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unusual facts about Frederic G. Kenyon



Dean H. Kenyon

In 1987 in Edwards v. Aguillard the Supreme Court heard a case concerning a Louisiana Law that required "creation science" be taught on an equal basis with evolution in public schools.

E. W. Kenyon

In an attempt to hone his acting skills, Kenyon attended the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston for one year in 1892 studying acting.

Frederic G. Melcher

Named for British illustrator Randolph Caldecott, the medal is presented annually for the "most distinguished picture book for children".

Michael H. Kenyon

Kenyon became the subject of Frank Zappa's song "The Illinois Enema Bandit", recorded live in December, 1976 and first released on Zappa in New York.

Mitchell and Kenyon

A prime-time three-part series The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon was shown on the BBC in January 2005 with enthusiastic commentary by historian Dan Cruickshank and interviews with descendants of people shown in the films, and is available on DVD from the BBC or the BFI.

Of Pandas and People

Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins is a controversial 1989 (2nd edition 1993) school-level textbook written by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon and published by the Texas-based Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE).

Patent Resources Group

PRG's faculty is mostly staffed by practicing lawyers at well known firms such as Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP; DLA Piper US LLP; Kenyon & Kenyon; Fish & Richardson P.C.; and Stoel Rives LLP among many others.

Percival Davis

The term "intelligent design" came into general usage following the publishing of a 1989 book called Of Pandas and People co-authored by Davis and Dean H. Kenyon.

Publishers Weekly

Through much of the 20th century, Publishers Weekly was guided and developed by Frederic Gershom Melcher (1879–1963), who was editor and co-editor of Publishers' Weekly and chairman of the magazine's publisher, R.R. Bowker, over four decades.

William Harrison Cowlishaw

At the end of World War I, like many Arts and Crafts architects of the period, he was commissioned by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission to design memorials and cemetery layouts in Flanders and France under Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, the Commission's advisor on architecture and layout.

William Kenyon

William C. Kenyon (1898–1953), American football, basketball, and baseball coach at the University of Maine


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