THU
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Thu is an abbreviation for Thursday
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Thu or THU can also refer to:
Thursday
Thursday is the fourth day of the week according to the ISO 8601 international standard adopted in most western countries. In countries that use the Sunday-first convention and in the Judeo-Christian calendar it is the fifth day of the week. It falls between Wednesday and Friday...
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Thu or THU can also refer to:
- THU-Team ry. Motorsport club from southern Finland, Nummi-Pusula
- THU, an abbreviation for Tsinghua UniversityTsinghua UniversityTsinghua University , colloquially known in Chinese as Qinghua, is a university in Beijing, China. The school is one of the nine universities of the C9 League. It was established in 1911 under the name "Tsinghua Xuetang" or "Tsinghua College" and was renamed the "Tsinghua School" one year later...
in Beijing, China - THU, IATA airport code for Thule Air BaseThule Air BaseThule Air Base or Thule Air Base/Pituffik Airport , is the United States Air Force's northernmost base, located north of the Arctic Circle and from the North Pole on the northwest side of the island of Greenland. It is approximately east of the North Magnetic Pole.-Overview:Thule Air Base is the...
- Thû, an early name for SauronSauronSauron is the primary antagonist and titular character of the epic fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.In the same work, he is revealed to be the same character as "the Necromancer" from Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit...
in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium - Thu (pronoun) or Þu, an Old English pronoun
- Thu, a dog belonging to the characters Claidi and Argul in The Claidi JournalsThe Claidi JournalsThe Claidi Journals is a fantasy novel quartet written by Tanith Lee. A collection of the first three novels was released in 2003.-Law of the Wolf Tower:Law of the Wolf Tower is the first book in The Claidi Journals...
by Tanith Lee - Thu, the abbreviation for the orchid genus ThuniaThuniaThunia is a genus of orchids and the only genus of the subtribe Thuniinae. The genus comprises 6 species, native to Southeast Asia. It is abbreviated Thu in trade journals.-External links:*...
- Thu, PalpaThu, PalpaThu is a village development committee in Palpa District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3511 people living in 683 individual households....
, a Village Development Committee in Nepal - Thu, a nation on the fictional planet Urras in the novel The DispossessedThe DispossessedThe Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness . The book won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974, both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1975, and received a nomination for...
by Ursula K. Le Guin