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The Jim Thorpe Award, named in memory of multi-sport athlete Jim Thorpe, has been awarded to the top defensive back in college football since 1986. It is voted on by the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame.
William Knyvett (died 1515) Sir William Knyvett ( c. 1440 – 2 December 1515) was an English knight in the late Middle Ages. He was the son of John Knyvett and Alice Lynne, [1] [2] the grandson of Sir John Knyvett, and assumed the titles of Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, Burgess of Melcombe, Bletchingley, & Grantham, Constable of Rising Castle. [3]
Percival Everett (born December 22, 1956) is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has described himself as 'pathologically ironic' [3] and has played around with numerous genres such as western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire and philosophical fiction. [4]
John Archibald Wheeler. Hugh Everett III ( / ˈɛvərɪt /; November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who, in his 1957 PhD thesis, proposed what is now known as the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics . In danger of losing his draft deferment, Everett took a research job with the Pentagon the year before ...
Recorded 21 August 1919. Friedrich Ebert ( German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈeːbɐt] ⓘ; 4 February 1871 – 28 February 1925) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the first president of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925. Ebert was elected leader of the SPD on the death in 1913 of August Bebel.
Noting that he is a descendant of Nathan Hale executed for spying on the British for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, which seems unlikely, given that Nathan Hale did not have any direct descendents, Hale paraphrased his ancestor's reported last words, saying, "I have but this one life to give in service of my country."
Thorp ( / θɔːrp / THORP) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kittitas County, Washington, United States. In 2020, the population was 232. [3] The town of Thorp is 100 miles (160 km) east of Seattle, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Ellensburg, and 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Cle Elum.
Trinity College, Oxford. John Jeremy Thorpe (29 April 1929 – 4 December 2014) was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for North Devon from 1959 to 1979, and as leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. In May 1979, he was tried at the Old Bailey on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder his ex-boyfriend ...