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Thomas Cromwell (/ ˈ k r ɒ m w əl,-w ɛ l /; [1] [a] c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.
The Clarke brothers apprehended in Braidwood Jail, May 1867. Thomas (right) is shot in the arm. Brothers Thomas (c. 1840 – 25 June 1867) and John Clarke (c. 1846 – 25 June 1867) were Australian bushrangers from the Braidwood district of New South Wales.
A Plaque over 46 Bombay Street - where Tom Williams lived with his grandmother. Williams was born at 6 Amcomri Street in the Beechmount area of Belfast in 1923. He was the third child in a family of six.
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist who perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing killed 168 people (19 of whom were children), injured 680, and destroyed one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Tom Dula was born to a poor Appalachian hill-country family in Wilkes County, ... [11] He was executed on May 1, 1868, nearly two years after Laura Foster's murder. [7]
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, KG, PC (c. 1508 – 20 March 1549) was a brother of Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. [1] With his brother, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector of England, he vied for control of their nephew, the young King Edward VI (r.
Valkyrie is a 2008 thriller film [5] directed by Bryan Singer, written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, starring Tom Cruise.The film is set in Nazi Germany during World War II and depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country.
Most of those summarily executed were tried by court-martial in a military court and had to be found guilty merely of bearing arms against the State. Memorial in Kildare to the seven men executed at the Curragh Camp in 1922. On 30 November 1922, there were further executions at Beggars Bush Barracks.