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Thuggee
Thuggee, the supposed system of ritualized strangulation-robbery of travelers in India, 'discovered' by William Sleeman and suppressed in the 1830s; its reality versus orientalist construction is a major historiographical debate.
Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression
Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression (ठगी दमन) was the East India Company's campaign, department, and special legislation to prosecute Thugs and, from 1843, dacoits, built from the late 1820s.
Thugs of Hindostan
Thugs of Hindostan (ठग्स ऑफ हिंदोस्तान) is a 2018 Yash Raj Films Hindi action-adventure directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan; a Rs. 240 crore Diwali release that flopped critically and commercially.
Thuja
Thuja (arborvitae) is a genus of five evergreen conifer species in Cupressaceae, disjunctly distributed between East Asia and North America; includes western redcedar (T. plicata) and eastern arborvitae (T. occidentalis).
Thuja occidentalis
Thuja occidentalis, northern white-cedar or arborvitae, is a slow-growing, long-lived (over 800 years) North American conifer valued for decay-resistant wood, deer winter browse, and ornamental cultivars.
Thuja plicata
Thuja plicata, western redcedar (also Pacific redcedar, giant arborvitae, canoe-cedar), is the only Thuja native to western North America, a large decay-resistant conifer from Alaska to California central to Northwest Coast Indigenous cultures and timber.
Thujone
Thujone is a bicyclic monoterpene ketone occurring in wormwood, sage, and tansy, best known as the toxic constituent of the liqueur absinthe, which it blocks inhibitory GABA signaling and can cause convulsions at high doses.
Thukra Ke Mera Pyaar
Thukra Ke Mera Pyaar (ठुकरा के मेरा प्यार) is a Hindi drama series on JioHotstar, premiered 22 November 2024, starring Dhaval Thakur and Sanchita Basu as lovers divided by caste in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh; not the 2025 DashReels short drama of the same name.
Thulamela
Thulamela is a dry stone-walled hilltop archaeological site in northern Kruger National Park, South Africa, center of an Iron Age kingdom that traded ivory and gold.
Thulasi Nair
Thulasi Nair (துளசி நாயர்), Indian actress, daughter of Radha, debut as Beatrice in Mani Ratnam's Kadal (2013), later Yaan (2014) and Telugu films.
Thule (Θούλη)
Thule (Θούλη) is the far-northern island first reported by Pytheas of Massalia in On the Ocean, six days' sail north of Britain; its location (Iceland, Shetland, Faroes, or Norway) remains disputed, and the name became proverbial for the world's edge.
Thule people
Thule people, Neo-Inuit whale hunters from northern Alaska (developed ca 1000 AD), spread over 6,500 km east to Greenland by 1200 AD, replaced the Dorset with minimal contact, and are ancestors of modern Inuit.
Thule Society
Thule Society (Thule-Gesellschaft), a Munich völkisch-antisemitic occult lodge founded 1918 by Rudolf von Sebottendorff out of the Germanenorden; helped incubate the early NSDAP, ran the Münchener Beobachter, and inspired postwar Nazi-occult myths.
Thulium
Thulium is a chemical element with symbol Tm and atomic number 69, the least abundant stable rare-earth metal, used mainly as a dopant in surgical lasers.
Thulium-doped fiber
Thulium-doped fiber is optical fiber doped with thulium ions as a gain medium, emitting near 2 µm and used in fiber lasers, amplifiers, and lithotripsy.
Thulium-doped fiber amplifier
A thulium-doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) is an optical fiber amplifier doped with thulium ions that boosts telecom signals in the S-band, roughly 1460 to 1530 nm, where erbium amplifiers provide little gain.
Thuljaji
Thuljaji (तुळाजी) was the Maratha ruler of Thanjavur in southern India from 1763 to 1787, known for conflict with the Nawab of Arcot and a disputed succession.
Thulladha Manamum Thullum (துள்ளாத மனமும் துள்ளும்)
Thulladha Manamum Thullum (துள்ளாத மனமும் துள்ளும்), also spelled Thullatha Manamum Thullum, is a 1999 Tamil romantic drama directed by debutant Ezhil, starring Vijay and Simran, music by S. A. Rajkumar, a 200-day Super Good Films hit.
Thullal
Thullal (തുള്ളൽ) is a solo satirical dance-theater narrative tradition from Kerala, India, in which a single performer sings Malayalam verses with humorous social commentary, shaped in the eighteenth century by poet Kunchan Nambiar.
Thullanandā
Thullanandā (थुल्लनन्दा), Sanskrit Sthūlanandā, was a learned nun of the early Buddhist sangha whose misbehavior prompted 37 rules for nuns in the Pali Vinaya before she left the Order.
Thullatissā
Thullatissā was a Buddhist nun named in the Saṃyutta Nikāya discourse SN 16.10, where she objected to Mahākassapa's preaching and fell away from the holy life.
Thulluvadho Ilamai (துள்ளுவதோ இளமை)
Thulluvadho Ilamai (துள்ளுவதோ இளமை) is a 2002 Tamil coming-of-age drama, Dhanush's debut, credited to Kasthuri Raja but reportedly directed by Selvaraghavan, with Yuvan Shankar Raja's music; it was 2002's surprise Tamil hit.
Thuluth
Thuluth is a large, curved Arabic calligraphic script, one of the six classical pens, long used as the principal display script of Islamic architecture and royal inscriptions.
Thumal the Qahramana
Thumal the Qahramana (ثمل القهرمانة) was a chamberwoman at the Abbasid court in Baghdad who in 918 was appointed to the mazalim judiciary, an unprecedented post for a woman.
Thumb
Thumb (pollex): the first digit, with two phalanges and a saddle-shaped trapeziometacarpal joint enabling opposition and pinch. Covers anatomy, evolution, basal joint arthritis, fractures, and reconstruction.
Thumb (film)
Thumb is an American black comedy film directed by Daina Oniunas-Pusić and written by Cesar Vitale. It stars Milly Alcock and is scheduled for release in 2026.
Thumb signal
Thumb signal, chiefly the thumbs-up (thumbs down) gesture: raised thumb meaning approval in the West, with Roman pollice verso origins disputed, insult and hitchhiking readings in Britain and Australia, and the Hawaiian shaka as a related gesture.
Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station
Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) is a sounding rocket launch site near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, established in 1963 and the site of India's first rocket launch.
Thumbelina
Thumbelina (Danish: Tommelise) is Hans Christian Andersen's 1835 literary fairy tale of a thumb-sized girl born from a flower, kidnapped by a toad and nearly wed to a mole before a swallow carries her to marry the flower-spirit king; first English translation 1847.
Thumbelina (1994 film)
Thumbelina, also released as Don Bluth's Thumbelina, is a 1994 animated musical film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman from Hans Christian Andersen's 1835 fairy tale.