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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.


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.

American Airlines Flight 6780

Patterson was returning from meeting Thomas J. Watson of IBM, who had just hired him for a new case on the previous day.

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.

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.

Business process reengineering

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

Celtic Ash

On the advice of Irish-born trainer Tom Barry, Celtic Ash was purchased by Boston, Massachusetts banker Joseph E. O'Connell, who imported him to the United States to race for his Green Dunes Farm.

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.

Conscription in Australia

Other notable opponents to Conscription included the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Daniel Mannix, the Queensland Labor Premier Thomas Ryan, Vida Goldstein and the Women's Peace Army.

Customer engineer

Originally simply engineer, those who specialized in servicing IBM equipment in use by its customers were designated customer engineers by Tom Watson circa 1942.

Donald Edmond Pelotte

On January 3, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix, as apostolic administrator sede plena of the diocese of Gallup, and granted Pelotte a one year leave of absence to continue his recovery.

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.

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 Edward Kurtz

The Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a frequent critic of the church hierarchy, indicates that he fits the mold of a “smiling conservative” in the vein of New York’s Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, who is “very gracious but still holds the same positions” as a more pugnacious cleric like Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, who has not hesitated to call out Catholic politicians who dissent from church teachings on abortion.

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.

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.

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.

Mayor Murphy

Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. (born August 15, 1944), mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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.

Parke County, Indiana

The architects for this building were Thomas J. Tolan and his son Brentwood of Fort Wayne; they designed seven Indiana courthouses, as well as several in Ohio, Iowa, Illinois and Tennessee.

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.

Roberto Busa

In 1949 he met with Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, and was able to persuade him to sponsor the Index Thomisticus.

Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation

Between July, 1856, when Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Thomas J. Henley, requested official designation of the valley as Nome Cult farm, and the granting of his request in 1858, Round Valley slowly filled with farms and ranches despite its reservation status.

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.

Siddhartha Shankar Ray

She was once referred to as "a noted barrister and former elected official" by the late Thomas J. Manton, a member of the United States House of Representatives.

Thomas Devine

Thomas J. Devine, Central Intelligence Agency employee and associate of President George H. W. Bush

Thomas Dodd

Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. (born 1935), former United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica

Thomas Higgins

Thomas J. Higgins (1831–1917), American Civil War soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor

Thomas J. B. Robinson

Robinson had served in the Sixty-eighth and the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1923 to March 3, 1933.

Thomas J. Barry

Barry proved correct as the colt won the 1958 Belmont Stakes, at a mile and a half, the longest of the U.S. Triple Crown races.

However, from two entries in the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Belmont Stakes, Tom Barry's horses won both.

Thomas J. Cason

Born near Brownsville, Indiana, Cason moved to Boone County with his parents, who settled on a farm near Thorntown in 1832.

Thomas J. Fiscus

The revelations about Fiscus surfaced around the time of other scandals involving Air Force officers Colonel Michael D. Murphy and Brigadier General Richard S. Hassan.

Thomas J. Geary

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

Thomas J. Ramsdell

Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell (1833-1917), entrepreneur and Michigan State Representative in 1861

Thomas Walsh

Thomas J. Walsh (1859–1933), American lawyer and US Senator from Montana

Tom Barrett

Thomas J. Barrett, current Deputy Secretary of Transportation and Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

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.

United States Senate election in Montana, 2008

Montana generally gives its presidential electors to Republican candidates, but historically has elected several prominent Democrats to the United States Senate, including Thomas Walsh, Burton K. Wheeler, Mike Mansfield, and Lee Metcalf.

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

Wishram, Washington

Visitors included Thomas Farnham, Hudson's Bay Company Governor Sir George Simpson, Alexander Ross, Father Pierre Desmet and Joseph Drayton's party of the Wilkes Expedition, among others.


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