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Mark Thompson (motorcycle Racer)
Mark Thompson may refer to: Sports * Mark Thompson (baseball) (born 1971), baseball player * Mark Thompson (footballer) (born 1963), former Australian rules football premiership captain and coach * Mark Scott Thompson, manager of the El Salvador national football team * Mark Thompson (hurdler) (born 1967), Jamaican Olympic hurdler * Mark Thompson (racing driver) (born 1951), American stock car racing driver, pilot, and businessman Politics * Mark Thompson (Minnesota politician) (born 1960), American politician * Mark Thompson (Arizona politician), Arizona politician * Mark R. Thompson (born 1960), expert on Southeast Asian politics Others * Mark Thompson (DJ) (born 1955), American radio personality, best known as half of Mark & Brian * Mark Thompson (reporter) (born c. 1953), 1985 Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter * Mark Thompson (author) (1952–2016), American journalist and author focused on LGBT topics and advocacy. * Mark Thompson (media executive) (born 1957), chairman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Thompson (baseball)
Mark Radford Thompson (born April 7, 1971) is an American former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. Thompson graduated from Logan County High School in Russellville, Kentucky and he then attended the University of Kentucky. In 1991, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Standing at tall and 205 pounds (one source has him at 213), Thompson was selected by the Colorado Rockies 65th overall in the second round of the 1992 draft. In his first two minor league seasons, he was an effective pitcher, posting a record of 14–6. He spent less than three seasons in the minors before making his big league debut on July 26, against the San Diego Padres. He earned the win in that game, but his overall earned run average in his rookie season (which consisted of two games) was 9.00. He spent most of the rest of his career bouncing between the majors and minors. He spent only one season entirely in the majors-, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Thompson (media Executive)
Mark John Thompson (born 31 July 1957)"THOMPSON, Mark John Thompson," in ''Who's Who 2009'' (London: A & C Black, 2008); online ed., (Oxford: OUP, 2008) Retrieved 25 January 2009. is a British media executive who is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ancestry.com, Ancestry, the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world. He is the former president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. From 2004 to 2012, he served as Director-General of the BBC, and before that was the Chief Executive of Channel 4. In 2009 Thompson was ranked as the 65th most powerful person in the world by ''Forbes'' magazine. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2017. Early life Thompson was born in London, England, and brought up in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, by his parents, Sydney ( Corduff) and Duncan John Thompson. Sydney was Irish, the daughter of a County Donegal policeman. Mark Thompson has a sister, Katherine. Duncan Thompson was an account ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Christian Thompson
Mark Christian Thompson (born c. 1970) is an American academic who is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. His research focuses on African American literature and philosophy, as well as German philosophy and jazz studies. Early life and education Thompson was born in New York City and speaks fluent German and French. He is the son of an African American father and a mother immigrated from Sicily. He studied art history as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1993. He then completed both a Masters and a PhD in comparative literature at New York University, with a 2001 thesis titled ''Savage Modernism: Blood-sacrifice, Literary Primitivism and Culture''. Career Thompson was an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 2001 to 2009. In 2007, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Charles University in Prague on "the aesthetics of bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Thompson (chemist)
Mark E. Thompson is a Californian chemistry academic who has worked with OLEDs. Career Mark E. Thompson graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, earning his B.S. in chemistry in 1980. He earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry working under the guidance of Prof. John E. Bercaw. He conducted research at a Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (S.E.R.C.) as a Research Fellow in an Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford University. There, Thompson worked with Prof. Malcolm L. H. Green investigating specific properties of organometallic materials. Following his S.E.R.C. Fellowship, Thompson became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 1987. He moved in 1995 to the University of Southern California, where he currently holds a Ray R. Irani Chair of Chemistry. From 2005 to 2008, Thompson served as the Chemistry Department Chairman at USC. Research Thompson's multidisciplinary research focuses on solving problems related to energy inefficie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Thompson (painter)
Mark Thompson (1812–1875) was an English painter of the Victorian era. He painted many scenes from life in and around Sunderland in the north of England. His paintings of local landmarks such as local castles and dockland scenes are now highly prized and several have been secured for local public galleries. Mark Thompson was born on Wearside in 1812. He was a keen amateur painter as a young man, while working in Sunderland as a general agent. He is believed to have taken instruction from several of the resident artists there. He did not become a professional artist until his late forties, becoming well known as painter of local scenes. Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens was the first local authority museum outside London to be established following the Museums Act of 1846. Its first recorded fine art acquisition was a commission by the Sunderland to Mark Thompson, who was paid 30 guineas to record the opening of the new South Dock in 1850. This may be the first occasion in w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Thompson (astronomer)
Mark Thompson Mark Thompson (born 1973, Norfolk, England) is a British astronomer, television presenter and writer best known for being one of the presenting team on the BBC show ''Stargazing Live'' and is a regular face on '' Good Morning Britain''. Biography Thompson has lived in Norfolk all his life and was first enthused about astronomy aged 10 when he saw the rings of Saturn through a telescope.'Norfolk astronomer Mark Thompson ready for the return of BBC’s Stargazing Live' '' |
Mark Thompson (historian)
Mark Thompson (born 1959) is a British historian. The most recent of his four books is ''Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis'' (2013), which was described by Adam Thirlwell, in a lead review in the ''Times Literary Supplement'', as "a great biography of the work as much as the life". ''The White War. Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919'' (2008) is the first comprehensive narrative history in English of the part played by Italy in World War I. It was selected as Book of the Week by ''The Guardian'' newspaper, and hailed there as "magnificent ... original, masterly and definitive." ''Forging War'' (1999) is an account of the media manipulation that took place before and during the Wars of Yugoslav Succession. ''A Paper House'' (1992) is a political travelogue which describes the federal republic of Yugoslavia upon the brink of dissolution. Thompson has also edited, with Louis Mackay, ''Something in the Wind: Politics after Chernobyl'' (1988), and has translated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Thompson (newscaster)
Mark Thompson is an American newscaster and a two-time Emmy award winner for writing, Television presenter, hosting and producing specials for the Fox Broadcasting Company stations. Television news Thompson reported on science and environmental issues for KRON-TV, then an NBC affiliate in San Francisco, before getting upped to the nightly weather anchor on the 5, 6 and 11:00 p.m. editions of ''NewsCenter 4'', in addition to those duties. Mark Thompson pioneered ''Neighborhood Weather'', where he would read letters from viewers who’d requested a live remote broadcast from their neighborhood in the Bay Area. This was known as “Neighborhood Weather”, a popular and enduring franchise. Thompson was the on-air nightly weather anchor, science, and even occasional lifestyle reporter for KTTV's ''Fox 11 News'' Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles. When he started appearing on KCOP-TV Channel 13 (the Fox-owned sister station of KTTV), Thompson became known for dancing durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancestry
An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). ''Ancestor'' is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited." Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy. Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2''n'' ancestors in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Thompson (author)
Mark Thompson (August 19, 1952 – August 23, 2016) was an American journalist and author. He was a senior editor for '' The Advocate'' and the author of several books about LGBT culture. He received the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2008. Early life Mark Thompson was born on the Monterey Peninsula in California. He graduated from San Francisco State University, where he studied journalism. While in college, he became a gay activist and joined the Radical Faeries. He was also the co-founder of the Gay Students Coalition with Professor John Paul De Cecco as the faculty advisor, and started a gay newspaper on campus. Career Thompson became a journalist for ''The Advocate'', the main LGBT magazine in the United States, in 1975. For two decades, he wrote many articles about gay activism and the responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He also conducted many interviews, including gay British painter David Hockney and gay politician Harvey Milk. Thompson was the auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Thompson (footballer)
Mark "Bomber" Thompson (born 19 November 1963) is a retired Australian rules footballer and former senior coach. He played 202 games for the Essendon Football Club from 1983 to 1996, captaining the side from 1992 until 1995. After retiring, he was an assistant coach at Essendon and then at North Melbourne before becoming the senior coach of the Geelong Football Club from 2000 to 2010 and coaching them to two premierships. In November 2010, Thompson returned to as a senior assistant coach and was then appointed the senior coach for the 2014 season."Thompson named Senior Coach for 2014" , ''Essendon Football Club'', 10 October 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2013. He left the club at the end of 2014. On 2 May 2018, he was charged with seven counts of drug t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Thompson (reporter)
Mark Thompson (born 1953) is an American investigative reporter whose work for the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' was recognized with the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Biography Thompson graduated from Boston University College of Communication in 1975 and began his career where he grew up, at the ''Pendulum'', in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. After a spell in Pontiac, Michigan, he moved to Washington in 1979, and joined the Washington bureau of the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''. The newspaper received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a five-parseriesby Thompson that was published in March 1984. Thompson covered, or uncovered, a design flaw in Bell helicopters Bell Textron Inc. is an American aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. A subsidiary of Textron, Bell manufactures military rotorcraft at facilities in Fort Worth, and Amarillo, Texas, as well as commercial helicopters in Mir ... that went uncorrected for a decade and led to the deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
