biologist and professor at Aarhus University, known for defining the NEXT and PAXT nuclear RNA decay pathways.

Torben Ulrich

Torben Ulrich (1928–2023), Danish tennis player, journalist, jazz musician, and visual artist; Danish-record 102 Davis Cup matches, 19 Danish titles, Wimbledon doubles semifinalist 1959; father of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.

Torbešija

Torbešija (Торбешија), also Torbesh region, is a region in North Macedonia named after the Torbeši, Macedonian-speaking Muslims; narrowly seven Skopje-area villages, broadly 40 municipalities in Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia.

Torbjörn Caspersson

Torbjörn Oskar Caspersson was a Swedish cytochemist and cytologist who used ultraviolet microscopy to measure nucleic acids in cells and developed Q-banding, making every human chromosome identifiable.

Torbjörn Tomson

Torbjörn Tomson is a Swedish neurologist and epileptologist, senior professor at Karolinska Institutet, who leads the EURAP pregnancy registry and studies SUDEP and antiepileptic drug safety in pregnancy.

Torc

Torc (also torque): a rigid, usually penannular metal neck ring with front terminals, worn from the European Middle Bronze Age through the Iron Age, especially by Celts; famous examples include the Snettisham Great Torc and the Ipswich Torcs.

Torc Robotics

Torc Robotics is an American autonomous vehicle company in Blacksburg, Virginia, founded in 2005, that develops Level 4 self-driving long-haul freight trucks and is owned by Daimler Truck.

Torch

A torch, called a flashlight in American and Canadian English, is a small handheld electric lamp powered by dry batteries, invented in the late 1890s.

Torch (machine learning)

Torch is an open-source machine learning library and scientific computing framework built on Lua, best known as Torch7; developed at Idiap, NEC Labs, and NYU, its design shaped PyTorch, which superseded it.