• It focused on the relationship between the homesick alien and a young boy, Elliott, played by Henry Thomas.

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  • He has to cheat a bit to engineer this result: neither Thomas Cranmer nor Thomas Wriothesley died in the reign of Henry VIII, and Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, although condemned, was miraculously reprieved.

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  • Electricity comes from an ancient power plant built by Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.

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  • In 1825, Thomas Henry Huxley, British naturalist and humanist and originator of the word agnostic, born.

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  • The Henry Fords, Thomas Edisons and Bill Gateses of the world are not created by political decree.

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  • As Everest's chairman, he controls 27 companies and is in the same league as Henry Kravis and Thomas Lee.

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  • Massachusetts is likely only the first of 25 or more states that will find fault with Groupon's approach, according to Thomas Henry, a Pittsburgh lawyer specializing in alcohol law.

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  • Leeds squandered 12 points from missed penalty kicks in the 30-10 defeat, as both Ceiron Thomas and Henry Paul had off days with the boot.

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  • The chairman of the advisory committee, Abraham Thomas of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, voted for the drug, but he said the shareholders are overstating what it can do.

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  • Apart from the writings of William Shakespeare, William Blake, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, George Orwell, D.

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  • His contributions to American business and cultural life are equal to that of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Walt Disney.

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  • That is why Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were American heroes a century ago, and Steve Jobs was one when he died last year.

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  • He was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, and set the mold for many other corporate leaders in many other industries.

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  • Barnes constructed a 30-room inn he named Casa Ybel, which lured wealthy Americans such as Thomas Edison and Henry Ford down the coast for great fishing, eternally sunny weather and shell collecting.

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  • Mantel, whose novel is part of a trilogy about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell, already holds the record for being the first woman and the first living British author to win the Man Booker Prize twice.

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  • She said the idea for her trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister, first came to her when she was in her 20s, but she was not in a position to write it for more than three decades.

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  • Wolf Hall, the first of her trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, has already more than doubled this week, rising from 15th to 7th on the bestseller list, while sales of the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, rose by 69%.

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  • Still later the same sorts of tensions would appear in the public images of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, who were revered not only for their achievements in technology, but also for having managed to turn the trick of becoming rich and famous while retaining the homespun virtues of small town boys.

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  • Bring Up the Bodies, which will continue the story of King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, will be published in May 2012.

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  • It can be argued, of course, that this shows that the rich can buy amenities the poor cannot and, indeed, Paulson is only one of many wealthy members of the Conservancy board (which includes Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Thomas Kempner of Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Michael Steinberg of Steinberg Asset Management).

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  • Steve Jobs seemed to be one-part Ben Franklin, one-part Thomas Edison, one-part Henry Ford.

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  • The Archbishop of York's Palace, next to Southwell Minster, is the former home of Tudor statesman Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who served under Henry VIII.

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  • In 1540, Thomas Cromwell, principal adviser to King Henry VIII of England, was executed for treason.

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  • Within months of Henry's death, Katherine Parr married Sir Thomas Seymour in secret and moved to Winchcombe in the Cotswolds.

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  • Only Thomas More and his political rival, Thomas Cromwell, were actually executed by Henry VIII, and Cardinal Wolsey, who died of fright and dysentery a year after his ignominious disgrace, was the earliest victim.

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  • Schools harp more on the KKK, slavery and Jim Crow than extol the heroism and unrivaled restraint of George Washington, the inventive genius of Thomas Edison or the innovative business acumen of Henry Ford.

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  • Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies chart the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful minister in the court of Henry VIII.

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  • Associated Press writers Connie Cass, David Espo, Donna Cassata, Henry Jackson, Pauline Jelinek, Richard Lardner, Alan Fram, Ken Thomas, Jim Abrams, Andy Taylor, Seth Borenstein and Eric Tucker contributed to this report.

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  • Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.

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  • This is brave of Mantel, even bravely peculiar, given the reputation of the actual Thomas Cromwell, who acted as a brutal fixer for both Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII.

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