Sylvanus
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The West Point Association of Graduates has canceled an award ceremony for actor Tom Hanks, who was scheduled to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award on September 25.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2025
Sylvanus Thayer, considered the “father of the military academy,” was superintendent in the 1820s.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2023
He told Togo's President, Sylvanus Olympio, that the reason the US shared one ambassador between Togo and Cameroon was because he did not want his diplomats to "have to live in tents".
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2021
For this first environmental staging of Christopher Chen’s 2016 Obie award-winning brain teaser of a play, interactive theater specialist Ed Sylvanus Iskandar collaborated with local stage performers and designers, visual artists and restaurateurs.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2017
In the 1930s, Sylvanus G. Morley of Harvard, probably the most celebrated Mayanist of his day, espoused what is still the best-known theory: The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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