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Three Sisters (Australia) The Three Sisters are a famous rock formation in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. They are close to the town of Katoomba and are one of the Blue Mountains' most famous sights, towering above the Jamison Valley.
Three Sisters (British Columbia) Mount Trinity, also gazetted (and more commonly known) as The Three Sisters, is a mountain immediately north of Fernie, British Columbia. It should not to be confused with the Alberta Rockies' peaks of the same name, located further north outside Canmore.
Three Sisters (Pittsburgh) The Three Sisters are three very similar self-anchored suspension bridges spanning the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Designed by the Allegheny County Department of Public Works, they were all built in a four year period, from 1924 to 1928, by the American Bridge Company, replacing earlier bridges of various designs at the same sites.
Three Sisters Wilderness The Three Sisters Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Willamette National Forest in Oregon, east of Eugene and southeast of Portland. It consists of 242,000 acres (979 km²) along the crest of the Cascades, and ranges in elevation from 2,000 to 10,358 feet (600 to 3157 m).
Three Star Gods The Three Star Gods, Fu, Lu and Shou in Mandarin or Fuk Luk Sau in Cantonese, are the gods of happiness, rank and longevity respectively. These gods are no longer worshipped in the traditional sense, but they are considered auspicious by Chinese around the world.
Three Steles of Seth The Three Steles of Seth is a sethian gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha. The main surviving copies come from the Nag Hammadi library, and were translated and explained by professor Paul-Jean Claude (retired),member of the Nag Hammadi Research group of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Laval University (Québec).
Three Stooges The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act in the early to mid 20th century. They are best known for their numerous film shorts featuring the three-man line-up consisting of brothers Moe and Curly (sometimes spelled "Curley"), and long-time friend Larry.
Three Strikes Three Strikes is a black & white comic book series from Oni Press written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, featuring art by Brian Hurtt. Three Strikes is a crime drama about Rey Quintana, a young man with a troubled past who is trying to make something of his life when he makes a bad decision and shoplifts a present for his girlfriend.
Three teachings In East Asia, the three teachings, known as the San Jiao (三教）in Chinese, are considered to be Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. In China during the Han dynasty, these three were combined into one faith, which many Chinese still hold today.
Three Tales (opera) Three Tales is a contemporary video-opera in three acts, composed by American composer Steve Reich in 2002. Beryl Korot, the wife of the composer, created the visuals which accompany the music written for ensemble and pre-recorded audio.
Three Theban plays The so-called three Theban plays, or the Oedipus cycle, written by Greek dramatist Sophocles in the 5th century BCE, follow the tragic downfall of the mythical king Oedipus of Thebes and his descendants. See the individual articles for more information on the specific plays:
Three Times a Lady "Three Times a Lady" is a 1978 single from the funk/soul band the Commodores, from their classic 70s album Natural High. It was produced by James Anthony Carmichael and the Commodores and it was the most popular track of the album.
Three Times Dope Three Times Dope is a hip hop trio from Philadelphia consisting of Robert Walker, Walter Griggs and Duerwood Beale. Their debut LP, Original Stylin' was well-received, though the follow-up was a comparative failure (Live from Acknikulous Land, 1990).
Three Ton Gate Three Ton Gate was formed in 1997 by Daisy Berkowitz, AKA Scott Mitchell Putesky after his somewhat forceful exit from the popular shock-rock band Marilyn Manson. Much like industrial band Nine Inch Nails, Scott is the only permanent member of Three Ton Gate, although he has initially worked with female vocalist Tyreah James.
Three Uses of the Knife David Mamet’s Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama is a book that discusses playwriting. In it, Mamet discusses the conscious and unconscious processes that go on in developing a work of art.
Three Views of Japan The Three Views of Japan (日本三景 Nihon sankei) are the canonical list of Japan's most famous sights, somewhat akin to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The list is usually attributed to scholar Hayashi Razan, who first listed them in 1643.
Three wheeled car A three wheeled car is an automobile typically having one wheel in the front for steering and two at the rear for power. This reduces the cost of the steering mechanism but greatly increases instability when braking.
Three wheeler A three wheeler is a vehicle with three wheels, either "people-powered vehicles" (PPV) or motorized vehicles in the form of a motorcycle, ATV or automobile. Other names for three-wheelers include Trikes, Tricars and Cyclecars.
Three word story Three word story is a game in which a story is built by multiple people, who use three words each turn. It is a common favorite of forum gamers, since it is easy to explain and play in a linear, structured fashion.
Three Wise Guys The Three Wise Guys is an original USA movie, released in 2005, staring Eddie McClintock, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Judd Nelson, Nicholas Turturro, Katey Sagal, Tom Arnold and Roddy Piper. This Christmas movie is a crazy comedy about a married casino owner with problems.
Three Wishes Three Wishes is a reality television show that premiered on NBC and CityTV on September 23, 2005. It features contemporary Christian musician Amy Grant as she travels around the country fulfilling the big wishes and dreams of some needy small-town residents.
Three Witnesses The Three Witnesses were a group of three early leaders of the Latter Day Saint movement who signed a statement in 1830 that an angel had shown them the Golden Plates from which Joseph Smith, Jr. reportedly translated the Book of Mormon and that they had heard God's voice testifying that the book had been translated by the power of God.
Three Worlds Theory Three World theory is a theory developed by Mao Zedong that suggests that the world is politically and economically divided into three world. Mao's theory differs significantly from the traditional ideal of "third world".
Three Worms and an Orchestra Three Worms and an Orchestra is a DVD of a performance of the Canadian comedy music group The Arrogant Worms with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. It includes their most popular songs performed live, as well as two music videos.
Three Years of Natural Disasters The Three Years of Natural Disasters () or the Great Chinese Famine () refers to the period in the People's Republic of China between 1959 and 1961, in which poor economic policies combined with abnormal rainfall patterns caused widespread famine causing many millions of deaths. The phrases "Three Years of Economic Difficulty" and "Three Bitter Years" are also used by Chinese officials to describe this period, although all these names underplay the role that social engineering played in the famine.
Three-and-out Three and out is an American Football term used to describe a game situation where the team with the ball is unable to get a first down on their possession and is forced to punt after they run 3 plays. This term comes from the fact that the offensive unit only has 3 "real" plays before they are expected to punt.
Three-ball Three-ball (or "3-ball", colloquially) is a pocket billiards game played with three standard pool object balls and cueball. The goal is to pocket the three object balls in as few shots as possiblePoolSharp's Three-Ball Rules This ruleset is flawed.
Three-body force A three-body force is a force that does not exist in a system of two objects but appears in a three-body system. In general, if the behaviour of a system of more than two objects cannot be described by the two-body interactions between all possible pairs, as a first approximation, the deviation is mainly due to a three-body force.
Three-bolts equipment Three-bolts equipment, (Tryok'h'boltovoye snaryajzeniye, russian:Трехболтовое снаряжение, russian:трехболтовка) is a kind of a standard diving dress which was used by the Russian Navy in 19th and 20th centuries. This standard diving dress consists of an air-supplied metallic helmet that is strapped with water-protected suit by three bolts.
Three-box styling The design of car bodies following the Second World War progressed along a series of having their fenders and running-boards seemingly melted into the car body. The end result of this process was the three-box design, a term describing a sedan or a coupe in which the greenhouse reaches to the full width of the body and, despite slanted windshield and backlight can be seen as one "box", with another boxy shape serving as the hood and a third being the trunk.
Three-card Monte Three-card Monte, also known as the Three-card trick, Follow the lady or Find the lady, is a confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that he can find the money card, for example the queen of spades, among three face-down playing cards. In its full form, the three-card Monte is an example of a classic short con in which the outside man pretends to conspire with the mark to cheat the inside man, while in fact conspiring with the inside man to cheat the mark.
Three-center four-electron bond The 3-center-4-electron bond is a model used to explain bonding in hypervalent molecules such as phosphorus pentafluoride, sulfur hexafluoride, and the xenon fluorides. The model considers bonding of the three colinear atoms in main group compounds.
Three-center two-electron bond A three-center two-electron bond is an electron deficient chemical bond where three atoms share two electrons. The combination of three atomic orbitals form three molecular orbitals: one bonding, one non-bonding, and one anti-bonding.
Three-cornered-contest In a three-cornered-contest at an election, two candidates representing roughly the same viewpoint stand for election, thereby splitting the vote so that their common foe gets elected. This is an inevitable result of the first-past-the-post voting system where there are more than two candidates.
Three-CCD Three-CCD or 3CCD is a term used to describe an imaging system employed by some still cameras, video cameras, and camcorders. Three-CCD cameras have three separate charge-coupled devices (CCDs), each one taking a separate measurement of red, green, and blue light.
Three-decker A three-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on three fully-armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck) but this was not a continuous battery and so did not count.
Three-dimensional face recognition Three-dimensional face recognition (3D face recognition) is a modality of facial recognition methods in which the three-dimensional geometry of the human face is used. It has been shown that 3D face recognition methods can achieve significantly higher accuracy than their 2D counterparts, rivaling fingerprint recognition.
Three-dimensional space Though actual perceptible space-time is a 4-dimensional Minkowski space (see special relativity), human beings usually perceive space as a three-dimensional space as long they don't notice anything with high relative velocity.
Three-domain system The three-domain system is a biological classification introduced by Carl Woese in 1960 that emphasizes his separation of prokaryotes into two groups, originally called Eubacteria and Archaebacteria. Woese argued that, based on differences in 16S rRNA genes, these two groups and the eukaryotes each arose separately from an ancestral progenote with poorly developed genetic machinery.
Three-Day Novel Contest The Three-Day Novel Contest is an annual Canadian literary contest conducted in September of each year. The contest, which is open to writers from anywhere in the world, gives entrants three days to write a novel.
Three-Day Week The Three-Day Week was one of several measures introduced in the United Kingdom by the Conservative Government 1970-1974 to conserve electricity, the production of which was severely limited due to industrial action by coal miners. The effect was that from 1 January until 7 March 1974 commercial users of electricity would be limited to three specified consecutive days' consumption each week.
Three-Dragon Ante Three-Dragon Ante (ISBN 0-7869-4072-7) is a noncollectable card game published by Wizards of the Coast. Based on Dungeons & Dragons, it is intended as a game in its own right and as an element in campaigns (that is, Three-Dragon Ante might be used as a plot device in a longer story line moderated by the Dungeon Master).
Three-fifths compromise The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention that declared a slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. It was proposed by delegate James Wilson.
Three-finger salute (computing) In computing, the three-finger salute is a jocular term for the keyboard combination that forces a soft reboot, brings up the process manager (on Windows, BeOS or Mac OS X) or a jump to ROM monitor. These keys are sometimes referred to in computer manuals as interrupt keys, since they are often used to interrupt the operation of a malfunctioning program.
Three-chord song A three-chord song is a song whose music is built around three chords that are played in a certain sequence. Perhaps the most prevalent type of three-chord song is the simple twelve bar blues used in blues and rock and roll.
Three-Chapter Controversy The Three Chapters (trîa kephálaia), a phase in the Monophysite controversy, was an attempt to reconcile the Christians of Syria and Egypt with Western Christendom, following the failure of the Henotikon. The Three Chapters consisted of propositions anathematizing: (1) the person and writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia; (2) certain writings of Theodoret of Cyrus; (3) the letter of Ibas to Maris in Persia.
Three-legged race A favorite at community picnics and school carnivals, a three-legged race is a game of cooperation between partners as much as it is one of speed. It involves two participants attempting to complete a short sprint with the left leg of one runner strapped to the right leg of another runner.
Three-letter vowel-less English word Three-letter vowel-less word describes a word in the English language which contains three letters, none of which is generally recognized as a symbol representing a vowel. These words will usually contain voiced vowels that are represented or implied by the consonant letters.
Three-level diamond A three-level diamond is a type of highway interchange where through traffic on both main roads is grade-separated from intersections which handle transferring traffic.Indiana Department of Transportation, Interchanges, pages 21 and 22 It is similar in design to a three-level stacked roundabout except for its use of (usually signalled) conventional intersections, and can be thought of as two diamond interchanges fused together.
Three-martini lunch The three-martini lunch is a term used in the United States to describe a leisurely, indulgent lunch enjoyed by businessmen or executives. It refers to a common belief that many businessmen have enough leisure time and wherewithal to consume more than one martini during the work day.
Three-minute pop song A three-minute pop song is a cliché that describes the archetype of popular music, based on the average running-length of a typical single. The root of the "three-minute" length is likely derived from the original format of 78 rpm-speed phonograph records; at about 3 to 5 minutes per side, it's just long enough for the recording of a complete song.
Three-minute warning (football) In the Canadian Football League, the three-minute warning is given when three minutes of game time remain on the game clock in the first and second halves of a game. (If the football is in play when the clock reaches 3:00, the three-minute warning is given immediately after the ball is declared dead.
Three-peat Three-peat is a portmanteau of the words three and repeat, which has been trademarked for commercial use by basketball coach Pat Riley. It is used either as a verb or noun used in American sports to refer to winning a third championship in a row.
Three-phase In electrical engineering, three-phase electric power systems have at least three conductors carrying voltage waveforms that are 2π/3 radians (120°,1/3 of a cycle) offset in time. In this article angles will be measured in radians except where otherwise stated.
Three-phase commit protocol In computer networking and databases, the three-phase commit protocol (3PC) is a distributed algorithm which lets all nodes in a distributed system agree to commit a transaction. Unlike the two-phase commit protocol (2PC) however, 3PC is non-blocking.
Three-point field goal In basketball, a three-point field goal, three-pointer, three-point shot, or simply three is a field goal made from beyond the three point line, a designated semi-ellipsoid arc radiating from the basket. A successful attempt is worth three points, in contrast to the two points given for shots made inside the three point line.
Three-point hitch The three-point hitch most often refers to the way ploughs and other implements are attached to an agricultural tractor. Three point attachment is the simplest and the only statically definite way of joining two bodies in engineering.
Three-point lighting Three-point lighting is a very common lighting technique used in both still photography and in film. By using three separate light sources, the photographer can illuminate the shot's subject (such as a person) however desired, while also controlling (or eliminating entirely) the shading and shadows produced by direct lighting.
Three-point stance The Three-point stance is a stance used by offensive and defensive linemen in American football as well as running backs. This stance requires one hand to touch the ground with the other arm cocked back to the thigh/hip region.
Three-speed bicycle The three-speed bicycle is a bicycle that uses internal hub gears at the rear wheel hub to provide three gear ratios. Typically, in low gear, the rear sprocket turns faster than the wheel; in middle gear, the rear sprocket turns at the same speed as the wheel; in high gear, the rear wheel turns faster than the sprocket.
Three-stage-to-orbit The three-stage-to-orbit launch system is a commonly used rocket system to attain Earth orbit. The spacecraft uses three distinct stages to provide propulsion consecutively in order to achieve orbital velocity.
Three-state bus A three-state bus is a computer bus connected to multiple tri-state output devices, only one of which can be enabled at any point to avoid bus contention. This scheme allows for the same bus to be shared among multiple devices.
Three-state logic In electronics a three-state, tri-state or 3-state digital logic gate is one in which the output circuit can be disconnected from the rest of the circuit, putting the output in a high impedance state. The output asserts neither a logical high nor logic low voltage level and, aside from stray capacitance and leakage currents, does not affect circuits connected to the output.
Three-striped Night Monkey The Three-striped Night Monkey (Aotus trivirgatus), also known as Northern Night Monkey or Northern Owl Monkey, is one of several species of owl monkeys currently recognised. It is found in Venezuela and north-central Brazil.
Three-Self Patriotic Movement The Three-Self Patriotic Movement (officially 中国基督教三自爱国运动委员会, China Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee; colloquially 三自教会, the Three-Self Church) and the China Christian Council (中国基督教协会) are two pro-government ("patriotic") Christian organizations in the People's Republic of China. These together form the only government-sanctioned ("registered") Protestant church in mainland China.
Three-tier (alcohol distribution) The Three-tier system of alcohol distribution is the system for distributing alcoholic beverages set up in the United States after the repeal of Prohibition. The three tiers are producers, distributors, and retailers.
Three-tier (computing) Three-tier is a client-server architecture in which the user interface, functional process logic ("business rules"), data storage and data access are developed and maintained as independent modules, most often on separate platforms. The term "three-tier" or "three-layer", as well as the concept of multitier architectures, seems to have originated within Rational Software.
ThreeBallot ThreeBallot is a voting protocol invented by Ron Rivest. ThreeBallot is a voting system that can in principle be implemented on paper; the goal in its design was to provide some of the benefits of a cryptographic voting system without using cryptography.
Threefin blenny Threefin or triplefin blennies are blennioids, small perciform marine fish of the family Tripterygiidae. Found in tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the family contains approximately 150 species in 30 genera.
Threefold repetition In chess, the threefold repetition rule states that a player can claim a draw if the same position occurs three times, or will occur after their next move, with the same player to move, and with each player having the same set of legal moves each time, including the right to capture en passant and the right to castle. The game is not automatically drawn if this happens: one of the players, on their move, must claim the draw with the arbiter.
Threes Threes (commonly called Tripps) is a gambling game, played with five dice where the goal is to get the lowest score in any given round. Because it can be played for any amount of time and requires almost no equipment, it has become very popular as a street game, primarily played in makeshift games organized in alleys or living rooms.
Threestate Threestate (3State or 3S) is a Dutch demo group formerly active in the PC demoscene. They are notable for winning several of the biggest international demo parties which, during the time of release, had not happened for a while in the Dutch demoscene.
Threestripe corydoras The threestripe corydoras (Corydoras trilineatus), leopard catfish, or three line catfish is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the central Amazon River basin in Brazil and Colombia, Peruvian Amazon and coastal rivers in Suriname.
Threeve Threeve is a term jokingly used as a combination of the numbers three and five. Also, on a Saturday Night Live Celebrity Jeopardy sketch, "French Stewart", who was played by Jimmy Fallon, writes "ThreEVE" as an answer to the Final Jeopardy "question" "Write a number; any number" (wagering "$Texas" in the process).
Threnody (comics) Threnody is a fictional character created by Marvel Comics for the X-Men series. She was originally featured as a sort of "hound" for Mister Sinister, but this depth was fully explored in the series X-Man which came much later.
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (Tren ofiarom Hiroszimy in Polish) is a musical composition for 52 string instruments, composed in 1959 by Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933), which took third prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Composers' Competition in Katowice in 1960.
Thresher Group Thresher Group is the largest independent off-licence retail chain in the UK, with around 2,000 shops operating under several retail brands. On 23 December 2005, Thresher Group bought 200 outlets from collapsed rival Unwins.
Threshfield railway station Threshfield or Grassington and Threshfield Station, was built in the early part of 1902 for the Midland Railway. The line went off from Embsay Junction, up through the Dales with a stopping station at Rylstone, past the then 'Swinden Lime Works' or nowadays Swinden Quarry and then a further 3 miles to Threshfield Station.
Threshing floor A threshing floor is a specially flattened surface made either of rock or beaten earth where the farmer would thresh the grain harvest. The threshing floor was either owned by the entire village or by a single family.
Threshing-board A threshing-board is an obsolete farm implement used to separate cereals from their straw; that is, to thresh. It is a thick board, made with a variety of slats, with a shape between rectangular and trapezoidal, with the frontal part somewhat narrower and curved upward (like a sled or sledge) and whose bottom is covered with stone shards (lithic flakes), or razor-like metal blades.
Threshing-board/Old A threshing-board (Spanish: trillo) is a wooden implement used in agriculture for the threshing process, which involves separating grain from the [and husks of cereal] plants. It was frequently used in traditional [[Spain|Spanish agriculture, where the more common flail was unusual, as well as throughout the Mediterranean Sea area, before the advent of the combine harvester.
Threshold (Doctor Who) The Threshold are a fictional organisation who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The canonicity of the comic strips, like other Doctor Who spin-off media, is unclear.
Threshold (TV series) Threshold is a science fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. Produced by Brannon Braga (best known for his work on the Star Trek franchise), David Goyer (best known for films such as Blade and Batman Begins) and David Heyman, the series focuses on a secret government project investigating the first contact with an extraterrestrial species.
Threshold braking Threshold braking or limit braking is a technique wherein the driver adjusts control of the brake system in an attempt to maximize the braking force of the vehicle. Done properly, this reduces the time and travel distance required to stop the vehicle to optimal amounts, or when racing, allows the driver to delay braking when entering a corner.
Threshold cryptosystem In cryptography, a cryptosystem is called a 'threshold cryptosystem', if in order to decrypt an encrypted message a number of parties exceeding a threshold is required to cooperate in the decryption protocol. The message is encrypted using a public key and the corresponding private key is shared among the participating parties.
Threshold effect In particle physics, the term threshold effect usually refers to small corrections to rough calculations based on the renormalization group that arise from the detailed behavior near the scale where new physics takes place. In the context of renormalization group, we often "integrate out" modes of quantum fields with frequencies exceeding a certain energy scale (cutoff).
Threshold energy In particle physics, the threshold energy for production of a particle is the minimum kinetic energy a pair of traveling particles must have when they collide. The threshold energy is always greater than or equal to the rest energy of the desired particle.
Threshold Limit Value The Threshold Limit Value (TLV) of a chemical substance defines the reasonable level to which a worker can be exposed without adverse health effects. Strictly speaking, TLV is a reserved term of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH).
Threshold of originality Threshold of originality is a limit in copyright law which separates copyrightable works from non-copyrightable works based on the principle that only original works could qualify as intellectual property. In United States copyright law, this principle was invoked in the ruling of the United States Supreme Court in the court case Feist Publications v.
Threshold shadow scheme A threshold shadow scheme (also known as a "threshold signature scheme" or "secret sharing") is a form of secure multiparty computation in which a message is shared between several (N) people. Any piece of the message on its own is totally meaningless, owning 1/Nth of the message will not allow reading of 1/Nth of the message.
Threshold Test Ban Treaty The Treaty on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests, also known as the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (or TTBT), was signed in July 1974 by the USA and the USSR. It establishes a nuclear "threshold," by prohibiting nuclear tests of devices having a yield exceeding 150 kilotons (equivalent to 150,000 tons of TNT).
Threshold voltage The threshold voltage of a MOSFET is usually defined as the gate voltage where a depletion region forms in the substrate (body) of the transistor. In an NMOS the substrate of the transistor is composed of p-type silicon which has more positively charged electron holes compared to electrons.
Thresholding (image processing) Thresholding is the simplest method of image segmentation. Individual pixels in a grayscale image are marked as 'object' pixels if their value is greater than some threshold value (assuming an object to be brighter than the background) and as 'background' pixels otherwise.
Thri-kreen In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the thri-kreen, or "mantis warrior," are an insect-like monstrous humanoid race. They possess six limbs, and usually use one pair for locomotion and the other two pairs as arms.
Thriae In Greek mythology, the Thriae ("pebbles"; also Thriai) were three virgin sisters. They were nature goddesses, by the names Melaina ("the Black"), Kleodora ("Famed for her Gift"), and Daphnis ("Laurel"), who were able to see the future (a trick they were taught by Hermes) and interpret the signs of nature and omens (such as tossing pebbles, the source of their name).
Thrift store chic Thrift Store Chic became popular in fashion during the late 1980s and early 1990s as the grunge movement was building more and more of a fan base. Indie and College Rock were emerging from the underground, and thrift store fashion was seen as an anti-fashion statement.
Thrift Savings Plan The Federal Thrift Savings Plan, or TSP, is a retirement savings plan for civilians who are, or previously were, employed by the United States Government and for members of the uniformed services. The TSP encompasses many millions of investors and has substantial assets.
Thrifty phenotype It has been suggested that in bad conditions a pregnant female can modify the development of her unborn child such that it will be prepared for survival in an environment in which resources are likely to be short, resulting in a thrifty phenotype (Hales & Barker, 1992Hales, C.N.
Thrikkakara Temple Thrikkakara Temple (Thrikkakara Vamanamoorthy Temple) is one of the few temples in India dedicated to Lord Vamana. It is situated in Thrikkakara, a village panchayat near Cochin in the state of Kerala, South India.
Thrikodithanam Mahavishnu Temple The Mahavishnu Kshetram (temple) at Thrikodithanam is one of the five Vishnu temples associated with the five Pandava brothers, the principal characters of the Mahabharata. It is believed that Sahadeva, one of the brothers, performed penance at this site.

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