Tocsin (disambiguation)
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Tocsin may refer to:
- The tocsin, an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, especially with reference to France.
- "Tocsin", the title of a Socialist magazine published by Joseph Lee (poet)Joseph Lee (poet)Joseph Johnston Lee was a Scottish journalist, artist and poet, who chronicled life in the trenches and as a prisoner of war during World War I. He is also remembered for his fight with then poet laureate Robert Bridges over the literary value of Robert Burns' work...
in 1907 in Dundee, Scotland. - Tocsin (album)Tocsin (album)-Track listing:# "Mondlicht"# "Eiland"# "Reigen"# "Tag Für Tag"# "Augen-Blick"# "Begrab Mein Herz"# "Nachtschatten"# "Xmass in Australia"# "Derwisch"# "Incubus succubus II"# "Vito""Incubus succubus II" and "Vito" are not on the UK vinyl version....
, the second album of 1980s goth rock band Xmal Deutschland. - "Tocsin", the title of the final movement of Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)The Symphony No. 11 in G minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957...
. - Tocsin, IndianaTocsin, IndianaTocsin is an unincorporated town in Lancaster Township, Wells County, Indiana, USA....
, a small town in the United States - Tocsin, the title of a radical Australian newspaper published around the turn of the 19th century with a masthead designed by Norman LindsayNorman LindsayNorman Alfred William Lindsay was an Australian artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeler, and boxer. He was born in Creswick, Victoria....
. It was anti-Australian Federation. - Tocsin, the last name of one of the villains in the Bio of a Space TyrantBio of a Space TyrantBio of a Space Tyrant series is a six-book science-fiction series by Piers Anthony based within the solar system. The series revolves around the character Hope Hubris and his family, and charts Hope's ascent from poor Hispanic refugee to Tyrant of Jupiter, a single person heading the Executive,...
series of books by Piers Anthony. - Exercise TocsinExercise TocsinExercise Tocsin was an emergency preparedness drill by the Government of Canada that simulated a nuclear attack by the USSR on Canada. Every law enforcement agency, provincial, and municipal government took part in the exercise. Part of the exercise was a 13 minute radio program that was broadcast...
, name for the nuclear attack simulation performed by the Government of Canada - TOCSIN - the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the Bomb Power IndicatorBomb Power IndicatorBomb Power Indicator known by the acronym BPI was a detection instrument, located at the twenty five British Royal Observer Corps controls and nearly 1,000 ROC underground monitoring posts, across the United Kingdom, during the Cold War that would have detected any nuclear explosions and measured...
after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War. - Tocsin Bang - the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the AWDREY instrument after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War.