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Thuận An
Thuận An (Thuận An) is a name shared by several Vietnamese places: a former provincial city of Bình Dương (city 2020, 83.71 km², over 508,000 people, VSIP I and Viet Huong industrial zones), now Phường Thuận An of Ho Chi Minh City since 1 July 2025, plus a Huế ward and beach.
Thubactis
Thubactis was a Phoenician commercial station on the coast of what is now Libya, placed by modern reference works at the site of Misrata; nothing of the ancient settlement survives above ground.
Thuban
Thuban, also designated Alpha Draconis, is a binary star system about 270 light-years away in Draco that was the North Star when the earliest Egyptian pyramids were built.
Thubursicum Numidarum
Thubursicum Numidarum (Thubursicu Numidarum), Roman town near Khamissa, Algeria; tribal center of the Numidae, Trajanic municipium (100–117 CE), colonia before 270, with theatre, two fora, and the Bagradas spring sanctuary.
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, also published as Thuc-Quyen T. Nguyen, is a physical chemist who directs the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Thucydidean historiography
Thucydidean historiography is the historical method and tradition associated with the Athenian historian Thucydides, whose History of the Peloponnesian War shaped scientific history and political realism.
Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης)
Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης), Athenian general and historian (c. 460–395 BCE), exiled after losing Amphipolis in 424 BCE, wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War, the founding text cited as the source of political realism and the modern 'Thucydides Trap.'
Thucydides Trap
Thucydides Trap: international relations concept popularized by Graham Allison in Destined for War (2017), holding that rising-versus-ruling power transitions often end in war; 12 of 16 Harvard case-file cases, applied to US-China rivalry and widely criticized.
Thudakkam
Thudakkam (തുടക്കം, Beginning) is a 2026 Malayalam martial arts thriller directed by Jude Anthany Joseph, marking the acting debuts of Vismaya Mohanlal and Aashish Joe Antony, released 7 August 2026, streaming on JioHotstar from 18 September 2026.
Thudarum
Thudarum (തുടരും) is a 2025 Indian Malayalam crime drama thriller directed by Tharun Moorthy, starring Mohanlal as a taxi driver drawn into a criminal investigation.
Thudhamma Zayat
The Thudhamma Zayat (သုဓမ္မာဇယတ်) was the royal religious hall in Mandalay where Burma's Konbaung kings convoked the Sangha; its name survives in the Thudhamma Nikaya, most of the Burmese Sangha.
Thue W. Schwartz
Thue W. Schwartz, born 1951, is a Danish physician-scientist and professor of molecular pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen who works on GPCR pharmacology, appetite regulation, and anti-obesity drugs.
Thue–Morse sequence
The Thue–Morse sequence, also called the Prouhet–Thue–Morse sequence or parity sequence, is an infinite binary sequence whose nth term is the parity of the number of 1s in the binary expansion of n.
Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem
The Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem, also called Roth's theorem, is a result in Diophantine approximation stating that irrational algebraic numbers cannot be approximated by rationals faster than order 1/q².
Thug Behram (ठग बहराम)
Thug Behram (ठग बेहराम), also Buhram Jemadar, was a Thuggee gang leader of Oudh, India, recorded by James Paton as present at 931 murders (about 125 by his own hands) between 1790 and 1840, strangled with a coin-weighted yellow rumal; the figure and the wider Thuggee narrative are disputed by historians.
Thug Life (2025 film)
Thug Life (தக் லைஃப்), 2025 Tamil gangster action drama by Mani Ratnam co-written with Kamal Haasan; released 5 June 2025, UA 16+, music A. R. Rahman; negative reviews, 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, Karnataka ban, Rs 44 crore first week.
Thugga mausoleum
The Thugga mausoleum, also known as the Mausoleum of Atban, is a three-storey Numidian tower tomb about 21 m high at Dougga, Tunisia, from the 2nd century BC.
Thugga temple inscription of Massinissa
The Thugga temple inscription of Massinissa is a Punic and Libyan bilingual stone temple dedication at Dougga, Tunisia, dated to 139/8 BC and cataloged as KAI 101.
Thuggee
Thuggee, the supposed system of ritualized strangulation-robbery of travelers in India, 'discovered' by William Sleeman and suppressed in the 1830s; its reality versus orientalist construction is a major historiographical debate.
Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression
Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression (ठगी दमन) was the East India Company's campaign, department, and special legislation to prosecute Thugs and, from 1843, dacoits, built from the late 1820s.
Thugs of Hindostan
Thugs of Hindostan (ठग्स ऑफ हिंदोस्तान) is a 2018 Yash Raj Films Hindi action-adventure directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan; a Rs. 240 crore Diwali release that flopped critically and commercially.
Thuja
Thuja (arborvitae) is a genus of five evergreen conifer species in Cupressaceae, disjunctly distributed between East Asia and North America; includes western redcedar (T. plicata) and eastern arborvitae (T. occidentalis).
Thuja occidentalis
Thuja occidentalis, northern white-cedar or arborvitae, is a slow-growing, long-lived (over 800 years) North American conifer valued for decay-resistant wood, deer winter browse, and ornamental cultivars.
Thuja plicata
Thuja plicata, western redcedar (also Pacific redcedar, giant arborvitae, canoe-cedar), is the only Thuja native to western North America, a large decay-resistant conifer from Alaska to California central to Northwest Coast Indigenous cultures and timber.
Thujone
Thujone is a bicyclic monoterpene ketone occurring in wormwood, sage, and tansy, best known as the toxic constituent of the liqueur absinthe, which it blocks inhibitory GABA signaling and can cause convulsions at high doses.
Thukra Ke Mera Pyaar
Thukra Ke Mera Pyaar (ठुकरा के मेरा प्यार) is a Hindi drama series on JioHotstar, premiered 22 November 2024, starring Dhaval Thakur and Sanchita Basu as lovers divided by caste in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh; not the 2025 DashReels short drama of the same name.
Thulamela
Thulamela is a dry stone-walled hilltop archaeological site in northern Kruger National Park, South Africa, center of an Iron Age kingdom that traded ivory and gold.
Thulasi Nair
Thulasi Nair (துளசி நாயர்), Indian actress, daughter of Radha, debut as Beatrice in Mani Ratnam's Kadal (2013), later Yaan (2014) and Telugu films.
Thule (Θούλη)
Thule (Θούλη) is the far-northern island first reported by Pytheas of Massalia in On the Ocean, six days' sail north of Britain; its location (Iceland, Shetland, Faroes, or Norway) remains disputed, and the name became proverbial for the world's edge.
Thule people
Thule people, Neo-Inuit whale hunters from northern Alaska (developed ca 1000 AD), spread over 6,500 km east to Greenland by 1200 AD, replaced the Dorset with minimal contact, and are ancestors of modern Inuit.