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unusual facts about Parker H. French


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.


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.

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 French

David H. French (1918–1994), American anthropologist and linguist

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.

Foreign policy of Mobutu Sese Seko

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

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 French

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

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.

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.

He has published work on catastrophic forgetting in neural networks, the Turing test and foundations of cognitive science, the evolution of sex, and categorization and learning in infants, among other topics.

William French

William H. French (1815–1881), Union general in the American Civil War


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