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Their Finest

Their Finest (2016) is Lone Scherfig's romantic wartime drama adapted from Lissa Evans's novel Their Finest Hour and a Half, starring Gemma Arterton as a Ministry of Information "slop" scriptwriter making a Dunkirk propaganda film in the Blitz.

Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)

Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) is the Eagles' February 17, 1976 Asylum compilation of ten early songs. First RIAA Platinum album and, since January 2026, the first Quadruple Diamond album and the best-selling album in US history.

Their Satanic Majesties Request

Their Satanic Majesties Request: the Rolling Stones' December 1967 psychedelic album, their first self-produced record, with the lenticular Michael Cooper cover, reaching No. 3 UK and No. 2 US.

Theism

Theism is belief in one or more personal gods, typically conceived as creating and sustaining the world; the term is often used synonymously with monotheism, though its generic sense is broader.

Theistic evolution

Theistic evolution, also called evolutionary creation, is the view that God creates through the laws of nature while accepting modern evolutionary science; associated with BioLogos, Francis Collins, and Catholic teaching on evolution.

Theistic Satanism

Theistic Satanism, or religious Satanism, is a religion whose adherents regard Satan as a real supernatural being, unlike atheistic LaVeyan Satanism; scholars date organized Satanism to about 1900.

THEKER (Theker Robotics)

THEKER, also called Theker Robotics, is a Barcelona-based AI robotics startup founded in 2021 by Carla Gómez Cano and Jiaqiang Ye Zhu that builds reconfigurable robots for industrial automation.

Thekkady

Thekkady (Thekkadi), a hill station in Idukki district, Kerala, India, at 900–1800 m on the Tamil Nadu border, is the gateway to Periyar Tiger Reserve, known for Periyar Lake boat safaris, bamboo rafting, and community-based ecotourism.

Thekku Vadakku (തെക്ക് വടക്ക്)

Thekku Vadakku (തെക്ക് വടക്ക്) is a 2024 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by Prem Shankar, starring Vinayakan and Suraj Venjaramoodu as feuding landowners, adapted from S Hareesh's story Rathri Kaaval, released 4 October 2024.

Thekla Reuten

Thekla Reuten (Thekla Simona Gelsomina Reuten), Dutch actress born 1975 in Bussum, starred in Oscar-nominated Twin Sisters and Everybody's Famous!, won Golden Calves for Narcosis and Voor de Meisjes, and played Jillian Salvius in Warrior Nun.

Thelarche

Thelarche is the onset of breast development in girls, the first clinical sign of puberty (Tanner B2), typically at 9-10 years, declining about 3 months per decade since 1977.

Thelema

Thelema (Θέλημα, Greek for "will") is a religion founded by the British occultist Aleister Crowley, centered on The Book of the Law, dictated in Cairo in 1904.

Thelephora

Thelephora is a genus of about 50 cosmopolitan ectomycorrhizal Basidiomycota fungi in Thelephoraceae (Thelephorales), type species Thelephora terrestris; leathery basidiocarps, tuberculate spores, common forest-nursery colonizer, some species edible, closely intermixed with Tomentella in phylogenies.

Thelephorales

Thelephorales (Corner ex Oberw.) is an order of Basidiomycota fungi with poroid, toothed, and corticioid fruiting bodies, mostly ectomycorrhizal; two families, Thelephoraceae and Bankeraceae, 21 genera, over 490 species; thelephoric acid stains greenish in KOH.

Thelepte

Thelepte (تلابت), Roman and Byzantine city in Africa Byzacena at Medinet el-Kedima near Fériana, Tunisia; Trajanic colony, road junction, Justinianic fortress, bishopric, and birthplace of Fulgentius of Ruspe.

Thelma (2017 film)

Thelma is a 2017 Norwegian supernatural thriller by Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, starring Eili Harboe as a religious Oslo student whose seizures express psychokinetic powers; Norway's 2018 Oscar entry, not nominated.

Thelma (2024 film)

Thelma (2024) is Josh Margolin's action-comedy debut, also his grandmother's name, starring June Squibb, 94, in her first lead role as a scammed grandmother chasing $10,000 across Los Angeles with Richard Roundtree; Sundance premiere, Magnolia release June 21, 2024.

Thelma & Louise

Thelma & Louise (1991) is Ridley Scott's feminist road film, written by Callie Khouri, starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon as fugitives in a 1966 Thunderbird; it earned six Oscar nominations and won Best Original Screenplay.

Thelma Aoyama

Thelma Aoyama (青山テルマ) is a Japanese R&B and pop singer whose 2008 song "Soba ni Iru ne" was the first to sell 2 million mobile downloads.

Thelma Barlow

Thelma Barlow (née Pigott, born 19 June 1929) is an English actress known as Mavis Riley/Wilton on Coronation Street (1971–1997, nearly 2,000 episodes) and Dolly in dinnerladies (1998–2000), later in Mrs Henderson Presents and Sleepless in Settle.

Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness

Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (Thelma Morgan, 1904-1970), American-born society figure, twin of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, wife of the 1st Viscount Furness, and mistress of Edward VIII before Wallis Simpson.

Thelma Hopkins

Thelma Elizabeth Hopkins (1936–2025), Northern Irish high jumper and hockey forward; Olympic silver Melbourne 1956, European gold 1954, world high jump record 1.74 m in 1956, 40 Ireland hockey caps.

Thelma Houston

Thelma Houston (born Thelma Jackson, 1946) is an American R&B and disco singer whose 1977 hit "Don't Leave Me This Way" topped pop, R&B, and dance charts and won her a Motown-first Grammy.

Thelma Kalama

Thelma Kalama (Thelma Hildegard Kalama-Aiu, "Keko"), 1931–1999, Honolulu swimmer; first Native Hawaiian woman Olympian; won 1948 gold in the 4×100 m freestyle relay as second leg.

Thelma Ritter

Thelma Ritter was an American character actress known for her sardonic Brooklyn delivery, earning a record six Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations between 1950 and 1962.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Thelma Schoonmaker, born January 3, 1940, in Algiers, is an American film editor who has cut every Martin Scorsese feature since Raging Bull (1980), winning three editing Oscars.

Thelma the Unicorn

Thelma the Unicorn is a 2024 Netflix animated musical comedy directed by Jared Hess and Lynn Wang, adapted from Aaron Blabey's 2015 picture book, voiced by Brittany Howard, released May 17, 2024, with a 60% Tomatometer and 10.7 million peak weekly views.

Thelma Todd

Thelma Todd, "The Ice Cream Blonde" or "Hot Toddy," was an American actress (born July 29, 1905 or 1906, Lawrence, Massachusetts) in about 120 films, 1926-1935; Hal Roach comedy shorts with ZaSu Pitts and Patsy Kelly, Marx Brothers features, Sidewalk Café owner, died 1935 of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Thelon

Thelon River (Kangirjuak; Thílo Dëzé), 940 km river in NWT and Nunavut, largest in Canada flowing into Hudson Bay; 545 km Canadian Heritage River through the 1927 Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary, a muskox and caribou oasis.

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982), American jazz pianist and composer, house pianist at Minton's Playhouse and a founder of bebop; known for angular, dissonant stride-rooted style, standards like 'Round Midnight, a six-year cabaret card ban, the 1957 Five Spot with Coltrane, and a 2006 posthumous Pulitzer Special Citation.