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38 unusual facts about George


Alexander Morris

He ran as a Liberal-Conservative in the riding of Lanark South in Canada West, supporting the government of George-Étienne Cartier and John A. Macdonald.

Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix

After the Northridge earthquake of 1994 damaged the Cathedral of St. Mary, the eparchial offices, and the bishop's residence, Bishop George moved his office and residence to Phoenix, Arizona.

Cape Pioneer Trek

Stage 2 was over 85 km from Calitzdorp to Prince Albert, stage 3 109 km from Prince Albert to De Rust, stage 4 63 km from De Rust to Louvain guest farm at Herold, stage 5 75 km from Herold to George, and finally stage 6 84 km from George to Oudtshoorn.

Chevalier de Saint-George

Saint-George wrote symphonies, roughly 25 concertos for violin and orchestra, string quartets, sonatas, and songs in the style of Mozart, Haydn and the composers of the "Mannheim school".

Commercial buildings in Sycamore Historic District

It stands close to the George's Block and across the street from the Waterman Block and the National Bank & Trust Co. Building, all significant structures within the historic district.

Downtown,the George's Block, once known as the James Block, is another 19th Century structure located in Sycamore, Illinois along Illinois Route 64 (State Street) as it passes through the DeKalb County seat.

Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb

The climbers highlighted their expedition with a live satellite phone call to President George H.W. Bush as well as to Furia, Earth Day 20 organizers and thousands of supporters gathered in George, Washington, near the Columbia River on April 22, 1990.

École secondaire Macdonald-Cartier

The school was named after two of the fathers of the Canadian Confederation, Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-1891) and Sir George-Étienne Cartier (1814-1873).

Elizabeth Estensen

She rose to prominence in the 1970s, playing Bert's girlfriend in the Willy Russell musical John, Paul, George, Ringo … and Bert at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool transferring to the West End in 1974.

George-Barthélemy Faribault

The epitaph written by the French Academy at the time the subject was first brought up and approved by William Pitt, was duly inscribed.

Faribault was a first cousin of Jean-Baptiste, father of Alexander, founder of the city of Faribault, Minnesota, U.S.A..

George-Daniel de Monfreid

Early he decided on a career in art, and enrolled at the Académie Julian, and formed friendships with Paul Gauguin, Verlaine and Aristide Maillol.

George-Édouard Desbarats

In 1860 he married Lucianne (Lucie-Anne) Bossé, who was the eldest daughter of Joseph-Noël Bossé.

George-Frédéric-Théophile Baillairgé

As his engineering career progressed he was involved in numerous and diverse public works projects including a number designed by his brother, Charles.

George, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

In 1611, he purchased the Nassau share of the district of Wehrheim, which Nassau shared with Trier, from his brother John VII.

Nassau-Beilstein, which included the Lordships of Westerwald, Burbach and Hickengrund.

In 1604, he purchased his first territory, the district and city of Driedorf from his father.

George, Duke of Bavaria

The most southern districts of Bavaria-Landshut Kufstein, Kitzbühel and Rattenberg passed to Emperor Maximilian and were united with Tyrol.

George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Sabina, Electress of Brandenburg
Sophie, Duchess of Legnica
Barbara
Dorothy Catherine, Burgravine of Meissen
George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

In the hereditary lands Brandenburg-Ansbach in Franconia, where with his older brother Casimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach he had assumed the regency in place of their father, he encountered greater difficulties, although the popular spirit was inclined toward the Reformation.

He was born in Ansbach, the third of eight sons of Margrave Frederick the Elder and his wife Sophia of Poland, daughter of Casimir IV of Poland and Elisabeth of Habsburg.

George Frederick (1539–1603), who became Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Regent of the Duchy of Prussia.

George, Prince of Wales

George II of Great Britain, from his creation as Prince of Wales in 1714 to his accession to the throne in 1727

George III of the United Kingdom, from his creation as Prince of Wales in 1751 until his accession to the throne in 1760

George IV of the United Kingdom, from his creation as Prince of Wales in 1762 until his accession to the throne in 1820

George's Block

The George's Block, once known as the James Block, is a 19th Century structure located in Sycamore, Illinois along Illinois Route 64 (State Street) as it passes through the DeKalb County seat.

George's Schoolhouse Raid

A little more than a week later, on January 12, members of the 35th were attending a party in Hillsborough, when they were surprised by the Unionist Loudoun Rangers, leaving one dead and two captured.

Georges Basin

George's Basin – a nineteenth-century dock in Liverpool, England

Jean-Baptiste Labelle

He is best known for composing the music to the song Ô Canada! mon pays, mes amours (words 1834, music before 1868) with words by George-Étienne Cartier.

John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod

Receiving financial assistance to equip himself for service from the Chevalier de Saint-George, on the recommendation of Lord George Murray, he entered service in Swedish Pomerania as a mercenary.

McCord Museum

The documents come from families (the Dessaulles, McCord, Armstrong-Deligny-Philips and Bacon families); from well-known individuals (Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Maurice-Régis Blondeau, Hélène Baillargeon Côté); from companies and associations (Women's Art Society of Montreal, Victoria Rifles of Canada, Gibb & Co.); and from collections (New France, British Empire, Concert and Theatre Programs, Valentines).

Nelson Fogarty

When the missionary Diocese of Damaraland was formed in 1924, he was chosen to be its first bishop, and consecrated as such in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town on Quinquagesima Sunday, 2 March 1924 by the Archbishop of Cape Town, assisted by the Bishops of George, Bloemfontein, and St. John’s, Kaffraria, as well as the Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town, and Bishop Gaul.

Otto von Pack

Otto von Pack (c. 1480 – 8 February 1537), German conspirator, studied at the University of Leipzig, and obtained a responsible position under George, Duke of Saxony, which he lost owing to his dishonesty.

Rufus Ada-George

Ada-George was elected on the National Republican Convention (NRC) platform as Governor of Rivers State in the preliminary elections sponsored by General Ibrahim Babangida as a step towards full democracy with the Third Republic.

Stany Coppet

Back in France, he appeared on stage in the play The Duel of Shadows portraying Chevalier de Saint-George, also known as the "Black Mozart".

Tam-Tams

The free event gathers thousands of drum players, dancers, vendors and visitors, every Sunday, at the George-Étienne Cartier Monument in Mount Royal Park.

The Themba Development Project

The Themba Development Project was founded in 2008 when its founder, Catherine Robar viewed the substandard living conditions of the people living in Thembalethu, an informal settlement near the city of George in the Western Cape Province.

Watershed Music Festival

Watershed Music Festival is an annual country music festival held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington.


1000 Jokes

Cartoonists included Bob Barnes, Irwin Caplan, Chon Day, Leo Garel, Jerry Marcus, Don Orehek, Virgil Partch, Bob Schroeter, Eli Stein, George Wolfe and Pete Wyma.

Aero Commander

Three men funded the company's early efforts: Philadelphia attorney George Pew and Oklahoma City brothers William and Rufus Travis Amis.

Apollo D-2

Seeking professional recognition for their design work on the GE proposal, George Arthur and Jacob Abel publicly presented their papers documenting the GE D-2 design in December 1961 at a special symposium of the American Astronautical Society in Denver, Colorado.

Archaellum

Archaea were first classified as a separate group of prokaryotes in 1977 by Carl Woese and George E. Fox based on the differences in the sequence of ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes.

Ayot

Ayot St Lawrence, a village and parish, residence of George Bernard Shaw

CKPG

CKDV-FM, a radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, which held the call sign CKPG from February 1946 to May 2003

Clifton James

George Clifton James (born May 29, 1921) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) and as the prison guard in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

East Block

George-Étienne Cartier used an office at the northern end of the west wing, which was thereafter used by every prime minister until Pierre Trudeau.

Elizabeth Lewis

Betty Washington Lewis (1733–1797) was the only sister of George Washington to live to adulthood

François Olivennes

François Olivennes has three children, Hannah, 25, Joseph, 22 and George, 13, with his ex-wife, British actress Kristin Scott Thomas.

Gaffey

Hugh Joseph Gaffey (1895–1946), Chief of Staff for General George Patton's Third Army during World War II

Geoffrey Turner

He won the George Medal for recovering a mine from a German plane which had been shot down at Fairlight, near Hastings in Sussex.

George Cadle Price

George Price completed his education at St. John's College High School While there he was exposed to the teachings of Catholic social justice, in particular the encyclical Rerum Novarum.

George Chiweshe

Retired Brigadier General George Mutandwa Chiweshe (born June 5, 1953) is the Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.

George Clarke Chandler

George Clarke Chandler was born in Ontario, March 18, 1906 and died in Vancouver, BC April 20, 1964 at the age of 56.

George F. Fitzpatrick

George Fitzpatrick married Phyllis Sinanan, sister of Mitra and Ashford Sinanan, uniting the Fitzpatrick family with another prominent political family of Trinidad (see Ashford Sinanan, Ambassador, Leader of the Opposition, Democratic Labour Party (DLP), West Indies Federation, Founder of the West Indian National Party (WINP) and High Commissioner to India.

George F. Le Feuvre

Unable to find a civil service post in Quebec, George joined the civil service in Ottawa.

George Fosbery Lyster

George Fosbery Lyster (1821 – 1899) succeeded John Hartley as Engineer in Chief to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.

George Harvey Ralphson

George Harvey Ralphson (1879–1940) was a writer of juvenile adventure books in the early 20th century.

George Hollis

It was thought likely that the medal belonged to either George Hollis or John Pearson as the other two medals were accounted for; however Pearson's VC subsequently turned up in auction at 2004, along with his other medals.

George Prentiss

George Pepper Prentiss (a.k.a. George Pepper Wilson) (June 10, 1876 – September 23, 1902) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1901 through 1902 for the Boston Americans (1901–02) and Baltimore Orioles (1902).

George Riashi

George Riashi (Qaa el Reem, near Zahlé, Lebanon on November 25, 1933 – October 28, 2012) was the Greek Melkite Catholic bishop of Tripoli and all North Lebanon.

George Scot of Pitlochie

George Scot or Scott (died 1685) of Pitlochie, Fife was a Scottish writer on colonisation in North America.

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873, Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera.

Giles Mompesson

Another daughter of John St. John (and thus Mompesson's sister-in-law) married Edward Villiers, the half-brother of George Villiers, and Mompesson's connection to George Villiers was the key to his later despotism.

Henry Pellew, 6th Viscount Exmouth

He was President of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor and of the St George Society, an Anglo-American group in New York; he also belonged to the Society for Sanitary Reform and the School Commission.

Ira Gershwin

With George he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as "I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You", "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me".

James Levingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh

Livingston married firstly before 1648 Catherine Stuart, widow of George, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny and daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.

Journal of Contemporary History

The winner of the first George L. Mosse Prize in 2006 was the British historian of Nazi Germany Alex J. Kay, who won for his article Germany’s Staatssekretäre, Mass Starvation and the Meeting of 2 May 1941.

King George Station

King George Station is located in Surrey City Centre at the corner of King George Boulevard and 100th Ave, just north of the western terminus of the Fraser Highway.

Lettice Cooper

She met George Orwell's wife at this period and the character of Ann in the novel Black Bethlehem (1947) is thought to be based on Eileen Blair.

Live a Borrowed Life

The series drew some controversy when George Rolland, who promoted white racial supremacist views, was brought on the show to represent Abraham Lincoln.

Louis Buvelot

He lived for some years in Latrobe Street East, and then moved to George Street, Fitzroy.

Ludowy Theatre

Notable plays of the time included productions by Jerzy Krasowski, such as adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men (1956) with Franciszek Pieczka (as Lenny Small) and Witold Pyrkosz (as George Milton).

Neighborhood Story

She lives with her boyfriend Takeshi, a guitarist for a local band, and is Mikako’s biggest supporter as well as (later in the series) the mother of Arashi whose best friend is George from Paradise Kiss.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Preston baronets

The Preston Baronetcy, of Furness in the County of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of England on 1 April 1644 for George Preston.

Raphael Pumpelly

Elizabeth Cabot who married Henry Holt, Jr., the son of Henry Holt, founder of Henry Holt and Company and Taber Florence, and Pauline Cabot who married George Pierce Metcalf, son of Stephen Olney Metcalf.

Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet

Born in London, the son of a goldsmith (George Morden), Morden was apprenticed to Sir William Soame, a wealthy London merchant and member of the British East India Company, in 1643.

St. Julian's

The town is subdivided into informal districts which are Paceville, Ta' Ġiorni, Tal-Għoqod, St Andrew's, as well as the regions surrounding St George's Bay, Spinola Bay, Balluta Bay, and Il-Qaliet cliffs.

Task Force 402

Ambassador Khalilzad, while visiting the local Civil Affairs company, presented members of TF402 with coins on behalf of the President George W. Bush of the United States.

Thirteenth stroke of the clock

The most famous is the first line in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four when it starts with, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.".

Thomas Hartmann

Thomas de Hartmann (1885–1956), Russian composer and associate of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton

Southampton is a character in Hilary Mantel's novels on Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, (nicknamed Call-Me Risley for the pronunciation of the family name), and in Margaret George's novel, The Autobiography of Henry VIII

Tony George

George made a bid for certain assets of the company, while a trio of CART owners (Gerald Forsythe, Paul Gentilozzi, and Kevin Kalkhoven), along with Dan Pettit, also made a bid, calling their group the Open Wheel Racing Series (OWRS).

Wave 102

The station was founded by Douglas and June Anderson as part of The Petros Radio Group who launched Discovery AM in 1994 and Radio Waves in 1995, then decided to go for the full scale local licence with the help of their neighbour George Mackintosh (who started Radio Tay in 1980) along with a consortium who also founded Kingdom FM in Fife with the assistance of IRG (The Independent Radio Group)

William C. Crain

In 1826, he married Perses Narina Tunnicliff, daughter of William Tunnicliff, and granddaughter of the Count George Ernst August von Ranzau, an officer on the staff of the Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, and author of the interesting Journal of Burgoyne's Expedition contained in the archives of the general staff at Berlin.

William Sly

He is generally thought to have been with the Lord Chamberlain's Men at their re-formed start in 1594, probably at first as a hired man; he may have become a sharer in the company when George Bryan retired, c.