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Third Position
The Third Position, also known as Third positionism, is a neofascist ideology, emerging in the 1970s and 1980s, that rejects both capitalism and communism and seeks racially homogeneous nation-states.
Third Prime Alpha
Third Prime Alpha is the family of venture capital funds managed by Third Prime, a New York firm founded in 2016 by Keith Hamlin and Wes Barton.
Third Punic War
Third Punic War (Tertium Bellum Punicum), 149–146 BCE: final Rome–Carthage war, essentially the siege of Carthage. Scipio Aemilianus stormed the city in 146 BCE; 50,000 enslaved; territory became province of Africa.
Third rail
The third rail, or conductor rail, is an electrified rail alongside the track that powers metro and commuter trains through sliding contact shoes, typically at 600–750 V DC.
Third reign of al-Nasir Muhammad
The third reign of al-Nasir Muhammad (السلطنة الثالثة للناصر محمد), beginning February 1310 and ending at his death in 1341, restored hereditary Qalawunid rule over Mamluk Egypt and Syria.
Third Rock Ventures
Third Rock Ventures is a Boston-based life-sciences venture firm founded in 2007 by former Millennium Pharmaceuticals executives that creates new biotechnology companies, raising about $3.8 billion across six funds.
Third Rome doctrine
The Third Rome doctrine (Москва, Третий Рим) is a sixteenth-century theory holding that Moscow succeeded the fallen Roman and Byzantine empires, formulated by the monk Filofei around 1523–1524.
Third Rwandan Republic
Third Rwandan Republic: the post-1994 political order of Rwanda, following the Kayibanda and Habyarimana republics, governed during 1994-2003 by the Arusha Accords and consolidated by the 2003 constitution under President Paul Kagame.
Third Saturday in October
Third Saturday in October: the Alabama-Tennessee college football rivalry, played since 1901; Alabama leads 61-39-8 in 108 meetings, with Bryant's 11-game streak (1971-81) and Tennessee's 52-49 upset in 2022 as landmarks.
Third Section
The Third Section (Третье отделение) was the supreme political surveillance body of the Russian Empire, created by Nicholas I in 1826 under Benckendorff and abolished in 1880.
Third Section and Corps of Gendarmes statute
The Third Section and Corps of Gendarmes statute is the pair of decrees by which Nicholas I created Russia's political police in 1826 and 1827.
Third Section of His Majesty's Own Chancellery
The Third Section of His Majesty's Own Chancellery (Третье отделение) was the political police of the Russian Empire, created by Nicholas I in 1826 and abolished in 1880.
Third Seminole War
The Third Seminole War, also known as Billy Bowlegs' War, was the last of three conflicts between the United States and the Seminole people of Florida, fought from 1855 to 1858.
Third Servile War
Third Servile War (73–71 BC), also the Gladiator War or War of Spartacus: the last of the Roman Servile Wars, a slave revolt begun by about 70–78 gladiators fleeing Capua under the Thracian Spartacus, crushed by Crassus with eight legions and 6,000 crucifixions.
Third Shot
Third Shot refers to the third nuclear explosion in history, the Fat Man plutonium bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on 9 August 1945, killing about 35,000.
Third Siege of Missolonghi
The Third Siege of Missolonghi was the year-long 1825 to 1826 Ottoman-Egyptian siege of Missolonghi, Greece, ending with the defenders' breakout known as the Exodus.
Third Silesian War
Third Silesian War (1756–1763), Central European theatre of the Seven Years' War, also called the Prussian War: Prussia under Frederick II fought Austria, Russia, France, and Sweden over Silesia, ending with the Treaty of Hubertusburg and Prussia retaining Silesia.
Third space endoscopy
Third space endoscopy is a minimally invasive endoscopic technique that opens the submucosal layer as a working tunnel to reach lesions, best known for POEM, its myotomy for achalasia.
Third Space Theory
Third Space theory, from Homi K. Bhabha's 1988 essay and The Location of Culture (1994), is a postcolonial concept of ambivalent, hybrid in-between spaces of meaning, widely applied in education, sociolinguistics, and higher education research.
Third Stage
Third Stage is Boston's third studio album, released September 23, 1986 on MCA after an eight-year gap and a CBS lawsuit. Produced by Tom Scholz, it topped the Billboard 200, went 4x platinum, and yielded the number-one hit "Amanda".
Third Statute of Lithuania
The Third Statute of Lithuania (Трэці Статут Вялікага Княства Літоўскага) was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's legal code, confirmed by Sigismund III Vasa in 1588 and in force until 1840.
Third Sui campaign against Goguryeo
The Third Sui campaign against Goguryeo (隋第三次徵高句麗) was Emperor Yang of Sui's third invasion of Goguryeo, in 614, launched after the Yang Xuangan rebellion and ended by King Go Won's surrender.
Third Sui invasion of Goguryeo
The Third Sui invasion of Goguryeo (第三次隋徵高句麗) was Emperor Yang of Sui's 614 campaign against the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, ending when King Go Won begged surrender and Sui withdrew.
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (July 1995–March 1996) was a PRC-Taiwan-US confrontation triggered by Lee Teng-hui's Cornell University visit, marked by Chinese missile tests near Keelung and Kaohsiung, two US carrier battle group deployments, and Taiwan's first direct presidential election.
Third Temple
The Third Temple (Beit HaMikdash HaShlishi) is the future Jewish temple expected in messianic belief and some Christian prophecy to be built on Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
Third to sixth pharyngeal arches and derivatives
The third to sixth pharyngeal arches are embryonic structures forming the lower hyoid, laryngeal cartilages, and pharyngeal and laryngeal muscles, supplied by CN IX and CN X.
Third Tusk cabinet
Third Tusk cabinet: Poland's government led by Donald Tusk, sworn in 13 December 2023, a KO–Third Way–Left coalition with 27 members, 19 ministries, and an EU rule-of-law agenda to unblock over €76 billion in Cohesion Funds.
Third Ward, Houston
Third Ward, Houston: historic African American neighborhood created after the city's 1836 founding, home of Emancipation Park (1872), Texas Southern University, University of Houston, and Project Row Houses, now facing rapid gentrification.
Third Watch
Third Watch (1999-2005) is an NBC drama created by Edward Allen Bernero and John Wells about New York police officers, firefighters, and paramedics of the fictional 55th precinct on the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift; six seasons, 132 episodes, known for its post-9/11 season.
Third Wave Recovery Systems (TWRx)
Third Wave Recovery Systems (TWRx), also known as Thirdwave RX, is a Las Vegas healthcare company founded in 2021 that administers pharmaceutical rebates for hospitals and long-term care facilities.