Thaw
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Thaw or THAW may refer to:
Events
- Thaw (weather), the melting of snow and ice
- Gomułka thaw, also called the "Polish October", a political change in Poland in 1956
- Khrushchev Thaw, a period in the history of the Soviet Union
- Cuban Thaw, warming of Cuba–United States relations that began in 2014
Organisations
- Theaters Against War, a coalition of theaters and theater artists protesting against the Iraq war
- The Heat and Warmth Fund, a nonprofit organization in Michigan providing energy assistance
Popular culture
- Thaw (album), an album by the band Foetus Interruptus
- The Thaw (film), a horror film starring Val Kilmer
- The Thaw (Ehrenburg novel), a 1954 novel by Ilya Ehrenburg about the Khrushchev Thaw
- The Thaw (novelette), a 1979 novelette by Tanith Lee
- "The Thaw" (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of sci-fi TV series Star Trek Voyager
People with the surname
- Alan Thaw (1926–2007), Australian rules footballer
- Alice Cornelia Thaw (1880–1955), American philanthropist
- Abigail Thaw (born 1965), British actress
- Benjamin Thaw (1859–1933), American banker and philanthropist
- Harry Kendall Thaw (1871–1947), American convicted murderer
- John Thaw (1942–2002), English actor
- Kevin Thaw (born 1967), English alpinist
- Margaret Copley Thaw, (1877-1942), American philanthropist
- Russell William Thaw (1910–1984), American racing pilot who fought in World War II
- William Thaw, Sr. (1818–1889), American railroad baron
- William Thaw II (1893–1934), American aviator who fought in World War I
See also
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