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 in 1941, reporting to Randolph Field as an aviation cadet. Thomas McGuire - First combat. During World War II, his first combat assignment was flying patrols over the Aleutian Islands and Alaska flying the P-39 Airacobra. While scoring no aerial victories in the Aleutians, McGuire was able to hone his natural and instinctive gifts as a pilot. Returning to the United Stat ...

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Thomas comes from the Gullah/Geechee cultural region of coastal Georgia and is a member of this distinct African American ethnic group; he grew up speaking the Geechee language, which is a hybrid of English and various West African languages. Thomas acquired an enthusiasm for his heritage, writing about it in the December 14, 2000 issue of The New York Times: "When I was 16, I was sitting as the only black kid in my class, and I had grown up speaking a kind of a dialect. It's called Geechee. Some people call it Gullah now, and p ...

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The National Portrait Gallery in London has a fine contemporary portrait of Sir Thomas Browne and his wife Lady Dorothy Browne (Nee Mileham). More recent sculptural portraits include Pegram’s statue of Sir Thomas contemplating with urn. This statue occupies the centre position of the Haymarket beside St Peter Mancroft, not far from the site of his house, was erected in 1905 and moved from its original position in 1973. In 2005 Robert Mileham’s small standing figure in silver and b ...

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Ligotti attended Macomb County Community College between 1971 and 1973 and graduated from Wayne State University in 1977. Often favorably compared to Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and H.P. Lovecraft, Ligotti began his publishing career in the early 1980s with a number of short stories published in various American small press magazines. His unique and affecting tales gathered a small following. Ligotti's relative anonymity and reclusiveness led to speculation about his identity: Was Ligotti a pseudonym used by ...

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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 the Andaman Islands Expedition when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 7 May 1867 at the island of Little Andaman, eastern India, in the Bay of Bengal, Private Murphy was one of a party of five (David Bell, James Cooper, Campbell Mellis Douglas and William Griffiths) of the 2/24th Regiment, who risked their lives in manning a boat and proceeding through dangerous surf to ...

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Hardy's work takes place in the "partly-real, partly-dream" county of Wessex (named after the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which existed in the area). The landscape was modelled on the real counties of Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire, with fictional places based on real locations. He captured the epoch just before the railways and the industrial revolution changed the English countryside. His works are pessimistic and bitterly ironic. His writing is rough but capable of immense power. Hardy had an eye for poignant detail, ...

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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 designates sayings deemed fully authentic Red and sayings believed to be very much like what Jesus might have said Pink. Sayings in Thomas rated Red by the Jesus Seminar, with the percentage of Seminar scholars so rating them, are: 54 (90%), 100:2 ...

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In 1898 Hardy published his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, a collection of poems written over 30 years. Hardy claimed poetry was his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. His poetry was not as well received by his contemporaries as his novels had been, but critical response to Hardy's poetry has warmed considerably in recent years, in part because of the influence of Philip Larkin. However, his poetry is still not considered as well, critically, as his prose. His poems deal with themes of disappointment ...

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There has been, and continues to be, disagreement and uncertainty as to the identity of Saint Thomas. Thomas Apostle - Twin and its renditions. The Greek Didymus: in three of these passages (John 11:16; 20:24; and 21:2), Thomas is more specifically identified as "Thomas, also called the Twin (Didymus)". The Aramaic Tau'ma: the name "Thomas" itself comes from the Aramaic word for twin: Tau'ma. Thus the name convention Didymus Thomas thrice repeated in the Gospel of John is in fact a tautology that omits the Twin's actual name.

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Thomas Paine's writings had great influence on his contemporaries, especially the American revolutionaries. His books inspired both philosophical and working-class Radicals in the United Kingdom; and he is often claimed as an intellectual ancestor by United States liberals, libertarians, progressives and radicals. Both Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Alva Edison read him with respect. Edison said of Paine: I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this republic… I ...

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He has a regular politics column that appears on the conservative Townhall.com website. He also regularly writes a column for Capitalism Magazine. Sowell is a staunch critic of: liberal media bias [6],[7],[8],[9],[10]; judicial activism (while staunchly defending originalism) [11],[12],[13],[14], [15]; partial birth abortion [16]; gay marriage [17]; termination of medical life support [18] public education minimum wage socializing healt ...

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After leaving office, Kean became the president of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where he maintained an active national role in numerous public policy issues, including education, low-income housing and foreign policy. While there, Kean became an advisor to, and was inducted into, Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity. Kean resigned his position as president of Drew at the end of the 2004-05 academic year. Kean is the author of The Politics of Incl ...

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In translating ancient texts, often the meaning of words is revealed only in abstraction, and must be transliterated, after being translated, in order for the meaning to be addressed. This is the case with all translations, as each reveals the limits and changes of languages, in the divergent tasks of; being sufficiently descriptive, and being easy to use in common speech. In the Thomas Gospel, logion 66 is one famous example of how translation often differs subtly in its proper transliteration. 66. Jesus ...

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Thomas Beecham - Published books. A Mingled Chime, (an autobiography) John Fletcher (1956), Oxford, Clarendon Press. (The Romanes Lecture for 1956). Thomas Beecham - Selected Discography. Balakirev Symphony No 1 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 – Artur Rubinstein/London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) Ruins of Athens – Beecham Choral Society/ RPO < ...

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More, until then fully devoted to Henry and to the cause of royal prerogative, initially cooperated with the king's new policy, denouncing Wolsey in parliament and proclaiming the opinion of the theologians at Oxford and Cambridge that the marriage of Henry to Catherine had been unlawful. But as Henry began to deny the authority of the Pope, More's qualms grew. Thomas More - Campaign against Protestantism. More, despite the tolerant and humane attitude suggested by his earlier works, had come to believe th ...

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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 considered a valuable text. Some say that this gospel makes no mention of Jesus' resurrection, an important point of faith among Christians. A minority opinion, however, interprets the opening words of the book, "These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down" (Nag Hammadi library translation, 2d. edition, ISBN 0-06-066935-7) to mean that the sayings are be ...

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More, until then fully devoted to Henry and to the cause of royal prerogative, initially cooperated with the king's new policy, denouncing Wolsey in parliament and proclaiming the opinion of the theologians at Oxford and Cambridge that the marriage of Henry to Catherine had been unlawful. But as Henry began to deny the authority of the Pope, More's qualms grew. Thomas More - Campaign against Protestantism. More, despite the tolerant attitude suggested by his earlier works, had come to believe that the rise ...

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Modern scholars use three criteria to determine what the historical Jesus may have taught: multiple attestations, dissimilarity, and contextual credibility. Many modern scholars believe that the Gospel of Thomas was written independently of the New Testament, and therefore, is a useful guide to historical Jesus research. By finding those sayings in the Gospel of Thomas that overlap with Q, Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, and Paul, scholars feel such sayings represent "multiple attestations" and therefore, are more likely to come from a historical Jesus, than sayings ...

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The tension between the two men would only be relieved by catastrophe. Passionate words from the angry king (reputedly "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?", "Who will rid me of this low-born priest" or "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest") were interpreted as a royal command, and four knights — Reginald Fitzurse, Hugh de Moreville, William de Tracey, and Richard le Breton — set out to plot the murder of the archbishop. On Tuesday December 29, 1170 they carried out their plan, murdering Becket at the entry of the Quire in Canterbury Cathedral as he was ...

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Beecham was born in St. Helens, Lancashire, England. His father, Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (1848-1916), was a wealthy patent pill manufacturer and civic leader, who had been awarded a baronetcy for continuing the work of his father Thomas Beecham (1820-1907), the inventor of "Beecham's Pills". Beecham was a great champion of various composers, including Delius, Bizet, Berlioz, Dame Ethel Smyth and Sibelius. He also often succeeded in presenting slight pieces, such as encores, in their best light, and this gave ri ...

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Thomas Edison - Menlo Park. Edison's major innovation was the Menlo Park research lab, which was built in New Jersey. It was the first institution set up with the specific purpose of producing constant technological innovation and improvement. Edison invented most of the inventions produced there, though he primarily supervised the operation and work of his employees. William Joseph Hammer, assistant to Edison and a consulting electrical engineer, was born at Cressona, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Febr ...

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Thomas Carlyle - Early writings. His first major work, Sartor Resartus (1832) was intended to be a new kind of book: simultaneously factual and fictional, serious and satirical, speculative and historical. It ironically commented on its own formal structure, while forcing the reader to confront the problem of where 'truth' is to be found. The narrator finds contempt for all things in human society and life. He contemplates the "Everlasting No" of refusal, comes to the "Center of Indifference," and eventual ...

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