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  2. Disappearance of Jim Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Thompson disappeared from Malaysia 's Cameron Highlands while going for a walk on Sunday, 26 March 1967. Prior to his disappearance, he left Bangkok to spend a day in Penang with Mrs. Constance "Connie" Mangskau, his long-time acquaintance. On Friday, 24 March, they headed for the Highlands to holiday at the "Moonlight" bungalow (now the Jim ...

  3. James R. Thompson - Wikipedia

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    James Robert Thompson Jr. (May 8, 1936 – August 14, 2020) was an American politician, lobbyist, and federal prosecutor who served as the 37th governor of Illinois from 1977 to 1991. He was Illinois's longest-serving governor, having been elected to four consecutive terms and holding the office for 14 years.

  4. Jim Thompson (designer) - Wikipedia

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    Jim Thompson House: Pond reflection of retail store. Thompson was unlike any other figure in Southeast Asia. He was an American, an ex-architect, a retired army officer, a one-time spy, a silk merchant and a renowned collector of antiques. Most of Thompson's treasures, if not all, were amassed after he came to Thailand.

  5. Barbara Thompson (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE (27 July 1944 – 9 July 2022) was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music , but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone.

  6. Thompson submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    Brigadier General John T. Thompson, who spent most of his career in the ordnance department of the U.S. Army, was the original inventor and developer of the Thompson submachine gun. He envisioned it as being a fully automatic rifle in order to replace the bolt-action service rifles then in use (such as the American M1903 Springfield ).

  7. Bill Thomas Cheetah - Wikipedia

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    William P. "Bill" Thomas was born on May 28, 1921, and lived in Anaheim, California. In 1956 Thomas commenced work tuning and modifying Chevrolet Corvettes for racing for C S Mead Motors Co. By 1960, Thomas had started his own company, Bill Thomas Race Cars. At that time General Motors approached him to undertake performance work on the new ...

  8. William Hale Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Mary Walker Wyse. . ( m. 1901) . Signature. William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as " Big Bill ", [1] he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago. Historians rank him among the most unethical ...

  9. Boxcar Bertha - Wikipedia

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    Budget. $600,000. Box office. $1.1 million [1] Boxcar Bertha is a 1972 American romantic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Roger Corman, from a screenplay by Joyce H. Corrington and John William Corrington. [2] Made on a low budget, the film is a loose adaptation of Sister of the Road, a pseudo-autobiographical ...