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unusual facts about Toby


Roots: The Gift

Following a brief introduction by Alex Haley, the film opens with a replay of a memorable scene from the second episode of the original Roots miniseries: Following the first of many unsuccessful escape attempts, a prideful Kunta is publicly and mercilessly whipped until he agrees to assume the English name "Toby", which was selected for him by his new owner.


1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

With Toby Harrah injured, the Texas Rangers did not have an active player on the AL squad in their first season in Arlington, Texas.

1991 Australian Indoor Championships

The 1991 Australian Indoor Championships, also kown by its sponsored name Uncle Toby's Australian Indoor Tennis Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney in Australia and was part of the Championship Series of the 1991 ATP Tour.

A316 road

On 6 October 1997, the A316 in Hanworth was the scene of one of the earliest recorded road rage incidents in Britain when Toby Exley, a chef from Teddington, and his partner Karen Martin, from Twickenham, both died when their car, a Ford Fiesta, collided with the central reservation after being hit by a speeding Vauxhall Senator which drove away.

Ainsley Howard

Ainsley Howard is a British actress probably best known for her roles as Birdie in the 2008 film Mum & Dad in which she co-starred alongside Perry Benson, Dido Miles and Toby Alexander and Mount Pleasant as Denise.

Blue Orchids

Phillip Toby Toman, an ex-member of The Durutti Column, joined on drums when Ian Rogers left the group after the Echo & the Bunnymen tour (he later went on to play for Primal Scream under the name Toby Tomanov).

C. R. M. F. Cruttwell

Thus, in Decline and Fall (1928) "Toby Cruttwell" is a psychopathic burglar; in Vile Bodies (1930) the name belongs to a snobbish Conservative MP.

Charles Proctor Sifton

He is survived by his son Sam Sifton, the national news editor of The New York Times, by his wife, the artist Susan Rowland; two other sons, Toby and John; and three grandchildren.

Christopher Glynn

He has subsequently performed as a piano accompanist with singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Claire Booth, Allan Clayton, Lucy Crowe, Sophie Daneman, Bernarda Fink, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jonas Kaufmann, Yvonne Kenny, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Bryn Terfel, Ailish Tynan, Roderick Williams and Catherine Wyn Rogers.

Dani's House

Toby (Harry Culverhouse) 2008, 2010 & 2012: Toby is a friend of Dani's that is shown to have low intelligence and an obsession with his hair, which he continuously spikes up with hair gel.

Don Gililland

:: Gary Slavo, Tom Wirtel, Bob Clull, Chris Witherspoon (trumpets), Don Jacoby (trumpet, leader), Dee Barton, William Barton, Loren Binford, Dave Wheeler (trombones), Al Beutler, John Giordano (alto sax), Jerry Keys (alto & bari sax), Bob Pierson, Don Melka (tenor sax), Keith Jarrett (piano), Don Gililland (guitar), Toby Guynn (bass), John Von Ohlen (drums)

Étienne Drapeau

Produced by Toby Gendron in collaboration with Rick Haworth, it contained 11 songs written by Drapeau himself, with three co-written with Roger Tabra and "Il rêvait" with Lynda Lemay.

Gem Souleyman

Before landing a role in Suzie Gold as Toby Gold, who was screen sister to the actress Summer Phoenix in 2004, Gem had an earlier role in 2001 in a film called Home Road Movies.

Honkytonk U

The beginning shows Toby Keith as a child working at his grandmother's nightclub, called Billie's night club in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1972.

Ian Messiter

They had two children; a daughter Susan, who owns a campsite in Wimblington, Cambridgeshire and a son, Malcolm Messiter, who is a world-renowned oboist, and four grandchildren; James, Toby and Emily Beaumont and Helen Messiter.

Jaron Lowenstein

The band is made out of Joe Firstman, Jaron Lowenstein, Jon Loyd, Johnny Gray, Parker Gins and Toby Weaver.

L.T.D.

Then they drove to New York City, in a car that they purchased together (a 1956 Chevy), and lived in the Hamilton Heights section of Harlem on 149th and Broadway, where Toby Wynn (baritone sax) joined them.

Ladi6

It was co-produced by Parks and Sebastian Weiss (a.k.a. DJ Sepalot) of the German hip hop group Blumentopf and features Myele Manzanza of Electric Wire Hustle, Toby Laing of Fat Freddy's Drop and German singer Esther Adams.

Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton

The airfield is also known as Munn Field in honor of Lieutenant General John C. "Toby" Munn, the first Marine Aviator to serve as the Commanding General of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Mother Shipton's Cave

Nearby is a petrifying well which has been a tourist attraction since 1630 due to its association with the legendary soothsayer and prophetess Mother Shipton (c. 1488 - 1561), born Ursula Southeil, wife of Toby Shipton.

Mount Sims

It was produced by Thomas Stern of Crime & the City Solution and features guest appearances by Jessie Evans (formerly of Subtonix, Autonervous, and The Vanishing), Toby Dammit (Swans, The Residents, and Iggy Pop), and Bryan Black (Motor).

My List

Toby guest starred in a season eight episode of Touched by an Angel "Most Likely to Succeed", singing this song which originally aired on November 10, 2001.

Never Bet the Devil Your Head

"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" is the final segment (retitled "Toby Dammit") of the three-part Histoires extraordinaires (English title: Spirits of the Dead) (1968), directed by Federico Fellini.

Nightmare Hunters

Nightmare Hunters is an upcoming British children’s adventure film starring Aaron Swartz, Jonathan Hansler, Brenock O’Connor, Toby Murray and Julie Hoult.

Oliver Coleman

Coleman is notable for his portrayal of Toby in The Line of Beauty (2006) and of Henry Percy in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), along with cameo appearances in Primeval and Ashes to Ashes.

Outta Here

"Admit It" is the second single and was released on 4 September 2009 and was written/produced by Timberlake and Toby Gad.

Penet remailer

In August 1996, a major British newspaper, The Observer, published an article describing the Penet remailer as a major hub of child pornography, quoting a United States FBI investigator named Toby Tyler as saying that Penet was responsible for between 75% and 90% of the child pornography being distributed on the Internet.

Peter Henley

Peter is married to Samantha Reed, a counsellor, with three sons, Ben, Harry and Toby, and lives in the New Forest in Hampshire.

Robinson Crusoé

The cast included Roderick Kennedy (Sir William Crusoe), Enid Hartle (Lady Deborah Crusoe), Alan Opie (Jim Cocks), Wyndham Parfitt (Will Atkins), Yvonne Kenny (Edwige), John Brecknock (Robinson Crusoé), Marilyn Hill Smith (Suzanne), Alexander Oliver (Toby), and Sandra Browne (Man Friday).

Rod Hull

His son Toby brought Emu out of retirement for the first time since his father's death during the 2003 pantomime season, appearing in Cinderella at the Theatre Royal, Windsor.

Ronald Toby

As a university professor, Toby's teaching experience has included the University of California at Berkeley, Keio University and the University of Tokyo.

Santa Anita Park

At Santa Anita Park's European-style paddock there are statues of jockeys George Woolf, Johnny Longden, Bill Shoemaker and Laffit Pincay, Jr. plus a memorial bust of announcer Joe Hernandez and one of trainer Charlie Whittingham with his dog, Toby.

Stolen and missing moon rocks

In September 2009, while cooperating with a worldwide hunt for Moon rocks with Associated Press reporter Toby Sterling (Netherlands Bureau) and Cyprus Mail reporter Lucy Millett, the daughter of the British Ambassador to Cyprus, Gutheinz was advised by his friend and space memorabilia expert Robert Pearlman (CollectSpace.com) that Pearlman had learned in 2003 that the Cyprus Goodwill Moon Rock was never presented to Cyprus, but retained by the son of an American diplomat.

The Gingerbread Lady

Directed by Robert Moore the cast featured, in addition to Maureen Stapleton, Betsy von Furstenberg (Toby Landau) Michael Lombard, (Jimmy Perry) and Charles Siebert (Lou Tanner).

The Heartaches

As they gained popularity, they became part of WMCA disc jockeys Toby Clare and Jack Spector's record hop dances, opening for acts like The Broadways, The Duprees, The McCoys, Randy & the Rainbows, Ronnie and the Highlights, and Lenny Welsh.

The KangaZoo Club

Russel and Melissa took viewers on expeditions to Canadian zoos including the Toronto Zoo with Toby Styles, Marineland in Niagara Falls with Mark Shawver, and the African Lion Safari in Rockton with Ron Cameron, where they interviewed animal handlers to get answers to questions that the children might want to ask.

Timothy Britten Parker

Along with eleven other theatre artists, including his brother Pippin Parker, Toby co-founded Naked Angels Theater Company in New York City in 1986.

Toby Cockerell

Toby Cockerell (born 17 October 1976 in London) is an English actor who played the part of Scott Windsor in ITV's Emmerdale from 19931996.

Toby Goodshank

Toby Goodshank made his high-profile musical debut playing acoustic guitar in The Moldy Peaches.

Toby Hull

Toby Hull is the son of Rod Hull, a popular entertainer who appeared with an arm-length puppet known as Emu.

Toby L'Estrange

Toby L'Estrange (born September 2, 1988 in Berkely, California, United States) is a rugby union player who plays flyhalf for the United States national team.

Toby Mao

Tobias "Toby" Mao (born December 21, 1988) is one of the world's top competitive Rubik's Cube solvers.

Toby Martin

Toby Martin (born 5 August 1975), is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, academic, and lecturer at New York University Sydney.

Toby Radloff

Toby Radloff (born December 12, 1957) is a former file clerk who became a minor celebrity owing to his appearances in Cleveland writer Harvey Pekar's autobiographical comic book American Splendor.

Toby Rand

Toby William Lloyd Rand (born 21 December 1977, in Melbourne) is an Australian singer best known for being lead singer of rock band London Cries, formerly Juke Kartel, and his appearance on Rock Star: Supernova.

Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus

Toby Tyler is a "bad boy" novel, meant to teach a lesson what happens to boys who do bad things; other examples include George W. Peck's Peck's Bad Boy (1883), Thomas Bailey Aldrich's The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), and Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

Wendy Froud

Wendy Froud is married to, and often collaborates with, the English "fairy artist" Brian Froud, with whom she has a son Toby, a visual artist, performance artist and filmmaker.

White Crane Institute

Other volumes in the White Crane series include Mark Thompson's Gay Spirit: Myth & Meaning, Toby Johnson's Gay Spirituality, James Broughton's posthumous collection of writings under the title All edited by poet and KPFA radio host Jack Foley, and a reissue of Take Off The Masks by Malcolm Boyd.

Wicked Science

Bridget Neval as Elizabeth Hawke, Elizabeth was also involved in the accident that turned Toby into a genius.


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