In 1977 Thompson's Belle chess machine used the endgame tablebase for a king and rook against king and queen and was able to draw that theoretically lost ending against several masters ( see Philidor position # Queen versus rook ).

Volokh also liked Thompson's position in favor of individual gun ownership.

Losing this position made the lieutenant governor's job less significant, and contributed to the " boredom " cited by Jim Thompson's first lieutenant governor, Dave O ' Neal, who resigned from the office in 1981.

He later left to serve as the receivers and backs coach for Independence High School at Thompson's Station, Tennessee as well as the athletic director, eventually ascending to his current position as head coach in 2010.

Thompson's success buoyed him into the position of leader of the Liberal Party several months later.

In Thompson's first year at Georgetown ( 2004 – 05 ), the Hoyas improved from 13 – 15 to a record of 19 – 13 and the team reached the quarterfinals of the NIT.

Due to his success in reinvigorating the club, Thompson's contract was extended until 2007 in late 2004.

By the time Channel's self-titled album was recorded in 1984 however, Thompson's former Black Rose band-mate Gary Ferguson had joined as drummer, and would later appear on Robert's solo album Dreaming in Tongues ( 2004 ).

* Audio interview with James Chace on 1912, Bill Thompson's Eye on Books, 2004.

President Diem and his brother Nhu, who oversaw the GVN side of the Program, decided — contrary to Hilsman's and Thompson's theory — that in most cases they would relocate entire villages rather than simply restructuring them.

A modellers plan website ; featuring Jonathon Thompson's plans for the 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Mille Miglia Roadster, front, rear, and RH side views, as used in Simon Moore's book, " The Immortal 2. 9 "

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Meynell's remedy for Thompson's despondent mood was typically practical.

In 1996 Weston had been acquitted of the murder of Vikki Thompson at Ascott-under-Wychwood on 12 August 1995, but following the discovery of compelling new evidence in 2009 — Thompson's blood on Weston's boots — he was arrested and tried for a second time.

Thompson's 1814 map, his greatest achievement, was so accurate that 100 years later it was still the basis for many of the maps issued by the Canadian government.

Thompson's first major work was his biography of William Morris, written while he was a member of the Communist Party.

Thompson's most influential work was and remains The Making of the English Working Class, published in 1963 while he was working at the University of Leeds.

Thompson's work was also significant because of the way he defined " class ".

Thompson's older brother William Frank Thompson ( 1920 – 1944 ), was also a member of the British Communist Party during World War Two.

Ken Thompson was very familiar with an earlier editor known as qed from University of California at Berkeley, Ken Thompson's alma mater ; he reimplemented qed on the CTSS and Multics systems, so it is natural that he carried many features of qed forward into ed.

The " Gonzo fist ," characterized by two thumbs and four fingers holding a peyote button, was originally used in Hunter S. Thompson's 1970 campaign for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado.

He described Thompson's " The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved ", which was written for the June 1970 Scanlan's Monthly, as " pure Gonzo journalism.

The poem became famous and was the source of much of Thompson's posthumous reputation.

The poem was first published in Thompson's first volume of poems in 1893.

* Thompson's poem was the inspiration for a series of 23 paintings by the American painter R. H. Ives Gammell ( 1893 – 1981 ).

According to the memoirs of Juliet Thompson, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá also compared Mary to Juliet, one of his most devoted followers, claiming that she even physically resembled her and that Mary Magdalene was Juliet Thompson's " correspondence in heaven.

When Thompson climbed back on board, Johnson drew a knife and threatened Thompson's girlfriend, who was also on board.

Thompson's last killing came at a country club in Texas in 1932 when he shot a masked figure who was holding him at gunpoint.

Jackson tried to purchase the rights to The Fantasy Trip, but Thompson's asking price of $ 250, 000 was much too high, and TFT is now out of print.

Thompson's design was outlined on September 2, 1992, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner with Rob Pike.

Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in Jack L. Warner's Brushfire ( 1961 ), and Marshall Thompson's A Yank in Viet-Nam ( 1964 ) and To the Shores of Hell ( 1966 ), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any Vietnam War films with the exception of John Wayne's The Green Berets based on the best-selling book by Robin Moore and using the theme song " Ballad of the Green Berets ".

According to this account, the 1974 variant of the text, which was published by one of Thompson's former initiates, may represent one of the earlier drafts.

Her father Ben was a skilled woodsman who managed the timber work on Thompson's plantation.

Little is known about the book, although in Thompson's obituary, The Guardian described it as " an autobiographical novel about a boy from Louisville, going to the big city and struggling against the dunces to make his way.

But then the team went on a terrible slide, losing 11 of their next 15 and finishing the season 16 – 15, the worst record in Thompson's 5 years at the helm.

Excerpts from Thompson's letters and his notes were edited and published as the fourth volume of The Natural History of Ireland, which focused on invertebrates and non-avian vertebrates, by George Dickie, James Ramsey Garrett and Robert Patterson in 1856, four years after his death.

In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Thompson to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, making McCallum governor of Wisconsin to complete Thompson's final term.

The project fell apart and while McQueen was making Le Mans Foster acquired the rights to Jim Thompson's crime novel The Getaway.

Carnacki decides to go for a voyage aboard the Jarvee, his old friend Captain Thompson's antique sailing ship, for purposes of rejuvenation, but also to investigate the ambiguous complaints of ghosts his friend had been making for some time.

Also in 1948, Wynonie Harris ' remake of Roy Brown's 1947 recording " Good Rockin ' Tonight " hit the charts in the # 2 spot, following band leader Sonny Thompson's " Long Gone " at # 1.

Davison supported BBC presenter Jonathan Ross following The Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row and criticised BBC director general Mark Thompson's decision to punish Ross, stating: " I thought Ross ’ s suspension, in particular, was utterly ludicrous.

Phyllida Law is Thompson's mother and along with Richard Briers, Imelda Staunton and Alex Lowe appeared with Branagh and Thompson in Branagh's adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing the following year.

Over the following 27 years, Thompson's Hoyas went an impressive 596 – 239 (. 714 ), running off a streak of 24 postseason appearances – 20 in the NCAA tournament, four in the NIT – including a 14-year streak of NCAA appearances from 1979 – 1992 that saw three Final Four appearances in 1982, 1984 and 1985, winning a National Championship in 1984 and narrowly missing a repeat the next year by losing to underdog Villanova.

1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, the book is a roughly 600-page collection of Thompson's essays from 1956 to the end of the 1970s, following the rise of the author's own gonzo journalism style as he moved from Air Force and sports beat-writing to straight-ahead political commentary.