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Thorton may refer to: People * Tanya Thorton Shewell, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates Fictional characters * '' Professor Thorton'' (Marvel Comics), a fictional comic book character * ''Michael Thorton'', a fictional spy from the videogame ''Alpha Protocol'', see List of fictional secret agents * ''Thorton'', the Factory Head of Sinnoh in the ''Pokémon'' games Other uses * A revision of AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California and maintains significant operations in Austin, Texas. AMD is a hardware and fabless company that de ...'s Athlon XP processor. See also * * * Thornton (other) {{Disambig ...
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Tanya Thorton Shewell
Tanya Thornton Shewell (born March 9, 1944) is an American politician and former member of the Maryland House of Delegates. Background Tanya Shewell replaced Carmen Amedori when she was appointed to the Parole Commission by Governor Bob Ehrlich in 2004. In 2007, she became the Deputy Minority Whip in the Maryland House of Delegates. Shewell represents District 5A, which covers Carroll County, MD. Personal life Tanya Shewell attended Troy High School (Troy, Ohio), Troy High School in Troy, OH and graduated as valedictorian. She graduated in 1970 from Towson State University, summa cum laude, with a B.S. in psychology and sociology. She is married with two children. Career Tanya Shewell is the manager/owner of a family rental property business, Shewell Enterprises, since 1969. She worked for the State Department of Education at the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation from 1970 to 1977, and the Carroll Lutheran Health Care Center from 1981 to 1983. In addition, she was the ...
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Maryland House Of Delegates
The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the Maryland General Assembly, legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis, Maryland, Annapolis. The State House also houses the Maryland Senate, Maryland State Senate and the offices of the Governor of Maryland, Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Maryland. Each delegate has offices in Annapolis, in the nearby Casper R. Taylor Jr. House Office Building. History 17th century The Maryland House of Delegates originated as the Lower House of the General Assembly of the Province of Maryland in 1650, when it was an English colony, when the Assembly (legislature) became a bicameral body. The Lower House often fought with the Upper House for political influence in the colony. The Upper House consisted of the Governor and his Council, all pe ...
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Professor Thorton
Karen Page Pagon Paibok Doctor Paine Dr. Thaddeus Paine is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character, created by Len Kaminski, first appeared in ''Morbius the Living Vampire'' #4 (December 1994). He is a sadist who was unable to feel pain and has prosthesic hands equipped with surgical tools. Doctor Paine is a silent partner of Dr. David Langford which got threatened, resulting in the deaths of Martine Bancroft and his business partner. Doctor Paine then experiments on Morbius the Living Vampire much like his inhumane medical experiments on the homeless, resulting in the Living Vampire vengefully destroying his facility while the Doctor escaped. Doctor Paine next tortured Eddie Brock and experimented on the Venom symbiote, resulting in both individuals as Venom getting revenge by imbalancing his brain. Doctor Paine in other media A female incarnation named Teddy Paine appears in '' Venom: The Last Dance'', portray ...
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List Of Fictional Secret Agents
This is a list of fictional secret agents . Books *Alec Leamas in John le Carré's ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'' *Alex Rider (character), Alex Rider, young "informal" MI6 agent in Anthony Horowitz's ''Alex Rider'' series. The series also includes List of Alex Rider characters#Alan Blunt, Alan Blunt, head of MI6 Special Operations *Ali Imran in the Imran series, ''Imran'' series *Basil Argyros (fictional character), Basil Argyros in the Harry Turtledove short story series collected in ''Agent of Byzanium'' *Basil St. Florian, the main protagonist of Stephen Hunter's 2021 novel ''Basil's War'' *Blackford Oakes is a Central Intelligence Agency officer, espionage, spy and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley *Carl Hamilton (fictional character), Carl Hamilton, Swedish secret agent from the Books of Jan Guillou *Daniel Marchant, MI6 agent in ''Dead Spy Running'' and ''Games Traitors Play'' by Jon Stock *David Shirazi in Joel C. Rosenberg's ''The T ...
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Pokémon
is a Japanese media franchise consisting of List of Pokémon video games, video games, Pokémon (TV series), animated series and List of Pokémon films, films, Pokémon Trading Card Game, a trading card game, and other related media. The franchise takes place in a shared universe in which humans co-exist with creatures known as List of Pokémon, Pokémon, a large variety of species endowed with special powers. The franchise's primary target audience is children aged 5 to 12, but it is known to attract people of all ages. The franchise originated as Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, a pair of role-playing games developed by Game Freak, from an original concept by its founder, Satoshi Tajiri. Released on the Game Boy on 27 February 1996, the games became sleeper hits and were followed by manga series, a trading card game, and anime series and films. From 1998 to 2000, ''Pokémon'' was exported to the rest of the world, creating an unprecedented global phenomenon dubbed "Pokémania ...
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Athlon
AMD Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of x86, x86-compatible microprocessors designed and manufactured by AMD, Advanced Micro Devices. The original Athlon (now called Athlon Classic) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and the first desktop processor to reach speeds of one gigahertz (GHz). It made its debut as AMD's high-end processor brand on June 23, 1999. Over the years AMD has used the Athlon name with the 64-bit Athlon 64 architecture, the Athlon II, and Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) chips targeting the Socket AM1 desktop System on a chip, SoC architecture, and Socket AM4 Zen (microarchitecture). The modern Zen-based Athlon with a Radeon, Radeon Graphics processor was introduced in 2019 as AMD's highest-performance entry-level processor. Brand history K7 design and development The first Athlon processor was a result of AMD's development of K7 processors in the 1990s. AMD founder and then-CEO Jerry Sanders (businessman), Jerry Sa ...
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