When Thomas Stanley Thayer was born on 1 May 1952, in Connecticut, United States, his father, Ernest Edward Thayer, was 28 and his mother, Gloria Beverly Stanley, was 25. He died on 25 May 2017, in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Forestville Cemetery, Forestville, Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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The USS Nautilus was launched from Groton, Connecticut. It was the first nuclear-powered submarine in the Navy.
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
The Twenty-sixth Amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens who are eighteen years old or older.
English (Gloucestershire and Somerset): from Middle English the eir ‘the heir’ with fused definite article. See Ayer .
History: Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872), military engineer, an early superintendant of the US Military Academy at West Point, was born in Braintree, MA, into a family of English origin.
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