Sylvanus
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"Some agencies lure young people with promises of large payments. The government is tracking those agencies linked to this fraud," Sylvanus Osoro, Kenya's parliamentary majority chief whip, told the BBC.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025
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
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
He said to Sylvanus, “Could you go ax that conductor when we’s s’posed to get to Windsor?”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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