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  2. Treasure of Lima - Wikipedia

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    Thompson and his crew proved to be unable to resist the temptation; they turned pirate, cut the throats of the guards and accompanying priests, and threw their bodies overboard. Thompson headed for Cocos Island, off the coast of present-day Costa Rica, where he and his men allegedly buried the treasure.

  3. List of United States Air Force personnel - Wikipedia

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    William Anders – Astronaut (Apollo 8 – first flight to orbit the Moon) Michael P. Anderson – Astronaut (killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster) Sunny Anderson – Radio and television personality; Keith Andes – Film, TV and stage actor; Edward Anhalt – Novelist and screenwriter; Al Anthony – Radio personality; Richard Arlen ...

  4. William Tucker (Jamestown immigrant) - Wikipedia

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    William Tucker was born in Cornwall on January 7, 1588 or in 1589. In 1610, he sailed on the Mary and James to Virginia. Tucker was married to Mary Thompson, who was born in 1599. Her father was Robert Thompson of Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire and her nephew was John Thompson, 1st Baron Haversham.

  5. John Thomason - Wikipedia

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    Thomason was born in Huntsville, Texas, the son of a physician and the grandson of Confederate General James Longstreet 's chief of staff Major T. J. Goree. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on 6 April 1917 and served until his death in 1944. In 1917 Thomason married Leda Bass; they had one son, John "Jack" W Thomason III, born in ...

  6. John Thompson (basketball) - Wikipedia

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    John Robert Thompson Jr. (September 2, 1941 – August 30, 2020) was an American college basketball coach for the Georgetown Hoyas men's team. He became the first African-American head coach to win a major collegiate championship in basketball when he led the Hoyas to the NCAA Division I national championship in 1984 .

  7. John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia

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    John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement in the decades preceding the Civil War.First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry in 1859.

  8. John Thompson (American banker) - Wikipedia

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    Known for. Founder of First National Bank and Chase National Bank. Spouse. Electa Ferris. . ( m. 1828) . Children. 6, including Frederick. John Thompson (November 27, 1802 – April 19, 1891) was an American banker, financial publisher, and dealer in bank notes.

  9. John Thompson (writer, born 1918) - Wikipedia

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    John Anderson Thompson, Jr. (June 14, 1918 – June 24, 2002) was an American professor, poet, literary critic and writer whose literary career spanned sixty years, from 1938 to 1998.

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