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Thomas Hughes QC (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).
Tom Brown's School Days (sometimes written Tom Brown's Schooldays, also published under the titles Tom Brown at Rugby, School Days at Rugby, and Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby) [1] [2] is a novel by Thomas Hughes, published in 1857. The story is set in the 1830s at Rugby School, an English public school. Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 ...
Haberman says the last chapter is the book's "weakest point". He says Dierenfield offers only a superficial overview of the history of the School Prayer Amendment. Haberman praises the book's "straightforward argument and writing style". [14] Thomas Healy says the book is "well-researched and readable". [10]
In 1962 Thomas produced and wrote the documentary We'll Bury You that was released by Columbia Pictures. He used his profits to travel to Egypt in 1964 where he wrote a script for an unmade documentary, Nine Bows to Conquer. Seeking secure and rewarding work, Thomas became a Los Angeles County deputy probation officer for six years.
Spy School (known internationally as Doubting Thomas or Lies and Spies) is a 2008 American comedy-drama film, released on March 1, 2008. [1] Even though it was a 2008 release, it was first filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the summer of 2005.
"3AM" (stylized as "3 am" on the album and "3 AM" on the single) is the third single and the third track from American rock band Matchbox 20's debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You (1996). Written by Rob Thomas , Jay Stanley, John Leslie Goff, and Brian Yale , the song was inspired by Thomas dealing with his mother's cancer as a teenager.
My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir is the 2007 memoir of Clarence Thomas, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.. The book spans all of Thomas's life to the present, beginning with his early childhood in the Deep South and his mother's decision to send him and his brother to be raised by her father and stepmother as she felt unable to care for them. [1]
In 1974, the story was adapted as part of the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas strand by John Bowen as The Treasure of Abbot Thomas. [1] It was first broadcast on 23 December 1974 at 11.35. [2] The adaptation stars Michael Bryant as Somerton, and it was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark.