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George R. Caron

A handheld 16 mm film camera on The Great Artiste captured the only known motion film of the explosion.


Adventist Mission

George R. Knight, The Fat Lady and the Kingdom (Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press, 1995)

Bagley Park

County circuit court judge George R. Bagley sold part of his land to the city for a park at the intersection of northeast Second and Jackson streets in the early 1920s.

Colorado School of Mines

The honorary named Colorado School of Mines buildings commemorate Dr. Victor C. Alderson, Edward L. Berthoud, George R. Brown, Dr. Regis Chauvenet, Dr. Melville F. Coolbaugh, Cecil H. and Ida Green, Simon Guggenheim, Nathaniel P. Hill, Arthur Lakes, Dr. Paul D. Meyer, Winfield S. Stratton, and Russell K. Volk.

Fantasy genealogy

George R. R. Martin's Epic A Song of Ice and Fire features lots of fictional noble families most of them with documented ancestry.

Fetterman, West Virginia

Porterfield found that sympathies at Grafton were largely with the Union and the Grafton Guards under Captain George R. Latham were organized at Grafton.

Garron

The word garron is also mentioned a number of times in George R.R. Martin's novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, the fantasy series that began with A Game of Thrones.

George Bagley

George R. Bagley (1871–1939), American attorney and jurist in the state of Oregon

George Dale

George R. Dale (1867–1936), American newspaper editor and politician in Indiana

George Knight

George R. Knight (born 1941), Seventh-day Adventist Church historian

George Latham

George R. Latham (1832–1917), American politician and lawyer from Virginia and West Virginia

George Noyes

George R. Noyes (1798–1868), Unitarian minister and scholar at Harvard

George R. Brown

The organization donates to notable institutions such as Rice University, Southwestern University, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

George Rufus Brown (May 12, 1898 – January 22, 1983) was a prominent Houstonian entrepreneur.

George R. Carter

Roosevelt eventually appointed him Secretary of the Territory in 1902, and then Territorial Governor in 1903, succeeding Sanford B. Dole who resigned to become a federal judge.

George R. Coppenrath

He and his wife Sue have three sons, Ethan (age 30), Taylor (age 27), and Drew (age 23).

George R. D. Goulet

George, along with his wife Terry, is a strong supporter of the exoneration of Louis Riel and has been quoted on his support of the Private member's bill introduced by Pat Martin in the House of Commons.

George R. Davis

Davis was elected as a Republican to the 46th, 47th, and 48th Congresses (March 4, 1879 – March 4, 1885).

George R. Dennis

He graduated in 1843 and practiced in Kingston, Maryland for many years, until later devoting himself to agricultural pursuits.

George R. Durgan

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.

George R. Edwards

He coached two non-consecutive seasons at Kansas Wesleyan.

George R. Fischer

Fischer soon distinguished himself as the only Caucasian child that was hurling stones at the guards during recess.

George R. Gardiner

Among his notable runners was St. Vincent who raced in the U.S. and who in 1955 set or equaled four course records, including a North American and World record, and was voted that year's American Champion Male Turf Horse.

George R. Henderson

In October 1951 he served as Commander of Naval Air Bases, 11th & 12th Naval Districts headquartered (at the Lake Training Station in Lake Bluff, Illinois.) in San Diego, California and in May 1953 assumed additional duties as Commandant of the 11 Naval District.

George R. Hutchinson

In 1930, Hutchinson bought a Lockheed Sirius monoplane he named Richmond, Virginia after his home town, trading in his smaller Stinson Junior as part of the purchase.

George R. Klare

It was during that period, he published, with Byron Buck, Know Your Reader: The Scientific Approach to Readability. This work introduced to the public the extensive research behind the popular readability formulas of the likes of Rudolf Flesch and Robert Gunning.

George R. Malby

Malby was elected as a Republican to the 60th, 61st and 62nd United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1907, until his death.

George R. Mather

Following an assignment as Chief of Staff, Fourth United States Army at Fort Sam Houston in 1961, he was assigned as Chairman, United States Delegation, Joint Brazil-United States Military Assistance Advisory Group in Rio de Janeiro until September 1964.

George R. Rossman

George R. Rossman is the Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Mineralogy at the California Institute of Technology.

George Salisbury

George R. Salisbury, Jr. (1921–2010), Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives

George Throop

George R. Throop (1882–1949), former chancellor of Washington University

James A. Elkins

This behind-the-scenes socialization amongst leading Texas politicians and businessmen included the likes of Jesse Jones, Gus Wortham, James Abercrombie, George R. Brown, Herman Brown, Lyndon Johnson, William L. Clayton, William P. Hobby, Oscar Holcombe, Hugh Roy Cullen, and John Connally.

Lukyan

Lukyan Judasson, creator of The Way of Cross and Dragon a fictional religious text in the novel of the same name by George R. R. Martin.

Manitoba general election, 1914

Although Education Minister George R. Coldwell insisted the amendments were only meant to clarify existing provisions, many voters believed the Roblin government wanted to re-introduce funding for separate Roman Catholic schools.

New Spring

It is produced by DB Pro, who previously adapted "The Legend of Huma" by Richard A. Knaak and "The Hedge Knight" by George R. R. Martin and published by Red Eagle Entertainment.

Ryan Colucci

Along with Mike the Pike Productions, he is also attached to produce George R.R. Martin's The Skin Trade, the World Fantasy Award-Winning horror novella from the Dark Visions compilation book.

Savery, Wyoming

Two recent state representatives, the late George R. Salisbury, Jr., and his son-in-law, Patrick F. O'Toole, both Democrats, came from Savery.

Suomenlinna

George R. R. Martin wrote a short story about the surrender of Viapori, "The Fortress", when he was a college student.

Teeth Dreams

Featuring lyrics written by George R. R. Martin, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" appeared in the HBO television series, Game of Thrones.

The Sandkings

"The Sandkings" is the first episode of the revived 1960s science-fiction television series The Outer Limits, based on the short story Sandkings by George R. R. Martin, first published in Omni Magazine August 1979.

The action of the original story Sandkings by George R. R. Martin takes place in the distant future on a far planet colonized by humans.

United States Grazing Service

The late Wyoming State Representative George R. Salisbury, Jr., of Carbon County worked for the Grazing Service prior to World War II.

W. W. Fosdick

William W. Fosdick (January 28, 1825 – March 8, 1862) was an American lawyer, poet, writer and song lyricist, primarily remembered today as the one who wrote the original lyrics to the song Aura Lea to a melody composed by George R. Poulton.

William Rush and His Model

Ellis, George R., Honolulu Academy of Arts, Selected Works, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1990, 227.

Ellis, George R. and Marcia Morse, A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 2000, 110 & 211-2.


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