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Theme system

The theme system (θέματα) organized the Byzantine Empire's provinces into military districts from the 7th century, each governed by an army commander called a strategos.

Themeda

Themeda Forssk. is a genus of about 28 accepted C4 grass species in Poaceae, native from the Old World tropics to the SW Pacific. Its best-known species, Themeda triandra (kangaroo grass, red oat grass), is a dominant fire-adapted forage grass across Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Themes in Blade Runner

Themes in Blade Runner are the philosophical subjects of Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction film: mortality, empathy, memory and identity, slavery, and what it means to be human.

THEMIS

THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) is a NASA five-satellite mission launched in 2007 that identified magnetic reconnection as the trigger of auroral substorms.

Themis (Θέμις)

Themis (Θέμις), Greek Titan goddess of divine law, custom, and oracular prophecy; daughter of Uranus and Gaia, consort and counselor of Zeus, mother of the Horae and Moirae, and holder of the Delphic oracle before Apollo.

Themis family

Themis family: large, old outer main-belt asteroid family around (24) Themis, found by Hirayama in 1918; over 4,000 C/B-type members, 2.5 ± 1.0 Gyr old, water-ice rich, with main-belt comets and the young Beagle sub-family.

Themis Regio

Themis Regio is a corona-dominated hotspot highland in the southern hemisphere of Venus, centered near 37.4° S, 284.2° E, about 2,000 km across, 0.5 km high, at the terminus of Parga Chasmata.

Themistius

Themistius (Θεμίστιος, c. 317 – c. 388) was a pagan Greek philosopher and senator of Constantinople who advised successive Roman emperors and wrote influential paraphrases of Aristotle's works.

Themisto (moon)

Themisto, also designated Jupiter XVIII, is a small prograde irregular moon of Jupiter with a mean radius of about 4 kilometers, discovered in 1975, lost, and rediscovered in 2000.

Themistocles (Θεμιστοκλῆς)

Themistocles (Θεμιστοκλῆς, c. 524–c. 460 BCE) was an Athenian statesman and general, architect of the 483/2 naval law that spent Laurion silver on 200 triremes, victor-maker at Salamis 480, later ostracized and governor of Magnesia under Artaxerxes I.

Themistocles Gluck

Themistocles Gluck (1853–1942) was a German surgeon who performed the first total joint replacements in Berlin in 1890, using hinged ivory prostheses fixed with an early bone cement.

Themistocles M. Rassias

Themistocles M. Rassias (Θεμιστοκλής Μ. Ρασσιάς), born 1951, is a Greek mathematician and Professor Emeritus at the National Technical University of Athens, known for Hyers–Ulam–Rassias stability.

Themistoklis Sofoulis

Themistoklis Sofoulis (Θεμιστοκλής Σοφούλης; 1860–1949) was a Greek politician and archaeologist who led the union of Samos with Greece in 1912 and served three times as Prime Minister.

Themyscira (DC Comics)

Themyscira, originally Paradise Island, is DC Comics' fictional Amazon island nation and Wonder Woman's birthplace, first appearing in All Star Comics #8 (1941) and renamed in the 1987 relaunch.

Then Came You (2018 film)

Then Came You (2018), originally titled Departures, is an American comedy-drama directed by Peter Hutchings, written by Fergal Rock, starring Asa Butterfield, Maisie Williams, and Nina Dobrev; premiered at Woodstock, released February 1, 2019 by Shout! Studios.

Then Nilavu (தேன் நிலவு)

Then Nilavu (தேன் நிலவு) is a 1961 Tamil-language romantic comedy scripted, produced, and directed by C. V. Sridhar, and the first South Indian film shot in Jammu and Kashmir.

Then Play On

Then Play On is Fleetwood Mac's third studio album, released 19 September 1969 on Reprise; the first with Danny Kirwan and last with Peter Green, featuring "Oh Well" and "Rattlesnake Shake."

Then She Was Gone

Then She Was Gone is a psychological thriller novel by British author Lisa Jewell about the aftermath of a teenage girl's disappearance, following her mother Laurel Mack ten years later.

Thena

Thena (セナ) is a Marvel Comics Eternal, created by Bernstein and Jack Kirby, debuting in The Eternals #5 (1976); daughter of Zuras, bearer of the Prime Eternal title, and portrayed by Angelina Jolie in Eternals (2021).

Thenali

Thenali (தெனாலி) is a 2000 Tamil-language comedy film directed by K. S. Ravikumar, starring Kamal Haasan as a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee with numerous phobias.

Thenalidine

Thenalidine (thenophenopiperidine, AS 716, Sandostene) is a withdrawn piperidine H1-antihistamine introduced in 1953 for allergic and dermatologic conditions; severe neutropenia cases led to US withdrawal in 1958 and later withdrawals elsewhere.

Thenandal Studio Limited

Thenandal Studio Limited (TSL Studios), formerly Sri Thenandal Films, is a Chennai-based Indian film production and distribution studio founded in 1976 by Rama Narayanan, incorporated as a public company in 2016, best known for the 100th production Mersal (2017).

Thenar eminence

Thenar eminence: the fleshy muscle mound at the base of the thumb, formed by abductor pollicis brevis, flexor pollicis brevis, and opponens pollicis, mainly median-nerve innervated; atrophy signals carpal tunnel syndrome.

Thénardite

Thénardite is an anhydrous sodium sulfate mineral, Na₂SO₄, named in 1826 after the French chemist Louis Jacques Thénard. It hydrates to mirabilite below 32.4 °C.

Thendral (2004) is a Tamil romantic drama that leans heavily into the melodramatic conventions of early-2000s Kollywood, offering a straightforward tale of love tested by social and familial pressures. It is a film for viewers seeking traditional emotional stakes delivered without modern cynicism, and it knows exactly that audience.

Thendral (தென்றல்) is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by Thangar Bachan, starring R. Parthiban and Uma Shankari, released on 6 February 2004.

Thenford

Thenford is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, near Brackley and Banbury, with a Grade I listed 1760s Thenford House, a 70-acre arboretum, a scheduled Roman villa excavated 1971-73, and a Domesday entry of 1086.

Thengai Srinivasan

Thengai Srinivasan (தேங்காய் சீனிவாசன்), 1937–1987, Tamil film and stage actor named for a coconut-seller role in Kal Manam; comedian, lead, and villain in about 965 films, best remembered as the boss in Thillu Mullu (1981).

Thenmavin Kombath (തേന്മാവിൻ കൊമ്പത്ത്)

Thenmavin Kombath (തേന്മാവിൻ കൊമ്പത്ത്) is a 1994 Malayalam romantic comedy by Priyadarshan starring Mohanlal, Shobana, and Nedumudi Venu; it won two National Film Awards, ran 250 days, was remade as Muthu, and returned in 4K in 2026.

Thenmerku Paruvakaatru (தென்மேற்கு பறவைக்காற்று)

Thenmerku Paruvakaatru (தென்மேற்கு பருவக்காற்று), a 2010 Tamil drama by Seenu Ramasamy, stars Vijay Sethupathi in his lead debut as goatherd Murugan; it won three National Film Awards including Best Feature Film in Tamil.

Thenoyltrifluoroacetone

Thenoyltrifluoroacetone (HTTA, TTA) is a fluorinated β-diketone used since the late 1940s as a chelating extractant for metal ions and as an inhibitor of mitochondrial complex II.