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  Independent Online Edition > Thomas Sutcliffe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Watson then claimed that the false impression was the responsibility of ITV's publicity machine - and that he'd strenuously attempted to clarify matters, though this attempt at clarification seems to have been made after the false impression had been revealed, not, rather oddly, when the taboo-busting fuss it had caused was at its height.
Or at least that's the conclusion you might draw if you were inclined to treat Tate Britain's shortlist of pictures submitted by the public for their photographic exhibition How We Are as a representative snapshot of the nation.
Most of the wires emanating from this machine are connected to the patient, but a thicker one snakes across the floor and terminates in a standard 13 amp plug, pushed into a wall socket.
comment.independent.co.uk /columnists_m_z/thomas_sutcliffe   (2432 words)

  
  Thomas the Rhymer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas the Rhymer (also Thomas Rhymer or Thomas Rymer) is the better-known name of Thomas Learmonth of Erceldoune, a 13th Century Scottish soothsayer.
Thomas was born in Erceldoune (also spelt Ercildoune - presently Earlston), Scottish Borders, sometime in the 13th century, and has a reputation as the author of many prophetic verses.
Thomas stayed at a party in the castle until she told him to return with her, coming back into the mortal realm only to realise that seven years (a significant number in magic) had passed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_the_Rhymer   (863 words)

  
 Thomas Aikenhead
Thomas Aikenhead (baptised March 28, 1676-January 8, 1697), a young Edinburgh medical student who allegedly railed against the Holy Trinity, was judicially hanged for his offence on January 8, 1697.
Thomas was the son of James Aikenhead, an Edinburgh surgeon-apothecary, and Helen Ramsey.
On the morning of January 8, 1697, Thomas wrote to his 'friends' that "it is a principle innate and co-natural to every man to have an insatiable inclination to the truth, and to seek for it as for hid treasure.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/thomasaikenhead.html   (823 words)

  
 Guardian | Thomas hits out after rejection
Thomas has hardly competed during the last two years due to ankle and, more recently, hamstring injuries, but with perfect timing he returned in Malmo yesterday, his first race for more than a month.
Thomas is set to embarrass UK Athletics further when he holds a press conference at Gatwick Airport upon his return from Sweden.
Thomas is angry because he claimed the selectors told him at the weekend that a place would be left open for him to prove his fitness before the team was finalised next Monday.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4051961-105268,00.html   (716 words)

  
 Thomas Gainsborough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Gainsborough (May 14, 1727 (baptised) – August 2, 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain.
Gainsborough was born in 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England.
In those years he contributed to the decoration of what is now the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and the supper boxes at Vauxhall Gardens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Gainsborough   (692 words)

  
 Edinburgh 2004: Mark Thomas
Thomas is Britain's answer to Michael Moore, predating him even, with his televised stunts designed to make life uncomfortable for the big and the powerful.
In contrast to many political comics, though, Thomas practises what he preaches, and he's soon into his favourite stories: raising a 'confetti army' of anti-war protesters, conducting some fun and games at the perimeter of a military base and, separately, his arrest trying to subvert an arms fair.
When it comes to passion, Thomas is the real thing, but he lets his message overwhelm the comedy ­ which, after all, is what he's selling tickets for.
www.chortle.co.uk /edfest2004/markthomas.html   (657 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Dylan Thomas
One of the best-known poets of the twentieth century, Dylan Thomas was born in 1914 in Swansea, a small industrial city on the southern coast of Wales, one of the countries of Great Britain.
Thomas went on to publish three more books of poetry, as well as a final collection of his poems near the end of his life.
Although he was born just as the modern age of literary culture was beginning, Thomas wrote poetry which often used traditional forms of rhythm, rhyme, and meter, and this seemed to represent a welcome return to an earlier and happier form of literature.
myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=d_thomas   (1187 words)

  
 CMT.com : Evelyn Thomas : Biography
Thomas, an ex-gospel singer, sung in a plain, unemotional voice that masked her ethnicity; Thomas is a fl singer who sounds white, by design or by chance.
Thomas went over well at the clubs, being blessed with a perpetual smile and a bluesy voice that Levine and Leake could transform to gutless pop/disco in a New York minute.
Thomas' sweet, innocent voice can also be heard on some Redemption tracks when the group was billed as Redemption Featuring Evelyn Thomas, and her singles are included on many compilation CDs.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/thomas_evelyn/bio.jhtml   (604 words)

  
 Norman Thomas
Thomas was ordained in 1911 and became pastor of the East Harlem Presbyterian Church in New York City.
Thomas, a member of the Socialist Party, was its candidate for Governor of New York in 1924.
Thomas was the Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1940, 1944 and 1948.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAthomas.htm   (1815 words)

  
 Thomas Muir
Thomas Muir, the son of a hop merchant, was born in Glasgow on 25th August 1765.
Thomas Muir's parents were Calvinists and at their request he embarked upon the study of divinity.
Groups were soon formed in other parts of Britain and on 26th July 1792, Thomas Muir and William Skirving established the Scottish Association of the Friends of the People.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRmuir.htm   (1332 words)

  
 Our History
Dr. Thomas believed very strongly that it is crucial for men and women to not simply accept what clergy and theologians have been saying for centuries, but seek out Biblical truth for themselves.
Thomas was ultimately bound for Cincinnati, Ohio, where he joined the Campbellite movement (now known as the Churches of Christ and the Disciples of Christ) soon after arriving.
Thomas was rebaptized as a Campbellite, and became a well known speaker in the Campbellite movement.
www.widomaker.com /~cpatax/xadelfia/who01.htm   (840 words)

  
 ORB: Arthur's Britain Bibliography
DA 28.1.A84 1982 4 Collingwood, R.C. Roman Britain and the English Settlements.
The history of the Kings of Britain Translated with an introduction by Lewis Thorpe.
Sir Thomas Malory and the cultural crisis of the late Middle Ages.
www.the-orb.net /bibliographies/arthur.html   (2649 words)

  
 Thomas Gainsborough biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727, the son of John Gainsborough, a cloth merchant living in Sudbury, Suffolk.
It was not long before the younger Gainsborough showed a marked talent for art, and at the tender age of 13 he was sent to London to study.
Major works by Gainsborough in Britain can be seen at Waddesdon Manor (Buckinghamshire), The Tate Gallery and National Gallery (London), and the National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh).
www.britainexpress.com /History/bio/gainsborough.htm   (512 words)

  
 AIM25: Royal Institution of Great Britain: Webster, Thomas (c 1772-1844)
Administrative/Biographical history: Thomas Webster was born in the Orkney Islands, Scotland in c 1772.
Thomas Webster became Curator of the Geological Society's museum and was Professor of Geology at University College London from 1842 to 1844.
Scope and content/abstract: Papers of Thomas Webster consist of a bound volume, c1799-1845, containing the autobiography of Thomas Webster, 1837, a copy of the obituary on Webster and various letters including some to Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford (CG4/6/1).
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/17/3308.htm   (393 words)

  
 Thomas Crapper & Company Limited - Product Range
Work includes 'Temples of Convenience' (Book), 'On the Throne' and 'The Alphabet of Britain' (B.B.C. Television).
I have to rub my eyes in wondrous disbelief at the splendours you produce.
With the happiest mix of distinguished scholarship and sensational salesmanship, you are doing great honour to the memory of Thomas Crapper.
www.thomas-crapper.com /productrange.asp   (186 words)

  
 Thomas Paine's Corner
Thomas Paine's Corner is a site dedicated to fostering socioeconomic justice and supporting the cause of all oppressed and exploited sentient beings on our Earth.
Thomas Paine's Corner, a persistent voice for the oppressed sentient beings of our Earth since March 10, 2005, has completed its integration into Cyrano's Journal Online, one of the finest radical publications in existence.
Britain's most despised and discredited man ended his 10 year reign June 27 when he stepped down from office transferring his ruling Labor Party's leadership to successor Gordon Brown.
www.civillibertarian.blogspot.com   (4333 words)

  
 Britain's Last Romantic Poet: Dylan Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
David John Thomas was steeped in the diverse and poetic language of Shakespeare, which he often recited to his small son.
Dylan Thomas was born on 27th October under the zodiacal sign of Scorpio.
The Welsh were in fear of their dark desires, their natural bawdiness, of their love of drink and chat and copulation [yet] after Wesley, seem to have lept first into a hell-fire puritanism and then a suffocating respectability that was the condition of.
www.thehistorynet.com /bh/blromanticpoet   (1046 words)

  
 UNITED KINGDOM: Britain Responds to AIDS Changes in India
Gareth Thomas, Britain's junior minister for international development, announced Tuesday that the United Kingdom will redesign its 123 million Pounds (US$219 million) Indian AIDS strategy in light of the new Congress Party-led government's willingness to fight the epidemic.
Britain's plan had hit bureaucratic obstacles at India's National AIDS Control Organization: Only 28 million Pounds(US$50.3 million) have been disbursed in recent years.
Thomas said he is encouraged by the new Indian government's "flexible" approach to AIDS control; NACO has pledged to spend the remaining 95 million Pounds (US$170.5 million) by March 2007.
www.aegis.com /news/ads/2004/AD042067.html   (612 words)

  
 Our Campaigns - Candidate Detail Page
Norman Thomas, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Marion, Ohio, on 20th November, 1884.
Thomas did voluntary social work in New York before studying theology at the Union Theological Seminary.
Thomas joined Burton K. Wheeler and Charles A. Lindbergh in forming he America First Committee (AFC) in September 1940 and soon became the most powerful isolationist group in the United States.
www.ourcampaigns.com /cgi-bin/r.cgi/CandidateDetail.html?&CandidateID=4053   (464 words)

  
 Voice, The: Soul Stirrings: Dawn of a New Gospel; Dawn Thomas, one of Britain's most dynamic gospel singers, talks to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Voice, The: Soul Stirrings: Dawn of a New Gospel; Dawn Thomas, one of Britain's most dynamic gospel singers, talks to Marcia Dixon about what inspires her to spread the word@ HighBeam Research
Soul Stirrings: Dawn of a New Gospel; Dawn Thomas, one of Britain's most dynamic gospel singers, talks to Marcia Dixon about what inspires her to spread the word
Thomas, a pastor's daughter, became the darling of gospel music during the
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:79661319&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (251 words)

  
 Thomas E. Hachey, Britain & Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Thomas E. Hachey opens with a Reader's Digest condensed history of Ireland in his introduction which, while thoroughly appropriate in its brevity, leaves the beginner sometimes at a loss.
His chapters are divided into smaller segments covering specific topics like "The Policies of Prime Minister Gladstone," "The Founding of the Irish Parliamentary Party" and "The Founding of the Fenians." Significant persons are also given their own sections as mini-biographies that help place personalities to the names.
Britain's actions, inactions, attitudes and growing consternation as World War I neared are clearly outlined.
www.rambles.net /hachey_separatism.html   (400 words)

  
 Biowarfare Attack on Britain
Britain's intelligence chiefs have launched urgent checks on all foreign students studying chemistry and biology at our universities after a top Pentagon expert warned Osama bin Laden is recruiting scientists to prepare weapons for biowarfare attack.
Long reputed as a world leader in science, Britain has a reputation for producing scientists for whose skills al Qaeda are prepared to pay huge sums.
Already Porter Goss, the new chief of the CIA, has warned the head of MI6 that Britain is now a prime target for such an attack.
www.freedomcrowsnest.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=308   (441 words)

  
 CNN.com - Thomas Cook to slash 2,600 jobs - Oct. 26, 2001
LONDON (CNN) -- Thomas Cook, Europe's No. 2 travel company, says it will shed 2,600 jobs after bookings declined following the terror attacks on the U.S. Thomas Cook and its larger rival Preussag have both experienced a sharp drop in bookings since September 11.
Thomas Cook, which changed its name from CandN Touristic in May, after the company acquired Thomas Cook, Britain's third-largest travel company, for $780 million.
The company, which operates 73,000 hotel beds, 4,000 travel agents and 85 aircraft, said in late September its British unit was cutting or switching to part-time over 500 jobs as it sought to raise productivity.
edition.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/10/26/thomascook   (289 words)

  
 3.5-inch Thomas Shell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This projectile is the invention of Lynall Thomas, F.R.S.L., of Great Britain.
The center ring or band of iron of the pictured specimen is forward of its original position.
There are several varieties and calibers of the Thomas pattern projectile.
www.civilwarartillery.com /projectiles/rifled/FAOIIIa106.htm   (160 words)

  
 www.cyclingnews.com presents the Tour of Britain
Today's third stage of the Tour of Britain proved to be another successful one for the Quick.Step team.
Dean Downing, Thomas and Bracke were further behind but they too got across, joining with the rest of the break along the valley floor and resuming their input into the pacemaking.
Thomas got dropped inside the last 20 kilometres, the final unclassified - but difficult - climb taking it's toll on the 19 year old rider.
www.cyclingnews.com /road/2005/aug05/britain05?id=results/britain053   (1548 words)

  
 English 119/French 137X Course Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The questions will ask you to state such information as who the author is, what the title of the work is, names of characters in the passage, and answer interpretive questions about the passage's significance in the text and/or significance of details within the passage.
Compare and contrast the concept of a hero in the Tristan legend, as developed by Béroul and/or Thomas of Britain, and in the assigned sections of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain.
Compare the significance of political and geographic borders in the Tristan legend, as developed by Béroul and/or Thomas of Britain, and in the assigned sections of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain.
www.english.ucsb.edu /faculty/cpaster/courses/fc/assignments.html   (1624 words)

  
 Celtic Britain
The period between the departure of the Romans from Britain around a.d.
Yet it was also a time of renaissance, of a rebirth in Celtic language and art, which saw the rise of native British kingdoms in Scotland, Wales, and Cornwall, and the flowering of the Church in Celtic Britain.
From it emerges the most convincing portrait yet of a romantic and heroic age.
www.wwnorton.com /thamesandhudson/arch_new/527395_arch.htm   (134 words)

  
 'Little Britain': Big Laughs
Owing much to the disturbingly dark BBC comedy "The League of Gentlemen," "Little Britain" predicates its humor on key characters repeating their same gags.
It is to the credit of Walliams and Lucas, who met in 1990 at Britain's National Youth Theatre, that characters such as teenage delinquent Vicky Pollard, the least coherent person in Britain, and Daffyd Thomas, the only gay person in the village, never lose their particular charm.
One of "Little Britain's" perfect absurdities is that it presents itself as a search for the "who they, what do and why" of the common British citizen.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081001716_pf.html   (461 words)

  
 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Tristram and Isolde @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The earliest extant version (incomplete) was written (c.1185) by Thomas of Britain in Anglo-Norman French verse.
The story, originally independent of the Arthurian legend, was later incorporated with it.
For translation of the version by Thomas of Britain, see R. Loomis, The Romance of Tristram and Ysolt (rev. ed.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Tristram&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (366 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The People's War: Britain, 1939-45: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Buy The People's War: Britain, 1939-45 with The Road to 1945: British Politics and the Second...
The 1939-45 conflict was, for Britain, a "total war"; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy.
This book not only states the great events and the leading figures, but also the oddities and the banalities of daily life, and in particular the parts played by ordinary people: air raid wardens and Home Guards, factory workers and farmers, housewives and pacifists.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0712652841   (477 words)

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