{i} family name; male first name; city in Manitoba (Canada); name of several cities and towns in the United States; John Sparrow David Thompson (1844-1894), Canadian politician, prime minister of Canada from 1892 to 1894
Canadian explorer who followed the Columbia River to its mouth (1811) and mapped much of western Canada. American journalist whose radio broadcasts and widely syndicated column "On the Record" (1936-1941) informed Americans of the impending threat of Nazi Germany. Canadian politician who served as prime minister (1892-1894). Thompson Dorothy Thompson Edward Palmer Thompson Emma Thompson Hunter Stockton Seton Ernest Thompson Ernest Seton Thompson Ernest Evan Thompson
United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000)
English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814)
English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814) United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000)
A river, about 489 km (304 mi) long, of southern British Columbia, Canada, formed by the confluence of northern and southern branches and flowing west and southwest to the Fraser River. It was discovered by Simon Fraser in 1808
born July 9, 1894, Lancaster, N.Y., U.S. died Jan. 30, 1961, Lisbon, Port. U.S. journalist. After World War I she became a freelance correspondent in Europe. Her reporting on the Nazis so infuriated Adolf Hitler that in 1934 she became the first U.S. correspondent expelled from Germany. Her column "On the Record" was exceedingly popular and was syndicated from 1941 to 1958 in as many as 170 daily newspapers. Her many books include I Saw Hitler! (1932), Refugees (1938), Let the Record Speak (1939), and The Courage to Be Happy (1957). From 1928 to 1942 she was married to the novelist Sinclair Lewis
born Feb. 3, 1924 died Aug. 28, 1993, Upper Wick, Worcester, Eng. British historian. He served in Italy in World War II and taught at the universities of Leeds (1948-65) and Warwick (1965-71). He left the Communist Party in 1956 when Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian uprising but remained a Marxist and socialist all his life. His best-known work is The Making of the English Working Class (1963), an acclaimed study of the period 1780-1832. Among his other books is Whigs and Hunters (1975). From the late 1970s he devoted much of his time to the antinuclear movement
born Feb. 3, 1924 died Aug. 28, 1993, Upper Wick, Worcester, Eng. British historian. He served in Italy in World War II and taught at the universities of Leeds (1948-65) and Warwick (1965-71). He left the Communist Party in 1956 when Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian uprising but remained a Marxist and socialist all his life. His best-known work is The Making of the English Working Class (1963), an acclaimed study of the period 1780-1832. Among his other books is Whigs and Hunters (1975). From the late 1970s he devoted much of his time to the antinuclear movement
born April 15, 1959, London, Eng. British actress and screenwriter. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, she acted on stage and television and won acclaim in the miniseries Fortunes of War (1987). While married to Kenneth Branagh (1989-94), she appeared in several of his films, including Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), and Much Ado About Nothing (1993). She later starred in Howards End (1992, Academy Award), The Remains of the Day (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she won an Academy Award for best screenplay, and Primary Colors (1998)
orig. Ernest Evan Thompson also called Ernest E.T. Seton or Ernest Seton-Thompson born Aug. 14, 1860, South Shields, Durham, Eng. died Oct. 23, 1946, Seton Village, Santa Fe, N.M., U.S. British-born U.S. naturalist and animal fiction writer. Seton's family emigrated to Canada from England in 1866. He earned a living for a time as a wild-animal artist, and in 1898 he published his most popular book, the story collection Wild Animals I Have Known. Deeply concerned for the future of the North American prairie, he fought to establish reservations for American Indians and parks for endangered animals. In 1902 he founded the Woodcraft Indians to give children opportunities for nature study. He chaired the committee that established the Boy Scouts of America
born July 18, 1939, Louisville, Ky., U.S. U.S. journalist. He had run-ins with the law as a young man and served in the U.S. Air Force. In 1965 he infiltrated the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang and published his account, Hell's Angels, in 1966. His psychedelic-drug romp, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), is considered a contemporary classic. Other books include Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973), The Great Shark Hunt (1979), and Better Than Sex (1994). He created the genre known as "gonzo journalism," a style created from (by his own account) accident and desperation, and his writing idiosyncratic and subjective in the extreme, and often wildly funny gained him a large underground following
born July 18, 1939, Louisville, Ky., U.S. U.S. journalist. He had run-ins with the law as a young man and served in the U.S. Air Force. In 1965 he infiltrated the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang and published his account, Hell's Angels, in 1966. His psychedelic-drug romp, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), is considered a contemporary classic. Other books include Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973), The Great Shark Hunt (1979), and Better Than Sex (1994). He created the genre known as "gonzo journalism," a style created from (by his own account) accident and desperation, and his writing idiosyncratic and subjective in the extreme, and often wildly funny gained him a large underground following