It starred the American actor Richard Chamberlain, who was well-known to Australian and world audiences as the eponymous physician in the popular Doctor Kildare TV series, and would later star in the Australian-set major series " The Thorn Birds ".

* Colleen McCullough – The Thorn Birds

She portrayed Fiona Cleary, Cleary family matriarch, in the 1983 mini-series, The Thorn Birds ; she won an Emmy Award for her role.

In addition, she received several Emmy nominations, including one for playing in 1981 Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels, in The Bunker, opposite Anthony Hopkins as Hitler ; for her role in the miniseries The Thorn Birds ; two for her work in Twin Peaks as the evil Catherine Martell, and a nomination for her guest appearance on Frasier.

Since then, he has appeared in several mini-series such as Shōgun ( 1980 ) and The Thorn Birds ( 1983 ), many successful films, and performed classical stage roles and worked in the musical theatre.

Chamberlain later appeared in several popular television miniseries ( earning him a nickname of " King of the Miniseries "), including Centennial ( 1978-79 ), Shōgun ( 1980 ), and The Thorn Birds ( 1983 ) as Father Ralph de Bricassart with Rachel Ward co-starring.

In 1984 he won a Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for: The Thorn Birds ( 1983 ).

* The Thorn Birds ( TV, 1983 )

* The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years ( TV, 1996 )

and A Fable, Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Streams, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness and The Confessions of Nat Turner, John Ball's In the Heat of the Night, Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds, Yasunari Kawabata's The Lake, John Updike's Rabbit Redux and Rabbit is Rich, and The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, The Spire, The Pyramid and Rites of Passage by William Golding.

Plummer has also ventured into various television projects, including the legendary miniseries The Thorn Birds.

He has acted in nearly 100 TV roles in all, including appearances in Jesus of Nazareth, the five-time Emmy Award-winning The Thorn Birds, the Emmy-winning Nuremberg, the Emmy-winning Little Moon of Alban and the Emmy-winning Moneychangers ( for which he won his first Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series ).

* The Thorn Birds

Her big break came in 1983 when she starred opposite Richard Chamberlain as the lead role portraying Meggie Cleary in the television mini-series The Thorn Birds, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film.

She reappeared in 1987 playing opposite her husband, Bryan Brown ( whom she met on the set of The Thorn Birds ), in The Umbrella Woman.

* The Thorn Birds ( 1983 ) TV miniseries

* Uccelli di rovo: vecchi amici, nuove storie ( The Thorn Birds: Old Friends New Stories ) ( 2003 ) VHS

# The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

* Dane O ' Neill, a character in Colleen McCulloch's book The Thorn Birds

Australia's best selling novel of all time, The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, writes of the temptations encountered by a priest living in the Outback.

Other notable roles include Macbeth on Broadway and Dane O ' Neill, the ill-fated love child who grew up to follow in his unknown father's footsteps on the path to the priesthood, in the television mini-series The Thorn Birds.

* The Thorn Birds as Dane O ' Neill

An early acting appearance was on the miniseries The Thorn Birds when she was only 12 years old as young Meggie.

Kiley won several Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards for his work in television, including The Thorn Birds ( as Paddy, Rachel Ward's father ) ( 1983 ) and A Year in the Life ( 1986, 1987 – 1988 ).

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

* 1724 – Tumult of Thorn – religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn ( Toruń ) by Polish authorities.

First proposed by Gerard't Hooft, it was given a precise string-theory interpretation by Leonard Susskind who combined his ideas with previous ones of't Hooft and Charles Thorn.

As pointed out by Raphael Bousso, Thorn observed in 1978 that string theory admits a lower dimensional description in which gravity emerges from it in what would now be called a holographic way.

The region became a part of the Kingdom of Poland province of Royal Prussia with the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ), prospered with the grain trade from southern Poland to the royal city of Gdańsk and then sustained ravages and plagues brought by several Swedish and Prussian invasions during the 17th and early 18th centuries, and was forcefully removed from Kingdom of Poland and annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

* Total Baseball by John Thorn and Pete Palmer

Matt Thorn, who has made a career out of studying girls ' comics, attempts to clarify the matter by explaining that " shôjo manga are manga published in shôjo magazines ( as defined by their publishers )".

The allied victory at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, followed by the Peace of Thorn ( 1411 ), secured the Polish and Lithuanian borders and marked the emergence of the Polish – Lithuanian alliance as a significant force in Europe.

According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, the Abbey was first founded in the time of Mellitus ( d. 624 ), Bishop of London, on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey ( Thorn Island ); based on a late tradition that a fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site.

Two years later the city was connected by railway to Thorn ( Toruń ).

A clip from the fifth sequel, Soylent Green II, shows Thorn ( played by Charlton Heston ( Phil Hartman )) crying, " Soylent Green is STILL made out of people!

Edward Augustus Freeman in 1875 debunked the Æthelwald story as a " tissue of romance " in his Historic Essays, but his arguments were in turn rebutted by the naturalist William Henry Hudson in his 1920 book Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn.

* " King's Cross ", a Pet Shop Boys song from their 1987 album Actually, also covered and released as a single by Tracey Thorn in 2007.

The treaty concluded the Thirteen Years ' War ( 1454 – 1466 ) which had begun in February 1454 with the revolt of the Prussian Confederation, led by the cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), Kulm ( Chełmno ) and Thorn, and the Prussian gentry against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in the Monastic State.

* " Doc Adams " by John Thorn.

* " Four Fathers of Baseball " by John Thorn.

The first track they worked on was " The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game ", a cover version sung by Tracey Thorn for the Batman Forever soundtrack.

) During the final episodes of Angel, Spike is the first to vote for Angel's plan to wound the Senior Partners by massacring the Circle of the Black Thorn.

A letter written by Mr. Thorn, and read in his place at the Summit, was attained by Congressman Jim McDermott, who advocated the issue to the Obama administration's Health Secretary.