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Toronto Star, The influential Canadian newspaper established in 1892 as the Evening Star by 25 printers who had lost their jobs in a labour dispute. A four-page paper at the outset, it changed hands several times until 1899, when a group of leading citizens bought the paper and Joseph E. Atkinson took over ... Toronto Stock Exchange the largest stock exchange in Canada and one of the largest in North America. It opened in 1861 with 18 stock listings and has since become an innovator in securities-trading technology. The Toronto Stock Exchange, which originally used the acronym TSE, was the first North American exchange to replace fractional ... Toronto Zoo zoological park in West Hill, Ontario, Canada, which ranks as one of the largest zoos in the world. The 287-hectare (710-acre) park was opened in 1974 by the municipality of Toronto and the Metropolitan Toronto Zoological Society. It replaced the overcrowded and outdated municipal Toronto Zoo at Riverdale. Originally called ... Toronto, Theatre's Third City: Year in Review 1995 By the 1990s Toronto had quietly become the third-largest theatre centre in the English-speaking world, after New York City and London. With a population approaching four million in the metropolitan area, Toronto had come to serve as host to a wide range of theatrical activity, from fringe festivals in the ... Toronto, University of coeducational institution of higher learning that is the provincial university of Ontario and one of the oldest and largest universities in Canada. It is composed of federated, affiliated, and constituent colleges, a union based originally on British models, and of faculties, schools, institutes, centres, and divisions, modeled more on American ... torpedo cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater missile, launched from a submarine, surface vessel, or airplane and designed for exploding upon contact with the hulls of surface vessels and submarines. A modern torpedo contains intricate devices to control its depth and direction according to a preset plan or in response to signals received from ... torpedo plane aircraft designed to launch torpedoes. In about 1910 the navies of several countries began to experiment with torpedo launching from low-flying aircraft, usually seaplanes. The first effective use of this technique occurred on Aug. 12, 1915, when a British Short Type 184 seaplane sank a Turkish vessel in the Dardanelles. ... torpor a state of lowered body temperature and metabolic activity assumed by many animals in response to adverse environmental conditions, especially cold and heat. The torpid state may last overnight, as in temperate-zone hummingbirds and some insects and reptiles; or it may last for months, in the case of true hibernation ... torque in jewelry, metal collar, neck ring, or armband consisting of a bar or ribbon of twisted metal curved into a loop, the ends of which are fashioned into knobs ornamented with motifs such as volutes or depicting animal heads, or drawn out and bent abruptly so as to hook into ... torque in physics, the tendency of a force to rotate the body to which it is applied. The torque, specified with regard to the axis of rotation, is equal to the magnitude of the component of the force vector lying in the plane perpendicular to the axis, multiplied by the shortest ... Torquemada fictional character, a miserly pawnbroker and usurer in a series of novels by Benito Perez Galdos. The series includes Torquemada en la hoguera (1889; "Torquemada at the Stake"), Torquemada en la cruz (1893; "Torquemada on the Cross"), Torquemada en el purgatorio (1894; "Torquemada in Purgatory"), and Torquemada y San Pedro ... Torquemada, Tomas de first grand inquisitor in Spain, whose name has become synonymous with the Christian Inquisition's horror, religious bigotry, and cruel fanaticism. Torrance county, central New Mexico, U.S. It lies in the Basin and Range Province, with the western portion including the Manzano Mountains, topped by Manzano Peak (10,098 feet [3,077 metres]). Most of Torrance county is an area of rolling plains interrupted by ridges, hills, and mesas and scarred by the dry ... Torrance city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. Located south of central Los Angeles along the Pacific Ocean, it lies in the South Bay area. Once part of Rancho San Pedro, a Spanish land grant of 1822, the city was founded in 1911 by Jared Sidney Torrance and promoted as a ... Torrance, Jack American world-record holder in the shot put (1934-48). Torre Annunziata city, Campania regione (region), southern Italy. It is a southeastern suburb of Naples on the Bay of Naples at the southern foot of Mount Vesuvius. The city was twice destroyed by the eruptions of Vesuvius (AD 79 and 1631). The site is archaeologically notable for the well-preserved paintings of its ... Torre del Greco city, western Campania regione (region), southern Italy. It lies at the southwestern foot of Mount Vesuvius. It is located on the Bay of Naples and is a southeastern suburb of Naples. Two-thirds destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, Torre del Greco was rebuilt on the solidified lava. It ... Torrelavega city, Cantabria provincia (province), in the Cantabria comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), northern Spain. It lies southwest of Santander city, at the confluence of the Besaya and Saja rivers. Founded in the 14th century, the city owes its name to the Garcilaso de la Vega family, notable in medieval times. The ... Torrence, Ridgely U.S. poet and playwright who wrote some of the first serious, accurate dramas of black life. Torrens, Lake salt lake, lying west of the Flinders Ranges, east-central South Australia, 215 miles (345 km) northwest of Adelaide. About 150 miles (240 km) long and 40 miles (65 km) wide, the salt lake has an area of 2,300 square miles (5,900 square km). Normally a mud flat, it may fill ... Torrens, Robert British economist, soldier, politician, and promoter of schemes for the colonization of Australia. Torrens, Sir Robert Richard Australian statesman who introduced a simplified system of transferring land, known as the Torrens Title system, which has been widely adopted throughout the world. Torrent city, east-central Valencia provincia (province), in Valencia comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), eastern Spain. It lies just southwest of Valencia city. In the city centre is the Torre de Malta (Maltese Tower), a castle of Moorish origin, from which the name Torrent is derived. In 1248 the city was given by ... torrent duck (species Merganetta armata), long-bodied duck, found along rushing mountain streams in the Andes. It is usually classified as an aberrant dabbling duck (q.v.) but is sometimes placed in its own tribe, the Merganettini, family Anatidae (order Anseriformes). The torrent duck clings to slippery stones with its stiff tail or dives ... Torrents of Spring novella by Ivan Turgenev, published in Russian as Veshniye vody in 1872. The book has also been translated as Spring Torrents and Spring Freshets. Torreon city, southwestern Coahuila estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It lies along the Nazas River at an elevation of 3,674 feet (1,120 metres). Torreon is one of northern Mexico's main centres for manufacturing, services, and commercial agriculture. Torres Bodet, Jaime Mexican poet, novelist, educator, and statesman. Torres Islands northernmost group of Vanuatu, southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 60 miles (100 km) north of Espiritu Santo. They extend for 35 miles (56 km) and comprise Hiu (Hiw), the largest at 10 miles (16 km) long by 2 miles (3 km) wide; Tegua; Linua; Loh; Metoma; and Toga. Hiu rises to ... Torres Naharro, Bartolome de playwright and theorist, the most important Spanish dramatist before Lope de Vega, and the first playwright to create realistic Spanish characters. Torres Quevedo, Leonardo Spanish engineer. In 1890 he introduced an electromagnetic device capable of playing a limited form of chess. Though it did not always play the best moves and sometimes took much longer than a competent human player to win, it demonstrated the capability of machines to be programmed to follow specified ... Torres Strait passage between the Coral Sea, on the east, and the Arafura Sea, in the western Pacific Ocean. To the north lies New Guinea and to the south Cape York Peninsula (Queensland, Australia). It is about 80 mi (130 km) wide and has many reefs and shoals dangerous to navigation, and ... Torres Strait Islands island group in the Torres Strait, north of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, south of the island of New Guinea. They comprise dozens of islands scattered over some 18,500 square miles (48,000 square km) of water and organized into four clusters: Top Western (low and alluvial, near New Guinea); Western ... Torres Villarroel, Diego de mathematician and writer, famous in his own time as the great maker of almanacs that delighted the Spanish public, now remembered for his Vida, picaresque memoirs that are among the best sources for information on life in 18th-century Spain. Torres, Jose Puerto Rican professional boxer, world light heavyweight (175 pounds) champion, 1965-66. Torres-Garcia, Joaquin Uruguayan painter who introduced Constructivism to South America. Torrey, Charles Cutler U.S. Semitic scholar who held independent and stimulating views on certain biblical problems. Torrey, John botanist and chemist known for his extensive studies of North American flora. Torreya a genus of approximately six species of ornamental trees and shrubs in the yew family (Taxaceae), distributed in localized areas of the western and southeastern United States, China, and Japan. Torreyas have persistent, linear, bristle-pointed leaves, arranged roughly in two rows, or ranks. The leaves are slightly convex and lustrous ... Torricelli's theorem statement that the speed, v, of a liquid flowing under the force of gravity out of an opening in a tank is proportional jointly to the square root of the vertical distance, h, between the liquid surface and the centre of the opening and to the square root of twice ... Torricelli, Evangelista Italian physicist and mathematician who invented the barometer and whose work in geometry aided in the eventual development of integral calculus. Inspired by Galileo's writings, he wrote a treatise on mechanics, De Motu ("Concerning Movement"), which impressed Galileo. In 1641 Torricelli was invited to Florence, where he served the elderly ... Torridge district in the northwestern part of the administrative and historic county of Devon, southwestern England, with its eastern boundary at the mouth of the River Torridge, the site of its main town, Bideford. Torridon, Loch Atlantic sea inlet, fed by the River Torridon, Highland region, Scotland, lying opposite the northeastern portion of the isle of Skye. The loch penetrates 13 miles (21 km) east-southeast inland and is divided into three separate reaches that are divided by narrow straits: Loch Torridon, Upper Loch Torridon, and Loch ... Torrigiani, Pietro Florentine sculptor and painter who became the first exponent of the Italian Renaissance idiom in England. Torrijos, Omar dictator-like leader of Panama (1968-78), who negotiated the Panama Canal treaties with the United States, leading to Panama's eventual assumption of control of the canal. Torrington city, coextensive with the town (township) of Torrington, Litchfield county, northwestern Connecticut, U.S., on the Naugatuck River. The town was named in 1732 for Great Torrington, England, but the area was not settled until 1737. The town was incorporated in 1740. The village went by several names including Mast Swamp ... Torrington town, seat (1913) of Goshen county, southeastern Wyoming, U.S., on the North Platte River, near the Nebraska border. The site, 23 miles (37 km) east of Fort Laramie National Historic Site, was on the Texas and Oregon trails and the Pony Express route. It was laid out in 1908 and ... Torrio, Johnny American gangster who became a top crime boss in Chicago and, later, one of the founders of modern organized crime in America. Torroja, Eduardo Spanish architect and engineer notable as a pioneer in the design of concrete-shell structures. Torshavn port and capital of the Faroe Islands, Denmark. It is situated at the southern tip of Streymoy (Streym), the largest of the Faroe Islands. Torshavn was founded in the 13th century, but it remained only a small village for several centuries thereafter. The ancient Lagting, or Faeroese parliament, used to ... torsion balance device used to measure the gravitational acceleration at the Earth's surface. Other such devices, using different methods to obtain the same result, are pendulums and gravimeters. The torsion balance consists essentially of two small masses at different elevations that are supported at opposite ends of a beam. The latter is ... torsion bar rod or bar that resists twisting and has a strong tendency to return to its original position when twisted. In automobiles a torsion bar is a long spring-steel element with one end held rigidly to the frame and the other end twisted by a lever connected to the axle. It ...