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Ben Thomas (basketball)
Benjamin Thomas may refer to: * Benjamin Thomas (politician) (1813–1878), Massachusetts politician and judge * Benjamin Thomas (industrialist) (1860–1914), American businessman and industrialist, founder of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company * Ben Thomas (American football) (born 1961), American football player * Ben Thomas (ice hockey) (born 1996), Canadian ice hockey player * Sir Ben Bowen Thomas (1899–1977), civil servant and university president * Ben Thomas (photographer) (born 1981), Australian photographer * Benjamin Thomas (died 1899), Black American lynching victim * Benjamin P. Thomas (1902–1956), American historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln * Benjamin Thomas (cricketer) (born 1989), Indian cricketer * Benjamin Thomas (cyclist) (born 1995), French cyclist * Ben Thomas (rugby union) (born 1998), Welsh rugby union player * Ben Thomas (rugby league) (born 1997), professional rugby league footballer * Benny Ninja (née Benjamin Thomas), American vogue dancer a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Thomas (politician)
Benjamin Franklin Thomas (February 12, 1813 – September 27, 1878) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts and an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Early years In 1819, Thomas moved with his parents to Worcester, Massachusetts, and attended Lancaster Academy. He was the grandson of publisher Isaiah Thomas. He graduated from Rhode Island's Brown University in 1830. Thomas studied law at Harvard Law School and with his cousin, Pliny Merrick of Worcester. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Worcester. Political career Throughout his life, Thomas held several local offices. In 1842, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was commissioner of bankruptcy in 1842, judge of probate for Worcester County 1844-1848, and a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848. Thomas was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1853 to 1859. Thomas continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Thomas (industrialist)
Benjamin Franklin Thomas (1860–1914) was a Chattanooga, Tennessee, businessman and industrialist who pioneered the development of the Coca-Cola bottling industry and founded the Coca-Cola Bottling Company. In 1899 Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead traveled from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Georgia, to meet with Asa Griggs Candler, the owner of Coca-Cola, in hopes of securing the rights to bottle the beverage. At the time bottling Coca-Cola was seen as an untested industry, and Candler had concerns over maintaining the quality of his product. Eventually he sold the rights to bottle Coca-Cola in the United States to Thomas and Whitehead for one dollar. In 1894 Benjamin married Ann Taylor Jones. They had no children. In 1904 they invited their nephew George Hunter to move to Chattanooga to learn the bottling business and to be their heir. In 1944 George Hunter established the Benwood Foundation The Benwood Foundation is a charitable foundation created in 1944 by George Hunter in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Thomas (American Football)
Benjamin Thomas Jr. (born July 2, 1961) is a former defensive lineman in the National Football League who played for the Green Bay Packers, the New England Patriots, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Atlanta Falcons and the Los Angeles Rams. Thomas played collegiate ball for Auburn University before being drafted by the New England Patriots in the 2nd round of the 1985 NFL Draft The 1985 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. The draft was held April 30 and May 1, 1985, at the Omni Park Central Hotel in New York City, New York. The league also hel .... He played professionally in the NFL for 5 seasons and retired in 1991. References 1961 births Living people People from Turner County, Georgia Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state) American football defensive ends American football defensive tackles Auburn Tigers football players New England Patriots players Green Bay Packers playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Thomas (ice Hockey)
Ben Thomas (born May 28, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing under contract to Tappara of the Liiga in Finland. Playing career Thomas was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning, 119th overall, in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, while playing major junior hockey with the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League (WHL). Following the conclusion of his final junior season, finishing second amongst defenseman in scoring on the Vancouver Giants, Thomas was signed to a three-year, entry-level contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning on March 23, 2016. Thomas immediately joined AHL affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch, and made his professional debut to end the 2015–16 season, recording 4 points in 8 regular season games. After the expiration of his entry-level contract, he re-signed with Tampa Bay on a one-year, two-way contract on October 12, 2020. On April 4, 2021, Thomas skated in his first career NHL game against the Detroit Red Wings at Amalie Arena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Bowen Thomas
Sir Ben Bowen Thomas (18 May 1899 – 26 July 1977) was a Welsh people, Welsh civil servant and university President. He served as Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Department of the Ministry of Education (United Kingdom), Ministry of Education from 1945 to 1963, and was President of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1964 to 1975. In June 1977 Thomas was awarded an Honorary Degree from the Open University as Doctor of the University. Thomas was born in 1899 in Ystrad Rhondda, and was educated at Rhondda Grammar School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Jesus College, Oxford. Influenced by the adult education movement, he spent five years as a university tutorial class lecturer before becoming the first warden of Coleg Harlech when it was founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.), Dr Thomas Jones in 1927. He remained there until 1940, when he moved to the Ministry of Labour and then the Ministry of Education. Thomas was President of the London Welsh Trust, which runs t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Thomas (photographer)
Early life Thomas was born in 1981 in Adelaide, Australia. After developing his photographic skills making music videos, Thomas moved to Melbourne and switched to SLR still photography. Career in photography Thomas uses a number of photographic and post processing techniques, mostly concentrating on the use of colour, perspective and a miniaturisation technique called "tilt shift photography". He has been exhibited internationally, been featured by Apple, Adobe, and won the 2018 Hasselblad Masters along with the ACMP Projections Art Photographer of the Year Award in 2008. Thomas was the winner of the 2015 125Live Vision, Innovative Photographer of the year award. And also the 2015 Desktop Create Awards Photography category winner Using a helicopter to take high-angle photographs, Thomas created a series of miniatures entitled "Cityshrinker" in 2007, depicting a number of cities around the world. This work was finalised in his book, ''Tiny Tokyo; The Big City Made Mini''. (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynching Of Benjamin Thomas
Benjamin Thomas (1883/1884 – 1899) was a 16-year-old Black teenager who was lynched in Alexandria, Virginia on August 8, 1899. He had been arrested the day before and put into jail before a mob broke into the jail, dragging him outside, before beating him and ultimately he was hanged to death. He was the second of two reported lynching victims in Alexandria; the first, almost two years earlier, was Joseph H. McCoy. Lynching Benjamin Thomas was arrested on August 7, 1899 accused of assaulting the 8-year-old daughter of a white neighbor. Thomas claimed his innocence. The evening of the next day, August 8, beginning around 10 PM a mob of hundreds of white residents surrounded the jail where was being held and demanded he be released to them. Around midnight they were able to break into the jail and forceably remove Thomas. He was then beaten, had a noose placed around his neck, and dragged approximately half a mile around the city. He was then lynched, hanged to death, at the corne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin P
Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical narrative. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, Benjamin's name appears as "Binyamēm" (Samaritan Hebrew: , "son of days"). In the Quran, Benjamin is referred to as a righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Chileab, Jesse and Amram. Name The name is first mentioned in letters from King Sîn-kāšid of Uruk (1801–1771 BC), who called himself “King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Thomas (cricketer)
Benjamin Thomas (born 20 June 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He played seven List A matches for Hyderabad between 2010 and 2013. He made his first-class debut for Hyderabad in the 2016–17 Ranji Trophy on 27 October 2016. See also * List of Hyderabad cricketers This is a list of all cricketers who have played First-class cricket, first-class, List A cricket, List A or Twenty20 cricket for Hyderabad cricket team. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the in ... References External links * 1989 births Living people Indian cricketers Hyderabad cricketers Cricketers from Hyderabad, India {{India-cricket-bio-1989-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Thomas (cyclist)
Benjamin Thomas (born 12 September 1995) is a French professional road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Vuelta a España. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Giro d'Italia. He rode the Tour de France for the first time in 2022. On stage 15, Thomas broke away from the Peloton and was attempting to get the first French win in over thirty stages, but was caught inside the final few hundred meters. After the stage he commented, "I believed I could make it. If we could have stayed together with Alexis maybe it would have been different… I'm completely dead, I'm seeing stars. I was not thinking anymore." Major results Track ;2016 : UEC European Championships ::1st Team pursuit ::2nd Madison (with Morgan Kneisky) ::3rd Omnium : 2nd Madison (with Morgan Kneisky), UCI World Championships ;2017 : UCI World Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Thomas (rugby Union)
Ben Thomas (born 25 November 1998) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Cardiff Rugby as a centre. He was a Wales under-20 international. Thomas made his debut for Cardiff in 2019 having previously played for the Cardiff academy. Despite developing as a 10, Thomas switched to inside centre ahead of the 2018/19 season. Following a successful transition, Thomas was named Best Newcomer in the Premiership after helping Cardiff RFC claim the National Cup, the club's first silverware since 2009. On June 7, 2021, Thomas received his first call up for the senior Wales team for the 2021 Summer Internationals, replacing Callum Sheedy at fly-half in the second half of the match against Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ... to win his first cap. Personal life T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Thomas (rugby League)
Ben Thomas (born 10 December 1997) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a forward. He previously played for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL). Background He played his junior rugby league for the Kincumber Colts. Playing career Thomas played under 20s for the Sydney Roosters in 2016 and 2017. Ben started in the front row in the Sydney Roosters 2016 Holden Cup premiership winning side that beat the Penrith Panthers 30–28. Thomas played for the Wyong Roos, Newcastle and North Sydney in the NSW Cup. In round 14 of the 2021 NRL season, Thomas made his first grade debut for the Sydney Roosters against the Gold Coast Gold Coast may refer to: Places Africa * Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana: ** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642) ** Dutch G .... On 21 September 2023, it was announced that Thomas had been re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
