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Thon
Thon may refer to: * Thon (mythology), a figure from Greek mythology *Thon (name), a surname and given name * Thon (river), northern France * Thon ''(A Canticle for Leibowitz)'', an academic rank similar to a university "don" in the science fiction novel ''A Canticle for Leibowitz'' *-thon, -athon, or -a-thon, a generic suffix and back-formation from marathon, usually used for fundraising events **Telethon, a televised fundraising event ** Walkathon, a fundraising event involving walking ** Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON), an annual 46-hour fundraiser combatting pediatric cancer *"Thon", proposed third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun See also *Than (other) * Thou (other) *Thun (other) Thun is a municipality in Switzerland. Thun may also refer to: * Thun 1794, a Czech porcelain manufacturer * Thun District, Switzerland * Thun (administrative district), in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland * FC Thun, a Swiss football team fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of kilometres ( 26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair divisions. More than 800 marathons are held worldwide each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes, as larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants. A creation of the French philologist Michel Bréal inspired by a story from Ancient Greece, the marathon was one of the original modern Olympic events in 1896 in Athens. The distance did not become standardized until 1921. The distance is also included in the World Athletics Championships, which began in 1983. It is the only running road race included in both championship competitions (walking races on the roads are also contested in both). History Origin The name ''Marathon'' comes from the legend of Pheidippides, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Telethon
A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other cause. Most telethons feature heavy solicitations for pledges (promises to donate funds at a later time) by masters of ceremonies or hosts, who are often local celebrities or media personalities combined with variety show style entertainment such as singers, bands and instrumentalists. In some cases, telethons feature content related to the cause being supported, such as interviews with charitable beneficiaries, tours of charity-supported projects, or pre-taped sequences. The equivalent term for a radio broadcast is a radiothon; most radiothons do not include live entertainment. In the United States, the first telethon used for political outreach occurred in 1960. The highest donating telethon per capita in the world is the Channel Seven Perth Telethon in Perth, Western Australia. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Dance Marathon
Dance marathons (or marathon dances) are events in which people dance or walk to music for an extended period of time. They started as dance contests in the 1920s and developed into human endurance contests, or exploitative entertainment events during the Great Depression in the 1930s. In the present day, dance marathons are commonly used as fundraisers. These modern marathons are usually 12–24 hours, a far cry from the 1,000-hour marathons of the 1930s. Origins According to Professor Carol Martin of New York University, the revival of the Olympic Games created a widespread interest in feats of strength, endurance contests, and world records that led to dance marathons. On February 18, 1923, Olie Finnerty and Edgar Van Ollefin set a record by dancing seven hours without stopping in Sunderland, England. Twelve days later, dance instructor Alma Cummings set a new record at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. She danced continuously for 27 hours with six different partners. Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Walkathon
A walkathon (walk-a-thon), walking marathon or sponsored walk is a type of community or school fundraiser in which participants raise money by collecting donations or pledges for walking a predetermined distance or course. They are similar in format to other physical activity based fundraising events such as marathons and cycling races, but are usually non-competitive and lower intensity. The low intensity model is ideal for mobilizing broad-based community support, and as a result Walkathons usually target participants from a wide range of ages and economic backgrounds. Walkathons are popular fundraisers for issues that affect large sections of the population. Most commonly, Walkathons focus on fighting or curing pervasive diseases or ailments such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, lupus, and arthritis, and participation is also often promoted as a symbol of empowerment, remembrance, or awareness of affected people and their relations. Walkathons are also popular for elementary school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Thon (A Canticle For Leibowitz)
Thon may refer to: * Thon (mythology), a figure from Greek mythology *Thon (name), a surname and given name * Thon (river), northern France * Thon ''(A Canticle for Leibowitz)'', an academic rank similar to a university "don" in the science fiction novel ''A Canticle for Leibowitz'' *-thon, -athon, or -a-thon, a generic suffix and back-formation from marathon, usually used for fundraising events **Telethon, a televised fundraising event ** Walkathon, a fundraising event involving walking ** Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON), an annual 46-hour fundraiser combatting pediatric cancer *"Thon", proposed third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun See also *Than (other) * Thou (other) *Thun (other) Thun is a municipality in Switzerland. Thun may also refer to: * Thun 1794, a Czech porcelain manufacturer * Thun District, Switzerland * Thun (administrative district), in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland * FC Thun, a Swiss football team fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Gender-neutral Pronoun
A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. Some languages, such as Slavic, with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns have a value for this grammatical category. A few languages with gender-specific pronouns, such as English, Afrikaans, Defaka, Khmu, Malayalam, Tamil, and Yazgulyam, lack grammatical gender; in such languages, gender usually adheres to " natural gender", which is often based on biological sex. Other languages, including most Austronesian languages, lack gender distinctions in personal pronouns entirely, as well as any system of grammatical gender. In languages with pronominal gender, problems of usage may arise in contexts where a person of unspecified or unknown social gender is being referred to but commonly available pronouns are gender-specific. Different solutions to this issue have been proposed and used in various l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Thon (mythology)
Polydamna (; ) is an Egyptian figure from Greek mythology. Mythology Mentioned in Homer’s ''Odyssey'',Homer. ''Odyssey'' 4.228 Polydamna was the wife of Thōn (, gen: ), often known as "Thon the Egyptian", owing to his Egyptian heritage. Polydamna gave Helen, wife of Menelaus, nepenthe (i.e., a drug that has "the power of robbing grief and anger of their sting and banishing all painful memories") and which Helen slipped into the wine that Telemachus and Menelaus were drinking. Note References * Homer Homer (; , ; possibly born ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Despite doubts about his autho ..., ''The Odyssey'' with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Thon (name)
Thon is a given name and a surname. Given name * Thon Maker (born 1997), Australian basketballer *Thon Moreira or Thon Thomas, nicknames of Hilton Moreira (born 1981), Brazilian footballer Surname * Dickie Thon (born 1958), American baseball player * Konstantin Thon (1794–1881), Russian architect * Melanie Rae Thon (born 1957), American writer * Nikolaos Thon (1850–1906), Greek businessman * Olaf Thon (born 1966), German footballer * Olav Thon (1923–2024), Norwegian businessman * Øyvin Thon (born 1958), Norwegian orienteering competitor, * Ozjasz Thon (1870–1936), Polish rabbi * Sixtus Armin Thon (1817–1901), German artist * William G. Thon (1886–1953), American lawyer and politician See also * Than (other) * Thaon (surname) *Thoen (name) Thoen is a surname. It is a Norwegian language, Norwegian name from the Old Norse Tónni. It is a Dutch language, Dutch variant of the name Anton (given name), Anton and Antonius. * Ernest Thoen (1946 - 2011), American ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Thon (river)
The Thon or Ton is a small river in northern France. It is a tributary of the river Oise, which flows into the Seine. It crosses the Ardennes and Aisne departments and is the central river of the Thiérache The Thiérache (; Picard: ''Quiérache'') is a region of France and Belgium united by similar geography and architecture, including the presence of hedgerows, grassland, hilly terrain, scattered settlements, and traditionally-built stone or brick .... References Rivers of France Rivers of Grand Est Rivers of Hauts-de-France Rivers of Aisne Rivers of Ardennes (department) Thiérache {{France-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Than (other)
Than is a grammatical particle of the English language. Than may also refer to: * Than, Gujarat, a town in Gujarat, India * Than, Kandi Dholran, a village in Himachal Pradesh, India People with the name * Carl von Than (1834-1908), Hungarian chemist * Mór Than (1828-1899), Hungarian painter * Than (politician), Burmese politician * Than E (1908-2007), Burmese singer * Than Sina, Cambodian politician elected to the National Assembly in 2003 *Ohn Than (born 1946), Burmese activist for democracy * Than Htay, Burmese government minister and retired brigadier general * Than Nyein (politician) (1937-2014), Burmese politician and doctor *Than Shwe Than Shwe (; ; born 2 February 1933) is a retired Burmese army general who held influential positions within Myanmar's government. Serving as the chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) from 1992 to 2011, he played a signifi ... (born 1933), Burmese politician and general * Than Tun (1923-2005): Burmese historian * D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Thou (other)
''Thou'' is an archaic second person singular pronoun in English. Thou may also refer to: * Thousandth(s) of an inch, a derived unit of length used in engineering and manufacturing * Thousand * Thou., a reference to French botanist Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars Geography * Le Thou, a commune of Charente-Maritime, France * Thou, Cher, a commune of Cher, France * Thou, Loiret, a commune of Loiret, France Music * Thou (Belgian band), a Belgian rock band * Thou (American band), an American sludge metal band People with the family name de Thou * Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian * Christophe de Thou, French advocate * Nicolas de Thou Nicolas de Thou (1528 – 5 November 1598) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church. He was a cleric, Bishop of Chartres, and, in politics, a figure instrumental in the coronation of Henry IV of France, the first monarch of the Bourbon dynasty ..., French cleric, Bishop of Chartres See also * Thon (other) {{disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Thun (other)
Thun is a municipality in Switzerland. Thun may also refer to: * Thun 1794, a Czech porcelain manufacturer * Thun District, Switzerland * Thun (administrative district), in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland * FC Thun, a Swiss football team from Thun * Lake Thun, an Alpine lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland * Thun Castle Thun Castle () is a castle in the Thun, city of Thun, in the Switzerland, Swiss canton of Bern. It was built in the 12th century, today houses the Thun Castle museum, and is a Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional signifi ..., a Swiss heritage site in Thun People with the surname * Matteo Thun (born 1952), Italian architect and designer * Michael Thun, American cancer researcher See also * Thon (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |