A Tocsin is an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells. It may refer to:
Cold War
*TOCSIN, the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the
Bomb Power Indicator after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War
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Tocsin Bang
Atomic Weapons Detection Recognition and Estimation of Yield known by the acronym AWDREY was a desk-mounted automatic detection instrument, located at 12 of the 25 Royal Observer Corps (ROC) controls, across the United Kingdom, during the Cold Wa ...
, 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
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Exercise Tocsin Exercise Tocsin was an emergency preparedness drill held by the Government of Canada on November 13, 1961 that simulated a nuclear attack by the USSR on Canada. Every law enforcement agency, provincial, and municipal government took part in the exe ...
, a name for the nuclear attack simulation performed by the Government of Canada
*TOCSIN, a Harvard undergraduate group against nuclear weapons, led by
Todd Gitlin
Music
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''Tocsin'' (album), a 1984 album by goth rock band Xmal Deutschland
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''Tocsin'' (Year of No Light album), a 2013 album by French shoegaze band
Year of No Light
*the fourth and final movement of the
Symphony No. 11 (1957) by Dmitri Shostakovich
Newspapers
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The Tocsin
''The Tocsin'' (often referred to only as ''Tocsin'') was an Australian socialist newspaper, published from 1897 to 1906. It was co-founded by several prominent political figures, including Edward Findley, John Percy Jones and Bernard O'Dowd. J ...
'', an early Australian socialist newspaper
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''Tocsin'' (newspaper), a newspaper from Red Bluff, California; see
California Digital Newspaper Collection
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Marin County Tocsin
Marin (French) or Marín (Spanish "sailor") may refer to:
People
* Marin (name), including a list of persons with the given name or surname
* MaRin, in-game name of professional South Korean ''League of Legends'' player Jang Gyeong-hwan (born 199 ...
'', a newspaper from Marin County, California; see
California Digital Newspaper Collection
*''Tehama Tocsin'', an early name of the ''
Chico Enterprise-Record
The ''Chico Enterprise-Record'' is the daily newspaper of Chico, California. Also known as the E-R, the newspaper was first published in Bidwell Bar, California as the Butte Record in 1853 and is now part of the MediaNews Group corporation, who ...
'' newspaper in Tehama, California
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Tocsin News
''The Enterprise-Tocsin'' is a newspaper in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The newspaper offices are in Indianola. The newspaper is distributed in Sunflower County
Sunflower County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of th ...
'', or ''The Enterprise-Tocsin'', a newspaper in Mississippi
*'' The Tocsin of Liberty'', an anti-slavery newspaper from the US Liberty Party; see
Alexander Wilkie
Other
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Tocsin, Indiana
Tocsin is an unincorporated community in Lancaster Township, Wells County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is on the border with Jefferson Township.
History
Tocsin was plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, ...
, a small town in the United States
*"The Tocsin", a poem by
John Pierpont
See also
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