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Thaification
Thaification (kan klai pen thai): Thailand's assimilationist nation-building policy making minorities Thai via language, schooling, and nationality law; defined by the 1939-1942 Twelve Cultural Mandates under Phibunsongkram, later partly reversed.
Thank God for Mississippi
"Thank God for Mississippi" is an American adage, especially Southern, used when a state ranks near the bottom of national tables because Mississippi ranks last. First in print 1945; fading in education after the Mississippi Miracle.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs, 1961) critiques urban renewal and Le Corbusier-style planning, setting out four generators of diversity, eyes-on-the-street safety, and mixed-use, small-block, aged-building urbanism.
The Establishment
The Establishment: term for a society's institutional power-holding class (civil service, government, armed forces, Church), fixed in British usage by Henry Fairlie's 1955 Spectator article after A. J. P. Taylor's 1953 New Statesman use, later adopted by Wilson, Thatcher, and American writers.
The Family International
The Family International (TFI), formerly the Children of God, The Family of Love, and The Family, is a Christian new religious movement founded in 1968 by David Berg in Huntington Beach, California; reorganized in 2010 into an online network of about 1,100 members after decades of child abuse controversy.
The Man
The Man is American slang first recorded in 1918 for a boss figure, which later became a term for the establishment and is now used to praise individuals.
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), founded 1951 in the U.S., is a global environmental nonprofit conserving lands and waters in 86 countries and territories, protecting 125M+ acres, with FY2025 revenue over $2 billion, known for easements, water funds, blue bonds, and past controversies.
The Population Bomb
The Population Bomb is Paul Ehrlich's 1968 Sierra Club book predicting mass 1970s famine from overpopulation; it sold about 2 million copies, founded the ZPG movement, and its failed forecasts made it a landmark of discredited Malthusian demography.
The TerraMar Project
The TerraMar Project, also called TerraMar, was a 2012–2019 ocean-conservation nonprofit founded and funded by Ghislaine Maxwell, with US 501(c)(3) and UK charity arms; it closed six days after Jeffrey Epstein's July 2019 arrest and gave no recorded grants.
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.
Third culture kid
Third culture kid (TCK), also called global nomad: a child raised for a year or more outside a parent's passport country due to the parent's work, coined by Ruth Hill Useem; distinct from immigrant, refugee, and adoptee children.
Third place
Third place (also third space): sociology term coined by Ray Oldenburg in The Great Good Place (1989) for informal gathering spots beyond home and work, such as cafes, libraries, and pubs, defined by eight characteristics and linked to community cohesion.
Thomas Robb (Ku Klux Klan)
Thomas Robb (born 1946) is a Christian Identity pastor and National Director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Knights Party), based near Zinc, Arkansas, which he took over from David Duke in the 1980s.
Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002), Norwegian ethnologist and explorer, crossed the Pacific on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 (101 days, Peru to Raroia) to argue Polynesia was settled from South America; later Ra, Ra II, Tigris voyages; theory rejected by DNA.
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.
Tigrayans
Tigrayans (Tegaru) are a Tigrinya-speaking ethno-linguistic group of northern Ethiopia, about 6% of the population, mostly Oriental Orthodox, historically centered on Axum, ruled Ethiopia via the TPLF from 1991 to 2018, and endured the 2020–2022 war.
Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century
TIME 100: The Most Important People of the Century was TIME magazine's 1998-1999 project profiling 100 influential 20th-century figures in five categories, culminating in naming Albert Einstein Person of the Century on December 31, 1999.
Time Person of the Year
TIME Person of the Year, called Man of the Year until 1999, is TIME magazine's annual selection of the person, group, or concept most influencing the year's news, begun in 1927 with Charles Lindbergh, and not a merit award.
Timucua
The Timucua were Native American peoples of northeast and north central Florida and southern Georgia, among Florida's largest indigenous groups at European contact in the 1500s.
Tina Brown
Tina Brown, born Christina Hambley Brown in 1953, is a British-born journalist and magazine editor who revived Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker before co-founding The Daily Beast.
Tinker
Tinker: an itinerant mender of pots, kettles, and pans, first recorded in Middle English; the word gave the verb 'to tinker', the Tinkertoy trademark, and an offensive label for Irish Travellers and Scottish Gypsy/Travellers.
Tiv people
The Tiv are an ethnolinguistic people of Nigeria's Benue Valley, also historically called Munshi, speaking the Tivoid Tiv language; an acephalous patrilineal segmentary lineage society of about 5 million, largely subsistence farmers in Benue State.
Tlingit
The Tlingit (Lingít) are an Indigenous Northwest Coast people of southeast Alaska with matrilineal clans, a marine salmon economy, the potlatch, and the 1802 and 1804 battles of Sitka against Russia.
Toda people
The Toda, or Todas, are a Dravidian-speaking pastoral community of India's Nilgiri plateau, numbering roughly 1,600, known for buffalo-centered dairies that serve as temples and for pukhoor embroidery.
Tokugawa clan (徳川氏)
The Tokugawa clan (徳川氏) is the Japanese samurai family founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu that produced the fifteen shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868.
Tongva
Tongva (Gabrielino), the Native people of the Los Angeles basin and its islands, missionized at San Gabriel from the 1770s; not federally recognized, five state-recognized groups, a dormant language under revitalization, and first land return in 2025.
Tornedalians
Tornedalians are a Finnish-speaking national minority in Sweden and northwestern Finland living in the Torne River valley; their Meänkieli language and minority status were officially recognized in 1999.
Torodbe
The Torodbe were a West African Muslim clerisy, defined by vocation rather than ethnicity, from Futa Toro, whose jihads founded Bundu, Futa Jalon, and the Sokoto Caliphate.
Torres Strait Islanders
Torres Strait Islanders are the Melanesian Indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands between Australia and Papua New Guinea, culturally distinct from Aboriginal Australians, speaking Meriam Mir, Kala Lagaw Ya and Yumplatok, annexed by Queensland in 1872 and 1879.
Totonac
The Totonac are an Indigenous people of Mexico's Gulf coast, living in Veracruz and Puebla, whose cities included El Tajín and Cempoala, and who allied with Cortés in 1519.