Franks pointed out: " Jennifer has said it's not me, and I accept it's a composite character.

Critics claimed that Franks was only attempting to evade bad publicity, while supporters pointed to the failure of body counts to give an accurate impression of the state of the war in Vietnam.

Obviously feeling slighted when he discovered that he was never listed as a principal character in that edition and two previous ones, Franks wrote to the authors himself ; he pointed out that he had co-starred on the series for five years, and asked to be added in the next edition.

A study conducted by British historian Norman Franks with two colleagues, published in Under the Guns of the Red Baron in 1998, reached the same conclusion about the high degree of accuracy of Richthofen's claimed victories.

Born Celia Franks in London, England, the daughter of an East End tailor, she began to study dance at the age of 4 and was a scholarship student at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal Academy of Dance.

According to an article published in The Times, the character of Edina was based on Lynne Franks.

The dissertations not embodied in his work were collected by himself and ( after his death ) by his pupil, Camille Jullian, and published as volumes of miscellanies: Recherches sur quelques problèmes d ' Histoire ( 1885 ), dealing with the Roman colonate, the land system in Normandy ; the Germanic mark, and the judiciary organization in the kingdom of the Franks ; Nouvelles recherches sur quelques problèmes d ' histoire ( 1891 ); and Questions historiques ( 1893 ), which contains his paper on Chios and his thesis on Polybius.

In 1997, Franks published her autobiography, Absolutely Now!

In 2000, Franks published The SEED Handbook: The Feminine Way to Create Business, a guidebook for female entrepreneurs, detailing a values-based approach to creating and running sustainable businesses.

Franks has since published two more books.

A Squadron History by Norman Franks was published in 1991, titled Forever Strong ( a translation of the squadron's Maori motto, Ake Ake Kia Kaha ).

He is widely published, and has written three books, Learning By Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities, with David L. Kirp, Marlene Strong Franks, Jonathan Simon, Doug Conaway, and John Lewis ( 1989 ), Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge ( 1996 ), and Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research ( 2007 ).

When the tomb of Childeric I, an early Merovingian king of the Salian Franks and father of Clovis I was discovered in 1653 ( May 27 ) by a mason doing repairs in the church of Saint-Brice in Tournai, it was Leopold Wilhelm who had the find published in Latin.

The Franks and the Anglo-Saxons were unique among the Germanic peoples in that they entered the empire as pagans and converted to Nicene ( Catholic ) Christianity directly, guided by their kings, Clovis and Æthelberht of Kent.

King Theodoric of the Ostrogoths sent an army, led by his sword-bearer Theudis, against Gesalec, ostensibly on behalf of Amalaric ; Gesalec fled to Africa, and the Ostrogoths drove back the Franks and their Burgundian allies, regaining possession of " the south of Novempopulana, Rodez, probably even Albi, and even Toulose ".

Agathias expresses his hope that the Alemanni would assume better manners through prolonged contact with the Franks, which is by all appearances, in a manner of speaking, what eventually happened.

His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.

The earliest documented event in Alaric's reign concerned providing refuge to Syagrius, the former ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( in what is now north western France ) who had been defeated by Clovis I King of the Franks.

Often dismissed as an unreliable tradition, it has been studied with attention by modern scholars, in particular Neil Christie, who see in it a possible record of a formal invitation by the Byzantine state to settle in northern Italy as foederati, to help protect the region against the Franks, an arrangement that may have been disowned by Justin II after Narses ' removal.

On Arnulf's death in 899, he was succeeded as a king of the East Franks by his son by his wife Ota ( died 903 ), Louis the Child.

Further ravage was brought by the same Vandals in 409, the Visigoths in 414 and the Franks in 498, beginning a period of obscurity for the city.

The History of the Franks, by Gregory of Tours.

Modern variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA.

Franks, was followed by an immense bequest of 3, 300 finger rings, 153 drinking vessels, 512 pieces of continental porcelain, 1, 500 netsuke, 850 inro, over 30, 000 bookplates and miscellaneous items of jewellery and plate, among them the Oxus Treasure.

Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.

This was followed by the Lex Burgundionum, applying separate codes for Germans and for Romans ; the Pactus Alamannorum ; and the Salic Law of the Franks, all written soon after 500.

He spread among the Franks a Celtic monastic rule and Celtic penitential practices for those repenting of sins, which emphasized private confession to a priest, followed by penances levied by the priest in reparation for the sin.

In addition to these, there is a history of the Franks written in the late sixth century by Gregory of Tours which mentions events in Kent.

Other cultural influences may be seen in the burials as well, so it is not necessary to presume that there was direct settlement by the Franks in Kent.

After the decline of the Roman Empire, a Germanic tribe known as the Franks took control of Gaul by defeating competing tribes.

Franconia is named after the Franks, a Germanic tribe who conquered most of Western Europe by the middle of the 8th century.

The original ethnic Franks ceased to be called by others and themselves Franks, whereas certain groups of people who were not Franks but were mostly ruled by Frankish nobility now began to use it as a term to describe their respective land and people.

Franks was the U. S. general leading the attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in 2001.

Franks was the U. S. general leading the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Taliban in government in response to the September 11 attacks.

General Franks ' awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal ; Distinguished Service Medal ( two awards ); Legion of Merit ( four awards ); Bronze Star with Valor device and two oak leaf clusters ; Purple Heart ( two oak leaf clusters ); Air Medal with Valor Device ; Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device ; and a number of U. S. and foreign service awards.

For instance, they make a disputed claim that Franks threatened to fire General William Wallace, commander of the Army's V Corps, for saying to the press during that war that the enemy the U. S. was facing was different from the enemy the military had planned against.

The authors also suggest that Franks was worn down by repeated pressure from U. S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to reduce the number of U. S. troops in war plans and cancel the deployment of the 1st Cavalry Division, a scheduled follow-on unit that was slated for deployment in April 2003.

Franks argues that by keeping the ships at sea the Iraqis were deceived into believing a U. S. attack was yet to come from the north through Turkey, though Colin Powell and others have questioned his view ( Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward, 2004 ).

They suggest there was a leadership void at U. S. Central Command because his two deputies, Michael Delong and John Abizaid, were at odds with each other until Abizaid succeeded Franks in the middle of the summer of 2003.

* U. S. plan to invade Iraq: White House and Pentagon officials announce that Gen. Tommy Franks presented detailed war plans to President Bush in early September.

* Bob Franks ( 1951 – 2010 ), former N. J. legislative leader and U. S. Congressman.

U. S. Congressmen Sue Myrick ( R-NC ), Trent Franks ( R-AZ ), John Shadegg ( R-AZ ), and Paul Broun ( R-GA ) wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on October 21, 2009, that they were very concerned about CAIR's relationships with terrorist groups, and requesting that the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) provide each Congressman a summary of DOJ's evidence and findings that led DOJ to name CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial.

A U. S. Department of Defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January 2001 and U. S. General Tommy Franks visited the country in May 2001, conveying a message from the Bush administration that the US considered Tajikistan " a strategically significant country ".

Trent Franks ( born June 19, 1957 ) is the U. S. Representative for, serving since 2003.

The National Journal has ranked Franks among the " most conservative " members of the U. S. House of Representatives in 2009.

* U. S. General Tommy Franks reportedly estimated soon after the invasion that there had been 30, 000 Iraqi casualties as of April 9, 2003.

Jones recently traveled to Iraq to meet with troops stationed there and U. S. General Tommy Franks.

According to General Tommy Franks, the commander of the U. S. military in the 2003 Iraq conflict, April Fool, an American officer working undercover as a diplomat, was approached by an Iraqi intelligence agent.

On June 13, 2012, Gohmert was one of five members of Congress ( including Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks, Tom Rooney, Lynn Westmoreland ) to send letters to the Inspectors General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of State seeking investigations into the U. S. government ’ s involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group that calls for “ civilization jihad ” against America.

* Bob Franks ( 1951-2010 ), U. S. Representative from New Jersey

Since his retirement from the Army, GEN Luck has served in a variety of senior advisory positions in support of the Department of Defense, overseeing exercise control during Exercise Millenium Challenge 2002, and as an advisor to then-Commander of U. S. Central Command, General Tommy Franks, prior to the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

White and Hanson ( who, at the time, owned Eveready Batteries and Ball Park Franks ), had purchased the book to read on their plane while flying to the U. S. They both felt The Chase would make an entertaining film, and presented the idea to personal friend Michael Pearson, who had produced an earlier successful car chase cult movie Vanishing Point.

In 1992, Franks was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives ( succeeding Matt Rinaldo ), and served four terms in the House from 1993 to 2001.

The Raritan Valley Rail Coalition, formed in 1998 by former U. S. Congressman Bob Franks, is currently looking for cost-effective ways to improve mobility, reduce highway congestion, and increase transit ridership along the Raritan Valley Line.