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1908–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

Ralph Sayles, J. Griffith Hays, trainer George A. May
Middle row (l to r): Gregory Peck, captain Joseph P. Wilson, unknown
Front row (l to r): Carl Raiss, unknown


550 Broad Street

The Brutalist style building was built in 1966 during the New Newark era by the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company and the George A. Fuller Company and was once known the Fidelity Union Building, for the company which occupied it.

Albany Club

Members have also included Ontario Conservative Premiers Sir James Whitney, Sir William Hearst, Howard Ferguson, George Henry, Thomas Kennedy, George A. Drew, Leslie Frost, John Robarts, William Davis, Frank Miller and Mike Harris.

Avro Avian

Wop May "The Race against Death – Mercy flight in an Avian."

Chakal

In 2002 the band reunited with Korg to play a few shows, and over the course of two years wrote material for a new album based on a screenplay written by Korg and inspired by George A. Romero's Living Dead film series.

Charles May

Charles A. May (1818–1864), American military officer and hero of the Battle of Resaca de la Palma

Charles E. May, writer and professor of English at California State University, Long Beach

Chislehurst

E. J. May (1853–1941), architect, lived locally and designed a number of local buildings.

Dexfenfluramine

Their concern was based on the work of George A. Ricaurte, whose techniques and conclusions were later questioned.

Dying to Live

Paffenroth credits his main influence to be George A. Romero the director of many popular main stream zombie movies such as Dawn of the Dead.

Edwin C. May

His technical expertise is well respected, and he has given presentations at the famous World War II site Bletchley Park (UK), Harvard University, the Universities of California at Los Angeles and at Davis, Stanford University, the University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Cambridge, Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Stockholm, Imperial College London and others.

Edwin H. May, Jr.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-sixth Congress in 1958.

El Cortez Hotel

The El Cortez Hotel, at 239 W. 2nd St. in Reno, Nevada, is a historic Art Deco-style hotel that was designed by Reno architects George A. Ferris and Son and was built in 1931.

Exton, Rutland

Barnsdale was a large country house, built in 1890 as a hunting lodge for Earl Fitzwilliam by architect E. J. May.

Fawn Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

The film Knightriders (1981) by George A. Romero starring Ed Harris used scenes shot in Fawn Township (1980) for the movie.

Fetterman, West Virginia

Lee sent Colonel George A. Porterfield to Grafton, Virginia to organize and recruit new members for the secessionist forces for the state, with a view toward joining the Confederacy, to hold northwestern Virginia for Virginia and ultimately the Confederacy.

George A. Blair

Cypress Gardens A special tribute was held at Cypress Gardens on March 30, 2008

George A. Blauvelt

In September 1914, he opened a law firm in Manhattan with New York Attorney General Thomas Carmody and Deputy Attorney General Joseph A. Kellogg, who both had just resigned, but left the firm in October 1915.

George A. Cobham, Jr.

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.

George A. Crawford

In 1857, along with Norman Eddy and others, he purchased and founded the city of Fort Scott, Kansas.

George A. Drew

Drew's government insisted on spending $400 million in a ten-year program to convert Ontario's electricity system from 25-cycles (Hertz) to 60-cycles, standardizing it with the rest of North America.

George A. Frederick

Druid Hill Park ranks with Central Park in New York City, begun in 1859, and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia as the oldest landscaped public parks in the United States.

George A. Gillett

George Gillett and Arthur 'Bolla' Francis rescued Anglo-Welsh (British Lions) player Percy Down who had fallen into the sea, keeping him afloat until a rope was lowered from the ship upon which Down was about to return to Great Britain.

George A. Krol

He served as the Ambassador to Belarus 2003–06.

George A. Loud

Loud defeated Woodruff in 1914 to be elected to the 64th Congress, serving from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1917.

George A. Lucas

He lived there on an annuity from his father’s estate and worked as an agent for art collectors and dealers in the United States such as Samuel Putnam Avery, John Taylor Johnston, Cyrus Lawrence, William Henry Vanderbilt, and Henry Field.

George A. Lucas, an art collector and agent for American patrons, was born in Baltimore in 1824 as the seventh son of Fielding Lucas, Jr., who owned a publishing and stationary company.

George A. Shuford

Shuford was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1959).

George A. Slater

George Atwood Slater (September 2, 1867 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut – February 23, 1937 in Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

George A. Strout House

The George A. Strout House is a registered historic place in Sebastopol, California.

George A. Taylor

George Arthur Taylor was born in the small village Flat Rock, Illinois, in the southeast of Illinois.

George A. Thompson

Today, because of George A. Thompson, Thompson Pump and Manufacturing is known worldwide for its different lines of high quality pumps, ranging in size from 2 to 18 inches.

George Blair

George A. Blair (born 1915), businessman, entrepreneur, and waterskier

George Fuller

George A. Fuller (1851–1900), architect and general contractor, "inventor" of modern skyscrapers

George Malcolm

George A. Malcolm (1881–1961), American lawyer and judge in the Philippines

Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company

He partnered with fellow insurance salesman Norman O. Houston and businessman George A. Beavers, Jr. to secure 500 pre-paid life insurance applications as well as the $15,000 deposit required by California.

Henry F. May

Born in Denver, Colorado, he was reared in Berkeley, California and spent a formative year in Europe with his family as the youngest of three children.

Islamabad Tonight

The programs on war on terror and security issues of Pakistan included interviews of former Director General ISI Lt. Gen. (R) Hamid Gul, Clifford D. May, Brig (R) Mian Mahmood, Seymour Hersh.

Juan Cavia

The forewords of volume I and volume II were written by legendary filmmakers John Landis and George A. Romero.

Jun Choi

Running on a platform to make government work better and reforming the Democratic Party, Choi won the June 2005 primary by a 56-44% margin, defeating longtime incumbent Mayor George A. Spadoro.

Karcher v. May

Karcher and Orechio appealed, although by the time of filing their terms as Speaker and President had expired; their successors, Chuck Hardwick and John F. Russo, joined the executive officers in refusing to defend the constitutionality of the statute.

Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute

Nobel Laureate George A. Olah serves as Director and G. K. Surya Prakash serves as Scientific Co-Director and holds the George A. and Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair of Chemistry.

Michael Perlis

After Rodale Press acquired the George A. Hirsch magazine Runner from CBS Magazines in January 1987 and merged it into Runner's World magazine, Perlis was replaced as publisher of Runner's World magazine by Hirsch.

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

Famous fantastic film directors have already honored the NIFFF with their presences, including George A. Romero, Joe Dante, John Landis, Terry Gilliam, Hideo Nakata.

Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope

Recent issues have included interviews with such well known B-movie directors as John Waters, James Gunn, Roger Corman, George A. Romero, Walter Hill and Brian Yuzna and such famed cult actors as Crispin Glover, Adrienne Barbeau, L. Q. Jones, Tobin Bell, and Clint Howard.

Roy O. Woodruff

In 1912, Woodruff defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Representative George A. Loud to be elected as the candidate of the Progressive Party from Michigan's 10th congressional district to the 63rd Congress, serving from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915.

Somebody's Darling

Somebody's Darling is a 1925 British silent comedy film directed by George A. Cooper and starring Betty Balfour, Rex O'Malley and Fred Raynham.

Spray on Pants

The music video is constructed in a similar fashion to George A. Romero films, with two zombies dressed as stereotypical "emos" who initially bite a small child on his bike, making him a zombie as well.

William L. May

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress.

May was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Duncan.

Zombie walk

The mid to late 2000s saw an exponential gain in popularity for zombie walks, due largely to the success of zombie films at the time, such as the Resident Evil movies, 28 Days Later, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, George A. Romero's Land of the Dead, and Zombieland.


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