Thap Muoi Plain, low, basinlike, alluvial swampy region, a northwestern extension of the Mekong delta, in southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It is bounded on the southeast by the Tien Giang River, the main channel of the Mekong River, and also drains to a lesser extent into the parallel Vam Co

Battle of Thapsus, (February 6, 46 bce [Julian calendar]), in ancient Roman history, battle during the civil war between the Caesarians and the Pompeians (49–46 bce). Thapsus was a North African seaport about 5 miles (8 km) east of present-day Teboulba, Tunisia. Quintus Metellus Scipio, Pompey’s

Thar Desert, arid region of rolling sand hills on the Indian subcontinent. It is located partly in Rajasthan state, northwestern India, and partly in Punjab and Sindh (Sind) provinces, eastern Pakistan. The Thar Desert covers some 77,000 square miles (200,000 square km) of territory. It is bordered

Buddhism: Sa-skya-pa, Bka’-brgyud-pa, and related schools: His most famous work, Thar-rgyan (Tibetan: “The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”), is one of the earliest examples of the Tibetan and Mongolian Vajrayana literary tradition Lam Rim (Tibetan: “Stages on the Path”), which presents Buddhist teachings in terms of gradations in a soteriological process leading to the attainment of…

Tharaud brothers, French brothers noted for the extent and diversity of their literary production spanning 50 years of collaboration. Many of the early works of Jérôme Tharaud (b. May 18, 1874, Saint-Junien, France—d. Jan. 28, 1953, Varengeville-sur-Mer) and Jean Tharaud (b. May 9, 1877,

Tharaud brothers: brothers noted for the extent and diversity of their literary production spanning 50 years of collaboration. Many of the early works of Jérôme Tharaud (b. May 18, 1874, Saint-Junien, France—d. Jan. 28, 1953, Varengeville-sur-Mer) and Jean Tharaud (b. May 9, 1877, Saint-Junien, France—d. April 9,…

Tharaud brothers: French brothers noted for the extent and diversity of their literary production spanning 50 years of collaboration. Many of the early works of Jérôme Tharaud (b. May 18, 1874, Saint-Junien, France—d. Jan. 28, 1953, Varengeville-sur-Mer) and Jean Tharaud (b. May 9, 1877, Saint-Junien, France—d. April…

Thargelia, in Greek religion, one of the chief festivals of Apollo, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Thargelion (May–June). According to classics scholar Walter Burkert, the festival was “common to, and characteristic of, Ionians and Athenians.” Basically a vegetation ritual onto which

Shashi Tharoor is a prominent Indian diplomat and politician who, after long service in the international diplomatic corps, became an official in the government of India. He is also a highly regarded author of both nonfiction and fiction books. Tharoor was born into an Indian expatriate family

Twyla Tharp is a popular American dancer, director, and choreographer who is known for her innovative and often humorous work. Tharp grew up in her native Portland, Indiana, and in Los Angeles, and her childhood included comprehensive training in music and dance. While a student at Barnard College,

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an American guitar player and gospel and blues singer who was popular in the 1930s and ’40s. She sang traditional gospel songs with contemporary jazz tempos that she played on her electric guitar. With these performances, she introduced gospel into nightclubs and concert

Tharrawaddy was the eighth king (reigned 1837–46) of the Alaungpaya, or Konbaung, dynasty of Myanmar (Burma), who repudiated the Treaty of Yandabo and nearly brought about a war with the British. Tharrawaddy in 1837 deposed his brother Bagyidaw (reigned 1819–37), who had been obliged to sign the

India: Principal sites: …settlement of the period is Tharro in southern Sind. This was probably originally a coastal site, although it is now many miles from the sea. There the surrounding wall and the extant traces of houses are of local stone.

Tharsis, extensive volcanic province on Mars that contains three of the planet’s most massive volcanoes. The province is focused on a rise or dome about 8,000 km (5,000 miles) across and 8 km (5 miles) high at the centre. Much of Tharsis is covered with volcanic plains, collectively called Tharsis

Tharsis, extensive volcanic province on Mars that contains three of the planet’s most massive volcanoes. The province is focused on a rise or dome about 8,000 km (5,000 miles) across and 8 km (5 miles) high at the centre. Much of Tharsis is covered with volcanic plains, collectively called Tharsis

Wadi Tharthār: …Mosul) and flowing southward to Lake Tharthār, which is a reservoir 60 miles (100 km) long. The reservoir, formerly a playa lake that varied in size with the amount of rainfall, has been connected by regulators and channels to the Sāmarrāʾ Barrage on the Tigris River, keeping it at a…

Wadi Tharthār, intermittent stream of north-central Iraq, rising from several headstreams in the Sinjār Mountains (west of Mosul) and flowing southward to Lake Tharthār, which is a reservoir 60 miles (100 km) long. The reservoir, formerly a playa lake that varied in size with the amount of

Wadi Tharthār, intermittent stream of north-central Iraq, rising from several headstreams in the Sinjār Mountains (west of Mosul) and flowing southward to Lake Tharthār, which is a reservoir 60 miles (100 km) long. The reservoir, formerly a playa lake that varied in size with the amount of

Tharu, people of the Tarai region of the Himalayan foothills, located in southern Nepal and in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. In the early 21st century the Tharu in Nepal officially numbered about 1.5 million and those in India about 170,000. They speak various dialects of Tharu, a language

Egypt: The interwar period: …succeeded by another Liberal Constitutionalist, ʿAbd al-Khāliq Tharwat (Sarwat) Pasha, who negotiated a draft treaty with the British foreign secretary. The draft treaty, however, failed to win the approval of the Wafd. Tharwat resigned in March 1928, and Muṣṭafā al-Naḥḥās Pasha, Zaghloul’s successor as head of the Wafd, became prime…

St. Cyprian was an early Christian theologian and bishop of Carthage who led the Christians of North Africa during a period of persecution from Rome. Upon his execution he became the first bishop-martyr of Africa. Cyprian was born of wealthy pagan parents and was educated in law. He practiced as a

Thasos, large, wooded island of the northernmost Aegean Sea, northeastern Greece. It constitutes a dímos (municipality) and perifereiakí enótita (regional unit) in the East Macedonia and Thrace (Modern Greek: Anatolikí Makedonía kai Thrakí) periféreia (region). It is located southwest of the delta

Thasos, large, wooded island of the northernmost Aegean Sea, northeastern Greece. It constitutes a dímos (municipality) and perifereiakí enótita (regional unit) in the East Macedonia and Thrace (Modern Greek: Anatolikí Makedonía kai Thrakí) periféreia (region). It is located southwest of the delta

Thasos, large, wooded island of the northernmost Aegean Sea, northeastern Greece. It constitutes a dímos (municipality) and perifereiakí enótita (regional unit) in the East Macedonia and Thrace (Modern Greek: Anatolikí Makedonía kai Thrakí) periféreia (region). It is located southwest of the delta

Alice Cooper: …roles on such programs as That ’70s Show. In 2018 he played King Herod in the TV movie Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. His syndicated radio show, Nights with Alice Cooper, debuted in 2004.

Carlo Emilio Gadda: …brutto de via Merulana (1957; That Awful Mess on Via Merulana), is a story of a murder and burglary in fascist Rome and of the subsequent investigation, which features characters from many levels of Roman life. The language of the novel, known to Italians as Il pasticciaccio (“The Pastiche”), is…

Michael B. Jordan: …next two movies—the romantic comedy That Awkward Moment (2014) and the superhero movie Fantastic Four (2015)—were widely panned, Jordan returned to his path to stardom when he took on the role of Adonis Creed in Coogler’s well-received and popular addition to the Rocky canon, Creed (2015). He won even more…

Edmund Goulding: The 1930s: …moved to Warner Brothers for That Certain Woman (1937), a remake of The Trespasser. It was a showcase for Bette Davis, whom Goulding would direct in several other films. White Banners (1938), with Claude Rains as an exploited inventor, did not make much of a splash, but Goulding’s remake of…

Robert Altman: Early years: …went to Canada to shoot That Cold Day in the Park (1969), a portentous modern gothic drama starring Sandy Dennis as a disturbed spinster who brings home a young drifter, with dire consequences.

Robert Stevenson: Films for Disney: That Darn Cat! (1965) was perhaps the best of Stevenson’s later movies; it featured Hayley Mills as the plucky heroine who aids an FBI agent (Dean Jones). Stevenson then made The Gnome-Mobile (1967), which was based on Upton Sinclair’s novel The Gnomobile. It offered Walter…

Tim Winton: …other novels by Winton are That Eye, the Sky (1986), Dirt Music (2001), Breath (2008), Eyrie (2013), and The Shepherd’s Hut (2018). He won the Miles Franklin Award three more times: for Cloudstreet (1992), Dirt Music (2002), and Breath (2009). He also wrote several children’s books, including

Television in the United States: The late 1960s and early ’70s: the relevance movement: That Girl (ABC, 1966–71), an old-fashioned show about a single woman living and working in the big city—with the help of her boyfriend and her “daddy”—aired on the same schedule as The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS, 1970–77), a new-fashioned comedy about a single woman…

Shirley Temple: …Grant and Myrna Loy, and That Hagen Girl (1947), with Ronald Reagan. In 1949 Temple made her last feature film, A Kiss for Corliss. She later made a brief return to entertainment with a popular television show, Shirley Temple’s Storybook, in 1957–59 and the less successful Shirley Temple Show in…

That Hideous Strength, third novel in a science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis, published in 1945. It is a sequel to Lewis’s Perelandra (1943); the first novel in the trilogy is Out of the Silent Planet (1938). The central character of the earlier stories, Elwin Ransom, is the pivotal character in

That Hideous Strength, third novel in a science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis, published in 1945. It is a sequel to Lewis’s Perelandra (1943); the first novel in the trilogy is Out of the Silent Planet (1938). The central character of the earlier stories, Elwin Ransom, is the pivotal character in

Sidney Lumet: Early work: Not much better was That Kind of Woman (1959), a romantic comedy featuring Sophia Loren as a millionaire’s mistress who falls in love with a soldier (Tab Hunter).

Vientiane: Vientiane’s outstanding building is the That Luang, a stupa (temple), dating from about 1566 and restored by Lao civil servants under Prince Phetsarath during the French colonial period. Pop. (2003 est.) city, 194,200; (2005 est.) urban agglom., 702,000.

the Beach Boys: …Honor in 2007, Brian released That Lucky Old Sun (2008), a nostalgic celebration of southern California made in collaboration with Scott Bennett and Parks. In 2012, a year after the 50th anniversary of the Beach Boys’ formation, the main surviving members reunited for a celebratory tour. The concerts coincided with…

Jean-Paul Belmondo: …engaging L’Homme de Rio (1964; That Man from Rio), a fast-moving, fantasy-filled spoof of chase films. Known for performing his own stunts, Belmondo continued to star in entertaining action films and comedies that proved immensely popular with European audiences.

Norman Taurog: Musical comedies and Boys Town: That Midnight Kiss (1949), an entertaining production, featured opera star Mario Lanza in his screen debut as a singing truck driver who whisks a socialite (Kathryn Grayson) off her feet. A box-office hit, it helped establish Lanza as a movie star. Filmgoers also turned out…

Fred Zinnemann: Films of the late 1930s and 1940s: …and short subjects such as That Mothers Might Live (1938), a study of 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweiz’s pioneering efforts in hospital sanitization, which won an Academy Award for best one-reel short subject. The director’s first B-films for the studio were Kid Glove Killer (1942), a mystery that starred Van…

E. Annie Proulx: …2002 Proulx published the novel That Old Ace in the Hole about a man who scouts the Texas Panhandle for land to be acquired by a major corporation. Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (2008) are collections of short stories.…

Billy Eckstine: …to My Head,” and “That Old Black Magic.” Eckstine posthumously received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 2019.

Carl Reiner: Film directing: …as director was the comedy That Old Feeling (1997), which starred Bette Midler and Dennis Farina as a long-divorced couple who rekindle their relationship at their daughter’s wedding.

Jostein Gaarder: …English as Vita Brevis and That Same Flower), Sirkusdirektørens datter (2001; The Ringmaster’s Daughter), Slottet i Pyreneene (2008; The Castle in the Pyrenees), and Dukkeføreren (2016; “The Puppet Master”).

Frank Sargeson: The novella That Summer was initially printed in The Penguin New Writing (1943–44) and then as a stand-alone work and again as part of a story collection (1946). It delves into the dynamics of male friendship in the singular, isolating New Zealand environment and, like much of…

Morley Callaghan: …among his later works are That Summer in Paris (1963), a memoir of Callaghan’s days in Paris in 1929 and his friendship with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, and A Fine and Private Place (1975), the story of an author who wants artistic recognition in his own country. The…

Irish literature: The 21st century: …McGahern published his final work, That They May Face the Rising Sun, which some critics have called one of the best Irish novels of all time. John Banville won the Booker Prize in 2005 for his novel The Sea, the story of an art historian who revisits the seaside village…

Tom Hanks: …wrote and directed the comedy That Thing You Do! (1996), about a fictional 1960s rock band. He later cowrote, directed, and starred opposite Julia Roberts in the romance Larry Crowne (2011), playing an unemployed man who enrolls in community college. Hanks also produced a number of films and such television…

Delbert Mann: Feature films: …Lover Come Back (1961) and That Touch of Mink (1962); the former costarred Rock Hudson, and the latter featured Cary Grant. Both films are notable examples of early 1960s romantic comedies. Hudson also starred in the aviation film A Gathering of Eagles (1963), and Glenn Ford and Geraldine Page gave…

Ernst Lubitsch: Films of the 1940s: That Uncertain Feeling (1941) was something of a disappointment after Lubitsch’s two previous triumphs. A remake of his 1925 silent comedy Kiss Me Again, it starred Douglas and Merle Oberon as an unhappily married couple who consider divorce but finally learn to appreciate each other.

satire: Motion pictures and television: That Was the Week That Was, a weekly satirical review started in England in 1962, had remarkable success for a time but succumbed to a variety of pressures, some of them political; when a version of the program was attempted in the United States, it…

S.E. Hinton: …novels for young adults include That Was Then, This Is Now (1971), Rumble Fish (1975), Tex (1979), and Taming the Star Runner (1988). Each of those books features a cast of characters who suffer from society’s ills. Young people alienated from their families and from their peers are seen to…

Ivan Albright: In 1931 Albright began That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door), which shows a scarred, decrepit door on which is hung a funeral wreath. Albright completed it in 1941, and in 1942 the work won both the Temple Gold medal at the Pennsylvania Academy…

Buddy Holly: …the Crickets’ first single, “That’ll Be the Day,” was released in 1957, their label, Brunswick, did nothing to promote it. Nevertheless, the record had an irrepressible spirit, and by year’s end it became an international multimillion-seller. Soon after, Holly became a star and an icon. Holly and the Crickets’…

Dean Martin: …hit songs such as “That’s Amore” (1953), “Memories Are Made of This” (1955), and “Everybody Loves Somebody” (1964). Simultaneously, he kept his acting career alive, beginning with the World War II drama The Young Lions (1958), in which he starred with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift

Fred Astaire: Later musicals: Easter Parade, Royal Wedding, and The Band Wagon: …steps with Gene Kelly in That’s Entertainment, Part II (1976).

Television in the United States: Reality TV: The program’s imitators included That’s Incredible! (ABC, 1980–84) and Those Amazing Animals (ABC, 1980–81). As home-video technology spread in the 1980s and ’90s, entire shows were designed around content produced by amateurs. ABC introduced America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC, begun 1990), featuring tapes sent in by home viewers hoping…

Blake Edwards: Later films: Edwards’s next film, That’s Life! (1986), was one of his most personal. Lemmon (playing a character reminiscent of Edwards) starred as a middle-aged man filled with self-doubt and fear of mortality; Andrews, as his wife, confronts the possibility of cancer. Several members of the Edwards and Lemmon families…

Adam Sandler: …twins, and in the raunchy That’s My Boy (2012), he starred as a gregarious boor reconnecting with the son he fathered as a teenager.

Carly Simon: …her plaintive alto—that included “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” (1971) and “Anticipation” (1971). The album titled Anticipation earned her a Grammy in 1971 for best new artist. “You’re So Vain,” like the album No Secrets, reached number one on the Billboard chart in 1973. She…

Earth, Wind & Fire: That’s the Way of the World (1975) lifted Earth, Wind & Fire to superstardom, yielding the hit singles “Shining Star” and “Reasons.” Their phenomenal string of 11 consecutive gold albums (sales of 500,000 copies), 8 of which also attained platinum status (sales of 1,000,000 copies),…

Burt Bacharach: …of the year for “That’s What Friends Are For” (cowritten with Sager). In 2009 he was honoured with a Grammy for lifetime achievement, and three years later he and David shared the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Bacharach’s memoir, Anyone Who Had a Heart (cowritten with Robert Greenfield), was…

the Beach Boys: …coincided with the release of That’s Why God Made the Radio, the group’s first album in two decades to feature original material. In 2013 the two-disc concert album The Beach Boys Live: The 50th Anniversary Tour was released. Brian’s solo album No Pier Pressure came out in 2015, and the…

South Asian arts: Theoretical developments: …the South and mela or thata in the North.

pandanus: Major species and uses: …especially of those from the thatch screw pine, or pandanus palm (Pandanus tectorius), which is native to Micronesia and Hawaii, and the common screw pine (P. utilis). Fibres are also obtained from the aerial roots.

Blackbeard was one of history’s most famous pirates, who became an imposing figure in American folklore. Little is known of Blackbeard’s early life, and his origins have been left to speculation. He has been widely identified as Edward Teach (or several variations thereof, including Thatch and

River Forest, village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A residential suburb of Chicago, River Forest lies on the Des Plaines River, about 12 miles (19 km) west of the city’s downtown. A sawmill built on the riverbank in 1831 drew settlers to the area. The community was temporarily known as

Margaret Thatcher: Later years: …and Asia, and established the Thatcher Foundation to support free enterprise and democracy, particularly in the newly liberated countries of central and eastern Europe. In 1995 she became a member of the Order of the Garter.

Margaret Thatcher was a British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime

Becky Thatcher, fictional character, Tom Sawyer’s sweetheart in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark

Margaret Thatcher was a British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime

Thatcherism, the political and economic ideas and policies advanced by Margaret Thatcher, Conservative prime minister (1979–90) of the United Kingdom, particularly those involving the privatization of nationalized industries, a limited role for government, free markets, low taxes, individuality,

construction: Primitive building: the Stone Age: The usual roofing material was thatch: dried grasses or reeds tied together in small bundles, which in turn were tied in an overlapping pattern to the light wooden poles that spanned between the rafters. Horizontal thatched roofs leak rain badly, but, if they are placed at the proper angle, the…

grassland: Biota: …grassland consisting of Pennisetum or Hyparrhenia develops and may be kept in this condition indefinitely through burning or through the browsing and grazing of such herbivores as elephants. Other grasses such as Aristida and Chrysopogon are important in drier sites, and Themeda occurs in cooler places at higher altitudes. Herbivorous…

Thaton, town, southern Myanmar (Burma), situated on the Tenasserim plains in the northern part of the narrow coastal strip known as Tenasserim. Once a lively seaport, Thaton, because of silting, is now 10 miles (16 km) from the Gulf of Martaban, an inlet of the Andaman Sea. The town was an early

Pagan: By the time the Thatpyinnyu Temple was built (1144), Mon influence was waning, and a Burman architecture had evolved. Its four stories, resembling a two-staged pyramid, and its orientation are new. Its interior rooms are spacious halls, rather than sparsely lit openings within a mountain mass, as in the…

Thatta, town, Sindh province, Pakistan, just west of the Indus River, inland from Karāchi and the Arabian Sea coast. During the 16th century it was the capital of the Sammā dynasty in Lower Sindh. Incorporated as a municipality in 1854, it has two mosques (notably Jāma Mosque [1647–49], built by

archaea: …been proposed, including Nanoarchaeota and Thaumarchaeota.

sweetener: Thaumatin, a protein extracted and purified from Thaumatococcus danielli, a plant found in western Africa, has found increasing use in Japan since its approval there in 1979. It combines well with monosodium glutamate and is used in typical Japanese seasonings as well as in chewing…

miracle fruit: The unrelated sweet prayer plant (Thaumatococcus daniellii) is also known as miracle fruit for its similar ability to make sour foods taste sweet.

glacial landform: Periglacial landforms: …glaciers, a zone of intense freeze-thaw activity produces periglacial features and landforms. This happens because of the unique behaviour of water as it changes from the liquid to the solid state. As water freezes, its volume increases about 9 percent. This is often combined with the process of differential ice…

meat processing: Cold shortening: Thaw rigor is a similar condition that results when meat is frozen before it enters rigor mortis. When this meat is thawed, the leftover glycogen allows for muscle contraction and the meat becomes extremely tough.

Russia: The Khrushchev era (1953–64): …leadership there was a cultural thaw, and Russian writers who had been suppressed began to publish again. Western ideas about democracy began to penetrate universities and academies. These were to leave their mark on a whole generation of Russians, most notably Mikhail Gorbachev, who later became the last leader of…

Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg: …produced the novel Ottepel (1954; The Thaw), which provoked intense controversy in the Soviet press, and the title of which has become descriptive of that period in Soviet literature. It dealt with Soviet life in a more realistic way than had the officially approved literature of the preceding period. In…

Yemen: Daily life and social customs: …sometimes wear the full-length, loose-fitting thawb—frequently with a jacket over it—but more often the traditional fūṭah, a saronglike wraparound kilt, is worn with a shirt. The turban is a common type of head covering, and a finely woven bamboo hat (shaped somewhat like a fez) called a kofiya (or kofia)…

frostbite: Recognition and treatment: Before thawing, the affected part is hard, cold, white, or bloodless. The skin is rigid and the depth of freezing difficult to determine. Frostbite is rendered more dangerous by the fact that there is no sensation of pain, and the victim may not even know that…

Mecca: City site: South of the city, Mount Thawr (2,490 feet) contains the cave in which the prophet secreted himself from his Meccan enemies during the Hijrah to Medina, the event that marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar.

Baghdad: Districts: …between 1982 and 2003, as Saddam City.

Baghdad: Districts: …between 1982 and 2003, as Saddam City.

trip-hop: …Bristolians, former Massive Attack rapper Tricky (byname of Adrian Thaws; b. Jan. 27, 1968, Bristol) and Portishead, a group formed by Massive protégé Geoff Barrow (b. Dec. 9, 1971, Southmead, Eng). Featuring the forlorn vocals of Martina Topley-Bird alongside Tricky’s croaky, mumbled rhymes, Tricky’s debut album, Maxinquaye (1995), is a…

Celia Laighton Thaxter was an American poet whose work centred thematically on the islands and ocean of her youth. Celia Laighton grew up among the Isles of Shoals off the New Hampshire coast. On Appledore Island her father operated a successful resort hotel that included among its guests Ralph

Joseph Brant was a Mohawk Indian chief who served not only as a spokesman for his people but also as a Christian missionary and a British military officer during the American Revolution (1775–83). Brant was converted to the Anglican church after two years (1761–63) at Moor’s Charity School for

Rockwell Kent: Chase, Robert Henri, and Abbott Thayer. His early works, mostly moody landscapes and seascapes, are highly stylized with dramatic tonal contrasts, as seen in The Road Roller. In the course of a varied career he worked as an architectural draftsman, as a lobsterman and carpenter on the coast of…

baseball: Baseball and the arts: ” Ernest L. Thayer’s poem, first published in the San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, gained its initial popularity through the stage performances of comic actor DeWolf Hopper, who recited the poem more than 10,000 times in hundreds of American cities and towns. “Casey at…

judicial restraint: …Harvard law professor James Bradley Thayer (1831–1902), who observed that a legislator might vote against a law because he believed it unconstitutional but nonetheless, if he later became a judge, properly vote to uphold it on the grounds of restraint.

conservatism: Japan: As one American scholar, Nathaniel B. Thayer, described them, the factions

United States Military Academy: History: Sylvanus Thayer (1817–33), who became known as the “father of the military academy” because of his lasting influence upon the West Point physical plant, the library, the curriculum, and the pedagogical method. Under Thayer’s leadership the academy produced military technicians whose skills were adaptable to…

Kiss: Lineup changes and final years: … took over on drums, and Tommy Thayer on lead guitar. The lineup of Simmons, Stanley, Singer, and Thayer endured for the next two decades, which were highlighted by concerts played in arenas worldwide. The group’s final tour, the End of the Road World Tour, began in 2019 and was set…

Islam: Social service: …institution of intertribal revenge (called thaʾr)—whereby it was not necessarily the killer who was executed but a person equal in rank to the slain person—was abolished. The pre-Islamic ethical ideal of manliness was modified and replaced by a more humane ideal of moral virtue and piety.