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The Thorn Birds The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, an Australian author. In 1983 it was adapted as a television mini-series that, during its television run became the United States' second highest rating mini-series of all time behind Roots; both series were produced by television veteran David L.
The Thorns (album) The Thorns is the self-titled debut album by rock supergroup The Thorns. Released by Aware Records in 2003, it was produced by Brendan O'Brien following songwriting sessions by the three members before they officially became a band.
The Thousand Mile Summer The Thousand Mile Summer, in desert and high sierra, by Colin Fletcher is the author's chronicle of his 1958 hike along the entire eastern edge of California. Fletcher writes of traveling on foot along the Colorado River, though Death Valley and the High Sierras.
The Thrawn trilogy The Thrawn trilogy, also known as The Three Book Cycle and The Heir To The Empire trilogy, is a trilogy of novels written by Timothy Zahn that are set in the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe galaxy about five years after Return of the Jedi. The trilogy proved to be extremely popular among Star Wars fans and the general public when it was released, and secured the author a position as a respected figure in Star Wars literature.
The Threat Within The Threat Within by Jude Watson is the eighteenth and final book in a series of young reader novels called Jedi Apprentice. The series explores the adventures of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi prior to Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
The Threateners The Threateners is the title of a spy novel by Donald Hamilton first published in 1992. It was the twenty-sixth installment of the Matt Helm series, and saw the return of the character after a three-year hiatus.
The Three Aces The Three Aces is a card trick where the magician places the Ace of Diamonds in the middle of the deck, and the two black Aces (Spades and Clubs) on the top and bottom of the deck. The deck is cut, and all three aces are found together in the middle of the deck.
The Three Bears The Three Bears or Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a notable children's bedtime story. Often considered an anonymous folk story, even one of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm, it actually first saw print in 1837 as a prose story composed by the poet Robert Southey and collected in his book The Doctor.
The Three Caballeros The Three Caballeros is a 1944 animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon and a sequel to 1942's Saludos Amigos, the film is an adventure through parts of Latin America, combining live-action and animation.
The Three Doctors The Three Doctors is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast in four weekly parts from the December 30, 1972 to January 20, 1973. The serial opened the tenth anniversary year of the series.
The Three Evangelists The Three Evangelists ("Debout les Morts") is a 1995 novel by French author Fred Vargas, translated into English in 2006. It was shortlisted for, and eventually won, the inaugural CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.
The Three Generals The Three Generals are an experimental band from Sydney, Australia. All members of the band are Multi-Instrumentalists, however their main roles are: band leader General Steel on guitar, back-up vocals and brass instruments with General Coal on main vocals, bass guitar and keyboards with General Grain producing, drumming and providing back-up vocals.
The Three Graces Antonio Canova’s statue The Three Graces is a Neo-Classical sculpture, in marble, of the mythological three charites, daughters of Zeus – identified on some engravings of the statue as, from left to right, Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia - who were said to represent beauty, charm and joy. The Graces presided over banquets and gatherings primarily to entertain and delight the guests of the Gods.
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti The Three Christs of Ypsilanti (1964) is a book-length psychiatric case study by Milton Rokeach, concerning his experiment with a group of schizophrenic patients at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
The Three Linden Trees The Three Linden Trees (Drei Linden) is a 1912 fairy tale by Herman Hesse strongly influenced by the Greek legend of Damon and Pythias. The story, set in the medieval period, tries to explain three huge linden trees whose branches intertwine to cover the entire cemetery of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Berlin.
The Three Little Men in the Wood The Three Little Men in the Wood or The Three Dwarfs is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 13.Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales, ""The Three Little Men in the Wood" Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book.
The Three Lives of Thomasina The Three Lives of Thomasina is a 1964 film by Walt Disney Pictures and based on the Young Adult/Adult Novel "Thomasina, the Cat Who Thought She was God" by Paul Gallico, published in 1957. Patrick McGoohan and Karen Dotrice star as an embittered veterinarian/father and daughter, whose strained relationship is repaired by the magical/coincidental reappearance of her presumed-dead cat, Thomasina.
The Three Marias (film) As TrĂŞs Marias (The Three Marias in English) is a 2002 Brazilian independent film that tells the story of a woman (played by Marieta Severo) who takes revenge on her former lover and his family with the help of her three daughters. The movie depends on heavy mysticism and Catholic imagery to tell the story.
The Three Musketeers (1933 serial) The Three Musketeers is a 1933 serial film produced by Mascot Studios which updates Dumas' The Three Musketeers by setting the story in contemporary North Africa. The Musketeers are soldiers in the French Foreign Legion, and D'Artagnan (renamed Lt.
The Three Musketeers (Supreme Court) The "Three Musketeers" was the nickname given to three liberal members of during the 1932-1937 terms of the United States Supreme Court, who generally supported the New Deal agenda of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They were Justices Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N.
The Three Musketeers (video game) The Three Musketeers (or, as it is also referred to, Los Tres Mosqueteros) is a PC platformer published and developed by Swedish developer Legendo. The game, which features two-dimensional movement through a cartoonish three-dimensional environment, is based on the Dumas classic The Three Musketeers.
The Three O'Clock The Three O'Clock was a rock group associated with Los Angeles' Paisley Underground scene in the early 1980s. Lead singer and bassist Michael Quercio is credited with coining the term "Paisley Underground" to describe bands such as Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Green On Red and the Bangles.
The Three Periods The Three Periods is a Quebec sovereigntist strategy. Before the 1993 federal election in Canada, Parti Québécois (PQ) leader Jacques Parizeau evoked a strategy for attainment of Quebec independence called the Three Periods.
The Three Princes of Serendip The Three Princes of Serendip is an old Persian fairy tale about three men who were on a mission but they always found something that was irrelevant but needed in reality. They discovered things by serendipity and sagacity.
The Three Ravens "The Three Ravens" (Roud 5) is a folk ballad, recorded in the song book Melismata compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft and published in 1611, but it is doubtless older than that. More recent versions were recorded right up through the 19th century.
The Three Sisters (Ireland) The Three Sisters are three rivers in Ireland: the River Barrow, the River Nore and River Suir. Together all three rise in the same mountainous area in County Tipperary and join the sea in the same bay southwest of the city of Waterford.
The Three Soldiers The Three Soldiers (also known as The Three Servicemen) is a bronze statue on the Washington, DC National Mall commemorating the Vietnam War. The grouping consists of three young men, armed and dressed appropriately for the Vietnam War era, purposely identifiable as Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic.
The Three Sounds The Three Sounds (also known as The 3 Sounds) were a jazz trio that formed in 1956. The trio played and recorded with Lester Young, Lou Donaldson, Nat Adderley, Johnny Griffin, Anita O'Day, Stanley Turrentine and Sonny Stitt among others.
The Three Stooges (video game) The Three Stooges is a video game by Cinemaware originally released in 1987 for the Amiga and later ported for different systems including the NES. The game involves Stooges Moe, Larry and Curly playing arcade mini games derived from the Stooges' classic films in an effort to raise enough money to save an old widow's orphanage.
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963) was the fifth feature film made by the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity. By this time, the trio consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita.
The Three Stooges in Orbit The Three Stooges In Orbit (1962) was the fourth feature film to star the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity. By this time, the trio consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita.
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962) was the third feature film to star the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity. By this time, the trio consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita.
The Three Tailors The Three Tailors of Tooley Street were, according to Prime Minister George Canning, individuals who presented a petition of grievances to Parliament claiming to represent "We, the people of England."
The Three Tenors The Three Tenors is a name given to collaborative concerts of the three operatic tenors Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti. The trio began their collaboration with a debut concert at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome held on the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup final in Italy, on July 7, 1990, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.
The Three Weeks The Three Weeks or Bein ha-Metzarim (Hebrew: בין המצרים, "Between the [is a period of mourning commemorating the destruction of the first and second Jewish Temples]. The Three Weeks start on the seventeenth day of the Jewish month of [[Tammuz (month)|Tammuz — the fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz — and end on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av — the fast of Tisha B'Av, which occurs exactly three weeks later.
The Three Worlds The Three Worlds cycle is a series of novels written by author Ian Irvine. The series comprises of The View from the Mirror quartet, The Well of Echoes quartet, The Song of the Tears trilogy, and the single novel The Fate of the Children.
The Three Worlds of Gulliver The Three Worlds of Gulliver is a 1960 movie based on the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. It was directed by Jack Sher and featured stop-motion animation and special visual effects by Ray Harryhausen.
The Three-Arched Bridge The Three Arched Bridge (Ura Me Tri Harqe) is a 1978 novel by Ismail Kadare, the world-renowned Albanian writer. The story concerns the construction of a strategically important Balkan bridge in 1377 in the waning days of the Byzantine Empire, as the Ottomans were advancing into southeastern Europe.
The Threepenny Opera The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) was a revolutionary piece of musical theatre adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera by John Gay. Written by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht in collaboration with the translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and the composer Kurt Weill in 1928, it was a socialist critique of the capitalist world.
The Threshold HouseBoy's Choir The Threshold HouseBoy's Choir is a musical guise for Peter Christopherson, announced in 2005 as a follow up endeavor to his former group Coil. Despite the misleading name, it is a solo project which relies heavily on computer generated vocals, of which he is formally credited as the 'director'.
The Thrill of It All The Thrill of It All, a 1963 movie comedy, features Doris Day as a housewife who accidentally winds up a popular TV commercial personality, much to the irritation of her husband (James Garner), who couldn't bear the thought of his wife working (this was 1963). The film was written by Larry Gelbart and Carl Reiner, and directed by Norman Jewison.
The Thrills The Thrills are an Irish indie/rock band, formed in 2001 in Dublin. The band is made up of lead vocalist Conor Deasy, guitarist Daniel Ryan, bass player Padraic McMahon, pianist Kevin Horan and drummer Ben Carrigan.
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power", an article highly critical of Scientology, was written by investigative journalist Richard Behar and first published in the May 6, 1991 edition of Time Magazine as a ten page cover story. Time Magazine makes the full-text of the article available on its website.
The Throne of Bloodstone H4 - The Throne of Bloodstone (ISBN 0-88038-560-X) is an Official Game Adventure or "module" for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. While this is the fourth adventure in the Bloodstone pass saga, and the second that sets the sage in the Forgotten Realms, it is the first publication that bears the official Forgotten Realms logo.
The Thunderthief The Thunderthief is John Paul Jones's second solo album, following his debut Zooma. It features his first solo attempts at lyric writing and singing, for which he employs a range of styles to convey the mood of the non-instrumental songs.
The Tick The Tick is a comedic superhero created by Ben Edlund, known for its surreal humour and characters. The Tick is an absurdist parody of superheroes, originally found in an independent comic book series started in 1988, subsequently gaining popularity through an animated television series on the Fox Network.
The Ticket That Exploded (band) The Ticket That Exploded is an acoustic guitar and vocal duo from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, comprising Vincent de Bel and Nathan de Vos. Making music with roots in the genres pop, indie rock, and country they create a fresh and unique sound which they hold on to throughout their entire repertoire.
The Tides of Manaunaun In 1917, around the time he turned twenty, American composer Henry Cowell (1897–1965) wrote the short piano piece The Tides of Manaunaun. It was originally composed as a prelude to the theatrical production The Building of Banba—described by some scholars as a "pageant" or "play," by Cowell himself (more than fifty years later) as an "opera"—based on Irish mythological poems by the theosophist John Osborne Varian.
The Tie That Binds Kent Haruf's [pronounced to rhyme with "sheriff"] novel The Tie That Binds (1984), is the fictitious story of 80 year-old Edith Goodnough of Holt County, Colorado, as told to an unnamed inquirer on a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1977 by her 50 year-old neighbour, a farmer called Sanders Roscoe. Roscoe is not necessarily a reliable narrator: He has loved, respected, and pitied Edith all his life.
The Ties That Bind (Star Wars) The Ties That Bind by Jude Watson is the fourteenth in a series of young reader novels called Jedi Apprentice. The series explores the adventures of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi prior to Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
The Tiger Brigades The Tiger Brigades (French: Les Brigades du Tigre) is a 2006 French crime film, based on a 1970s-'80s French television series of the same name. The story involves an Untouchables-type crack "Flying Squad" formed by Georges Clemenceau to combat rampant crime in 1912 Paris.
The Tiger Rising The Tiger Rising is a 2001 children's book written by Newbery Medal winning author Kate DiCamillo. It is about a 12-year old boy named Rob Horton who finds a caged tiger in the middle of the woods near his home.
The Tigger Movie The Tigger Movie is a 2000 film produced by The Walt Disney Company and directed by Jun Falkenstein. Part of the Winnie the Pooh series, this film features Pooh's friend Tigger in his search for his family tree and other Tiggers like himself.
The Tights The Tights are a British punk-rock band from Worcester. The band's only two singles were released by the Cherry Red Records label: "Bad Hearts / It / Cracked" (1978) and "Howard Hughes / China's Eternal" (1978).
The Tilery The Tilery is an application switcher and utility for the Mac OS, which places tiles on the user's desktop for each open application. It was written by Rick Holzgrafe, and first released in 1991 for System 7 by Semicolon Software.
The Timaru Herald The Timaru Herald is a daily provincial newspaper serving the Timaru, South Canterbury and Otago districts of New Zealand. The current audited daily circulation is about 14,500 copies, with a readership of about 31,000 people.
The Time Machine (2002 film) The Time Machine is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Simon Wells as a remake of The Time Machine (1960), and starring Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, Sienna Guillory, and Phyllida Law with a cameo by Alan Young from the earlier film. Like the original film, this movie is loosely based on the 1895 novel The Time Machine by H.
The Time Meddler The Time Meddler is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from July 3 to July 24, 1965. The story is set on the western coast of England in late summer, 1066.
The Time of the Daleks The Time of the Daleks is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the last serial in the Dalek Empire arc, which began with The Genocide Machine and continued in The Apocalypse Element and The Mutant Phase.
The Time of the Transference Time of the Transference (1987) is a fantasy novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the continuing adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic.
The Time of Your Life The Time of Your Life, a three-act play by American playwright William Saroyan that opened in 1939. This play was the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
The Time Traveler's Wife The Time Traveler's Wife (ISBN 0-15-602943-X) is a novel by Audrey Niffenegger. It is an unconventional love story that centers on a man with a strange genetic disorder that causes him to unpredictably time-travel and his wife, an artist, who has to cope with his constant absence.
The Time Travelers (1964 film) The Time Travelers is a 1964 science fiction film by B-movie director Ib Melchior that inspired the 1966 TV series The Time Tunnel. The plot involves a group of scientists who find their time-viewing screen becomes a portal allowing them to travel through time.
The Time Traveller (fanzine) The Time Traveller was one of the earliest science fiction fanzines, started in 1932. It grew out of a New York City fan club called the Scienceers and was started by Mort Weisinger, Julius Schwartz, Allen Glasser, and Forrest J.
The Time Travellers The Time Travellers is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon Guerrier and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan.
The Time Warrior The Time Warrior is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from December 15, 1973 to January 5, 1974. It opened Season 11, and was the first to feature Elisabeth Sladen as the Doctor's new companion, Sarah Jane Smith.
The Timekeeper The Timekeeper (also known as "From Time to Time" and "De Temps en Temps") was a 1992 Circle-Vision 360° film that was performed at three Disney parks around the world. Unlike previous films, it was the first show that was arranged and filmed with an actual plot and not just visions of landscapes, and the first to utilize Audio-Animatronics.
The Times The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. For much of its history it has been regarded as Britain's newspaper of record and preserved in the British Library's newspaper library in that capacity.
The Times Higher Education Supplement The Times Higher Education Supplement, also known as The Times Higher or The THES for short, is a newspaper based in London that reports specifically on issues related to higher education. It is owned by TSL Education, which was, until October 2005, a division of News International.
The Times-Tribune (Corbin) The Times-Tribune is a is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) afternoon daily newspaper based in Corbin, Kentucky, and covering Knox, Laurel and Whitley counties in that state. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
The Timothy Plan The Timothy Plan is a mutual fund company that screens its investments for abortion, pornography, anti-family entertainment, anti-family policies, alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. It is part of a growing niche of investing called moral investing, which, similar to socially responsible investing attempts to impact culture with investment dollars.
The Tin Flute The Tin Flute (1947), Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy’s unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for love.
The Tin Man (horse) Born in California on February 18, 1998, The Tin Man is a thoroughbred racehorse by the great Affirmed, the last horse to win the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. His dam was the unplaced Lizzie Rolfe by another great horse, Tom Rolfe, who was an exceptional racehorse but a better broodmare sire.
The Tin Mine The Tin Mine (Thai title: Maha'lai muang rae) is a 2005 Thai biographical drama film directed by Jira Maligool. It is adapted from short stories by Ajin Panjapan and his semi-autobiographical account of growing up in a mine in Southern Thailand during post-World War II.
The Tin Star The Tin Star is a 1957 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, in one of Perkins' first roles. The film became one of the few low budget westerns to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Story or Screenplay.
The Tingler The Tingler is a 1959 horror, thriller film by the American producer and director William Castle. It is the third of five collaborations with writer Robb White and stars Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, Pamela Lincoln, Philip Coolidge and Judith Evelyn.
The Tinklers The Tinklers are a band from Baltimore who have been together since 1979. The group consists of Charles Brohawn and Chris Mason, both of whom sing, play guitar, and percussion instruments of varying degrees of quality (including cigar boxes, spoons, and other types of junk).
The Tiny The Tiny is a Swedish band consisting of pianist and vocalist Ellekari Larsson, cellist Leo Svensson, and double bassist Johan Berthling (sometimes replaced by Patric Thorman or Torbjörn Zetterberg in live shows). Larsson's DetErMine Records distributes the band's albums in Sweden, while they are signed to Eyeball Records in the United States.
The Tipping Point (book) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (ISBN 0-316-31696-2) is a book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little Brown in 2000. Tipping point is a sociological term that refers to the moment when something unique becomes common.
The Tipton Hotel The Tipton Hotel is a fictional hotel from the Disney Channel television series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. It is the main setting for the series, particularly the basement, the Tipton's 5-star restaurant, the lobby, the game room, the Martins' suite on the 23rd floor, and London Tipton's penthouse.
The Titanic (song) "The Titanic" (also known as "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down" and "Titanic (Husbands and Wives)") is a folk song and children's song most known for being sung in the United States at summer camp. "The Titanic" is based on the sinking of the RMS Titanic which sank on April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg.
The Titanics The Titanics were an Australian indie rock band fronted by David McCormack from Custard. Also in the band was Custard drummer Glenn Thompson, who played guitar, McCormack's then-wife Emma Tom on bass and Thompson's wife Tina Havelock-Stevens on drums.
The Titté Brothers The Titté Brothers are a fictional performance group found in the first season finalé of the Upright Citizens Brigade. Each episode in the season has a reference to the group which culminates with their appearance in the final episode.
The TKO Horns The TKO Horns were horn section formed in 1982 when Big Jim Paterson (trombone), Paul Speare (tenor sax) and Brian Maurice (alto sax) left Dexy's Midnight Runners. After a brief spell touring with Paul Young's Q Tips they began performing on a regular basis with Elvis Costello.
The Toad Disco The Toad Disco is the pseudonym of a ridiculous little boy from Livonia, MI (His Name Is Alive hail from there as well). His first EP, "Shoegazing Is Bullshit", is self-indulgent, contains no references to either badgers nor robots, and is a light-heartedly noisey affair.
The Toff In the series of adventure novels by John Creasey, the Toff is the nickname of the Honourable Richard Rollison, an upper-class crime solver. Creasey published almost 60 Toff adventures, beginning with Introducing the Toff in 1938 and continuing through The Toff and the Crooked Copper, published in 1977, four years after the author's death.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (), also known as or TEPCO, is a company that supplies electric power to Tokyo, the surrounding KantĹŤ region, Yamanashi Prefecture, and eastern Shizuoka Prefecture. According to Fortune magazine, it is the largest electric power company in Japan by revenue (US$50 billion in 2005).
The Tokyo Tapes The Tokyo Tapes is a live Steve Hackett album featuring a progressive rock supergroup lineup of John Wetton from King Crimson, UK and Asia; Chester Thompson from Weather Report, Frank Zappa and Genesis live; Ian McDonald, also from Crimson, and Foreigner; and rounded out by keyboards man Julian Colbeck. Recorded live in Japan in 1996.
The Toll of the Sea The Toll of the Sea is a motion picture produced by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, and released by Metro Pictures in 1922, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role. It was the seventh color feature, the second Technicolor feature, the first color feature made in Hollywood, and the first color feature anywhere that did not require a special projector to be shown.
The Toll-Gate The Toll-Gate is a Regency novel by Georgette Heyer. Unlike many of Heyer's historical novels which concentrate on a plucky heroine, this one follows the adventures of a male main character, an ex-Captain in the British Army who has returned from the Peninsular War and finds life as a civilian rather dull.
The Tom Green Show The Tom Green Show was a Canadian (later American) television show which first aired in September 1994 on Rogers Television 22, a community channel in Ottawa, Ontario until 1996, and was later picked up by the Comedy Network in 1997. (In 1996, Green also produced a pilot episode for CBC Television, although the CBC did not pick up the series.
The Tomb of Frederick the Great The Tomb of Frederick the Great was a subject to which Old Fritz, as he was popularly known, gave a great deal of thought. Frederick the Great died on August 17, 1786 in the armchair of his study in Sanssouci.
The Tombalbaye Regime The president François Tombalbaye faced a task of considerable magnitude when Chad became a sovereign state in 1960. His challenge was to build a nation out of a vast and diverse territory that had poor communications, few known resources, a tiny market, and a collection of impoverished people with sharply differing political traditions, ethnic and regional loyalties, and sociocultural patterns.
The Tome of Eternal Darkness The Tome of Eternal Darkness is a fictional book found in the video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. It is key to the plot, in that it contains the stories of all of the characters (which one plays as throughout the game) that were consumed by the darkness one way or another, and the game itself is named after it.
The Tomorrow People The Tomorrow People is a children's science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price and produced by Thames Television for Britain's ITV network between 1973 and 1979, and revived for a five-season series in the 1990s.
The Tomorrow Show The Tomorrow Show was an American late-night television talk show hosted by Tom Snyder. The show aired from 1973 to 1982 and featured many prominent guests, including Paul McCartney, Ayn Rand, John Lennon (in his last televised interview), Charles Manson, Johnny Rotten, and U2 (in their first American television appearance).
The Tomorrowpeople The Tomorrowpeople were a psychedelic rock band based in Dallas, TX featuring former members of Brutal Juice and Toadies -- although their gently quirky sound was miles removed from the harder rock played by either of those groups.
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is the full name of NBC's The Tonight Show hosted by Jay Leno, debuting on May 25, 1992. The show takes over from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, after the retirement of Johnny Carson on May 22, 1992.
The Top 10 of Everything The Top 10 of Everything is an internationally distributed reference book, written by Russell Ash, listing top tens in a variety of subjects. Facts and statistics about sports, computers, Internet, politics and geography are presented.
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the UK-based Crime Writers' Association. Five years later, the Mystery Writers of America published a similar list entitled The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time.

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