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Royal Bank Building

Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building, an office building in Ottawa originally called Royal Bank Centre


Campbell, Minnesota

Thomas D. Schall, U.S. Representative in Minnesota's 10th District (1915–1925) and U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1925–1935)

Clare de Kitchen

It dates to 1832, when blackface performers such as George Nichols, Thomas D. Rice, and George Washington Dixon began to sing it.

Clarence Halbert

In 1900, along with Hiram F. Stevens, Ambrose Tighe, Moses Clapp, and Thomas D. O'Brien, Halbert founded the St. Paul College of Law, the first predecessor of William Mitchell College of Law.

Die Nacht… Du bist nicht allein

Die Nacht… Du bist nicht allein (English: The night… You are not alone) is the first single from the 2005 Schiller album Tag und Nacht with vocals by German singer Thomas D. and his wife Tina Dürr.

Elmer Austin Benson

Olson appointed Benson state Commissioner of Securities before choosing him to replace Thomas D. Schall in the United States Senate after Schall's death in December 1935.

Eugene M. Zuckert

Both he and Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White opposed the administration's decision to cut the XB-70 bomber.

Guy V. Howard

He was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas D. Schall and served from November 4, 1936, to January 3, 1937 in the 74th congress.

Jakalope

Trent Reznor returned as co-producer and other guests on the second album include Allie Sheldan (Rio Bent), Thom D'arcy (Small Sins), Bob Pantella (Monster Magnet), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Jeremy Fisher and Bill Rieflin (Ministry, R.E.M., Married To Music).

Josephine Phelan

Josephine Phelan (1905-1979), Canadian writer and librarian, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1951 for The Ardent Exile, a biography of Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

N'Quatqua

The name D'Arcy was conferred in honour of Thomas D'Arcy McGee when the Pacific Great Eastern Railway was built, and that name was also applied to the alpine peak just south of "town".

Old Corn Meal

George Nichols, a blackface circus clown is one, as is Thomas D. Rice, whose "Corn Meal" skit most likely came from seeing Old Corn Meal's act during one of his visits to New Orleans in 1835, 1836 and 1838.

Pleasant Valley Conservancy State Natural Area

Pleasant Valley Conservancy is owned in part by The Prairie Enthusiasts and by Tom Brock and his wife Kathie with management support from the Savanna Oak Foundation.

Sparks Street

One of these was Thomas D'Arcy McGee who, in 1868, was assassinated outside his home at the corner of Sparks and Metcalfe.

The Island Princess

The play was adapted four times, by an anonymous author, by Nahum Tate, by Thomas d'Urfey, and again by Peter Anthony Motteux, the latter being the more successful.

Thomas Anthony Thacher

He was also the paternal grandfather of US Solicitor General Thomas D. Thacher and Molly Kazan, and the great-great-grandfather of actress and writer Zoe Kazan.

Thomas Barr

Thomas D. Barr (1931–2008), prominent lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Thomas D

Outside Germany, he is probably best known for Wish (Komm zu mir) which he performed with Franka Potente on the soundtrack of the movie Run Lola Run.

Singles released from these albums include Rückenwind, Frisör, Liebesbrief, and Solo (featuring Nina Hagen).

Thomas D. Barr

Thomas Barr is best known for representing the International Business Machines Corporation in a 13-year antitrust battle with the federal government, as well as satellite cases by competitors and the EEC.

Thomas D. Clark

It turned out that budding writer, William Faulkner, also having a hard time with finances, helped Clark tend the golf course.

Thomas D. Green

In 1886, he became the first president of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada, considered the first organized ice hockey league.

Thomas D. Harp

Harp was nominated on August 28, 1890, by the Democratic convention of the 30th Senate District to represent Merced, Tuolumne and Stanislaus counties.

Thomas D. Milling

Milling reported to the 15th Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in September 1909 but his tour of duty was cut short when War Department Special Order 95, dated April 21, 1911, assigned Milling and 2d Lt. Henry H. Arnold to "aeronautical duty with the Signal Corps," and instructed them to "proceed to Dayton, Ohio, for the purpose of undergoing a course of instruction in operating the Wright airplane."

In 1915, he and Byron Q. Jones were the first army aviators to perform an aerial combat reconnaissance mission.

Thomas D. O'Brien

In 1900, along with Hiram F. Stevens, Ambrose Tighe, Moses Clapp and Clarence Halbert, he founded William Mitchell College of Law's first predecessor school, the St. Paul College of Law.

Thomas D. O'Rourke

Professor O’Rourke has testified before the United States House of Representatives Science Committee (engineering implications of the 1999 Turkey and Taiwan earthquakes and, in 2003, on the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program).

He joined the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity at Cornell, and through that organization, the Irving Literary Society.

Such projects include the Washington D.C. Metro System, Superconducting Super Collider, Channel Tunnel, and the Boston Central Artery.

Thomas D. Thacher

Thacher attended Taft School and Phillips Academy of Andover, Massachusetts for his preparatory education, before following his family tradition and attending Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.

In November 1943, Thacher was elected to a full fourteen-year term, but resigned from the bench on November 18, 1948.

Thomas D. Westfall

Westfall then joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation and worked as an agent over the next 25 years in Dallas, Columbus, Ohio, Washington, D.C., Savannah, Georgia, and finally in El Paso, Texas, as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso office of the FBI.

Thomas D'Alesandro Stadium

The stadium was built with help from the Jewish community of Baltimore, Maryland and named for the mayor of Baltimore, Thomas D'Alesandro.

Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr.

D'Alesandro was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Maria Petronilla (née Foppiani) and Tommaso G. D'Alessandro, who were born in Montenerodomo, Abruzzo, Italy.

D'Alesandro was then elected to the 76th Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1939, until he resigned on May 16, 1947.

Thomas d'Aquino

Canadian author Peter C. Newman, in his book Titans, describes d'Aquino as "the most powerful influence on public policy formation in Canadian history".

Thomas D'Arcy

They played in nightclubs they were not yet old enough to get into (due to the legal drinking age in Ontario being 19) and turned their love of bands like Weezer, Supergrass, Buzzcocks and Television into a power pop sound all their own.

Thomas Dürr

Thomas D (Thomas Dürr, born 1968), rapper in the German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier

Thomas Milling

Thomas D. Milling (1887–1960), pioneer of military aviation and general in the U.S. Army Air Corps

Thomas O'Brien

Thomas D. O'Brien (1859–1935), co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law

Thomas Wilson

Thomas D. Wilson (born 1935), information scientist researching information-seeking behaviors

Tommy Wright

Thomas D. "Tommy" Wright (born 1956), former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Utah Construction Company

Thomas D. Dee served as the first president of Utah Construction until his death in 1905, David Eccles served as the second president, and David Eccels son Marriner Stoddard Eccles became the president of Utah Construction concurrently with being the Federal Reserve Chairman.

White Glacier

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for General Thomas D. White, United States Air Force (USAF), Chief of Staff and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1957–61, who participated in the planning and organizational stages of Operation Deep Freeze in an administrative capacity and in matters relating to aircraft.

Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy

Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy is the title of a large collection of songs by Thomas d'Urfey, published between 1698 and 1720, which in its final, six-volume edition held over 1,000 songs and poems.


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