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Arthur Edwards

Arthur A. Edwards (1915–2002), Australian rules footballer with the Fitzroy Football Club


Arthur A. Cohen

He was also a theologian, presumably working on his contributions to the encyclopedic Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought (recently published by Charles Scribner's Sons).

Cohen wrote The Natural and the Supernatural Jew (1962), tracing the history of Jewish theology from the late 15th century, through the German Jewish renaissance, and into what he saw as a hopeful yet troubled American Jewish scene.

Arthur A. Goldberg

The Philadelphia Inquirer exposed the scam in a series of articles in 1987.

In the book, Goldberg claims that there is no genetic cause of homosexuality, and argues that homosexual orientation can be changed through reparative therapy.

Arthur A. Hartman

Arthur Adair Hartman (born March 12, 1926, in New York City) is a retired American career diplomat who served as Ambassador to France under Jimmy Carter and Ambassador to the Soviet Union under Ronald Reagan.

Arthur A. Levine Books

The imprint is most notable as the publisher for the American editions of the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

Arthur A. Ross

Arthur A. Ross (February 4, 1920 - November 11, 2008) was an American film and television screenwriter, best known for writing Brubaker and co-writing The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Arthur A. Schuck

Schuck was born in Brooklyn in 1895 and became a volunteer Scoutmaster at age 18 in 1913, while working in a Newark, New Jersey factory.

Arthur Cohen

Arthur A. Cohen (1928–1986), American Jewish scholar, theologian and author

Arthur Denny

Arthur A. Denny (1822–1899), one of the founders of Seattle, Washington

Arthur Edwards

Arthur R. Edwards (1934–2006), Australian rules footballer with the Footscray Football Club

Arthur S. Link

:Not to be confused with American politician Arthur A. Link

Benjamin S. Edwards

Edwards' home in Springfield, where he lived from 1843 until his death, was an Illinois social center, and at various points Edwards entertained Ulysses S. Grant, Stephen A. Douglas, Lyman Trumbull, John Hay, Sidney Breese, and other well-known Illinois political figures.

Bruce L. Edwards

In the past, he has served as Fulbright Fellow in Nairobi, Kenya (1999-2000), teaching at Daystar University, and as a Bradley Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC (1989–90), and as the S. W. Brooks Memorial Professor of Literature at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (1988).

Carl Ray Proffer

Attending were Arthur A. Cohen, Sasha Sokolov, Joseph Brodsky, Susan Sontag and many other notable Russian and American literary figures.

David Swinson Maynard

Doc Maynard's character and approach to city-building differed from that of his contemporaries William Bell, Arthur Denny, David Denny, Henry Yesler, and Carson Boren.

Donald E. Edwards

After his military retirement General Edwards served on the staff of U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders for two years.

Downhill Challenge

Downhill Challenge is a view-from-behind 3d skiing game developed by Microïds in 1988, published in the US by Brøderbund Software and in France by Loriciel (as Super Ski; in the UK it also had an Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards license).

Fredonian Rebellion

Shortly after Saucedo's ruling, Edwards left to recruit more settlers from the United States, leaving his younger brother Benjamin in charge of the colony.

George E. Edwards

George E. Edwards was the 11th head college football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for six seasons, from 1951 until 1956.

George R. Edwards

He coached two non-consecutive seasons at Kansas Wesleyan.

Harry T. Edwards

When his mother returned, the family moved to Long Island, New York, where Edwards attended Uniondale High School and was president of the first graduating class.

Hartley T. Ferrar

One of the many rock samples which was returned to the National History Museum in London was split open by Dr W. N. Edwards in 1928, and found to contain two fossilised leaves of Glossopteris Indica.

Heywood L. Edwards

He competed for the United States in freestyle wrestling in the 1928 Summer Olympics, earning 4th place in the light heavyweight division.

Human genetic clustering

In 2003, British statistician and evolutionary biologist A. W. F. Edwards faulted Lewontin’s statement for basing his conclusions on simple comparison of genes and rather on a more complex structure of gene frequencies.

Huw Edwards

Huw T. Edwards (1892–1970), trade union leader and nationalist politician

I. E. S. Edwards

In 1955 he was appointed the Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum and organized the Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972.

Joan C. Edwards

Upon her death, the Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation was created in her name to help fund scholarships for medical school.

Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation

The Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation was created in 2006 upon the death of Joan C. Edwards, a well-known West Virginia-based philanthropist.

Joe F. Edwards, Jr.

In the fifth and last exchange of a U.S. astronaut, STS-89 delivered Andy Thomas to Mir and returned with David Wolf.

John H. Edwards

Early in his career, he worked under Lancelot Hogben, and was sometimes distinguished from the brother as Hogben's Edwards.

Lewis Edwards

:For the 19th-century New York state senator, see Lewis A. Edwards.

Likelihood principle

More recently the likelihood principle as a general principle of inference has been championed by A. W. F. Edwards.

Mr. Edwards

His character was later adapted for the NBC television show, Little House on the Prairie and given the name "Isaiah Edwards."

Victor French, a close friend of series creator Michael Landon and a character actor who had acted in several television westerns beforehand, portrayed the role throughout most of the series run.

They met for a short while also in By the Shores of Silver Lake, when Mr. Edwards helps Pa file his claim during a sudden settlement rush, and in The Long Winter, when he generously gives the now-blind Mary a $20 bill.

Race and genetics

While acknowledging Lewontin's observation that humans are genetically homogeneous, A. W. F. Edwards in his 2003 paper "Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy" argued that information distinguishing populations from each other is hidden in the correlation structure of allele frequencies, making it possible to classify individuals using mathematical techniques.

Ray Edwards

Ray K. Edwards, 1923–1942, United States Marine Corps corporal, received a posthumous Silver Star

Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad

The railroad's founding trustees were Arthur Denny, John Collins, Franklin Mathias, Angus Mackintosh, Henry Yesler, James McNaught, J. J. McGilvra, J. M. Colman, and Dexter Horton.

Space elevator construction

Bradley C. Edwards, former Director of Research for the Institute for Scientific Research (ISR), based in Fairmont, West Virginia proposed that, if nanotubes with sufficient strength could be made in bulk, a space elevator could be built in little more than a decade, rather than the far future.

Support curve

Support curve is a statistical term, coined by A. W. F. Edwards, to describe the graph of the natural logarithm of the likelihood function.

The Personal Heresy

The book has been reprinted in 2008 by Concordia University Press with an Introduction by Lewis scholar Bruce L. Edwards and a new Preface by the editor, Joel D. Heck.

Thomas M. Edwards

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

He resumed his former business pursuits and died in Keene, May 1, 1875.

Thomas O. Edwards

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress.

Victor French

This led to his being cast in his most well-known role as Mr. Edwards in the series based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder entitled Little House on the Prairie, beginning in 1974.

William P. Edwards

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Upon the readmission of Georgia to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869.


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