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2 unusual facts about Richard W. Thompson


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.

Richard W. Thompson

The French were in the process of funding the new Panama Canal Company under Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Business process reengineering

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Guild of Scholars of The Episcopal Church

The Guild was founded in 1945 and has included such eminent members as Cleanth Brooks, Brooks Otis, Henry Babcock Veatch, Frederick Pottle, W. H. Auden, Dell Hymes, Hyatt Waggoner and Richard W. Bailey.

Harold Thompson

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

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.

Joseph H. Thompson

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

Juan Cortina

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

Keith Thompson

Keith R. Thompson, professor of oceanography at Dalhousie University

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New Jersey Meadowlands Commission

These parks include Richard W. DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, home to a butterfly garden, World Trade Center Memorial, overlook of New York City, several trails, and the NJMC's Meadowlands Environment Center.

O. D. Thompson

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

Richard W. Bailey

In 2008, Bailey co-authored an amicus brief with colleagues Dennis Baron and Jeffrey Kaplan, for the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court case, providing an interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution based on the grammars, dictionaries, and general usage common in the founders' day, and showing that those meanings are still common today.

Richard W. Blue

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress.

Richard W. Bourne

He was reappointed as Chair of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust in September 2009, after chairing it for four years.

Richard W. Gilsdorf

He served his first appointment at St. John Church in Little Chute, Wisconsin, for two years, and then received assignment to the faculty of Sacred Heart Minor Seminary near Green Bay.

Richard W. Higgins

He is depicted as one of four examples in bravery in the history of the German Air Force.

Richard W. Hoffman

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1957).

Richard W. Leopold Prize

A 3-member committee, chosen by the President of the OAH, chooses the best history book on U.S. federal government agencies, U.S. foreign policies, U.S. military affairs, or biographies of government officials.

Richard W. Mallary

He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974 but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate, losing to present U.S. Senator from Vermont Patrick Leahy in his initial run for the U.S. Senate.

In between his service as Vermont Secretary of Administration, Mallary was elected as a Republican, by special election, to the Ninety-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Robert T. Stafford, and reelected to the Ninety-third Congress, serving from January 7, 1972-January 3, 1975.

Richard W. Richards

Richard Richards was awarded the Albert Medal in 1923 for his efforts on the ice to save the lives of Spencer-Smith and Mackintosh, this award being converted in 1971 to the George Cross, an exchange offered to all Albert Medal holders then living.

Richard W. Townshend

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Fiftieth Congress).

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.

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.

Sandon, British Columbia

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

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).

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.

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.


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