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98 unusual facts about Lee "Kix" Thompson


Adolph Germer

Ironically, his 1916 victory over Carl D. Thompson was made possible by staunch support from the SPA's language federations, many branches of which voted for Germer en bloc, enabling him to defeat the more conservative Thompson.

Alan Thompson

Alan S. Thompson (born 1955), Vice Admiral in the United States Navy

Alexander M. Thompson

Collaborating again with Courtneidge, he adapted the composer Leo Fall's operetta Der liebe Augustin as Princess Caprice (1912, Shaftesbury).

Allen C. Thompson

He was offered and accepted a teaching position at Blue Mountain College in North Mississippi.

Amphitrite-class monitor

When the Hayes administration came to power in 1877, it appointed a new Secretary of the Navy, Richard W. Thompson, to replace Robeson.

Auto-Ordnance Company

Auto-Ordnance Corporation was created by John T. Thompson in August 1916 with the backing of investor Thomas Ryan.

Auto-Ordnance was a U.S. arms development firm founded by retired Colonel John T. Thompson of the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in 1916.

Banshee Chapter

Anne discovers that a mention of "Friends in Colorado" is related to the counter-culture writer Thomas Blackburn (Ted Levine), a Hunter S. Thompson-esque figure that is known for his drug usage and unpredictable behaviors.

Barkley Thompson

He is the younger brother of Robert F. Thompson, Arkansas state senator representing the 11th District.

Bat Country

The song's main influence comes from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the title itself also comes from a line from the book in which Raoul Duke, the alter-ego pseudonym of Thompson himself, is on his way to Las Vegas while being affected by various drugs, and thus hallucinates, seeing huge bats and manta rays in the sky.

Benjamin C. Thompson

After the war he moved to Lexington, Massachusetts, where he participated in the design and creation of Six Moon Hill, a neighborhood of modern houses (his first wife wife Mary Okes Thompson lived in the Moon Hill Home through 2004).

Design Research is often noted today for being the first U.S. proprietor of the Finnish clothing and textiles of Marimekko.

Brian B. Thompson

Brian co-created the regional soap Quayside (Director Tom Hopper) for Tyne Tees TV and worked on the first series of Revelations for Granada (Producer, Tony Wood).

He also created the continuing detective series Trueman and Riley, broadcast on BBC7 and BBC Radio 4 from 2002 to present (Producer, Toby Swift).

Browder J. Thompson

Thompson was co-director of RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1942 until December, 1943, when he accepted a special assignment for the Secretary of War.

Thompson was a Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and received the 1936 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award "for his contribution to the vacuum-tube art in the field of very-high frequencies."

Thompson was born in Roanoke, Louisiana, and in 1925 received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Business process reengineering

Thompson, James D. (1969), Organizations in Action, MacGraw-Hill, New York

Calculus Made Easy

Calculus Made Easy is a book on infinitesimal calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject.

Carl Thompson

Carl D. Thompson (1870–1949), American clergyman and politician from the Midwest

Carole Boston Weatherford

In 1995, Lee & Low Books published her first picture book, Juneteenth Jamboree, about a summer celebration in memory of the Texas Emancipation.

Catherine Bertini

Earlier in her career, Ms. Bertini was appointed by Illinois Governor James R. Thompson as a member of the Illinois Human Rights Commission, and as a member of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission.

Charles J. Thompson

Thompson was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1931).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress.

Chateau Marmont Hotel

Hunter S. Thompson, Annie Leibovitz, Dorothy Parker, Bruce Weber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tim Burton, Jay McInerney, Sofia Coppola, among others, all have produced work from within the hotel's walls.

Chicago Central Area Transit Plan

In 1979, then-mayor Jane M. Byrne of Chicago and former Illinois governor James R. Thompson reached an agreement whereby the Franklin Line subway project, along with the Crosstown Expressway on the West Side, was to be canceled, the elevated Loop retained and improved, and rapid transit improvements developed for residential sections of Chicago where improvements were needed.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Faris provides the voice for Samantha "Sam" Sparks, "a weathergirl covering the caution who hides her intelligence behind a perky exterior." James Caan, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T, Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Benjamin Bratt, Al Roker, Lauren Graham, and Will Forte are also on the voice cast.

Damavand College

From 1968 to 1979, Damavand College was served by three presidents, and Mary C. Thompson was the academic Dean all through the years.

Dave A. Thompson

In 2012, Thompson and Steve Drazkowski proposed an Employee Freedom Constitutional Amendment, which would require a statewide referendum on amending the Minnesota Constitution to include a right-to-work clause weakening unions.

David M. Thompson

Now usually credited as 'Executive Producer', he has several projects still in production, including Revolutionary Road.

He is not to be confused with Canadian media mogul David Thomson or film critic David Thomson, the latter of whom is also an admirer of Jean Renoir's films.

Detroit Wolverines

Founded at the suggestion of Detroit mayor William G. Thompson, the Wolverines played the first game of major league baseball in Detroit on May 2, 1881, in front of 1,286 fans.

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writings of Hunter S. Thompson

The book was edited by Jann S. Wenner, co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone, and a friend of Thompson.

Fred L. Lowery

On the occasion of Lowery's announcement of retirement, Louisiana State Representative Jeff R. Thompson of Bossier City introduced a unanimously-approved House resolution praising Lowery for his 30-year ministry at First Baptist Bossier.

George A. Thompson

Today, because of George A. Thompson, Thompson Pump and Manufacturing is known worldwide for its different lines of high quality pumps, ranging in size from 2 to 18 inches.

George Fair

The first baseball encyclopedia, Hy Turkin and S. C. Thompson's Complete Encyclopedia of Baseball (first published in 1951), did not list Fair.

George L. Thompson

:For the English politician, see George Lowther Thompson.

Gerald L. Thompson

Gerald L. Thompson (born November 25, 1923, Rolfe, Iowa; died November 9, 2009 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was the IBM Professor of Systems and Operations Research (Emeritus) in the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University.

Geraldine F. Thompson

Thompson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and moved to the state of Florida in 1955, where she grew up in the town of Perrine where members of her family worked in agriculture and construction.

Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas

The title is an obvious parody of Hunter S. Thompson's book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the epononymous film.

Harold Thompson

Harold H. Thompson (born 1908), carpenter, recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Heroism

I Knew the Bride

Hunter S. Thompson's Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream, a 1990 anthology of essays and works of new journalism, has a chapter named after the song.

If The Beatles Had Read Hunter ... The Singles

The title referred to a quote "that if the writer Hunter S. Thompson had been a presiding influence over The Beatles, then they might have looked and sounded like The Wonder Stuff"

Infinitum Nihil

The Rum Diary, based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, was released on October 28, 2011, starring Depp as Paul Kemp in a screenplay adapted and directed by Bruce Robinson.

James A. Thompson

He was elected mayor of Sugar Land in 2008 after former mayor David G. Wallace stepped down from his office.

James E. Thompson

Thompson is a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Promotion of Hospice Care, is an advisory board member of The Salvation Army and a trustee of Outward Bound Hong Kong.

James F. Thompson

In this role, he led the creation of the new Global Framework agreements for USAID, and built relationships with The Starbucks Coffee Company, Rotary International and Seaboard Corporation.

James R. Thompson, Jr.

He served three years as deputy director for technical operations at Princeton University's Plasma Physics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.

Jeff Thompson

Jeff R. Thompson (born c. 1964), Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Jerry D. Thompson

He has received numerous awards in recognition of his scholarship, including the Minnie Stevens Piper Fellowship; T.R. Fehrenback Award, by the Texas Historical Commission; Kate Broocks Bates Award, by the Texas State Historical Association; Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award, by the Historical Society of New Mexico; and Barry Goldwater Award, by the Arizona Historical Society.

As Thompson studied both men, he concluded that Cortina "completely overshadowed Benavides", for whom a Laredo elementary school is named.

Jimmy Hickey, Jr.

The previous District 11 senator, the Democrat attorney Robert F. Thompson of Paragould in Greene County in northeastern Arkansas, instead ran successfully in the revised District 20.

John L. Thompson

John Lay Thompson (b. April 3, 1869, Grand River Township, Decatur County, Iowa - d. 1930) was an Iowa journalist and businessman who played a key role in the early history of the African American newspaper the Iowa Bystander.

John S. Thompson

:*John S. Thompson-Brug, the John S. Thompson Bridge in Grave, the Netherlands, named after him

Jocko Thompson, born John Samuel Thompson, Major League Baseball pitcher

John W. Thompson

Thompson again remained a potential candidate until the successful appointment of Gary Locke.

Joseph H. Thompson

Entitled "Joe Thompson" it was sung to the tune of the American folk song "Old Black Joe" by Stephen Foster.

:For other persons named Joseph Thompson, see Joseph Thompson

Juan Cortina

Juan Cortina and the Texas-Mexico frontier (1859–1877), by Jerry D. Thompson, Southwestern Studies, 1994 (ISBN 0-87404-195-3).

Justice Thompson

Lucas P. Thompson, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia

Karl R. Thompson

Karl R. Thompson is an American constitutional lawyer who was appointed to a position within the United States Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel by the Presidency of Barack Obama.

Keith Thompson

Keith R. Thompson, professor of oceanography at Dalhousie University

L. M. Thompson

Leonard Thompson (1916 – June 2004) was a South African historian, well known for his seminal work on the formation of the Union of South Africa and the Oxford two-volume History of South Africa, a collaboration with N. M. Wilson.

Laforrest H. Thompson

He was educated at Kimball Union Academy, taught school while studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1871, and opened a practice in Irasburg.

Lee + Mundwiler Architects

Before establishing offices in Los Angeles and Basel, the two principals met while pursing Master's Degrees at the architectural institute SCI-Arc at the international branch in Vico Morcote, Switzerland.

Lee + Mundwiler Architects (a.k.a. L+M Arch) is an architectural design studio based in Los Angeles, Ca;ifornia and Basel, Switzerland.

Lilydale, Victoria

It is believed to have been named after either an 1852 song "Lilly Dale" by H. S. Thompson or the wife of an original settler named Lilly de Castella.

Linda Thompson

Linda D. Thompson (born c. 1961), former mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Marcus Rivers

Marcus Rivers (portrayed by child-actor Bobb'e J. Thompson) is a fictional 12 year-old character that was used by Sony Computer Entertainment America as part of their Step Your Game Up advertising campaign for the PlayStation Portable and PSPgo consoles in North America, much like the PlayStation 3's "It Only Does Everything" advertising campaign commercials with Kevin Butler.

Michael Howlett

Howlett defeated Walker in the March primary, and stood as the Democratic nominee for governor of Illinois in the general election, whereupon he was defeated by Republican nominee James R. Thompson.

Mikko Hyppönen

Hyppönen has been a member of the advisory board of IMPACT (International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats) since 2007 together with Yevgeny Kaspersky, Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Professor Fred Piper and John Thompson.

Mr Duke

Born in Snowdonia, North Wales he took his name from a character in Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

In Cardiff, 2008, Mr Duke formed his backing band, known as The Hoodlum Circus, taken from a Hunter S. Thompson book, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.

Nellie Fox

The group grew to as many as 600 members, including Richard M. Daley, James R. Thompson, George Will and several former MLB players.

O. D. Thompson

A week later Thompson's ledger shows that Allegheny paid Sport Donnelly $250 for playing against Washington & Jefferson.

Osprey Publishing

Warren E. Thompson, author who specializes in aviation and the Korean War

Paul Thompson

Paul H. Thompson (born 20th century), American educator and administrator

Ray Norbut State Fish and Wildlife Area

However, Illinois Governor James R. Thompson decided to follow the engineers' recommendations and build the Western Illinois segment of Interstate 72 through Napoleon Hollow.

Richard L. Thompson

Thompson also published several books and articles on religion and science, Hindu cosmology and astronomy.

He was a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement or ISKCON) and a founding member of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, the branch of ISKCON dedicated to examining the relationship of modern scientific theories to Vaishnava worldview.

Robert Colls

The Pitmen of the Northern Coalfield 1790-1850 (1987) tried to bring the miners into the orbit of E P Thompson’s path-breaking The Making of the English Working Class.

Robert F. Thompson

On May 23, Thompson defeated Paragould resident and former state representative Gary Biggs in the Democratic primary election for the District 11 seat.

Royal Oak, New Zealand

For many years it was a pharmacy before being used as the premises of Barfoot & Thompson Real Estate Agency.

RV Thomas G. Thompson

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Thomas G. Thompson, in honor of oceanographer Thomas G. Thompson (1888–1961).

Samuel D. Thompson

He served on the New Jersey Turnpike Authority from 1994-1997 as director of communications and formerly as director of planning, analysis and government relations.

Sideways Bob

According to interviews with DV8 writer Warren Ellis, Bob's surname is a homage to famed gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Silvanus P. Thompson

William Hale White said: “The audience was thrilled, most seeing for the first time actual pieces of bones and metal. Silvanus Thompson was a prince among lecturers. I have never heard a better demonstration or attended a more memorable medical meeting.”

Steve M. Thompson

Critics and opponents claimed that in fact, he had relocated to Palm Springs, California but was still claiming Fairbanks as his residence for political purposes.

Tak Wah Mak

Mak, Lewis C. Cantley, and Craig B. Thompson together founded Agios, a biotech pharmaceutical company whose sole purpose is to discover methods of targeting cancer metabolism.

The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force

The Wild Blue - The Novel of the U.S. Air Force, by historian Walter J. Boyne and Steven L. Thompson, was published in 1986.

Thomas J. Thompson

As a television director, he has directed episodes of Dave's World, The Norm Show, The Drew Carey Show and Good Luck Charlie.

Tony Graffanino

In 2002, he coordinated and led baseball clinics for boys and girls from Mercy Home at U.S. Cellular Field and signed autographs at the James R. Thompson Center to promote the need for organ donors.

Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!

The name of the album is a quote from the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (and is also included in its 1998 film adaptation).

Walter H. Thompson

In 2005 13-part television series, on UKTV History, with Dennis Waterman reciting excerpts from Thompson's journal (originally broadcast between November and December 2005).

Warren Thompson

Warren A. Thompson (born 1802), explorer and original citizen of Butler County, Alabama

William A. Thompson

In 1896 he moved to La Crosse, and was appointed the Assistant Engineer in charge of the improvements on the Mississippi River from Winona, Minnesota to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

William A. Thompson (born December 16, 1864 in Greenwich, New York – 1925) was an engineer with the United States Army Corps of Engineers who managed improvements on the Mississippi River.

Witness Against the Beast

Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law is a 1993 book by the British historian E. P. Thompson in which Thompson contextualizes the work of the otherwise enigmatic poet and painter William Blake.


Alfred D. Barksdale

He was replaced as an active judge by Roby C. Thompson, although he continued to serve as a senior judge until his death, in Lynchburg.

Biblical Minimalism

Then in the 1970s, largely through the publication of two books, Thomas L. Thompson's The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives and John Van Seters' Abraham in History and Tradition it became widely accepted that the remaining chapters of Genesis were equally non-historical.

Biker poetry

Poets such as Hunter S. Thompson are credited with writing biker poetry, playing no small part in the genus by popularizing a literary movement that focused on the biker lifestyle when he released Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.

Communist Party Historians Group

Famous members included such leading lights of 20th-century British history as Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, Raphael Samuel and E.P. Thompson, as well as important non-academics like A. L. Morton and Brian Pearce.

Drug culture

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas employs drug use as a major theme and provides an example of the drug culture of the 1960s.

Edward T. Hanley

Among the many notable individuals who Hanley counted among his friends were House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and former Illinois governor James R. Thompson.

Freundeskreis

For the soundtrack of the film 23, Freundeskreis covered the song "Halt dich an deiner Liebe fest" (Hold on to your love) written by Rio Reiser, voicing it on Lee "Scratch" Perry's police & thieves riddim.

Herman Talmadge

Ultimately, the lieutenant governor-elect, Melvin E. Thompson, the prior Governor, Ellis Arnall, and Herman Talmadge all had themselves sworn in and were concurrently trying to conduct state business from the Georgia State Capitol.

James Oneal

The true "Right Wing" of the party (exemplified by a large section of the publicists associate with the party, including Allan L. Benson, Charles Edward Russell, John Spargo, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, and Carl D. Thompson peeled away in 1917-18, as American participation in the European conflict became a reality and Woodrow Wilson's argument that this was indeed a "war to make the world safe for democracy" made converts.

Kenneth Street, Jr.

The work on berkelium and californium was carried out at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) with Stanley G. Thompson, Glenn T. Seaborg and Albert Ghiorso.

Little Kix

In late 2005, in a fan interview, when asked what had led to Mansun splitting, Andie Rathbone replied simply; "Little Kix".

Rhino Bucket

In April 2006 Rhino Bucket released And Then It Got Ugly and then proceeded to tour with like minded friends Broken Teeth, The Supersuckers and Kix.

Sandon, British Columbia

Sandon was the birthplace of hockey Hall of Fame member Cecil "Tiny" Thompson.

Waalbrug

Unlike many other bridges from the same period and with the same construction, like the IJsselbrug near Zwolle, the Graafsebrug and the bridge near Arnhem, the Waalbrug is an arch bridge in the literal sense: all forces truly work on the two pylons.

WBZJ

This station also ran a country format, simulcasting with WKXU in Burlington as "Kix 96.9 and 101.1".