- A jötunn (also jotun;
plural jötnar; in the
normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn /ˈjɔːtʊn/; or, in Old English, eoten,
plural eotenas) is...
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Thyrsa Anne
Frazier Svager (June 16, 1930 – July 23, 1999) was an
American academic who was one of the
first African-American
woman to gain a PhD in mathematics...
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Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos (1879 – May 5, 1941) was the Dean of
Women and
Professor of
Education at the
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
United States...
-
Maxims II,
which identifies fens as the
characteristic living place for
þyrsas.
Katherine O'Keefe (1981) has
suggested that
Grendel resembles a berserker...
- of Jack and Jill of America,
member of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Thyrsa Frazier Svager, head of the
Department of Mathematics, provost, and dean...
- also
believed to be
inhabited by
harmful creatures such as the
nicoras and
þyrsas fought by the hero Beowulf.
Scholars have
argued that
during the 5th century...
- "elf counsel"),
amongst others.
Various Old
English place names reference þyrsas (giants) and
dracan (dragons). However, such
names did not
necessarily emerge...
- 12th
floor of the
Cathedral in 1938. The
interior was
unfinished but Dean
Thyrsa Amos
envisioned a
dignified and
beautiful space for
women to meet. When...
- African-American
woman to earn a
mathematics PhD at New York
University Thyrsa Frazier Svager (1930–1999), African-American mathematician,
donated entire...
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possible way". In the
early 1920s, the
University of
Pittsburgh Dean of
Women Thyrsa Amos saw the need for a
society for
outstanding sophomore women. On 7 November...
