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	Alexander Thom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thom was a professor of engineering at the University of Oxford when he became interested in the methods used by prehistoric peoples in building megalithic monuments especially the stone circles of the British Isles.
		Thom went on to identify numerous solar orientations at stone circles which led him to argue for a prehistoric calendar of 8 'months' divided by midsummer, midwinter and the two equinoxes and then subdivided by early versions of the modern Christian festivals of Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Candlemas.
		Along with Gerald Hawkins' new interpretation of Stonehenge as an astronomical 'computer', Thom's theories were adopted by numerous believers in the lost wisdom of the ancients and became commonly associated with pseudoscience which saddened him greatly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Thom (320 words)

	EARTH MYSTERIES: Alexander Thom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Born in Scotland in 1894, Alexander Thom was a student at Glasgow University.
		Thom also undertook the project of accurately surveying and carefully measuring megalithic sites throughout Britain, the initial results of which he published in 1955 in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.
		Whereas Hawkins focused on Stonehenge, Thom was able to demonstrate that a large number of other megalithic sites were also oriented to the sun and the moon.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /earthmysteries/EMThom.html (321 words)

	Alexander Thom - Biographical Sketch - Online Historical Archives - HMCA,Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Thom was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, September 25, 1847, and is a son of William and Christina (Chalmers) Thom, who there passed their entire lives, the father having been fifty-three years of age at the time of his death and the mother having passed to eternal rest at the age of sixty-eight years.
		Alexander Thom was afforded the advantages of the schools of his native land and there continued his association with farm enterprise until 1877, when he came to the United States and became foreman of the large farm estate of Henry B. Sherman in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
		Thom was one of the organizers and incorporators of the First State Bank of North Bend, of which he has continuously served as president from the inception of the enterprise and to the success of which his mature business judgment and conservative policies have contributed in large degree.
	www.hmca-il.org /l_wgtho2.htm (1188 words)

	Orkneyjar - Orkneyjar - Professor Alexander Thom
		Professor Alexander Thom was a man who spent several decades studying stone circles across the country in an attempt to decipher their meaning.
		Thom's conclusions were that the stone rings were astronomical observatories, a theory that, at the time, was met with some contempt.
		Thom's discovery was what he termed "the megalithic yard" - a measurement of 2.72 feet, or 0.83 metres - that suggests the megalithic builders of these stone circles had an advanced understanding of geometry and mathematics as well as astronomy.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/monoliths/thom.htm (351 words)

	megalithic yard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A. Thom, a Professor of Engineering Science at Oxford University, believed that megalithic man recorded the stars, the solstices and the equinoxes, but also to aid his understanding, used mathematically precise measurements to place his markers and organize his stone circles.
		Thom bewildered his critics by claiming that megalithic accuracy could only be detected if very precise measurements were taken.
		Thom's extraordinary attention to detail, his insistence that megalithic metrology could only be detected by applying the utmost precision, reminds us of another survey, not in Britain but in Egypt for this was the same approach taken by Sir Flinders Petrie when he began his 1880 survey of the Giza plateau.
	members.optusnet.com.au /fmet/main/my.html (315 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Thom placed a lot of emphasis on the Sun and the Moon as a foci of prehistoric interest in the heavens, but the implications were much greater.
		Thom's critics appear to have some valid points but it should be born in mind that Professor Ronald Hutton claimed there is a decisive academic rejection of scientific astronomy in prehistory.
		Thom of course believed that these were the shapes intended, and as a result of this the builders had to have been technologically very bright in order to achieve those shapes.
	leylines.members.beeb.net /Alexander%20Thom.htm (4234 words)

	Our Land, Our Literature: Literature - James Alexander Thom
		James Alexander Thom was born in Gosport, Indiana, on May 28, 1933, to a pair of physicians, Jay Web and Julia Thom, and it was there in Owen County that Thom grew up.
		Thom uses vivid details to describe the landscape of Indiana as it was in Clark's day and to convey a sense of wonder at the natural environment.
		Thom uses graphical representations of the conquest of "the land of the Indians," with the Native Americans represented as a circle by which food, people, and animals help one another out and are connected.
	www.bsu.edu /ourlandourlit/Literature/Authors/thomja.html (1482 words)

	Prehistoric Sites in Scotland - Photo Archive
		Professor Alexander Thom proposed that the line across the cairn, standing stone and circle were intended to mark the midwinter setting sun over the Paps of Jura, some 27 miles distant.
		The cairn is elliptical in plan; Alexander Thom suggested that the axis was orientated towards the most Northerly Moonrise position over distant hills.
		Alexander Thom suggested that the row was aligned towards the midwinter sunrise to the South-east, and in the opposite direction towards the most Northerly setting position of the Moon.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mjpowell/Photo_Archive/Scotland/Scotland_1.htm (697 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Red Heart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Thom does a great job of capturing what must have been the emotions when that lost sister met her Slocum siblings for the first time in six decades.
		Thom doesn't ignore that the Indians also took other captives with Frances or that they had killed someone at her family's farm, but he has the other captive being ransomed back to the whites, and he has turned that killed "boy" into a soldier.
		Thom manages to give Frances the voice of a child when she is young and her voice matures as she grows.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0345364716 (1033 words)

	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: The Alexander Thom Family of Virginia
		Alexander THOM immigrated to America from Scotland in 1746 and eventually settled in what is now Culpeper County, Virginia.
		Alexander Thom of Virginia named his third son Robert Strothers Thom which is another compelling argument for this couple as our Scottish ancestors.
		Second son of John Watson Triplett Thom, surgeon to the 39th Va. Infantry and later on the staff of Jackson Hospital in Richmond during the war.
	familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/p/h/e/Virginia-T-Phelps (780 words)

	Numbers, Magick & Motion II (Continued) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		After many years of studious research of ancient megalithic stone structures, Alexander Thom determined the megalithic yard to be exactly 2.72 feet + or -.0003 feet.
		Born in Scotland in 1894, Alexander Thom was a student...
		1985) Born in Scotland in 1894, Alexander Thom was a...
	www.gnostics.com /numbersIIe.html (1044 words)

	jamesthom
		The novel, a race-fan's-eye-view of the lethal, rain-delayed 1973 Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, was originally published in 1978, before the Owen County native became nationally known for his best-selling American frontier and Indian War novels, such as Long Knife, Follow the River, Panther in the Sky, The Red Heart, and Sign-Talker.
		Thom says he instigated the reprint because readers who have all his other books complained that they couldn't find copies of his first novel.
		Thom, a former Indianapolis newspaperman, was in the crowd for the part of the event, and supplemented his eyewitness observations with research in newspaper files and with tapes provided by the late Sid Collins of his three-day broadcast coverage.
	www.jamesalexanderthom.com /sport.html (573 words)

	Saskatchewan Gen Web Project - SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE by JOHN HAWKES Vol 1II 1924
		In the pursuit of his education Alexander K. Thom attended the pub~ lic schools of his birthplace and in 1891 came west and located in Mani- toba, in the Morden district.
		Thom served on the Board of Public Works and the town council and through his paper he has been influential in the up- building of Wadena and the district.
		Thom was married to Miss Anne McNiven, a native of Ontario, and they have four children: Mary, who is now the wife of Earl Smith; Edith, Isabella and George.
	www.rootsweb.com /~cansk/SaskatchewanAndItsPeople/VolumeIII/ThomAlexanderK.html (338 words)

	WowEssays.com - Follow The River By James Alexander Thom
		James Alexander Thom’s purpose for this book was to let America know about the courageous Mary Ingles who survived the unsurvivable for a woman of her time and age.
		Thom wanted to laud the woman that you will never see in history books, one of the first white women to ever see the Ohio River and know where it led and one of the first white women to ever see the Virginia wilderness.
		But it was pleasing to know that James Alexander Thom took the same trail that Mary Ingles took over 250 years ago to get the same experience she had, also he up rooted many letters and documents the family had saved up over the years about the 1,000 mile journey.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/aa4/dli105.shtml (879 words)

	LandC - Let's Talk About It! - Idaho State Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		James Alexander Thom has written many books of historical fiction, taking the facts of written history and filling in plausible dialogue or happenings to round out fascinating characters of the past.
		Thom taught journalism at Indian University and edited for a newspaper and a magazine.
		Thom's story about George Drouillard has been enriched by his knowledge of the Shawnee culture and his previous writings and study of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
	www.lili.org /read/letstalk/themes-books/Thom.htm (473 words)

	Alexander Thom - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts
		The author briefly discusses some of the theories of Alexander Thom, which involve an astronomical calendar and an effort to make the circumference equal to 3 times the "diameter" rather than the irrational pi.
		However, Thom is to be credited with the invention of the subject of archaeoastronomy and with a number of interesting observations and theories.
		The author briefly discusses some of Thom's work in megalithic mathematics, and concludes that he finds no real evidence of the Pythagorean theorem, the ellipse, or a standard unit of distance in neolithic times.
	math.truman.edu /~thammond/history/AlexanderThom.html (567 words)

	Archaeoastronomy or Astroarchaeology - what is it?
		Alexander Thom, a Scotsman and professor of engineering at Oxford was the man who revived interest in megalithic astronomy in recent times.
		Thom also believed that his accurate surveys of the stone circles had revealed that a common unit of measurement was in use in prehistoric times, which he named the 'megalthic yard' of 2.72 feet (or 0.83 metres)
		This was in contrast to the common interpretation of Neolithic society as mainly consisting of dispersed, isolated and egalitarian farming groups.
	www.stonesofwonder.com /archaeoa.htm (1174 words)

	historical metrology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In 1967 the Scottish engineer A.Thom published his statistics for the megalithic yard, an ancient unit of length that was found to be mysteriously interwoven with the pre-historic menhirs and stone monuments of megalithic Britain and Brittany.
		Thom proclaimed that in the age of stone megalithic man had already mastered the complicated mathematical concepts of laying down accurately the multiples of a standard linear magnitude.
		Rather than take Thom to task over the issue the inquiry should be directed towards the uncertainties of Egyptian metrology, in particular to the metrological judgments made by the Egyptologists of the 19th century.
	members.optusnet.com.au /fmet/main/histmet.html (3647 words)

	FOLLOW THE RIVER BY JAMES ALEXANDER THOM VS. TH ORIGINAL ACCOUNT. Essay Sample. Free term papers for college students
		Follow the River, written by James Alexander Thom, was based on the capture of Mary Draper Ingles by a group of Shawnee Indians and the escape that followed her captivity.
		Thom describes that Mary is not allowed to communicate with them very often, but that she occasionally sees them.
		Thom portrays the children as still being with her so that when she leaves the village, she will seem emotionally sound.
	www.essaysample.com /essay/001108.html (1561 words)

	jamesthom
		In the early days, James Thom was a reporter and columnist at the Indianapolis Star.
		One thing that sets Thom apart is his commitment to research, something he takes very seriously.
		James Thom is also often at work as an environmental spokesman.
	www.jamesalexanderthom.com /life.html (387 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Thom maintains that these units are identifiable in every stone ring intact enough to allow a reliable survey.
		The reason why Thom was so confident in his discoveries was due to the insistence of the megalithic ring builders to adhere to
		Thom claims to have found, in all sites capable of supporting an accurate survey, that the main radii of the designs were usually expressed in whole units of Megalithic Yards whilst the perimeters of the rings were measures of whole Megalithic Rods.
	www.megalithicsites.co.uk /math2.html (1078 words)

	Burness Genealogy and Family History - Person Page 55
		She married James Burness, son of Alexander Burness and Isobel Pithie, on 21 November 1863 in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
		Alexander Thom Burness was born on 14 September 1867 in Kingswells, Newhills, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
		She married Charles Catto, son of Alexander Catto and Margaret Henderson, on 21 October 1781 in Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland.
	www.burness.ca /p55.htm (2552 words)

	James_alexander_thom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Based on the life of the actual historic Frances Slocum, the novel's Frances is kidnapped in 1776 from her Quaker family at the age of 5...
		A Close-up Look at American History : Thom fleshes out American history with real characters, and an inside look at one of early America's most influential families.
		Thom did an excellent job of transforming paper and ink into flesh and blood...
	books.mysic.ca /Author/James_Alexander_Thom (965 words)

	Strategies for Successful Writing Sixth Edition Chapter 91 -- James Alexander Thom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Thom was born May 28, 1933, in Gosport, Indiana, the son of two physicians.
		Thom's work includes Let the Sun Shine In (inspirational essays), 1976; From Sea to Shining Sea, 1984; The Spirit of the Place: Indiana Hill Country, photographs by Darryl L. Jones, 1995; and The Red Heart, 1997.
		Thom chronicled the Lewis and Clark Expedition in From Sea to Shining Sea a fictional biography of William Rogers Clark.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/reinking2/chapter91/custom11/deluxe-content.html (165 words)

	Alexander Thom
		If you are interested in the work of Alexander Thom, Please contact me at- info@dealbhadair.co.uk or via the gallery.
		Many thanks to Robin Heath for his help and all the good work he has done to promote Alexander Thom's amazing discoveries.
		The work of Alexander Thom (1894 - 1985) on the Neolithic standing stones and stone circles has opened a new window on to the religion and knowledge of the time, although his discoveries are still controversial to most archaeologists.
	www.dealbhadair.co.uk /athom.htm (886 words)

	Cringan, Alexander T.
		Wax cylinders and tape recordings of the songs (about 50 minutes of music) are held at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and some of his papers are at the National Library of Canada.
		His daughter, Janet Thom Cringan (b Toronto 1889, d there 1972), was a singing teacher in Toronto.
		A grandson, Robert Cringan, taught music 1950-80 at Earl Haig Collegiate in North York, Ont; the school auditorium was named in his honour.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000846 (372 words)

	Amazon.com: Sign-Talker : The Adventure of George Drouillard on the Lewis and Clark Expedition: Books: James Alexander ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Thom's research, mechanics and execution are impeccable in almost every regard, but likely only those seriously interested in an accurate and highly detailed fictionalization of the historical event and period will make it through this dense and slow-moving account.
		Thom succeeds in his mission to educate readers about the beliefs and culture of Native Americans, and his knack for absorbing descriptions reveals a breathtaking virgin American landscape so pristine, so full of wildlife, flora, and beauty, that one is appalled by the Americans!
		Thom strikes the same note over and over - the whites are clueless destroyers, the Indians are mystic children of nature, and the overall tone of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was cynicism and greed.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345435192?v=glance (2083 words)

	PJ Online \| Obituaries and tributes (29 June 2002)
		Thom Recently, Alexander Smith Thom, of 63 Highworth Avenue, Cambridge CB4 2BQ.
		Mr Thom registered in 1931 and retired from the register in 1991 (see Tribute, Column 2).
		I met Mr Thom in 1946 when I came to Cambridge to take the position of chief pharmacist at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
	www.pharmj.com /Editorial/20020629/society/obits.html (1207 words)

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