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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. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. John Dall - Wikipedia

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    John Dall (born John Dall Thompson; May 26, 1920 – January 15, 1971) was an American actor. Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for two film roles: the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock 's Rope (1948), and the companion of trigger-happy femme fatale Peggy Cummins in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy .

  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 Thomson (Presbyterian minister) - Wikipedia

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    John Thomson or Thompson (c. 1690–1753) was born in Ireland and became a minister in the Presbytery of Philadelphia, later the Synod of Philadelphia. He served as a missionary in both Virginia and North Carolina, where he died a natural death in 1753. He is buried in the cemetery of Centre Presbyterian Church in Mooresville, North Carolina.

  8. Killing of Ricky Cobb II - Wikipedia

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    Ricky Cobb II was killed on July 31, 2023 after being pulled over on Interstate 94 in Minneapolis for a traffic violation. During the traffic stop, a trooper found that Cobb was wanted in Ramsey County for violating a protection order.

  9. 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.

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