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George Stephen

George A. Stephen (c.1922–1993), American inventor, entrepreneur, and the founder of Weber-Stephen Products Co.


Abaúj County

According to Anonymus, during the reign of St. Stephen the Aba family (the family of Sámuel Aba who later became king) had properties in this area.

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.

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.

CJRI-FM

On December 1, 2008 the CRTC also granted the station's application to add rebroadcasters at Woodstock (101.1 MHz), New Bandon (99.7 MHz) and St. Stephen (99.9 MHz) All three transmitters will operate with an effective radiated power of 50 watts.

Coat of arms of Miskolc

Its legend is unreadable, and disputes arose about the identity of its heraldic figure, a king's head with a fleur-de-lis crown – according to one theory it is St. Stephen, the patron saint of the Avas church, but the fleur-de-lis indicates a king of the Angevin dynasty, possibly Louis the Great, who gave Miskolc town rights.

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.

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.

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. 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. Strout House

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

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

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.

Himani Dalmia

She graduated with honours in English from St. Stephen's College and holds a Master's in South Asian Studies from the University of Oxford.

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.

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.

Margherita Arlina Hamm

Born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Hamm grew up in Bangor, Maine, but left after high school to make her career as a reporter for the Boston Herald.

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.

New Brunswick Southwest

Major towns include St. Stephen, St. Andrews, St. George, Grand Bay–Westfield, McAdam, Harvey Station, Fredericton Junction, Gagetown, and the Kingsclear and Hanwell regions near Fredericton.

Paul de Sorbait

His tomb is in the Cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna.

Percival Spear

An accomplished historian of modern Indian social history, he taught at both Cambridge University and St. Stephen's College with great distinction.

Pummerin

The Pummerin sounds on only a few special occasions such as high Catholic holidays such as Easter, Whitsunday, Feast of Corpus Christi (Pentacost), Christmas Eve, and St. Stephen's Day (High Patron of the Church - Dec 26th); state funerals, and at the beginning of the New Year, when it is broadcast on national television, ORF, followed by The Blue Danube Waltz.

Rajmohan Gandhi

He attended St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, India.

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.

Rudolf Koppitz

While working in Vienna early in his career, Koppitz photographed many of the picturesque aspects of the city - St. Stephen's Cathedral, Karl's Church - and traveled to photograph Hungarian villages, fishing boats near Delft, views of Dresden and alpine landscapes.

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.

St. Stephen's Church, Delhi

The church was built in 1862, by Anglican missionaries and DPW Engineers in the style of Italian Gothic architecture.

St. Stephen's International School

Founded in 1964 by Dr. John O. Patterson, former Headmaster of the Kent School, St. Stephen's provides a demanding classical liberal arts education taking full advantage of its location in the historic center of Rome.

Stephen, Stephen

Schneider also makes reference to Colbert's grudge against The Decemberists (whose guitarist, Chris Funk, appeared in the same episode of the show) with the lines "he's calling out the bears in their evil lairs/he's calling out the press in their fancy dress/he's calling out The Decemberists and their Green Screen Contest".

It was included on the B-sides and rarities collection Electronic Projects for Musicians in 2008.

Vineyard Bible Institute

In 2006, VBI took a significantly progressive step forward when Derek and Dr. Quinton Howitt, Derek's academic colleague and lecturer at South African Theological Seminary, constituted a partnership with St. Stephen's University on the East Coast of New Brunswick, Canada, whereby St. Stephen’s became VBI’s degree issuing confederate for their recently developed four year Bachelor of Christian Studies programme.

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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