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284d2007d47a867d8e53d1aca7bb23ec | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Edison | Thomas Edison | Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison, in full Thomas Alva Edison, (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio, U.S.—died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world-record 1,093 patents. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial research laboratory.
Thomas Alva Edison ... |
4fb54ebf10c5f52acae07fb3afd036d6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Egerton-Viscount-Brackley | Thomas Egerton, Viscount Brackley | Thomas Egerton, Viscount Brackley
Thomas Egerton, Viscount Brackley, (born c. 1540—died March 15, 1617, London, England), English lawyer and diplomat who secured the independence of the Court of Chancery from the common-law courts, thereby formulating nascent principles of equitable relief.
Educated at Brasenose Colle... |
b735876a6d0dc6b3242a8bb8f6afcc27 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Elyot | Sir Thomas Elyot | Sir Thomas Elyot
Sir Thomas Elyot, (born c. 1490—died March 26, 1546, Carleton, Cambridgeshire, Eng.), English author and administrator, memorable for his championship and use of English prose for subjects then customarily treated in Latin. Both as a philosopher and as a lexicographer, he endeavoured to “augment our ... |
f7ef6617b14a0eefcc8487750b90f7f1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Erskine-1st-Baron-Erskine | Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine | Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, (born January 10, 1750, Edinburgh, Scotland—died November 17, 1823, Almondell, Linlithgowshire), British Whig lawyer who made important contributions to the protection of personal liberties. His defense of various politicians and reformers on charge... |
12b839c203c3580faaad3c8fcc181236 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Francis-Eagleton | Thomas Francis Eagleton | Thomas Francis Eagleton
…dynamic junior senator from Missouri, Thomas F. Eagleton. In the flurry to get the ticket set, McGovern aides had made only a cursory check of Eagleton’s background, and the senator himself assured them in a hurried telephone conversation that he had “no skeletons in his closet.” Within two wee... |
dc278faf6fe46a15c74f10539aebd888 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Frederick-Tout | Thomas Frederick Tout | Thomas Frederick Tout
Thomas Frederick Tout, (born Sept. 28, 1855, London, Eng.—died Oct. 23, 1929, London), English historian and teacher who specialized in medieval studies and, with James Tait, was a founder of the Manchester school of historiography, which stressed the importance of records and archives.
Tout tau... |
5a1b451e400e45fbe0543fabca56fc39 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Fuller | Thomas Fuller | Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller, (born June 19, 1608, Aldwincle, Northamptonshire, Eng.—died Aug. 16, 1661, London), British scholar, preacher, and one of the most witty and prolific authors of the 17th century.
Fuller was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge (M.A., 1628; B.D., 1635). Achieving great repute in the pul... |
75b04d21ac514e16089ca4e41a1e621a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Girtin | Thomas Girtin | Thomas Girtin
Thomas Girtin, (born Feb. 18, 1775, London, Eng.—died Nov. 9, 1802, London), British artist who at the turn of the 19th century firmly established the aesthetic autonomy of watercolour (formerly used mainly to colour engravings) by employing its transparent washes to evoke a new sense of atmospheric spa... |
b2f02d6f85afa936fbe5a1df2f6ea1ed | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Gold | Thomas Gold | Thomas Gold
Thomas Gold, (born May 22, 1920, Vienna, Austria—died June 22, 2004, Ithaca, New York, U.S.), Austrian-born British astronomer who promulgated the steady-state theory of the universe, holding that, although the universe is expanding, a continuous creation of matter in intergalactic space is gradually formi... |
296c8bd808521d3dc07bb6143d71d542 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hancock | Thomas Hancock | Thomas Hancock
Thomas Hancock, (born May 8, 1786, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Eng.—died March 26, 1865, London), English inventor and manufacturer who founded the British rubber industry. His chief invention, the “masticator,” worked rubber scraps into a shredded mass of rubber that could be formed into blocks or rolled ... |
c85f08d2572edb41c32aaa0cf9cae0f4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hardy/Late-novels | Late novels | Late novels
The closing phase of Hardy’s career in fiction was marked by the publication of Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895), which are generally considered his finest novels. Though Tess is the most richly “poetic” of Hardy’s novels, and Jude the most bleakly written, both books offer deepl... |
dd9729a47ecf1efb015bafb121f1fb4f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hart-Benton-American-writer-and-politician | Thomas Hart Benton | Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton, (born March 14, 1782, near Hillsborough, North Carolina, U.S.—died April 10, 1858, Washington, D.C.), American writer and Democratic Party leader who championed agrarian interests and westward expansion during his 30-year tenure as a senator from Missouri.
After military service ... |
6989e071645866a37bd14f90c5ead873 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hearns | Thomas Hearns | Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns, also called Tommy Hearns, bynames the Hitman and the Motor City Cobra, (born October 18, 1958, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.), American boxer who became, in 1987, the first person to win world titles in four weight divisions. Renowned as a devastating puncher (rather than as a boxer who relied ... |
376bff9d47d9e71bce2c9fa828ac3a51 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hooker | Thomas Hooker | Thomas Hooker
Thomas Hooker, (born probably July 7, 1586, Markfield, Leicestershire, England—died July 7, 1647, Hartford, Connecticut [U.S.]), prominent British American colonial clergyman known as “the father of Connecticut.” Seeking independence from other Puritan sects in Massachusetts, Thomas Hooker and his follow... |
ecede75e957cf5547c650b550c7a7a2d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-J-Pendergast | Thomas J. Pendergast | Thomas J. Pendergast
Thomas J. Pendergast, (born July 22, 1872, St. Joseph, Mo., U.S.—died Jan. 26, 1945, Kansas City, Mo.), U.S. politician who created a powerful political machine in Missouri. Critics of Pres. Harry S. Truman frequently linked his name with Pendergast, a former associate.
Pendergast went to Kansas ... |
7c079017d619164a8a809cc2ef7ed6d6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-J-Sargent | Thomas J. Sargent | Thomas J. Sargent
Thomas J. Sargent, in full Thomas John Sargent, (born July 19, 1943, Pasadena, California, U.S.), American economist who, with Christopher A. Sims, was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Economics. He and Sims were honoured for their independent but complementary research on how changes in macroeconomi... |
802db892fb3106618b7898bbf4ad5230 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-James-Wise | Thomas James Wise | Thomas James Wise
Thomas James Wise (1859–1937) had the reputation of being one of the most distinguished private book collectors on either side of the Atlantic, and his Ashley Library in London became a place of pilgrimage for scholars from Europe and the United States. He constantly exposed…
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1a012e3b282e7db371d4a7434686dba3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-John-Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo
Thomas John Barnardo, (born July 4, 1845, Dublin, Ire.—died Sept. 19, 1905, Surbiton, Surrey, Eng.), pioneer in social work who founded more than 90 homes for destitute children. Under his direction, the children were given care and instruction of high quality despite the then unusual policy of u... |
960c7265319e77018d5fb130339ed482 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-King-writer-and-photographer | Thomas King | Thomas King
Thomas King, pseudonym Hartley GoodWeather, (born April 24, 1943, Roseville, California, U.S.), novelist, short-story writer, essayist, screenwriter, and photographer who is a Member of the Order of Canada and was nominated for the Governor General’s Awards. He is often described as one of the finest conte... |
96997bbdbeacb4f214593ead62908bd3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Linacre | Thomas Linacre | Thomas Linacre
Thomas Linacre, (born c. 1460, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.—died Oct. 20, 1524, London), English physician, classical scholar, founder and first president of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
Educated at the University of Oxford (1480–84), Linacre traveled extensively through Italy (1485–97), studyi... |
ff4bdc9ea9cfd612b6a713c32fe7f4b1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Loe | Thomas Loe | Thomas Loe
In Ireland William heard Thomas Loe, a Quaker itinerant, preach to his family at the admiral’s invitation, an experience that apparently intensified his religious feelings. In 1660 William entered the University of Oxford, where he rejected Anglicanism and was expelled in 1662 for his religious Nonconformity... |
4d04237f4e8c4f2f7c8a0169a5cb7880 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-May | Thomas May | Thomas May
Thomas May, (born 1595—died Nov. 13, 1650, London), English man of letters known for his historical defense of the English Parliament in its struggle against King Charles I.
After graduating from Cambridge, May began the study of law at Gray’s Inn (1615). He later abandoned law for literature. The Heir (162... |
29046b8a998e28bc22a34c769bf3d624 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Mayhew | Thomas Mayhew | Thomas Mayhew
Purchased by Thomas Mayhew in 1641 and settled the following year, it was considered part of New York but was ceded in 1692 to Massachusetts. In 1695 it was incorporated into Dukes county (along with the Elizabeth Islands [west], Chappaquiddick Island [east], and the island called Nomans…
… Iroquois and t... |
d82cce990fab7b337e328ae3085eb5d6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-McGuane | Thomas McGuane | Thomas McGuane
Thomas McGuane, in full Thomas Francis McGuane III, (born December 11, 1939, Wyandotte, Michigan, U.S.), American author noted for his picaresque novels of violent action set amid rural landscapes.
McGuane attended the University of Michigan, Olivet (Michigan) College, Michigan State University (B.A., 1... |
f863e7219b6f22f2a4ec43ceeb0240a9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Minton | Thomas Minton | Thomas Minton
, by Thomas Minton, who popularized the famous so-called Willow pattern. In the 1820s he started production of bone china; this early Minton is regarded as comparable to French Sèvres, by which it was greatly influenced.
…at Stoke-upon-Trent in 1793 by Thomas Minton, a Caughley engraver said to have devis... |
a007b4969003c557eb7d2055d0bc2364 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Moore | Thomas Moore | Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore, (born May 28, 1779, Dublin, Ire.—died Feb. 25, 1852, Wiltshire, Eng.), Irish poet, satirist, composer, and political propagandist. He was a close friend of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The son of a Roman Catholic wine merchant, Moore graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1799 a... |
af251d4b5a81b05a33044df7d91f9c36 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Morris | Thomas Morris | Thomas Morris
Thomas Morris , byname Old Tom, (born June 17/26, 1821, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland—died May 1908, St. Andrews), Scottish golfer who won the Open Championship (British Open) tournament four times.
Morris spent most of his life at St. Andrews as a professional player and greenskeeper (1863–1903). During h... |
8f4f5b82d203573ea4c6d2ab2a37da8f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Morton | Thomas Morton | Thomas Morton
Thomas Morton, (born c. 1590—died c. 1647, Province of Maine [U.S.]), one of the most picturesque of the early British settlers in colonial America, who ridiculed the strict religious tenets of the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
He arrived in Massachusetts in 1624 as one of the owners of the Wollaston Compan... |
18b9d4bd56ae8ba5f93197e06694e417 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Mowbray-1st-Duke-of-Norfolk | Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of Norfolk | Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of Norfolk
Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of Norfolk, (born c. 1366—died Sept. 22, 1399, Venice [Italy]), English lord whose quarrel with Henry of Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford (later King Henry IV, reigned 1399–1413), was a critical episode in the events leading to the overthrow of King Richard II... |
4cf799019d885c9bd1ed0b2ac0a11b8b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Nabbes | Thomas Nabbes | Thomas Nabbes
Thomas Nabbes, (born 1605, Worcestershire, Eng.—buried April 6, 1641, London), English dramatist and writer of verse, one of a number of lesser playwrights of the period. He is perhaps best known for his masques.
Nabbes attended Exeter College, Oxford, in 1621, but he left the university without taking a... |
a55ec941856101e8229ab8027b9c4054 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-North | Sir Thomas North | Sir Thomas North
Sir Thomas North, (born May 28, 1535, London, Eng.—died 1601?), English translator whose version of Plutarch’s Bioi parallēloi (Parallel Lives) was the source for many of William Shakespeare’s plays.
North may have been a student at Peterhouse, Cambridge; in 1557 he was entered at Lincoln’s Inn, Lond... |
664c28074d708964e63ac4fb1b09f72e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Osborne-1st-duke-of-Leeds | Thomas Osborne, 1st duke of Leeds | Thomas Osborne, 1st duke of Leeds
Thomas Osborne, 1st duke of Leeds, in full Thomas Osborne, 1st duke of Leeds, marquess of Carmarthen, earl of Danby, Viscount Latimer of Danby, Viscount Osborne of Dunblane, Baron Osborne of Kiveton, also called (1647–73) Sir Thomas Osborne, 2nd Baronet, (born February 20, 1632—died J... |
cb2f38e1cf6d0d70858c1fff01c738be | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Paine/In-Europe-Rights-of-Man | In Europe: Rights of Man | In Europe: Rights of Man
In April 1787 Paine left for Europe to promote his plan to build a single-arch bridge across the wide Schuylkill River near Philadelphia. But in England he was soon diverted from his engineering project. In December 1789 he published anonymously a warning against the attempt of Prime Minister W... |
d133fe62e5c60eedcb53f37d1897ad39 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Percy-Earl-of-Worcester | Thomas Percy, earl of Worcester | Thomas Percy, earl of Worcester
Thomas Percy, earl of Worcester, (born c. 1344—died July 23, 1403), English noble, brother of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, and uncle of Sir Henry Percy, called “Hotspur,” and a party to their rebellions against Henry IV of England.
Thomas Percy served with distinction in Fr... |
69e3bed6ab83af937e07777eced81d31 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Pinckney | Thomas Pinckney | Thomas Pinckney
Thomas Pinckney, (born Oct. 23, 1750, Charleston, S.C. [U.S.]—died Nov. 2, 1828, Charleston), American soldier, politician, and diplomat who negotiated Pinckney’s Treaty (Oct. 27, 1795) with Spain.
After military service in the American Revolutionary War, Pinckney, a younger brother of the diplomat Ch... |
3dffb05f0e01bc5c2f9435422300f43e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Pitt | Thomas Pitt | Thomas Pitt
Thomas Pitt, byname Diamond Pitt, (born July 5, 1653, Blandford St. Mary, Dorset, Eng.—died April 28, 1726, Swallowfield, Berkshire), British merchant whose involvement in the East India trade brought him into conflict with the British East India Company; later, the company made him governor of Madras, Ind... |
ac878b51cbb9ef2b6928721318e81933 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Platter | Thomas Platter | Thomas Platter
Thomas Platter, (born Feb. 10, 1499, Grächen, Switz.—died Jan. 26, 1582, Basel), Swiss writer and humanist known for his autobiography.
After years of hardship, spent as a goatherd in the Alps and as a scholar’s assistant in Germany, Platter was initiated at Zürich into Huldrych Zwingli’s teachings and... |
5a020f53851afee5d427e62ef0684e09 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Rymer | Thomas Rymer | Thomas Rymer
Thomas Rymer, (born 1641, near Northallerton, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Dec. 14, 1713, London), English literary critic who introduced into England the principles of French formalist Neoclassical criticism. As historiographer royal, he also compiled a collection of treaties of considerable value to the mediev... |
b6186628d5f44e4d4db9d8b09826f9a2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Sheridan | Thomas Sheridan | Thomas Sheridan
Thomas Sheridan, (born 1719, Dublin, Ire.—died Aug. 14, 1788, Margate, Kent, Eng.), Irish-born actor and theatrical manager and father of the dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
While an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin, Sheridan wrote a farce, The Brave Irishman, or Captain O’Blunder, and af... |
6cbfc0b551db242e7858ddffe8a3775a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Spencer-Monson | Thomas Spencer Monson | Thomas Spencer Monson
Thomas Spencer Monson, (born August 21, 1927, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.—died January 2, 2018, Salt Lake City), American religious leader who was the 16th president (2008–18) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), also known as the Mormon church.
Monson was the second of six ch... |
2959de9bfbeb3dabb84b0539ff5ced1d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Stanley-1st-earl-of-Derby | Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of Derby | Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of Derby
Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of Derby, also called (1459–85) 2nd Baron Stanley, (born c. 1435—died July 29, 1504, Lathom, Lancashire, England), a prominent figure in the later stage of England’s Wars of the Roses.
Great-grandson of Sir John Stanley (died c. 1414), who created the fortunes... |
02d38c1ab758cf4fa55b568dcb0c8330 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Struth | Thomas Struth | Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, (born 1954, Geldern, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany), German photographer known best for his series Museum Photographs, monumental colour images of people viewing canonical works of art in museums. His photographs are characterized by their lush colour and extreme attention to detail... |
092a2b59536f8c90fc24494bb1f09342 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Tooke | Thomas Tooke | Thomas Tooke
Thomas Tooke, (born Feb. 29, 1774, Kronshtadt, near St. Petersburg, Russia—died Feb. 26, 1858, London, Eng.), British financier and economist who championed free trade.
Tooke was in business throughout most of his adult life, beginning in St. Petersburg at the age of 15 and finally retiring as governor o... |
629fc757c2ef859703574d3ed71960cb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Warner | Sir Thomas Warner | Sir Thomas Warner
…who were sent there by Sir Thomas Warner, the first British governor of Saint Kitts. More Irish immigrants subsequently arrived from Virginia. Plantations were set up to grow tobacco and indigo, followed eventually by cotton and sugar. The early settlers were repeatedly attacked by French forces and ... |
db5ccd8acb07c08119bc80e69daf898c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Wentworth-1st-Earl-of-Strafford | Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford | Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford
Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford, also called (1611–28) Sir Thomas Wentworth, or (from 1628) Viscount Wentworth, Baron Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, Baron of Newmarch and Oversley, (born April 13, 1593, London—died May 12, 1641, London), leading adviser of England’s ... |
f02a3cf5473dbd42fcd2fded6a46fe3a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Whieldon | Thomas Whieldon | Thomas Whieldon
…Staffordshire, joined in 1754 with Thomas Whieldon of Fenton Low, Staffordshire, probably the leading potter of his day. This became a fruitful partnership, enabling Wedgwood to become a master of current pottery techniques. He then began what he called his “experiment book,” an invaluable source on St... |
d38dc56738cba2c7b3e257ffdefe5e00 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-William-Lamont | Thomas William Lamont | Thomas William Lamont
Thomas William Lamont, (born Sept. 30, 1870, Claverack, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 2, 1948, Boca Grande, Fla.), American banker and financier who began his career by reorganizing corporations and went on to help establish financial stability in countries around the world.
Lamont graduated from Harvard... |
73f4aa21754dec413f40b975c755633f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Wilson-British-bishop | Thomas Wilson | Thomas Wilson
Bishop Thomas Wilson’s Principles and Duties of Christianity appeared in English and Manx in 1699, and 22 of his sermons appeared in a Manx translation in 1783. More interesting are Pargys Caillit, the paraphrase translation of Milton’s Paradise Lost, which was published in 1794 and reprinted…
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eef6791de78c6f739d4be66e6657a618 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Wilson-English-politician | Sir Thomas Wilson | Sir Thomas Wilson
…second holder of this office, Sir Thomas Wilson, established the division of the state papers into foreign and domestic. As departments of state proliferated during the 18th and 19th centuries, they developed their own archives. In 1838 all the public legal archives were placed in a Public Record Off... |
37008e23481477db46c4e043bace23ae | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Winter | Thomas Winter | Thomas Winter
…together with his four coconspirators—Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Guy Fawkes—were zealous Roman Catholics angered by James’s refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. They apparently hoped that the confusion that would follow the murder of the king, his ministers, and the... |
b8c3e284df8bc3e286e4cf08063de631 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Witherings | Thomas Witherings | Thomas Witherings
” Thomas Witherings, a London merchant, was given the task of organizing regular services to run by day and night along the great post roads.
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10a754fe2f56a8fbfa4b38ef115e2201 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Woolston | Thomas Woolston | Thomas Woolston
Thomas Woolston, (born 1670, Northampton, Northamptonshire, Eng.—died Jan. 27, 1733, London), English religious writer and Deist.
Woolston became a fellow at the University of Cambridge in 1691. After studying the work of Origen, a 3rd-century theologian of Alexandria who in his allegorical interpretat... |
7d9f43e888b6f746368faa0c3b883048 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thurston-Dart | Thurston Dart | Thurston Dart
Thurston Dart, (born Sept. 3, 1921, London, Eng.—died March 6, 1971, London), English musicologist, harpsichordist, and conductor.
A specialist in early music, Dart studied at the Royal College of Music and University College, Exeter, and later went to Belgium where he worked with Charles van den Borren... |
e63dad0c355776642226e212dc060ce9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tiberius-II-Constantinus | Tiberius II Constantinus | Tiberius II Constantinus
Tiberius II Constantinus, (born, Thrace—died August 14, 582, Constantinople), Byzantine emperor from 578 to 582 who succeeded in defending the empire against the Persians to the east but suffered reverses in conflicts with the Avars and Slavs to the north and west.
Tiberius served in campaign... |
7322d8e3ab4f581cdb89215f58f88c4e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tiglath-pileser-I | Tiglath-pileser I | Tiglath-pileser I
Tiglath-pileser I, (flourished 11th century bc), one of the greatest of the early kings of Assyria (reigned c. 1115–c. 1077 bc).
Tiglath-pileser ascended the throne at the time when a people known as the Mushki, or Mushku (Meshech of the Old Testament), probably Phrygians, were thrusting into Asia M... |
d1a198ee809412428b069c5c144e8fed | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tillie-Olsen | Tillie Olsen | Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen, in full Tillie Lerner Goldfarb Olsen, née Tillie Lerner, (born January 14, 1912, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.—died January 1, 2007, Oakland, California), American writer and social activist known for her powerful fiction about the inner lives of the working poor, women, and minorities. Her interest... |
d400f3cf052aebd4ed1cc6ce68f61f23 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tilman-Riemenschneider | Tilman Riemenschneider | Tilman Riemenschneider
Tilman Riemenschneider, (born c. 1460, Heiligenstadt or Osterode, Domain of the Teutonic Order [Germany]—died July 7, 1531, Würzburg), master sculptor whose wood portrait carvings and statues made him one of the major artists of the late Gothic period in Germany; he was known as the leader of th... |
c6e7e3a4878fcf0c30ad4d4ca64014a3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Burton | Tim Burton | Tim Burton
Tim Burton, byname of Timothy William Burton, (born August 25, 1958, Burbank, California, U.S.), American director known for his original, quirky style that frequently drew on elements of the fantastic and the macabre.
Burton, who became interested in drawing and filmmaking while quite young, attended the C... |
701a2fd0d2a544349507795fe905527b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-D-White | Tim D. White | Tim D. White
Tim D. White, (born Aug. 24, 1950, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.), American paleoanthropologist whose findings of ancient hominin remains in Africa helped clarify the early stages of human evolution.
The passion for hunting ancient remains came to White at a young age. He spent much time in his early years ar... |
0dbaaee1b1b47b125b79973c5b33e02a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Darvill | Tim Darvill | Tim Darvill
Wainwright and Darvill were convinced that the great effort required to move the bluestones that make up much of the monument from the Preseli Mountains in Wales to Stonehenge meant that the stones must have been regarded as extraordinarily significant. They learned that the stones…
In 2008 British archaeol... |
40a77ddb443b8ed1ab24c9650eb433d7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-OReilly | Tim O’Reilly | Tim O’Reilly
…conferences, first organized by publisher Tim O’Reilly in 2004. The term’s popularity waned in the 2010s as the features of Web 2.0 became ubiquitous and lost their novelty.
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16803cfa9701d54f1103fbc21680b3a0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Timbaland | Timbaland | Timbaland
Timbaland, byname of Timothy Z. Mosley, (born March 10, 1971, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.), influential American producer and hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues performer who contributed to the chart-scaling success of a host of recording artists in the early 21st century.
Mosley grew up in Virginia with rappers Missy... |
be7a45acb551b86483cc04469129823d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Timothy-Findley | Timothy Findley | Timothy Findley
Timothy Findley, in full Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, (born October 30, 1930, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—died June 20, 2002, France), Canadian author known for his intelligent writing and storytelling. His subject matter is often the lives of troubled individuals.
Poor health caused Findley to aband... |
0b441a182418d0b66fa7b4bcfc69b113 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Timothy-Parsons | Timothy Parsons | Timothy Parsons
Timothy Parsons, in full Timothy Richard Parsons, (born Nov. 1, 1932, Colombo, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]), Canadian marine biologist who advocated a holistic approach to studying ocean environments.
Parsons attended McGill University, Montreal, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture (1953), a ... |
a8237af6895d2c11be809696bfbb4339 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tiridates-III-king-of-Parthia | Tiridates III | Tiridates III
Tiridates III, (flourished 1st century ad), grandson of the Parthian king Phraates IV and an unsuccessful contender for the Parthian throne. He was captured by the Romans, taken to Rome as a hostage, and educated there. In ad 35 the Roman emperor Tiberius sent him and an army under Lucius Vitellius, go... |
ebe642df1258e8bed10cdccb08fd8cad | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Titus-Annius-Milo | Titus Annius Milo | Titus Annius Milo
Titus Annius Milo, (died 48 bc, near Thurii, Bruttium [Italy]), Roman politician, a supporter of the Optimates and bitter rival of Publius Clodius Pulcher and Julius Caesar.
Milo supported Pompey and thus became pitted against Clodius, a reckless and disruptive politician who had allied himself with ... |
13312caa3a2d98c241fe9e722d48c6fb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tobias-Dantzig | Tobias Dantzig | Tobias Dantzig
Tobias Dantzig, (born Feb. 19, 1884, Latvia, Russian Empire—died Aug. 9, 1956, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.), Latvian-born American mathematician, best known for his science and mathematics books written for the general public.
As a young man, Dantzig was caught distributing anti-tsarist political tracts ... |
a5c16c4e3771f308ce42dd08ddfdb342 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tobias-Matthay | Tobias Matthay | Tobias Matthay
Tobias Matthay, (born Feb. 19, 1858, London, Eng.—died Dec. 15, 1945, High Marley, Surrey), English pianist, teacher, and composer noted for his detailed examination of the problems of piano technique, the interpretation of music, and the psychology of teaching.
Matthay studied at the Royal Academy of ... |
0f4e731eb6b9d5f132220fde763013d9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toghto | Toghto | Toghto
Toghto, (flourished 1340–55, China), High government official during the later years of China’s Yuan dynasty (1206–1368). He followed his uncle as minister of the right (1340–44) and favoured a centralized approach to government. Under him, positions that had been closed to the Chinese were reopened, many liter... |
a339acca7d067e62acf22412688c3d7f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Togon-temur | Togon-temür | Togon-temür
Togon-temür, posthumous name (shi) (Yuan) Shundi, Wade-Giles romanization Shun-ti, (born 1320, China—died 1370, China), last emperor (reigned 1333–68) of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty (1206–1368) in China, under whom the population was provoked into rebellion.
Togon-temür became emperor at the age of 13 but p... |
68f11e76b47519434f292c6a8ec6f820 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tokugawa-Hidetada | Tokugawa Hidetada | Tokugawa Hidetada
Tokugawa Hidetada, (born May 2, 1579, Hamamatsu, Japan—died March 15, 1632, Edo [now Tokyo]), second Tokugawa shogun, who completed the consolidation of his family’s rule, eliminated Christianity from Japan, and took the first steps toward closing the country to all trade or other intercourse with ... |
9c780e47d1a3558fbbd14d7b7a511714 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tokugawa-Tsunayoshi | Tokugawa Tsunayoshi | Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, (born Feb. 23, 1646, Edo, Japan—died Feb. 19, 1709, Edo), fifth Tokugawa shogun of Japan, known as the “Dog Shogun” because of his obsession with dogs.
Proclaimed shogun in 1680, Tsunayoshi presided over one of the most prosperous and peaceful periods in Japanese history. His... |
1bc0b07ee1446f384bf414911e9f764a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tolbert-Lanston | Tolbert Lanston | Tolbert Lanston
…in 1885 another American inventor, Tolbert Lanston, perfected the Monotype (q.v.), a machine in which type is cast in individual letters. Both machines were made possible by the development of machine tools, specifically, the mechanical punch cutter. A third process, the Intertype (q.v.), developed lat... |
695d95baae385191307d9307fb8b769d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tolui | Tolui | Tolui
…Xinjiang and western Mongolia; and Tolui was awarded eastern Mongolia. Ögödei dominated his brothers and undertook further conquests. In the west the Golden Horde under Jochi’s successor, Batu, controlled Russia and terrorized eastern Europe; in the east advances were made into China. With Ögödei’s death in 1241... |
908b11810b5586117ebb425432ffb766 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-C-Clark | Tom C. Clark | Tom C. Clark
Tom C. Clark, in full Thomas Campbell Clark, (born September 23, 1899, Dallas, Texas, U.S.—died June 13, 1977, New York, New York), U.S. attorney general (1945–49) and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1949–67).
Clark studied law after serving in the U.S. Army during World War I and gr... |
0a31b4afdec498741398fc7151d32364 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Cavalier-Smith | Tom Cavalier-Smith | Tom Cavalier-Smith
…and in 1998 British zoologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith presented yet another classification scheme, the six-kingdom system, which contained kingdom Bacteria with two subdivisions, Eubacteria and Archaebacteria. In 2015 Cavalier-Smith and others revised the system to include seven kingdoms, whereby king... |
35ba4a50084150855d1e44d604461967 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Hamilton | Tom Hamilton | Tom Hamilton
…23, 1952, Winchester, Massachusetts), bassist Tom Hamilton (b. December 31, 1951, Colorado Springs, Colorado), and drummer Joey Kramer (b. June 21, 1950, New York City).
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344db5542da902fdaa4674384b0e561a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Landry | Tom Landry | Tom Landry
Tom Landry, byname of Thomas Wade Landry, (born September 11, 1924, Mission, Texas, U.S.—died February 12, 2000, Dallas, Texas), American professional gridiron football coach, notably with the National Football League (NFL) Dallas Cowboys from 1960 to 1989. He molded the Cowboys into a dominant team from th... |
781d966e7ab01ad4c644729a1c471661 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Mix | Tom Mix | Tom Mix
Tom Mix, byname of Thomas Hezikiah Mix, (born Jan. 6, 1880, Mix Run, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 12, 1940, near Florence, Ariz.), American film actor, a celebrated star of western cowboy films during the silent era.
Mix worked as a cowhand in Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, and Montana and served in the U.S. Army in the Spa... |
d70301ee6e2ee99b098c4411c5c8b47b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Robbins | Tom Robbins | Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins, in full Thomas Eugene Robbins, (born July 22, 1932, Blowing Rock, North Carolina, U.S.), American novelist noted for his eccentric characters, playful optimism, and self-conscious wordplay.
Robbins was educated at Washington and Lee University, Richmond Professional Institute, and the Universi... |
4c8c15a944bc64a267fb0e368b028d3e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Watson | Tom Watson | Tom Watson
Tom Watson, in full Thomas Sturges Watson, (born September 4, 1949, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.), American golfer who was one of the sport’s dominant figures in the 1970s and early ’80s.
Watson studied psychology at Stanford University, where he competed on the school’s golf team. After graduating in 1971, ... |
e4167a5cd0c50dfb4b45386a86c06f5f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tomas-Cipriano-de-Mosquera | Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera | Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera
Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, (born Sept. 20, 1798, Popayán, New Granada [Colombia]—died Oct. 7, 1878, Coconuco), president of New Granada from 1845 to 1849 and of Colombia from 1864 to 1867 who, as a Conservative during his first term and a Liberal during his second, embodied the leftward sh... |
fdc61cbebc88db74ec64cbfefa8f1155 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tomas-Estrada-Palma | Tomás Estrada Palma | Tomás Estrada Palma
Tomás Estrada Palma, (born July 9, 1835, near Bayamo, Cuba—died Nov. 14, 1908, Oriente province), first president of Cuba, whose administration was noted for its sound fiscal policies and progress in education.
As a general in the revolutionary army, Estrada Palma served during the Ten Years’ War ... |
d0ec30f5fe523c45b484999dde755495 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tomas-Guardia | Tomás Guardia | Tomás Guardia
Tomás Guardia, who dominated the country from 1870 until 1882. His government curtailed liberty and added to the debt, but it also brought increases in coffee and sugar exports as well as widespread construction of schools. A new constitution, adopted in 1871, remained in effect,…
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89682cb6887a4a0052f0bf813d449af7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tomas-Gudmundsson | Tómas Gudmundsson | Tómas Gudmundsson
Tómas Gudmundsson, (born January 6, 1901, Efri-Brú, Iceland—died November 14, 1983, Reykjavík), poet best known for introducing Reykjavík as a subject in Icelandic poetry. His poetic language is characterized by Neoromantic expressions and colloquial realism.
Gudmundsson, who was born in the countrys... |
c47cf2ea73cd4b172eee2894d03a2c27 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tonegawa-Susumu | Tonegawa Susumu | Tonegawa Susumu
Tonegawa Susumu, (born September 5, 1939, Nagoya, Japan), Japanese molecular biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of the genetic mechanisms underlying the great diversity of antibodies produced by the vertebrate immune system.
Tonegawa earned a ... |
ffb0e64ef9b277f77c61bd01035e5fa7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Accardo | Tony Accardo | Tony Accardo
…Capone’s successors, Frank Nitti and Tony Accardo. He was the Chicago representative in the formation of the national crime syndicate in 1934, led by Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and other New York bosses.
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0fe7687b16bd5f84ff595e6bcce0d41c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Dungy | Tony Dungy | Tony Dungy
…late 1990s as head coach Tony Dungy built one of the best defenses in the NFL, featuring tackle Warren Sapp, linebacker Derrick Brooks, and defensive backs John Lynch and Ronde Barber. The Bucs made four postseason appearances in the five seasons between 1997 and 2001, but the offensively limited team…
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cda1e583b2e460243943faedc9a14255 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-La-Russa | Tony La Russa | Tony La Russa
Tony La Russa, byname of Anthony La Russa, Jr., (born October 4, 1944, Tampa, Florida, U.S.), American professional baseball manager who led his teams to three World Series titles (1989, 2006, and 2011) and accumulated the third most managerial wins (2,728) in major league history.
La Russa signed to pla... |
e8e2637bf0a66d5eef46e316a0e39425 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Lockett | Tony Lockett | Tony Lockett
Tony Lockett, in full Anthony Howard Lockett, byname Plugger, (born March 9, 1966, Ballarat, Vic., Austl.), Australian rules football player who holds the record for most goals scored in a career (1,360).
After making his senior-level debut with North Ballarat in 1982, Lockett began his Australian Footbal... |
1e98597a2e573bb2308b04b09bd3ad5b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Parker | Tony Parker | Tony Parker
…international players, French point guard Tony Parker and Argentine shooting guard Manu Ginobili, who, along with Duncan, were the linchpins for the Spurs as they beat the Detroit Pistons 4–3 to win the NBA championship in 2005 and swept the Cleveland Cavaliers 4–0 in the best-of-seven series championship ... |
50ef84f6d36561f64bce98549130e37e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Pastor | Tony Pastor | Tony Pastor
Tony Pastor, in full Antonio Pastor, (born May 28, 1837, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 26, 1908, Elmhurst, New York), American impresario and comic singer, considered the father of vaudeville in the United States.
An entertainer from the age of six, Pastor appeared at P.T. Barnum’s American Museum ... |
4ef1729711507f2fbd72498efb70dc43 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Scott | Tony Scott | Tony Scott
…movies he made with director Tony Scott. During this time he also frequently worked with director Spike Lee, starring in Mo’ Better Blues (1990), He Got Game (1998), and most significantly Malcolm X (1992). Portraying the civil rights activist Malcolm X, Washington gave a complex and powerful
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5e5fc9f46fc52f851a7de35cf39728f9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Shalhoub | Tony Shalhoub | Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub, in full Anthony Marcus Shalhoub, (born October 9, 1953, Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.), American actor who was perhaps best known for his comedic roles, most notably the “defective detective” (a sufferer from obsessive-compulsive disorder) Adrian Monk in the USA network television series Monk... |
066c4328f43cb5adf2954b6e26c3246f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Sirico | Tony Sirico | Tony Sirico
(Tony Sirico), and Sil (Steve Van Zandt) form Tony’s trusted inner circle, through whom Tony’s business deals are played out. The themes of identity, guilt, and denial are highlighted by the selective acknowledgment of the harsh realities of Tony’s crime world by his wife, Carmela…
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364bd6e1c2076f6b73fc4a768d9110c1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Smith | Tony Smith | Tony Smith
Tony Smith, in full Anthony Peter Smith, (born September 23, 1912, South Orange, New Jersey, U.S.—died December 26, 1980, New York, New York), American architect, sculptor, and painter associated with Minimalism as well as Abstract Expressionism and known for his large geometric sculptures.
As a child, Smit... |
405e83874785e43fce2f898d2af757a6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Wilding | Tony Wilding | Tony Wilding
He and his doubles partner, Tony Wilding of New Zealand, wrested the Davis Cup from Great Britain in 1907 and held it until 1911, arousing enduring public interest in Australia and New Zealand.
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fe8697c830cc225abd2c0d88cf8e15a5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Wilson | Tony Wilson | Tony Wilson
Tony Wilson, in full Anthony Howard Wilson, (born Feb. 20, 1950, Salford, Lancashire, Eng.—died Aug. 10, 2007, Manchester), British music industry entrepreneur who, as cofounder of Factory Records and founder of the Hacienda nightclub in Manchester, was the ringleader of the so-called “Madchester” postpunk... |
235fb349cc56a8f1d835e29cfa490fcb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tonya-Harding | Tonya Harding | Tonya Harding
…on Americans Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. About a month before the Games were to begin, Harding was implicated in an attempt to injure Kerrigan. Harding filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Olympic Committee, seeking an injunction against being barred from the Olympics. However, the legal dispute tempor... |
caa21898d20d7dcb7bc00846d56e5c12 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tore-Orjasaeter | Tore Ørjasæter | Tore Ørjasæter
Tore Ørjasæter, (born March 3, 1886, Skjåk, Norway—died February 29, 1968, Skjåk), Norwegian regional poet who worked in the tradition of the ballad and of folk and nature lyrics.
Ørjasæter was a teacher’s son from a village in central Norway. His concern with the conflict between individual and heritag... |
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