In the eighteen eighties, Ferdinand de Lesseps -- builder of the Suez Canal -- formed a French company to build a waterway across Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

And human language uses this amazing trick described by Ferdinand de Saussure, the great linguist, as "The arbitrariness of the sign."

人类语言使用这些,被语言学家费迪南德·德·索绪尔,称之为"符号任意性"的神奇把戏

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For example,in Hauterives,France, you can see the Ideal Palace made by a mailman named Ferdinand Cheval.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Yellow confetti rained from the buildings onto the street, reminiscent of the color the widow-turned-democracy icon chose for her campaign to unseat then-president Ferdinand Marcos.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

The new Philippines president is the son the late former President Corazon Aquino who was revered by many for her role in leading the "people power" revolt that ousted the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30