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  • It actually depicted a work by the artist Holly Thoburn.

    For the record 2011

  • From this demonstration there ensued near Hupp's Hill a bitter skirmish between Kershaw and Thoburn, and the latter was finally compelled to withdraw to the north bank of Cedar Creek.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • I got all ready to comply with the terms of Secretary Stanton's despatch, but in the meantime the enemy appeared in my front in force, with infantry and cavalry, and attacked Colonel Thoburn, who had been pushed out toward Strasburg from Crook's command, and also Custer's division of cavalry on the Back road.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • After some delay in the annoying defile, Crook got his men up, and posting Colonel Thoburn's division on the prolongation of the Nineteenth Corps, he formed Colonel Duval's division to the right of Thoburn.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Needless to say, the BBC is ramping up the issue and other media are following in its wake – many claiming this to be a "victory" for Neil Herron and the Metric Martyrs, including the late Steve Thoburn (right) and his widow, Leigh (pictured above).

    Archive 2007-09-01 Richard 2007

  • Needless to say, the BBC is ramping up the issue and other media are following in its wake – many claiming this to be a "victory" for Neil Herron and the Metric Martyrs, including the late Steve Thoburn (right) and his widow, Leigh (pictured above).

    Cracks in the "non-imperial" Empire Richard 2007

  • The delicious thing about this conundrum, however, is that if Clarke refuses to accept the relevance of Laws's judgement, then the whole case against Thoburn collapses and their convictions must be overturned, thus putting the UK in breach of EU law.

    Booker Richard 2005

  • When "metric martyr" Steve Thoburn was found guilty of the criminal offence of selling bananas by the pound, it was argued on appeal that the 1985 Act effectively repealed part of the European Communities Act of 1972, under which metric weights and measures were made compulsory, and therefore the regulations under which Thoburn had been prosecuted were invalid.

    Booker Richard 2005

  • Corps, he formed Colonel Duval's division to the right of Thoburn.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • Thoburn, and the latter was finally compelled to withdraw to the north bank of Cedar Creek.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

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