Edwards
Encyclopedia

Places

  • Edwards County (multiple)
  • Edwards Islet of Ducie Island

Australia

  • Edwards Beach, New South Wales
  • Edwards Islet, Tasmania

United States

  • Edwards, Arkansas
  • Edwards, California
    Edwards, California
    Edwards is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California.It is located east-southeast of Mojave, at an elevation of 2356 feet ....

  • Edwards, Colorado
    Edwards, Colorado
    Edwards is a census-designated place in Eagle County, Colorado, United States. Edwards is the principal community of the Edwards Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 10,266 at the 2010 census...

  • Edwards, Illinois
    Edwards, Illinois
    Edwards is an unincorporated community in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Edwards is located on Illinois Route 8 northwest of downtown Peoria. Edwards has a post office with ZIP code 61528....

  • Edwards, Kentucky
  • Edwards Dam
    Edwards Dam
    Edwards Dam was a hydroelectric dam on the Kennebec River in the U.S. state of Maine. It was located in Augusta, Maine, about upstream from the Atlantic Ocean. Built in 1837 of timber and concrete, it was long and high...

    , in Maine
    Maine
    Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...

  • Edwards, Michigan
  • Edwards, Minnesota
  • Edwards, Mississippi
    Edwards, Mississippi
    Edwards is a town in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,347 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

  • Edwards, Missouri
    Edwards, Missouri
    Edwards is an unincorporated community in southeastern Benton County, Missouri. It is located on Route 7 about sixteen miles southeast of Warsaw. It is a 16 minute drive from Climax Springs. Edwards has an elevation of 791 feet...

  • Edwards, Montana
  • Edwards (town), New York
    Edwards (town), New York
    Edwards is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 1,148 at the 2000 census. The village is named after Edward McCormack, a landowner.The Town of Edwards contains a village also called Edwards...

  • Edwards (village), New York
    Edwards (village), New York
    Edwards is a village in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 465 at the 2000 census.The Village of Edwards is in the northeast corner of the Town of Edwards...

  • Edwards, Oregon
  • Edwards, South Carolina
  • Edwards, Texas
  • Edwards, Washington
  • Edwards Air Force Base
    Edwards Air Force Base
    Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located on the border of Kern County, Los Angeles County, and San Bernardino County, California, in the Antelope Valley. It is southwest of the central business district of North Edwards, California and due east of Rosamond.It is named in...

    , in California
  • Edwards Plateau
    Edwards Plateau
    The Edwards Plateau is a region of west-central Texas which is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east, the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado to the north, and the Pecos River and Chihuahuan Desert to the west. San Angelo, Austin, San Antonio and Del Rio roughly outline the area...

     region of Texas
    • Edwards Aquifer
      Edwards Aquifer
      The Edwards Aquifer is one of the most prolific artesian aquifers in the world. Located on the eastern edge of Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas, it discharges about of water a year and directly serves about two million people...

      , an aquifer in that region
  • Edwards County, Illinois
    Edwards County, Illinois
    Edwards County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 6,721, which is a decrease of 3.6% from 6,971 in 2000...

  • Edwards County, Kansas
    Edwards County, Kansas
    Edwards County is a county located in Southwest Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 3,037...

  • Edwards County, Texas
  • Edwards Township, Michigan
    Edwards Township, Michigan
    Edwards Township is a civil township of Ogemaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,390 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water.-Demographics:As of the census...

  • Edwards Township, Minnesota
    Edwards Township, Minnesota
    Edwards Township is a township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 304 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000,...


Corporations and products

  • A. G. Edwards, a full-service US securities broker-dealer
  • Edwards Lifesciences, a manufacturer of cardiovascular disease treatment equipment
  • Edwards (Vacuum)
    Edwards (Vacuum)
    Edwards is a vacuum engineering company headquartered in Crawley, in West Sussex in the United Kingdom. The company manufactures and supplies vacuum and abatement equipment used in advanced manufacturing processes.-History:...

    , a vacuum engineering company
  • Edwards Theaters, a movie theatre chain owned by Regal Entertainment Group
    Regal Entertainment Group
    Regal Entertainment Group also known as REG is a movie theater chain headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. Regal operates the largest and most geographically diverse theater circuit in the United States, consisting of 6,775 screens in 548 locations in 39 states and the District of Columbia as of...

  • ESP Edwards Series
    ESP Edwards Series
    The ESP Edwards brand instruments are produced for the Japanese market, originally consisting of Fender and Gibson replicas. They are generally considered to be of almost equal quality to the main ESP brand, the fundamental difference being the tonewoods...

    , an electric guitar brand produced by the ESP company in Japan
  • Edwards, a brand name of frozen pies owned by the Schwan Food Company
    Schwan Food Company
    The Schwan Food Company is a multibillion-dollar, privately owned company with 17,000 employees in the United States. Based in Marshall, Minnesota, the company sells frozen foods from home-delivery trucks, in grocery-store freezers, by mail and to the food service industry...

  • Edwards Super Food Store, a former supermarket chain in the United States
  • Edwards Personal Preference Schedule
    Edwards Personal Preference Schedule
    Developed by psychologist and University of Washington professor, Allen L. Edwards, the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule is a forced choice, objective, non-projective personality inventory...

    , a non-projective personality inventory
    Personality test
    -Overview:There are many different types of personality tests. The most common type, the self-report inventory, involves the administration of many questions, or "items", to test-takers who respond by rating the degree to which each item reflects their behavior...

  • JD Edwards, a computer software company

Court cases

  • Edwards v. Aguillard
    Edwards v. Aguillard
    Edwards v. Aguillard, was a legal case about the teaching of creationism that was heard by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1987. The Court ruled that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools, along with evolution, was unconstitutional because the law...

    , a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on teaching Creationism in Louisiana
  • Edwards v. Arizona
    Edwards v. Arizona
    Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S 477 , is a decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that once a defendant invokes his Fifth Amendment right to counsel police must cease custodial interrogation...

    , a 1981 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on police interrogation and the fifth amendment
  • Edwards v. California
    Edwards v. California
    Edwards v. People of State of California, was a United States Supreme Court case where a California law prohibiting the bringing of a non-resident "indigent person" into the state was struck down as unconstitutional....

    , a 1941 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on interstate migration
  • Edwards v. Habib
    Edwards v. Habib
    Edwards v. Habib, 397 F.2d 687 , was a case decided by the D.C. Circuit that includes the first recognition of retaliatory eviction as a defense to eviction in landlord-tenant law.-Factual background:...

    , a 1968 D.C. Circuit (United States) decision on retaliatory eviction
  • Edwards v. Habib
    Edwards v. Habib
    Edwards v. Habib, 397 F.2d 687 , was a case decided by the D.C. Circuit that includes the first recognition of retaliatory eviction as a defense to eviction in landlord-tenant law.-Factual background:...

    , a 1953 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on demonstrations at a state house
  • Indiana v. Edwards
    Indiana v. Edwards
    In Indiana v. Edwards, 554 U.S. 164 , the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the standard for competency to stand trial was not linked to the standard for competency to represent oneself. The Court had recognized these two rights separately for some time. In Dusky v. United States, ,...

    , a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on competency to stand trial
  • Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)
    Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)
    Edwards v. Canada [1930] A.C. 124 – also known as the Persons Case – is a famous Canadian and British constitutional case where it was first decided that women were eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate...

    , also known as the Persons Case, a 1930 case in the Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council on women's eligibility to be members of the Canadian federal Senate
  • Edwards v National Coal Board, a 1949 English Court of Appeal ruling on the meaning of "reasonably practicable"
  • Grant v Edwards
    Grant v Edwards
    Grant v Edwards was an English Court of Appeal case on common intention.-Facts:A house was purchased for the claimant and defendant to live in as if married. The plaintiff was in fact married to someone else and the house was purchased in the name of the defendant and the defendant's brother...

    , a 1986 English Court of Appeal case on common intention
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