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  2. Hunter S. Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He rose to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels (1967), a book for which he spent a year living with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences. In 1970, he wrote an unconventional ...

  3. William Thomson - Wikipedia

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    William McKenzie Thomson (1898–1987), Canadian World War I pilot; Politics. William Thompson (Ipswich MP), Solicitor General for England and Wales, 1717–1720; William Alexander Thomson (1816–1878), Canadian author and politician; William Thomson (politician) (1818–1866), Member of Parliament in Christchurch, New Zealand

  4. William Thompson (New South Wales politician) - Wikipedia

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    William Thompson (22 January 1862 – 6 October 1937) was an Australian politician. He was born in Queanbeyan to surveyor James Banford Thompson and Margaret Carroll. From 1878 to 1885 he was a clerk in the Colonial Architect's office, before becoming a quantity surveyor and moving to Ryde in 1898. On 4 March 1885 he had married Florence Single ...

  5. Lord Kelvin - Wikipedia

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    Lord Kelvin. It is believed the "PNP" in his signature stands for "Professor of Natural Philosophy". Kelvin also wrote under the pseudonym "P. Q. R." William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) [7] was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. [8]

  6. Thompson (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Thompson (surname) Thompson is a surname of English, Irish and Scottish origin which is a variant of Thomson, meaning 'son of Thom'. [2] An alternative origin may be geographical, arising from the parish of Thompson in Norfolk. [3] During the Plantation period, settlers carried the name to Ireland.

  7. Geoff Thompson (politician) - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey William Fleetwood Thompson. ( 1940-06-11) 11 June 1940 (age 83) Wellington, New Zealand. Political party. National. Profession. Barrister and solicitor. Geoffrey William Fleetwood Thompson CNZM (born 11 June 1940) is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party .

  8. John Thompson (politician, born 1861) - Wikipedia

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    John William Howard Thompson (1861-17 October 1959) was a British Liberal Party politician, solicitor and soldier. Background [ edit ] He was educated at Carshalton and Whitgift School , Croydon .

  9. William Irwin Thompson - Wikipedia

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    William Irwin Thompson (July 16, 1938 – November 8, 2020) was an American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet. He received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986. He described his writing and speaking style as "mind-jazz on ancient texts". He was the founder of the Lindisfarne Association, which proposed the study and ...