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2 unusual facts about George Forrest


George Forrest

George Arthur Forrest (born 1940), Belgian businessman in the Belgian Congo

George W. Forrest (1839–?), farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia


Gelug

Scottish Botanist George Forrest, who witnessed the 1905 Tibetan Rebellion led by the Gelug Lamas, wrote that the majority of the people in the Mekong valley in Yunnan were Tibetan.

Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway

He sponsored several botanical collectors, including George Forrest, and Rhododendron aberconwayi is named in his honor.

Katanga Business

The film explores the murky dealings between the state-owned Gécamines, foreign mining companies such as First Quantum Minerals and individuals like George Forrest, Indian and Chinese investors and state officials.

Luther Davis

In collaboration with Charles Lederer, Robert Wright, and George Forrest, Luther Davis wrote Kismet, Timbuktu!, and two different treatments of Vicki Baum’s novel Grand Hotel (At the Grand for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Light Opera Association and the Broadway musical version, Grand Hotel, The Musical).

Magdalena: a Musical Adventure

Magdalena: a Musical Adventure is a folk operetta in two acts with music by Heitor Villa-Lobos, original book by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Homer Curran, and lyrics and musical adaptations by Robert Wright and George Forrest.


see also

George Dunn

Forrest Dunn (George Forrest Dunn, Jr., born 1928), American politician