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unusual facts about Thomas O. Edwards


Thomas O. Edwards

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress.


Anatoli Blagonravov

In April 1970, he held informal talks in New York City with NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine, about the possibility of performing a rendezvous and docking of a US and Soviet spacecraft.

Arthur Edwards

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

Arthur R. Edwards (1934–2006), Australian rules footballer with the Footscray Football Club

Baron O'Hagan

It was created on 14 June 1870 for Sir Thomas O'Hagan, then Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

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).

Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan

In 1975, he sold the papers of several of his Irish ancestors, including Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan, to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

Conradh na Gaeilge

The English text reads "This Association has been founded solely to keep the Irish Language spoken in Ireland. If you wish the Irish Language to live on the lips of Irishmen, help this effort according to your ability!"Conradh na Gaeilge was founded in Dublin on 31 July 1893 by Douglas Hyde, the son of a Church of Ireland rector from Frenchpark, County Roscommon with the aid of Eugene O'Growney, Eoin MacNeill, Thomas O'Neill Russell and others.

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).

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 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 H. Edwards

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

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.

Omaha City Council

It was composed of A. D. Jones, who resigned March 23, 1857; T. G. Goodwill, who died May 18, 1857; G. C. Bove, H. H. Visscher, Thomas Davis, William N. Byers, William W. Wyman, Thomas O'Connor, C. H. Downs, J. H. Kellom, for whom Kellom School was later named; and John Creighton, whom Creighton University was later named for.

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 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. Enders

From 1960 to 1963, he was a visa officer and then an economic officer in Stockholm.

Thomas O. Melia

Melia began his career as a research assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York) in 1980 and eventually became Senior Legislative Assistant for foreign and defense policy.

Thomas O. Seaver

He left Norwich without a degree in 1858, completing his studies at Union College and receiving a B.A. in 1859.

Thomas O'Brien

Thomas D. O'Brien (1859–1935), co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law

Thomas O'Connell

Thomas J. O'Connell (1882–1969), Irish Labour party politician, leader of the party 1927–1932

Thomas O'Connor

T. P. O'Connor (1848–1929), Irish nationalist, journalist, and politician

Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan

The Liberal Unionist editor of the Belfast Norther Whig, Thomas Macknight, who had been a personal friend of O'Hagan, states in his memoir ULSTER AS IT IS (London, 1896) that he believed O'Hagan would have opposed Gladstone's conversion to Home Rule had he not died when he did.

Thomas Rice

Thomas O. Rice, former federal prosecutor and current United States district judge

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.

He appeared on Little House on the Prairie (1974–1977), (1981–1984) as Isaiah Edwards (French also directed some episodes of Little House).

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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