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.

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 ).

On 12 August the frigates HMS Emerald under Captain Thomas Moutray Waller, HMS Alcmene under Captain George Johnstone Hope and HMS Bonne Citoyenne under Captain Robert Retalick arrived off Alexandria.

* 2002 Thomas F. Hunt, Frank E. Waller

* " Ain't Misbehavin '" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas " Fats " Waller & Harry Brooks

* " Black and Blue " w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas " Fats " Waller

* " Honeysuckle Rose " w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas " Fats " Waller

* " The Minor Drag " m. Thomas " Fats " Waller

* " Willow Tree " w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas Waller from the musical Keep Shufflin '

* " Doin ' What I Please " w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas Waller

* " Blue, Turning Grey Over You " w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas " Fats " Waller

Others associated with the Cavalier tradition, according to Skelton, include Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Aurelian Townshend, William Cartwright, Thomas Randolph, William Habington, Sir Richard Fanshawe, Edmund Waller, and James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.

Thomas Waller may refer to:

* Thomas Waller ( fl. 1421-1435 ), MP for Guildford ( UK Parliament constituency )

* Thomas Waller ( died 1613 ) ( c. 1569-1613 ), MP for Dover ( UK Parliament constituency )

* Thomas M. Waller, ( 1839 – 1924 ), American politician and Governor of Connecticut

* Thomas Wathen Waller, United Kingdom ambassador to Belgium 1845 – 1846

Leading members of the group include Ben Jonson, Richard Lovelace, Robert Herrick, Edmund Waller, Thomas Carew and John Denham.

* Other candidates include Thomas Barlow ( 1607 – 1691 ), bishop of Lincoln ; Timothy Bray ( 1480 – 1539 ), abbot of Heath, Derbyshire ; and Edmund Waller ( 1606 – 1687 ), poet and politician.

Prynne was arrested by Colonel Thomas Pride and Sir Hardress Waller, and kept prisoner first at an eating-house ( called Hell ), and then at the Swan and King's Head inns in the Strand.

* By Thomas " Fats " Waller

William Waller was born in Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, the son of Sir Thomas Waller and his wife Margaret Lennard, the daughter of Lord and Lady Dacre.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

The cautious Thomas re-examined the note and then, making up his mind that it was genuine, snapped his fingers, whistled and almost danced in his exuberance.

This system was dependent upon identical maps and Thomas supplied them from a mobile lithograph press.

Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

It was the hard way to fight a war but Thomas did it without making any disastrous mistakes.

In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The fifteenth name was ( Thomas ) Baldwin, admitted to Christ's 4 March 1625 under Alsop.

The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.

The control sample was selected by taking the bottom name of each of the two columns of names on each page of the alphabetical listing of manufacturers in the Thomas Register.

The medieval was the most important to Chambers because he sought to place Thomas More, the author of Utopia, in some intelligible relation with St. Thomas More, the martyr.

The fourth and last speaker was Thomas Davis.

The First Christian Church of Pampa was the setting for the wedding last Sunday of Miss Marcile Marie Glison and Thomas Earl Loving Jr., who will live at 8861 Gaston after a wedding trip to New Orleans, La.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

Thomas was charged with four counts of assault and battery.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.