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  Ken Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thompson also wrote the B programming language, a precursor to Dennis Ritchie's C programming language, currently one of the world's most commonly used programming languages.
Thompson and Ritchie jointly received the Turing Award in 1983 "for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system".
Thompson retired from Bell Labs on December 1, 2000, and is currently a fellow at Entrisphere, Inc.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ken_Thompson   (359 words)

  
 Randall Thompson Centenary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thompson was also a fluent symphonist, writing the kind of music that was felt to be particularly American in the 1930s and 40s - spacious and diatonic, close to Roy Harris or Rubbra, but without the individuality of Copland or the polish of Piston.
Thompson's pupils at Harvard included Leonard Bernstein who paid him back in the best possible way by conducting his Symphony No.2 and recording it in 1968, a very different climate from the one in which it was composed.
Thompson was born in New York into a New England family and went to a school in New Jersey where his father taught English.
www.mvdaily.com /articles/1999/04/thompson.htm   (510 words)

  
 Hunter S. Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thompson almost always wrote in first person narrative, and his stories became so colorfully contrived that they easily slipped into the realm of fiction; however, the basic framework of the story he told was very often true.
Thompson was fond of firearms and was known to keep a keg of gunpowder in his basement.
Thompson died at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado, on February 20, 2005 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson   (3387 words)

  
 Jim Thompson: PopSubCulture.com's The Biography Project
Thompson's $15 a month bellhop salary was hardly noticeable, as at times he pulled in as much as $300 per week from tips, gambling profits and various scams.
Thompson returns to Dallas, and resumes his position at the Hotel Texas, this time, however, he has to pay a bribe of over a hundred dollars to get his job, such was the money that was being earned there.
Thompson's decision to move to Hollywood was in part, inspired by his exposure to the film house that his family unsuccessfully ran during the Depression.
www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/jim_thompson.html   (2320 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / 'Gonzo' Godfather Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thompson's son, Juan, released a statement saying he had found his father dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at the writer's Owl Creek farm near Aspen.
Thompson, famed for such adrenaline-packed narratives as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," turned his drug and alcohol-fueled clashes with authority into a central theme of his work, challenging the quieter norms of established journalism in the process.
Thompson's refracted coverage of the Super Bowl and the 1972 presidential race also inspired the 1980 movie "Where the Buffalo Roam," with Bill Murray as the self-proclaimed doctor of gonzo journalism.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2005/02/21/author_hunter_s_thompson_kills_himself   (627 words)

  
 E. P. Thompson Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thompson was born in Oxford, to Methodist missionary parents.
Thompson subsequently allied himself with the journal Socialist Register, and was (with Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall) one of the editors of the 1967 May Day Manifesto, one of the key left-wing challenges to the 1964-70 Labour government of Harold Wilson.
From 1980, Thompson was the most prominent intellectual of the revived movement for nuclear disarmament, revered by activists throughout the world.
search.localcolorart.com /search/encyclopedia/E._P._Thompson   (1347 words)

  
 Thompson_John
Thompson's thesis, as is clear from its title, proved Frobenius's conjecture that a finite group with an automorphism which does not fix any group element is necessarily nilpotent.
Thompson was an assistant at Harvard University in 1961-62, then, in 1962, he was appointed professor at the University of Chicago.
Both Thompson and Feit received the The Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1965 when the thirteenth award was made to them for this their joint paper.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Thompson_John.html   (1268 words)

  
 -:¦:- Fred Thompson - Lawrenceburg Tn., Lawrence County Tn., Loretto Tn., Loretto Tennessee, Summertown Tn., ...
Fred Thompson's service in the United States Senate is a continuation of a distinguished career across both the public and private arenas.
Senator Thompson held hearings on topics such as improving the federal regulatory process; reforming the IRS; exploring ways to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse; and a number of national security issues, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile technologies.
Two years after law school, Thompson was named an Assistant United States Attorney and at the age of 30 was appointed Minority Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, where he served in 1973 and 1974.
www.lawrenceburgs.com /fred-thompson.html   (729 words)

  
 Linda Thompson - Fashionably Late   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Her self-imposed banishment came in response to two intractable realities: her divorce from the guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson, the scene's leading light, and a rare anxiety-based syndrome called hysterical dysphonia, the vocalist's equivalent of merciless stage fright.
Thompson's unalloyed passion for "hardcore" folk (her word) yields a chilling re-invention of the "faux" Scottish murder ballad "Nine Stone Rig", to which she added several verses; the murder and its aftermath are recounted with stark, journalistic precision.
But the heartwrecker is her own "No Telling", a composition written a cappella, as she does, a love song that relates the redemptive power of a love song using the medium as the message.
www.rounder.com /feature/thompson   (1590 words)

  
 M1A1 Thompson Submachine Gun
In their attack on the Marines in Chosin, the Thompson Submachine gun was one of the weapons they used.
One of the main assets of the Thompson submachine gun was reliability; it performed better than most submachine guns when exposed to dirt, mud and rain.
In 1942 the original Thompson M1928 which had the cocking knob on top of the receiver and utilized the Blish Lock system of operation was redesigned as the Thompson M1A1.
www.rt66.com /~korteng/SmallArms/thompson.htm   (502 words)

  
 Blue: Doug Thompson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thompson wrote about his experiences and submitted his story and photos to The Farmville Herald,the local newspaper.
Thompson went on to join the staff of The Roanoke Times where he covered the police beat, emerging racial turmoil in the city and tackled other tough subjects.
The Thompsons left Washington in 2004 and moved to a hilltop retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia.
www.capitolhillblue.com /dtbio.asp   (632 words)

  
 Town of Thompson
The first settlers to the Town of Thompson in 1749 were farmers, David Gray and Z. Hatch, and settled in the vicinity of Dutch Pond.
Thompson bought land and built a settlement near what was then known as Albion, and later became a judge.
Judge Thompson and his family are buried in a historical cemetery behind the present Thompsonville Post Office.
www.townofthompson.com   (390 words)

  
 THE THOMPSON SUB-MACHINE GUN
Should any police departments have a Thompson gun in which the lock has been "altered" or "smoothed up" by some over-energetic gunner or repairman, it would be wise to replace this lock with a new one.
However, Thompson engineers state that the action is built sufficiently strong, to resist the slam of the bolt even though the locking surfaces were removed entirely.
From the writer's personal experience in firing Thompson guns with and without the Compensator, the device is a great help, both in full automatic fire, and in rapid single fire from the shoulder-it would certainly be advisable to include it as standard, rather than optional, equipment on each arm.
www.saf.org /LawReviews/PSharpe1.html   (5450 words)

  
 ESPN.com - ESPN - Hunter S. Thompson Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thompson: Blood on the walls of Hollywood: A wild & wooly tale of sporting excess...
Thompson: Ed Bradley and the stigma of bull worship
Hunter Thompson is casting his lot, and bankroll, on the reborn Monsters of the Midway.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/archive?columnist=hunter_s._thompson&root=page2   (1661 words)

  
 The Lea Thompson Encyclopedia
Realizing she would never become a prima ballerina, Thompson moved to New York at the age of 19 to pursue a career in acting.
As most young actors progress through their career, one of the most difficult stages they face is the transition from their portrayal of teens to being accepted by audiences in adult roles.
Lea Thompson made that transition in the course of a single film, as she played high school teenager Lorraine Baines and the 47-year-old housewife Lorraine McFly in Back to the Future.
www.bttf.com /thompson.htm   (676 words)

  
 Benjamin C. Thompson Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thompson began his career as an architect in 1946 when he convinced Walter Gropius to form The Architects' Collaborative with Thompson and some Yale classmates.
Thompson separated from the Collaborative in 1966, and started his own firm, Benjamin Thompson and Associates.
Thompson was married to the urban planner Jane Thompson, with whom he collaborated on many of his major projects.
encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Benjamin_C._Thompson   (334 words)

  
 Hospital for Excellence in Health and Healing - Thompson Heath
Thompson's 24-bed, state-of-the-art Hawks Emergency Department, located in the Golisano Center for Emergency and Diagnostic Medicine is state-of-the-art.
Thompson is the first health care organization in NYS to receive this honor.
Thompson Health is the parent corporation overseeing the operation of seven affiliate health care organizations on a variety of campuses in Ontario and Livingston Counties.
www.thompsonhealth.com   (427 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Hunter S Thompson commits suicide
Thompson pioneered "gonzo journalism", a factual style in which the writer was an essential part of the story, and was an acute observer of American life.
Thompson was known for his observations on the decadence and depravity of American life.
Author Martin A Lee, who met and interviewed Thompson on a number of occasions, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that Thompson's death was "sad" but "not surprising", describing him as someone who "lived on the edge".
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4282865.stm   (440 words)

  
 Richard Thompson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although including some of Richard's best loved songs such as the title track and 'Wall Of Death' and some of Linda's finest vocal performances on 'Walking On A Wire', it was to be their last recording together.
Mr Thompson returned to the studio to record 'Hand Of Kindness' in 1983.
Thompson's songwriting genius was by now detailing serial murders and political incest, as well as gossip and dancehall romances.
www.thebeesknees.com /bk-rt-bi.html   (1071 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hunter S. Thompson dead at 67 - Feb 21, 2005
Thompson, 67, was associated with the "New Journalism" movement of the 1960s, in which writers -- most notably Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese -- took a more novelistic and personal approach to their subjects.
Thompson also was the model for the character of "Uncle Duke" in the "Doonesbury" comic strip.
In 1980, actor Bill Murray portrayed Thompson in the film "Where the Buffalo Roam." And in 1998, the film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" was released, based on Thompson's book and starring Johnny Depp as the journalist.
www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/21/thompson.obit   (1347 words)

  
 Bell Labs: Ken Thompson Receives Kanai Award for Impact of UNIX* System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It cited Thompson for his role in creating the UNIX* operating system, which for decades has been a key platform for distributed systems work.
Thompson conceived the UNIX time-sharing operating system that spring and co-developed it, with Ritchie and a now-legendary band of collaborators, over the next few years.
Ken Thompson is a Bell Labs Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
www.bell-labs.com /news/1999/march/25/1.html   (608 words)

  
 Geoff Thompson.com - Martial artist, teacher and BAFTA winning writer.
Depressed, bullied, intimidated by life and indoctrinated to believe that this was his lot, Geoff Thompson, on the verge of a breakdown, decided to fight back.
Geoff prides himself on the fact that he is an ordinary man living an extraordinary life and believes that anyone with passion, strong work ethics and a well-defined goal can achieve all their dreams.
Geoff Thompson, guides you through the process of breaking the negative thinking that binds us all and helps you to take the plunge and properly take on life.
www.geoffthompson.com   (2110 words)

  
 Thompson home page
Welcome to the Website for Thompson, a historic town with a strong commitment to the future.
Throughout Thompson you will find classic examples of New England; find Federal Gothic and Greek Revival architecture 18th and 19th century textile mills and a superlative village green.
Thompson's northeastern-most location in Connecticut is advantageous for business.
www.thompsonct.org   (250 words)

  
 Thompson & Company Marketing Communications
We believe nothing is more powerful, more motivating, than a brilliant idea delivered to your prospects at precisely the right time and place.
And at Thompson & Company, we harness that power through sophisticated research tools, proprietary brand strategy processes and synchronized marketing programs that make the most of every dollar you spend.
Thompson & Company is the union of several specialized marketing and communications firms, working together to make sure every dollar you spend is targeting the right media with award-winning creative.
www.thompson-co.com   (243 words)

  
 Len Thompson Lures
Classic color patterns and irresistible action continue to be the keys to the Len Thompson tradition of reliability and versatility.
Len Thompson lures are available in twelve sizes ranging from 1 to 5 inches and in a wide array of color...
Len Thompson Lures were highly recommended by the lodge for our last trip to Canada.
www.lenthompson.com   (226 words)

  
 Bruce Thompson's Home Page
Thompson, B. The importance of structure coefficients in structural equation modeling
Thompson, B. Statistical significance and effect size reporting: Portrait of a
Thompson, B. Editorial policies regarding statistical significance tests: Further comments.
www.coe.tamu.edu /~bthompson   (1418 words)

  
 Salon.com Audio | Hunter S. Thompson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hunter S. Thompson lives in Woody Creek Canyon in western Colorado, about 10 miles or so down-valley from Aspen.
The conversation with Thompson lasted 12 hours straight -- nothing out of the ordinary for the host: Owl Farm operates like an 18th century salon, where people from all walks of life congregate in the wee hours for free exchanges about everything from theoretical physics to local water rights.
For most of the conversation, Thompson sat at his command post on the kitchen side of a peninsula counter -- rocking back and forth in a swivel chair and chain-smoking red Dunhills through a German-made gold-tipped cigarette filter.
archive.salon.com /audio/the_paris_review/2000/12/05/hsthompson/index   (418 words)

  
 Modern Firearms - SubMacineGuns - Thompson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As the pressure dropped, the faces were able to slip across each other, the wedge moved up due to the slope, and the breech unlocked.
This idea was used in all Thompson submachineguns except for M1 and M1A1 (those were simply blowback operated).
The first serial manufactured model appeared in 1921 and was manufactured by Colt, as well as latest M1927 and M1928 models.
world.guns.ru /smg/smg29-e.htm   (470 words)

  
 Thompson Curling Equipment
In 1969, Al Thompson developed a synthetic, sock covered curling broom which he patented and started producing in a small, 400 square foot shop.
This has been proven, when our newly reconditioned stones were used at three World Curling Championships, major competitions, and bonspiels.
Use the navigational buttons on the left, to learn more about how Thompson can help your rink.
www.thompsonbroom.mb.ca   (259 words)

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