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In 1804, at the annual meeting of the North West Company in Kaministiquia, Thompson was made a full partner of the company and spent the next few seasons based there managing the fur trading operations but still finding time to expand his surveys of the waterways around Lake Superior.
In June 1807 Thompson crossed the Rocky Mountains and spent the summer surveying the Columbia basin and continuing to survey the area over the next few seasons.
Several well-known people live here, including Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, who spent nine years building an architecturally authentic, $ 200 + million Japanese feudal castle and man-made lake in Woodside ; Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel and originator of Moore's Law ; John Thompson, CEO of Symantec ; Neil Young, rock musician and songwriter, who owns a ranch and recording studio there ; Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, and her husband David E. Kelley, producer ; Thomas Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems ; Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit, Inc .; John Doerr, venture capitalist ; Dr. Carl Djerassi, novelist and member of team that developed the birth control pill ; Kenneth Fisher, founder of Fisher Investments, Forbes columnist, author, and local historian ; Susan Dawson, philanthropist ; and Joan Baez, folk singer.
After graduation, he spent 20 years working for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in both Los Angeles and New York City ; other employees of this firm during this period included Ronald Ziegler, who went on to serve as White House Press Secretary in the Nixon administration.
This book, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, profiles the gang as Thompson spent roughly a year embedded among the Angels, during a time when their notoriety was at an all time high.
Thompson spent $ 24, 000 of campaign funds fighting the charges and appealing his conviction on grounds of entrapment.
Willard was born to Josiah Flint Willard and Mary Thompson Hill Willard in Churchville, near Rochester, New York, but spent most of her childhood in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Thompson spent his early years of education at St. Paul's boarding school.
In all, they spent a total of thirty-six hours looking for Thompson.
Morrison spent much of the early 1980s touring and recording with his band The Mixers, writing the occasional Starblazer for D. C. Thompson and contributing to various UK indie titles.
Thompson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, graduated from Yale University in 1941, then spent four years in the United States Navy fighting in World War II.
* Floyd James Thompson ( 1933 – 2002 ), America's longest-held POW ; spent almost 9 years in POW camps in Vietnam
Bilton flew down and spent a long weekend with Thompson discussing the events at My Lai.
Bull played only one game in the English top flight — coming on as a substitute, replacing Andy Thompson, for West Bromwich Albion in 1986 — the rest of his career was spent in the lower divisions.
Thompson recognized that technical education was the means by which scientific knowledge could be put into action and spent the rest of his life putting his vision into practical realization.
Between 1885 and 1888 Thompson spent the majority of his time homeless, living in the Docks area south of Whitechapel.
This second stint was eventful-a spat between Thompson and striker Robbie Fowler led to the sale of the popular centre forward to Leeds United ; and Thompson spent several months in sole charge of the team ( with some success ) when Houllier underwent emergency heart surgery.
Thompson spent two weeks at the falls, preparing for his journey downriver and observing the native fishing culture.
Thompson spent the early morning hours trying to determine the enemy's numbers and disposition.
Thompson spent the next year preparing for the new book in close quarters with the Hells Angels, in particular the San Bernardino and Oakland chapters of the club and their president Ralph " Sonny " Barger.
After the war Thompson again focused on local politics in Elkhorn and was elected and served as a school trustee from 1945 to 1947, and then spent 6 years as Mayor of Elkhorn from 1947 to 1953 ( his father, Wellington John Thompson, had also been Mayor of Elkhorn in 1922, and was editor of the local newspaper, The Elkhorn Advocate ).
Thompson was captured in August in Arkansas, and spent time in St. Louis ' Gratiot Street prison, as well as at the Fort Delaware and Johnson's Island prisoner-of-war camps, (" Poor old Jeff, how my heart went out to him ; he a prisoner and his devoted wife in a madhouse ".

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On December 23, 1788, Thompson seriously fractured his leg, forcing him to spend the next two winters at Cumberland House convalescing.
A service was held in her honor at the National Cathedral in Washington, D. C., and her ashes were placed there next to her constant companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thompson.
His next cinema effort was better received as director of The Tall Guy, giving Emma Thompson a major screen role.
Joey Santiago and Black Francis ( born Charles Thompson IV ) first met when they lived next to each other in a suite while attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Her next project was Sadie Thompson, a Vernon Duke / Howard Dietz musical adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham short story, but Merman found she was unable to retain the lyrics and resigned twelve days after rehearsals began.
A studio album, Empty Rooms, was recorded with the same personnel, with Mayall's next bassist, former Canned Heat member Larry Taylor, playing bass in a duet with Thompson on " To a Princess.
Thompson retired the next month and Burke claimed the title.
Parker came along too, and the Eckstine band over the next few years would host a startling cast of jazz talent: Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Art Blakey, Lucky Thompson, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, among others.
Johnson recommended his friend Chester Thompson ( a former Frank Zappa sideman ), who joined as drummer in time for the next tour.
Thompson next investigated the insulating properties of various materials, including fur, wool and feathers.
Max Perry, along with Jo Thompson, Scott Blevins and several others, began to use ballroom rhythms and technique to take line dancing to the next level.
He is apparently destroyed at the end of the film by protagonist Nancy Thompson, but the last scene reveals that he had survived ; he went on to antagonize the teenage protagonists of the next five films in the series.
The next non-native to reach the Walla Walla region was David Thompson of the Canadian-British North West Company, who arrived in 1811.
Concerning Land of Wonder and Fear, prominent Maya archaeologist J. Eric S. Thompson commented that " to me the wonder was how he could write such nonsense and the fear how much taller the next yarn would be ".
Within the next year, Thompson took post as the Assistant Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
The last appearance of Thompson was unique in many ways: for the next few weeks, his eclipse was not only discussed at length ; equally significant, it also became a subject which refused to die off on its own.
Maggie Prescott ( Kay Thompson ) is a fashion magazine publisher and editor, for Quality magazine, who is looking for the next big fashion trend.
The party had previously chosen Andy Thompson as its leader in September 1964, with the expectation that he would lead the party in the next provincial election.
" At the next day's hearing, 9 / 11 Commission member James Thompson challenged Clarke with the 2002 account, and Clarke explained: " I was asked to make that case to the press.
Thompson Smith's mill was the second largest in the area, next to the Sage mill at Bell Ewart.
He announced in January 2009 that he would not run for re-election in the next federal election However, on April 28, 2009, Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald announced that Casey would be the senior representative for the Department of Intergovernmental Affairs in Ottawa for the province, replacing Ian Thompson.
Over the next 11 years, Thompson reformed the army and many aspects of the state, rising to high ministerial rank with Charles Theodore's backing, and becoming Count von Rumford.

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