• thulium-169 (chemical isotope)

    thulium: …composed of the stable isotope thulium-169. Thirty-five radioactive isotopes (excluding nuclear isomers) are known. They range in mass from 144 to 179, and their half-lives range from more than 300 nanoseconds (thulium-178) to 1.92 years (thulium-171). Bombarded by neutrons, natural thulium becomes radioactive thulium-170 (128.6-day half-life), which ejects soft

  • thulium-170 (chemical isotope)

    thulium: …neutrons, natural thulium becomes radioactive thulium-170 (128.6-day half-life), which ejects soft gamma radiation with wavelength commensurate with laboratory hard X-ray sources. Only one allotropic (structural) form is known for thulium. The element adopts a close-packed hexagonal structure with a = 3.5375 Å and c = 5.5540 Å at room temperature.

  • Thullier, Mount (mountain, India)

    Nicobar Islands: The highest peak is Mount Thullier, rising to 2,106 feet (642 metres) on Great Nicobar. The islands are densely forested with coconut and betel-nut palms and pandanus, mango, margosa, and beefwood (Casuarina) trees. The population consists mostly of two ethnic groups, the Nicobarese and the Shompens. Agriculture is the…

  • thuluth script (alphabet)

    thuluth script, in calligraphy, medieval Islamic style of handwritten alphabet. Thuluth (Arabic: “one-third”) is written on the principle that one-third of each letter slopes. It is a large and elegant, cursive script, used in medieval times on mosque decorations. It took on some of the functions

  • Thum Balbach system (metallurgy)

    silver processing: From copper concentrates: …are employed, the Moebius and Thum Balbach systems. The chief difference between them is that the electrodes are disposed vertically in the Moebius system and horizontally in the Thum Balbach system. The silver obtained by electrolysis usually has a purity of three-nines fine; on occasion it may be four-nines fine,…

  • Thumanian, Hovhannes (Armenian author)

    Armenian literature: Modern: Among eastern poets, Hovhannes Thumanian wrote lyric and narrative poems; and his masterpiece, a short epic, Anush, full of songs that have become traditional, was early adapted as an opera. The most outstanding Armenian dramatist was Gabriel Sundukian, whose comedies (Hullabaloo [also called Khatabala], Pepo, The Broken Hearth)…

  • thumb (anatomy)

    thumb, short, thick first digit of the human hand and of the lower-primate hand and foot. It differs from other digits in having only two phalanges (tubular bones of the fingers and toes). The thumb also differs in having much freedom of movement and being opposable to tips of other digits. The

  • thumb drive (technology)

    USB flash drive, small portable data storage device that uses flash memory and has an integrated universal serial bus (USB) interface. Most flash drives have between 2 and 64 gigabytes (GB) of memory, but some drives can store as much as 2 terabytes (TB). A flash drive consists of a small printed

  • thumb knot

    knot: The overhand knot is the simplest type of knot and is used to make a knob in a rope, string, or cord. It is used for tying packages, to keep rope ends from fraying, and as a first step in making more complex knots such as…

  • thumb molding (architecture)

    molding: Compound or composite: (3) A bird’s beak, or thumb, molding is essentially similar to the cyma reversa, except that the upper convexity is separated from the lower concavity by a sharp edge. (4) A keel molding is a projection, which resembles the keel of a ship, consisting of a pointed…

  • thumb piano (musical instrument)

    mbira, plucked idiophone (instrument whose sounding parts are resonant solids belonging to the body of the instrument itself)—or more specifically, a lamellaphone—that is unique to Africa and widely distributed throughout the continent. The mbira consists of a series of tuned metal or bamboo

  • Thumb, General Tom (American showman)

    General Tom Thumb was an American showman noted for his small stature. He was the first major attraction promoted by the circus impresario P.T. Barnum. Born to parents of normal stature, Charles Stratton ceased growing at the age of six months and remained 25 inches (0.6 metre) tall, weighing 15

  • thumbless bat (mammal)

    smoky bat: … is also commonly called the thumbless bat. Small and delicately built, both species range in size from about 3.7 to 5.8 cm (1.5 to 2.3 inches), have tails about 2.4 to 3.6 cm (1 to 1.4 inches) in length, and weigh about 3 to 5 grams (0.1 to 0.16 ounce).…

  • Thumbsucker (film by Mills [2005])

    Vincent D’Onofrio: Roles in Law & Order: Criminal Intent and movies: …of the title character in Thumbsucker (2005), a Mississippi disc jockey (uncredited) in Cadillac Records (2008), and a criminal killed by a cop for the money he is holding in Brooklyn’s Finest (2009). In 2004 he wrote, directed, and starred in a short film, Five Minutes, Mr. Welles, an effort…

  • Thummim (ritual object)

    religious dress: Early sacerdotal dress: …which the divinatory devices of Urim and Thummim were kept. The book of Exodus specifies that it was to be woven of golden and linen threads dyed blue, purple, and scarlet (28:15). Because of its oracular function, it was called the “breastpiece of judgment.” On the face of the breastplate…

  • thumri (Indian music)

    Shobha Gurtu: …was considered the “queen of thumri,” a light classical Hindustani style.

  • Thun und Hohenstein, Franz Anton, Prince zu (prime minister of Austria)

    Franz Anton, prince zu Thun und Hohenstein was an Austrian administrator, prime minister, and governor of Bohemia, who favoured compromise with Czech nationalists but was defeated by extremist Czech and German opposition. Franz Anton was the son of Friedrich, Count von Thun und Hohenstein, and he

  • Thun und Hohenstein, Friedrich, Count von (Austrian diplomat)

    Friedrich, count von Thun und Hohenstein was an Austrian diplomat and administrator who served as president of the German federal diet at Frankfurt in 1850, where he repeatedly clashed with Prussia’s representative Otto von Bismarck. After the suppression of the 1848–49 revolutions in Germany and

  • Thun und Hohenstein, Leo, Count von (Austrian statesman)

    Leo, count von Thun und Hohenstein was a pro-Czech Austrian statesman and administrator who improved the educational establishments of the Austrian Empire, sought to resolve the antagonisms between Czechs and Germans in Bohemia, and favoured the conversion of the Habsburg monarchy into a federal

  • Thunaer (Germanic deity)

    Thor, deity common to all the early Germanic peoples, a great warrior represented as a red-bearded, middle-aged man of enormous strength, an implacable foe to the harmful race of giants but benevolent toward mankind. His figure was generally secondary to that of the god Odin, who in some traditions

  • Thunberg, Arnold Clas Robert (Finnish speed skater)

    Clas Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who, with Ivar Ballangrud of Norway, dominated the sport in the 1920s and ’30s. He won five Olympic gold medals, a record for male speed skaters that was matched by Eric Heiden in 1980. Thunberg began competing on the international level at the age of 28,

  • Thunberg, Clas (Finnish speed skater)

    Clas Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who, with Ivar Ballangrud of Norway, dominated the sport in the 1920s and ’30s. He won five Olympic gold medals, a record for male speed skaters that was matched by Eric Heiden in 1980. Thunberg began competing on the international level at the age of 28,

  • Thunberg, Greta (Swedish activist)

    Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who addresses the problem of climate change. In 2018 she founded a movement known as Fridays for Future (also called School Strike for Climate), which garnered international attention. Thunberg was credited with shifting some people’s views and

  • Thunberg, Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman (Swedish activist)

    Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who addresses the problem of climate change. In 2018 she founded a movement known as Fridays for Future (also called School Strike for Climate), which garnered international attention. Thunberg was credited with shifting some people’s views and

  • Thunbergia (plant)

    Acanthaceae: …ornamentals as bear’s-breech (Acanthus mollis), clockvine (Thunbergia), shrimp plant (Justicia brandegeana), and caricature-plant (Graptophyllum pictum). The largest genera include Justicia (600 species; now comprising former segregate genera such as Jacobinia and Beloperone), Reullia (355),

  • thunder (meteorology)

    thunder, sound caused by a lightning discharge. Lightning heats the air in its path and causes a large over-pressure of the air within its channel. The channel expands supersonically into the surrounding air as a shock wave and creates an acoustic signal that is heard as thunder. The loudest

  • Thunder Alley (American television series)

    Ed Asner: …driver in the TV series Thunder Alley (1994–95). He also voiced several animated characters during the ’90s, in shows such as Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–96; in the first five seasons), Batman: The Animated Series (1992–95; in the 1992 and 1994 seasons), and many others.

  • Thunder Bay (film by Mann [1953])

    Anthony Mann: The 1950s: westerns of Anthony Mann: …standard Wild West venue for Thunder Bay (1953), a contemporary adventure starring Stewart and Dan Duryea as oil drillers who understandably upset the local shrimp fishermen when they start blasting off the Louisiana coast. The biopic The Glenn Miller Story (1954) was a well-mounted production that dramatized the late bandleader’s…

  • Thunder Bay (city, Ontario, Canada)

    Thunder Bay, city, seat of Thunder Bay district, west-central Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior’s Thunder Bay, at the mouth of the Kaministiquia River. Probably first occupied by French fur traders as early as 1678, its site was permanently settled only after the birth of the towns Port Arthur and

  • Thunder Bay (bay, Ontario, Canada)

    Thunder Bay, inlet of northwestern Lake Superior, indenting the coast of west-central Ontario, Canada. The bay is 35 miles (55 km) long and 15 miles (24 km) wide; it receives the Kaministiquia and Current rivers. Pie Island lies at the entrance to the bay, and Sibley Provincial Park, 94 square

  • thunder cult (prehistoric religion)

    thunder cult, prehistoric beliefs and practices that at times seem directed toward one aspect of the supreme sky god and at other times appear to be concerned with a separate thunder deity. Although beginning perhaps much earlier, the thunder cult became especially prominent in western Europe

  • Thunder Force (film by Falcone [2021])

    Melissa McCarthy: Credits from the 2020s: …to end humanity; the action-comedy Thunder Force, which centers on two friends who become superheroes and battle genetic mutants; and The Starling, a drama about a woman grieving the death of an infant. In 2021 she also appeared in the miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers, which was based on a novel…

  • Thunder Gulch (racehorse)

    D. Wayne Lukas: Horse training: … races in a single year: Thunder Gulch claimed victory in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont, and Timber Country took the Preakness. After his Grindstone won the 1996 Kentucky Derby, Lukas became the first trainer to win six consecutive Triple Crown races.

  • Thunder Gultch (racehorse)

    Gary Stevens: Riding Thunder Gultch, he won both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes in 1995. Two years later, aboard Silver Charm, he captured his third Kentucky Derby and his first Preakness. In 1998 he and Victory Gallop ended Real Quiet’s bid for the Triple Crown by…

  • Thunder in the East (film by Vidor [1952])

    Charles Vidor: Later films: Thunder in the East (1952) was an adventure movie starring Alan Ladd as a gunrunner in India and Deborah Kerr as the blind daughter of a missionary. With Rhapsody (1954), Vidor returned to the world of romance and music, but Elizabeth Taylor could not elevate…

  • Thunder in the Sun (film by Rouse [1959])

    Susan Hayward: Her later films included Thunder in the Sun (1959), The Marriage-Go-Round (1961), Where Love Has Gone (1964), and Valley of the Dolls (1967). Her last appearance was in the title role of the television movie Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (1972). Hayward’s death from cancer was attributed by several writers…

  • Thunder over Mexico (film directed by Eisenstein)

    Sergei Eisenstein: …United States as the films Thunder over Mexico, Eisenstein in Mexico, and Death Day (1933–34). In 1940 a fourth film, entitled Time in the Sun, was made from the footage. A series of educational films about Mexico were also compiled by using extracts from the reels. None of those efforts…

  • thunder pumper (bird)

    bittern: The American bittern (B. lentiginosus), known locally as “stake driver” or “thunder pumper,” is slightly smaller. Other forms are the Australian bittern (B. poiciloptilus) and the South American, or pinnated, bittern (B. pinnatus).

  • Thunder Road (film by Ripley [1958])

    Thunder Road, American crime-drama film, released in 1958, that is a cult classic notable for its numerous car chases and Robert Mitchum’s performance. Mitchum played a Korean War veteran who returns to the Tennessee hills to run his family’s moonshine business. Soon, however, he becomes embroiled

  • Thunderball (novel by Fleming)

    Ian Fleming: No (1958), Goldfinger (1959), and Thunderball (1961), were made into popular motion pictures, although many deviated from Fleming’s original plots.

  • Thunderball (film by Young [1965])

    Thunderball, British spy film, released in 1965, that is the fourth James Bond movie and one of the highest-grossing installments in the series. The crime organization SPECTRE hijacks two atomic bombs from a NATO training flight and threatens to destroy a major city unless its exorbitant financial

  • thunderbird (mythological bird)

    thunderbird, in Native American mythology, a powerful spirit in the form of a bird. By its work, the earth was watered and vegetation grew. Lightning was believed to flash from its beak, and the beating of its wings was thought to represent the rolling of thunder. It was often portrayed with an

  • Thunderbird (automobile)

    Henry Ford II: …others, the Mustang and the Thunderbird, were immensely popular and are widely considered to be classics. By the mid-1950s Henry II had restored the company to financial health, and subsequently he greatly expanded Ford’s operations in overseas markets.

  • Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management (school, Glendale, Arizona, United States)

    Glendale: …Community College (1965), and the American Graduate School of International Management trains employees of U.S. firms for work abroad. The city’s attractions include State Farm Stadium, a multipurpose facility that is home to the Arizona Cardinals of NFL football, the annual Fiesta Bowl of collegiate football, and numerous other sports…

  • Thunderbirds (United States Air Force aircraft squadron)

    Thunderbirds, U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft squadron that performs aerobatics at air shows and other events throughout the United States and around the world. The squadron includes six pilots, who fly with the team for two years (half the pilots are replaced each year), and some 135 support

  • Thunderbolt (aircraft)

    P-47, fighter and fighter-bomber used by the Allied air forces during World War II. A single-seat low-wing fighter developed for the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) by Republic Aviation, it was the largest single-engined piston fighter ever produced. The P-47 originated with a June 1940 proposal by

  • Thunderbolt (film by Sturges)

    John Sturges: Early work: …than 40 documentaries, most notably Thunderbolt, on which he shared the credit with William Wyler; the classic film was shown to troops in 1945 but was not released in theatres for two more years.

  • Thunderbolts (comic book)

    Hawkeye: …before assuming leadership of the Thunderbolts, a team that proved to be one of Marvel’s most enduring creations of the 1990s. Although the premise of villains acting on the side of the law was not wholly original—John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad covered that ground a decade earlier—the monthly Thunderbolts comic focused…

  • Thunderbolts* (film by Schreier [2025])

    Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Films: Enough Said and You Hurt My Feelings: …Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) and Thunderbolts* (2025).

  • Thunderchief (aircraft)

    military aircraft: Mach 2: Also outstanding was the Republic F-105 Thunderchief, one of the largest single-engined fighters ever built. Designed to carry a nuclear bomb internally as a low-altitude penetrator and therefore exceptionally fast at low altitudes, the F-105, with heavy loads of conventional bombs under the wings, carried out the brunt of U.S.…

  • thundercloud (meteorology)

    cloud: …three heights is called a cumulonimbus. A cloud at the surface is called a fog.

  • Thunderer, The (Baltic god)

    Pērkons, sky deity of Baltic religion, renowned as the guardian of law and order and as a fertility god. The oak, as the tree most often struck by lightning, is sacred to him. Pērkons is related in functions and image to the Slavic Perun, Germanic Thor, and Greek Zeus. Often depicted as a vigorous,

  • thunderhead (meteorology)

    cloud: …three heights is called a cumulonimbus. A cloud at the surface is called a fog.

  • Thunderheart (film by Apted [1992])

    Val Kilmer: Stardom: Top Gun, The Doors, and Batman Forever: …starred alongside Sam Shepard in Thunderheart, about an FBI investigation into a murder on an Oglala Sioux reservation. The following year he had a cameo in Scott’s True Romance (1993), a crime drama cowritten by Quentin Tarantino. In the western Tombstone (1993), Kilmer played Doc Holliday

  • Thunders, Johnny (American musician)

    Television: …Heartbreakers (with ex-New York Doll Johnny Thunders), then fronted the Voidoids. Television disbanded in 1978, reuniting briefly in 1992 for an eponymous album and tour. The group reunited again in 2001, performing a series of live dates in the United Kingdom, before once again splitting up. Interest in the band…

  • thunderstorm (meteorology)

    thunderstorm, a violent short-lived weather disturbance that is almost always associated with lightning, thunder, dense clouds, heavy rain or hail, and strong gusty winds. Thunderstorms arise when layers of warm, moist air rise in a large, swift updraft to cooler regions of the atmosphere. There

  • Thunderstorm (play by Cao Yu)

    Cao Yu: …the four-act tragedy Leiyu (Thunderstorm; later adapted for film [1938] and as a dance-drama [1981]), was published. When it was performed in 1935 it instantly won Cao Yu fame as a huaju writer. His next works were Richu (1936; Sunrise; adapted as an opera [1982] and for film [1938…

  • Thune, John (United States senator)

    John Thune is an American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and began representing South Dakota the following year. Thune became the Senate majority leader in 2025. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1997–2003). While in high school, Thune

  • Thune, John Randolph (United States senator)

    John Thune is an American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and began representing South Dakota the following year. Thune became the Senate majority leader in 2025. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1997–2003). While in high school, Thune

  • Thünen, Johann Heinrich von (German agriculturalist)

    Johann Heinrich von Thünen was a German agriculturalist best known for his work on the relationship between the costs of commodity transportation and the location of production. In 1810 Thünen began gathering data for the book for which he is remembered, Der isolierte Staat (1826; “The Isolated

  • Thunnupa (mythological character)

    mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: South American and Caribbean rural cultures: …of the Aymara culture is Thunnupa, a bearded white man from the north who opposed polygamy and chicha, a beer commonly drunk at festivals. Animal tales are also very common in this culture, some having Aesop-like plots. Fox is the comical character in these tales, as he is in many…

  • Thunnus alalunga (fish)

    albacore, (species Thunnus alalunga), large oceanic fish noted for its fine flesh. The bluefin tuna (T. thynnus) is also sometimes called albacore. See

  • Thunnus albacares (fish)

    Hawaii: Agriculture, forestry, and fishing: …fish catch is tuna, especially yellowfin.

  • Thunnus atlanticus (fish)

    tuna: obesus), blackfin tuna (T. atlanticus), and longtail tuna (T. tonggol). These different species range from moderate to very large in size. The giant of the group is the northern bluefin tuna, which grows to a maximum length and weight of about 4.3 metres (14 feet) and…

  • Thunnus maccoyii (fish)

    tuna: albacares), southern bluefin tuna (T. thynnus maccoyii), bigeye tuna (T. obesus), blackfin tuna (T. atlanticus), and longtail tuna (T. tonggol). These different species range from moderate to very large in size. The giant of the group is the northern bluefin tuna, which grows to a maximum…

  • Thunnus obesus (fish)

    tuna: …on each side; and the bigeye, a robust fish with relatively large eyes.

  • Thunnus thynnus (fish)

    tuna: …of the group is the northern bluefin tuna, which grows to a maximum length and weight of about 4.3 metres (14 feet) and 800 kg (1,800 pounds). The yellowfin tuna reaches a maximum weight of about 180 kg (397 pounds), and the albacore grows to about 36 kg (79 pounds).

  • Thunnus tonggol (fish)

    tuna: atlanticus), and longtail tuna (T. tonggol). These different species range from moderate to very large in size. The giant of the group is the northern bluefin tuna, which grows to a maximum length and weight of about 4.3 metres (14 feet) and 800 kg (1,800 pounds). The…

  • Thunor (Germanic deity)

    Thor, deity common to all the early Germanic peoples, a great warrior represented as a red-bearded, middle-aged man of enormous strength, an implacable foe to the harmful race of giants but benevolent toward mankind. His figure was generally secondary to that of the god Odin, who in some traditions

  • Thupa ’Inka Yupanki (emperor of Incas)

    pre-Columbian civilizations: Topa Inca Yupanqui: About 1471, Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui abdicated in favor of his son Topa Inca Yupanqui, thereby ensuring the peaceful succession to the throne. Topa Inca Yupanqui was a great conqueror who was to bring most of the Central Andes region under Inca rule.…

  • Thupa Wallpa (emperor of Incas)

    pre-Columbian civilizations: Civil war on the eve of the Spanish conquest: …corporation of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui); Topa Huallpa (Thupa Wallpa); and Paullu Topa (Pawllu Thupa).

  • Thūpavaṃsaya (work by Pārakrama Paṇḍita)

    South Asian arts: Sinhalese literature: 10th century ad to 19th century: …of such chronicles is the Thūpavaṃsaya (“Chronicle of the Great Stupa”), by Pārakrama Paṇḍita. Subsequent chronicles, or genealogies of places, comprise the history of all of the major Buddhist monuments. Several chronicles were also inspired by the Tooth Relic, received from Kaliṅga in the 4th century by King Kīrtiśrīmēghavarṇa. Such…

  • Thurber, James (American writer and cartoonist)

    James Thurber was an American writer and cartoonist, whose well-known and highly acclaimed writings and drawings picture the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is befuddled and beset by a world that he neither created nor understands. Thurber attended the Ohio State University

  • Thurber, James Grover (American writer and cartoonist)

    James Thurber was an American writer and cartoonist, whose well-known and highly acclaimed writings and drawings picture the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is befuddled and beset by a world that he neither created nor understands. Thurber attended the Ohio State University

  • Thurber, Jeannette Meyer (American music patron)

    Jeannette Meyer Thurber was an American music patron who devoted her efforts to creating a government-funded music conservatory in the United States. Jeannette Meyer was privately educated in New York and Paris. In 1869 she married Francis B. Thurber, a wholesale grocer and later a lawyer.

  • Thuret, Gustave-Adolphe (French botanist)

    Gustave-Adolphe Thuret was a French botanist who gave the first accounts of fertilization in the brown algae. After receiving a law degree in 1838, Thuret began to study botany under Joseph Decaisne. He became interested in the history and behaviour of the marine algae and in about 1840 described

  • Thurgau (canton, Switzerland)

    Thurgau, canton, northeastern Switzerland. It is bordered on the north by Lake Constance (Bodensee), by the Rhine River on the northwest, and by the cantons of Sankt Gallen on the south and Zürich and Schaffhausen on the west. With an area of 383 square miles (991 square km), it is divided into

  • Thurgood Marshall School of Law (school, Houston, Texas, United States)

    Texas Southern University: …School of Business; and the Thurgood Marshall School of Law. The Robert James Terry Library houses the Heartman Collection of African American history as well as the archives of alumna Barbara C. Jordan, U.S. congresswoman in 1972–78. Research is conducted at the Center for Excellence in Urban Education, the Research…

  • Thurgovie (canton, Switzerland)

    Thurgau, canton, northeastern Switzerland. It is bordered on the north by Lake Constance (Bodensee), by the Rhine River on the northwest, and by the cantons of Sankt Gallen on the south and Zürich and Schaffhausen on the west. With an area of 383 square miles (991 square km), it is divided into

  • Thuria (ancient city, Italy)

    Thurii, ancient Greek city of southern Italy, near the mouth of the Crathis River, in the province of Cosenza. After Sybaris was destroyed by Croton (448 bce), its citizens founded a new Sybaris with Athenian aid; the Athenians subsequently expelled the Sybarites, repopulated the city with

  • thurible (religious object)

    thurible, vessel used in the Christian liturgy for the burning of aromatic incense strewn on lighted coals. Censers of terra-cotta or metal were widely used in Egypt, in the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations, including the Jewish, and in the classical world. Because they were destined chiefly

  • Thurii (ancient city, Italy)

    Thurii, ancient Greek city of southern Italy, near the mouth of the Crathis River, in the province of Cosenza. After Sybaris was destroyed by Croton (448 bce), its citizens founded a new Sybaris with Athenian aid; the Athenians subsequently expelled the Sybarites, repopulated the city with

  • Thüringen (historical region and state, Germany)

    Thuringia, historic region and Land (state) of east-central Germany. Thuringia is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony to the northwest, Saxony-Anhalt to the northeast, Saxony to the southeast, Bavaria to the south, and Hessen to the west. The capital is Erfurt. Area 6,244 square miles

  • Thüringen Becken (region, Germany)

    Thuringian Basin, fertile agricultural region of Germany, between the Harz mountains on the north and the Thuringian Forest range on the south. It extends westward from the Saxon lowland. The basin’s eastward-flowing streams, tributaries of the Saale River, swell—and sometimes flood—with snowmelt

  • Thüringerwald (mountains, Germany)

    Thuringian Forest, range of forested hills and mountains in Germany, extending in an irregular line from the neighbourhood of Eisenach in west-central Thuringia southeastward to the Bavarian frontier, where it merges with the Franconian Forest. Its breadth varies from 6 to 22 miles (10 to 35 km).

  • Thuringia (historical region and state, Germany)

    Thuringia, historic region and Land (state) of east-central Germany. Thuringia is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony to the northwest, Saxony-Anhalt to the northeast, Saxony to the southeast, Bavaria to the south, and Hessen to the west. The capital is Erfurt. Area 6,244 square miles

  • Thuringian (historical people)

    Thuringia: History of Thuringia: The Germanic Thuringians appeared after about ad 350 and were conquered by the Huns in the second quarter of the 5th century, but by 500 they had established a large kingdom stretching from the Harz mountains to the Danube. As a result of the defeat of their…

  • Thuringian (language)

    Germany: Languages of Germany: …or Franconian, dialect and the Thuringian dialect helped to form the basis of modern standard German. The present-day influence of Thuringian is of greatest significance in Thuringia, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt states. East Franconian is spoken in northern Bavaria, South Franconian in northern Baden-Württemberg. The Rhenish Franconian dialect extends northwest from…

  • Thuringian Basin (region, Germany)

    Thuringian Basin, fertile agricultural region of Germany, between the Harz mountains on the north and the Thuringian Forest range on the south. It extends westward from the Saxon lowland. The basin’s eastward-flowing streams, tributaries of the Saale River, swell—and sometimes flood—with snowmelt

  • Thuringian Forest (mountains, Germany)

    Thuringian Forest, range of forested hills and mountains in Germany, extending in an irregular line from the neighbourhood of Eisenach in west-central Thuringia southeastward to the Bavarian frontier, where it merges with the Franconian Forest. Its breadth varies from 6 to 22 miles (10 to 35 km).

  • Thurium (ancient city, Italy)

    Thurii, ancient Greek city of southern Italy, near the mouth of the Crathis River, in the province of Cosenza. After Sybaris was destroyed by Croton (448 bce), its citizens founded a new Sybaris with Athenian aid; the Athenians subsequently expelled the Sybarites, repopulated the city with

  • Thurles (Ireland)

    Thurles, town, County Tipperary, Ireland, on the banks of the River Suir. The seat of the Roman Catholic archbishopric of Cashel and Emly, the town is a marketing centre for a large agricultural area; it has a sugar beet factory, and it is a well-known sporting centre. The Knights Templar held a

  • Thurloe, John (English statesman)

    John Thurloe was an English secretary of state during Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate. His voluminous correspondence provides one of the chief historical sources for the Cromwellian era. Thurloe entered politics as secretary to the Parliamentary leader Oliver St. John and in March 1652 was appointed

  • Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron (British statesman)

    Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow was the lord chancellor of England from June 1778 to April 1783 and from December 1783 to June 1792, who gained that office and continued to hold it under a variety of prime ministers by supporting the extreme conservatism of King George III. He was noted more for

  • Thurman, Allen G. (American politician)

    United States presidential election of 1888: Tariff reform tensions: Allen G. Thurman filling the vice presidential slot on the ticket. (Thomas A. Hendricks, Cleveland’s first vice president, had died during the first year of his term, and the Constitution at the time did not allow for a replacement.) Later that month, the Republicans held…

  • Thurman, Howard (American theologian and scholar)

    Howard Thurman was an American Baptist preacher and theologian, the first African American dean of chapel at a traditionally white American university, and a founder of the first interracial interfaith congregation in the United States. Thurman was the grandson of former slaves who stressed

  • Thurman, Howard Washington (American theologian and scholar)

    Howard Thurman was an American Baptist preacher and theologian, the first African American dean of chapel at a traditionally white American university, and a founder of the first interracial interfaith congregation in the United States. Thurman was the grandson of former slaves who stressed

  • Thurman, Keith (American boxer)

    Manny Pacquiao: …decision over the previously undefeated Keith Thurman to take the WBA super welterweight belt and become, at 40 years old, the oldest welterweight champion in boxing history. However, due to inactivity, in 2021 Pacquaio was stripped of the belt, which was then given to Yordenis Ugás of Cuba. Later that…

  • Thurman, Uma (American actress)

    Known for her statuesque beauty and sophisticated demeanor, American actress Uma Thurman began appearing in films in the late 1980s before landing her breakout role as raven-haired trophy wife Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino’s neo-noir Pulp Fiction (1994). It was not long before Thurman began

  • Thurman, Uma Karuna (American actress)

    Known for her statuesque beauty and sophisticated demeanor, American actress Uma Thurman began appearing in films in the late 1980s before landing her breakout role as raven-haired trophy wife Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino’s neo-noir Pulp Fiction (1994). It was not long before Thurman began