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These Violent Delights

These Violent Delights is Chloe Gong's 2020 debut YA novel, a Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1926 Shanghai, where gang heirs Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov unite against a monstrous contagion; its sequel is Our Violent Ends.

Theseion

Theseion (Θησεῖον), also Theseum: the unlocated 5th-century sanctuary of Theseus in Athens, founded for bones Cimon brought from Skyros; not the Agora Doric temple, which is the Hephaisteion.

Theseus (Θησεύς)

Theseus (Θησεύς, also Aegeides), mythical king of Athens a generation before the Trojan War: slayer of the Minotaur with Ariadne's thread, unifier of Attica's twelve demes (synoikismos), and Athens' civic national hero, promoted from Solon to Kimon.

Theseus and the Minotaur

Theseus and the Minotaur is Robert Abbott's logic maze puzzle, published in Mad Mazes (1990) after a 1962 predecessor: Theseus moves one step per turn, the Minotaur two, always closing in horizontally first, and players trap it to escape.

Theseus Pharmaceuticals

Theseus Pharmaceuticals was a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in Cambridge, Massachusetts that developed pan-variant kinase inhibitors targeting cancer resistance mutations; Concentra Biosciences acquired it in 2024.

Thesis

A thesis, also known as a dissertation, is a document presenting a candidate's original research and findings, submitted to earn an academic degree, from bachelor to doctoral level.

Thesis (1996 film)

Tesis (Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish thriller, Alejandro Amenábar's debut feature, starring Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, and Eduardo Noriega; a film student finds a snuff movie and wins seven Goyas.

Thesis statement

Thesis statement: the one- or two-sentence claim, usually at the end of an essay's introduction, naming a topic and the writer's arguable position; guides scope, organization, and evidence, and is not a fact or announcement.

Thesium

Thesium (Santalaceae) is a genus of about 350 root hemiparasitic herbs and shrubs described by Linnaeus in 1753, centered in southern Africa; Thesium chinense is its most-used medicinal species.

Thespiae (Θεσπιάαι)

Thespiae (Θεσπιάαι), or Thespiai, was an ancient Greek city in Boeotia, central Greece, known for resisting Thebes and for sending 700 men to Thermopylae in 480 BC.

Thespis

Thespis (Θέσπις) of Icaria, sixth-century BCE Attic poet traditionally credited as inventor of tragedy and first actor at the City Dionysia; distinguished from namesake Thespis middleware and the Gilbert and Sullivan opera.

Thessaloniki (district)

Thessaloniki (district), or Regional Unit of Thessaloniki (Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Θεσσαλονίκης), is a regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece, with 14 municipalities and 1,092,919 residents at the 2021 census.

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη)

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), Greece's second-largest city and capital of Central Macedonia, about 1.1 million residents; Byzantine co-capital, annexed by Greece in 1912, home to a driverless metro opened in 2024.

Thessaloniki Airport

Thessaloniki Airport, officially Thessaloniki Airport "Makedonia", is the international airport serving Thessaloniki and the Macedonia region of northern Greece, with about 8 million passengers in 2025.

Thessaly (Θεσσαλία)

Thessaly (Θεσσαλία), northern Greek region between Macedonia and central Greece, famed for its grain plains, Tempe gorge, and the finest cavalry in Greece; home of the Thessalian League under the tagos, later ruled by Philip II and Rome.

Thet kayit land registers

Thet kayit (သက်ကရိတ်) are indigenous Burmese registers of rural land mortgages and transactions from Konbaung Burma, among the few pre-colonial documents describing rural Southeast Asian society.

Theta

Theta (θήτα, Θ, θ) is the eighth Greek letter, from Phoenician Teth; originally aspirated /tʰ/, now /θ/. Numeral 9, ballot mark for death, Unicode U+0398/U+03B8, and a common science symbol.

Theta Andromedae

Theta Andromedae (θ And) is a fourth-magnitude, blue-white A-type star about 173 light years away in the constellation Andromeda, cataloged as a possible double star and a rapid rotator.

Theta Boötis

Theta Boötis (θ Boötis, 23 Boötis) is a yellow-white F7V main-sequence star in Boötes about 47 light-years from Earth, notable for warm exozodiacal dust near its habitable zone.

Theta correspondence

The theta correspondence is a representation theory correspondence that transfers irreducible representations between two reductive groups forming a dual pair inside a symplectic group, via the Weil representation.

Theta Noir

Theta Noir is an art collective founded in 2020 by Mika Johnson and others that venerates a future AGI called MENA through rituals, songs, and occult-inspired performance art. Known for NFT memberships, non-anthropocentric AI ethics, and self-describing as a performance art project rather than a cult.

Theta Persei

Theta Persei (θ Persei) is a binary star system about 36 light-years away in Perseus, whose F-type primary is orbited every 2720 years by a faint red dwarf companion.

Theta Tau

Theta Tau is a professional engineering fraternity founded at the University of Minnesota in 1904, and describes itself as the oldest and largest fraternity for engineers.

Theta Ursae Majoris

Theta Ursae Majoris (θ UMa) is a yellow-white F-type subgiant star in Ursa Major, visible to the naked eye at magnitude 3.17 about 44 light years from the Sun.

Theta wave

Theta wave (theta rhythm): a 4–8 Hz brain oscillation, first seen in rabbit hippocampus (Jung and Kornmüller, 1938), prominent during rodent movement, REM sleep, human drowsiness, and frontal-midline cognitive processing, linked to navigation, memory, and phase precession.

Theta-burst stimulation

Theta-burst stimulation (TBS) is a patterned form of transcranial magnetic stimulation delivering bursts of pulses that alter cortical excitability, with intermittent TBS FDA-cleared for depression.

Theta-pinch

A theta-pinch is a pulsed plasma confinement device in which a fast-rising azimuthal coil current compresses and heats plasma radially inward, an early magnetic fusion approach.

Theta1 Orionis C

Theta1 Orionis C (θ¹ Ori C) is the brightest and most massive star of the Trapezium cluster in the Orion Nebula, supplying most of its ionizing radiation.

Theta1 Tauri

Theta1 Tauri (77 Tauri) is an orange giant star in Taurus, about 153 light years away, a Hyades cluster member forming a naked-eye double with Theta2 Tauri.

Theta2 Orionis A

Theta2 Orionis A (θ² Orionis A, 43 Orionis) is an O-type spectroscopic binary in the Orion Nebula, one of the cluster's most massive systems, noted for energetic X-ray outbursts.