At the head of the CDC is an unorthodox, 39-year-old amateur politico, Thomas B. Carvey Jr., whose normal profession is helping develop Hughes Aircraft's moon missiles.

Thomas C. Howard was head designer, architect and engineer for both companies.

The controversy would surface in the Thomas Becket affair under Henry II of England, the Great Charter of 1217, the Statutes of Mortmain and the battles over Cestui que use of Henry VII of England, and finally come to a head under Henry VIII of England.

Laying his head in her lap, a drunken Thomas proposed.

At first, Thomas, who was the head cook at the restaurant, and the Clausses declined Sanders ' offer, but the Colonel persisted and the Clauss family franchised their restaurant with KFC and later also owned many other KFC franchises in the Midwest.

File: Nida ThomasMann cottage. jpg | Horse head gables on German author Thomas Mann's cottage in Nida, Lithuania

" Mr. Thomas Scott, who had been so much deluded by the hypocrosy of Monk ... said: ' That though he knew not where to hide his head at that time, yet he durst not refuse to own, that not only his hand, but his heart also was in it ' and after he had produced divers reasons to prove the justice of it, he concluded, ' that he should desire no greater honor in this world, than that the folloing inscritption might be engraved on his tomb ; " Here lies one who had a hand and a heart in the execution of Charles Stuart late King of England.

The head of state is President Nicolas Sarkozy of France as represented by prefect Thomas Degos.

Thomas Cromwell, at the time the most powerful of the King's advisors, brought forth the Solicitor General, Richard Rich, to testify that More had, in his presence, denied that the King was the legitimate head of the church.

* body and head of Thomas More at Find A Grave

Thomas W. Miller, head of the Office of Alien Property, was put on trial and convicted of accepting bribes.

** President Franklin D. Roosevelt attends the dedication of Thomas Jefferson's head at Mount Rushmore.

* Thomas Quasthoff, an internationally acclaimed bass-baritone, who describes himself: " 1. 34 meters tall, short arms, seven fingers — four right, three left — large, relatively well-formed head, brown eyes, distinctive lips ; profession: singer "

In 1903 the 100, 000th Steinway grand piano was given as a gift to the White House ; it was decorated by the artists Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Maria Oakey Dewing under the supervision of the head of Steinway's Art Piano Department, Joseph Burr Tiffany.

At the time of Secretariat's death, the veterinarian who performed the necropsy, Dr. Thomas Swerczek, head pathologist at the University of Kentucky, did not weigh Secretariat's heart, but stated, " We just stood there in stunned silence.

Unbeknownst to Flagg, when he delivers the poison, Thomas is watching through the glass eyes of the mounted head of Roland's greatest trophy, the dragon.

This was following a serious head injury to young defender Thomas Bender in the initial tie.

As head of Yale College, Thomas Clap was both the last to be called " rector " ( 1740 – 1745 ) and the first to be referred to as president ( 1745 – 1766 ).

After Amy takes off and begins to head toward the sanctuary, Thomas hitchhikes a ride with a local group of hippies who take him to the bird sanctuary.

Fisher's head was stuck upon a pole on London Bridge but its ruddy and lifelike appearance excited so much attention that, after a fortnight, it was thrown into the Thames, its place being taken by that of Sir Thomas More, whose martyrdom, also at Tower Hill, occurred on 6 July.

Hartman helped them hire John Kundla from College of St. Thomas, to be their first head coach, by meeting with him and selling him on the team.

It was named for then head of the company, Thomas Lynch.

The assistant band director, Thomas Aungst, was the former percussion caption head for The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps until 2008, and the music department has also had ties to the Boston Crusaders in the past.

Sir Thomas More was put to death by his former student, Henry VIII, for his refusal to recognize Henry as the head of the church.

He recalled that in Rhode Island a party opposed to the state's condemnation of a man ( Thomas W. Dorr ) proclaimed the state's action as a violation of the law of the land and the principles of human liberty.

* May 19 – Dorr Rebellion: Militiamen supporting Thomas Wilson Dorr attack the arsenal in Providence, Rhode Island, but are repulsed.

A second bill was introduced to Congress by Rhode Island Representative Thomas Jenckes on February 25, 1870, and both the Senate and House passed the bill.

In the winter of 1775 and 1776, the Rhode Island Legislature put militia General William West in charge of rooting out loyalists in Newport, and several notable individuals such as Joseph Wanton and Thomas Vernon were exiled to the northern part of the state.

It was first known as Dorr Centre and it is believed to have been named for Thomas Wilson Dorr, leader of the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island.

The Thomas Fenner House, built around 1677, is one of the oldest houses in Rhode Island.

In 1914 Thomas W. Bicknell, a wealthy eastern author, historian, and Education Commissioner for Rhode Island, offered a thousand-volume library to any Utah town that would rename itself after him.

His great grandfather, Thomas Hopkins, was an original settler of Providence, sailing from England in 1635 with his first cousin, Benedict Arnold, who became the first governor of the Rhode Island colony under the Royal Charter of 1663.

" With this paper Hopkins became to Rhode Island what Samuel Adams was to Massachusetts and what Thomas Jefferson was to Virginia.

* Thomas Frye ( Rhode Island ) ( 1666 – 1748 ), Deputy Governor of colony of Rhode Island

The Dorr Rebellion ( 1841 – 1842 ) was a short-lived armed insurrection in the U. S. state of Rhode Island led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, who was agitating for changes to the state's electoral system.

Constitutional reform came to a head in 1841 when supporters of universal suffrage led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, dissatisfied with the conservative General Assembly and the state's conservative governor, Samuel Ward King, held the extralegal People's Convention, calling on Rhode Islanders to debate a new liberal constitution.

Later in the century, when the style was falling from favour in Europe, it had a surge in popularity throughout the British colonies in North America, highlighted by examples such as Drayton Hall in South Carolina, the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island, the Morris-Jumel Mansion in New York City and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Poplar Forest in Virginia.

* September 29, 2006: Superior Court Justice Thomas E. Connolly ruled " that same-sex marriage is [...] not prohibited in Rhode Island ".

She was introduced by friends to Edward Russell Thomas, a son of Union general Samuel Thomas, and owner of the New York Morning Telegraph ( and who later became the first American to kill someone in a car accident ), and married him on June 29, 1901 at Newport, Rhode Island, when she was 17.

Benson Lossing ( writing in 1856 ) claimed it was used by all the Presidents of the Congress after 1782, though only two examples from Thomas Mifflin are documented today: Lossing described a 1784 letter, and Commodore Byron McCandless ( while doing research for the 1945 seal redesign ) photographed a seal on a November 17, 1783 Mifflin letter to the Governor of Rhode Island.

Other famous Colonial alumni include the late former Rhode Island senator Claiborne Pell ' 40, famous for creation of Pell grants in 1973 ; Norman Thomas 1905, the chief Socialist in the United States and perennial Socialist candidate in every presidential election from 1928 to 1948 ; noted Princeton illustrator William B. Pell 1898 ; Eric E. Schmidt ' 76, CEO of Google ; and Wentworth Miller ' 95, star of the popular TV series Prison Break.

Thomas Tew ( died 1695 ), also known as the Rhode Island Pirate, was a 17th century English privateer-turned-pirate.

Lincoln Almond was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to Thomas Clifton Almond and Elsie ( Carter ) Almond on June 16, 1936, and grew up in Central Falls until his family moved to Lincoln in 1947.

Bishop Thomas March Clark of Rhode Island wrote:

On December 19, 1734 he married Mary Sanford of Newport, Rhode Island, the sister-in-law of Thomas Hutchinson.

* Thomas Angell ( c. 1618-1694 ), founding settler of Providence, Rhode Island