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68 unusual facts about George F.


Allard Hall

In 1976 construction began on the Curtis building, named for the Faculty's founding Dean, George F. Curtis, who died on October 23, 2005.

Allied invasion of Sicily

To the east, the British 1st Airborne Division commanded by Major General George F. Hopkinson were to seize vital bridges and high ground.

Big Hole River

Conservationist George F. Grant, Trout Unlimited and local ranchers combined forces to oppose the dam, successfully defeating the proposal in 1967.

Escape from Happiness

Escape From Happiness is a play by Canadian playwright George F. Walker.

George Brady

George F. Brady (1867–?), United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient

George Carter

George F. Carter (1912–2004), American geographer and anthropologist

George Curtis

George F. Curtis (1906–2005), founding dean of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law

George Dewar

George F. Dewar (1865–?), physician and political figure in Prince Edward Island, Canada

George Dillon

George F. Dillon, 19th century Catholic writer and anti-Masonic conspiracy theorist

George Emmons

George F. Emmons (1811–1884), rear admiral of the United States Navy

George F. Anderson

George Frederick Anderson (1793–1876), a British violinist and Master of the Queen's Music.

George F. Archambault

:“It is the pharmacist’s professional responsibility to protect the public against iatrogenesis, physician-induced injury or disease in the area of drug prescribing especially as to overdosage, incompatibilities, contraindications, and synergistic drug actions.”

He began working at the Marine Hospital in the Boston town of Brighton in 1943 as a civilian, and in 1945 he joined the United States Public Health Service reserve.

George F. Bond

The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea, New York: Simon & Schuster.

George F. Brumm

He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy during the Sixty-ninth Congress.

George F. Carter

He cites Hannes Lindemann's solo crossing of the Atlantic in a dugout canoe as evidence that humans could in fact have made the same journey in past.

George F. Ellis

Born in Portales, New Mexico May 11, 1903, he graduated from the Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas in animal husbandry.

; The Bell Ranch As I Knew It, The Lowell Press: 1973, ISBN 0-913504-15-7 Illustrated by Robert Lougheed.

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. Green

G. F. Green (George Frederick Green, 1911–1977), British fiction writer

George F. Hopkinson

Operation Husky began on the night of 9 July with an airborne assault by 1st Airlanding Brigade and 1st Parachute Brigade of 1st Airborne Division, and elements of the American 82nd Airborne Division with both divisions suffering heavy losses in men and equipment as they carried out their objectives.

Fighting was fierce against a strong German rearguard, which set up a number of ambushes and roadblocks to deter the division; one such roadblock was set up near the town of Castellaneta and defended by a unit of Fallschirmjaeger.

George F. Keane

They lived in Westport, Connecticut, and have three children, the oldest of which is composer and producer Brian Keane.

After the dot-com bubble burst he advocated for the creation of a new index in place of the S&P 500, and worked with Research Affiliates in the development of the Fundamental Index.

George F. Kugler, Jr.

He was survived by his wife, the former Gloria Hicks, and their four sons: George F. Kugler III; Robert B. Kugler, judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey; Jeffrey R. Kugler; and Pete Kugler.

George F. L. Charles Airport

George F. L. Charles Airport was renamed on 4 August 1997 in honor of Saint Lucia politician Sir George Frederick Lawrence Charles (1916–2004).

Also, the airport only offers an NDB approach to runway 9 however, approaches to runway 27 is rarely seen and must be done by a visual traffic pattern.

George F. Le Feuvre

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

The Le Feuvre family was separated in 1901 when George senior, Florence, and their two younger sons, Sidney and John, emigrated to Jersey's cod-fishing settlements at the Gaspé coast in Canada.

In 1922, in search of new opportunities, he moved to Detroit in the United States where he joined the Ford Motor Company, first as a nightwatchman.

George F. MacDonald

Inspired as much by the ideas of Marshall Mcluhan and Disney's Epcot Center as by other museums like the Smithsonian Institution, MacDonald's version of the museum included interactive displays, replicas, and an IMAX theatre.

George F. Marion

George F. Marion, who was born in San Francisco, California was father of writer George Marion Jr. and he died of a heart attack at the age of 85 years in Carmel, California, USA.

George F. McFarland

Countered in a rough recruiting race by cavalryman John K. Robison, McFarland gathered from the county just over 30 men, which he transported to Camp Curtin in Harrisburg.

Three months later, at the first day of fighting at Gettysburg, with Allen away on furlough, McFarland bravely led the 151st as his regiment covered the retreat of the battered Union Army's I Corps through the town of Gettysburg.

George F. Moore

George Fletcher Moore (1798–1886), Attorney-General of Western Australia

George Foot Moore (1851–1931), Harvard University Biblical studies professor

George F. Richardson

He moved to Kennewick, Washington in 1904 and engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the transfer, livery, and fuel business.

George F. Veenker

In football, Veenker had responsibility for coaching the ends, including College Football Hall of Fame end, Bennie Oosterbaan.

Veenker took over as head basketball coach following the death of E. J. Mather.

George F. Williams

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress.

George Fuller

George F. Fuller (1869–1962), industrialist in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

George Hibbard

George F. Hibbard (1848–1934), merchant and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada

George Houston

George F. Houston (1896–1944), American B-western film actor and singer

George Kennan

George F. Kennan (1904–2005), diplomat and historian; the explorer's great-nephew and architect of the U.S. containment over confrontation policy during the Cold War.

George Marion

George F. Marion (1860–1945), American actor and director of stage and screen

George McLean

George F. McLean (born 1929), professor of philosophy of the Catholic University of America

George Merrill

George F. Merrill (1847–?), former member of the Wisconsin Legislature

George Pearson

George F. Pearson (1799–1867), former rear admiral in the United States Navy

George Willison

George F. Willison (1896–1972), writer and editor who specialized in American history

Geosternbergia

It was collected by George F. Sternberg in 1952 and described by John Christian Harksen in 1966, from the lower portion of the Niobrara Formation.

Gryposaurus

Gryposaurus is based on specimen NMC 2278, a skull and partial skeleton collected in 1913 by George F. Sternberg from what is now known as the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, along the Red Deer River.

History of the United States National Security Council 1953–61

Cutler and NSC Executive Secretary James Lay testified in support of the effectiveness of the system, but their testimony was offset by that of former Truman administration officials such as George Kennan, Paul Nitze, and Robert Lovett.

Hollenden Hotel

Liberty E. Holden, a real estate investor and owner of The Plain Dealer, purchased the land from Philo Chamberlain and created a corporation to build the hotel; he hired the Cleveland architect George F. Hammond to design it.

John J. Cove

Around the same time, he became influenced by the structuralist approaches of Claude Lévi-Strauss and, through the help of George F. MacDonald, began an intensive study of the Tsimshianic narratives collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon.

Merson

George F. Merson (1866–1959), Scottish pharmacist who produced surgical catgut

Paleontology in Kansas

Later, his son George F. Sternberg discovered another shark mummy in the same general area as his father.

Plain Clothes Theatre Productions

In 2006 the company produced a double bill of plays by Canadian playwright George F. Walker from his 'Suburban Motel' collection of plays; namely Problem Child and Criminal Genius.

Presiding Patriarch

In 1937 George F. Richards, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, was officially called, sustained, and set apart to the office of Acting Presiding Patriarch.

Robert Lougheed

Lougheed illustrated children's books such as the horse novels Mustang and San Domingo by Marguerite Henry and The Bell Ranch As I Knew It by George F. Ellis.

Ross Park Carousel

The carousel was purchased about 1920 and is one of six carousels donated to the citizens of Broome County by George F. Johnson (1857–1948), president of Endicott Johnson Corporation.

Russia Leaves the War

Russia Leaves the War (1956) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by George F. Kennan.

Sasser Cup

Formally called The Commissioner's Cup, it was renamed The Sasser Cup after former Commissioner George F. "Buddy" Sasser.

Smoky Hill Chalk

Many of the most well-known specimens of the marine reptiles were collected by dinosaur hunter Charles H. Sternberg and his son George.

The War Between the Tates

He is an admirer and scholar of the work of George Kennan, the diplomat who devised President Harry Truman's policy of containment of the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War.

Titterton

George F. Titterton (1904–1998), design engineer and Senior Vice-President of the Grumman Corporation

Tylosaurus

A photograph of a Tylosaurus skull was taken by George F. Sternberg about 1926 after he collected and prepared the specimen.

William Beynon

MacDonald, George F., and John J. Cove (eds.) (1987) Tsimshian Narratives. Collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon.

Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline

Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline is a play by Canadian playwright George F. Walker first produced at Toronto Free Theatre in 1977.


Dani Romain

Dani Romain is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer, who has been the writing and production partner of George F. Walker in the television series This Is Wonderland, The Line and Living in Your Car, and the film Niagara Motel.

George Warren

George F. Warren, agricultural economist and author, contemporary of Henry Charles Taylor

Mutual Musicians' Foundation Building

Members of the Mutual Musicians Foundation included Count Basie, Bennie Moten, Jay McShann, George F. Lee, singer Julia Lee, trumpeter Hot Lips Page, tenor saxophonists Dick Wilson, Herschel Evans and Lester Young, alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, drummer Baby Lovett, and pianist Pete Johnson.

North Dakota Legislative Assembly

Under the approval of Governor George F. Shafer, the current Art Deco capitol was built as a replacement between 1931 to 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression.

Richard Jenrette

Since the 1960s, Jenrette has bought and restored a series of significant historic American homes including Robert William Roper House in Charleston, SC; Millford Plantation in South Carolina; Ayr Mount in North Carolina; Estate Cane Garden on St. Croix; the George F. Baker House in New York City; and Edgewater, in Barrytown, New York.

Saint Ouen, Jersey

George F. Le Feuvre (1891–1984), who wrote under the pseudonym "George d'la Forge", was one of the most prolific authors of Jèrriais literature of the 20th century.

William Henry Long

Under the guidance of George F. Atkinson, Long performed field work at Cornell University, which eventually led to a PhD degree awarded from the University of Texas in 1917.