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Thorp is a city in Clark County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 1,621 at the 2010 census. The city is located partially within the Town of Thorp and partially within the Town of Withee.
Edward Oakley Thorp is an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack researcher. He pioneered the modern applications of probability theory, including the harnessing of very small correlations for reliable financial gain.
Robert Harland Reifsnyder is a retired American football player. An All-American at the United States Naval Academy, he won the Maxwell Award in 1957. He went on to play professionally for the American Football League's New York Titans (1960–1961). Reifsnyder was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997. He has also coached high school football. He coached the Bisons of Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa, New York, where actor Alec Baldwin was one of his players. He won the "Thorp Award" in 1954; joining fellow "Thorp Award" winners: Jim Brown-1952, John Mackey-1958 and Matt Snell-1959.
Snape is a large village in the civil parish of Snape with Thorp in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, located about 3 miles (5 km) south of Bedale and 3 miles west of the A1, it has a population of 350. Nearby is Thorp Perrow Arboretum. The name is Old Norse for a boggy tract of uncultivated land.
Colonel Sir Leonard Ropner, 1st Baronet, DL MC was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Charles Thorp, was an English churchman, rector of the parish of Ryton and, later, Archdeacon of Durham and the first warden of the University of Durham.
Herbert Holden Thorp is an American chemist, inventor, musician, professor, and entrepreneur. He served as the tenth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thorp assumed the position of chancellor on July 1, 2008, succeeding James Moeser, and, at age 43, was noted at the time as being among the youngest leaders of a university in the United States. At the time of his selection as chancellor, Thorp was the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a Kenan Professor of chemistry at the university. Thorp is a 1986 graduate of UNC; he later earned a Ph.D in chemistry from California Institute of Technology, and was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University.
The Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy was the trophy awarded to the champions of the National Football League (NFL) from 1934 through 1967. The trophy was named after Ed Thorp, a noted referee, rules expert, sporting goods dealer, and friend to many of the early NFL owners. Thorp died in June 1934, and a large, traveling trophy was made later that year. It was to be passed along from champion to champion each season with each championship team's name inscribed on it.
100 is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It consists of four one-part stories by different authors, rather than the usual multi-part serial, all involving the number 100 in some way. All episodes feature the Sixth Doctor as played by Colin Baker and Evelyn Smythe played by Maggie Stables.
The constituency of Gloucestershire was a UK Parliamentary constituency. After it was abolished under the 1832 Electoral Reform Act, two new constituencies, West Gloucestershire and East Gloucestershire, were created.
Robert Taylor Thorp was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.
Sidney Parham Epes was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, cousin of James F. Epes and William Bacon Oliver.
Peter Thorp Eckersley was the captain of Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1929 to 1935, who retired for a career as a Conservative Party politician.
John Thorpe was an English architect.
Thomas Thorpe (1569–1635) was English publisher.
Robert Thorp was a British clergyman.
The Farnham by-election of 1937 was held on 23 March 1937. The by-election was held due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Arthur Samuel. It was won by the Conservative candidate Godfrey Nicholson.
Daniel Joseph Carden is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton since 2017.
The second Liverpool City Region mayoral election will be held during 2021 to elect the Mayor of the Liverpool City Region. This will be alongside other local elections across England and Wales- including councillors, the Mayor of Liverpool and Police and Crime Commissioners across the city-region. The election was originally due to take place in May 2020, but was postponed due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.