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unusual facts about George H. Thomas



105th Airlift Wing

On 24 August the 137th Military Airlift Squadron was called to active duty by President George H. W. Bush to provide continued support for this operation.

511th Tactical Fighter Squadron

Aircraft contributed significantly to destruction of hundreds of enemy vehicles and many of their occupants on Highway 80, 26–27 February 1991, directly leading to President George H. W. Bush's decision to declare a cessation of hostilities on the next day.

Abraham Shemtov

He regularly leads Chabad-Lubavitch delegations to the White House and played a pivotal role in the relationships formed between Schneerson and U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Akiko Nakagami

Once she has advised U.S. President George H. W. Bush at the Houston summit in 1990.
She also has held prominent positions such as counsellor for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Artis Lane

She has made sculptures of prominent people as former President George H. W. Bush, Bill Cosby, Walter Annenberg, Michael Jordan, Gordon Getty, Nelson Mandela and Henry Kissinger.

ASCI White

It was built as stage three of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) started by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build a simulator to replace live WMD testing following the moratorium on testing started by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993.

Atmen gibt das Leben

The German, English, and French text for the remainder incorporates six quotations: three haiku (by Shiki, Buson, and Issa), and one passage each from Socrates, the Gospel according to St. Thomas, and Meister Eckhart (Stockhausen 1979).

C. J. Cregg

Kept out of the loop with regard to the 1993 assassination attempt on former President George H. W. Bush, Myers assured the press that there would be no more news coming out of the White House hours before the United States bombed Baghdad.

Cistercian architecture

Woods, Thomas, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (2005), ISBN 0-89526-038-7.

Connie Bernardy

She later attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a B.A. in communication studies, and also the University of St. Thomas, graduating with an M.B.A. certification in government acquisitions and contract management.

Craig Hodges

When the Chicago Bulls visited the White House after winning the 1992 NBA Championship, Hodges dressed in a dashiki and delivered a hand-written letter addressed to then President George H. W. Bush, expressing his discontent at the administration's treatment of the poor and minorities.

Dale Groutage

Dale Groutage (born 1944) is an engineer who ran in 2006 as the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Wyoming against incumbent Senator Craig Thomas.

Dan Sandifer

He once played in a tennis exhibition match in Houston, Texas with future president, George H. W. Bush and professionals Tony Roche and John Newcombe.

Daniel Thomas

Daniel M. Thomas, early California politician and pioneer to Los Angeles

David Gompert

Prior to leading the institute, Gompert was a special assistant to former President George H. W. Bush, as well as the senior director for Europe and Eurasia on the staff of the National Security Council from 1990 to 1993.

Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia

The suburb also boasts Saint Thomas' College, one of Sri Lanka's most prestigious primary and secondary schools.

Fetal tissue implant

Federal funding for embryonic tissue research was restricted in the United States under Presidents Reagan and Bush before being lifted under the Clinton administration.

Franklin K. Lane High School

Franklin A. Thomas – former President and CEO of the Ford Foundation

George H. Clark

George H. Clark (October 18, 1872 – July 11, 1943) was a Republican lawyer from Canton, Ohio in the United States who sat as a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1922.

George H. Gay, Jr.

In 1975, he served as a consultant on the set for the movie Midway, in which Kevin Dobson played Gay.

George H. Pepper

George Hubbard Pepper (February 2, 1873 – May 13, 1924) was an ethnologist and archaeologist, was born in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York.

George H. Utter

Utter was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, until his death from liver cancer in Westerly, Rhode Island, November 3, 1912.

George McLain

George H. McLain, United States Democratic politician from California

Gleaves Whitney

In his current position as director of the Hauenstein Center, he has cultivated many institutional partnerships—e.g., the National Park Service, Houston Museum of Natural Science, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum—and numerous ongoing professional partnerships—e.g., H. W. Brands, Richard Norton Smith, William Barker, and George Nash.

James V. Hansen

In 1990 Hansen was one of the two main House sponsors of a resolution calling on the George H. W. Bush administration to stop pressure on Thailand to allow the sale of U.S. cigarettes.

Jerry Merrick

Apparently, this led to the song (and arrangement) being included by B.J. Thomas on his 1970 Scepter album, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head.

John Carne Bidwill

Bidwill was born at St. Thomas, Exeter, England, the eldest son of Joseph Green Bidwill, a merchant of Exeter and Charlotte, née Carne.

Jon R. Thomas

Thomas spent 1966 through 1969 as a member of the U.S. Special Forces, earning a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and Purple Heart.

Jordan A. Thomas

In both 2013 and 2012, the Ethisphere Institute named Thomas to its listing of “Attorneys Who Matter,” which recognizes leading practitioners in the world of corporate ethics and compliance.

Laurence Lynn, Jr.

From 2002-2007, he was the George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.

March 16–20, 1992

Farrar's "Criminals" paraphrases a George H. W. Bush campaign speech and was considered by music journalist Greg Kot to be one of the band's "angriest songs".

Martha Scanlan Klima

She was elected as a delegate to the Republican Party National Convention in 1984, which nominated Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

Memories of the Ford Administration

He vaguely laments the loss, although now back with his wife in the era of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and comes across as a chastened man.

Milwaukee River

In the early 19th century, three towns were formed across the banks of the Milwaukee and Kinnickinnic rivers: Juneautown by Solomon Juneau, Walker's Point by George H. Walker and Kilbourntown by Byron Kilbourn.

MS Louis Olympia

Following a voyage across the Atlantic, the Song of America entered service with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines on 5 December 1982 on a cruise from Miami to Nassau, San Juan and St. Thomas.

Nacoochee Mound

The mound was formally excavated in 1915 by a team of archaeologists headed by Frederick Webb Hodge and George H. Pepper and sponsored by the Heye Foundation and the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Presidential Palace, Helsinki

A number of US Presidents have visited the palace, including Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.

Remittitur

An example of the latter is the high-profile file-sharing court case Capitol v. Thomas.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1992

Incumbent President George H.W. Bush was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1992 Republican National Convention held from August 17 to August 20, 1992 in Houston, Texas.

Ring of Brodgar

The first formal survey of the Ring of Brodgar and surrounding antiquities was performed in 1849 by Royal Navy Captain F.W.L. Thomas of HM cutter Woodlark.

SF Squeecast

The podcast features a group of regular contributors, Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, Elizabeth Bear, and Catherynne M. Valente, most of whom appear on every episode, usually along with a guest contributor.

St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Malayattoor

St. Thomas founded churches in different places in Kerala including Kollam, Kodungalloor, Nilakkal, Niranam, etc.

Stephen Schneider

Schneider served as a consultant to federal agencies and White House staff in the Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

The Real World: St. Thomas

Maria Menounos hosted, and featured the entire cast, as they discussed their time during filming and their lives since the show ended.

Times Two

As a result, the duo were subsequently dropped from Reprise, and the duo returned in 1990 on EMI Records with the EP "Danger Is My Business." A single was released, "Set Me Free," which prominently featured samples from Blue Swede's 1974 cover of B.J. Thomas' 1969 hit song "Hooked on a Feeling."

Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy

The Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy (VTTMAA), also referred as Vivien T. Thomas, is a public high school located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

W. C. E. Thomas

He was an agent of the American Express office from the establishment of the Green Bay branch in 1857 until 1871.

White House china

It was first used at a dinner function attended by Gerald Ford and Mrs. Ford, Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Carter, George H. W. Bush and Mrs. Bush, and Lady Bird Johnson.

William W. Thomas, Jr.

At only 23 years of age, and full of enthusiasm for his task, he was appointed consul to Gothenburg, Sweden on October 23, 1862.


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