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George Cannon

George I. Cannon (1920–2009), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Brigham Young, Jr. (9 December 1899—10 October 1901) : When Lorenzo Snow became President of the Church, the next senior Apostles, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith, were asked by Snow to be counselors in the First Presidency.

Amalgamated Sugar Company

Directors included David Eccles, Thomas Duncombe Dee, George Q. Cannon, and John R. Winder, with Eccles as president, and Dee as vice president.

Berry L. Cannon

According to John Piña Craven, the U.S. Navy's head of the Deep Submergence Systems Project of which SEALAB was a part, SEALAB III had been "plagued with strange failures at the very start of operations".

Camp Fremont

General John K. Cannon completed his initial military training at Camp Fremont.

Captain Pugwash

In this book, the King of Great Britain strongly resembles George I and the King of France resembles Louis XIV, suggesting that this story took place in 1714–15.

Capture of Eilean Donan Castle

The Spanish had sent troops after Cardinal Giulio Alberoni set up the Alberoni Plan a decision to support the Jacobite claims and its Highland allies both to depose George I and enthrone James Stuart.

Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Diana, Princess of Wales was his descendant as well as every reigning British monarch from George I to the current Queen Elizabeth II.

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

He was the second son of George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, but the first born by his fourth wife Anna, daughter of Albert VIII, Count of Lindow-Ruppin.

Explanatory Charter

The Explanatory Charter was a supplement to the royal charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay issued by King George I on August 26, 1725.

Frank Lovell

In the 1930s, Frank Lovell came into contact with Trotskyist movement led by James P. Cannon and he became one of the first members of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 1942 he was elected to its National Committee.

George Cannon

George Q. Cannon (1827–1901), early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

George H. Cannon (1915–1941), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient

George H. Cannon

While at the University of Michigan he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

He also attended the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, prior to entering the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

#Agnes (b. 1445 – d. Kaufungen, 15 August 1504), Abbess of Gandersheim (1485), of Neuenheerse (1486–1492) and of Kaufungen (1495)

George I. Fujimoto

During his studies at Harvard his family was imprisoned in an American internment camp Minidoka in Idaho.

Georgious Y. Cannon

Georgious was the youngest of 32 children born March 6, 1892 to LDS church leader George Q. Cannon.

Gerry Healy

In 1953, Healy joined the split in the Fourth International instigated by James P. Cannon and was soon nominal leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

James P. Cannon

Therefore when the labor movement revived in the early 1930s the Communist league was well placed to put its ideas into action in the Twin Cities and through their influence in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters the union rapidly grew after an historic dispute in 1934.

Jan II the Mad

#Hedwig (b. October 1476 – d. Ziębice, 15 February 1524), married firstly on July 1489 to George I of Poděbrady, Duke of Ziębice-Oleśnica (Münsterberg-Oels), and secondly on 23 October 1503 to Sigismund, Baron of Wartenberg.

John Cannon

John Q. Cannon (1857–1931), American newspaper editor and general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

John K. Cannon

He served the infantry at Camp Fremont, California; Camp Mills, New York, the Presidio of San Francisco; and Camp Furlong, New Mexico, until taking pilot training at Kelly Field, Texas in 1921-22.

Joseph Cannon

Joseph J. Cannon (1877–1945), Utah politician, newspaper editor, and LDS Church leader

Joseph A. Cannon (born 1949), former chairman of the Utah Republican Party and former chairman of Geneva Steel

Lewis T. Cannon

Lewis was born to LDS church leader George Q. Cannon and Martha Telle Cannon on April 22, 1872.

Leymus arenarius

Under the 18th century reign of George I, the British Parliament expanded the law to protect the plant on English coasts.

Mary Cowper

In May 1707 Queen Anne in Council named William Cowper the first Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and he was later appointed one of the Lords Justices responsible for governing the country until George I arrived in England after Queen Anne's death.

Mechlin lace

George I had a Mechlin cravat, and it was a favorite of Queen Charlotte and Princess Amelia.

Mountain Dell Dam

The general design and supervision was handled under the direction of Sylvester Q. Cannon, City Engineer of Salt Lake City and John S. Eastwood acting as consulting engineer.

Nathaniel H. Felt

In turn this article is largely the same as Fred E. Woods, "Nathaniel H. Felt: An Essex County Man," in Regional Studies In Latter-day Saint Church History in New England, Donald Q. Cannon, Arnold K. Garr and Bruce A. Van Orden, eds.

Philip Bragg

The English records of this period contain no reference to Bragg, but in a set of Irish military entry-books, commencing in 1713, which are preserved in the Four Courts, Dublin, his name appears as captain in Primrose's regiment, lately returned from Holland to Ireland; his commission is here dated 1 June 1715, on which day new commissions were issued to all officers in the regiment in consequence of the accession of George I.

Philip Cannon

Philip L. Cannon (1850–1929), first Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

Philippe Cousteau

In the aftermath of aquanaut Berry L. Cannon's death while attempting to repair a leak in SEALAB III, Cousteau volunteered to dive down to SEALAB and help return it to the surface, although SEALAB was ultimately salvaged in a less hazardous way.

Reverse Underground Railroad

From 1811-1829, Martha "Patty" Cannon was the leader of a gang that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.

Richard O. Cowan

He also co-wrote a book about the international church with Donald Q. Cannon.

Richard P. Condie

Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History, (Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, Richard O. Cowan, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, November 2000) ISBN 1-57345-822-8

Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt

On the accession of George I however, he was deprived of office and retired to Cokethorpe, where he enjoyed the society of men of letters, Swift, Pope, Prior and other famous writers being among his frequent guests.

Singlestick

Under Kings George I and George II, backsword play with sticks was immensely popular under the names cudgel-play and singlesticking, not only in the cities but in the countryside as well, wrestling being its only rival.

T. C. Cannon

On May 8 of that year, however, he died in an automobile accident, and after a delay, the show opened on December 10, 1979 as "T.C. Cannon: A Memorial Exhibition." Featuring 50 works by Cannon, it subsequently became a traveling exhibition, and went on display at locations such as the Heard Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii

With Hiram Clark presiding, the missionaries included Elders Henry Bigler, Hiram Blackwell, George Q. Cannon, John Dixon, William Farrer, James Hawkins, James Keeler, Thomas Morris, and Thomas Whittle.

Thomas P. Barnett

Barnett trained under his father, St. Louis architect George I. Barnett, who was known for designing public landmarks such as the renovation of the Old Courthouse, the Missouri Governor's Mansion, and the structures of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Virginia General Assembly, 1916

Senator G. Walter Mapp and temperance advocate James Cannon, Jr. (not to be confused with Senator James E. Cannon) drafted the final bill after voters endorsed a referendum in September 1914.

William Law

He resided at Cambridge, teaching and taking occasional duty until the accession of George I, when his conscience forbade him to take the oaths of allegiance to the new government and of abjuration of the Stuarts.


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