• John K. Thornton is an American historian specializing in the history of Africa, the African Diaspora and the Atlantic world. He is a professor in the...
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  • phenomenologist John Thornton (historian) (born 1949), American historian John L. Thornton, former president and co-COO of Goldman Sachs John S. Thornton, bishop...
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    Michael Thornton Burns (born December 30, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of history at Mount Holyoke College, and a published author and former...
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  • business man John R. Thornton (1846–1917), American politician John Wingate Thornton (1818–1878), American lawyer, historian, author John Thornton (1720–1790)...
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    Robert Lee Thornton Sr. (often R. L. Thornton; August 10, 1880 – February 15, 1964) was an American banker, civic leader, and four-term Mayor of Dallas...
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    John Wingate Thornton (August 12, 1818 – June 6, 1878) was an American lawyer, antiquarian, book collector and writer. He was born August 12, 1818, at...
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  • Bruce S. Thornton (born August 2, 1953) is an American classicist at California State University, Fresno, and research fellow at Stanford University's...
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  • John Neville Figgis CR (2 October 1866 – 13 April 1919) was an English historian, political philosopher, and Anglican priest and monk of the Community...
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  • Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984), was an American singer and songwriter of blues and R&B. The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock...
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  • This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians and List of women historians by area of study. Sedat Alp...
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  • at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was a Foundation Scholar and a Thornton Scholar and attained a first class BA in History. He won the Member's Prize...
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    Paraguay. According to British historian Pelham H. Box, Argentine foreign minister Rufino de Elizalde informed Thornton that the Argentine government had...
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  • in September. He began heavy touring, often with Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton. In the next two years, Ace had eight hits in a row, including "Cross My...
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  • the inconsistencies with Haley's chronology, academics including historian John Thornton, director of the African American Studies program at Boston University...
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    was conducted by two physicians, Commander James Humes and Commander J. Thornton Boswell. They were assisted by ballistics wound expert Pierre Finck of...
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    January 1929. Parker was still wearing the wedding ring Thornton had given her when she died. Thornton was in prison when he heard of her death, commenting...
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    prominent international artists such as Barbara Bloom and the estates of Thornton Dial, John Boskovich and Mary Beth Edelson. Before opening the gallery, the...
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    shared the Herskovits Prize for her book (co-authored with her husband John Thornton) Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas...
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  • Chess historian Edward Winter has proposed the name "Thornton castling trap" for this pattern, in reference to the earliest known example, Thornton–Boultbee...
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  • Anghera and Bartolomé De Las Casas, the first Historians of America. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Thornton, John K. (2012-09-10). A Cultural History of the...
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    2005-04-05 at the Wayback Machine: Haywood Hall website. Mitchell, Thornton W. (1988). "John Haywood". NCPedia.org. Retrieved October 4, 2019. Further profile...
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  • the Thorntons' home, leading to a book about their lives, I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad, written by historian Karolyn...
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    Routledge. pp. 174–194. ISBN 0-415-15605-X. Silverberg 1972, pp. 163–164. Thornton, John K. (2012). A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820. Cambridge...
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  • his own pleasure. In 1987 Thornton Dial met Lonnie Holley, an artist who introduced Dial to Atlanta collector and art historian William Arnett. Arnett,...
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    from south to north, with Button Gwinnett from Georgia first, and Matthew Thornton from New Hampshire last. The final draft of the Declaration was approved...
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    fortifications mostly made of wood. According to the research of historian Thornton, in the 1585 campaign against Portugal, the army "constructed four...
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  • attorney and her brother is historian John Thornton. Her family traveled extensively, living in Europe for several years, where Thornton attended Lady Eden's...
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    societies and an increase in inter-societal contact for most others. Historian John Thornton noted, "A number of technical and geographical factors combined...
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    1080/15283480701326034. S2CID 143561036. While estimates vary widely, historians, including Joan Marsh-Thornton, place the pre-1492 population of the present-day United...
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  • Archived from the original on June 13, 2024. Retrieved May 12, 2024. Thornton, Laura (February 1, 2024). "How a Second Trump Term Will Redefine Foreign...
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