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William Tappan Thompson. William Tappan Thompson (August 31, 1812 – March 24, 1882). He co-founded the Savannah Morning News in the 1850s, known then as the Daily Morning News. One of his most notable works was Major Jones's Courtship, an epistolary novel. Thompson's best-known fictional character was Major Joseph Jones.
William Thomson Sloper (December 13, 1883 − May 1, 1955) was an American stockbroker and survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Sloper, who was 28 when the Titanic sank, traveled as a first-class passenger and was saved after boarding lifeboat #7 , the first to be launched from the vessel.
Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is a 2016 American pseudoscience propaganda film [1] : 1 [2] : 1 [3] alleging a cover-up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of a purported link between the MMR vaccine and autism. [4] [5] [6] According to Variety, the film "purports to investigate the claims of a senior scientist at the ...
Launched. 1994; 30 years ago. ( 1994) (as Urban Legends Reference Pages) Current status. Active. Snopes ( / ˈsnoʊps / ), formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website. [4] It has been described as a "well-regarded reference for sorting out myths and rumors" on the Internet.
William T. Thompson, the editor of the Savannah-based Daily Morning News also objected to the flag, due to its aesthetic similarity to the U.S. flag, which for some Confederates had negative associations with emancipation and abolitionism. Thompson stated in April 1863 that he disliked the adopted flag "on account of its resemblance to that of ...
Colonel William Thompson. Colonel Edward Hand. Colonel James Chambers. The 1st Pennsylvania Regiment - originally mustered as the 1st Pennsylvania Rifles; also known as the 1st Continental Line and 1st Continental Regiment, was raised under the command of Colonel William Thompson for service in the Continental Army .
Snopes trilogy. The Snopes trilogy is a series of three novels written by William Faulkner regarding the Snopes family in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. [1] It consists of The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion. [1] It was begun in 1940 and completed in 1959. [2]
A hungry boy named Sarty craves the stew and bread in the store. He is afraid. His father, Abner Snopes, is in court, accused of burning down Mr. Harris's barn. Sarty is called up to testify against his father, and he knows that he is going to have to lie and say his father did not burn the barn.