The given name Thornton originates from the Old English, means "settlement walled by strong thorn hedges" or "thorny estate dweller". ^[1]

May refer to:

People[link]

• Thornton (surname), people with the surname Thornton

Places[link]

United Kingdom[link]

• Thornton, Angus
• Thornton, Buckinghamshire
• Thornton, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Thornton, Fife
• Thornton, Lancashire
• Thornton, Leicestershire
• Thornton, Lincolnshire
• Thornton, Merseyside
• Thornton, Middlesbrough
• Thornton, Northumberland
• Thornton, Pembrokeshire
• Thornton, West Yorkshire
• Thornton Abbey, Lincolnshire
• Thornton Curtis, Lincolnshire
• Thornton Heath, London
• Thornton Hough, Merseyside
• Thornton Killene, Londonderry
• Thornton in Craven, North Yorkshire
• Thornton in Lonsdale, North Yorkshire
• Thornton-le-Beans, North Yorkshire
• Thornton-le-Clay, North Yorkshire
• Thornton-le-Dale, North Yorkshire (also simply Thornton Dale)
• Thornton le Moor, Lincolnshire
• Thornton-le-Moor, North Yorkshire
• Thornton-le-Moors, Cheshire
• Thornton-le-Street, North Yorkshire
• Thornton Park, Northumberland
• Thornton Rust, North Yorkshire
• Thornton Steward, North Yorkshire
• Thornton Watlass, North Yorkshire

United States[link]

• Thornton, Arkansas
• Thornton, California
• Thornton, Colorado
• Thornton, Idaho
• Thornton, Illinois
• Thornton, Iowa
• Thornton, Kentucky
• Thornton, Louisiana
• Thornton, Mississippi
• Thornton, New Hampshire
• Thornton, Rhode Island
• Thornton, Texas
• Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois
• Thornton Township, Buffalo County, Nebraska
• Thornton, Wisconsin

South Africa[link]

• Thornton, Cape Town

New Zealand[link]

• Thornton, New Zealand

Canada[link]

• Thornton, Ontario

Belgium[link]

• The Thornton bank, a sandbank off the Belgian coast; the location of the Thorntonbank Wind Farm

Australia[link]

• Thornton, New South Wales
• Thornton, Victoria

See also[link]

• Thornton Hibs F.C., a Scottish football club
• Thornton Creek, a stream in Seattle, Washington, USA
• USS Thornton, several United States Navy ships
• Thornton Academy, a private 6-12 school in Saco, Maine, USA

References[link]

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Zac Rinaldo
Born	(1990-06-15) June 15, 1990 (age 22) Hamilton, ONT, CAN
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position	Left Wing
Shoots	Left
NHL team	Philadelphia Flyers
NHL Draft	178th overall, 2008 Philadelphia Flyers
Playing career	2010–present

Zac Rinaldo (born June 15, 1990) is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Playing career[link]

Rinaldo was selected by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 6th round (178th overall) of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. He signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Flyers on August 11, 2009.^[1] Rinaldo started the 2010–11 AHL season playing with the Flyers' AHL affiliate, the Adirondack Phantoms.

Rinaldo made his NHL debut on April 22, 2011, in Game 5 of the first round of the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Buffalo Sabres despite having more suspensions (4) than goals scored (3) for the Phantoms in the 2010-11 season. He again made the lineup for Game 1 of the conference semi-finals against the Boston Bruins, registering 2 shots.

At the conclusion of the Flyers' training camp in October 2011, Rinaldo made the Flyers' opening night line-up, sharing enforcing duties with veteran Jody Shelley.

Career statistics[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Zac Rinaldo's career stats at Eliteprospects.com
• Zac Rinaldo's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database
• Zac Rinaldo at Hockey-Reference.com
• Zac Rinaldo's NHL player profile
• Zac Rinaldo at TSN.ca

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Shawn Thornton
Born	(1977-07-23) July 23, 1977 (age 34) Oshawa, ON, CAN
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	217 lb (98 kg; 15 st 7 lb)
Position	Left/right wing
Shoots	Right
NHL team Former teams	Boston Bruins Chicago Blackhawks Anaheim Ducks
NHL Draft	190th overall, 1997 Toronto Maple Leafs
Playing career	1997–present

Shawn Thornton (born July 23, 1977) is a Canadian professional hockey forward for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. He is known to be an enforcer.

Playing career[link]

Thornton grew up playing minor hockey for his hometown Oshawa Minor Generals of the OMHA's Eastern AAA League. He was drafted in the 9th round (145th overall) by the Peterborough Petes in the 1995 OHL Priority Selection, one year after being originally passed over in the draft as a Midget-aged player.

He was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1997, 190th overall. He won the Stanley Cup in 2007 with the Anaheim Ducks and again in 2011 with the Boston Bruins.

On July 1, 2007, he became an unrestricted free agent and signed a three-year, 1.5 million dollar deal with the Boston Bruins.^[1]

Shawn Thornton warming up before a game in 2007.

With the Bruins, Thornton finally became an NHL regular, and he has become famous for taking on famous enforcers like Georges Laraque, Donald Brashear and Riley Cote. He also has his own video blog on the Bruins website.

Thornton was involved in the first fight in the history of the Winter Classic with Philadelphia Flyers agitator Daniel Carcillo on January 1, 2010 at Boston's Fenway Park.^[2]

During the 2011 Stanley Cup run, Thornton was a healthy scratch for several games as the Bruins chose to play rookie Tyler Seguin to gain more offense. However, many^[who?] credit the insertion of Thornton into the line-up during Game 3 of the Finals as a turning point for the series. Thornton's physical play changed the tone of the series and the Bruins went on to win four of the last five games with him in the line-up. On June 15, 2011, Shawn Thornton got to lift the Stanley Cup for the second time in 2011, the first time Boston has won since 1972.

Personal life[link]

On October 2, 2010, he and the Boston Bruins played an exhibition game against the Belfast Giants in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where his mother was born.^[3]

Thornton is a cousin of Bill Greer of the Edmonton Rush, Chris Brunt of West Bromwich Albion and Zack Greer of the Minnesota Swarm.^[4][5] He is not related to cousins Joe Thornton (currently with San Jose) and Scott Thornton (a former NHL player who retired in 2008).

Career statistics[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Shawn Thornton's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database

Jay Rosehill (born July 16, 1985) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman/forward for the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League. He was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.^[1]

Playing career[link]

Jay Rosehill was selected in the 7th round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft (227th overall) by the Tampa Bay Lightning. He continued to play for the Olds Grizzlys of the AJHL in the 2003-04 season. The next season, he played for University of Minnesota Duluth of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. For most of the next four seasons, he was placed in the Tampa Bay Lightning farm system, playing for both Johnstown Chiefs of the ECHL and the Springfield Falcons of the American Hockey League in 2005-06 and 2006-07. Due to new Tampa Bay farm system affiliations, he played for Mississippi Sea Wolves of the ECHL and the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League in 2007-08 & 2008-09. On March 10, 2009, his was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs organization for future considerations.^[2]

Rosehill started the 2009–10 NHL season on the starting roster for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and in his third game, he scored his first NHL goal against Marc-Andre Fleury of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Career statistics[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jay Rosehill's NHL player profile
• Jay Rosehill's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database

Melanie Thornton
Melanie Thornton at her final performance in Leipzig on November 24, 2001, hours before she was killed in a plane crash
Background information
Birth name	Melanie Janene Thornton
Born	(1967-05-13)May 13, 1967 Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Origin	Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
Died	November 24, 2001(2001-11-24) (aged 34) Zürich, Switzerland
Genres	Pop, Dance, Eurodance, R&B, Gospel
Occupations	Singer
Years active	1992–2001
Labels	X-Cell Music, Sony Music, Epic

Melanie Janene Thornton (May 13, 1967 – November 24, 2001) was an American pop singer who found fame in Germany and fronted the Eurodance group La Bouche, who found success with the singles "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams" in the mid-1990s. She forged a moderately successful solo career in Germany before her death. Her hits include "Love How You Love Me", "Wonderful Dream", "Memories", and "Heartbeat". Thornton died in a plane crash near Bassersdorf, Switzerland. Receiving significant airplay during the annual Christmas season, "Wonderful Dream" has consistently featured in the December singles charts in Germany ever since.

Personal life and career[link]

Thornton was born in Charleston, South Carolina and began studying voice from the age of six, as well as learning to play the piano and the clarinet. She grew up listening to Aretha Franklin and Roberta Flack. Thornton would mimic the female vocalists she saw on television or heard on radio. Later on, she financed her college studies with appearances in talent shows and smaller band concerts. She frequented a club called The Peacock Lounge, getting up and doing jam sessions when the live band invited people up to sing. She had long dreamed of a career in music and in February 1992, Thornton went to Germany. Her sister lived there with her U.S. Army husband and Thornton had dual citizenship in Germany and the United States. His uncle, Bob Chisolm, a singer and piano player, encouraged her to give the German nightclub circuit a try. She had been singing in a Macon, Ga., band, Danger Zone, pulling down $50 on a good night. However, Bob Chisolm told her that on a bad night in Germany she would make $150.

Thornton tried it and soon found work in studios recording demos. It was her recording of the song "Sweet Dreams" that caught the attention of producer Frank Farian, the mastermind of the infamous 1980s duo Milli Vanilli. Farian took her under his wing, teaming her with rapper Lane McCray in the duo La Bouche, which is French for "The Mouth". La Bouche went on to become one of the biggest Eurodance groups of the 90s, with a string of hits, worldwide.

She left La Bouche in February 2000 to be replaced by Natascha Wright while Lane remained a part of the project. She signed a record deal with Sony/Epic Records. Her first solo single was released in November 2000, titled "Love How You Love Me", a ballad (the CD-maxi includes a few dance remixes). Thornton presented her new single on November 29, 2000 on the RTL Spendenmarathon, and on December 1 at the Dome in Berlin. The follow-up single was entitled "Heartbeat".

On May 7, 2001, Thornton released her first (and only) solo album entitled Ready To Fly under the label X-Cell (distributed by Sony/Epic Records). She continued to do club appearances in the United States under the billing "Melanie Thornton, formerly of La Bouche".

Death and aftermath[link]

On the night of November 24, 2001, Thornton died in a plane crash of the Crossair Flight 3597 near Bassersdorf near Zürich in Switzerland. Thornton had given her final performance in Leipzig and afterwards taken the ill-fated plane from Berlin to Zürich for radio and TV appearances (among others, the broadcast "Die Bar" on TV3, which was cancelled) to promote her new single "Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming)" (a Christmas ballad recorded for a German Coca-Cola TV commercial) and her album Ready To Fly (New Edition). The flight departed Berlin Tegel Airport at 21:01 CET with 28 passengers, 3 flight attendants, and a two-man cockpit crew (33 in all). Upon arrival in Zurich about an hour later, it was cleared to approach runway 28 in poor visibility conditions due to low clouds. At 22:07 CET, the plane crashed into a wooded range of hills near the small town of Bassersdorf, around 4 km (2.5 miles) short of the runway, where it broke apart and went up in flames. Of the 33 people on board, 24 died, while 9 survived. Two members of the pop band Passion Fruit died on the plane. The story of the disaster was featured on the tenth season of a Canadian Discovery Channel Documentary Program, but with no mention of Thornton.

Although Thornton's death occurred practically on the eve of that year's Christmas season, Coca-Cola decided to stick with the commercial as planned. It has also been used in Christmas Coca-Cola TV commercials in Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. The original commercial has been aired in Germany every year since 2001 around Christmas time, and the song has been in the German single charts every year since.

On November 25, 2002 the single "In Your Life" was released to commemorate the first anniversary of her death. Included is an "in memory" dedication from Lane McCray and SonyBmg/X-Cell Records.

Thornton is buried in Mount Pleasant Memorial Gardens, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

• "Love How You Love Me" (November 6, 2000 with music video)
• "Heartbeat" (April 9, 2001 with music video)
• "Makin' Oooh Oooh (Talking About Love)" (September 3, 2001 with music video)
• "Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming)" (November 26, 2001, re-released November 24, 2003 with music video)
• "Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming)" (Pock It 8 cm CD) (November 15, 2004)
• "In Your Life" (November 25, 2002 with music video.)

Albums[link]

• Ready to Fly (May 7, 2001)
• Ready to Fly (New Edition) (November 26, 2001)

Compilations[link]

• Best of La Bouche feat. Melanie Thornton (May 21, 2002)
• Memories - Her Most Beautiful Ballads (December 1, 2003)
• La Bouche - Greatest Hits (April 2, 2007)

Thornton's bands & projects[link]

• Danger Zone
• Schnapka
• Groovin' Affairs
• Le Click - "Tonight Is the Night", "Call me"
• La Bouche - "Sweet Dreams", "Be My Lover", "All Mixed Up", "A Moment of Love", "SOS", The Best of La Bouche
• Men Behind - "Feel the Life", "How Can I?"
• Orange Blue - "If You Wanna Be My Only"
• 100% - "Power of the Light"
• No Mercy
• Comic - "I Surrender to Your Love"
• Joy-Lab
• Hystery
• DJ Bobo - "Love of My Life"
• Loop

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

English language[link]

• Melanie Thornton at the Internet Movie Database
• Melanie Thornton Youth Arts Foundation teaching children creative arts
• Dance artist info page on the singer
• English / German Melanie Thornton- & La Bouche-Website
• Melanie Thornton at Find a Grave

German language[link]

• German site dedicated to the singer's memory
• La Bouche´s Official Fansite dedicated to the singer's memory
• Text and audio of one of her final interviews, given on September 6, 2001
• Image page featuring stills from her final concerts