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Foreign policy of Mobutu Sese Seko

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

Howard French

Howard W. French (born 1957), American journalist, author and photographer


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".

Burton L. French

Born in Carroll County, Indiana, French was the fourth of nine children and moved with his parents in 1880 to Kearney, Nebraska, and to Princeton, Idaho via San Francisco two years later.

C. Markland Kelly

Appointed in 1935 by Baltimore Mayor Howard W. Jackson, Kelly, Sr. served for eight years on the Park Board, first as a member, then as president.

Captain goes down with the ship

February 7, 1943: Commander Howard W. Gilmore, captain of the American submarine USS Growler (SS-215), gave the order to "clear the bridge," as his crew was being attacked by a Japanese gunboat.

Carl C. Rasmussen

Rasmussen's predecessor, Howard W. Davis, had been the representative in the 7th almost continuously since 1927, but in February 1939, a grand jury, at the instigation of District Attorney Buron Fitts, voted 38 charges of misconduct against him.

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.

David J. Saposs

The AFL allied with anti-union Democratic Representative Howard W. Smith to attack the National Labor Relations Board.

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.

Frédéric Péchenard

Frédéric Péchenard (born on 12 March 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French police officer and high civil servant with the Ministry of the Interior.

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.

Howard Davis

Howard W. Davis (1885–1959), member of the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council

Howard Hunter

Howard W. Hunter (1907–1995), fourteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Howard Johnston

Howard W. Johnston (1913–2005), principal founder of the Free University of Berlin

Howard Koch

Howard W. Koch (1916–2001), American film and TV director, producer

Howard Riley

Howard W. Riley (1879–1971), professor of agricultural engineering at Cornell University

Howard W. Davis

have conspired with . . . Alphonzo Bell, Samuel Traylor and Chapin A. Day, all multi-millionaires, to grant this group a special spot zoning permit to crush and ship . . . from the high-class residential section of Santa Monica, limestone and rock for cement.

Davis's first bid for public office was in August 1923, when he cross-filed for the State Assembly in the 73rd District primary election.

Howard W. Gilmore

In the movie Operation Pacific, John Wayne's character as Executive Officer of USS Thunderfish orders Thunderfish submerged, leaving his wounded Commanding Officer (played by Ward Bond) on the bridge.

In the historical notes section epilogue of War and Remembrance (copyright 1978 by Herman Wouk, Library of Congress catalog Card Number 78-17746) Howard Gilmore is recognized by "The death of Carter Aster is based on the famous self-sacrifice of Commander Howard W. Gilmore of the U.S.S. Growler for which he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor"

Howard W. Hunter

On October 14, 2007 at her home in Laguna Hills, California, his wife, Inis Stanton Hunter, died of causes incident to age.

Howard W. Hunter Law Library

The Howard W. Hunter Law Library is the library of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah.

Howard W. Mattson

Hired by Executive Director Calvert L. Willey in 1973, Mattson would be named as Director of Public Information (called Vice President of Communications as of 2006).

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.

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.

National Association of Science Writers

In June 1934, John J. O'Neill, William L. Laurence, Howard W. Blakeslee, Gobind Behari Lal and David Dietz formed NASW as a press association with Dietz as its President.

Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back

Directed by Marty Pasetta and produced by Howard W. Koch Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back was a glowing success made all the more memorable by a special appearance from Gene Kelly who had first co-starred with Sinatra 30 years prior in Anchors Aweigh.

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.

Prince Augustus of Prussia

His brother, Prince Louis Ferdinand, had been killed by the French army under Napoleon I four days earlier.

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.

St. James House of Prayer Episcopal Church

The merger of the two was made after the former St. James Church property was chosen as the site for the new Blake High School.

The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep (1956) is an American black-and-white horror film, scripted by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams developed for producers Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, who had a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists.

The Wages of Fear

Violent Road (aka Hell's Highway), directed by Howard W. Koch in 1958, and Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin in 1977, are American remakes.

We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet

While preparing to speak at a CES fireside being held at Brigham Young University's Marriott Center on February 7, 1993, then President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Howard W. Hunter was confronted by Cody Judy, who rushed onto the rostrum and threatened Hunter and the audience of 15,000–17,000.


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