Arthur Shaw, Earl Thompson, Edwin Myers, Marc Wright, Adam Nelson, Gerry Ashworth, and Vilhjálmur Einarsson have all won medals in track and field events.

An influential arena for the great split screen movies of the 1960s were two world's fairs-the 1964 New York World's Fair, where Ray and Charles Eames had a 17-screen film they created for IBM's " Think " Pavilion ( it included sections with race car driving ) and the 3-division film To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson, which won the Academy Award that year for Best Short.

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

The first was in 1910 when a man called Jim Johnson accused him of cheating at dice and threw him off the boat on which they were traveling ( and which Thompson had recently won when gambling with its previous owner-a friend of Johnson's ).

Thompson began his political career in 1900, when he ran for and narrowly won a position as alderman of the 2nd Ward.

But the biggest achievement of Hird's coaching career would no doubt have to be the win over the previously undefeated ( a win by four points ) in Round 15, whom assistant coach Mark Thompson was coaching against for the first time since his infamous and controversial exit from the club which he coached for 11 years and won two premierships with.

Emma Thompson is the only winner who has also won for acting.

Thompson won re-election in 2006 and again in 2010, making him the first Republican to win election in a Knott County office.

Mrs. Lizzie P. Thompson filled her husband's seat from 1951 – 1952, when it was won by E. D.

After having won the three big air racing trophies of the time, the Schneider, Bendix, and Thompson, he officially retired from air racing stating, " I have yet to hear anyone engaged in this work dying of old age.

He lost once more to Thompson in their rematch and then controversially drew with him in their rubber match, in a bout that many people thought Ketchel had won.

On April 5, 2005, Thompson won an unexpected victory in the common council election in Tomah, Wisconsin.

Thompson won re-election to a second term defeating Democrat Thomas Loftus, the Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 58 %- 42 %.

Thompson won re-election to a third term defeating Democrat State Senator Chuck Chvala 67 %- 31 %.

Thompson won re-election to a fourth term defeating Democrat Ed Garvey, the Wisconsin Deputy Attorney General, 60 %- 39 %.

Thompson won by unanimous decision, but the closeness of the fight was reflected in the scoring, with two of the three judges giving the fight to Thompson by a single point.

The Third Round saw Woking draw 1 – 1 away to Premier League side Coventry City, thanks to a last minute equaliser from the Cards ' Steve Thompson, but Coventry won the replay at Kingfield 2 – 1.

Years later, Caouette claimed that he would have won, but Manning told him to tell the Quebec delegates to vote for Thompson because the West would never accept a Francophone Catholic as party leader.

With the support of both Manning and PC leader Robert Stanfield, Thompson sought and won the PC nomination in his electoral district ( riding ) once the June 1968 federal election was called.

He won the congressional seat in a special election called when the incumbent, T. Ashton Thompson of Ville Platte, was killed in an automobile accident.

Hall sold the Falcons for a ' nominal ' sum in 1999 to current owner Dave Thompson and since then Newcastle have won two Powergen Cups: in 2001 the Falcons beat Harlequins F. C.

The party won only four seats in the rest of Canada, forcing Thompson to appoint Caouette as the party's deputy leader.

In the 1965 election, Caouette's Ralliement won nine seats, while Social Credit led by Thompson won five seats.

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

Though the Phillies moved into a permanent home at Baker Bowl in 1887, they did not win their first pennant until nearly 30 years later, after the likes of standout players Billy Hamilton, Sam Thompson, and Ed Delahanty had departed.

The theory is based on an interpretation of demographic history developed in 1929 by the American demographer Warren Thompson ( 1887 – 1973 ).

In 1887 co-founder John R. Thompson, consulting with Mr. McDowell, wrote the ritual for the Seventh Degree.

* William Robin Thompson ( 1887 – 1972 ), Canadian biologist

1887 ), a Romanesque Revival-style home now in use as a sensory teaching and learning center and the visual communications department, is one of a handful of remaining examples of the work of H. C. Thompson, arguably Tennessee's most celebrated native architect.

While in Paris, Zorach met Marguerite Thompson ( 1887 – 1968 ), a fellow art student of American nationality, whom he would marry on December 24, 1912, in New York City.

* Warren Thompson ( 1887 – 1973 ), demographer, see demographic transition

Webb married Emma Clary on April 23, 1873 and together they produced eight children: William Robert, Jr. ( 1874 – 1960 ), Alla ( 1875 – 1944 ), John Stanford ( 1877 – 1951 ), Adeline ( 1879 – 1968 ), Daniel Clary ( 1881 – 1954 ), Susan ( 1882 – 1980 ), Emma ( 1884 – 1973 ), and Thompson ( 1887 – 1975 ).

A farmer's widow, Mrs Thompson, died in 1887 leaving a plot of land on the High Street and a bequest of £ 10, 000 for the construction of a church.

In 1887 Joseph Thompson bought 86 acres of land in Lorne Park which became known as Thompson ’ s Wood ( now called Jack Darling Park ).

** Robby Thompson ( San Francisco NL, 2B )

The Wolverines, behind the bats of Brouthers, Thompson and Richardson, led the League in batting, runs scored and slugging, and went on to face the St. Louis Browns in a best-of-15 post-season tournament, the " World's Series ".

After a healthy. 306, 6 HR, 91 RBI season in 1892, Delahanty blossomed in 1893 with. 368, 19 HRs and 146 RBIs, narrowly missing the Triple Crown ( teammates Billy Hamilton and Sam Thompson led the league in batting with. 380 and. 370 respectively ).

Born in Bedford, Ohio, Flick joined the Philadelphia Phillies in 1898, filling in for the injured Sam Thompson, and proved himself a capable big leaguer, batting. 302 with 8 home runs, 13 triples and 81 RBIs.

The impact of Barlow and Hornby was such that their batting partnership was immortalised in the poem At Lord's by Francis Thompson.

Thompson enjoyed his most consistent years from 1889 until, only missing the 100 RBI plateau once ( with 90, in ) and 100 runs plateau once ( with 99 in ) while batting. 407 in 1894 and leading the league in home runs in and ( with 20 and 18 respectively ).

All four Philadelphia outfielders ended the season with a batting average better than. 400 ( Tuck Turner at. 416, Thompson and Ed Delahanty at. 407, and Billy Hamilton at. 404 ).

With regular first baseman Dan Meyer batting. 192 with only two RBIs, the Tigers gave the job to Thompson early into the season.

Despite batting just. 218, Thompson led the Tigers with seventeen home runs and was third on the club with 54 RBIs.

In, Thompson was batting. 276 with twelve home runs and 65 RBIs at the All-Star break to gain selection to the AL squad, but he did not appear in the game.

Now part of a team he was never intended to be part of, Thompson got off to a slow start with the Pirates, batting. 171 with seven home runs and seventeen RBIs in the first half of the strike shortened season.

Thompson continued his hot hitting into, hitting thirteen home runs and batting. 354 through the month of May to earn the third All-Star nod of his career.

Thompson remained with the Pirates through, batting. 259 with 93 home runs and 354 RBIs in his five seasons with the club.

Whilst he showed some decline as a bowler in 1914, Thompson batted better than ever, and it was a great pity for Northamptonshire that serious injuries prevented him playing at all until 1921, when he had lost his bowling completely but retained some of his batting skill.

In the years before 1893, among players with at least 2500 career at bats, his batting average of. 341 ranked behind only Dan Brouthers (. 343 ) and Dave Orr (. 342 ), with his slugging mark of. 467 trailing only those of Brouthers (. 520 ), Orr (. 502 ), Roger Connor (. 488 ) and Sam Thompson (. 468 ).

Barlow will be best remembered for his batting partnership with A N Hornby, which was immortalised in nostalgic poetry by Francis Thompson.

Despite his rocky start, Thompson ended the season with a. 271 batting average as the Giants leadoff hitter and provided steady defense.

Brett Butler took over as the Giants leadoff hitter and Thompson, as the new number two hitter in the batting order, struggled to make contact, striking out 111 times and ending the year with a. 264 average.

Thompson ended the season with career highs in batting average (. 312 ), doubles ( 30 ), home runs ( 19 ) and runs batted in ( 65 ).

During spring training in 1994, Thompson received a scare when he was hit on the left ear flap of his batting helmet by pitcher Mike Harkey of the Colorado Rockies.

In an eleven-year major league career Thompson played in 1, 304 games, accumulating 1, 187 hits in 4, 612 at bats for a. 257 career batting average along with 119 home runs, 458 runs batted in and a. 329 on base percentage.