All of their US hits were ballads, graced by the soaring falsetto of Russell Thompkins, Jr. and the lush productions of Thom Bell, which helped make the Stylistics one of the most successful soul groups of the first half of the 1970s.

' Writing these pieces ' said Tóibín, ' helped me to come to terms with things-with my own interest in secret, erotic energy ( Roger Casement and Thomas Mann ), my pure admiration for figures who, unlike myself, weren ’ t afraid ( Oscar Wilde, Bacon, Almodóvar ), my abiding fascination with sadness ( Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin ) and, indeed, tragedy ( Thom Gunn and Mark Doty ).

Marno McDermot continued to develop the idea for a nationwide patio-dining concept and with an associate, Thom Dietrich, incorporated Two Pesos in 1985.

Charles Thom, an American specialist working at the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was the acknowledged expert, and Fleming referred the matter to him.

NCSA is led by Thom Dunning, a computational chemist who previously worked at the University of Tennessee, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the United States Department of Energy and the Argonne National Laboratory.

The Thom Building, housing the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford, built in the 1960s, is named after Alexander Thom.

Old Mr. Thom is already down on Wally, and we simply can't afford to get Ken mad at us '' --

Old Mr. Thom himself had stopped at the service station for a grease job, Wally confessed, and couldn't get one because there were cars on the pits waiting to be repaired.

This, Thom argued, was a notch on the horizon where a double sunset would occur at midwinter.

The lack of artifacts caused concern for some archaeologists and the petrofabric analysis was inconclusive, but further research at Maes Howe and on the Bush Barrow Lozenge led MacKie to conclude that while the term ' science ' may be anachronistic, Thom was broadly correct upon the subject of high-accuracy alignments.

Many of the gopuras constructed under Jayavarman VII toward the end of the 12th century, such as this one at Angkor Thom, are adorned with gigantic stone faces of Avalokiteshvara.

In some Angkorian nāga-bridges, as for example those located at the entrances to 12th century city of Angkor Thom, the nāga-shaped balustrades are supported not by simple posts but by stone statues of gigantic warriors.

Thom Yorke applied a similar method in Radiohead's Kid A ( 2000 ) album, writing single lines, putting them into a hat, and drawing them out at random while the band rehearsed the songs.

Prasat Thom temple at Koh Ker

Bono of U2 has called the Pixies " one of America's greatest bands ever ", and Radiohead's Thom Yorke has said that, while at school, " the Pixies had changed my life ".

He followed that up some years later by declaring that the Iberian Peninsula rotated precisely at Perpignan station 132 million years ago – an event the artist invoked in his 1983 painting Topological Abduction of Europe – Homage to René Thom.

Similar evacuations occurred at Battambang, Kampong Cham, Siem Reap, Kampong Thom, and throughout the country's other towns and cities.

Among those present at the launch of Friends of the Earth ( EWNI )' s climate change campaign The Big Ask were: Jude Law, Edith Bowman, Sian Lloyd, Ross Burden, David Cameron, David Miliband, Thom Yorke, Stephen Merchant, Michael Eavis, and Emily Eavis.

Del Naja and Thom Yorke of Radiohead threw an unofficial party at the occupied USB bank in the city of London in December 2011, in support for the international Occupy movement.

The so-called " megalithic yard ", at per MY, is a controversial measure originally proposed by Alexander Thom.

Jayavarman also made Buddhism the state religion of his kingdom when he constructed the Buddhist temple known as the Bayon at the heart of his new capital city of Angkor Thom.

** The " Nāga bridge " at the entrance to the 12th century city of Angkor Thom is lined with large stone statues of Devas and Asuras engaged in churning the Ocean of Milk.

* Depictions in stone at Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom ( Cambodia ) of how the gods dredged amrit from the bottom of the ocean

The " Classic Gong " line-up retired from regular touring in 2001, but there were one-off reunions subsequently, most notably at the " Gong Family Unconvention " ( Uncon ), the first of which was held in 2004 in the Glastonbury Assembly rooms as a one day event and featured many ex members and Gong family bands including Here and Now, House of Thandoy, Thom the Poet, Invisible Opera, Andy Bole, Bubbledub and Joie Hinton.

Then Came You ( 1975 ), produced by Jerry Ragovoy ; Track of the Cat ( 1975 ), produced by Thom Bell ; and Love at First Sight ( 1977 ), produced by Steve Barri and Michael Omartian.

The song was written late one night by Thom Yorke on a piano at home.

Thom Yorke also referenced electronic dance music, saying the song was " an attempt to capture that exploding beat sound where you're at the club and the PA's so loud, you know it's doing damage ".

* Thom Shanker, Pentagon correspondent at The New York Times

The post-clearance population is recorded as 57 in 1881 ( with a further 62 on Sanday ), in which year MacNeil sold to Robert Thom, a ship owner from Glasgow.

Instilled with a good work ethic by his father, Thom taught himself industrial engineering and entered college in Glasgow in 1911 where he studied alongside John Logie Baird.

Thom graduated from the Royal College of Science and Technology and the University of Glasgow in 1914, earning a BSc with special distinction in Engineering.

* Thom, Alexander., The standing stones in Argyllshire, Glasgow Archaeological Journal, vi, 5-10, 1979.

In 1970, all sections of Trunk 4 west of New Glasgow were renumbered, although the number was added back in the Mount Thom and Wentworth Valley areas in the 1990s when new alignments of Highway 104 opened to traffic.

It meets Highway 102 near Truro then turns back northeast past Mount Thom to New Glasgow.

Some of the other astronomers involved in the project include Wei-Chun Jao, John Subasavage and Thom Beaulieu of Georgia State University, Phil Ianna of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Hartmut Jahreiß of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in Heidelberg, Germany and Edgardo Costa and Rene Mendez of the Universidad de Chile.

A biography entitled Johns Hopkins: A Silhouette written by his cousin, Helen Hopkins Thom, was published in 1929 by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Opened in 1963, the college was designed by Canadian architect Ron Thom, who subsequently designed the master plan for Trent University.

In mathematics, the gradient conjecture, due to René Thom, was proved in 2000 by 3 Polish mathematicians, Krzysztof Kurdyka ( University of Savoie, France ), Tadeusz Mostowski ( Warsaw University, Poland ) and Adam Parusinski ( University of Angers, France ).

* Thom, Alexander, Statistical and philosophical arguments for the astronomical significance of standing stones, in D. C. Heggie, Archaeoastronomy in the Old World, Cambridge University Press, 53-82, 1982.

* Thom, Alexander, Statistical and philosophical arguments for the astronomical significance of standing stones with a section on the solar calendar, in D. C. Heggie, Archaeoastronomy in the Old World, Cambridge University Press, 53-82, 1982.

An essay by Paul Davies about the creation of this book is included in Professor A. T. Tolley's collection, John Lehmann: a Tribute ( Ottawa, Carleton University Press, 1987 ), which also includes pieces by Roy Fuller, Thom Gunn, Charles Osborne, Christopher Levenson, Jeremy Reed, George Woodcock, and others.

Stanley Donwood and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke met as art students at the University of Exeter.

" The Selected Poems of Fulke Greville ," edited by Thom Gunn, with an afterword by Bradin Cormack, was published in 2009 ( University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-30846-3.

He remained at Warwick until 1988, but from 1966 to 1967 he was a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, after which his research turned to dynamical systems, inspired by many of the world leaders in this field, including Stephen Smale and René Thom, who both spent time at Warwick, Zeeman subsequently spent a sabbatical with Thom at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Paris, where he became interested in catastrophe theory.

Finally, United Netherlands is officially supported by its Board of Recommendation, formed by respected members Ruud Lubbers, Wim Kok, Dries van Agt, Thom de Graaf, Cees Blom and Bas Kortmann, current Rector Magnificus of the Radboud University.

Reverend Thom has a Bachelor of Divinity from the University of Aberdeen and postgraduate diplomas in both Ministry and Pastoral Studies with Applied Theology.

In Megalithic Lunar Observatories ( Oxford University Press, 1971 ) Alexander Thom presented evidence that the stone rows were in effect a Bronze Age lunar observatory, tracking lunar movements over a cycle of 18. 6 years.

According to Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, Thom Yorke wrote " Creep " while studying at Exeter University in the late 1980s.

This chapter concludes with a description of the 16-month solar calendar developed or recreated by Thom ( Megalithic Sites in Britain, Oxford University Press, 1967 ) and supposed to have been used by those who erected the megaliths.

Graduate House at the University of Toronto is a student residence specifically for graduate students, designed by Thom Mayne.

After graduating in 1982 from Cincinnati's Anderson High School Thom attended Ohio University, where he was president of the Beta Kappa Chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.