According to Time magazine, one of the witnesses, Angela Wright, may not have been considered credible on the issue of sexual harassment because she had been fired from the EEOC by Thomas.

Football authority and College Football Hall of Fame coach David M. Nelson wrote that " E. B. Cochems is to forward passing what the Wright brothers are to aviation and Thomas Edison is to the electric light.

In 1750 the English astronomer Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that the galaxy might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars held together by gravitational forces, akin to the solar system but on a much larger scale.

In 1750 Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that Milky Way was a flattened disk of stars, and that some of the nebulae visible in the night sky might be separate Milky Ways.

The British schoolmaster Thomas Wright Hill is credited as inventor of the single transferable vote, the use of which he described in 1821 for application in elections at his school.

Guy Fawkes, an English soldier, along with other recusants or converts, including, among others, Sir Robert Catesby, Christopher Wright, John Wright and Thomas Percy, was arrested and charged with attempting to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605.

* 1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge.

A significant astronomical advance of the 18th century was the realization by Thomas Wright, Immanuel Kant and others of nebulae.

In the early days of Unitarianism, the stories of the virgin birth were accepted by most, but there were a number of Unitarians who questioned the historical accuracy of the Bible ( such as Symon Budny, Jacob Paleologus, Thomas Belsham, and Richard Wright ), and this made them question the virgin birth story.

Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.

Due to McCarthyism, Wright was blacklisted by Hollywood movie studio executives in the 1950s, but, in 1950, starred as the teenager Bigger Thomas ( Wright was 42 ) in an Argentinian film version of Native Son.

Horatio G. Wright, Thomas H. Neill, and James B. Ricketts.

Fats Waller ( May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943 ), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

Thomas Wright Waller was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller.

His parents were Welsh-born army recruiting sergeant father Thomas H. ( Tom ) Cooper, and his English-born wife Gertrude ( née Gertrude C. Wright ) from Crediton, Devon.

The first fatal aviation accident occurred in a Wright Model A aircraft at Fort Myer, Virginia, USA, on September 17, 1908, resulting in injury to the pilot, Orville Wright and death of the passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.

* 1750 — Thomas Wright discusses galaxies and the shape of the Milky Way,

Thomas C. Wright, Jr.

Bell House in College Road was designed in 1787 for Thomas Wright, a stationer and later Lord Mayor of the City of London.

Many of the roads in the area have aviation-related names: Alcock Road ( Alcock and Brown ), Brabazon Road ( Brabazon ), Bleriot Road ( Louis Blériot ), Cobham Road ( Sir Alan Cobham ), De Havilland Road ( de Havilland ), Norman Crescent ( Nigel Norman ), Phoenix Way ( Heston Phoenix ), Sopwith Road ( Thomas Sopwith ), Spitfire Way ( Supermarine Spitfire ), Whittle Road ( Frank Whittle ), and Wright Road ( the Wright brothers ).

The early 19th-century editions of Encyclopædia Britannica included wikt: seminal # English | seminal research such as Thomas Young ( scientist ) | Thomas Young's article on Egypt, which included the translation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs | hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone ( pictured ).

The first English-born editor-in-chief was Thomas Spencer Baynes, who oversaw the production of the 9th edition ; dubbed the " Scholar's Edition ", the 9th is the most scholarly Britannica.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

Thomas Young's work is acknowledged in Champollion's 1822 Lettre à M. Dacier, but incompletely, according to British critics: for example, James Browne, a sub-editor on the Encyclopædia Britannica ( which had published Young's 1819 article ), contributed anonymously a series of review articles to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, praising Young's work highly and alleging that the " unscrupulous " Champollion plagiarised it.

* Thomas Corneille Bibliography from the 1911 version of Encyclopædia Britannica

* Thomas Torquemada, article in 1911 Britannica.

* Sir Thomas Picton at the Classic Encyclopedia, based on the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica

* Encyclopædia Britannica ( entry written by Elizabeth Laskey ): " Mapfumo, Thomas.

*" Malacostraca " by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

In 1887 Smith became the editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica after the death of his employer Thomas Spencer Baynes left the position vacant.

These were in fact by Thomas Heywood, from his Troia Britannica, which Jaggard had published in 1609.

* ( 2001 ) " Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin ", Encyclopaedia Britannica, Deluxe CDROM edition

* De Quincey, Thomas, Encyclopædia Britannica, ( 11th ed.

* G. Thomas, A Position to Command Respect: women and the eleventh Britannica, ( 1992 )

He was a constant contributor to the leading reviews ; he published an important series of Lectures on Teaching ( 1881 ), Educational Aims and Methods, Notes on American Schools and Colleges ( 1887 ), and an authoritative criticism of Thomas and Matthew Arnold, and their Influence on English Education in 1901 ; and he wrote the article on education in the supplementary volumes ( 10th edition ) of the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 1902 ).

Most early versions fall into one of two branches, the " courtly " branch represented in the retellings of the Anglo-Norman poet Thomas of Britain and his German successor Gottfried von Strassburg, and the " common " branch, including the works of the French poet Béroul and the German poet Eilhart von Oberge.

In 1172 ( September 27 – 28 ) a council was held at Avranches apropos of the troubles caused in the English Church by the murder of the Anglo-Norman saint Thomas Becket.

* William de Tracy ( or Williame or Guillaume de Tracy ), Anglo-Norman knight that took part in the assassination of Thomas Becket

the murder of Thomas Becket, gave rise to a whole series of writings, some of which are purely Anglo-Norman.

In his time appeared the works of Béroul and Thomas of Britain respectively, as well as some of the most celebrated of the Anglo-Norman romans d ' aventure.

Finally, the most celebrated love-legend of the Middle Ages, and one of the most beautiful inventions of world-literature, the story of Tristan and Iseult, tempted two authors, Béroul and Thomas, the first of whom is probably, and the second certainly, Anglo-Norman ( see Arthurian legend ; Holy Grail ; Tristan ).

Originally, this literature was written in Old French, Anglo-Norman and Occitan, later, in English and German — notable later English works being King Horn ( a translation of the Anglo-Norman ( AN ) Romance of Horn of Mestre Thomas ), and Havelok the Dane ( a translation of the anonymous AN Lai d ' Haveloc ); around the same time Gottfried von Strassburg's version of the Tristan of Thomas of Britain ( a different Thomas to the author of ' Horn ') and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival translated classic French romance narrative into the German tongue.

Romance of Horn is an Anglo-Norman literature romans d ' aventure (" adventure story ") tale written around 1170 by an author apparently named " Thomas ".