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  1. Life and Collected Works of Thomas Brown by Thomas Brown, 2003-01-01
  2. The Clansman - A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon, 2009-04-06
  3. Baltimore & Ohio E-Unit Diesel Passenger Locomotives by Douglas Nuckles, Thomas Dixon, 1996-08
  4. The leopard's spots: a romance of the white man's burden--1865-1900 by Thomas Dixon, 2010-09-07
  5. The colonial administrations of Sir Thomas Maitland (Reprints of economic classics) by C. Willis Dixon, 1969
  6. The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Thomas Dixon, 2010-04-01
  7. The clansman: an American drama : from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman : presented by the Southern Amusement Co. by Thomas Dixon, 2010-05-13
  8. The Traitor:The story of the fall of the Invisible Empire by Thomas, Jr. [illustrated by C. D. Wiliams] Dixon, 1907
  9. The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden--1865-1900 [1903 ] by Thomas Dixon, 2009-09-22
  10. Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California by Thomas Dixon, 2010-01-10
  11. The Fall of a Nation by Thomas Dixon, 2010-04
  12. Electricity, Magnetism, and Electric Telegraphy: A Practical Guide and Handbook of General Information for Electrical Students, Operators, and Inspectors by Thomas Dixon Lockwood, 2010-03-02
  13. A Description Of The Environs Of Ingleborough: And Principal Places On The Banks Of The River Wenning (1781) by Thomas Dixon, 2010-05-23
  14. The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr., 2010-08-25

41. Ingenuity Gap By Homer-Dixon, Thomas - Isbn 0676972969
Last updated April 4, 2002. Canadian Social Issues. Title Ingenuity Gap.Author HomerDixon, Thomas. ISBN 0676972969. Estimated Price $ 21.95 (Cdn).
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Title: Ingenuity Gap Author: Homer-Dixon, Thomas ISBN: Estimated Price: $ 21.95 (Cdn) Binding: Quality trade paperback edition Summary: Using narrative stories and incidents, offers ideas on closing the critical gap between need for practical, innovative ideas to solve complex problems and the actual supply of those ideas. Larger view of cover
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42. Ingenuity Gap By Homer-Dixon, Thomas - Isbn 0676971482
Last updated April 4, 2002. Canadian Social Issues. Title Ingenuity Gap.Author HomerDixon, Thomas. ISBN 0676971482. Estimated Price $ 37.95 (Cdn).
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Title: Ingenuity Gap Author: Homer-Dixon, Thomas ISBN: Estimated Price: $ 37.95 (Cdn) Binding: Cloth hardbound edition Summary: Is our world becoming too complex, too fast-paced to manage? Author explores the critical gap between our need for practical, innovative ideas to solve complex problems and our actual supply of those ideas. Larger view of cover
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43. Chessie: The Railroad Kitten; Author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr.; Paperback
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44. (Stephen DIXON - Thomas DIXON )
Index of Persons Stephen Dixon Thomas Dixon 20707 individuals, 7796 familiesfrom file C\FTW\GENDEX.GED (15 Jun 2000). Ad Index of Persons.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pfwilson/index/ind0201.html
Index of Persons
Stephen DIXON (ABT. 1746 - )
Steven Jerome DIXON

Still Born DIXON
(24 Jun 1928 - )
Susan DIXON
(9 Aug 1847 - 2 Jan 1910)
Susan DIXON
(ABT. 1809 - )
Susan DIXON
(ABT. 1840 - )
Susan Elizabeth DIXON
(6 May 1874 - 31 Mar 1950)
Susan Jane DIXON
(1892 - 13 Sep 1941)
Susan Jane DIXON
(28 Dec 1885 - 10 Sep 1975)
Susan M. DIXON
(31 Mar 1823 - )
Susannah DIXON
(13 Apr 1786 - Oct 1856) Susannah DIXON (12 Feb 1806 - ) Susannah DIXON (ABT. 1760 - ) Susannah DIXON (19 Oct 1834 - 7 Feb 1847) Susannah Martha DIXON (11 Nov 1767 - 1847) Sylven Wilmount DIXON (18 Feb 1922 - ) Sylvester Bamber DIXON (AFT. 1853 - ) Sylvia Ellen DIXON (4 Oct 1868 - ) Tammy Jo DIXON Tazzie Luna DIXON (1 Apr 1888 - 17 Nov 1902) Terisa Corinne DIXON Theodore DIXON (31 Mar 1919 - 26 Feb 1977) Thomas DIXON (ABT. 1704 - 1734) Thomas DIXON (13 Apr 1753 - 5 Jan 1824) Thomas DIXON (3 Oct 1797 - ) Thomas DIXON (25 Feb 1802 - ) Thomas DIXON (31 Aug 1771 - ) UP (Mary Ann DIXON - Walter Joseph DOAN ) BACK (Simon DIXON - Stephen DIXON ) NEXT (Thomas DIXON - Vernon W. DIXON )

45. Genealogy Data
1877 Gender Male Parents Father Dixon, Unknown Family Spouse Ward, Kezia GenderFemale Children Dixon, Edward Dixon, Elizabeth Dixon, Thomas Dixon, John
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Lagore, Martha
Gender: Female
Family: Marriage: 23 DEC 1865 in Jefferson Co, IA
Spouse: Kirk, William Riley
Birth : 1845
Gender: Male
Parents: Father: Kirk, Eli
Mother: Kirk*, Nancy
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Harrison, Robert
Gender: Male
Family: Marriage: 19 NOV 1863 in Jefferson Co, IA
Spouse: Kirk, Mary Ann Gender: Female Parents: Father: Kirk, Eli Mother: Kirk*, Nancy
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McCoid, James Gender: Male Family: Marriage: 10 FEB 1871 in Jefferson Co, IA Spouse: Kirk, Martha E. Gender: Female Parents: Father: Kirk, Eli Mother: Kirk*, Nancy
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Fuller, Sarah Fannie Birth : UNKNOWN Death : UNKNOWN Gender: Female Family: Spouse: Kirk, George Conley Birth : 3 APR 1883 Death : UNKNOWN Gender: Male Parents: Father: Kirk, Joseph Alexander Mother: Sisk, Susan Jane
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Dixon, Joseph Birth : ABT. 1769 Death : ABT. 1877 Gender: Male Parents: Father: Dixon, Unknown Family: Spouse: Ward, Kezia Gender: Female Children: Dixon, Edward

46. On Thomas Pynchon's Mason And Dixon, Part 3 [includes Topics And A Map]
One source Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, which includes meditations mysteriousenergies, as are both Mound and Book in Mason and Dixon.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/pynchon/mason3.html
L arge conclusions seem inappropriate for this present stage of earliness in our reception of this wonder-filled new gift from Pynchon. We need to keep our discussions as open and wide-ranging and undogmatic as possible, to place the novel's comic and tragic world views in continual juxtaposition. We need to keep our humility and our sense of humor about us as well, even as we try for readings as ambitious as the novel clearly is. We need to meditate on the irony that Pynchon's deepest exploration of aging and mortality may be also the novel whose humor is freest and most liberated, the book in which Pynchon is able to satirize most trenchantly those personal and artistic traits-creative paranoia and a mania for invisibility-for which he is most notorious. Most tellingly, we need to reflect on the paradox that Pynchon may have written his most prophetic work by taking his furthest leap back in time, writing an historical novel that problematizes more profoundly than any of his other works what it means to "write" history or measure how history writes us, which includes the study how others have been written in or out as agents of history. Pynchon in Mason and Dixon discovers the sources of the postmodern in the contradictions of the Enlightenment as lived by his two intrepid surveyors and tragicomic antiheroes.

47. Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pyhchon
Dixon. Roman. Thomas Pynchon, Rowohlt 2001 (TB). Ein Triumph? Mason Dixon , neuestes Werk des Mysteriums Pynchon, Autor
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Thomas Pynchon , Rowohlt 2001 (TB)
Ein Triumph ? "Mason & Dixon", neuestes Werk des "Mysteriums" Pynchon, Autor des berühmten "Die Enden der Parabel", eines Buches, das hart an der Grenze zur Unlesbarkeit laviert, während andere Werke wie "Die Versteigerung von No. 49", "V." und "Vineland" in dieser Hinsicht keine Fragen offen lassen.
Irgendwo in Amerika sitzt ein "genialer Satiriker", oder vielleicht doch nur ein schriftsprachbegabter Soziopath, der in unregelmäßigen Abständen Bücher abliefert, die den Leser das Fürchten lehren, inhaltlich weder nachvollziehbar sind, noch irgendeinen anderen Anreiz liefern, gelesen zu werden. Während "V.", "Vineland" oder, als Exponent, "Die Versteigerung von No. 49" bereits auf den Versuch einer nachvollziehbaren Handlung verzichten, fußt "Mason & Dixon" zumindest in gewisser Hinsicht auf chronologischem Geschehen, sogar - oder wieder - mit historischem Bezug.
Genaugenommen ist das aber völlig egal, denn dieses nicht verstehbare Buch gibt dem geneigten Leser nur wenig Möglichkeiten, Hintergründe, Zusammenhänge oder eine irgendwie geartete Charakterisierung der Protgagonisten zu verstehen. Blasse Figuren, ohne jede Kontur, ohne Motivation, schwätzend und sinnlos handelnd, oder plötzlich im Chor singend, jedenfalls sich in einem breiigen, mystisch-naiven Kontext bewegend, was sich Pynchon beim Schreiben erschlossen haben mag, mir jedenfalls nicht beim Lesen. Die "FAZ" nennt das Buch - laut Klappentext - einen Triumph, und in gewisser Hinsicht kann ich mich diesem Urteil nur anschließen.

48. Dixon Family
Capt. Thomas Dixon / Judith Wingfield. 1705 1763 / 1707 - 1772 m abt1720. Thomas Dixon The parentage for Thomas seems to be unknown.
http://wolves.dsc.k12.ar.us/cyberace/sbgone/gen/fam1/dixon/thomas.htm
Capt. Thomas Dixon / Judith Wingfield
m abt 1720 Thomas Dixon
  • The parentage for Thomas seems to be unknown. One source has him as the son of Adam Dixon who came to US in 1699. There was a Thomas Dixon in Isle of Wight who left orphans Thomas and Henry, raised by Henry Martin, their stepfather. Lived in Prince George County , Virginia where he is believe to have been born and died
Judith Wingfield Children: Martha, Mary, Thomas, Frederick, John, Henry
Henry Dixon Sr. /Elizabeth Abernathy
Henry Dixon
  • Born in Prince George Co., Va List of Tithables Taken by John Dix in Pittsylvania County , Va for the year 1767: Henry Dixon, Jas. Durough, Jas. Borough Enty Record Book. 1737-1770. (Land entries in the present Virginia Counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, and Patrick) listed below: 1764.15th Novr. Henry Dixson 400 Ac Beg. at Robt. Wynns upper Line where it Crosses Rutledge Cr. Th. e up both sides. Also the same persons 400 Ac on matrimoney Cr. Beg. at a Black Jack.

49. Dixon, Piper, Nutter
wit. Jonathan CATHEL, Isaac Dixon, Thomas CAREY. PIPER. SOMERSET COUNTYWILLS. Dixon, Thomas wd 1 Sept 1718 p. 5 may 1720 Lib. EB9.
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PIPER
1745 Christopher L 24 f 198 Som. 1759 Eleanor L 30 f 723 Som. 1674 John L.l1 f 605 St. Marys 1771 Rachel L38 f 343 Worc. 1704 Capt. William L3 f 402 Som. 1734 William L 21 f 165 PIPER , Rachel. w.d. 2 feb 1771 p. 17 may 1771 f. 56/57 Worc. Co to: brother John brother Nutter sister Nelly sister Ann broth in law Levin STOTT, Nathaniel DIXON wit. Jonathan CATHEL, Isaac DIXON, Thomas CAREY PIPER John, son of William m. 18 feb 1748 Ann piper, dau of Christopher Ref 1 Wic. 75 John, son of William m. 5 may 1758, Agnes Finney, dau of Wm Ref 1Wic.75 Tobias, m. 8 Aug 1676 Mary Empson Ref 9 Som. 401 MD. MARRIAGES John Huill(Huitt) NUTTER m 13 aug 1727 Margritt Carlisle Ref 1 Wic. 28 John Huill(Huitt) NUTTER m. 4 Apr. 1735 Ann Nutter Ref 1 Wic. 29 Robert NUTTER m. c. Aug 1775 Sarah Bagwell Ref 1 CR. 6
WILLS SOMERSET CO NUTTER , Christopher Lib. 19 f 818 son Christopher son William lands in Morumsco brother Matthew wife Margaret test. Anna Makmorie, Sarah Austin, John Jones, James Makormie.

50. Project Gutenberg Author Record
Project Gutenberg Author record. Dixon, Thomas. Titles. Foolish Virgin,The. To the main listings page. Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online).
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Dixon, Thomas
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51. Thomas Dixon, 1864-1946 The Leopard's Spots: A Romance Of The White Man's Burden
The leopard's spots a romance of the white man's burden, 18651900,by Thomas Dixon, Jr., 1864-194. Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946.
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The Leopard's Spots
A Romance of the White Man's Burden,
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Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946
Text scanned (OCR) by Jennifer Stowe
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First edition, 1998
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Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Call number C813 D62L C.3 1902 (North Carolina Collection, UNC-CH)
Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19th-century America.
        All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as " and " respectively.
Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998
    LC Subject Headings:
  • Ku-Klux Klan (1866-1869) Fiction. Reconstruction Fiction. United States Race relations Fiction. United States Social conditions To 1865 Fiction.
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    Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?

52. Descendants Of Thomas Dixon
Return to Nodaway County Lineages Descendants of Thomas Dixon Submitted byMary Lue Potthast 1 Dixon, Thomas b Abt. 1750 in Dublin, Ireland d Abt.
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Descendants of Thomas Dixon
Submitted by: Mary Lue Potthast Raphael/Ralph/Rafe was the first Dixon to settle in Nodaway County.
1 DIXON, Thomas b: Abt. 1750 in Dublin, Ireland d: Abt. 1816 in Indiana
..+HOTCHKISS, Rebecca b: January 7, 1765 in Waterbury, Connecticut m: in Philadelphia, PA d: January 1812 in Penn Yan, New York
.....2 DIXON, Cyrus
.....2 DIXON, Lewis
.....2 DIXON, William
.....2 DIXON, Male b: 1794 in Pennsylvania
2 DIXON, Annie/Anna b: July 16, 1798 in Pennsylvania d: May 23, 1823 in Sullivan Co., Indiana
.........+HELMS, Jacob b: 1785 d: 1845 in Sullivan Co., Indiana ..........3 HELMS, Mariah d: 1823 ..........3 [1] HELMS, Hamet N. b: 1814 d: 1892 ................+SALLEE, Amanda d: 1904 ...................4 HELMS, Albert G. ...................4 HELMS, Daniel W. V. ...................4 HELMS, Samuel Dixon b: 1855 .......................+HOOVER, Helen b: 1966 d: 1897 ..........................5 HELMS, Daniel V. ............*2nd Wife of [1] Hamet N. Helms:

53. Curling Family Tree, Kent, England. - Dixon5
Mother, Calc 1829, Jane. Thomas Richard Dixon (male). Birth, Before25 Oct 1857, Martin East Langdon, Kent. Father, Calc 1837, GeorgeDixon.
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George DIXON (male) Birth Before 10 Dec 1854 Martin E. Langdon Father Calc 1829 Robert DIXON Mother Calc 1829 Jane Thomas Richard DIXON (male) Birth Before 25 Oct 1857 Father Calc 1837 George DIXON Mother Calc 1837 Ann GARDNER Emily Ann DIXON (female) Birth Before 20 Nov 1859 Father Calc 1837 George DIXON Mother Calc 1837 Ann GARDNER Charles William DIXON (male) Birth Before 24 Nov 1861 Father Calc 1837 George DIXON Mother Calc 1837 Ann GARDNER Elizabeth DIXON (female) Birth About 1777 Unknown Death 3 Apr 1830 Unknown Stephen SUTTON (male) Birth Before 16 Oct 1774 Ringwould, Kent Death 23 Dec 1837 Unknown Father Unknown Living Mother Before 2 Jul 1749 SUTTON DANIEL Marriage 19 Oct 1796 Ringwould, Kent Child About 1809 John SUTTON Robert DIXON (male) Birth About 1778 East Langdon, Kent Elizabeth WITNEAL (female) Birth About 1778 East Langdon. Kent Marriage 9 Jun 1798 East Langdon. Kent Girl Before 22 Sep 1799 Mary DIXON E-mail me at sbrown0035@mcmail.com if you would like to contact me about my genealogy, or about this web site, which was generated 13 Apr 1998 by genealogy software, Version 3.31a. This page is a pane in a frames-oriented web site. If you see only this page, and not the frames, click here To go to the top of this page

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56. Dixon, Thomas
encyclopediaEncyclopedia Dixon, Thomas. Dixon, Thomas, 1864–1946,American novelist, b. Shelby, NC, grad. Wake Forest College.
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59. The Rise Of Complex Terrorism, By Thomas Homer-Dixon, Foreign Policy Magazine, J
Also by Thomas HomerDixon Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. By ThomasHomer-Dixon. It's 4 am on a sweltering summer night in July 2003.
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It's 4 a.m. on a sweltering summer night in July 2003. Across much of the United States, power plants are working full tilt to generate electricity for millions of air conditioners that are keeping a ferocious heat wave at bay. The electricity grid in California has repeatedly buckled under the strain, with rotating blackouts from San Diego to Santa Rosa. Simultaneously, other groups are doing the same thing along the Eastern Seaboard and in the South and Southwest. A national electrical system already under immense strain is massively short-circuited, causing a cascade of power failures across the country. Traffic lights shut off. Water and sewage systems are disabled. Communications systems break down. The financial system and national economy come screeching to a halt. Sound far-fetched? Perhaps it would have before September 11, 2001, but certainly not now. We've realized, belatedly, that our societies are wide-open targets for terrorists. We're easy prey because of two key trends: First, the growing technological capacity of small groups and individuals to destroy things and people; and, second, the increasing vulnerability of our economic and technological systems to carefully aimed attacks. While commentators have devoted considerable ink and airtime to the first of these trends, they've paid far less attention to the second, and they've virtually ignored their combined effect. Together, these two trends facilitate a new and sinister kind of mass violence—a "complex terrorism" that threatens modern, high-tech societies in the world's most developed nations.

60. Feeding Frenzies, By Thomas Homer-Dixon, Foreign Policy Magazine, January | Febr
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Fax: 202-483-4430 Feeding Frenzies By Thomas Homer-Dixon The recent foot-and-mouth disease crisis in the United Kingdom provided dramatic evidence of these characteristics. By the time veterinarians found the disease, it had already spread throughout Great Britain. As in the United States, the drive for economic efficiencies in the British farming sector has produced a highly integrated system in which foods move briskly from farm to table. It has also led to economic concentration, with a few immense abattoirs scattered across the land replacing the country's many small slaughterhouses. Foot-and-mouth disease spread rapidly in large part because infected animals were shipped from farms to these distant abattoirs. Given these characteristics, foot-and-mouth disease seems a useful vector for a terrorist attack. The virus is endemic in much of the world and thus easy to obtain. Terrorists could contaminate 20 or 30 large livestock farms or ranches across the United States, allowing the disease to spread through the network, as it did in Great Britain. Such an attack would probably bring the U.S. cattle, sheep, and pig industries to a halt in a matter of weeks, costing the economy tens of billions of dollars.

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