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Edmund James Banfield Edmund James "Ted" Banfield (4 September 1852 - 5 June 1923) was born in Liverpool, England and was brought while a boy to Australia by his father, who settled at Ararat, Victoria and became proprietor of a newspaper. On this paper Edmund Banfield received his first training in journalism.
Edmund James Flynn Edmund James Flynn (November 16 1847 - June 7 1927) was a lawyer who became the Conservative Premier of Quebec, Canada, from 1896 to 1897. This marked the final time that the Conservative Party held power in Quebec.
Edmund John Edmund John (27 November 1883 - 28 February 1917) was a British poet of the Uranian school whose verses were modelled on the Symbolist poetry of Swinburne and other earlier poets. Much of his work was condemned by critics for being overly decadent and unfashionable.
Edmund John Fowler Edmund John Fowler (1861-26 March 1926) born in Waterfordhe was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edmund John Glyn Hooper Edmund John Glyn Hooper (July 7 1818-October 5 1889) was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He represented Addington in the 1st Parliament of Ontario and Lennox in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal-Conservative member from 1879 to 1882.
Edmund John Phipps Hornby Edmund John Phipps Hornby (VC, CB, CMG) (born 31 December 1857 - died 13 December 1947) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edmund Kemper Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18 1948 in Burbank, California), also known as The Co-ed Killer, is a serial killer who was active in the early 1970s. Kemper killed and dismembered six female hitchhikers in the Santa Cruz, California, area.
Edmund Kerchever Chambers Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1866–1954) was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar. His four-volume history of Elizabathen theater, published in 1923, remains a standard resource for scholars of the period's drama.
Edmund L. Gruber Edmund Louis "Snitz" Gruber (November 11, 1879-May 30, 1941) Cincinnati, Ohio and attended the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, from June 19, 1900 to June 15, 1904. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Artillery Corps.
Edmund Leach Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (November 7, 1910 – January 6, 1989) was a British social anthropologist. He was provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966-1979, was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972 and knighted in 1975.
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild Edmund Leopold de Rothschild CBE (born January 2, 1916) is an English financier, a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England, and a recipient of the Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH), given by the Royal Horticultural Society.
Edmund M. Wheelwright Edmund March Wheelwright (September 14, 1854, Roxbury, Massachusetts – August 15, 1912), architect for the City of Boston from 1891 to 1895, was one of New England's most important architects in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Edmund Milton Holland Edmund Milton Holland (1848-1913) was an American comedian, born in New York City, the son of George Holland, who was also a well-known actor. He appeared upon the stage in childhood, but his regular professional career began in 1866 at Barnum's Museum.
Edmund Montgomery Edmund Duncan Montgomery (March 19 1835 - April 17 1911) was a Scottish philosopher, scientist and physician. He was born in Edinburgh, later moved to Germany to learn medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he met his future wife, noted sculptor Elisabet Ney in 1853.
Edmund Morris Edmund Morris (born May 27, 1940 in Nairobi, Kenya) is an American writer, best known for his biographies of United States Presidents. Morris received his early education in Kenya and went to college in South Africa.
Edmund Morrissey Edmund "Leo" Morrissey was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) for the seat of Mernda from December 1952 until April 1955. In 1955, he left the ALP and "crossed the floor" and joined the anti-Communist Democratic Labor Party.
Edmund Mortimer McDonald Edmund Mortimer McDonald (September 29 1825 – May 25 1874) was a Nova Scotia journalist, publisher and political figure. He represented Lunenburg in the Canadian House of Commons as an Anti-Confederate and then a Liberal-Conservative from 1868 to 1872.
Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Wigmore Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Wigmore (1251 – July 17, 1304) was the second son and eventual heir of Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore. As a younger son, Edmund had been intended for clerical or monastic life, and had been sent to study at Oxford University.
Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and jure uxoris Earl of Ulster (1351? – 27 December, 1381) was son of Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, by his wife Philippa, daughter of William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury.
Edmund Neville Nevill Edmund Neison FRS (27 August 1849 - 1940), whose real name was Edmund Neville Nevill, wrote a key text in selenography called The Moon and the condition and configuration of its surface and later set up an observatory in Durban, Natal Province. He also wrote a popular book on astronomy some years after emigrating to Durban.
Edmund Nuttall Edmund Nuttall Limited is a major group of construction and civil engineering businesses. The group is based in Camberley, Surrey, in the United Kingdom and has an extensive portfolio of road, rail and other major projects throughout the UK and abroad.
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (June 5 1341 – August 1 1402) was a younger son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, the fourth of the five sons of the Royal couple who lived to adulthood. He was the founder of the House of York, but it was through the marriage of his younger son, Richard, that the Yorkist faction in the Wars of the Roses made its claim on the throne.
Edmund of Scotland Edmund (Etmond mac Maíl Coluim) (after 1070–after 1097) was a son of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada and his second wife Margaret. He may be found on some lists of kings, but there is no evidence that he was king.
Edmund O'Donovan Edmund O'Donovan (1844-1883), British war-correspondent, was born at Dublin on the 13th of September 1844, the son of John O'Donovan (1809-1861), a well-known Irish archaeologist and topographer. In 1866 he began to contribute to the Irish Times and other Dublin papers.
Edmund O'Toole Edmund O'Toole (?? -c1891) was a South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edmund Peck Edmund Peck (April 15, 1850 - September 10, 1924) was an Anglican missionary in Canada. He is most notable for his work in developing Inuktitut syllabics, derived from the Cree syllabary and for writing the first substantial English-Inuktitut dictionary.
Edmund Pettus Edmund Winston Pettus (July 6 1821 – July 27 1907), for whom the civil rights landmark Edmund Pettus Bridge was named, was born in Limestone County, Alabama. He earned his fame as a Confederate Brigadier General.
Edmund Phelps Edmund Strother Phelps (born July 26, 1933 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American professor of economics at Columbia University, who was awarded the 2006 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics. He is renowned for his work on economic growth at Yale's Cowles Foundation in the 1960s, in particular the idea of the Golden Rule savings rate, which deals with how much should be spent today versus how much should be saved for future generations.
Edmund Plowden Edmund Plowden (1518 Plowden Hall, Lydbury, Shropshire, England - 6 February 1585 London, England), son of Humphrey Plowden (1490-1557) and Elizabeth Wollascot (nee Sturry) (?-1599), was a distinguished English lawyer, legal scholar and theorist during the late Tudor period.
Edmund Plowden (colonial governor) Sir Edmund Plowden (1590–July 1659 in Lydbury, Shropshire, England) also titled Lord Earl Palatinate, Governor and Captain-General of the Province of New Albion in North America was an explorer and colonial governor who attempted to colonize North America in the mid-seventeenth century under a grant for a colony to be named New Albion. This attempt, fraught with mutiny, legal woes, lack of funds, and bad timing and compromised by Plowden's ill-temper, was a failure and Plowden returned to England in 1649.
Edmund Rice Camps Edmund Rice Camps (often referred to as ERC or Eddie Rice Camps) is a charitable volunteer organisation closely associated with the Congregation of Christian Brothers, and inspired by the work of Edmund Ignatius Rice. Edmund Rice Camps works to provide opportunities for recreation, challenge and growth to young participants for whom there would otherwise be no such opportunities.
Edmund Rolls Professor Edmund Rolls is a United Kingdom psychologist based at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is principally a computational neuroscientist.
Edmund Ruffin Edmund Ruffin (January 5, 1794 – June 18, 1865) was a farmer and slaveholder from Virginia, a Confederate soldier, and an 1850s political activist. He advocated states' rights and secession and was described by opponents as one of the fire-eaters.
Edmund Samarakkody Edmund Samarakkody was a leading Trotskyist in Sri Lanka and at one time a member of that country's parliament. He was a leader of the Fourth International's section, the LSSP, and a supporter of the establishment of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International in 1963.
Edmund Scientific Corporation Edmund Scientific Corporation was a company based in Barrington, New Jersey, USA that specialized in supplying surplus optics and other items via its mail order catalog and Factory Store. During four decades from the 1940's to the 1970's Edmund Scientific was virtually unique in its offerings and was of cultural importance in the lives of young and old scientific hobbyists.
Edmund Sears Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876) was a Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th century liberal Protestants. Sears is known today primarily as the man who penned the words to "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" in 1849.
Edmund Shaa Sir Edmund Shaa (born Mottram in Longdendale, Greater Manchester, died London 20 April 1488) was a goldsmith, and Lord Mayor of London in 1482. Shaa lent money to Edward IV and, as mayor (at least), was extensively involved in the coronation of Edward IV’s brother Richard III.
Edmund Schlink Edmund Schlink (1903 Darmstadt-1984) was a leading German Lutheran theologian in the modern ecumenical movement, especially in the World Council of Churches. Because his career began at the time of Hitler's rise to power in Germany, Schlink’s life, theology, and witness to Christ were shaped by what he called, "Grace in God’s judgment".
Edmund Spangler Edman Spangler (August 10, 1825 – February 7, 1875), also known as Edmund, Edward, and Ned Spangler, was originally from York, Pennsylvania, but he spent the majority of his life in the Baltimore, Maryland area. He was an alleged conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and had worked at Ford's Theater at the time of Abraham Lincoln's murder.
Edmund Stoiber Edmund Stoiber [IPA: ˈɛtmʊnt ˈʃtɔʏbɐ] (born September 28, 1941) is a German politician, currently minister-president of the state of Bavaria, chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU). On January 18, 2007, he announced his decision to stand down from the posts of minister-president and CSU chairman by September 30, after having been under fire in his own party for weeks.
Edmund Sylvers Edmund Theodore Sylvers (January 25, 1957 - March 11, 2004) was the lead singer of the 1970s family disco/soul music group The Sylvers. Bron in Memphis, Tennessee, Sylvers was 15 years old when he started singing with the family-based musical group, and was 18 when he sang lead on the group's biggest hit, "Boogie Fever" (1975).
Edmund Trebus Edmund Zygfryd Trebus (November 11, 1918–September 29, 2002) was a Polish émigré to Britain and compulsive hoarder, who came to fame when he was featured on a British television documentary called A Life of Grime. His most famous phrase was, "Stick it up your chuffer!
Edmund Twórz Edmund Twórz (born 1914) was a Polish footballer (defender) who was in the Polish squad called up for the 1938 FIFA World Cup, but was left in Poland prior to the beginning of the tournament, as only 15 players went to Strasbourg. During that time he played for Warta Poznań.
Edmund Walker Head Sir Edmund Walker Head (Wiarton Place, near Maidstone February 16, 1805 – January 28, 1868 London) was British colonial administrator. He was simultaneously Governor General of the Province of Canada and Lieutenant Governor of Canada West and Canada East (1854-1861) and formerly Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.
Edmund Weiner Edmund Weiner (born 1950 in Oxford, England) was co-editor of the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1985–1989) and Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1993–present). He originally joined the OED staff in 1977.
Edmund William Costello Brigadier-General Edmund William Costello VC CMG CVO DSO Croix de Guerre (France (August 7, 1873 - June 7, 1949) was born in Sheikhbudia, North West Frontier (now know as Punjab (India)) and was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edmund William McGregor Mackey Edmund William McGregor Mackey (March 8, 1846– January 27, 1884) was a United States Representative from South Carolina. Born in Charleston, he became a government employee after the end of the American Civil War.
Edmund Wilson Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12 1972) was an American writer, noted chiefly for his literary criticism. Most literary experts considered Wilson the preeminent American literary critic of his day, and perhaps of the 20th century.
Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński (born in 1944 in Sucha, Poland), professor of Sociology, is the founder and first head of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Political Studies. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, the University of Notre Dame, and Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.
Edmundo Desnoes Edmundo Desnoes is a renowned Cuban writer, author of the novel Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment), a complex story depicting the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois struggling to adapt to the process of the Revolution. He originally called the work Inconsolable Memories in the first English edition.
Edmundo JarquĂ­n Edmundo JarquĂ­n (born in Ocotal, September 1946) is a Nicaraguan politician. He was the vice presidential running-mate of Herty Lewites, who was the presidential candidate for the MRS Sandinista Renovation Movement in the 2006 elections until his untimely death in July 2, 2006.
Edmundo Mellid Edmundo Mellid SDB (born 1944) is a Roman Catholic missionary in Angola. On February 13 2006 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as Apostolic Vicar to Chaco Paraguayo, an area with a population of 18,000 but only 5 ordained priests.
Edmunds Act The Edmunds Act, signed into law on March 23, 1882, declared polygamy a felony. The act not only reinforced the 1862 Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act but also revoked the right of polygamists to vote, disallowed them from holding political office, and also made them ineligible to serve on a jury.
Edmunds-Tucker Act The Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887 touched all the issues at dispute between Congress and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The act disincorporated both the Church and the Perpetual Emigration Fund on the ground that they fostered polygamy.
Edna Alford Edna Alford is a Canadian author an editor. As a writer she is known for the collections A Sleep Full of Dreams and The Garden of Eloise Loon She has also won the Marian Engel Award and the Gerald Lampert Award.
Edna Anhalt Together with then husband Edward Anhalt, screenwriter Edna Anhalt (born 1914) enjoyed some considerable success in a ten year stretch from 1947 to her retirement in 1957. This stretch was capped with an Oscar win for Elia Kazan's 1950 film Panic in the Streets, and another nomination two years later for The Sniper.
Edna Campbell Edna Campbell (born November 26, 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is a retired women's basketball player who played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The 5' 8" guard was a star player for the Sacramento Monarchs and has also played for three other teams, but is best known for continuing to play despite suffering breast cancer.
Edna Diefenbaker Edna May Brower Diefenbaker (Born: 1901 in Langham, Saskatchewan-February 7, 1951) was the first wife of future-Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker from 1929 to 1951. Before marrying him, she was a schoolteacher.
Edna Gladney Edna Gladney (1886–1961) was born Edna Browning Kahly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When her father Maurice died in 1903, her mother Minnie Nell (née Jones) sent her to live with her aunt and uncle in Fort Worth, Texas.
Edna Karr High School Edna Karr Charter High School is now a senior high school in New Orleans, Louisiana administered by the Algiers Charter Schools Association. The school no longer has academic admissions and retentions requirements.
Edna Krabappel Edna Krabappel is a fictional character featured in The Simpsons, voiced by Marcia Wallace. She is a schoolteacher who once held idealisms that have subsequently been beaten out of her by the sad realities of resource-hungry schools and misbehaving children.
Edna Mae Wilson Edna Mae Wilson (1880 - 1960) was an American silent film actress. Signed by the Thanhouser Company based in New York City in 1913 she only starred in about 15 films between 1913 nnd 1920 often in only one short film a year often credited alongside William Garwood.
Edna Manley Edna Manley OM (Jamaica) (née Swithenbank) (1900-1987) was an English-born Jamaican artist and social activist. Born to an English father and Jamaican mother, she married her cousin Norman Manley and moved to Jamaica in 1922.
Edna May Oliver Edna May Oliver (November 9 1883 – November 9 1942) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress. During the 1930's, she was one of the American screen's best-known character actresses often playing tart-tongued spinsters.
Edna Mode Edna "E" Mode is a principal character from the movie The Incredibles. A Eurasian (half-Japanese, half-German in her case) fashion designer and auteur, Edna has created custom-made original outfits for superheroes since the "glory days", saying that she designs for gods.
Edna Parker Edna Parker (born April 20, 1893 in Shelby County, Indiana) is an American supercentenarian, Indiana's oldest living person and currently - as of January 2007 - the third oldest person in the world. Edna already ranks in the all-time top 100, as of October 2006.
Edna Staebler Edna Staebler (January 15 1906 – September 12 2006) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of cookbooks, Food That Really Schmecks, based on Mennonite home cooking as practiced in the Waterloo Region.
Edna Tse Edna Tse (Traditional Chinese 謝燕娜) is a Hong Kong television newsreader and journalist working for ATV news. She presents the "Weather Report" at 19:55, the "Late News", the "Financial Update" afterwards and occasionally the "Main News" on ATV World at 19:30.
Ednaswap (album) Ednaswap is the first album by Los Angeles band Ednaswap, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music). It was the band's only record for the EastWest record label - they were, after the release of this album, signed by Island Records.
Edner Brutus Edner Brutus was a Haitian politician, diplomat, and historian. He served as foreign minister of Haiti from 1974 to 1978, and as a historian he is best known for his book RĂ©volution dans Saint-Domingue (1969).
Ednyfed Fychan Ednyfed Fychan (died 1246), full name Ednyfed Fychan ap Cynwrig, was seneschal to the Kingdom of Gwynedd in northern Wales, serving Llywelyn the Great and his son Dafydd ap Llywelyn. He was the ancestor of Owen Tudor and thereby of the Tudor dynasty.
Edo Edo (, literally: bay-door, "estuary", pronounced //), once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo. The site of the city, on what is now known as Tokyo Bay, had been settled for several centuries, but first became historically significant with the building of Edo Castle in 1457 by order of ĹŚta DĹŤkan.
Edo Castle Edo Castle (江戸城 -jō) was built in 1457 by Ōta Dōkan in what is now the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, but was then known as Edo, Toshima District, Musashi Province. Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Tokugawa shogunate here, and as the residence of the shogun and location of the bakufu, it functioned as the military capital during the Edo period of Japanese history.
Edo Five Routes The Five Routes (五街道 Gokaidō) were the five major roads leading to and from Edo (now Tokyo) during the Tokugawa period, the most important of which was the Tōkaidō which linked Edo and Kyoto. They were established in the era of Tokugawa Ietsuna (reigned 1651–1680), the 4th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Edo Maajka Edo Maajka (born as Edin Osmić on December 22, 1978 in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a rapper from Bosnia and Herzegovina Edin's stage name "Edo Maajka" means "Edo the Mother".
Edo period The , also called Tokugawa period, is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1867. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Edo-Tokyo Museum Established in 1993, the is a museum of the history of Tokyo. The main features of the permanent exhibitions are the life-size replica of the Nihonbashi, which was the bridge leading into Edo; the Nakamuraza theater; scale models of town; and buildings from the Edo, Meiji and ShĹŤwa periods.
Edoardo Agnelli Edoardo Agnelli (1954 – 2000) son of the industrialist patriarch of Fiat, Gianni Agnelli. Originally expected to be the heir apparent as the only son, his life made it clear he would never succeed his father.
Edoardo Garzena Edoardo Garzena (born May 4, 1900) was an Italian featherweight professional boxer who competed in the 1920s. He won a bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics losing against French boxer Jean Gachet in the semi-finals.
Edoardo Isella Edoardo Isella de GĂłmez Ventoza (born October 9, 1980 in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas) is an Afromexican footballer who currently plays for Jaguares de Chiapas in Mexico's First Division. Before being loaned to Chiapas he had a successful career with current Mexican League Champion Chivas Rayadas de Guadalajara which included a brief stint with Mexico's National Team.
Edoardo Mangiarotti Edoardo Mangiarotti has won more Olympic titles and World championships than any other fencer in the history of the sport. His name is coupled with 21 titles including six Olympic individual and team gold, five silver and two bronze medals from 1936 to 1960.
Edoardo Scarfoglio Edoardo Scarfoglio (september 26, 1860 – October 6, 1917) was an Italian author and journalist, one of the early practitioners in Italian fiction of realism, a style of writing that embraced direct, colloquial language and rejected the more ornate style of earlier Italian literature.
Edogawa Conan Kidnapping Case Edogawa Conan Kidnapping Case (江戸川コナン誘拐事件), known in the English dub as "Conan Is Kidnapped," is episode 43 of Case Closed and originally aired on January 13, 1997. The episode is based on Volume 5- File 10 to Volume 6- File 1 of the manga.
Edoid languages The Edoid languages are some 25 or 30 languages spoken in Southern Nigeria, predominantly in the former Bendel State. The Edoid group belongs to Benue-Congo, itself a branch of Volta-Congo and ultimately Niger-Congo; the name of the group derives from its most widely spoken member, Edo (1 million speakers).
Edom Edom () is a name given to Esau in the Hebrew Bible, as well as to the nation purportedly descended from him. The nation's name in Assyrian was Udumi; in Syriac, ܐܕܘܡ); in Greek, Ἰδουμαία (Idoumaía); in Latin, Idumæa or Idumea.
Edoni The Edoni (also Edones, Edonians, Edonides) were a Thracian people who dwelt mostly between the Nestus and the Strymon rivers in southern Thrace, but also once dwelt west of the Strymon at least as far as the Axios. They inhabited the region of Mygdonia before the Macedonians drove them out (Thuc.
Edosaki, Ibaraki Edosaki (江戸崎町; -machi) was a town located in Inashiki District, Ibaraki, Japan. On March 22, 2005 the town merged with two other towns and a village from the district forming the city of Inashiki and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Edouard Beaupré Edouard Beaupré (January 9, 1881-July 3, 1904) was the eldest of 20 children born to Gaspard and Florestine (née Piché) Beaupré in the newly-founded parish of Willow Bunch, Canada, and was the first child to be baptized in the parish. Beaupré did not appear abnormally large at birth, and for the first three years of his life, his growth was relatively normal.
Edouard Boubat Edouard Boubat (September 13, 1923, Paris, France – June 30, 1999, Paris) was a well known French art photographer. He started making photographs in 1945 or 1946, in reaction to the banality and horrors of the Second World War.
Edouard Castres Edouard Castres studied with Barthelemy Menn at the fine arts in Geneva before enrolling in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 as a Red Cross volunteer accomanying General Bourbaki's Eastern Army throughout the last phase of the war.
Edouard Duval-Carrié Edouard Duval-Carrié (born 1954) is a Haitian painter and sculptor. Born in Port-au-Prince, Duval-Carrié studied at the University of Montreal and McGill University in Canada before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College in 1978.
Edouard Etienne de Rothschild Edouard Etienne Alphonse de Rothschild (born December 27, 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine France) is a businessman and part of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. He is the son of Guy de Rothschild (b.
Edouard Fleissner von Wostrowitz Edouard Fleissner von Wostrowitz (1825-1888), also spelt FleiĂźner, is remembered as the author of a short book on cryptography and as the proponent of a modified Cardan grille known as a turning grille. See Grille (cryptography)
Edouard Goubert Clemencedu Edouard Goubert (July 29, 1894 to August 14, 1979) was former mayor and first chief minister of Pondichéry between July 1, 1963 - September 11, 1964. In initial he was a strong pro-french leader, but afterwards he shifted towards pro-merger congress which ultimately became the deathnail to the sovereignty of France in its comptoirs in India.
Edouard Goursat Edouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat (21 May 1858 – 25 November 1936) was a French mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his Cours d'analyse mathématique, which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century. It set a standard for the high-level teaching of mathematical analysis, especially complex analysis.
Edouard Grikurov Edouard Grikurov was a Russian opera conductor. He conducted the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirov Opera Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Maly Theatre of Leningrad.
Edouard Rod Edouard Rod (March 31, 1857–January 29, 1910), a French-Swiss novelist, was born at Nyon, in Switzerland, studied at Lausanne, where he wrote his doctoral thesis about the Oedipus legend (Le développement de la légende d'Oedipe dans l'histoire de la littérature), and Berlin, and in 1878 found his way to Paris.
Edouard Seguin Edouard Seguin (1812-1880) was a physician who worked with mentally handicapped children in France and the United States. He was a student of French physician Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, who was the educator of Victor of Aveyron, also known as the "The Wild Child".
Edouard Van Beneden Edouard Van Beneden (5 March, 1846, Louvain, Belgium-28 April, 1910, Liège) was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège; he has been at the basis of the genetic studies of the 20th century, thanks to his works on a parasite of the horse, that made him discover how chromosomes combined during reproduction.
Edouard Zeckendorf Edouard Zeckendorf (May 2, 1901 - May 16, 1983) was a Belgian doctor, army officer, and mathematician. In mathematics he is best known for his work on Fibonacci numbers, and in particular for proving Zeckendorf's theorem.

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