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2 unusual facts about George G. Bruce


Dan Emmett

He became an expert fifer and drummer at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and published his own Fifer’s and Drummer’s Guide in 1862 in cooperation with George G. Bruce.

School of Practice

The official training guide, adopted by the War Department, was George G. Bruce's The Drummers and Fife Guide, which was used until the end of the Civil War.


Airdrie Academy

Sir George G. Macfarlane CB, engineer, scientific administrator, public servant, Director from 1962-7 of the Royal Radar Establishment (wartime scientist working on radar), and designed the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC) - the first transistor digital computer

Alabama Republican Party

Among the party's other prominent officeholders in the period were George G. Siebels, Jr. who served two terms as Mayor of Birmingham from 1967–1975, and Emory Folmar who served as Mayor of Montgomery from 1977-1999.

Albany and Susquehanna Railroad

Gould and Fisk, incensed by his actions, had him suspended as president of the A&S by a judge they controlled on the New York State Supreme Court, George G. Barnard.

Cemetery Ridge

During the morning of the battle's 2nd day (July 2), Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade shifted units to receive an expected Confederate attack on his positions.

Connection Machine

Lewis W. Tucker, George G. Robertson, "Architecture and Applications of the Connection Machine," Computer, vol.

David Gemmell

He claimed that all of his novels have a religious basis, calling them "essentially Christian books" and saying that Christianity stopped him from "promoting the cause of evil" by writing "mindless savagery" in the vein of George G. Gilman's Edge westerns.

Frederick Bruce

F. F. Bruce (Frederick Fyvie Bruce) (1910–1990), Scottish Biblical scholar

George Eldon Ladd

Unity and Diversity in New Testament Theology: Essays in Honor of George E. Ladd (ISBN 080283504X), which included contributions by Leon Morris, William Barclay, F. F. Bruce, I. Howard Marshall, Richard Longenecker and Daniel Fuller.

George G. Barnard

The Impeachment Court (consisting of the Judges of the New York Court of Appeals and the New York State Senators) convened at Saratoga in July, Lt. Gov. Allen C. Beach presided.

Barnard became involved in a series of railroad litigations, beginning with the Erie War, when in February 1868 — on the petition of Att.

In August 1869, during the struggle for the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, Judge Rufus W. Peckham appointed Robert H. Pruyn as Receiver, but Barnard vacated Peckham's order, and appointed James Fisk instead.

Gen. Marshall B. Champlain — he removed Daniel Drew as Director and Treasurer of the railroad, and appointed Cornelius Vanderbilt's son-in-law George A. Osgood as Receiver for $10,000,000 of new Erie Railroad stock.

George G. Blackburn

George Gideon Blackburn, CM, MC (February 13, 1917 – November 15, 2006) was a decorated Canadian veteran of World War II (Military Cross; French Legion of Honour), a playwright, and award winning author.

George G. Fogg

Fogg was secretary of the Republican National Executive Committee in 1860, and was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Minister Resident to Switzerland, holding that office from 1861 to 1865.

He studied law at Meredith and at the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice at Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire.

George G. Gilbert

Gilbert was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907).

George G. Hall

George Garfield Hall (born 5 March 1925), is an applied mathematician and scientist of distinction, known for original work and contributions to the field of Quantum chemistry.

Longman (1965) & American Elsevier Publishing Co., Inc. (1967).

He then lectured at Cambridge University as Assistant in Research in Theoretical chemistry.

George G. Higgins

He was the author of the syndicated column "The Yardstick," and was the author of numerous other writings on worker justice in light of Catholic social teaching.

George G. Sadowski

He was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's first congressional district to the 73rd, 74th, and 75th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1939.

In 1942, he was elected to the 78th and then to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1943 to January 3, 1951.

He attended high school in Foley, Alabama, and then returned to Detroit, where he graduated from Northeastern High School in 1920 and from the law department of the University of Detroit in 1924.

George G. Siebels, Jr.

He served from m 1967 to 1975 and then represented Jefferson County in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1978 to 1990.

George G. Symes

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Commissioned colonel of the Forty-fourth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, in August 1864.

George G. Wright

He studied law in Rockville, Indiana and was admitted to the bar in 1840, commencing practice in Keosauqua, Iowa Territory (now Keosauqua, Iowa).

George Lundberg

George G. Lundberg (1892–1981), Brigadier-General in the United States

George McMurtry

George G. McMurtry (1876–1958), officer in United States Army and Medal of Honor recipient

Greenwich Avenue Historic District

Another philanthropist, Robert M. Bruce, and his sister Sarah E. Bruce, donated to the town the Old Town Hall (now the Senior Center) after it was constructed in 1905.

Gwladys Evan Morris

Gwladys Evan Morris wrote Tales from Bernard Shaw, which was first published in 1929 by George G. Harrap and Co. of London, and was printed by H & J Pillans & Wilson of Edinburgh.

Herman Haupt

After the Battle of Gettysburg, Haupt boarded one of his trains and arrived at the White House on July 6, 1863, being the first to inform President Lincoln that General Robert E. Lee's defeated Confederate army was not being pursued vigorously by Union Major General George G. Meade.

His Lordship's Kindness

Through the next hundred years, the property passed through a number of hands, including David K.E. Bruce, Chandler Hale, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.

James E. Bruce

In 2006, Bruce was hospitalized due to the effects of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, which he had been suffering from for a year.

Jana Khayat

Since the death of their father, Jana's brothers George and Guy have run Associated British Foods and Wittington Investments Ltd. (the parent company of Fortnums's and ABF) respectively while Khayat control of Fortnum's aided by her younger sister, Kate Hobhouse, as a non-executive director.

Legal Information Institute

LII was established in 1992 at Cornell Law School by Professor Peter Martin and Tom Bruce with a $250,000 multi-year startup grant from the National Center for Automated Information Research.

Of Thee I Sting

Of Thee I Sting is a 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, written by Michael Maltese and narrated by Robert C. Bruce that is a parody of World War II documentaries and the title Of Thee I Sing.

Pamunkey Regional Library

It was one of eleven libraries donated to rural Virginia counties by Mr. David K. E. Bruce.

Per-Olov Löwdin

According to himself, George G. Hall and King made the formal proposition after an informal suggestion by Löwdin.

Register of the Treasury

Four of the five African Americans whose signatures have appeared on U.S. currency were Registrars of the Treasury (Blanche K. Bruce, Judson W. Lyons, William T. Vernon and James C. Napier).

Robert V. Bruce

In April 1998, Bruce accused Scottish historian James A. Mackay of plagiarizing his book Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of Solitude, even as Mackay acknowledged Bruce on page 12 of his book.

Sanders D. Bruce

His father, John Bruce, was native to England and was believed to be a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce.

Terry L. Bruce

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1992 to the 103rd Congress.

He was elected to the Ninety-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1985–January 3, 1993).

Thaddeus M. Machrowicz

In 1950, Machrowicz defeated incumbent Democrat George G. Sadowski in the Democratic Party primary election and went on to be elected to represent Michigan's 1st congressional district in the 82nd United States Congress.


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