The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.

The myth of Inanna and Dumuzi formed the subject of a Lindisfarne Symposium, published as The Story of Inanna and Dumuzi: From Folk-Tale to Civilized Literature: A Lindisfarne Symposium, ( William Irwin Thompson, editor, 1995 ).

" While at college in Massachusetts, Thompson adopted the stage name Black Francis, and formed The Pixies along with Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and David Lovering.

Adair formed a so-called " Dream Team " of active gunmen, with many of his friends from his former skinhead gang including Sam " Skelly " McCrory, Mo Courtney, " Fat " Jackie Thompson, and Donald Hodgen recruited into the unit.

Duncan and Thompson calculated that, when the spin, temperature and magnetic field of a newly formed neutron star falls into the right ranges, a dynamo mechanism could act, converting heat and rotational energy into magnetic energy, and increasing the magnetic field, normally an already enormous 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > teslas to more than 10 < sup > 11 </ sup > teslas ( or 10 < sup > 15 </ sup > gauss ).

The town was formed from parts of the Towns of Mamakating and Thompson in 1837.

Lumberland was formed from Mamakating in 1798, Thompson in 1803 and part of Forestburgh in1837.

As they approached Oosterbeek they were met by Lieutenant Colonel Sheriff Thompson, of the 1st Airlanding Light Artillery Regiment, who formed most of the men into a defensive screen under Major Robert Cain forward of his artillery positions.

The following year, he, along with Tommy DeVito, formed the Variatones ( with Hank Majewski, rhythm guitar, Frank Cattone, accordion, and Billy Thompson, drums ), which between 1954 and 1956, performed and recorded under a variety of names before settling on the name The Four Lovers.

Harriott, Goode, Hutchinson and Thompson built their careers in London, along with many other instrumentalists, such as pianist Yorke de Souza and the outstanding saxophonist Bertie King, who later returned to Jamaica and formed a mento-style band.

The Roots is an American Grammy Award winning hip hop / neo soul band formed in 1987 by Tariq " Black Thought " Trotter and Ahmir " Questlove " Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Company was formed in 1890 as Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries by the amalgamation of Banks & Co. with George Thompson & Sons and Charles Colonel Smith's Brewery.

They grew frustrated with Howard Hughes ’ management, and formed the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation in September 1953, with the financial support of Thompson Products.

At the height of the Second World War, Thompson was recruited by William Joseph Donovan to serve in the Office of Strategic Services ( which in 1947 was disbanded in place of the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency ).

Power Corporation of Canada was formed in 1925 by stockbrokers Arthur J. Nesbitt and his partner Peter A. T. Thompson.

Many progressive folk performers continued to retain a traditional element in their music, including Jansch and Renbourn, who with Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson, and Terry Cox, formed Pentangle in 1967.

It was also the home of folk musicians like Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol who formed Fairport Convention, and many artists, like Bert Jansch and Davy Graham, moved there in order to be able to pursue their careers or for the greater networks and opportunities the capital allowed.

In January 1986, Thompson formed the Pixies with Santiago.

Chase National Bank was formed in 1877 by John Thompson.

* south of Bloor, west of Prince Edward Drive formed a typical farming community dominated by the Thompson family ; sometimes called ' Thompson Estates ' by local developers.

Matthias has recently guested on the 1973 and Decadent albums by Skaville UK, and has more recently formed a new ska band with Lee Thompson from Madness called The Dance Brigade, and is currently performing in her new band 1-Stop-Experience, with Skip McDonald, Paget King and Chico Chigas.

The first known creative department in an advertising agency was formed by J. W Thompson.

With Christopher Thompson, he formed the theory around magnetars, and was awarded the Bruno Rossi Prize for this work in 2003.

Thompson was one of the principal intellectuals of the Communist Party in Great Britain.

After Nikita Khrushchev's " secret speech " to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, which revealed that the Soviet party leadership had long been aware of Stalin's crimes, Thompson ( with John Saville and others ) started a dissident publication inside the CP, called The Reasoner.

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

The famous silk merchant and fashion designer Jim Thompson mysteriously disappeared in the area, and it was also home to the Communist guerrillas who fought the British during the 1950s.

Thompson, influential historians and members of the Communist Party Historians Group, culminated in a loss of thousands of party members as events unfolded in Hungary.

In the 1950 and 60s, after working on the Universities and Left Review, Hall joined E. P. Thompson, Raymond Williams and others to launch the New Left Review in the wake of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary ( which saw many thousands of members leave the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB ) and look for alternatives to previous orthodoxies ).

Thompson believed it was these theories, which had brought on the crisis within the International Communist Movement.

* Robert G. Thompson ( 1915 – 1965 ), American World War II hero and Communist Party USA activist

Under Communist ideology, religion was discouraged by the state and Christian Missionaries left the country in what was described by Phyllis Thompson of the China Inland Mission as a " reluctant exodus ", leaving the indigenous churches to do their own administration, support, and propagation of the faith.

Samuel was awarded a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford where he became a member of the Communist Party Historians Group, alongside Christopher Hill, E. P. Thompson and others.

The Marxist historians included members of the Communist Party Historians Group, including E. P. Thompson, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, Rodney Hilton, and Dona Torr.

Phyllis Thompson wrote that between 1949 and 1952, after the victory of the Communist armies, there was a “ reluctant exodus ” of all of the members of the China Inland Mission.

According to Dr Rupert Thompson, the Orator of The University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party.

Dayton was founded on April 1, 1796, seven years before the admission of Ohio to the Union in early 1803, by a group of 12 settlers known as " The Thompson Party.

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

Over the years, Francis Coppola has given political contributions to several candidates of the Democratic Party, including Mike Thompson, Nancy Pelosi for the U. S. House of Representatives and Barbara Boxer and Alan Cranston for the U. S. Senate.

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Following the defeat of the longstanding Liberal government in 1982, Kennett was the leading candidate to replace Lindsay Thompson, and on 26 October, he was elected Leader of the Liberal Party, despite being the youngest member of the outgoing Cabinet.

During the 1850s Thompson and some of his fellow Whigs ( such as his friend Schuyler Colfax ) transferred allegiance to the American Party, better known as the Know Nothing Party.

In time Thompson and his allies would allow an alliance of their portion of the Whig Party ( which was collapsing with the American Party to prevent victories in elections by the Democratic Party.

In the election of 1860 Thompson was his state's leader of those who organized the Constitutional Union Party.

* David Thompson ( Scottish politician ) ( born 1949 ), Scottish National Party member of the Scottish Parliament for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

From 1800 to 1814, the couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins ( born July 31, 1800 ), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and ( Mangle ) Minthorne Tompkins ( December 26, 1807 – June 5, 1881 ), who was the Free Soil Party candidate for Governor of New York in 1852.

* Anastasy Vonsyatsky ( 1898 – 1965 ), Russian anti-Bolshevik émigré and fascist leader of the All Russian National Revolutionary Party ; lived in and is buried in Thompson

* Jill Long Thompson, 2008 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of Indiana

His brother, Ed Thompson is a former Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin, and was the Libertarian Party nominee for Governor of Wisconsin in 2002.

* Helene Thompson in three episodes of Party of Five ( 1995 – 1999 )

He defeated incumbent Governor Scott McCallum by a margin of 45 percent to 41 percent ; the Libertarian Party candidate Ed Thompson carried 10 percent of the vote.

Gibson interviews Republican Party ( United States ) | Republican former United States Senate | U. S. Senator Fred Thompson during Thompson's unsuccessful Republican Party ( United States ) presidential candidates, 2008 | campaign for the Republican Party's 2008 U. S. presidential nomination, September 25, 2007.