A poem by Dylan Thomas, a saxophone solo by Charles Parker, a painting by Jackson Pollock -- these are pure confabulations as ends in themselves.

* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

An early professed empiricist, Thomas Hobbes, known as an eccentric denizen of the court of Charles II of England ( an " old bear "), published in 1651 Leviathan, a political treatise written during the English civil war, containing an early manifesto in English of rationalism.

The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.

Following her birth, Thomas de Pizan accepted an appointment to the court of Charles V of France, as the king ’ s astrologer, alchemist, and physician.

* Charles B. Cox ( editor ), Dylan Thomas: a Collection of Critical Essays, 1966

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

From 1866 to 1867, Haeckel made an extended journey to the Canary Islands with Hermann Fol and during this period, met with Charles Darwin, in 1866 at Down House in Kent, Thomas Huxley and Charles Lyell.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

Thomas Harrison and John Carew were Commissioners ( Judges ) at the trial of Charles I and signed the death warrant.

After the Restoration on 14 October 1660 Major-General Thomas Harrison was the first person to be found guilty of the regicide of Charles I.

As Charles watches Carrie and Hamish dance as husband and wife, Charles's friend Fiona ( Kristin Scott Thomas ) deduces his feelings about Carrie.

Critics have charged Bopp with neglecting the study of the native Sanskrit grammars, but in those early days of Sanskrit studies the great libraries of Europe did not hold the requisite materials ; if they had, those materials would have demanded his full attention for years, while such grammars as those of Charles Wilkins and Henry Thomas Colebrooke, from which Bopp derived his grammatical knowledge, had all used native grammars as a basis.

His great-grandfather Charles Blair was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland, and had income as an absentee landlord of slave plantations in Jamaica.

* Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein.

Mayhew's work was embraced by and was an influence on the Christian Socialists, such as Thomas Hughes, Charles Kingsley, and F. D. Maurice.

Around 1820, Charles Xavier Thomas created the first successful, mass-produced mechanical calculator, the Thomas Arithmometer, that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

Straddle-jumper Charles Dumas was the first to clear 2. 13 m ( or 7 feet ) in 1956, and American John Thomas pushed the world mark to in 1960.

Henry Purcell Senior, whose older brother Thomas Purcell ( d. 1682 ) was also a musician, was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King Charles II of England.

Proponents include Thomas Hill Green, Josiah Royce, Benedetto Croce and Charles Sanders Peirce.

Severn was one of seven children ; two of his brothers, Thomas ( 1801 – 1881 ) and Charles ( 1806 – 1894 ), became professional musicians, and Severn himself was an adroit pianist.

Among those who joined the academy were Charles Eastlake, Richard Westmacott ( the younger ), William Bewick and Thomas Uwins.

Together they had seven children, three of whom became noteworthy artists: Walter and Arthur Severn, and Ann Mary Newton, who married the archeologist and Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, Charles Thomas Newton.

by Thomas J. Dunlap ), University of California Press, 1988, ISBN 0-520-06983-8

* Paterson, Thomas G. Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan ( 1988 )

* 1988 – Thomas Kraft, German footballer

* 1988 – Thomas Schneider, German athlete

Thomas took a six-month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program.

Sandler O ’ Neill + Partners, L. P. was founded in 1988 by Herman S. Sandler and Thomas F. O ' Neill along with several other executives from Wall Street firms.

* Thomas Moore, The GM System is Like a Blanket of Fog, Fortune, February 15, 1988

by Thomas J. Dunlap ), University of California Press, 1988.

* 1988 – Martin Duncan, Thomas Quinn, and Scott Tremaine demonstrate that short-period comets come primarily from the Kuiper Belt and not the Oort cloud

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

* Hughes, Richard Thomas ( 1988 ).

by Thomas J. Dunlap ), University of California Press, 1988, ISBN 0-520-06983-8

A full-length version by Thomas and Springfield was released as a single in 1988.

* 1988: Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald

* Schatz, Thomas ( 1988 ).

* Developing Successful Worker Co-ops, London: Sage Publications by Cornforth, C. J., Thomas, A., Spear, R. G. & Lewis, J. M., 1988.

Thomas Krens, director of the foundation from 1988 to 2008, led a rapid expansion of the foundation's collections.

File: Dr. Thomas B. Miller House ( Richland, GA ). JPG | The Dr. Thomas B. Miller House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1988

* Thomas Vezzetti ( 1928 – 1988 ), 33rd Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey.

* Lance Thomas ( born 1988 ), power forward / center for the Duke University basketball team and 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball National Champion.

A copy of the Jordan Bridge that spanned Thomas Creek east of Scio, it was moved to the park in 1988.

Toscanini is the subject of the 1988 fictionalized biography Il giovane Toscanini ( Young Toscanini ), starring C. Thomas Howell and Dame Elizabeth Taylor, and directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

In September 1988 Michael Tilson Thomas succeeded Abbado as chief conductor.

" Virginia Thomas went on to speak on panels and organized anti-cult workshops for congressional staffers in 1986 and 1988.