It need hardly be remarked that Thompson was not generally known for his scrupulosity about keeping his social engagements, which makes his irritation in this letter all the more significant.

Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Thompson, of course, was persuaded not to take the `` terrible step '' ; ;

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

Reviewing Davidson's The Testament Of An Empire Builder, for example, Thompson found that there was `` too much metrical dialectic ''.

He also met Count Rumford ( born Benjamin Thompson in Woburn, Mass. ) who was then serving the Elector of Bavaria, and the physicist Ritter ; ;

`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.

A special presentation was made to Mrs. Geraldine Thompson of Red Bank, who is stepping down after 35 years on the committee.

Ambassador Thompson reported from Moscow that the Soviet leader's mood was cocky and aggressive.

Last week, in the German city of Dusseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause.

He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.

At the opening of the Dusseldorf show, Thompson himself scarcely glanced at the treasures that he was seeing together for the last time.

Thompson writes a letter to a local Aspen newspaper informing them that, on Christmas Eve, he was going to use napalm to burn a number of dogs and hopefully any humans they find.

Granatstein and Norman Hillmer found that Mackenzie was in the # 11 place just after John Sparrow David Thompson.

British explorer David Thompson was the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River in 1811.

In the middle and late 19th century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.

Although very small amounts of berkelium were possibly produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in December 1949 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Albert Ghiorso and Stanley G. Thompson.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

Thompson, it is likely that Sidonius, whose purpose was to write a panegyric and not a history, simply added some spurious names to his list, including the Bastarnae.

It was mostly the work of Ken Thompson, with contributions from Dennis Ritchie, and first appeared circa 1969.

His older brother was William Frank Thompson ( 1919 – 1944 ), a British officer in World War II, who was captured and shot aiding the Bulgarian anti-fascist partisans.

Frank Thompson was captured and on 10 June 1944 he was executed.

She captured iconic images of the storms and migrant families, the most famous of which was a photograph entitled Migrant Mother, which depicted a gaunt-looking woman, Florence Owens Thompson, holding her three children.

Thompson was eventually captured and put on trial, but was acquitted in the shooting, as Sheriff Whitney himself, a friend to both Thompson's, stated prior to his death it was an accident.

In more recent times, younger performers such as Severina, Gibonni, Marko Perković / Thompson, Toni Cetinski, Divas, E. N. I., Lvky, Danijela, Antonija Šola and many others have captured the attention of the pop audience.

Among those captured were Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson, the two leaders of the arresting party.

In The Temples of Malplaquet, for example, Jamie Thompson ( their human protector, aged 13 ) has a dream-like vision of the episode in which Gulliver is first captured by the Lilliputians.

On May 15, 2009, 33-year-old Carlos Thompson, accused of providing the gun and ordering the killing, is captured.

He was accompanied by three other men, early in 1865, when he went on a crime spree in the north-western plains but the gang disbanded after young John Thompson was shot and captured at Millie, near Moree.

Parodying the lotion scene from The Silence of the Lambs, Joe narrowly escapes death when captured by Buffalo Bob ( Brian Thompson ).

On 23 October, he charged a machine gun position, firing at it with his Thompson submachinegun ; Kibby killed three enemy soldiers, captured 12 others and took the position.

A Blue Iguana named " Godzilla " captured on Grand Cayman in 1950 by naturalist Ira Thompson was imported to the United States in 1985 by Ramon Noegel and sold to reptile importer and breeder, Tom Crutchfield in 1990.

Ling has also been captured by the legends and masters of fashion photography including, Albert Watson, Alex Cao, Annie Leibovitz, Christophe Jouany, Christophe Kutner, Christophe Rihet, David Bailey, David Seidner, David La Chapelle, Denis Piel, Dominique Isserman, Donald Chiu, Ellen Von Unwerth, Eugenio Recuenco, Feng Hai, Francois Nars, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Gilles Bensimon, Glen Luchford, Giovanni Gastel, Irving Penn, Jean Baptiste-Mondino, John-Paul Pietrus, Leslie Kee, Marc Hom, Marco Glaviano, Mario Testino, Matthew Rolston, Max Vadukal, Michael Thompson, Michel Comte, Michelangelo di Battista, Miles Aldridge, Nadir, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Raymond Meier, Sheila Metzner, Steven Meisel, Thiemo Sander, Tom Munro, Torkil Gudnason, Troy Word, Then, Valerie Belin, Vincent Peters, Walter Chin, Wayne Maser and the legendary Richard Avedon, who photographed Ling for the prestigious Pirelli calendar in 1997.

Among the prominent Confederate generals imprisoned on Johnson's Island were Isaac R. Trimble and James J. Archer ( both captured at the Battle of Gettysburg ), William Beall, Thomas Benton Smith, Edward " Allegheny " Johnson and Missouri cavalryman M. Jeff Thompson.

Upon realizing what his men were doing Thompson ordered them to stop, keeping only weapons, equipment and horses he had already seized while paroling the captured defenders.

* Heckle G. Thompson: 24-year-old rebel engineer who defects to the Guerrillas after being captured by the Fang of the Sun.

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.

Edward Palmer Thompson ( 3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993 ) was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner.

* August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English historian and activist ( b. 1924 )

* August 19 – Fred Dalton Thompson, American politician and actor

* August 31 – Jack Thompson, Australian actor

In August 1811, three months after Fort Astor was established, David Thompson and his team of British North West Company explorers came floating down the Columbia to Fort Astoria.

Thompson was placed on the National Committee, but gave up the on third party strategy in August and supported Abraham Lincoln so as not to risk a Democratic victory in Indiana.

Original manager Matthew Katz was fired in August, sparking a long-running legal battle that continued until 1987, and Balin's friend and roommate Bill Thompson was installed as road manager and temporary band manager.

Ernest Thompson Seton ( August 14, 1860 – October 23, 1946 ) was a Scots-Canadian ( and naturalized U. S. citizen ) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA ).

The GMT correlation was chosen by John Eric Sydney Thompson in 1935 on the basis of earlier correlations by Joseph Goodman in 1905 ( August 11 ), Juan Martínez Hernández in 1926 ( August 12 ), and Thompson himself in 1927 ( August 13 ).

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford ( in ), FRS ( March 26, 1753 – August 21, 1814 ) was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.

* In July / August 2011 YAP Theatre Company staged a new adaptation of The Beggar's Opera in Swindon and London, UK, with an updated script by Matt Fox and a new musical arrangement by Jessie Thompson.

* August 28-E. P. Thompson, political historian

Thompson had stated he would drop out of the race if he did not finish either first or second in the Ames straw poll on August 11, 2007.

On August 12, Thompson officially announced he would drop out of the race.

* 21 August — John Morrissey defeats George Thompson in the 11th round at Mare Island, California and claims the Heavyweight Championship of America, which has been vacated by the now-retired Tom Hyer.

On August 20, 2012, Alabama Judge Myron H. Thompson ruled that Palmer failed to prove his claims against Infosys under state law.

The first recording session was August 26, 1946, and included Slim Gaillard, Nick Fatool, Howard McGhee, Lucky Thompson, Les Paul, and Ivy Anderson.

In 1980, Perry posted a 6 – 9 record and 3. 43 ERA in 24 games with Texas before being traded to the Yankees on August 13, 1980 for minor leaguers Ken Clay and a player to be named later ( Marvin Thompson ).

In August 1945, Thompson was about to be sent into Thailand, when the Surrender of Japan officially ended World War II.