Thon may refer to:
Events
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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 for ...
, a fundraising event where participants walk a long distance
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Telethon
A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or even days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other purportedly worthy cause.
Most telethons f ...
, a televised fundraising event
Fiction and mythology
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Thon ''(A Canticle for Leibowitz)'', an academic rank similar to a university "don" in the science fiction novel ''A Canticle for Leibowitz''
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Thon (mythology) Polydamna (; Ancient Greek: Πολύδαμνα ''Polúdamna'') is an Egyptian figure from Greek mythology.
Mythology
Mentioned in Homer’s ''Odyssey'',Homer. ''Odyssey'' 4.228 Polydamna was the wife of Thōn (Θῶν, gen: Θῶνος), often kn ...
, a figure from Greek mythology
Other uses
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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 ...
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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 (river), Oise, which flows into the Seine. It crosses the Ardennes (department), Ardennes and Aisne departments and is the central river of the Thiérache.
R ...
, northern France
*-thon, -athon, or -a-thon, a generic suffix and back-formation from
marathon
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , 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 div ...
, usually used for fundraising events
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Telethon
A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or even days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other purportedly worthy cause.
Most telethons f ...
, a televised fundraising event
*"Thon", proposed third-person singular
gender-neutral pronoun
A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. Some languages with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns have a va ...
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Than (disambiguation)
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 chem ...
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Thou (disambiguation)
''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 A ...
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Thun (disambiguation)
Thun is a municipality in Switzerland.
Thun may also refer to:
* 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 ...
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Tron (disambiguation)
''Tron'' is a 1982 science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Productions.
Tron may also refer to:
Tron franchise
* ''Tron'' (franchise), an American science fiction media franchise begun with the 1982 film ''Tron''
Films
* '' Tron: Legacy'', ...
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