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Harold F. Dodge

From 1917 to 1958 worked at quality assurance department at Bell Laboratories with Walter Shewhart, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead, E.G.D. Paterson, and Mary N. Torrey.


Arthur Edwards

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

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).

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).

Elijah Dukes

Dukes attended Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida his junior and senior years, after spending his first two years of high school at Jefferson High School, C. Leon King High School, and George D. Chamberlain High School.

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 D. Birkhoff House

The house is notable for its associations with former resident Dr. George David Birkhoff, an eminent mathematician and Harvard University professor.

George D. Herron

In 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson campaigned successfully for re-election under the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War."

George D. Miller III

During his administration the school has celebrated its centennial birthday, in 2000; the name of the college was changed to Davis College in honor of its founder Dr. John Adelbert Davis, in 2004; the college received Middle States Accreditation, in 2005; and two old buildings were taken down to pave the way for the Ministry Center to be built in the future, in 2006.

George D. Oakley House

The family also started a business to promote musical concerts, Artists' Services of Honolulu, which between the 1930s and early 1960s brought famous talents to perform in Honolulu, including Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Rubenstein, and

George D. Pyper

In 1911, Pyper managed a 6000-mile American tour for the choir, wherein they performed in Madison Square Gardens and at the White House for U.S. President William Howard Taft.

When the Juvenile Instructor folded and was replaced by The Instructor, Pyper became the first editor of the new publication, a position he held until his death.

George D. Ruggles

His parents died when he was young, and he was raised by his uncle, Charles H. Ruggles, who was Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals.

George D. Wallace

Wallace died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from injuries he sustained during a fall while on vacation in Pisa, Italy.

George D. Watt

Fielding's brother Joseph had joined the Latter Day Saint church in Upper Canada and had written to James about the new church.

George D. Zamka

In March 2008, Zamka visited Colombia's Planetarium of Bogotá with the crew of mission STS-120 to share their experience as NASA astronauts with 200 students, 50 teachers, and 20 science major experts.

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 Ambler Smith

Smith was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875) with 51.11% of the vote, defeating Democrat George Douglas Wise.

John H. Edwards

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

Katharine Lane Weems

In 1926 she won two medals: a Bronze Medal at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition, and the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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

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 Jockey Club

Created in 1984, The Jockey Club Research Foundation was joined along with the Grayson Foundation, established in 1940 by George D. Widener, Jr., William Woodward, Sr. and John Hay Whitney, amongst others.

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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