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Thermidorian Reaction

Thermidorian Reaction: period of the French Revolution from Robespierre's fall on 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) to the Convention's end on 26 October 1795, marked by the maximum's abolition, the White Terror, and bourgeois consolidation.

thermondo

thermondo (Thermondo GmbH) is a Berlin-based heating installation company founded in 2012 by Philipp Pausder, described as Germany's largest residential heat pump installer, with over 60,000 systems installed.

Thero Wheeler

Thero Wheeler (Thero Lavon Wheeler, 1945–2009) was an American prison militant who helped found the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1973, leaving it months later over its violent plans.

Thesaurus

Thesaurus: reference works or controlled vocabularies organizing words by meaning rather than alphabet, from Roget's 1852 classification to IR vocabularies like EUROVOC, UNESCO Thesaurus, and WordNet synsets.

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 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.

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 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.

Thetan

Thetan: Scientology's term, coined by L. Ron Hubbard from Greek theta, for the immortal spiritual self or soul, distinct from body and mind; basis of auditing and the confidential Operating Thetan (OT) levels.

ThetaRay

ThetaRay is a software company selling AI-based anti-money-laundering tools to banks and payment companies. Founded in 2013 by mathematicians Amir Averbuch and Ronald Coifman, it operates in over 40 countries.

Thetis (Θέτις)

Thetis (Θέτις), Greek sea goddess, leader of the fifty Nereids, daughter of Nereus and Doris, mother of Achilles by Peleus. Shapeshifter wed to a mortal under the greater-son prophecy; the Styx-dipping story is a first-century CE invention.

Theurgy

Theurgy (Θεουργία, from Greek for "divine work") is a pagan ritual practice associated with the Chaldaean Oracles and taken up by later Neoplatonists, ranging from rain-making and cures to animating statues of the gods.

They shall not pass

"They shall not pass" (Ils ne passeront pas; ¡No pasarán!) is a resistance slogan from the 1916 Battle of Verdun, attributed to General Robert Nivelle or Pétain, later used by Dolores Ibárruri's Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and at Cable Street.

Thibaw Min

Thibaw Min (သီပေါမင်း) was the last king of the Konbaung dynasty and last monarch of Burma, reigning 1878 to 1885 before British exile to India.

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Thích Nhất Hạnh, born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, was a Vietnamese Zen monk, poet, and peace activist who coined "engaged Buddhism," founded Plum Village, and was exiled from Vietnam for 39 years.

Thích Quảng Đức

Thích Quảng Đức (釋廣德), Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk (1897–1963) who self-immolated in Saigon on 11 June 1963 protesting Ngô Đình Diệm's persecution of Buddhists; Malcolm Browne's photo won World Press Photo of the Year.

Thief in law (вор в законе)

Thief in law (вор в законе) is an honorific title for elite criminal bosses who follow the thieves' code, emerging in Soviet labor camps in the late 1920s.

Thiel Capital

Thiel Capital is the private investment vehicle of Peter Thiel, a Delaware-registered family office formed in 2011 from his hedge fund Clarium Capital, distinct from Founders Fund.

Thiel College

Thiel College, a private Lutheran-related liberal arts college in Greenville, Pennsylvania founded in 1866 by William A. Passavant; Middle States accredited, test-optional, with a $100 million Join the Journey campaign and NCAA Division III Tomcats.

Thiel Fellowship

Thiel Fellowship: two-year grant program of Peter Thiel's Thiel Foundation, founded 2011 (originally $100,000, now $250,000) paying people 22 or younger, without a degree, to skip or leave college and build ventures.

Thien uyen tap anh

Thien uyen tap anh (Thiền uyển tập anh) is a Vietnamese collection of biographies of Thien (Zen) masters, written in Chinese and wood-block engraved in 1337.

Thierry A. Verdier

Thierry A. Verdier is a chaired professor at the Paris School of Economics working on international trade, political economy, and the economics of cultural transmission.

Thierry Aartsen

Thierry Aartsen, born in 1989 in Breda, is a Dutch VVD politician who served in the House of Representatives from 2018 and became Minister for Work and Participation in 2026.

Thierry Baudet

Thierry Baudet (Thierry Henri Philippe Baudet, born 1983, Heemstede) is a Dutch legal philosopher, author, and founder-leader of the Forum voor Democratie (FvD), a right-wing populist, Eurosceptic Dutch party. Known for oikophobia thesis, 2019 provincial-election win, climate denialism, and pro-Russia remarks.

Thierry Mayer

Thierry Mayer (born 1971) is a French economist and professor at Sciences Po, best known for his work with Keith Head on the gravity model of trade.

Thierry Roussel

Thierry Roussel is a French businessman, described in 1984 as heir to a French pharmaceutical firm, who married Christina Onassis that year and fathered her daughter, Athina Onassis.

Thierry Ruinart

Thierry Ruinart (1657–1709) was a French Benedictine of the Maurist congregation, a church historian and hagiographer remembered as Jean Mabillon's disciple, close companion, and biographer.

Thietmar

Thietmar, also Latinized as Dithmar, was a German bishop of Merseburg and chronicler whose eight-book Chronicon, covering 908 to 1018, is a key source for the Ottonian Empire.