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Three of Us (film)

Three of Us is a 2022 Hindi drama directed by Avinash Arun, starring Shefali Shah, Jaideep Ahlawat, and Swanand Kirkire. A woman with early dementia visits Vengurla, Maharashtra, with her husband and meets a childhood friend; released theatrically 24 November 2022, later on Netflix.

Three Offices (Situ, Sima, Sikong)

The Three Offices (司徒、司马、司空) were three ministerial posts of China's Western Zhou dynasty, apparently a Zhou creation absent from Shang oracle bones, managing land, military affairs, and water and soil.

Three Officials and Three Partings

Three Officials and Three Partings (三吏三别) is a group of six poems written by the Tang poet Du Fu in 759, recording wartime conscription during the An Lushan Rebellion.

Three palace fires of Yongle's Beijing and omen politics

The three palace fires of Yongle's Beijing (永乐火灾) were fires that struck the new Ming palace, above all the 1421 lightning fire that destroyed its three main audience halls.

Three Pashas

Three Pashas: Enver, Talat, and Cemal Pasha, the CUP triumvirate that seized power in the 23 January 1913 Raid on the Sublime Porte and ruled the Ottoman Empire until 1918, entering World War I and overseeing the Armenian genocide; sentenced to death in absentia in 1919.

Three Percenters

Three Percenters (3%ers, III%ers) are a decentralized anti-government militia movement founded in 2008 by Mike Vanderboegh, based on the false claim that only 3% of colonists fought the British; designated a terrorist entity by Canada in 2021 and active in the January 6 Capitol attack.

Three Pilgrimage Festivals (שלוש רגלים)

Shalosh Regalim (שלוש רגלים), the Three Pilgrimage Festivals of Judaism: Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot, on which biblical Israelite males were commanded to appear at the Jerusalem Temple with offerings; distinct from Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which required no pilgrimage.

Three Pines

Three Pines is a 2022 Amazon Prime Video crime drama, an eight-episode adaptation of Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache novels starring Alfred Molina, filmed in Quebec, cancelled in March 2023 after one season.

Three prime untranslated region

The 3′ UTR (three prime untranslated region) is the noncoding mRNA segment after the stop codon, carrying microRNA and RNA-binding protein sites that control mRNA stability, translation, and localization, and diversified by alternative polyadenylation.

Three Principles of the People (三民主义)

Three Principles of the People (三民主義, San-min zhuyi): Sun Yat-sen's doctrine of nationalism, democracy, and people's livelihood, systematized in sixteen 1924 Guangzhou lectures, founding ideology of the Guomindang and Article 1 basis of the ROC Constitution.

Three Qins campaign

The Three Qins campaign, or 还定三秦, was Liu Bang's return from Hanzhong in 206 BC to conquer the three Qins, securing Guanzhong as his base against Xiang Yu.

Three Represents

The Three Represents (三个代表) is a political theory put forward by Jiang Zemin in 2000, stating that the Party represents advanced productive forces, advanced culture, and the people's interests.

Three Rivers Park District

Three Rivers Park District is a regional park system in suburban Hennepin County, Minnesota, created by the state legislature in 1957, managing nearly 27,000 acres.

Three Rivers Petroglyph Site

The Three Rivers Petroglyph Site is a Bureau of Land Management site in Otero County, New Mexico, protecting over 21,000 petroglyphs carved by the Jornada Mogollon people.

Three Rivers Stadium

Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh's circular multipurpose home of the Pirates and Steelers from 1970 to 2000, cost $55 million, hosted two World Series titles, and was imploded in February 2001.

Three Seals Law

The Three Seals Law (กฎหมายตราสามดวง, Kotmai Tra Sam Duang) is the law code of Siam compiled under King Rama I and completed in 1805, named for the three seals affixed to each copy.

Three seconds rule

Three seconds rule (règle des trois secondes): basketball rule limiting an offensive player to three consecutive seconds in the lane during frontcourt possession; the NBA alone adds a defensive three-second technical foul, absent in FIBA and NCAA.

Three Secrets of Fátima

The Three Secrets of Fátima are revelations three Portuguese children said the Virgin Mary gave them at Fátima, Portugal, on 13 July 1917, published by the Vatican in 2000.

Three shekel ostracon

The Three shekel ostracon is an inscribed pottery sherd recording a donation of three shekels of silver to the Temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem, now widely regarded as a probable forgery.

Three Sisters (agriculture)

Three Sisters agriculture: Indigenous American intercropping of maize, climbing beans, and squash, also called Diohe'ko by the Haudenosaunee; corn supports beans, beans fix nitrogen, squash shades soil; adopted in North America by 1070 AD.

Three Sisters (Oregon)

Three Sisters (Oregon): North, Middle, and South Sister, three aligned Cascade stratovolcanoes near Bend; South Sister is tallest at 3,157 m, with rhyolite eruptions about 2,000 years ago and ongoing uplift since the 1990s.

Three Sisters (Pittsburgh)

The Three Sisters, also known as the Three Sisters Bridges, are three nearly identical self-anchored suspension bridges carrying Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Streets over the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, built 1924 to 1928.

Three Sisters (Три сёстры) (play)

Three Sisters (Три сёстры) is Anton Chekhov's four-act 1901 play about the Prozorov sisters' fading dream of returning to Moscow, premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre on 31 January 1901 and awarded the Griboedov Prize in 1902.

Three Slice Nunatak

Three Slice Nunatak (Chilean: Nunatak Tres Tajadas) is a c. 500 m nunatak marking the north point of Joerg Peninsula, Bowman Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica; surveyed by USAS in 1940 and named for its three vertical rock faces.

Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (三皇五帝)

三皇五帝 (Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors): collective Chinese term for legendary pre-Xia sage rulers, first named in the Zhouli, with at least seven disputed Three Sovereigns lists; source of the title huangdi and later rejected as constructed history.

Three Squirrels (三只松鼠)

Three Squirrels (三只松鼠) is a Chinese snack company founded in Wuhu, Anhui, in 2012 by Zhang Liaoyuan, first selling nuts online before moving into manufacturing and retail.

Three Stages sect

The Three Stages sect (三階教) was a school of Chinese Buddhism founded by the monk Xin Xing in the Sui dynasty and repeatedly banned by the state.

Three Tales

Three Tales (Trois contes) is an 1877 collection of three stories by the French writer Gustave Flaubert, the only short-fiction collection issued in his lifetime.

Three teachings (三教)

The three teachings (三教, sanjiao) is the traditional Chinese term for Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism as a group, first referenced in the sixth century and often claimed to be one.

Three Thousand Camp

The Three Thousand Camp (三千营) was a Ming cavalry unit of the capital camps, formed from surrendered steppe horsemen and drilled in scouting and patrol duty.