Three-spined stickleback The three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, is a fish native to much of northern Europe, northern Asia and North America. It has been introduced into parts of southern and central Europe, including Belgium, where the species was featured on a 14-franc postage stamp issued in Belgium in 1990.
	Three-toed sloth The three-toed sloths are the only members of the Bradypus genus and the Bradypodidae family. They are very closely related to the somewhat larger and generally slower moving two-toed sloths. Both types of sloth tend to occupy the same forests: in most areas, a particular single species of three-toed sloth and a single species of the larger two-toed type will jointly predominate.
	Threonine Threonine is one of the 20 natural amino acids. Nutrition, in humans, threonine is an essential amino acid. Threonine contains two Chirality centers, so there are four possible stereoisomers of threonine, or two possible diastereomers of L-threonine.
	Thresher shark Thresher sharks are large lamniform sharks of the family Alopiidae. Found in all temperate and tropical oceans of the world, the family contains three species all within the genus Alopias.
	Threshing Threshing is the process of beating cereal plants in order to separate the seeds or grains from the straw. Although once done by hand using a flail on a threshing floor, this tiring task is now mostly done by machine. Threshing is one of the many tasks a combine harvester performs, along with harvesting the plant and cleaning the grains.
	Threshing machine The thrashing machine, or, in modern spelling, threshing machine, was a machine invented by Scotland mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle for use in agriculture. It was designed for the separation of grain from stalks and husks. For thousands of years, grain was separated by hand with flails, and was very labourious and time consuming.
	Threskiornis Threskiornis is a genus of ibises, wading birds of the family Threskiornithidae. They occur in the warmer parts of the Old World in southern Asia, Australasia and sub-Saharan Africa. They are colonial breeders, which build a stick nest in a tree or bush and lay 2-4 egg.
	Threskiornithidae The family Threskiornithidae includes 36 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills. It was formerly known as Plataleidae. The spoonbills and ibises are related to other groups of long-legged wading birds in the order Ciconiiformes, including the storks, the herons, and the bitterns.
	Thrice ---- Thrice is an United States experimental music hardcore punk band that formed in Irvine, California in 1998. In 1999 they self-released an Extended play called First Impressions, of which only 1,000 copies were made and sold out of their cars.
	Thrills Thrills is a Canadian brand of chewing gum now made by Concord Confections, but once produced by The Willy Wonka Candy Company. It is well known for its distinctive soap flavour.
	Thrips Thrips are tiny, slender insects with fringed wings. Other common names include Thunderflies, Thunderbugs and Corn Lice. Thrips species feed on a large variety of sources both plant and animal by puncturing them and sucking up the contents. A large number of thrips species are considered pests, because they feed on plants with commercial value.
	Throne A throne is the official chair or seat upon which a monarch is seated on state or ceremonial occasions. "Throne" in an abstract sense can also refer to the monarchy or the Crown itself, an instance of metonymy, and is also used in many terms such as "power behind the throne."
	Throttle In an engine, the throttle is the mechanism by which the engine's power is increased or decreased. Throttle may refer to both the part inside the engine which directly regulates the fuel flow, or the human controls that the operator uses to indirectly control an engine's power.
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	Thrush Nightingale The Thrush Nightingale, Luscinia luscinia, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It, and similar small European species, are often called chats.
	Thrust Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Isaac Newton's Newton's laws of motion. When a system expels or acceleration mass in one direction the accelerated mass will cause a proportional but opposite force on that system.
	Thrust bearing A thrust bearing is a particular type of rotary bearing. Like other rotary bearings they permit rotation between parts, but they are designed to support a high axial load while doing this. Thrust bearings come in several varieties. *Ball thrust bearings, comprised of ball bearings supported in a ring, can be used in low thrust applications where there is little radial load.
	Thrust fault A thrust fault is a particular type of Geologic fault, or break in the fabric of the Earth's crust with resulting movement of each side against the other, in which a lower stratigraphic position is pushed up and over another. This is the result of compressional forces. Category:Structural geology
	Thrust stage *The Festival theatre at the Stratford Festival of Canada *The Studio-thtre at Place des Arts, Montreal *The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, California *The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis *The Ethel M. Barber Theater at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL
	Thucydides Thucydides was an ancient Greeks history, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens. This is widely considered the first work of scientific history, describing the human world as produced by men acting from ordinary motives, without the intervention of the gods.
	Thuja Thuja is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae. There are five species in the genus, two native to North America and three from Eastern Asia. They are commonly known as arborvitae, due to the evergreen foliage; some are also sometimes known by the incorrect name "cedar".
	Thuja occidentalis Thuja occidentalis is an evergreen Pinophyta tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is widely cultivated for use as an ornamental plant. The endemic occurrence of this species is a north-eastern distribution in North America. It is thought to be the first tree of that region to be cultivated in Europe.
	Thuja plicata Thuja plicata is a species of thuja, an evergreen Pinophyta tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada, from southern Alaska and British Columbia south to northwest California and inland to western Montana.
	Thujopsis Thujopsis is a Pinophyta in the cypress family, the sole member of the genus being Thujopsis dolabrata. It is endemic to Japan, where it is named Hiba. It is similar to the closely related genus Thuja, differing in the broader, thicker leaves and thick cones.
	Thule Thule is in classic sources a place, usually an island. Ancient European descriptions and maps locate it either in the far north, often northern Britain or Scandinavia, or in the west and north, often Iceland or Greenland. Otherwise it is Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea.
	Thumbnail Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to make it easier to scan and recognize them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index_(publishing) does for words. Visual search engines and image-organizing programs normally use them, as can some modern operating systems or desktop environments, such as Windows XP, KDE, and GNOME.
	Thumbscrew The thumbscrew or pilliwinks is an instrument of torture which was used in medieval Europe, notably by the Inquisition. It is a simple vise, sometimes with protruding studs on the interior surfaces. The tortured victim's thumbs or fingers were placed in the vise and slowly crushed.
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	Thunbergia Thunbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia. Its members are known by various names, including thunbergias; clockvine on its own usually refers to Thunbergia grandiflora, while Thunbergia alata is often known as Black-eyed Susan vine or just Black-eyed Susan.
	Thunder Thunder is, even today, not completely understood by modern science. The word usually describes a sonic shock wave caused by the rapid heating and expansion of the air surrounding and within a bolt of lightning. The bolt changes the air into plasma and it instantly explodes causing the sound known as a thunder clap.
	Thunderbolt A thunderbolt is a traditional expression for a discharge of lightning or a symbolic representation thereof. As a divine manifestation it has been a powerful symbol throughout history, and has appeared in many mythology. Drawing from this powerful association, the thunderbolt is often found in military symbolism and semiotic representations of electricity.
	Thunderstorm A thunderstorm, or an electrical storm, is a form of weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its attendant thunder produced from a cumulonimbus cloud. It is usually accompanied by copious rainfall, hail, or rarely, snowfall in the winter months, sometimes termed thundersnow.
	Thunderstruck Thunderstruck is a 2004 in film movie starring Stephen Curry, Damon Gameau, Ryan Johnson, Callan Mulvey, and Sam Worthington. The title of the movie was taken from the AC/DC song of the same name.
	Thurible A thurible is a metal censer suspended from chains, in which incense is burned during Mass. It is used in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicanism, Old Catholic and other churches. In Catholic and Anglican churches, the altar server who carries the thurible is called the thurifer.
	Thuringia The Republic of Thuringia lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the country's sixteen States of Germany , being eleventh in size with an area of 16,200 km and twelfth most populous with 2.45 million inhabitants. The capital is Erfurt.
	Thursday Thursday, according to ISO 8601, is the fourth day of the week, falling between Wednesday and Friday. In countries that adopt the Sunday-first convention, it is considered the fifth day of the week. The contemporary name Thursday comes from the Old English language unresdg, meaning "Day of Thor", this being a rough Germanic equivalent to the Latin Iovis Dies, "Jupiter's Day."
	Thylacine The Thylacine is a large carnivore marsupial native to Australia which is thought to have gone extinct in the 20th century. Locally, it is known as the Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf, and colloquially the Tassie Tiger or simply the Tiger.
	Thyme Thyme is a genus of about 350 species of aromatic perennial plant herbs and sub-shrubs to 40 cm tall, in the Family Lamiaceae and native to Europe, North Africa and Asia. A number of species has some chemotypes. The stems tend to be narrow or even wiry; the leaf are evergreen in most species, arranged in opposite pairs, oval, entire, and small, 4-20 mm long.
	Thymelaeaceae Thymelaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, with about 700-750 species in 50 genera. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution with concentrations in tropical Africa, southeast Asia and Australasia. The species include mostly trees and shrubs, with a few vines and herbaceous plants.
	Thymidine Thymidine is a chemical Chemical compound which is a pyrimidine nucleoside. Thymidine is the DNA base T, which pairs with adenosine in double stranded DNA.
	Thymine Thymine is one of the four bases in the nucleic acid of DNA that make up the letters ATGC. The others are adenine, guanine, and cytosine. Thymine (T) always pairs with adenine. Thymine is also known as 5-methyluracil, a pyrimidine nucleobase. As the name suggests, thymine may be derived by methylation of uracil at the 5th carbon.
	Thymol Thymol is a terpene phenol derivative of cymene, C10H13OH, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and Liquid-liquid extraction as a white crystalline substance of a pleasant aromatic odor and strong antiseptic properties.
	Thymosin For the functioning of fundamental eukaryotic processes such as maintenance of cell shape, cytoplasmic organization, cell movement, and cell division, the actin cytoskeleton is essential. Via a dynamic equilibrium between polymeric and monomeric actin--facilitated by actin-binding proteins which regulate the monomer-to-polymer transition by binding monomers and filaments--the functioning of basic cell processes is possible.
	Thymus In human anatomy, the thymus is an organ located in the upper anterior portion of the Thoracic cavity. The thymus plays an important role in the development of the immune system in early life, and its cells form a part of the body's normal immune system. It is most active before puberty, after which it shrinks in size and activity in most individuals and is replaced with fat.
	Thyreophora The Thyreophora were a subgroup of the ornithischian dinosaurs. They were Armour herbivorous dinosaurs, living from the early Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous. The Thyreophora include well-known suborders such as the Ankylosauria and Stegosauria as well as lesser known groups.
	Thyroid The thyroid is one of the larger Endocrine system glands in the body. It is a double-lobed structure located in the neck and produces hormones, principally thyroxine and triiodothyronine , that regulate the rate of metabolism and affect the growth and rate of function of many other systems in the body.
	Thyroid hormone The thyroid hormones, thyroxine and triiodothyronine, are tyrosine-based hormones produced by the thyroid gland. An important component in the synthesis is iodine. The major form of thyroid hormone in the blood is thyroxine. The ratio of T4 to T3 released in the blood is roughly 20 to 1.
	Thyrsus In Greek mythology, a thyrsus was a ferula staff covered with ivy vines and leaves and topped with a pine conifer cone. The thyrsus is a composite symbol of the forest and the farm. It has been suggested that this was specifically a fertility phallus, with the fennel representing the shaft of the penis and the pine cone representing the "seed" issuing forth.
	Thysanura Thysanura is an order of small active insects that includes the familiar silverfish Lepisma saccharina and the firebrat. The order includes about 370 species worldwide, in four families: Lepismatidae, Lepidotrichidae, Maindroniidae, and Nicoletiidae.
	TiA TiA is a Japanese people singer, famous for her songs Ryuusei and Every Time. Her August 2005 single Promise, is used as Yakitate!! Japan's second opening song. In 2004 she released her first music album, entitled "Humming".
	Tianjin Tianjin is one of the four municipality of China of the People's Republic of China. As a municipality, Tianjin has Political divisions of China status and comes directly under the central government. Tianjin's urban area is the third largest city in Mainland China.
	Tiara A tiara is a form of Crown. There are two possible types of crown that this word can refer to. Traditionally, the word "tiara" refers to a high crown, often with the shape of a cylinder narrowed at its top, made of fabric or leather, and richly ornamented. It was used by the monarch and emperors of some ancient peoples in Mesopotamia.
	Tiber The Tiber , the third-longest river in Italy at 406 km after the Po river and the Adige, flows through Rome in its course from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea, which it reaches in two branches that cross the suburbs of Ostia-Isola Sacra and Fiumicino .
	Tiberius Tiberius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37. Tiberius was by birth a Claudius , son of Tiberius Nero and Livia.
	Tibet Tibet is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 4,900 Metre , it is often called the "Roof of the World".
	Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhism doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the Himalayas region , Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia , and northeastern China . It is a multifaceted and integrated teaching, naturally implementing methods for all human-condition levels: Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana and Ati Yoga .
	Tibetan Mastiff The Tibetan Mastiff is a rare, very large dog breed of dog.
	Tibetan Terrier The Tibetan Terrier is not a member of the terrier group, the name being given to it by European travelers to Tibet who were reminded of terriers from back home when they first encountered the breed. Its origins are uncertain at best, as some sources claim them to be lucky temple dogs, whereas others place them as general use working dogs.
	Tibicen The tibicen genus of cicadas is the most prevalent in the United States. These large-bodied cicadas appear annually, after feeding on tree roots for 2-3 years in their nymph stage. Due to overlapping generations, though, Tibicen cicadas are present every year during late summer.
	Tic-tac-toe Tic-tac-toe, also called noughts and crosses, hugs and kisses, and many other names, is a paper and pencil game for two players, O and X, who take turns to mark the spaces in a 3×3 grid. The player who succeeds in placing three of their own marks in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row wins the game.
	Ticino Canton Ticino or Ticino is the southernmost cantons of Switzerland of Switzerland. The written language is Italian language in almost the entire cantons of Switzerland. It surrounds the Italy enclave of Campione d'Italia. Together with areas of the canton of Graubnden it makes up the so-called Svizzera Italiana.
	Tick Tick is the common name for the small arachnids that, along with mites, constitute the order Acarina. Ticks are ectoparasites, living by hematophagy on the blood of mammals, birds, and occasionally reptiles and amphibians. Ticks are important Vectors of a number of diseases.
	Ticker tape Ticker tape was used by ticker tape machines, stock ticker machines, or just stock tickers. Invented in the 1870s, early versions of stock tickers provided the first automation means of conveying stock prices, over a long distance over telegraph wiring. Previously, they were hand-delivered via writing or Wiktionary:Verbal messages.
	Ticket Ticket can mean one of several things:
	Tickling Tickling is the act of touching a part of the body so as to cause involuntary laughter or twitching movements.
	Tickseed Tickseed is the common name for the plant Coreopsis, a group of flowering plants in the Family Asteraceae and Genus Coreopis. The flowers are usually yellow with a toothed tip. The name is derived from the Greek language word koris, meaning Bedbug.
	Tidal Basin The Tidal Basin is a partially man-made inlet adjacent to the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It is part of West Potomac Park and is surrounded by the Jefferson Memorial and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. The basin covers an area of about 107 acre and is 10 Foot deep.
	Tidal bore A tidal bore is a tide phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave of water that travel up a river or narrow bay against the direction of the current. As such, it is a true tidal wave. Bores occur in relatively few locations worldwide, usually in areas with a large tidal range, and where incoming tides are funnelled into a shallow, narrowing river via a broad bay.
	Tide The tide is the cyclic rising and falling of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the Earth. Tides cause changes in the depth of the sea, and also produce oscillating currents known as tidal streams, making prediction of tides important for coastal navigation .
	Tie Rack Tie Rack is a United Kingdom-based necktie retailer which has recently Diversification into selling Scarf. Tie Rack operates in a niche market. The stores are often very small due to the nature of the Product, and as such, are found in airports across the world.