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unusual facts about Charles G. W. French



Advanced Base Force

On 19 June 1913, the Fixed Defense Regiment, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Long, was formed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Animal Stories

:See also: section on ‘’’Animal Stories’’’ under Charles G. D. Roberts.

Benjamin Dean

Dean was married to Mary Anne French, daughter of Lowell Mayor Josiah Bowers French and a descendant of the Cotton and Mather families of Massachusetts Bay.

Bot Colony

In an article published in the Communications of the ACM , Robert M. French argues that "the time has come to bid farewell to the Turing test" and that "Attempting to build a machine to pass a no-holds-barred Turing test is not the way forward in AI, regardless of recent advances in computing technology".

Charles Conn

Charles G. Conn (1844–1931) the 19th century U.S. Representative from Indiana and the namesake of the musical instrument company C.G. Conn Inc.

Charles G. Atherton

The son of Charles Humphrey Atherton and Mary Ann Toppan-Atherton, Charles G. Atherton was born in Amherst, New Hampshire on 4 July 1804.

He was a States-rights Democrat from a northern State of New England.

Charles G. Bennett

Bennett was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress.

Charles G. Bond

Bond, a nephew of American Civil War general Charles H. Grosvenor, was born in Columbus, Ohio the son of William W. and Frances (Currier) Bond.

Charles Grosvenor Bond (May 29, 1877 – January 10, 1974) was a Republican United States Representative from the state of New York who served in the 67th United States Congress.

Charles G. Boyd

He is a member of the board of directors at defense electronics firm, DRS Technologies; graphics software firm, Forterra Systems; and venture capitalists In-Q-Tel, who support the work of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Charles G. Case II

Charles G. Case II is a Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge for the United States bankruptcy court, District of Arizona.

Charles G. Cleveland

In July 1968 he was assigned to the staff of Headquarters Third Air Force at RAF South Ruislip, England.

Charles G. Conn

Conn served as mayor of Elkhart from 1880 until 1883, and as member of the Indiana state House of Representatives in 1889.

Colonel Conn also served as Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, and was re-elected many times as Commander of the local G.A.R. post.

Charles G. Coulon

Charles G. Coulon (b. 16 Feb. 1825, Göttingen, Germany – d. 2 Feb. 1881) was the sixth mayor of the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.

Charles G. Dahlgren

His older brother, John A. Dahlgren, was a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and enjoyed a measure of fame for inventing the Dahlgren gun.

Charles G. Dawes House

Certainly the best example ever built in the United States is the 225 room Biltmore House (1888–1895), the home of George Washington Vanderbilt constructed in Asheville, NC, which was also designed by Hunt.

Charles G. Ferris

Ferris was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dudley Selden and served from December 1, 1834, to March 4, 1835.

Charles G. Oakman

On February 8, 1954, Oakman introduced a bill to the U.S. House that would add the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.

In 1952, Oakman defeated Democrat Martha W. Griffiths to be elected as a Republican from Michigan's 17th congressional district to the 83rd Congress, serving from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1955 in the U.S. House.

He was also a member of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors 1941-1952; served as executive secretary to the mayor of Detroit in 1941 and 1942; city controller 1942-1945; served four terms as city councilman 1947-1952; secretary of the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority 1948-1954 and general manager 1955-1973.

Charles G. Palmer-Buckle

In 2002 he apologized on behalf of Africans for the part Africans played in the slave trade, and the apology was accepted by bishop John Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee.

Claude Lelièvre

Claude Lelièvre (born May 19, 1946) is the Commissioner for Children Rights of the French (i.e., French-speaking) Community of Belgium, an office similar to the Children's Ombudsman agencies elsewhere.

David H. French

He was heavily influenced by the milieu surrounding Franz Boas, who died while French was at Columbia.

Edmund W. Wells

He was appointed to the newly created 4th district by President Benjamin Harrison and his nomination was supported by U.S. Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, Arizona Territorial Governors Richard C. McCormick, Anson P. K. Safford, and Lewis Wolfley, Arizona Territorial Justices Charles G. W. French and William W. Porter, Arizona Territorial Secretary John J. Gosper, and Oakes Murphy.

Emil Norlander

Among those recording his songs in America were Ingeborg Laudon, Bert Leman, Gösta Nyström, Elis Olson-Ellis, Hjalmar Peterson, Calle Sjöquist and Charles G. Widdén.

Foreign policy of Mobutu Sese Seko

French, Howard W. A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa.

Gail M. Kelly

She attended Reed as an undergraduate, studying under Morris Opler and David H. French, graduating in 1955.

George French

George P. French (1865–1932), founding member and first president of the Rochester Numismatic Association

George P. French

He had exhibited this collection at several American Numismatic Association conventions, and it was perhaps the foremost of its kind formed at the time.

Jean-Denis Lejeune

Since 2005, he has been working with Claude Lelièvre, the Commissioner for Children Rights of the French (i.e. French-speaking) Community of Belgium.

John R. French

In 1858 and 1859, French served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.

In 1847, while at the New Hampshire Statesman, French published a volume of writings by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers titled, A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers.

French was Nathaniel Peabody Rogers's son in law.

Jones, Oklahoma

Aldrich named the town after his friend and business associate, Charles G. "Gristmill" Jones who was a three-time mayor of Oklahoma City.

Kathrine S. French

In later years of her life she remained active in anthropology, advising students as well as taking on numerous consulting projects on behalf of tribal groups, including research for Archaeological Investigations Northwest, Inc., throughout the lower Columbia River area.

While her husband's research focused on ethnobotany and language, hers focused on naming practices and ceremonialism, in a community composed of Sahaptins, Paiutes, and—the Frenches' specialization -- Wasco Chinookans.

Educated in California, she studied ceremonialism and naming practices on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in the state of Oregon.

Lee Tracy

In his autobiography, Charles G. Clarke, the cinematographer on the picture, said that he was standing outside the hotel during the parade and the incident never happened.

Locarno Treaties

In both 1925 and 1926, the Nobel Peace Prize was given to the lead negotiators of the treaty, going to Sir Austen Chamberlain (with Charles Dawes) in 1925 and jointly to Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann in 1926.

Parker H. French

He left home as a teenager and eventually made his way to New Orleans where he signed on with the British Navy and sailed on a man-of-war as a "powder monkey" during the Opium Wars.

Robert M. French

French is the inventor of Tabletop, a computer program that forms analogies in a microdomain consisting of everyday objects placed on a table.

Stregheria

Grimassi shares in common, in his books, the general "Witch-cult hypothesis" that appears in the writings of Charles G. Leland (Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, 1899), a theory to the effect that European witchcraft was the continuation of an ancient pre-Christian form.

The Brunswickan

Among its notable alumni are Colin B. Mackay, Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Dalton Camp, Fredrik Eaton, Nathan White, Sean Patrick Sullivan, Chris Wilson-Smith, Ben Conoley, Donald Pringle and Kwame Dawes.


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