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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The five-story building, which was built in 1907 from the designs of architect John T. Windrim, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places on February 8, 1995.
Alexander Thomson of Duddingston, advocate, (died 1603), who married Margaret Preston in 1594, [7] a daughter of Samuel Preston of Craigmillar, and widow of Walter Cant. [8] Alexander Thomson, apothecary. In 1590 he had a shop or booth in a tenement at the top of Niddry's Wynd in Edinburgh. [9] Adam Thomson, apothecary
D.P. Thomson had a supporting role in the Tell Scotland Movement [43] and also in the Edinburgh events of the Billy Graham All-Scotland Campaign of spring 1955. [ 44 ] To coordinate the volunteers Thomson recruited from congregations across Scotland he founded the Work & Witness Movement [ 45 ] and, 1955–58, led geographically ambitious ...
Henry Alexis Thomson, CMG, FRCS, FRCSE Thomson in middle age Edinburgh University Summer Session 1903. Wellcome M0017752 The memorial to Henry Alexis Thomson, Dean Cemetery. Henry Alexis Thomson CMG FRCS FRCSE (1863–1924) was a Scottish anatomist and medical author. He was Professor of Systematic Surgery at the University of Edinburgh from ...
James Thomson (10 September 1763 – 1832) was a Scottish weaver poet of Currie, near Edinburgh, whose poetry in the Scottish vernacular was published in Leith in the early 19th century. He is remembered by the Poet's Glen in Currie, a wooded dell with a scenic riverside path which is a right of way, and by a number of street names ( Thomson ...
John Thomson, portrait by Andrew Geddes The grave of Dr John Thomson, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. John Thomson FRS FRSE PRCPE (1765–1846) was a Scottish surgeon and physician, reputed in his time "the most learned physician in Scotland". [1] He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1834 to 1836.
John Edgar Thomson (February 10, 1808 – May 27, 1874) was an American civil engineer and industrialist. An entrepreneur best known for his leadership of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) from 1852 until his death in 1874, Thomson made it the largest business enterprise in the world and a world-class model for technological and managerial innovation.