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"John Thompson House may refer to: * John Henry Thompson House, Millersburg, Kentucky, listed on the National Register of Historic Places * John Thompson House (Highland, New York), listed on the National Register of Historic Places * John L. Thompson House, The Dalles, Oregon * John Thompson House (Richboro, Pennsylvania) See also *Thompson House (disambiguation) "
"Boris Alexandrovich Pokrovsky (Russian: Борис Александрович Покровский; 23 January 19125 June 2009) was a Russian opera director, best known as the stage director of the Bolshoi Theatre between 1943 and 1982. Early life Pokrovsky was born in Moscow, Russian Empire in 1912. Early career His first production was a staging of Georges Bizet's Carmen in Nizny Novgorod. He served as the artistic director of the Bolshoi in 1952-1963 and 1973-1982 and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1961. His production of Vano Muradeli's opera The Great Friendship was the target of the second Zhdanov Ukase (1948), and it was he who first staged Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace, in 1946. He took this opera to Italy for its first full staging there, in 1964. In 1965 in Moscow he directed the first Russian-language production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Career In 1972 Pokrovsky founded the Moscow Chamber Opera Theater with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and he produced operas such as Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Alfred Schnittke's Life with an Idiot, and in 1974 the first Soviet production of Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose since 1929. In 1975 he took the Bolshoi Theatre on its first American tour. Awards and honors Pokrovsky's many awards include four Stalin Prizes (1947, 1948, 1949, 1950), a Lenin Prize (1980), two Orders of Lenin (1967, 1976), Order For Merit to the Fatherland of 3rd (1997), 2nd (2002) and 1st (2007) degree, as well as two State Prizes (1995, 2004). Family He was the father of actress Alla Pokrovskaya, father-in-law of Mariya Lemesheva, and the grandfather of actor Mikhail Yefremov. His second wife was the soprano Irina Maslennikova. Death Boris Pokrovsky died in Moscow in 2009.Борис Александрович Покровский. Биографическая справка Notes External links Category:1912 births Category:2009 deaths Category:Russian opera directors Category:People from Moscow Category:People's Artists of the USSR Category:Stalin Prize winners Category:Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class Category:Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class Category:Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class Category:Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class Category:Musicians from Moscow Category:Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni Category:Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery "
"John Thompson House (Front View) May 2011 The John Thompson House is a historic house near Richboro in Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was built in 1740 and was owned by John Thompson, a local American Revolutionary War veteran. Despite also being known as the Hip Roof House, the house has an elongated-gambrel roof instead of a hip roof. Note: This includes It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 16, 1973. John Thompson, born 16 Nov 1726 in County Tyrone, Ireland, immigrated to the US in the mid-1700s with his mother and three brothers. He served as an Ensign during the American Revolution in the Northampton Company of Associators.Genealogy of the Wilson-Thompson Families from Archive.org Son of Elizabeth (McGraudy) Thompson and brother of Robert Thompson who owned the now Historic Thompson-Neeley House in Washington's Crossing. John, a miller like his brother Robert, married Mary Houston (the twin sister of his brother William's wife) on 17 Feb 1762. They had nine known children: Elizabeth, Hugh, Jane, John, Robert, John, William, Thomas & James. He was commissioned Sheriff of Bucks county, March 22, 1777(3) and served until October 17, 1779, being the first Sheriff of Bucks county commissioned under the constitution of 1776. He was appointed wagon master January 9, 1778 ; sub-agent for purchasing flour for the French fleet, on July 13, 1779 ; and Collector of Excise on October 20, 1783. It's probable that his position as a commissioned officer, as well as the fact that he had funds in his hands collected for the use of that government, caused him to receive a visit from the "Tory Doans" during the Revolutionary War. Their animosity was generally directed towards tax collectors.See Penn. Archives, Second Series, Vol. III, pp. 713, 728, 730; cited by Genealogy of the Wilson-Thompson families At his death on 18 July 1799, he was one of the largest land owners in Bucks County with over 900 acres. According to his Will, his land was divided between his six sons. He was buried in the Presbyterian Graveyard, Newtown, Bucks County, PA. See also * National Register of Historic Places listings in Bucks County, Pennsylvania References Category:Houses completed in 1740 Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Category:Houses in Bucks County, Pennsylvania Category:National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania "