Thomas Kinkade (born January 19, 1958 in Sacramento, California) is an American painter of realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via The Thomas Kinkade Company. He is self described as "Thomas Kinkade, Painter of ...
Ed Thomas (1951–June 24, 2009) was the high school football coach at the Aplington-Parkersburg High School in Parkersburg, Iowa. On June 24, 2009 he was gunned down by a former student at the school. Thomas was taken to a Waterloo, Iowa hospital where he was pronounced dead. Mark Becker, the ...