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About elektrizitat

Anything else?: Thomas was born on 4 March 1923 in what was then the little Middlesex village of Pinner. At the age of six months he and his parents moved to Sussex where he has lived ever since - not counting the war years when he was a navigator in the RAF and a brief time in Northern Ireland in the 1960s. Between the ages of six and sixteen Thomas was ill, on and off, and this prevented him from attending school and so was mostly educated at home. During this time he picked up his mother's copy of 'The Story of the Solar System' which sparked his lifelong passion. Since then, he has concentrated upon studies of the Moon. In 1959, the Russians used his charts to correlate the first Lunik 3 pictures of the far side of the Moon and he was involved in the lunar mapping before the NASA Apollo missions. Partly thanks to his larger-than-life personality, bachelor Thomas' own fame extends far beyond astronomical circles. A self-taught musician and talented composer, he has displayed his xylophone-playing skills at a Royal Variety Performance. He also has a love for the game of cricket and has played for the Lord's Taveners. Astronomy remains his first love, and he has no plans to retire. "This century will be very interesting, though I will only see the first part of it, of course," he muses. "For instance, the first man on Mars has probably already been born, and we may have made contact with another life-form from somewhere we can only see clearly from Earth in the sky at night." Over his illustrious life, Thomas has received a whole host of prestigious accolades. In 2001, Thomas received a knighthood from the Queen. In the same year, he won a BAFTA for his services to television and became a member of the Royal Society.

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Weblog

• Apt yet Poor Descriptions of Bands
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Artist ratings

• The Books: 10
• Neutral Milk Hotel: 10
• Cass McCombs: 10
• TV On The Radio: 10
• The Magnetic Fields: 10
• Animal Collective: 10
• The Mountain Goats: 10
• Talking Heads: 10
• The Secret Hairdresser: 10
• John Peel: 10
• Pulp: 10
• Frank Black: 10
• The Fall: 10
• Pixies: 10
• Panda Bear: 9
• Pete and the Pirates: 9
• Architecture In Helsinki: 9
• Arcade Fire: 9
• Jonathan Richman: 9
• The Fiery Furnaces: 9
• Modest Mouse: 9

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