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Samuel R. Thayer

He then relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, studied law with Francis R. E. Cornell, attained admission to the bar, and established a practice in Minneapolis.


Art-O-Graf

Board of Directors: Alden Van Epps Wessels (Owner of the Steamboat Springs Orphium Theatre), Clay Henry Monson, M. Jay Casey, Otis B. Thayer, Gretchen Wood, Lucius Alfred Dick (son of Ohio Senator Charles William Frederick Dick), and David Townsend.

Black science fiction

Writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Nalo Hopkinson, Minister Faust, Nnedi Okorafor, N. K. Jemisin, Tananarive Due, Andrea Hairston, and Nisi Shawl are among the writers who continue to work in black science fiction.

Donation Land Claim Act

The passage of the law was largely due to the efforts of Samuel R. Thurston, the Oregon territorial delegate to Congress.

Feminism and equality

Genders (usually distinguished from sexes) are counted as other than two in some feminist utopian literature, according to Karin Schönpflug, analyzing works by Gabriel de Foigny (1676), Ursula le Guin (1969), Samuel Delany (1976), Donna Haraway (1980), and Alkeline van Lenning (1995).

Francis S. Thayer

Francis Samuel Thayer (September 11, 1822 Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont – November 26, 1880 Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado) was an American merchant and politician from New York.

Harry E. T. Thayer

He entered the State Department's service in 1956, and until 1971 worked in Hongkong, Taipei, and China.

He attended Yale University and graduated in 1951, and worked for Newsweek from 1952 to 1954, followed by two years with the Philadelphia Bulletin.

Harry E. T. Thayer (born 10 September 1927) is an American who served as the sixth United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1980–85.

His son, Nate, became a journalist, and gained recognition after he interviewed Pol Pot in 1997.

Invisible theater

A similar form of "micro-theater" was portrayed by Samuel R. Delany in his science-fiction novel Triton.

John Thayer

John A. Thayer (1857–1917), former member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts

John R. Thayer (1845–1916), former member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts

Malinda Lo

Malinda Lo was made a member of the faculty of the Lambda Literary Foundation's 2013 Writer Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, along with Samuel R. Delaney, Sarah Schulman and David Groff.

Marietta Earthworks

The complex was again surveyed and drawn in 1838 by Samuel R. Curtis (at the time a civil engineer for the state of Ohio).

Mark Dery

In it, he interviews three African-American thinkers—science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, writer and musician Greg Tate, and cultural critic Tricia Rose—about different critical dimensions of Afrofuturism in an attempt to define the aesthetic.

National Registry of Exonerations

The editor of the registry is Michigan Law professor Samuel R. Gross, who with Michael Shaffer wrote the report Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2012.

Robert H. Thayer

In 1945, he was an assistant to John Foster Dulles, who became secretary of state in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, at the organizing conference of the United Nations at San Francisco.

Thayer assisted Charles Lindbergh's lead lawyer, Henry Skillman Breckinridge on the famous Lindbergh kidnapping case in 1932, staying at the Charles A Lindbergh residence in Hopewell, New Jersey, until the body of the child was found on 12 May 1932.

Thayer was appointed a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation from 1966 and was vice-chairman from 1975 to 1977.

Samuel Caldwell

Samuel R. Caldwell (1880–1941), first American citizen convicted under the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act

Samuel R. Peters

Peters was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891).

Samuel R. Scottron

Scottron was the maternal grandfather of noted singer Lena Horne (1917–2010).

Samuel Spencer

Samuel R. Spencer (1871–1961), American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut

Samuel Williamson

Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., American academic, President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

Stella F. Thayer

She is the former chairman of the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority, the governing board of Tampa International Airport and is the former chairman of the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority.

The daughter of Chester Howell Ferguson, for whom the University of South Florida’s College of Business Administration building is named, Thayer has been active in thoroughbred racing and has been in ownership with her brother, Howell Ferguson, of Tampa Bay Downs since 1986.

She is also a member of the Lykes Family of Florida that wholly owns Lykes Bros. Inc with 337000 acres of land holdings (526 sq miles)including cattle ranching, forestry, sod, sugarcane farms, insurance, and ecoassets.

Stella F. Thayer (born December 27, 1940 in Tampa, Florida) is president of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

The Last Angel of History

The film bases its concepts around George Clinton's Mothership Connection and features interviews with George Clinton, Derrick May, Samuel R. Delany, Nichelle Nichols, Juan Atkins, DJ Spooky, Goldie and others to explore the link between black music as a way of exploring the future.

Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones – The BBC Sessions 1979–1984

The name of the album was taken from a short story by science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany.

William Thayer

W. W. Thayer (1827-1899), American politician, sixth Governor of Oregon, and Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court

With 100 Kazoos

Dedicatees of the work include the science fiction writers Roger Zelazny, Theodore Sturgeon, Samuel R. Delany and the astronomer Patrick Moore.

Women in speculative fiction

Additionally, movement among writers concerned with feminism and gender roles sprang up, leading to a genre of "feminist science fiction including Joanna Russ' 1975 The Female Man, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, and Marge Piercy's 1976 Woman on the Edge of Time.


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