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French brier

(Encyclopedia)French brier: see heath.

French Somaliland

(Encyclopedia)French Somaliland: see Djibouti, republic. ...

Somaliland, French

(Encyclopedia)Somaliland, French: see Djibouti, republic. ...

French Guinea

(Encyclopedia)French Guinea: see Guinea, republic, Africa. ...

French Congo

(Encyclopedia)French Congo: see Congo, Republic of the. ...

Shechtman, Daniel S.

(Encyclopedia)Shechtman, Daniel S., 1941–, Israeli materials scientist, Ph.D. Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), 1972. Shechtman, who joined the faculty at Technion in 1975, received the Nobel Prize in Ch...

Sickles, Daniel Edgar

(Encyclopedia)Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819–1914, American politician, Union general in the Civil War, b. New York City. A lawyer, he became active in Democratic politics, serving in the New York legislature. He wa...

Gregory, Wilton Daniel

(Encyclopedia)Gregory, Wilton Daniel, 1947–, American Roman Catholic cardinal, b. Chicago. Ordained in 1973, he was educated at Niles College (now St. Joseph's College Seminary) of Loyola Univ., Chicago, St. Mary...

Tsui, Daniel Chee

(Encyclopedia)Tsui, Daniel Chee, 1938–, Chinese-American physicist, b. Henan, China, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1967. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., from 1968 to 1982, when...

French literature

(Encyclopedia)French literature, writings in medieval French dialects and standard modern French. Writings in Provençal and Breton are considered separately, as are works in French produced abroad (as at Canadian ...