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Toronto Supra Portuguese Toronto Supra Portuguese are a Canadian soccer team, founded in 2001. The team is a member of the Canadian Soccer League, the highest professional soccer league in Canada, and play in the International Division.
Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra The Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra (TSYO) is a high-level orchestral training programme for talented musicians aged 22 and under. TSYO alumni are found in virtually every major performing organization in Canada, and many have embarked on successful solo and chamber music careers worldwide.
Toronto Thunderbirds The Toronto Thunderbirds were a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. They were a part of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League most recently, but were also members of the Metro Junior A Hockey League, Metro Junior B Hockey League, and Central Junior B Hockey League.
Toronto ThunderHawks The Toronto ThunderHawks were an indoor soccer team based in Mississauga, Ontario that competed in the defunct NPSL. The team began play in the 2000-2001 season, with home games taking place at the Hershey Centre.
Toronto Toros The Toronto Toros were an ice hockey team based out of Toronto that played in the World Hockey Association and were majority owned by John Frederick Bassett, with Steve Stavro as a minority shareholder. They played from 1973 to 1976.
Toronto Transhumanist Association The Toronto Transhumanist Association (TTA) is a nonprofit membership organization which works to promote discussion of the possibilities for radical improvement of human capacities using genetic, cybernetic and nano technologies. The TTA is the Toronto chapter of the World Transhumanist Association.
Toronto Transit Commission The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is a public transport authority that operates buses, streetcars, subways, and rapid transit lines in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The TTC operates 149 surface transit routes, of which 148 routes make 243 connections with a subway or rapid transit station during weekday rush hours.
Toronto Vegetarian Association The Toronto Vegetarian Association is a volunteer-driven, charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1945, its mission is "to inspire people to choose a healthier, greener, more peaceful lifestyle.
Toronto writers' centre The Toronto Writers’ Centre offers emerging and established writers the opportunity to concentrate on their craft in a quiet and professional environment. Spacious and centrally located it will also provide a creative hub for writers to network, share ideas and attend regularly programmed literary events.
Toronto Waterfront Marathon The Toronto Waterfront Marathon is an annual marathon held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in late September. The 2006 winner of the men's race was Kenyan Daniel Rono in a time of 2:10:15, while the women's race was won by Malgorzata Sobanska of Poland in a time of 2:34:31.
Toronto West Toronto West was a federal electoral district in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1925. This riding was created in 1903 when West Toronto riding was renamed, and reduced from electing two members of the House of Commons to one.
Toronto Xtreme The Toronto Xtreme are a Canadian rugby union team based in Toronto, Ontario. The team plays in the Rugby Canada Super League and draws most of its players from the Toronto Rugby Union, one of fourteen Rugby Unions that have rep teams in the RCSL.
Toronto Zoo The Toronto Zoo is a zoo located in the north eastern part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1974 as the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo and is owned by the City of Toronto; the word 'Metropolitan' was dropped from its name when the cities of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto were merged to form the present-day City of Toronto.
Toronto Zoo Domain Ride The Toronto Zoo Domain Ride (also known as the Canadian Domain Ride) was a monorail-style automated guideway transit (AGT) vehicle used to carry visitors between sections, or "domains", of the Toronto Zoo. It opened in 1976, and closed in 1994, after a train lost power and rolled backwards down the track into a second train, injuring about 30 people.
Toronto's 100 Years Toronto's 100 Years is a book by Jesse Edgar Middleton, published by Toronto's Centennial Committee in 1934. Set in a modern typeface, it contains 82 inside illustrations and numerous advertisements for Toronto businesses.
Toronto's name The name Toronto has a rich history which is distinct from the history of the eponymous Canadian city. Originally, the term referred to The Narrows, a channel of water through which Lake Simcoe discharges into Lake Couchiching.
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway The Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway (TH&B; AAR reporting mark THB) was a railway based in Hamilton that ran in Southern Ontario from 1894 to 1987. It never reached the other two cities in its name, although it did have branch lines extending to Dunnville and Port Maitland.
Toronto, New South Wales Toronto is a busy town within the city of Lake Macquarie, and a commercial hub for the sprawling suburbs on the western shore of the lake. It is about half an hour south by car from Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia.
Toronto—Danforth Toronto—Danforth (formerly Broadview—Greenwood) is a federal and provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. It lies to the east of downtown Toronto.
Toropets-Kholm Operation The Toropets-Kholm Operation was a military operation conducted south of Lake Ilmen by the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War, from 9 January to 6 February 1942. The operation contributed to the formation of the Kholm Pocket, the encirclement of the Wehrmacht's II.
Tororo Tororo is the chief town of the Tororo District in south eastern Uganda, lying near the Kenyan border. It is a junction of railway lines to Pakwach and Nairobi and to Kasese via Kampala, but all are currently closed to passengers.
Torp In Scandinavian languages torp means a living dwelling, such as hut, cottage, and often in rural countryside, a smallish, leased farm cultivated by the inhabitants of the hut, see crofter and villein; or, in placenames "hamlet", smaller group of houses than a full village.
Torp Court District Torp Court District, or Torps tingslag, was a district of Medelpad in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Torpedo A modern torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled explosive projectile weapon which is launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater toward a target and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. Torpedoes may be launched from submarines, surface ships, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, unmanned naval mines and naval fortresses.
Torpedo boat A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to launch torpedoes at larger surface ships. They were created to counter battleships and other large, slow and heavily armed ships by speed and agility.
Torpedo boat type 35 The Type 35 and Type 37 Torpedo boats were small destroyers or Flottentorpedoboot built for the Kriegsmarine between 1939 and 1942. They were designed to exploit a clause in the Washington Naval Treaty, which stipulated that ships under 600 tons standard displacement did not count towards limited tonnages.
Torpedo bomber A torpedo bomber is a bomber aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with torpedoes, but they could also carry out conventional bombings. Generally, they carried torpedoes designed for air launch, that were smaller and lighter than those used by submarines.
Torpedo Data Computer The Torpedo Data Computer (TDC) was an early electromechanical analog computer used for torpedo fire-control on American submarines during World War II (see Figure 1). Britain, Germany, and Japan also developed automated torpedo fire control equipment, but none were as advanced as US Navy's TDC.
Torpedo Juice Torpedo Juice is a term used to describe an alcoholic beverage in World War II which was made from the high grain alcohol fuel used in torpedo motors and cleaning alcohol. Poisons in these liquids were often passed through makeshift filters, often as simple as pouring it through a loaf of bread.
Torpedo ram A torpedo ram is a type of torpedo boat combining a ram with torpedo tubes. Incorporating design elements from the cruiser and the monitor, it was intended to provide small and inexpensive weapon systems for coastal defence and other littoral combat.
Torpedo sphere In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Torpedo Spheres were Imperial siege platforms built by the Loronar Corporation for the specific purpose of bringing down planetary shields. These ships were shaped like slightly flattened spheres (oblate spheroids), measuring 1,900 meters in diameter.
Torpedoboot Ausland The Torpedoboot Ausland (= "foreign torpedo boats") were small destroyers or large torpedo boats captured by Nazi Germany and incorporated into the Kriegsmarine. They were assigned a number beginning with TA
Torpenhow Hill Torpenhow Hill is a hill about 200 metres above sea level in Cumbria in north west England on the side of which the village of Torpenhow is situated, close to the A595 between Cockermouth and Carlisle. The hill is located at .
Torphichen Preceptory Torphichen Preceptory, is a church in the village of Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland. It comprises the remains of the Preceptory (headquarters) of the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland.
Torphins Torphins is a village located in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, about 20 miles west of Aberdeen. It is on the A980 road, about 6 miles north-west of Banchory, and was once served by the Great North of Scotland Railway.
Torpids Torpids is one of two bumping races held at Oxford University yearly, the other being Eights. Over 130 men's and women's crews race for their colleges in 6 men's divisions and 5 women's divisions; almost 1200 participants in total.
Torpoint Torpoint (Cornish: Penntorr) is a town in the far South East of Cornwall, United Kingdom, separated from the City of Plymouth by a stretch of water referred to as the Hamoaze, which itself is the mouth of the River Tamar. It is on the Rame Peninsula.
Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544:– April 25, 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (1580), in which he describes the imaginary combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem.
Torquato Tasso (opera) Torquato Tasso is a melodramma semiseria, or 'semi-serious' opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti and based on the life of the great poet Torquato Tasso. The Italian libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, who used a number of sources for his text, including works by Giovanni Rosini, Goethe, Goldoni, and Lord Byron as well as Tasso's actual poetry.
Torquay United F.C. Seasons This is a list of seasons played by Torquay United Football Club in English football, from 1927 (when Torquay United joined the Football League) to the present day. It details the club's achievements in major competitions, and the top scorers for each season.
Torque In physics, torque or often called in physics a moment can informally be thought of as "rotational force" or "angular force" which causes a change in rotational motion. This force is defined by linear force multiplied by a radius.
Torque Advanced Technology Formerly known as the Torque Shader Engine or TSE, Torque Game Engine Advanced is a video game engine being developed by GarageGames as the second version of the Torque Game Engine. Torque Game Engine Advanced is still under development.
Torque Game Builder Torque Game Builder, otherwise known as TGB, T2D, and Torque 2D is a game engine designed for 2D games based on the Torque Game Engine. The name was eventually changed to the Torque Game Builder when a graphical game builder was added on top of the software.
Torque Game Engine The Torque Game Engine, or TGE, is a modified version of a 3D computer game engine originally developed by Dynamix for the 2001 FPS Tribes 2. The Torque engine has since been available for license from GarageGames to independent and professional game developers.
Torque limiter A torque limiter is a mechanical overload protection device designed to protect mechanical equipment from damage. The torque limiter trips when an excessive torque load occurs and physically disconnects the drives and driven components almost instantaneously.
Torque sensor A torque sensor or torque transducer is a device for measuring the torque on a rotating system such as an engine crankshaft or a bicycle crank. Static torque is relatively easy to measure; dynamic torque is not, since it generally requires transfer of some effect (electric or magnetic) from the shaft being measured to a static system.
Torque steering Torque steering is an effect in front wheel drive cars caused by large amounts of torque and unequal length half shafts between the transaxle and wheelsTorque Steer affecting steering in such a way as to make the car pull to one side when accelerating. This either causes a tugging sensation in the steering wheel, or else the car veers from the intended path.
TorqueFlite TorqueFlite (also spelled Torqueflite) was the trademarked name of Chrysler Corporation's three-speed automatic transmission, which was introduced late in the 1956 model year. TorqueFlite was introduced on the heels of the company's two-speed PowerFlite automatic, which made its debut in 1954.
Torquemada (comics) Tomás de Torquemada is the main villain from the comic strip Nemesis the Warlock in British comic 2000 AD, who eventually got a number of spin-off adventures of his own. He is named after and inspired by the real life Tomás de Torquemada.
Torquetum The torquetum or turquet is a medieval astronomical instrument designed to take and convert measurements made in three sets of coordinates: Horizon, equatorial, and ecliptic. In a sense, the Torquetum is an analog computer.
Torrance High School Torrance High School in Torrance, California is one of the oldest high schools in continuous use in California and a popular location for television and motion picture production. Torrance High School's colors are maroon and gray.
Torrance, East Dunbartonshire Torrance is a village in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, located 7 miles NE of Glasgow. Home to around 1000 residents the town was once famous as a resting place for workers on their way to the Campsie Fells 4 miles North.
Torrazzo of Cremona The Torrazzo of Cremona (Lombardy, Italy) is the bell tower of the Cathedral of Cremona. At 111 metres, it is the second highest bell tower in the world built in red bricks, the first being the Bavarian Landshut Cathedral tower (1432.
Torre de Collserola Torre de Collserola (or Torre Foster) is a uniquely designed tower located on the Tibidabo hill in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by architect Lord Norman Foster, and built in 1992 for the 1992 Olympic Games.
Torre de Madrid The Torre de Madrid is one of the tallest skyscrapers of Madrid (Spain), 142 meters high and 36 floors over ground. It was built in 1957, and is located in the Plaza de España (Spain square), being an emblematic building for the square and for the city itself.
Torre del Oro The Torre del Oro (Spanish for "Gold Tower") is a military watchtower built in Seville, Spain during the Almohad dynasty in order to control access to the city via the Guadalquivir river. The tower was built as part of the defensive works running from the Alcázar to the river.
Torre Espacial Torre Espacial or Torre Interama is a 228 metre high observation tower at Buenos Aires, Argentina. The tower was built in 1980 in the Parque de la ciudad entertainment park, and has observation decks at 220, 124 and 185 metres of height.
Torre Jaume I Torre Jaume I is a 107 meter (351 feet) high steel truss tower in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, which was built in 1931 by Carlos Boigas. The tower is the second-tallest aerial tramway support pillar in the world, and is a part of the aerial tramway from Torre Sant Sebastia to MontjuĂŻc.
Torre La Mata Torre La Mata or simply La Mata is a small town located 5km northeast of Torrevieja along the Costa Blanca, in the province of Alicante in southeast Spain. The town is often regarded as a dormitory suburb of Torrevieja.
Torre Latinoamericana The Torre Latinoamericana (literally, "Latin American Tower") is a building in downtown Mexico City, Mexico. Its central location, height (182 m or 597 ft; 44 stories), and history make it one of Mexico City's most important landmarks.
Torre Mayor The Torre Mayor is a skyscraper in Mexico City, Mexico. With a height of 225 meters (740 feet) to the top floor, 230 meters (755 feet) to the pinnacle, and 55 stories, it is the tallest building in Latin America, surpassing in mid-2003 the 220 meter (724 feet) high towers of Parque Central Complex, in Caracas, Venezuela, which were, between 1979 and 2003, the tallest buildings in Latin America.
Torre Picasso Torre Picasso (Picasso Tower) is a skyscraper located in Madrid, Spain, on Pablo Picasso Square, within the business and commercial complex AZCA next to Paseo de la Castellana, in the financial district of the Spanish capital. It was designed by the American architect of Japanese origin Minoru Yamasaki (who also designed the destroyed World Trade Center in New York).
Torre, Switzerland Torre is a municipality in the district of Blenio, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. On 25 January 2005, the cantonal authorities announced that Torre would merge with Aquila, Campo Blenio, Ghirone and Olivone to form a new municipality to be called Blenio.
Torreciudad Torreciudad is the name of a Marian shrine in Aragon, Spain, built by Saint Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, and consecrated on July 7, 1975, under the title of Our Lady of Torreciudad. Devotion to Mary under the title of Virgin of Torreciudad is said to date back to the eleventh century.
Torrens Linear Park The Torrens Linear Park was completed in 1997 as the first of its kind developed in Australia where it is the largest hills-to-coast park. It began as a flood mitigation scheme along the River Torrens running from the Adelaide Hills to the sea.
Torrens title Torrens title is a system of land title where a register of land holdings maintained by the state guarantees indefeasible title to those included in the register. The system was formulated to combat the problems of uncertainty, complexity and cost associated with old system title, which depends on proof of an unbroken chain of title back to a good root of title.
Torrens Transit Torrens Transit is a privately-owned public transport company which operates a bus service in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is part of Transit Systems Australia, which also operates Swan Transit.
Torrent Bay Torrent Bay is a bay in Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand. It was named by French explorer Dumont D'Urville during his exploration and mapping of this area of New Zealand in 1827, Torrent Bay was surveyed as a village in the 1920s.
Torrent episode downloader The torrent episode downloader (ted) is an open source java program that automatically downloads torrents of new television shows episodes that become available online. Ted contains built-in support for many mainstream shows.
Torrent fish The torrent fish, Cheimarrichthys fosteri, is the only member of the genus Cheimarrichthys which in turn is the only member of the family Cheimarrichthyidae. It is found only in New Zealand, in stony rivers and streams all around the North and South Islands.
Torrent salamander The torrent salamanders or Cascade salamanders are a family (Rhyacotritonidae) with only one genus (Rhyacotriton) of salamanders. Originally the genus Rhyacotriton was placed in the family Ambystomatidae, later in the family Dicamptodontidae, and finally in 1992 it was placed into a family of its own.
Torrent, Valencia Torrent is a municipality located within the metropolitan area of the city of Valencia (capital of both the province and autonomous community of Valencia, Spain). It is the second-largest municipality of the Horta Oest district, with approximately 72,660 inhabitants (2005 figures).
Torrents of Spring Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents, was a short story written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties. The story is about a young 23 year old Russian landowner named Dimitry Sanin who fell deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt.
TorrentSpy TorrentSpy is a popular BitTorrent indexing Web Site. It hosts torrent files (which are tracked externally) and provides a forum to comment on them, as well as a graphical portrayal of how "healthy" the torrents are.
Torrenza Torrenza is a technology developed by AMD that paves the way for specialised coprocessors to run in spare CPU sockets on multiway CPU systems. The technology is said by AMD to be available for next generation Opterons.
Torres (board game) Torres is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 1999 by FX Schmid in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. The game strongly influenced Kramer and Kiesling's Mask Trilogy of games, but is not considered to be a part of the trilogy.
Torres de Satélite The Torres de Satélite ("Satélite Towers") are located in Ciudad Satélite ("Satellite City"), a middle class and high class residential zone, in the northern part of Naucalpan, Mexico. One of the country's first urban sculptures of great dimensions, had its planning started in 1957 with the ideas of renowned Mexican architect Luis Barragán, painter Jesús Reyes Ferreira and sculpturer Mathias Goeritz.
Torres Del RĂ­o Torres del RĂ­o is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. Known for its Templar round Romanesque church, formally related to those of Segovia (la Veracruz) and Eunate
Torres Islands The Torres Islands are in the Torba Province of Vanuatu, the northernmost island group in the country. The chain of islands that make up this micro-archipelago straddle the broader cultural boundary that distinguishes Island Melanesia from several Polynesian outliers located in the neighbouring Solomon Islands.
Torres Shire Council Torres Shire Council is a Local Government Area in Far North Queensland, Australia. The shire covers the tip of Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait Islands and is the northernmost Local government area in Australia.
Torres Strait Creole Torres Strait Creole (also Torres Strait Pidgin, Torres Strait Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole) is a creole language spoken on several Torres Strait Islands (Queensland, Australia). It has approximately 25 000 mother-tongue speakers and several second-language speakers.
Torres Strait Island languages There are two languages indigenous to Torres Strait Islanders. The language of the western and central islands of Torres Strait is related to languages of the Australian mainland and is a member of the Pama-Nyungan family of languages, which covers most of Australia.
Torres Strait Islander Flag The Torres Strait Islander flag is an official Flag of Australia, and is the flag that represents Torres Strait Islander people. It was designed in 1992 by Bernard Namok, who was at the time a 15-year-old school student from Thursday Island.
Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion The Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion was an Australian infantry battalion of World War II. The Battalion was unique in that almost all of its enlisted men were Torres Strait Islanders, making the Battalion the only Indigenous Australian Battalion ever formed by the Australian Army.
Torresdale, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Torresdale, also formerly known as Torrisdale, is a neighborhood in the Far Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Torresdale is located along the Delaware River between Holmesburg and Bensalem Township in neighboring Bucks County.
Torresian Crow The Torresian Crow (Corvus orru), also occasionally called the Australian Crow, is about the same size (50-55 cm in length) as the Eurasian Carrion Crow but with a more robust bill and slightly longer legs. It has the typical white iris of the other Australasian Corvus species but can be distinguished from most (except the Little Crow) by the base of the head and neck feathers being snow white (revealed when blown by a strong wind).
Torrey Pine The Torrey Pine (Pinus torreyana), also called "Del Mar Pine" and "Soledad Pine", is a broad, open-crowned pine growing to 8-15 m tall, with 20-35 cm long leaves ('needles') in groups of five. The cones are stout and heavy, typically 8-15 cm long and broad, and contain large, hard-shelled, but edible, pine nuts.
Torrey Pines Golf Course Torrey Pines Golf Course is a municipal public golf course owned by the city of San Diego, California. It sits on the coastal cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the community of La Jolla south of Torrey Pines State Reserve.
Torrey Pines State Beach Torrey Pines State Beach is a coastal beach located in the San Diego, California community of La Jolla, California south of Del Mar and north of Black's Beach. Coastal erosion from the adjacent Torrey Pines State Reserve makes for a picturesque landscape.
Torrey Pines State Reserve Torrey Pines State Reserve is located within San Diego, California city limits and yet remains one of the wildest stretches of land on the Southern California coast. Two thousand acres (8 km²) of land are as they were before San Diego was developed—with the chaparral plant community, the rare Torrey Pine trees, miles of unspoiled beaches, and a lagoon that is vital to migrating seabirds.
Torreya Torreya is a genus of conifers comprising of five or six species, treated in either the Cephalotaxaceae, or in the Taxaceae when that family is considered in a broad sense. Four are native to eastern Asia, the other two native to North America.
Torreya californica Torreya californica is species of conifer endemic to California, occurring in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It is commonly known as California Torreya or California Nutmeg (although not closely related to true nutmeg).
Torri Higginson Torri Higginson is a Canadian actress. She was born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, on December 6, 1969 and is most well-known for her roles in the TekWar movies and series, The English Patient and Stargate Atlantis.
Torri Superiore The medieval village of Torri Superiore (XIII century) has been described as "a little jewel of popular architecture." It is located in the Liguria in Italy, near Ventimiglia (county of Imperia), a few kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea and the French border.
Torricelli languages The Torricelli languages are a relatively young language family of about fifty languages of the northern Papua New Guinea coast, spoken by only about 80 000 people in all. The most populous and best known Torricelli languages are the Arapesh, with about 30 000 speakers.
Torricelli's Law Torricelli's Law states that the speed of a fluid flowing out of an opening under the force of gravity is proportional to the square root of the product of twice the acceleration of the gravity multiplied by the height h, the distance between the level of the surface and the center of the opening:
Torridon Torridon (Scottish Gaelic: Toirbheartan) is a small village in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. However the name is also applied to the area surrounding the village, particularly the Torridon Hills, mountains to the north of Glen Torridon.
Torridonian In geology, Torridonian describes a series of proterozoic arenaceous sedimentary rocks, extensively developed in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, and particularly in the district of upper Loch Torridon, a circumstance which suggested the name Torridon Sandstone, first applied to these rocks by James Nicol.
Torrie Robertson Torrie Andrew Robertson (born August 2, 1961 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a retired Canadian hockey player who played for the Washington Capitals, Hartford Whalers and Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League.
Torrie Wilson Torrie Anne Wilson (born July 24, 1975), better known by the ring name Torrie Wilson is an American professional wrestler, fitness competitor and model currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment under the RAW brand.

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