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Thanksgiving (Canada)

Canadian Thanksgiving (Action de grâce) is Canada's harvest holiday on the second Monday of October, fixed by a 1957 proclamation, first nationally proclaimed in 1859, distinct from the American November holiday in date, legal history, and tone.

Thanksgiving (Canada) (Yellowjackets)

"Thanksgiving (Canada)" is the sixth episode of Yellowjackets season 3, aired March 14, 2025 on Paramount+ with Showtime, directed by Pete Chatmon. Nat mercy-kills Coach Ben Scott, two strangers arrive in the wilderness, and Misty investigates Lottie's death.

Thanksgiving (United States)

Thanksgiving, also called American Thanksgiving, is a national holiday in the United States held on the fourth Thursday of November, centered on a shared meal and gratitude.

Thanksgiving Address

The Thanksgiving Address, in Mohawk Ohén:ton Karihwatéhkwen, is the ceremonial speech with which the Haudenosaunee open and close gatherings, greeting and thanking the natural world and the Creator.

Thanksgiving dinner

Thanksgiving dinner: the traditional American holiday meal of roast turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberries, and pumpkin pie, served the fourth Thursday of November; 2025 AFBF survey cost $55.18 for 10 people, down 5%.

Thanneer Mathan Dinangal

Thanneer Mathan Dinangal is a 2019 Malayalam coming-of-age film directed by Girish A.D., following a student whose life is complicated by his new Malayalam teacher.

Thanom Kittikachorn (ถนอม กิตติขจร)

Thanom Kittikachorn (ถนอม กิตติขจร, born 11 November 1927), Thai field marshal and prime minister 1963–1973 after Sarit Thanarat; carried out the November 1971 self-coup, fell in the 14 October 1973 uprising, went into exile, and his 1976 return triggered the Thammasat massacre.

Thanos

Thanos, the Mad Titan, is a Marvel Comics supervillain created by Jim Starlin, first appearing in Iron Man #55 (1973). Known for the Infinity Gauntlet saga, his love of Death, and as the MCU antagonist played by Josh Brolin.

Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Thanos is the MCU's central Infinity Saga villain, a Titan warlord played by Josh Brolin who wipes out half of all life with the Infinity Gauntlet in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and is erased by Iron Man in Endgame (2019).

Thanos (Squid Game)

Thanos (타노스), born Choi Su-bong, is Player 230 in Squid Game season 2, a debt-ridden rapper played by T.O.P (Choi Seung-hyun), killed by Myung-gi in a bathroom fight.

Thanos D. Halazonetis

Thanos D. Halazonetis is a Greek molecular biologist, a University of Geneva professor from 2006 to 2025, known for DNA damage checkpoints and oncogene-induced replication stress in cancer.

Thao D. Nguyen

Thao D. (Vicky) Nguyen is an American mechanical engineer at Johns Hopkins University who studies soft biological tissues, glaucoma biomechanics, and shape-shifting biomedical devices, and received the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award.

Thao Hung Thao Cheuang

Thao Hung Thao Cheuang (ທ້າວຮຸ່ງ ທ້າວເຈືອງ), also known as Thao Hung or Cheuang, is a Lao epic poem about a partly historical prince of the Mekong basin.

Thao Suranari

Thao Suranari (ท้าวสุรนารี), born Mo and known in Khorat as Ya Mo, is the Thai heroine credited with leading captive townspeople against Chao Anouvong's Lao army in 1826.

THAP-type zinc finger

THAP-type zinc finger (THAP domain): ~90-residue C2CH zinc-coordinating, sequence-specific DNA-binding module of animal THAP proteins, first recognized in Drosophila P element transposase; 12 human members linked to cell cycle, apoptosis, cancer, and neurological disease.

Thapaswini Poonacha

Thapaswini Poonacha (ತಪಸ್ವಿನಿ ಪೂಣಚ್ಚ), Kannada film actress from Virajpet, Kodagu. Discovered via a candid photo by Rishab Shetty; debut Harikathe Alla Girikathe (2022) as Kushi Jokumaraswamy; lead as Rukmini in Premada Oorali (2026); also Gajarama (2025).

THAPCA-OH trial

THAPCA-OH (NCT00878644), Therapeutic Hypothermia after Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Out-of-Hospital, a NHLBI-funded RCT in comatose children after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; hypothermia 33.0°C vs normothermia 36.8°C showed no significant benefit (20% vs 12% favorable outcome).

Thapki Pyar Ki (थपकी प्यार की)

Thapki Pyar Ki (थपकी प्यार की) is an Indian television serial on Colors, aired from 2015, about Thapki Chaturvedi, a cheerful young woman who stammers, starring Jigyasa Singh.

Thappad (थप्पड़)

Thappad (थप्पड़, The Slap) is a 2020 Hindi drama directed by Anubhav Sinha, starring Taapsee Pannu as a wife who seeks divorce after one slap, released 28 February 2020.

Thappu Thalangal

Thappu Thalangal (Wrong Notes) is a 1978 Indian crime film directed by K. Balachander. It stars Rajinikanth as a thug and Saritha in her debut as a sex worker.

Thapsia

Thapsia (deadly carrots) is a western Mediterranean Apiaceae genus of toxic perennial herbs; Thapsia garganica yields thapsigargin, a subnanomolar SERCA inhibitor used in calcium signaling research and prodrug anticancer development.

Thapsigargin

Thapsigargin (TG), a hexaoxygenated guaianolide sesquiterpene lactone from Thapsia garganica, is a potent, essentially irreversible SERCA inhibitor (Kd 20 nM) that depletes ER calcium, triggers the unfolded protein response, and yielded the abandoned anticancer prodrug mipsagargin.

Thapsus

Thapsus, also known as Ras Dimas, was a Phoenician and Roman port city on the coast of modern Tunisia, best known as the site of Caesar's victory in 46 BC.

Thar (film)

Thar is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language neo-western crime thriller directed by Raj Singh Chaudhary, starring father and son Anil Kapoor and Harshvarrdhan Kapoor, released on Netflix in May 2022.

Thar Block I power station

Thar Block I power station (塔尔煤矿一区块燃煤电厂) is a 1,320 MW lignite-fired power plant in Tharparkar District, Sindh, Pakistan, developed by Shanghai Electric under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Thar Block II Coal Mine

Thar Block II Coal Mine is Pakistan's first open-pit coal mine, a lignite mine in the Thar Coalfield, Sindh, operated by SECMC and fueling 1,320 MW of mine-mouth power plants.

Thar Desert

The Thar Desert, also called the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region of about 0.2 million km² in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan, mostly in Rajasthan.

Thar Parkar District

Thar Parkar District (Tharparkar, Sindhi ٿرپارڪر) is a Sindh, Pakistan district headquartered at Mithi in the Thar Desert; 1,778,407 people (2023), seven tehsils, and Pakistan's largest Hindu population.

Thara Prashad

Thara Prashad (Thara Natalie Prashad, born 1982) is an American R&B singer and model, aka Thara, formerly of DJ Clue's Desert Storm label; debut album Thara (2007), known for "Ghetto" with Fabolous and "Murder" with Jay Sean, whom she married.

Tharahai Cuthbert

Tharahai Cuthbert (தாரகை கத்பர்ட்), Indian National Congress politician and Tamil Nadu MLA; won Vilavancode by-election 2024 and Colachel 2026 by 2,833 votes; Congress Legislature Party leader from August 2026.