Encyclopedia - Thomas: Encyclopedia - Thomas
Thomas was not a Biblical given name, but originated from the Aramaic designation תום or Tôm. The meaning of the name is "twin", and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Thomas: Encyclopedia - Albert Thomas
Albert Thomas may be: Albert Thomas (France), (1878-1932), French politician Albert Richard Thomas, (1898-1966), American politician Alb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Thomas - The Philosophy Of The Gospel Of Thomas
The Gospel of Thomas is mystical — it emphasizes a direct and unmediated experience of the Divine. Jesus is presented as a mystagogue, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Bulfinch: Encyclopedia - Thomas Bulfinch
Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts to a highly-educated but not rich Bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carla Thomas: Encyclopedia - Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas (born December 21, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee) is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul. At the age of 17, she reco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ambroise Thomas: Encyclopedia - Ambroise Thomas
Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (Metz August 5, 1811 - ParisFebruary 12, 1896) was a French opera composer. He is best-known for his operas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acts Of Thomas: Encyclopedia - Acts Of Thomas
The early 3rd century text called Acts of Thomas is arguably the most Gnostic of the New Testament apocrypha, portraying Christ as the "H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Bowdler: Encyclopedia - Thomas Bowdler
Thomas Bowdler (July 11, 1754 – February 24, 1825), an English physician, is best known as the source of the eponym bowdlerize (or bowd...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dave Thomas Physicist: Encyclopedia - Dave Thomas Physicist
Dave Thomas is a physicist and mathematician, mostly known for his writings and research on the paranormal (such as UFO citings in Roswel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Aquinas: Encyclopedia - Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas [Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino] (c. 1225 – March 7, 1274) was an Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Merton: Encyclopedia - Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk and author, born in Prades in the Pyrénées-Orienta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Carlyle: Encyclopedia - Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Jefferson: Encyclopedia - Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), author of the United State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Cajetan: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Cajetan - Life
Cajetan was born in Gaeta in the kingdom of Naples, Italy on February 20, 1469 as Jacopo Vio. The name Thomas (Italian: Tommaso) was take...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Hodgkin: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Hodgkin - Life
Thomas Hodgkin was born to a Quaker family. He was an incredible private education tutor, and, in September 1819 he was admitted to St. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Thomas - Date
There is currently much debate about when the text was composed, with scholars generally falling into two main camps: an early camp favor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Apostle: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Apostle - Thomas In The Gospel Of John
Saint Thomas appears in a few passages in the Gospel of John. John 11:16: Lazarus has just died, and the disciples are resisting Jesus' ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Apostle: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Apostle - Thomas In The Gospel Of John
Saint Thomas appears in a few passages in the Gospel of John. John 11:18: Lazarus has just died, and the disciples are resisting Jesus' ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Ligotti: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Ligotti - Reviews
Critical opinion of Ligotti has generally been favorable. The New York Times Book Review: "If there were a literary genre called 'philos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Edison: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Edison - Tributes
The town of Edison, New Jersey, and Thomas Edison State College, a nationally-known college for adult learners in Trenton, New Jersey, ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Oklahoma: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Oklahoma - Geography
Thomas is located at 35°44'47" North, 98°44'54" West (35.746419, -98.748264)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Hughes: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Hughes - Biography
Hughes was the second son of John Hughes, editor of the Boscobel Tracts (1830). Thomas Hughes was born in Uffington, Berkshire. In Februa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Dybdahl: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Dybdahl - Biography
Thomas Dybdahl went out to become something what they call a shooting-star in Norway. As a solo artist, the former guitarist of the band ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Mann: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Mann - Life
Mann was born in Lübeck, second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and grain merchant) and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns (w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Tomkins: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Tomkins - Life
He was born in St Davids in Pembrokeshire. His father was also a musician, "vicar choral" of the cathedral of St Davids and organist ther...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Apostle: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Apostle - Later History
Just as Saints Peter and Paul are said to have brought the fledgling Christianity to Greece and Rome, Thomas is often said to have taken ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Stukley: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Stukley - Ireland
The meeting with O'Neill led to an extended interest in Irish affairs on Stukley's part. He was recommended by the queen to the lord lieu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Edwards: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Edwards - Details
He was 20 years old, and a Private in the 1st Bn., The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), British Army during the Sudan Campaign when the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Sankara: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Sankara - Quotes
"In any case, I wish and we I'm convinced that the best way of limiting the usurpation of the capacity by a group of individuals, soldier...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Mann: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Mann - Quotes
"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contempo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Mann: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Mann - Politics
During World War I Mann supported the Kaiser's conservatism and attacked liberalism. In Von Deutscher Republik (1923), as a semi-official...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Cajetan: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Cajetan - Views
Though as a theologian Cajetan was a scholastic of the older Thomist type, his general position was that of the moderate reformers of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Hodgkin: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Hodgkin - Works
Hodgkin described the disease that bears his name (Hodgkin's lymphoma) in 1832, in a paper titled On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Aquinas: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Aquinas - Biography
Thomas Aquinas - Early years. The life of Thomas Aquinas offers many interesting insights into the world of the High Middle Ages. He wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Stukley: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Stukley - Career
Stukley's early mentors were Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and then the Bishop of Exeter, in whose household he held a post. He w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Stukley: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Stukley - Rome
Stukley allied with Fitzmaurice and moved to Rome in 1575, where he walked about the streets and churches barefoot and bare legged (which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Stukley: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Stukley - Legacy
Stukley's first wife died in 1564; in 1566 he married Elizabeth Peppard, a wealthy Irish widow. He is known to have had one son, William....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Edison: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Edison - Trivia
"To Steinway & Sons — Gents, I have decided to keep your grand piano. For some reason unknown to me it gives better results than an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Cook: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Cook - Company Ownership
Ownership of his company, Thomas Cook and Son, remained with his family until 1928. In 1999 the Carlson Leisure Group merged with Thomas ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarence Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Clarence Thomas - Appointment
On July 8, 1991 President George H. W. Bush nominated Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall who had recently announced his retirement.[1] M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Bowdler: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Bowdler - Biography
Bowdler was born near Bath, the son of a gentleman of independent means, studied medicine at St. Andrews and at Edinburgh, where he took ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Browne: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Browne - Biography
The son of a silk merchant from Upton, Cheshire, Browne was born in the parish of St Michael, Cheapside, in London on October 19, 1605. H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Selfridge: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Selfridge - Death
When Orville Wright came to Fort Myer, Virginia to demonstrate the latest Wright Flyer for the Army, Selfridge arranged to fly along whil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Hobbes: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Hobbes - Controversies
Thomas Hobbes - With Bramhall. Hobbes now turned to complete the fundamental treatise of his philosophical system. He worked so steadil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Thomas - The Gospel Of Thomas And The Canon Of The New Testament
The fact that the Gospel of Thomas does not seem to have been considered for the New Testament is seen by some as an indication of its be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Tomkins: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Tomkins - Works
Tomkins wrote madrigals, keyboard music, consort music, anthems, and liturgical music. Stylistically he was extremely conservative, even ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Thomas - Comparison Of The Gospel Of Thomas To The New Testament
The Gospel of Thomas does not refer to Jesus as "Christ" or "Lord" as the New Testament does, but simply as "Jesus." The Gospel of Thomas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Urquhart: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Urquhart - Life
Urquhart was born to an old landholding family in Cromarty in northern Scotland. At the age of eleven he attended King's College in Aberd...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dylan Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Dylan Thomas - Life
Dylan Thomas was born in the coastal town of Swansea, Wales. His father David, who was a writer and possessed a degree in English, brough...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Bayes: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Bayes - Biography
Thomas Bayes was born in London. He is known to have published two works in his lifetime: Divine Benevolence, or an Attempt to Prove That...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Thomas - Confusion With Other Works
The Gospel of Thomas is distinct and unrelated to other apocryphal or pseudepigraphal works, the Acts of Thomas, and the work called the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Hobbes: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Hobbes - In Paris
Hobbes's first area of study was an interest in the physical doctrine of motion. Despite his interest in this phenomenon, he disdained ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - R. S. Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - R. S. Thomas - Life
R S Thomas was born in Cardiff in 1913, the only child of Huw and Margeret. The family settled at Holyhead. He was awarded a bursary in 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Stukley: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Stukley - Spain
Again, Stukley was acquitted, and the authorities released him in October 1569. He had been suspected of proposing an invasion of Ireland...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Edison: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Edison - Tributes
The town of Edison, New Jersey, and Thomas Edison State College, a nationally-known college for adult learners in Trenton, New Jersey, ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sonya Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Sonya Thomas - Competition
Sonya Thomas - Rookie year. After seeing Kobayashi (approximately 145 pounds) win the 2002 Nathan's contest, Thomas realized size was n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Sowell: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Sowell - Writings
Sowell is both a popular columnist and an academic economist. Besides scholarly writing, Sowell has written books, articles and syndicate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas North: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas North - Translations
Thomas North - Guevara. He translated, in 1557, Guevara's Reloj de Principes (commonly known as Libro áureo), a compendium of moral co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joe Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Joe Thomas - Biography
Joe Thomas - Early life and career. Joe Thomas was born the son of two preachers. The Thomas family moved to Opelika, Alabama when he w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Edison: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Edison - Inventor
Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey with the automatic repeater and other improved telegraphic devices, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Becket: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Becket - Assassination
The tension between the two men would only be relieved by catastrophe. Passionate words from the angry king (reputedly "Will no one rid m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Hardy: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Hardy - Biography
Thomas Hardy was born at Upper Bockhampton near Dorchester in Dorset. His father was a stonemason. His mother was ambitious and well-read...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - R. S. Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - R. S. Thomas - Works
Almost all of Thomas' work concerns his twin passions, the Welsh landscape and the Welsh people. Underlying these twin themes are the pol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Mcguire: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Mcguire - Life
Maj. McGuire was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, on August 1, 1920. He left Georgia Tech in his third year to join the U.S. Army Air Corps...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarence Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Clarence Thomas - Heritage
Thomas comes from the Gullah/Geechee cultural region of coastal Georgia and is a member of this distinct African American ethnic group; h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Browne: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Browne - Portraits Of Sir Thomas Browne
The National Portrait Gallery in London has a fine contemporary portrait of Sir Thomas Browne and his wife Lady Dorothy Browne (Nee Mileh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Ligotti: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Ligotti - Overview
Ligotti attended Macomb County Community College between 1971 and 1973 and graduated from Wayne State University in 1977. Often favorably...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Murphy: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Murphy - Details
He was approx. 28 years old, and a Private in the 2nd Bn., 24th Regiment of Foot (later The South Wales Borderers), British Army during t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Hardy: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Hardy - Novels
Hardy's work takes place in the "partly-real, partly-dream" county of Wessex (named after the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which existed in the ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Thomas - Jesus Seminar
The Gospel of Thomas is one of the Five Gospels used by the Jesus Seminar in its attempt to find the authentic sayings of Jesus. It desig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Hardy: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Hardy - Poetry
In 1898 Hardy published his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, a collection of poems written over 30 years. Hardy claimed poetry was h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Apostle: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Apostle - Name And Identity
There has been, and continues to be, disagreement and uncertainty as to the identity of Saint Thomas. Thomas Apostle - Twin and its rend...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Paine: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Paine - Legacy
Thomas Paine's writings had great influence on his contemporaries, especially the American revolutionaries. His books inspired both philo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Sowell: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Sowell - Columns
He has a regular politics column that appears on the conservative Townhall.com website. He also regularly writes a column for Capitalism ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Kean: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Kean - In Academia
After leaving office, Kean became the president of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where he maintained an active national role in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Thomas - Differences Between Translations
In translating ancient texts, often the meaning of words is revealed only in abstraction, and must be transliterated, after being transla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Beecham: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Beecham - Works
Thomas Beecham - Published books. A Mingled Chime, (an autobiography) John Fletcher (1956), Oxford, Clarendon Press. (The Romanes Lect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas More: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas More - Chancellorship
More, until then fully devoted to Henry and to the cause of royal prerogative, initially cooperated with the king's new policy, denouncin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Thomas - The Gospel Of Thomas's Importance And Author
The Gospel of Thomas is, in any case, one of the earliest accounts of the teaching of Jesus outside of the canonical gospels and so is co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas More: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas More - Chancellorship
More, until then fully devoted to Henry and to the cause of royal prerogative, initially cooperated with the king's new policy, denouncin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Thomas - The Gospel Of Thomas And The Historical Jesus
Modern scholars use three criteria to determine what the historical Jesus may have taught: multiple attestations, dissimilarity, and cont...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Becket: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Becket - Assassination
The tension between the two men would only be relieved by catastrophe. Passionate words from the angry king (reputedly "Who will rid me o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Beecham: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Beecham - Biography
Beecham was born in St. Helens, Lancashire, England. His father, Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (1848-1916), was a wealthy patent pill m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Edison: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Edison - Middle Career
Thomas Edison - Menlo Park. Edison's major innovation was the Menlo Park research lab, which was built in New Jersey. It was the first ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Carlyle: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Carlyle - Writings
Thomas Carlyle - Early writings. His first major work, Sartor Resartus (1832) was intended to be a new kind of book: simultaneously fac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Carlyle: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Carlyle - Influence
Thomas Carlyle is notable both for his continuation of older traditions of the Tory satirists of the 18th century in England and for forg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas The Tank Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas The Tank Engine - Adventures Of Thomas
Thomas and Gordon was the first episode of the television series and features a cheeky tank engine known as Thomas. He teases Gordon the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dylan Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Dylan Thomas - Career And Influence
Dylan Thomas is widely considered one of the greatest 20th century poets writing in English, frequently mentioned alongside Frost, Yeats,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Day Out With Thomas
Preserved Railways in Britain regularly run "Friends of Thomas" weekends. A "Thomas" locomotive is brought in, and the resident locomotiv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Gage: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Gage - Governorship
After the French surrendered, Gage was named military governor of Montreal. In 1761 he was promoted major general and placed in command o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Kinsella: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Kinsella - Translations And Editing
At Miller's suggestion, Kinsella turned his attention to the translation of early Irish texts. He produced versions of Longes Mac Unsnig ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Pynchon: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Pynchon - Biography
Thomas Pynchon - Childhood and early career. Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York to Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Sr....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Chatterton: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Chatterton - Childhood
Chatterton was born at Bristol where the office of sexton of St. Mary Redcliffe, one of the most beautiful parish churches in England, ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Aquinas: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Aquinas - Writings
The writings of Thomas may be classified as: exegetical, homiletical, and liturgical; dogmatic, apologetic, and ethical; and philosophic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Buergenthal: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Buergenthal - Biography
Thomas Buergenthal grew up in the Jewish ghetto of Kielce (Poland) and later in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen. O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Murphy: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Murphy - Further Information
VC not awarded for bravery in action against the enemy, but for bravery at sea in saving life in storm off Andaman Islands. He died Phila...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Jefferson: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Jefferson - Presidency
Jefferson's Presidency, from 1801 to 1809, was the first to start and end in the White House; it was also the first Democratic Presidency...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarence Thomas: Encyclopedia Ii - Clarence Thomas - Judicial Philosophy
On the Court, Thomas has argued for an originalist or "textualist" view of the Constitution faithful to that document's text and history....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. Thomas Ontario: Encyclopedia Ii - St. Thomas Ontario - Parks
There are two major parks in the city: Pinafore Park in the south, beside Pinafore Lake; and Waterworks Park in the north, straddled by K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Stukley: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Stukley - Invasion Expedition
The death of Don John disrupted all plans for the invasion of England, but there was still stomach for the Irish enterprise. In 1576, Fit...   » Read the article