Thorpe first came to Lingo's defense after neighboring farmers accused the Lingo's Oorang Kennels of raising " a nation of sheep killers ".

Thorpe came to Lingo's aid by testifying that he once knew an Oorang Airedale that had saved the life of a 6-year-old girl, named Mabel, from being trampled by a bull.

It's likely that Canton's Jim Thorpe and Ralph Hay learned that Rock Island's game against the Akron Indians had drawn only 1, 700 spectators and felt that Flanigan could not deliver on his $ 5, 000 guarantee, that was money that came primariliy from the gate.

Best's first international wickets came in his second Test, the first in four-match series against England ; his maiden dismissal was that of batsman Graham Thorpe.

The Royal Small Arms Factory ( RSAF ) at Enfield started working on four designs of which two generally similar designs known as the EM-1 ( designed by Stanley Thorpe ) and the EM-2 ( the " EM " standing for Experimental Model ) came to the fore.

* Ian Keith as Bill Thorpe, Louisiana gambler

Receiving payment to participate in an event disqualified an athlete from that event, as in the case of Jim Thorpe.

According to Benjamin Thorpe " Grimm says the word embla, emla, signifies a busy woman, from amr, ambr, aml, ambl, assiduous labour ; the same relation as Meshia and Meshiane, the ancient Persian names of the first man and woman, who were also formed from trees.

Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe.

As Lewis Thorpe notes, Merlin disappears from the narrative after this ; he does not tutor and advise Arthur as in later versions.

In another attempt to get away from the ' do-wop ' glam image, Thorpe insisted that the trademark vocal harmonies were left off of his composition ' You're the Reason Why '.

Thorpe suffered from alcoholism, and lived his last years in failing health and poverty.

Later that year, Hiram Thorpe died from gangrene poisoning after being wounded in a hunting accident, and Jim again dropped out of school.

" He told a reporter from The New York World, " Thorpe is the greatest athlete that ever lived.

The only positive element of this affair for Thorpe was that, as soon as the news was reported that he had been declared a professional, he received offers from professional sports clubs.

Miller filed for divorce from Thorpe in 1925, claiming desertion.

The first notice of Thorpe in the New York Times was headlined " Indian Thorpe in Olympiad ; Redskin from Carlisle Will Strive for Place on American Team.

In 1982, Wheeler and Ridlon established the Jim Thorpe Foundation and gained support from the U. S. Congress.

A surviving example from England's thirteenth century ( The Thorpe Falchion ) was just under two pounds in weight.

from the original Old Norse text into English by Benjamin Thorpe, and The Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson Tr.

Coal mined by Lehigh Coal and Navigation in the Tamaqua and Coaldale areas was often shipped down the Lehigh Canal from Jim Thorpe in neighboring Carbon County.

* In Jim Thorpe – All-American ( 1951 ), a biopic about Native-American Olympian Jim Thorpe, newsreel footage from the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics includes Vice President Charles Curtis opening the Olympics,

Lady Thorpe, wife of Sir Henry Thorpe, the local squire, dies next morning and Wimsey hears how the Thorpe family has been blighted for 20 years by the unsolved theft of jewels from a house-guest by the butler, Deacon, and an accomplice, Cranton.

His successors were again clerics until the appointment of Robert Thorpe in 1371, probably due to pressure from Parliament.

Track and field continued to be a largely amateur sport, as this rule was strictly enforced: Jim Thorpe was stripped of his track and field medals from the 1912 Olympics after it was revealed that he had played baseball professionally.

He attended first Thorpe Infant and Junior School, and then East Ardsley Boys ' School, but entered the entertainment industry in 1933, appearing as an actor and singer in music hall.

A legend from Saterland and East Friesland, recorded by Thorpe in 1852, tells of a kobold called the Alrûn.

Billy Thorpe closed his album " Children of the Sun ... Revisited " with the song " East of Eden's Gate.

Melton Mowbray itself had six recorded crosses the construction of which spanned several centuries: ( i ) Kettleby Cross, ( close to the present Total filling station near the junction of Dalby Road to the Leicester Road ), ( ii ) Sheep Cross, on what was Spital End, ( now Nottingham Street / Park Road Junction, ( iii ) Corn Cross at the Swine Lane / Spittle End junction, ( reconstructed and reinstated on the Nottingham St / High St junction in 1996 as a memorial to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps ), ( iv ) Butter Cross or High Cross, at the west end of Beast Market ,( again reconstructed from partial remains of the original Saxon cross in 1986 / 7 in the Market Place ), ( v ) Sage Cross, at the East end of the Beast Market close to Salt gate ,( on Sherrard Street opposite Sage Cross Street ), and ( vi ) Thorpe Cross at the end of Saltgate ( near the junction of Thorps Road and Saxby Road ).

Born in East Mauch Chunk — present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania — Marzen studied at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio and was ordained in the fledgling diocese in the Hawaiian Islands in 1951 alongside his classmate, Msgr.

The stake was sold in 1998 to enable the purchase of Thorpe Park, in South East England-management of PortAventura ceased with its sale.

* James Duddridge MP for Rochford and Southend East, lives in Thorpe Bay.

It is in East Northamptonshire district and is part of the civil parish of Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe and Thorpe Achurch.

The constituency includes seven wards of the District of Broadland :- Hellesdon North West, Hellesdon South East, Old Catton and Sprowston West, Sprowston Central, Sprowston East, Thorpe St Andrew North West, Thorpe St Andrew South East ; and four wards of the City of Norwich :- Catton Grove, Crome, Mile Cross, Sewell.

Aisthorpe, or East Thorpe, was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 when it consisted of 12 households.

East Anglia's worst rail crash occurred at Thorpe St Andrew between Norwich and Brundall in 1874, killing 25 people and injuring 75.

He was named a unanimous first-team All-American, the Big East Conference Defensive Player of the Year and a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, given to the nation's best defensive back.

* Thorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire

* Thorpe le Street, East Riding of Yorkshire

* Thorpe, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire

The location was formerly known as East Thorpe House and then St. Andrews Hall.

The rear garden of the Museum of English Rural Life, with the original East Thorpe House in the centre and the new block to the left

The museum's site was originally occupied by a house known as East Thorpe, designed in 1880 by Alfred Waterhouse for Alfred Palmer ( of the Reading biscuit manufacturers Huntley & Palmers ).

Palmer was an important early benefactor of Reading University and in 1911 East Thorpe was extended to become St Andrews Hall, a hall of residence for women attending the university.