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Thayer (name)
Thayer is an English surname found in Somerset, the name derived from English ''tawyer,'' one who dressed skins. Notable people with the name include: Family *Thayer family, a Boston Brahmin family and prominent American political family. Surname * Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), American artist * Adin Thayer (1816–1890), New York politician * Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–1897), author of ''The life of Ludwig van Beethoven'', a standard biography, and other music biographies * Albert R. Thayer (1878–1965), painter and etcher * America Thayer (died 2021), American murder victim * Amos Madden Thayer (1841–1905), United States federal judge * Andrew J. Thayer (1818–1873), attorney and legislator * Betty Thayer (born 1958), businesswoman * Bronson Thayer (1939–2016), executive * Brynn Thayer (born 1949), American actress * Caroline Matilda Warren Thayer, American educator, novelist and children's writer * Charles W. Thayer (1910–1969), US military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Harvia
Teddy Harvia is the pen name of David Thayer, an American science fiction fan artist. "Teddy Harvia" is an anagram of "David Thayer". He was born in Oklahoma but grew up in and resides in Dallas, Texas. , Teddy Harvia has won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist four times, and has been nominated an additional sixteen times for the award. For his service to Southern science fiction fandom, Harvia was presented the Rebel Award by the Southern Fandom Confederation in 1997 at that year's DeepSouthCon. David Thayer was chair of the bid to host the Worldcon in Cancún, Mexico, in 2003. (The bid lost to Torcon III and the 61st World Science Fiction Convention was held in Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ....) References External linksTeddy Harvia(official si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Thayer
Helen Thayer (née Nicholson'';'' born 12 November 1937) is a New Zealand-born explorer who lives in the United States. In 2009, Thayer was named one of the most important explorers of the 20th century by the National Geographic Society. Biography Thayer was raised on a farm at Whitford, near Howick outside Auckland, New Zealand and attended Pukekohe High School. Sir Edmund Hillary was a friend of her parents, Ray and Margaret Nicholson, and at the age of 9 she and her parents climbed Mount Taranaki with Hillary; she later said that this experience inspired her to explore mountaineering and the outdoors. She competed in track and field events, and represented New Zealand in discus at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia. In the early 1960s she represented Guatemala in discus at the Caribbean Games, and in 1975 she won the United States National Luge title. Thayer studied laboratory medicine in Auckland, and graduated in 1961. The same year, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Thayer (other)
Harry Thayer may refer to: * Harry Bates Thayer (1858–1936), businessman * Harry E. T. Thayer (1927–2017), diplomat * Harry Irving Thayer (1869–1926), Congressman from Massachusetts * Harry Thayer (American football, born 1873) (1873–1936), All-American football player * Harry Thayer (American football executive) Harry M. Thayer (December 23, 1907 – January 28, 1980) was an American football executive who served as general manager for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL) from 1941 to 1946, and for the Los Angeles Dons of the All-A ... (1907–1980), American football executive See also * Thayer (other) {{hndis, Thayer, Harry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Thayer
Gregory Allen Thayer (born October 23, 1949) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis. The Twins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division. The team is named after the Twin Cities area w ... in 1978."Greg Thayer Statistics and History" ''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2011-02-13. References External links 1949 births Living people[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Thayer
George Chapman Thayer, Jr.Full name George Chapman Thayer reported in "The Record" (U. Penn. yearbook) for 1924, p. 358. (March 5, 1905 – April 21, 1952) was an American football player. He grew up in Villanova, Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a member of Delta Psi. He also played college football at the end position for the Penn Quakers football team in 1924 and 1925. In December 1925, he was voted by his teammates as the captain of the 1926 Penn football team. At the end of the 1926 season, he was selected by Grantland Rice as a first-team end on his 1925 College Football All-America Team for ''Collier's Weekly''. He was also named a second-team All-American by the Associated Press. He declined offers to play professional football, and in 1927, he traveled to Honduras for a two-year to learn the business of growing and exporting fruit. He died in 1952 at age 47, just 6 months after being named a partner at Merrill Lynch. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis S
Francis may refer to: People *Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome *Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Francis (surname) Places * Rural Municipality of Francis No. 127, Saskatchewan, Canada * Francis, Saskatchewan, Canada **Francis (electoral district) *Francis, Nebraska *Francis Township, Holt County, Nebraska * Francis, Oklahoma *Francis, Utah Other uses * ''Francis'' (film), the first of a series of comedies featuring Francis the Talking Mule, voiced by Chill Wills *''Francis'', a 1983 play by Julian Mitchell *FRANCIS, a bibliographic database * ''Francis'' (1793), a colonial schooner in Australia *Francis turbine, a type of water turbine *Francis (band), a Sweden-based folk band * Francis, a character played by YouTuber Boogie2988 See also *Saint Francis (other) *Francies, a surname, including a list of people with the name *Francisco (other) *Francis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Thayer
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan." Biography Thayer was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Worcester. He graduated ''magna cum laude'' in philosophy from Harvard University in 1885, where he had been editor of the ''Harvard Lampoon'' and a member of the theatrical society Hasty Pudding. William Randolph Hearst, a friend from both activities, hired Thayer as humor columnist for ''The San Francisco Examiner'' 1886–88. Thayer's last piece for the ''Examiner'', dated June 3, 1888, was a ballad entitled "Casey" ("Casey at the Bat") which made him "a prize specimen of the one-poem poet" according to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Homan Thayer
Emma Homan Thayer (1842–1908) was a 19th-century American botanical artist and author of books about native wildflowers. She also wrote several novels. Biography Emma Homan was born in New York City on Feb. 13, 1842, the daughter of George Wand and Emma Homan. Her father was a businessman and the first person to operate omnibuses on Broadway in New York. A portrait of her as a very young child (ca. 1843) by the painter John Bradley (artist), John Bradley is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was painted in the village of Wading River, New York, Wading River on Long Island. Her father moved the family to Omaha, Nebraska, when she was around 15, and a few years later, in 1860, she married George A. Graves, who went on to work for the war department in Washington, D.C. They had two children, Amy (1861–1892) and Byron (b. 1862). Emma Homan Graves was widowed after only four years of marriage, at which point she decided to pursue higher education. She attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Cheever Thayer
Ella Cheever Thayer (September 14, 1849 – October 28, 1925) was an American playwright and novelist. Born in Maine, she worked as a telegraph operator and published several works in her lifetime. Biography She was the daughter of apothecary George Augusta Thayer (October 19, 1824 – December 13, 1863) and Rachel Ella Cheever Thayer (October 18, 1823 - May 15, 1907). One sister, Mary Georgie Thayer (October 9, 1869 – March 30, 1912), was a school teacher. Thayer eventually became a telegraph operator at the Brunswick Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, who used her experience on the telegraph as the basis for her book ''Wired Love, A Romance of Dots and Dashes'', which became a bestseller for 10 years. She was also a playwright, having written '' The Lords of Creation'' in 1883. Her play is reviewed in the book ''On to Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman's Suffrage Movement'' by Bettina Friedl, published in 1990 () and it was one of the first suffragette plays. She also wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Thayer
Eli Thayer (June 11, 1819 – April 15, 1899) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1861. He was born in Mendon, Massachusetts. He graduated from Worcester Academy in 1840, from Brown University in 1845, and in 1848 founded Oread Institute, a school for young women in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is buried at Hope Cemetery, Worcester. He is chiefly remembered for his crusade to ensure that the Kansas Territory would enter into the United States as a free state. With this aim in view, early in 1854 Thayer organized the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company to send anti-slavery settlers to the Kansas Territory. In 1855, this organization joined with the New York Emigrant Aid Company and the name was changed to the New England Emigrant Aid Company. The motives of Thayer in establishing the New England Emigrant Aid Company were questioned by historian David S. Reynolds, who wrote that Thayer "opposed slavery not on moral grounds but because ewanted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretary Of The United States Senate
The secretary of the Senate is an officer of the United States Senate. The secretary supervises an extensive array of offices and services to expedite the day-to-day operations of that body. The office is somewhat analogous to that of the clerk of the United States House of Representatives. The first secretary was chosen on April 8, 1789, two days after the Senate achieved its first quorum for business at the beginning of the 1st United States Congress. From the start, the secretary was responsible for keeping the minutes and records of the Senate, including the records of senators' election, and for receiving and transmitting official messages to and from the president and the House of Representatives, as well as for purchasing supplies. As the Senate grew to become a major national institution, numerous other duties were assigned to the secretary, whose jurisdiction now encompasses clerks, curators, and computers; disbursement of payrolls; acquisition of stationery supplies; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
