Meanwhile, over the period 1672 – 1733, the Danish gained control of the nearby islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.

Notwithstanding the vehement protests of the Portuguese inhabitants of St Thome, the English gained absolute control over all lands up to St Thomas Mount for a period of three years.

Although he gained little popular success in his lifetime, his work was highly respected by his peers, and his friends included Dylan Thomas and Graham Greene.

It was not until 1978 when Thomas and Christoph Cremer developed the first practical confocal laser scanning microscope and the technique rapidly gained popularity through the 1980s.

The basic view of knowledge that motivated the emergence of social epistemology can be traced to the work of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault, which gained in prominence at the end of the 1960s.

Thomas, who gained 2, 113 combined rushing and receiving yards during the season, was held to just 29 combined rushing and receiving yards in the game.

Running back Thurman Thomas gained 1, 315 rushing yards and 6 touchdowns, while also catching 48 passes for 387 yards.

Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention that first gained him notice was the phonograph in 1877.

The style gained momentum in the west with the publication of views of India by William Hodges, and William and Thomas Daniell from about 1795.

In December 2007, producer Thomas Schühly ( Alexander, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ) gained the remake rights to Metropolis.

A number of writers and artists have gained some notoriety from eccentric public performances while intoxicated ; Brendan Behan and Dylan Thomas are particularly notorious in this respect.

Meanwhile, veterans such as Yuri Rasovsky ( The National Radio Theater of Chicago ) and Thomas Lopez ( ZBS Foundation ) have gained new listeners on cassettes, CDs and downloads.

The Earps hired as defense counsel an experienced trial lawyer, Thomas Fitch, who had gained a reputation as the " silver-tongued orator the Pacific.

During his absence, Regent Christine had gained control of the fortresses granted to Thomas Francis as part of the settlement of the Piedmontese Civil War ( legally, these reverted to ducal control when the Duke came of age, which under Piedmontese law Charles Emmanuel did in 1648, though his mother remained in control of the government ; Christine, accompanied by her son and part of the ducal army, entered Ivrea and dismissed Thomas ' personal garrison ; she appointed Thomas Francis instead as governor or Asti and Alba, positions which sweetened the blow but were entirely under ducal control, not guaranteed by treaty.

During his absence, Regent Christine had gained control of the fortresses granted to Thomas as part of the settlement of the Piedmontese Civil War ( legally, these reverted to ducal control when the Duke came of age, which under Piedmontese law Charles Emmanuel did in 1648, though his mother remained in control of the government ; Christine, accompanied by her son and part of the ducal army, entered Ivrea and dismissed Thomas ' personal garrison ; she appointed Thomas instead as governor or Asti and Alba, positions which sweetened the blow but were entirely under ducal control, not guaranteed by treaty.

He also gained an acquaintance with a country that would feature prominently in his writing, which he resumed upon his return to London, at the same time entering into a partnership in the Thomas Nelson & Son publishing company and becoming editor of The Spectator.

During the Elizabethan era, stories claiming that she had been murdered by Eleanor of Aquitaine gained popularity ; but the Ballad of Fair Rosamund by Thomas Deloney and the Complaint of Rosamund by Samuel Daniel ( 1592 ) are both purely fictional.

Later, Thomas Laub and Carl Nielsen each composed alternative melodies, but neither of them has gained widespread adoption, and today they are mostly unknown to the general population.

In the early 19th century, the reforming zeal of Provosts John Eveleigh and Edward Copleston gained Oriel the reputation of being the most brilliant college of the day and the centre of the " Oriel Noetics " — clerical liberals such as Richard Whately and Thomas Arnold were Fellows, and the during the 1830s, two intellectually eminent Fellows of Oriel, John Keble and The Blessed John Henry Newman, supported by Canon Pusey ( also an Oriel fellow initially, later at Christ Church ) and others, formed a group known as the Oxford Movement, alternatively as the Tractarians, or familiarly as the Puseyites.

The point of these examples, as used by Riley and Pagels, is to support the argument that the text of Thomas must have existed and have gained a following at the time of the writing of John's Gospel, and that the importance of the Thomasine logia was great enough that John felt the necessity of weaving them into his own narrative.

Despite the prestige connected with the title of Governor-General, Bencoolen was a colonial backwater whose only real export was pepper and only the murder of a previous Resident, Thomas Parr, gained it any attention back home in Britain.

Early works of biblical criticism, such as Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, as well as works by lesser-known authors such as Richard Simon and Isaac La Peyrère, paved the way for the development of critical deism.

Some five years later, in 1772, Thomas Scott, later to become a biblical commentator and co-founder of the Church Missionary Society, took up the curacy of the neighbouring parishes of Stoke Goldington and Weston Underwood.

* Thomas Mann, in his fictional biblical tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers ( 1933 – 1943 ), makes Akhenaten the " dreaming pharaoh " of Joseph's story.

Born in Gawcott, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, Scott was the son of a clergyman and grandson of the biblical commentator Thomas Scott.

Biblical scholar Thomas L. Thompson notes that the methods of " biblical archaeology " have also become outmoded: " and Albright's historical interpretation can make no claim to be objective, proceeding as it does from a methodology which distorts its data by selectivity which is hardly representative, which ignores the enormous lack of data for the history of the early second millennium, and which wilfully establishes hypotheses on the basis of unexamined biblical texts, to be proven by such ( for this period ) meaningless mathematical criteria as the ' balance of probability ' ..."

Prior to the 1995 publication of A Test of Time, Thomas L. Thompson, a theologian associated with the Copenhagen School, had insisted that any attempt to write history based on a direct integration of biblical and extra-biblical sources was " not only dubious but wholly ludicrous ".

* Thomas Huet ( died 1591 ), Welsh biblical scholar

Newton was succeeded as curate here by the biblical commentator Thomas Scott ( 1747 – 1821 ).

Thomas Wharton Collens ' Preaching is a good description of biblical sources being used with the goal of a common-property society ; Prof. José P. Miranda, "" Comunismo en la Biblia "" ( 1981 ), translated as, "" Communism in the Bible "" ( Maryknoll, N. Y .: Orbis Books, 1982 ).

In their decision consistently to apply latinate language, rather than everyday English, to render religious terminology, the Rheims – Douay translators continued a tradition established by Thomas More and Stephen Gardiner in their criticisms of the biblical translations of William Tyndale.

The biblical Thomas ( or Judas Thomas, Didymos Judas Thomas, etc.

The traditional view, personified in such archaeologists as Albright and Wright, faithfully accepted the biblical events as history, but has since been questioned by " Biblical minimalists " such as Niels Peter Lemche, Thomas L. Thompson and Philip R. Davies.

Notable former students include Thomas Walter Manson, the biblical scholar and Rylands Professor in the University of Manchester ; Lesslie Newbigin, ecumenist, bishop, scholar and pioneer of the Church of South India ; William Paton, a precursor to Newbigin and a seminal figure in modern ecumenism ; and W. D. Davies, known for his work on Paul and his Jewish background.

Thomas Newton ( 1 January 1704, Lichfield, Staffordshire-14 February 1782, London ) was an English cleric, biblical scholar and author.

The argument of natural laws as a basis for God was changed by Christian figures such as Thomas Aquinas, in order to fit biblical scripture and establish a Judeo-Christian teleological law.

The other early imprint with some connection to Crowley was a treatise on the true, biblical meaning of the Lord's supper, with a rebuttal of Thomas More's arguments in favour of the Catholic doctrines on that subject.

He holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ( Angelicum ), and a license in biblical science from the Pontifical Biblical Institute.

Samuel Bochart ( 30 May 1599-16 May 1667 ) was a French Protestant biblical scholar, a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet.

The eleventh track, " Doubting Thomas ", was written by Chris Thile and is named after Doubting Thomas, a biblical term.

* Tamás: After the biblical figure Saint Thomas.