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Tourniquet

A tourniquet is a medical device that squeezes a limb to stop blood flow, used in surgery for a bloodless field and in emergencies to control severe bleeding.

Touro Synagogue

Touro Synagogue (Newport, Rhode Island), oldest synagogue building in the United States, built 1759–1763, designed by Peter Harrison, dedicated December 2, 1763, National Historic Site since 1946, tied to Washington's 1790 religious-freedom letter.

Tours

Tours, prefecture of Indre-et-Loire in the Loire Valley, France; ancient Caesarodunum, city of Saint Martin and Louis XI. 139,259 inhabitants (2023), seat of Tours Métropole Val de Loire.

Toussaint Charbonneau

Toussaint Charbonneau (1767, Boucherville, Quebec – died 1839–1843) was a French-Canadian fur trader and Indian interpreter, husband of Sacagawea, hired by Lewis and Clark in 1804 and later a US Indian Bureau interpreter.

Toussaint Louverture

Toussaint Louverture (Toussaint Bréda, c. 1743–1803), Haitian Revolution leader: enslaved at Bréda, freed 1776, Spanish then French general, governor for life under his 1801 constitution, arrested by Leclerc in 1802, died at Fort de Joux.

Toussaint Louverture's invasion of Spanish Santo Domingo

Toussaint Louverture's invasion of Spanish Santo Domingo (Invasion de Santo Domingo par Toussaint Louverture) was his occupation of eastern Hispaniola in January 1801, ending with Captain General Joaquín García's capitulation.

Toussaint Rouge

Toussaint Rouge, French for Red All Saints' Day, was a series of coordinated FLN attacks across Algeria on 1 November 1954 that began the eight-year Algerian War.

Tousside, Tarso

Tarso Toussidé (Tousside, Tarso), a 6,000 km² volcanic massif in western Tibesti, Chad, capped by the 3,265 m Toussidé stratovolcano; no Holocene eruptions, but fumaroles, young lava flows, and satellite-detected subsidence show residual activity.

Tout va bien

Tout va bien ("Everything's All Right") is a 1972 French-Italian political film by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand as a couple sequestered during a sausage-factory strike, a post-1968 class-struggle critique.

Toutankhamon

Toutankhamon is a Jumbo family board game (French release 2004, 2–6 players, age 8+) mixing memory and push-your-luck: players dig a self-built 96-tile pyramid with a suction-cup shovel, avoiding traps. Distinct from Knizia's Tutanchamun and the 1985 Thomson video game.

Toutiao

Toutiao, also known as Jinri Toutiao (今日头条, "Today's Headlines"), is a Chinese news aggregation app launched by ByteDance in 2012, whose fully algorithmic personalization reshaped Chinese news distribution.

Touxia (Appanage) Households

Touxia (投下戶) households were populations assigned as private appanages to Yuan princes, princesses, and consort families, divided into grassland ulus, five-household-silk fief, and private dependent households.

Touxia (princely appanages)

Touxia (投下) was the Yuan-dynasty term for the appanages of princes, princesses, and imperial sons-in-law, territories with assigned households whose five-household silk income the grantee drew while nominating officials.

Tovah Feldshuh

Tovah Feldshuh (Terri Sue Feldshuh) is an American actress and playwright, a five-decade Broadway star known for Yentl, her Tony-nominated Golda Meir in Golda's Balcony, The Walking Dead, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the 2022 Funny Girl revival.

Tovar Codex

The Tovar Codex, or Ramírez Codex, is a sixteenth-century Mexican manuscript by the Jesuit Juan de Tovar narrating Mexica history to the fall of Tenochtitlan, held at the John Carter Brown Library.

Tovata

Tovata is one of the three traditional chiefly confederacies of Fiji, covering the Lau Islands and northern Vanua Levu, founded in 1867 under the Tongan chief Ma'afu.

Tove Alexandersson

Tove Alexandersson (born 1992), Swedish orienteer from Stora Tuna OK, Borlänge; world champion in foot orienteering, ski orienteering, skyrunning, and ski mountaineering, with 23 WOC golds and nine World Cup titles.

Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen (1917–1976) was a Danish poet, novelist, and memoirist from working-class Copenhagen, one of the most widely read Danish authors of the twentieth century, known for The Copenhagen Trilogy.

Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson (1914–2001), full name Tove Marika Jansson, was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, and comic strip author best known as the creator of the Moomins.

Tove Lo

Tove Lo (Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, born 1987, Stockholm) is a Swedish electropop singer-songwriter; breakthrough hit "Habits (Stay High)" peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100; albums include Queen of the Clouds and Dirt Femme.

Tovino Thomas (ടോവിനോ തോമസ്)

Tovino Thomas (ടോവിനോ തോമസ്), born 1989 in Irinjalakkuda, is a Malayalam cinema actor and producer. Debut Prabhuvinte Makkal (2012); breakthrough villain in ABCD (2013); 50th film A.R.M (2024); known for Minnal Murali, Thallumaala, and 2018.

Tovmas Nazarbekian

Tovmas Nazarbekian (Թովմաս Նազարբեկյան), born Tovmas Hovhannes Nazarbekyan, was an Armenian lieutenant-general who served in the Russian army and commanded the First Republic of Armenia's forces from 1918 to 1920.

Tovorafenib

Tovorafenib (OJEMDA, formerly DAY101/TAK-580/MLN2480) is an oral, CNS-penetrant type II pan-RAF kinase inhibitor approved by FDA in April 2024 for relapsed/refractory pediatric low-grade glioma with BRAF fusion/rearrangement or V600 mutation, dosed once weekly.

Tow hitch

A tow hitch, also called a tow bar or trailer hitch, is the mechanical coupling connecting a trailer to a towing vehicle, from bumper receivers to fifth-wheel couplings.

Tow truck

A tow truck, also called a wrecker or breakdown truck, lifts, tows, or carries disabled or illegally parked vehicles; Ernest Holmes of Chattanooga built the first from a 1913 Cadillac.

Towa Bird

Towa Bird (Victoria Vergara-Bird, born 1999, Hong Kong) is a British-Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist on Interscope, known for TikTok guitar covers and the albums American Hero (2024) and Gentleman (2026).

Toward the Abyss

Toward the Abyss (Към пропаст) is a five-act historical drama by the Bulgarian writer Ivan Vazov, drawn from his novella about Tsar Ivan Alexander and written around 1910.

Toward Zero Deaths

Toward Zero Deaths is a national highway safety strategy in the United States that aims to eliminate roadway deaths and serious injuries, on the premise that even one death is unacceptable.

Towards a New Architecture

Towards a New Architecture is the standard English title of Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier's 1923 book calling for an architecture based on industry, mass production, and geometric form.

Towards Sustainable Mining

Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) is a sustainability standard operated by the Mining Association of Canada since 2004, requiring member companies to measure, report, and verify their environmental and social performance.