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Thyrsa Anne
Frazier Svager (June 16, 1930 – July 23, 1999) was an
American academic who was one of the
first African-American
woman to gain a PhD in mathematics...
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Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos (1879 in
Indiana – 5 May 1941) was the Dean of
Women and
Professor of
Education at the
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United...
- A jötunn (also jotun; in the
normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn /ˈjɔːtʊn/; or, in Old English,
eoten -
plural eotenas) is a type of being...
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Maxims II,
which identifies fens as the
characteristic living place for
þyrsas.
Katherine O'Keefe has
suggested that
Grendel resembles a berserker, because...
- "elf counsel"),
amongst others.
Various Old
English place names reference þyrsas (giants) and
dracan (dragons). However, such
names did not
necessarily emerge...
- also
believed to be
inhabited by
harmful creatures such as the
nicoras and
þyrsas fought by the hero Beowulf.
Scholars have
argued that
during the 5th century...
- 12th
floor of the
Cathedral in 1938. The
interior was
unfinished but Dean
Thyrsa Amos
envisioned a
dignified and
beautiful space for
women to meet. When...
- African-American
woman to earn a
mathematics PhD at New York
University Thyrsa Frazier Svager (1930–1999), African-American mathematician,
donated entire...
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every possible way". In the
early 1920s, the
University of
Pittsburgh Dean
Thyrsa Amos saw the need for a
society for
outstanding sophomore women. On 7 November...
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umpire (d. 2018) June 14 –
Charles McCarry,
novelist (d. 2019) June 16 –
Thyrsa Frazier Svager,
African American mathematician and
academic (d. 1999) June...
