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Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson 1859-1907, English poet. His poetry, usually on religious subjects, is noted for its brilliant imagery and sonorous language. He was educated for the Roman Catholic priesthood at Ushaw College but in 1877 entered Owens College, Manchester, to study medicine. Relinquishing his... Read more |
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Alice (Thompson) Meynell
Alice (Thompson) Meynell , 1847-1922, English poet and essayist. She spent most of her youth in Italy. Converted to Roman Catholicism in 1872, she wrote much on religious subjects. In 1877 she married Wilfrid Meynell (1852-1948), the founder and editor of Merry England, a Catholic paper, to which... Read more |
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Preston
Preston city (1991 pop. 166,675) and district, Lancashire, N England, on the Ribble River. Preston has an active port and is a center of cotton and rayon manufacturing. Some mills have closed, but work has been created in the areas of engineering, as well as aircraft, motor vehicle, industrial... Read more |
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Kenneth Branagh
BRANAGH, Kenneth Nationality:British. Born:Belfast, Northern Ireland, 10 December 1960; family moved to Reading, England, 1969. Education:Meadway Comprehensive School, Reading; Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, graduated 1982. Family:Married... Read more |
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Thompson, Francis
Thompson, Francis (1859–1907), after failed attempts to train for the Roman Catholic priesthood, spent three years, from 1885, of homeless... |
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All Deliberate Speed
...original source was a poem, “The Hound of Heaven,” by the nineteenth‐century Catholic devotional writer Francis Thompson (1859–1907). The Court shunned further reliance on the notion in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince... |
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‘Hound of Heaven, The’
‘Hound of Heaven, The’, a poem by Francis Thompson. |
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Seminole Wars
...plantations east of the St. Johns River, while Alachuas and others killed the Indian agent, Wiley Thompson, and annihilated Maj. Francis L. Dade's detachment of 108 men on 28 December 1835. Dade's defeat began the undeclared Second... |
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science
...optics and magnetism. The work of George Francis Fitz‐Gerald (1851–1901) stimulated controversies...botany and zoology of Ireland. William Thompson (1805–52) undertook a survey of the flora...Farrington (1893–1973), George Francis Mitchell (1912–97), and others... |
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Osceola
...several days by U.S. Indian agent Wiley Thompson in 1835, Osceola determined to fight...December 1835, Osceola murdered Agent Thompson at Fort King (Ocala) as his compatriots...attacking a U.S. Army column under Maj. Francis Dade en route there. Two days later... |
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Evangeline
...Evangeline ( Ione Burke) and her lover Gabriel ( Connie Thompson) are separated. Evangeline wanders the world, from the wilds...leg up to such later famous performers as Henry E. Dixey and Francis Wilson (both of whom played half of the heifer) and William... |
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Garrison, William Lloyd
...brought about the end of slavery. Their eldest son, George Thompson, fought with the 55th Massachusetts (Colored) Regiment...sons ( William Lloyd Junior, Wendell Phillips, and teenager Francis Jackson) took philosophically conscientious objection stances... |
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history painting
...political activity of the late 18th century is recorded in Francis Wheatley's The Dublin Volunteers in College Green (1779...evident in the Irish subject paintings by Lady Butler ( Elizabeth Thompson) and Aloysius O'Kelly. However, by far the most common... |
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Thompson, Francis
Thompson, Francis (1859–1907), RC poet. He was intended for the priesthood but later unsuccessfully studied medicine. In 1885 he went to... |
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Newcomen, Thomas
...pumping water from mines. Smeaton's improvements allowed such engines to supply most horsepower in use c.1800, and Francis Thompson's patent (1792), effective rotary motion. |
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Uist
...BibliographySee Stories from South Uist, Told by Angus MacLellan, trans. J. L. Campbell (London, 1961); Francis Thompson , The Uists and Barra (Newton Abbot, UK, 1974). |
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William Francis Thompson (1888-1965) and the dawn of marine fisheries...
...fisheries research in 1917. William Francis Thompson (1888-1965), with the aid...recommendations from Gilbert, Thompson was hired to a temporary position...Fish and Game Commission. (3,4 Thompson then became important in the burgeoning... |
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William Francis Thompson (1888-1965): a preeminent fishery biologist of the...
William Francis Thompson (Fig. 1) was a major figure in fisheries...fishery education. During this period Thompson was arguably the most widely known fishery...Cloud, Minnesota, in 1888, Will Thompson moved west with his family to Everett... |
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William Francis Thompson (1888-1965) and his pioneering studies of the...
Introduction William Francis Thompson (18881965) was born in Minnesota...1906 and majored in zoology. (1) Thompson impressed his professors with his...1932). (2, 3) Soon thereafter Thompson received an offer to work for David... |
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The life of Francis Thompson was in many ways a shambles, but I am impressed...
The life of Francis Thompson was in many ways a shambles, but...has now brought out The Poems of Francis Thompson, and Neil Powell, writing in the...that what he most dislikes about Francis Thompson is that he knew himself to ... |
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A misfit poet of heaven: ne'er-do-well Francis Thompson wrote the...
...dazed. He was the English poet Francis Thompson, who died at dawn on Nov. 13...years ago, at the age of 48. Thompson wrote the poem "The Hound of Heaven...poet in a non-Catholic society. Thompson was the son of a doctor who converted... |
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Francis Thompson, filmmakerOBITUARY
...International Herald Tribune 12-30-2003 Francis Thompson, a filmmaker whose multiscreen...his 50-year filmmaking career, Thompson won an Academy Award in 1965 for...Italy and the United States. Thompson produced the film with his longtime... |
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FRANCIS THOMPSON, CARD FIRM SALES MANAGER ; AUG. 10, 1927 -- DEC. 23, 2004
Services for Francis H. Thompson, a sales manager for a greeting card...Church Cemetery, West Seneca. Mr. Thompson, of Cheektowaga, died Thursday in...was born in Sutton, Ont.. Mr. Thompson worked as a regional manager for American... |
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THOMPSON, FRANCIS
The Committee and Members of West Belfast Campsie Club A.B.O.D., regret the death of Francis Thompson, brother of our esteemed member Abby Thompson. The Lord is my Shepherd. B. Trainor, President. |
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ROSEMARY AND FRANCIS THOMPSON - 50 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Francis "Bud" J. Thompson of Lewiston celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with...gathering at their winter residence in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Thompson and Rosemary Nassoiy were married April 26, 1952, in Sacred... |
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ROSEMARY AND FRANCIS THOMPSON/50 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. "Bud" Thompson of Lewiston celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with...gathering at their winter residence in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Thompson and Rosemary Nassoiy were married April 26, 1952, in Sacred... |
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