Like the pillars of Hercules, like two ruined Titans guarding the entrance to one of Dante's circles, stand two great dead juvenile delinquents -- the heroes of the post-war generation: the great saxophonist, Charlie Parker, and Dylan Thomas.

Now Dylan Thomas and Charlie Parker have a great deal more in common than the same disastrous end.

It is the theme of Horace, who certainly otherwise bears little resemblance to Parker or Thomas.

Thomas and Parker have more in common than theme, attitude, life pattern.

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

On one occasion, crew members ransacked the trading ship Mary and tortured several of its crew members while Kidd and the other captain, Thomas Parker, conversed privately in Kidd's cabin.

Personalistic idealists Borden Parker Bowne and Edgar S. Brightman and realistic personal theist Saint Thomas Aquinas address a core issue, namely that of dependence upon an infinite personal God.

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.

* July 23 – Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield ( d. 1732 )

In retaliation, Fell leased the university's bible printing to three rogue Stationers, Moses Pitt, Peter Parker, and Thomas Guy, whose sharp commercial instincts proved vital to fomenting Oxford's bible trade.

Key proponents of this notion have included Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, Thomas Griffith Taylor, and possibly Jared Diamond or Philip M. Parker.

* Thomas Parker, or Pakare ( 1389 – 1421 ).

The first two houses in Clayton were built by Thomas Potts and Lewis T. Pounds, and Parker & Foote was the first store.

Thomas Parker and cousin Rev.

Thomas Parker of Dracut and Colonel John Goffe, for whom the town was named.

A number of prominent abolitionists lived in the town in the 1800s, mainly on Front Street near the river, including John Rankin, former slave John Parker, Thomas McCague, Thomas Collins and Dr. Alexander Campbell.

He named Walter Haddon and Matthew Parker as executors, commended his loved ones to Thomas Cranmer, and thanked his stepdaughter Agnes Capito for taking care of him.

* Parker, S. Thomas.

Other prominent transcendentalists included Louisa May Alcott, Charles Timothy Brooks, Orestes Brownson, William Ellery Channing, William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Walt Whitman, John Sullivan Dwight, Convers Francis, William Henry Furness, Frederic Henry Hedge, Sylvester Judd, Theodore Parker, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George Ripley, Thomas Treadwell Stone, Emily Dickinson, and Jones Very.

The first vehicle powered by wood gas was built by Thomas Hugh Parker in 1901.

Warrants were issued for 36 more people, with examinations continuing to take place in Salem Village: Sarah Dustin ( daughter of Lydia Dustin ), Ann Sears, Bethiah Carter Sr. and her daughter Bethiah Carter Jr., George Jacobs, Sr. and his granddaughter Margaret Jacobs, John Willard, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Abigail Soames, George Jacobs, Jr. ( son of George Jacobs, Sr. and father of Margaret Jacobs ), Daniel Andrew, Rebecca Jacobs ( wife of George Jacobs, Jr. and sister of Daniel Andrew ), Sarah Buckley and her daughter Mary Witheridge, Elizabeth Colson, Elizabeth Hart, Thomas Farrar, Sr., Roger Toothaker, Sarah Proctor ( daughter of John and Elizabeth Proctor ), Sarah Bassett ( sister-in-law of Elizabeth Proctor ), Susannah Roots, Mary DeRich ( another sister-in-law of Elizabeth Proctor ), Sarah Pease, Elizabeth Cary, Martha Carrier, Elizabeth Fosdick, Wilmot Redd, Sarah Rice, Elizabeth Howe, Capt.

* The Berkeley Police Story, by Alfred E. Parker ( Springfield, Ill: Charles C. Thomas, 1972 )

Notable faculty include Woodrow Wilson, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Thomas Hunt Morgan, mathematician Emmy Noether, classicist Richmond Lattimore, the Spanish philosopher José Ferrater Mora, Karl Kirchwey and the 10th president of Sweet Briar College Jo Ellen Parker.

The first occurred in 1850, when Dr. Howe along with Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker and other abolitionists, stormed Faneuil Hall in order to try to free a captured escaped slave, Anthony Burns.

* Host, an author abbreviation in botany for Nicolaus Thomas Host

The consecrated Host is kept in the Dominican monastery of St. Thomas in Ávila.

The name Hosta is in honor of the Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host.

Notable weekend hosts include: Steve Michaels, Jerry Burton, Phil Matthews, Jason Thomas, Mark Rogers ( Host of Hometown Heroes ), Mike Alexander, Jenny Z, Tia and Derek.

* Host: Glenn Ryle ; fill-ins included weatherman Mike Fenwick, sportscaster Dale Conquest, and WKRC radio host, Jerry Thomas.

O salutaris Hostia, " O Saving Host ", is a section of one of the Eucharistic hymns written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi.

Thomas received the 1997 – 1998 Daytime Emmy Award of ' Outstanding Service Show Host ' for This Old House, plus nine nominations for the same category.

Alcott served as a pallbearer along with Louis Agassiz, James Thomas Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others.

Thomas John Watson, Sr. ( February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956 ) was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines ( IBM ), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.

He was considered Roosevelt's strongest supporter in the business community. The gravesite of Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

Thomas Watson Sr. was interred in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York in 1956.

** Thomas Parran, Sr., American politician ( d. 1955 )

* Thomas Wentworth Sr., 1st Earl of Strafford of England ( 1593 – 1641 ), statesman ( specifically Member of Parliament and future Lord deputy and lieutenant of Ireland )

Notable traders, agents, and refugee Tories among the Cherokee included John Stuart, Henry Stuart, Alexander Cameron, John McDonald, John Joseph Vann ( father of James Vann ), Daniel Ross ( father of John Ross ), John Walker Sr., John McLemore ( father of Bob ), William Buchanan, John Watts ( father of John Watts Jr .), John D. Chisholm, John Benge ( father of Bob Benge ), Thomas Brown, John Rogers ( Welsh ), John Gunter ( German, founder of Gunter's Landing ), James Adair ( Irish ), William Thorpe ( English ), and Peter Hildebrand ( German ), among many others, several attaining the status of minor chiefs and / or members of significant delegations.

Buddenbrooks ( 1901 ), by Thomas Mann ( 1875 – 1955 ), chronicles the moral decay of a rich family through its declines, material and spiritual, in the course of four generations, beginning with the patriarch Johann Buddenbrook Sr. and his son, Johann Buddenbrook Jr., who are typically successful German businessmen ; each is a reasonable man of solid character.

* Thomas Howard, Sr. ( born 1954 ), former American football linebacker who played nine seasons

The Borough Council is currently run by President Thomas J. Murray Sr.

Other significant figures in the early history of the company were Charles F. Kettering, Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Edward A.

* Bishop Ted Thomas, Sr. ( 1967 -), Pentecostal African-American preacher, pastor of New Community Temple Church of God in Christ

* Thomas Bland Harvey, Sr. attended the Inauguration of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson at the President's personal invitation and sat in the front row at Washington, D. C. Harvey founded the first Dodge Brothers Dealership in the World.

* Thomas Bland Harvey, Sr. ( 1898-1977 ) One of the oldest families in America and Virginia dating from a. d. 1584 in what was the Ronanok Colony, the first Dodge Brothers Dealer in the America, in 1969 Hurricane Camile he lost everything and is quoated Worldwide as saying " It's GODs WIll!

* 1850s Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr., grandfather of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and his brother Jesse Thomas Johnson, set up a cattle business in Johnson City.

According to the 1955 book, Zeb's Black Baby, by Samuel Thomas Peace Sr .:

, members of the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders ( with their term end dates and committee chairmanships listed in parentheses ) are Freeholder Director William Whelan ( 2011 ; Finance ), Deputy Freeholder Director James A. Dunkins ( 2011 ; Health ), Samuel L. Fiocchi, Sr. ( 2013 ; Public Works ), Jane Jannarone ( 2011 ; Public Affairs, Cultural & History ), Carl W. Kirstein ( 2013 ; Public Property & Personnel ) and Thomas Sheppard ( 2012 ; Agriculture ).

* Eyler Robert Coates, Sr., ed., The Jefferson-Hemings Myth, An American Travesty ( Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001 )

* Byron W. Woodson, Sr., A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson ( Praeger, 2001 )

The town started when Thomas Edwards Sr. bought the land from Judge Crockett in 1867.

Thomas Fitch eventually sold a large parcel of property to William Samuel Flemming Sr. in 1817.

The early settlers of the area were: Reuben Moss, George Robards, George Eakins, Bennett Sandefur, Jordan Moss, Enoch Spencer, Thomas Reidout, Ben Wall, Nathan Smith, T. W. Royster, James McMullin, Samuel McMullin, Sr.

Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Gosnold was first settled in 1641, the year of purchase of the islands by Thomas Mayhew, Sr.