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Thickened fluids Thickened fluids are often used for people with dysphagia, a disorder of swallowing function. The thicker consistency makes it less likely that an individual with dysphagia will aspirate while they are drinking.
Thickening agent Thickening agents, or thickeners, are substances which, when added to a mixture, increase its viscosity without substantially modifying its other properties, such as taste. They provide body, increase stability, and improve suspending action.
Thicker Than Water (1999 film) Thicker Than Water is a 1999 film starring a host of rappers and urban entertainers such as Fat Joe, Mack 10, Ice Cube, MC Eiht, and others.The film is often credited with having rappers from both the East and the West Coast.
Thicketty, South Carolina The village of Thicketty is located in Cherokee County on US-29 between Gaffney and Cowpens, South Carolina (or about 12 miles northeast of Spartanburg). Well known in this area is "Thicketty Creek," part of the Broad River Basin.
Thicktail chub The Thicktail chub (Gila crassicauda) was a type of minnow that inhabited the lowlands and weedy backwaters of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers in the Central Valley of California. It was once abundant in lowland lakes, marshes, ponds, slow-moving stretches of river, and, during years of heavy run-off, the surface waters of San Francisco Bay.
Thickwood Heights Arena The Thickwood Heights Arena (or Thickwood Heights Community Center) is located in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and is best known as the home of the Alberta Junior Hockey League's Fort McMurray Oil Barons. The facility houses a 1,533 seat arena, multi-purpose room, ampitheatre, and pottery guild.
Thief (album) Thief is the first Destroyer album recorded with a full band on every track. Thief is thought to be an attack on the music industry perhaps a response to the lack of success that Bejar's other band, The New Pornographers, were having after releasing their EP.
Thief (computer game series) Thief is a series of mainly first-person computer games where the player takes the role of Garrett, a thief in a steampunk world resembling a cross between the Late Middle Ages and the Victorian era, with some primitive technology thrown in. The series consists of Thief: The Dark Project (1998), Thief II: The Metal Age (2000) and Thief: Deadly Shadows (2004).
Thief (film) Thief is a 1981 noir crime drama written and directed by Michael Mann, based on the novel The Home Invaders by "Frank Hohimer" (the pen name of real-life jewel thief John Seybold). The film's cast includes James Caan, Tuesday Weld, James Belushi, Robert Prosky and Willie Nelson.
Thief (character class) The Thief or Rogue is a character class in many role-playing games, including Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy, and many MMORPGs. Thieves are usually stealthy and dextrous characters able to disarm traps, pick locks, and perform backstabs from hiding.
Thief II: The Metal Age Thief II: The Metal Age is a stealth-based game for Microsoft Windows, and sequel to Thief: The Dark Project. Utilizing the same Dark engine that powered the original Thief, Thief II has an almost identical look and feel, with only minor graphical and programming improvements.
Thief knot The Thief knot resembles the square knot, aka reef knot except that the free, or working, ends are on opposite sides. It is said that sailors would secure their belongings in a ditty bag using the thief knot, often with the ends hidden.
Thief River The Thief River is a tributary of the Red Lake River in northwestern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Red Lake River, the Red River of the North, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River, it is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay.
Thief: Deadly Shadows Thief: Deadly Shadows is a stealth-based game developed by Ion Storm Austin rather than Looking Glass Studios (albeit with many of the same people), and is a major departure from the first two games in the series. The game is powered by the Unreal-based Deus Ex: Invisible War engine and unlike the original two titles, Deadly Shadows (Eidos and Ion Storm chose not to name the game "Thief III" for fear that it would alienate gamers new to the series) was developed simultaneously for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox.
Thief: The Dark Project Thief: The Dark Project (aka Thief:TDP, Thief 1 or simply Thief) is a single player stealth-based computer game played in first person perspective. It was made by Looking Glass Studios for Microsoft Windows PCs and published in 1998 by Eidos Interactive.
Thiel College Thiel College is a liberal arts, sciences and professional studies college related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and located in Greenville, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1866, it was originally located in Monaca, Pennsylvania.
Thiel Mountains The Thiel Mountains () in Antarctica are an isolated, mainly snow-capped mountain range and are 72 km (45 mi) long. The mountains are located roughly between the Horlick Mountains and the Pensacola Mountains, and extend from Moulton Escarpment on the west to Nolan Pillar on the east.
Thiele and Ladiges' taxonomic arrangement of Banksia Kevin Thiele and Pauline Ladiges' taxonomic arrangement of Banksia, published in 1996, was a novel taxonomic arrangement that was intended to align the taxonomy of Banksia more closely with the phylogeny that they had inferred from their cladistic analysis of the genus. It replaced Alex George's 1981 arrangement, but most aspects were not accepted by George, and it was soon replaced by a 1999 revision of George's arrangement.
Thiemo de Bakker Thiemo de Bakker (born September 19, 1988 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland) is a Dutch Junior tennis player, who won the Boys' Singles Championship at Wimbledon 2006. He is coached by Huib Troost and Eddy Bank, and his preferred surface is clay.
Thien Buddhism Thiền Buddhism (禪宗 Thiền Tông) is the Vietnamese name for the school of Chan Buddhism, which in turn is most familiarly known to those in the West by its Japanese name, Zen Buddhism. Thien is ultimately derived from Chan Zong 禪宗 (simplified, 禅宗), itself a derivative of the Sanskrit "Dhyāna".
Thiepval Barracks Thiepval Barracks in Lisburn, County Antrim, is the headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland and its Belfast Regional Command. The barracks is named after the village of Thiepval in Northern France, an important site in the Battle of the Somme (1916) and site of the Thiepval war memorial.
Thierachern Thierachern is a municipality in the western part of the district of Thun in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, situated 5 km from downtown Thun. Thierachern does not have an actual village center, but is divided into five subsections (Wahlen, Dorf, oberer (upper), middle and lower Schwand and BrĂĽgg).
Thierry Bardini Thierry Bardini, a sociologist, is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada, where he co-directs the Workshop in Radical Empiricism (with Brian Massumi). Among the papers he has published on hypermedia, he is the author of Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertext to Cyberspace, where he described the history of hypertext through the visions of two early pioneers in the field: Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson.
Thierry Boon Thierry Boon is a Belgian scientist, Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Belgium) and professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain. He observed that tumour cells that have acquired new mutations as a result of mutagen treatment in vitro, often become incapable of forming tumours because they express new antigens recognized by the T cells of the immune system.
Thierry Boudinaud Thierry Boudinaud is a French winemaker who believes that "the average consumer hated the traditional intimidation heaped upon them by most of the wine industry." He partnered with British winemaker Guy Anderson to produce and distribute FAT bastard wine, which is labeled by the variety of grape from which it is made.
Thierry Cornillet Thierry Cornillet (born 23 July 1951 in Montélimar, Drôme) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. He is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development.
Thierry Graduate School of Leadership The Thierry Graduate School of Leadership (THIERRY) is an autonomous, private, and international university-level institution of specialised higher education, based in Belgium, Europe. The Graduate School offers Master's and PhD degree-programmes in the field of leadership and mastery of change.
Thierry Jonquet Thierry Jonquet (born Paris, 1954) is a French writer who specialises in crime novels with political themes. His most recent and best known novels outside of France are Mygale (2003) and Tarantula, which was published in English translation in 2005 (Serpent's Tail).
Thierry Lacroix Thierry Lacroix (born March 2, 1967 in Nogaro, France) is a rugby player who won 43 caps playing at fly-half for the French rugby union side. He made his international test debut at the age of 22 on 4 November, 1989 as a replacement against Australia.
Thierry Lhermitte Thierry Lhermitte (born November 24, 1952) is a French actor, best known for his comedic roles. He was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc.
Thierry Mugler Thierry Mugler, born 1948 in Strasbourg, France is a fashion designer, photographer, and creator of a fashion design company of the same name. Trained as a ballet dancer, he also studied design and created garments for friends.
Thierry Noir Thierry Noir is the man who contributed to the longest concrete painting in the world, the Berlin Wall. His paintings, with their bright colors and their melancholy poetry, survived longer than all the others did after the fall of the wall in 1989.
Thierry of Chartres Thierry of Chartres who was also known as Theodoric de Chartres, was a twelfth-century philosopher, working at Chartres and Paris. The cathedral school at Chartres promoted scholarship before the first university was founded in France.
Thierry Paulin Thierry Paulin (born November 28, 1963 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, dead April 16, 1989 in Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, France, nicknamed the Beast of Montmartre or Dandy of death or the Old Ladies' killer) was a French serial killer in the 80's.
Thierry Renaer Thierry Renaer (born March 4, 1976) is a field hockey defender from Belgium, who made his debut for the Men's National Team in the late 1990s. He was a member of the squad, that missed qualification for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Thierry St-Cyr Thierry St-Cyr (born November 7, 1977 in Laplaine, Quebec) is an engineer and Bloc Québécois politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the Member of Parliament from Jeanne-Le Ber, and was first elected in the 2006 election.
Thierry Tulasne Thierry Tulasne (born July 12, 1963 in Aix-en-Bains) is a former tennis player from France, who won five singles titles during his professional career. The righthander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on August 4, 1986, when he became the number 10 of the world.
Thierry Tusseau Thierry Tusseau (born January 19, 1958 in Noisy-le-Grand, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a former football midfielder from France, who earned a total number of 22 international caps (no goals) for the French national team during the 1970s and 1980s. A player of Girondins de Bordeaux (1983-1986), he was a member of the French team in the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Thierstein (district) Thierstein is one of the ten districts of the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, situated to the north of the canton. Together with the district of Dorneck, it forms the Amtei (electoral district) of Dorneck-Thierstein.
Thieu Tri Thiệu Trị (1807 - 4 November 1847) Nguyễn Mien Tong was the third emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty taking the era name of Thiệu Trị. He was the eldest son of emperor Minh Mạng, and reigned from 14 February 1841 until his death on 4 November 1847.
Thievery Corporation Thievery Corporation is a Washington DC–based production and DJ duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton and their supporting artists. Their music can be characterized as downtempo electronica with influences of dub, acid jazz, Indian classical and Brazilian styles (such as bossa nova) fused together with a lounge aesthetic.
Thievery UT Thievery is a free mod for Unreal Tournament (1999) released by Black Cat Games. Thievery aimed to bring the gameplay and style of Thief: The Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age to an Unreal Tournament based multi-player and single-player format.
Thieves in Black The Thieves in Black is an anarchist gang responsible for numerous bank robberies in Athens, Greece. The Thieves in Black began operating in 2002 and are said to have netted over 500,000 Euros in their heists (as of mid-2005)
Thieves in the Night Thieves in the Night is a novel by Arthur Koestler written in 1946. Originally intended to be the first of a trilogy, Koestler later concluded that the book stood well enough on its own for further novels to be redundant.
Thieves' cant Thieves' cant was a secret language (or cryptolect) formerly used by thieves, beggars and hustlers of various kinds in Great Britain and to a lesser extent in other English-speaking countries. The classic, colorful argot is now mostly obsolete, and is largely relegated to the realm of literature and fantasy role-playing, although individual terms continue to be used in the criminal subcultures of both Britain and the U.
Thieves' Picnic Thieves' Picnic is a mystery novel by Leslie Charteris featuring his Robin Hood-inspired crime fighter, Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". The book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1937 by Hodder and Stoughton, and in the United States by The Crime Club the same year.
Thieves' World Thieves' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978. The original series comprised twelve anthologies, including stories by such science fiction authors as Poul Anderson, John Brunner, Andrew J.
Thievius Raccoonus The Thievius Raccoonus is a fictional book in the Sly Cooper series of games. The book is passed down from generation to generation within the Cooper family, and contains information on special techcniques devised by Sly's thief ancestors.
Thijs Berman Thijs Berman (born 26 September 1957 in Coevorden, Drenthe) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Thijs van Valkengoed Thijs Maarten van Valkengoed (born July 6, 1983 in Lelystad) is a breaststroke swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he was eliminated in the semi finals of the 100m Breaststroke, and in the heats of the 200m Breaststroke.
Thilafushi Thilafushi (Dhivehi: ތިލަފުށި) is a municipal landfill situated to the west of Malé, and is located between Kaafu Atoll's Giraavaru and Gulhifalhu of the Maldives. It is geographically part of the Vaadhoo channel.
Thilan Samaraweera Thilan Thusara Samaraweera is a Sri Lankan cricketer, born September 22, 1976 in Colombo. Samaraweera plays international cricket for Sri Lanka and is in the side primarily for his solid right handed batting but is also a capable Off spinner.
Thilina Kandamby Sahan Hewa Thilina Kandamby (born June 4, 1982 in Colombo) is a Sri Lankan cricketer who played four one-day internationals for Sri Lanka as a specialist middle-order batsman. Kandamby was marked out as a talent early, playing for the Sri Lanka Under 19s from 1998 to 2001, and he has also played ten first class games for Sri Lanka A.
Thillaiaadi Valliammai Thillaiaadi Valliammai (22 February 1898 - 22 February 1914) was a South African Tamil woman who worked with Mahatma Gandhi in his early years when he toned his nonviolent methods in South Africa fighting its apartheid regime. Valliammai joined Gandhi's movement at the age of 16 and died soon thereafter during the anti-apartheid agitation.
Thillonrian Peninsula In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Thillonrian Peninsula (also known as Rhizia in the Cold Tongue) is a geographical area in the northeastern portion of the Flanaess. A cold, mountainous land, this region is best known for being the home of the nations of the Frost, Ice, and Snow Barbarians, as well as the nation of Stonehold.
Thilmany Thilmany LLC is an umbrella company encompassing Thilmany Papers, Thilmany Packaging, and Akrosil. It was created in 2005 after the sale of the Kaukauna, Wisconsin International Paper plant to Kohlberg and Company.
Thimble End Thimble End is a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England. It has been developed several times with the construction and expansion of housing estates on the land with the most recent being completed in 2005.
Thimble Islands The Thimble Islands are an archipelago of small islands in Long Island Sound, in and near the harbor of Stony Creek, Connecticut in the southeast corner of Branford, Connecticut, . Known to the Mattabeseck Indians as "the beautiful sea rocks," they consist of a jumble of granite rocks, ledges and outcroppings resulting from glaciation, numbering between 100 and 365 depending on where the line is drawn between an island and a mere rock.
Thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus (Thimbleberry) is a species of Rubus, native to western and northern North America, from Alaska east to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to northern Mexico. It grows from sea level in the north, up to 2,500 m altitude in the south of the range.
Thimma Bhupala Thimma Bhupa was the son of Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya, the King of Vijayanagara Empire. Prince Thimma succeded his father in 1491 but was soon murdered by an army commander during a period of political unrest in Vijayanagara.
Thimphu Thimphu is the capital of Bhutan, and also the name of the surrounding valley and dzongkhag, the Thimphu District. With a population of 50,000 (2003), it is the largest population centre in the country. Thimphu is located at . The name is sometimes seen romanized as Thimbu.
Thin client A thin client is a computer (client) in client-server architecture networks which depends primarily on the central server for processing activities. The word "thin" refers to the small boot image which such clients typically require - perhaps no more than required to connect to a network and start up a dedicated web browser or "Remote Desktop" connection such as X11, Citrix ICA, Microsoft RDP or Nomachine NX.
Thin film bulk acoustic resonator Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR) or FBARs is a device consisting of a piezoelectric material sandwiched between two electrodes and acoustically de-coupled from the surrounding medium. FBAR devices using aluminum nitride piezoelectric with thicknesses ranging from tenths of micrometres to several micrometres resonate in the cellular bands of cell phones and other wireless applications.
Thin film composite membrane Thin film composite membranes (TFC or TFM) are semipermeable membranes manufactured principally for use in water purification or desalination systems. They also have use in chemical applications such as batteries and fuel cells.
Thin group In mathematics, in the realm of group theory, a group is said to be thin if there is a finite upper bound on the girth of the Cayley graph induced by any finite generating set. The group is called fat if it is not thin.
Thin Chen Enterprise Thin Chen Enterprise is a Taiwanese company that developed several original games for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom and Game Boy (both without license from Nintendo), and other early cartridge-based handheld systems such as the Watara Supervision. Most were released under the Sachen brand name, although the names Joy Van and Commin were also used for certain early games for the Famicom and handheld consoles respectively.
Thin layer chromatography Thin layer chromatography (TLC) is a widely-used chromatography technique used to separate chemical compounds. It involves a stationary phase consisting of a thin layer of adsorbent material, usually silica gel, aluminium oxide, or cellulose immobilised onto a flat, inert carrier sheet.
Thin layers Thin Layers are congregations of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the water column which were discovered when advances in instrumentation and deployment technologies allowed samples at the temporal and spatial scales where patterns were revealed. Although they may extend for kilometers, Thin Layers are only a few 10's of centimeters in vertical thickness.
Thin lens In optics, a thin lens is a lens with a thickness (distance along the optical axis between the two surfaces of the lens) that is negligible compared to the focal length of the lens. Lenses whose thickness is not negligible are sometimes called thick lenses.
Thin Man (comics) The Thin Man (Bruce Dickson) is a fictional comic book character from the Golden Age Timely Comics company, the predecessor of Marvel Comics. He was one of the first "stretching" superheroes, predating the more famous Plastic Man by more than a year.
Thin Man nuclear bomb The "Thin Man" (formally, Mark 2) nuclear bomb was a proposed plutonium gun-type nuclear bomb which the United States was developing during the Manhattan Project. Its development was aborted when it was discovered that the spontaneous fission rate of nuclear reactor-bred plutonium was too high for use in a gun-type design.
Thin Mints Thin Mints are the most enduring and universally familiar Girl Scout cookie sold by the Girl Scouts of the USA. These round, mint-flavored cookies covered with dark chocolate perennially sell the most boxes of any cookie.
Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning is a mechanism that applies to large-scale centralized computer disk storage systems, SANs, and Storage Virtualization systems. Thin Provisioning allows space to be easily allocated to servers, on a just-enough and just-in-time basis.
Thin section In optical mineralogy and petrography, a thin section is a laboratory preparation of a rock, mineral or soil sample for use with a polarizing microscope. A thin sliver of rock is cut from the sample with a diamond saw or laser, mounted on a glass slide and then ground smooth using progressively finer abrasive grit until the sample is only 0.
Thin set (Serre) In mathematics, a thin set in the sense of Serre is a certain kind of subset constructed in algebraic geometry over a given field K, by allowed operations that are in a definite sense 'unlikely'. The two fundamental ones are: solving a polynomial equation that may or may not be the case; solving within K a polynomial that does not always factorise.
Thin-film deposition Thin-film deposition is any technique for depositing a thin film of material onto a substrate or onto previously deposited layers. "Thin" is a relative term, but most deposition techniques allow layer thickness to be controlled within a few tens of nanometers, and some (molecular beam epitaxy) allow single layers of atoms to be deposited at a time.
Thin-film optics Thin-film optics is the branch of optics which deals with very thin structured layers of different materials. In order to exhibit thin-film optics, the thickness of the layers of material must be on the order of the wavelengths of visible light (about 500 nm).
Thin-film thickness monitor Thin-film thickness monitors, deposition rate controllers, and so on, are a family of instruments used in high and ultra-high vacuum systems. They can measure the thickness of a thin film, not only after it has been made, but while it is still being deposited, and some can control either the final thickness of the film, the rate at which it is deposited, or both.
Thin-film transistor A thin film transistor (TFT) is a special kind of field effect transistor made by depositing thin films for the metallic contacts, semiconductor active layer, and dielectric layer. Anne Chiang, a Taiwanese-American, among many others, is credited with major advances in the development of TFT technology channel region of a TFT is a thin film that is deposited] onto a substrate (often [[glass, since the primary application of TFTs is in liquid crystal displays).
Thin-shell structure Thin-shell structures can be defined as curved structures capable of transmitting loads in more than two directions to supports. Loads applied to shell surfaces are carried to the ground by the development of compressive, tensile, and shear stresses acting in the in-plane direction of the surface.
Thinaimalai Nurru Aimpathu Thinaimalai Nurru Aimpathu, is a Tamil poetic work belonging to the Pathinenkilkanakku anthology of Tamil literature, belonging to the 'post Sangam period' corresponding to between 100 – 500 CE. Thinaimalai Nurru Aimpathu contains 154 poems written by the poet Kanimeythaviyaar.
Thing (assembly) A thing or ting (Old Norse and Icelandic: Ăľing; other modern Scandinavian languages: ting) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers. Today the term lives on in the official names of national legislatures, political and judicial institutions in the North-Germanic countries.
Thing (comics) The Thing (Benjamin Jacob "Ben" Grimm) is a fictional character, a founding member of the superhero team The Fantastic Four in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee in The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov.
Thing of all Geats The Thing of all Geats was the thing (general assembly) which was held from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages in Skara, VästergötlandThe article Landsting, at the official site of the Museum of National Antiquities, Sweden.. Although its name suggests that it comprised all Geats, it concerned those living in Västergötland and Dalsland, and it is described in the Westrogothic law.
Thing on a Spring Thing On A Spring is a side-scrolling platform/puzzle game produced in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by Gremlin Graphics. Gameplay involves controlling a character similar to Zebedee from The Magic Roundabout, through a toy factory while avoiding evil toys.
Thing theory Thing theory is a branch of critical theory that focuses on the role of things in literature and culture. It borrows from Heidegger's distinction between objects and things, whereby an object becomes a thing when it is somehow made to stand out against the backdrop of the world it exists in.
Things as They Are or The Adventures of Caleb Williams Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin is a three volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. It is often referred to now just as "Caleb Williams".
Things Goin' On Things Goin' On was written in 1973 by Ronnie Van Zant and Gary Rossington, the lead vocalist and guitarist from Lynyrd Skynyrd. It appeared on the band's first album Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd and expressed concerns about social and environmental issues.
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About is the name of a web site, a column in The Guardian, and a novel written by English writer Mil Millington. The web site deals with arguments the author has had with his German girlfriend, Margret; the novel is fictional, though it revolves around arguments the English protagonist has had with his German girlfriend.
Things outside the skin things outside the skin is an aggro-industrial industrial band founded by Chvad SB in 1992, characterized by a mix of video production, music and somewhat politically oriented lyrics. Originally from Blackwater, Virginia.
Things That Go Bunt in the Night "Things That Go Bunt in the Night" is the debut album released by New Zealand band Nocturnal Projections in 1981. The album was recorded directly to cassette and released in extremely limited quantities, perhaps as few as 100 copies.
Thingwall Hall Thingwall House (not Thingwall Hall) was a minor stately home, located in the Knotty Ash district of Liverpool, United Kingdom. It was originally built in 1848 and it had been used, up to the late 1990's, as a school for special needs children.
Thinis, Egypt Thinis is believed to have been an ancient Egyptian capital city in Upper Egypt. In Manetho's chronological list, Thinis is attributed to being the capitol of the Thinnite Confederacy and later the home of the First and Second Dynastic kings, though no proof of this has been found.
Think (song) "Think" is the name of a hit single released by American R&B/soul musician Aretha Franklin in 1968, from her Aretha Now album. The song, - a feminist anthem -, reached #7 on Billboard Pop Singles Chart, becoming Aretha's seventh Top 10 hit in the United States.
Think aloud protocol Think aloud protocol is a method used to gather data in usability testing in product design and development, in psychology and a range of social sciences. The think-aloud method was developed by Clayton Lewis while he was at IBM, and is explained in C.
Think About You "Think About You" is the 8th track on Guns N' Roses' debut album "Appetite for Destruction". The song is possibly similar to "Sweet Child O' Mine" in which Axl Rose sings about his love for his future wife Erin Everly or a reflection of the band's troubles with drug and alcohol addiction.
Think Big Think Big was a major interventionist state economic strategy in New Zealand, sponsored by the Prime Minister of New Zealand Robert Muldoon (later Sir) and his third National government from the early 1980s. The Think Big schemes saw the government borrow heavily overseas, running up a massive external deficit, and using the funds for large-scale industrial projects.
Think Different Think Different was an advertising slogan created for Apple Computer in the late 1990s by the New York branch office of advertising agency TBWAChiatDay. It was used in a famous television commercial, several print advertisements, and in several television and print advertisements for Apple products.
Think Fast! Think Fast was a TV game show airing on Nickelodeon from May 1, 1989 to June 29, 1991. Two teams, the Blue Team and the Gold Team, competed in various stunts (known on the show as "events") designed to test the players' physical ability and mental agility, to win money and prizes.
Think Globally, Act Locally Think Globally, Act Locally was reportedly coined by David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth, as the slogan for FOE when it was founded in 1969, although others have stated it was originated by Rene Dubos as an advisor to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972.
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