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Thomas Quick (other)
Thomas Quick may refer to: * William Thomas Quick (born 1946), an American conservative blogger, novelist and ghostwriter * Thomas Rory Quick, apprentice pharmacist in the BBC television series '' Victorian Pharmacy'' * Sture Bergwall (born 1950), also known as Thomas Quick, Swedish psychiatric patient, wrongly convicted of eight murders, later acquitted See also * Tom Quick {{hndis, Quick, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Quick
William Thomas "Bill" Quick (born May 1946), who sometimes writes under the pseudonym Margaret Allan, is a science fiction author and self-described libertarian conservative blogger. Quick is the author of 28 novels, the most famous of which is the cyberpunk ''Dreams of Flesh and Sand'', and co-authored a six-novel series with William Shatner. He runs the conservative blog ''Daily Pundit''. Originally from Indiana, he lives in Hunters Point, San Francisco, California. Books Quick is the author of 28 novels, the most famous of which is ''Dreams of Flesh and Sand''. He co-authored the six novel ''Quest for Tomorrow'' series with William Shatner. He has also written a series of prehistoric adventure novels under the pen name Margaret Allan, the best selling of which was ''The Last Mammoth''. His 2014 novel, ''Lightning Fall'', a disaster thriller, was featured in a USA Today column by Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds Glenn Harlan Reynolds (born August 27, 1960) is an Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Pharmacy
''Victorian Pharmacy'' is a historical documentary TV series in four parts, first shown on BBC Two in July 2010. It was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television. The series producer was Cassie Braben and the Executive Producer was David Upshal. It was filmed at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Shropshire. It is a historical documentary that looks at life in the 19th century and how people attempted to cure common ailments. Since some of the ingredients of Victorian remedies are now either illegal or known to be dangerous, Professor Nick Barber often used his modern pharmaceutical knowledge to produce similar products without those ingredients. The other main presenters were Tom Quick, a PhD student, and Ruth Goodman, a domestic historian who also appeared in '' Tales from the Green Valley'', '' Victorian Farm'' and '' Edwardian Farm''. Episodes Episode 1 First broadcast 15 July 2010 at 21:00. The first episode is set in 1837. It was made clear that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sture Bergwall
Sture Ragnar Bergwall (born 26 April 1950), also known as Thomas Quick from 1993–2002, is a Swedes, Swedish man previously believed to have been a serial killer, having confessed to more than 30 murders while detained in a mental institution for personality disorders. Between 1994 and 2001, Quick was convicted of eight of these murders. However, he withdrew all of his confessions in 2008. As a result, his murder convictions were quashed, the final one in July 2013, and he was released from hospital. The episode raised issues about how murder convictions could have been obtained on such weak evidence, and has been called the largest miscarriage of justice in Swedish history. Journalists Hannes Råstam and Jenny Küttim and Dan Josefsson published TV documentaries and books about the murder cases; they claimed that bad therapy led to false confessions. Dan Josefsson claims that a "cult"-like group led by psychologist Margit Norell manipulated the police and talked Sture Bergwall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
