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    Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (French: [lɔʁɑ̃ klɛʁ]; 26 December 1785 – 18 July 1869) was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and...
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  • The Laurent Clerc Award is an annual honor bestowed by Gallaudet University's Alumni Association to recognize a deaf person for "his or her outstanding...
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  • Laurent Clerc (born 12 April 1972) is a Swiss sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild;...
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  • of minor planet (51) Nemausa Laurent, South Dakota, a proposed town for the Deaf to be named for Laurent Clerc Laurent series, in mathematics, representation...
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    politician Seth P. Beers; co-founder of American School for the Deaf Laurent Clerc is his 3rd great-grandfather. During his early education, he attended...
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    10, 1787 – September 10, 1851) was an American educator. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for...
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    Hartford, Connecticut, by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Mason Cogswell, and Laurent Clerc and became a state-supported school later that year. The first deaf...
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  • year's tournament often wins the year's Deaf Prep National Championship. Laurent Clerc was born on December 26, 1785. An accident struck him at a young age:...
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    unnatural to deaf signers. A deaf pupil of the school (and later teacher), Laurent Clerc, wrote that the deaf never used the signes méthodiques for communication...
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    Duncan Campbell" Canlas, Loida (2006). "Laurent Clerc: Apostle to the Deaf People of the New World". The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, Gallaudet...
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