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Thacker's Indian Directory

Thacker's Bengal Directory was published from 1864 to 1884 and covered the Bengal Presidency – which included the present day Myanmar and Bangladesh.


1994 in radio

April 15 – Roy Disney's Shamrock Broadcasting, which merged with Cleveland-based Malrite Communications Group's radio group in the previous year, spins off Cleveland stations WHK and WMMS to OmniAmerica, headed by former Malrite executives Carl Hirsch and Dean Thacker.

American Light Opera Company

Notable past performers with the company include the actress Georgia Engel,the dancer and choreographer George Faison, the opera singer Richard Stilwell, and the performer "Rusty" Russ Thacker.

Caroline Herring

While there she co-founded Thacker Mountain Radio, a literary and musical hour broadcast from Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, and still syndicated on Mississippi Public Radio.

Delbarton, West Virginia

The name Delbarton comes from the New Jersey country estate of one of the officials of the United Thacker Land Company on which a school is located with the same name, Delbarton School.

Eugene Thacker

With Ronald Sukenick and Mark Amerika, Thacker helped establish Alt-X Press, for which he edited the anthology Hard Code.

Ralph Thacker

Ralph William Thacker (September 13, 1880 – ?) was the head coach of the Central Michigan (1907), Wyoming (1913–1914) and Lake Forest (1915) college football programs.

Tab Thacker

Talmadge Layne "Tab" Thacker (10 March 1962 – 28 December 2007), was a former NCAA wrestler and actor.

He began his film career after Clint Eastwood noticed him in Time magazine and noted the 6-foot-4 and 450-pound (1.93 m, 204 kg) Thacker's size.

The Coverup

The Coverup, previously known as The Thacker Case, is a crime-thriller film directed by Brian Jun and starring Gabriel Mann and Eliza Dushku.


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