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General Greene

George S. Greene (1801–1899), Union general during the American Civil War


Battle of Saint-Mihiel

As a result, by September 1918, Colonel George S. Patton Jr. had finished training two tank battalions - 144 French-built Renault FT light tanks organized as the 344th and 345th battalions of the United States Tank Corps - at Langres, France for an upcoming offensive at the St. Mihiel salient.

Black No More

Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 is a 1931 Harlem Renaissance era satire on American race relations by George S. Schuyler (pronounced Sky-ler).

Charles Pattinson

In 1998, he and fellow producer George Faber set up their own independent production company, Company Pictures.

Chester A. Dolan, Jr.

On November 8, Dolan and his outfit participated in the first Allied invasion of Casablanca along with General George S. Patton's Western Tank Force.

Chicken curry

In 1940, Mrs. W.L. Bullard from Warm Springs, Georgia served this dish under the name "Country Captain" to Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd president of the United States of America) and to General George S. Patton (a distinguished U.S. Army General).

Colleen Kollar-Kotelly

She was appointed as a judge to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Bill Clinton on March 26, 1997, to a seat vacated by Harold H. Greene; she took her oath of office on May 12, 1997.

Corporate foresight

To operationalize the need for "peripheral vision", a concept closely linked to corporate foresight George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker propose 24 questions.

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal

In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).

Crystal Quest

The game was based on the original shareware version, Crystal Raider, one of the supporters of which had been Michael Greene, founder of Greene Inc (later to merge with CasadyWare to become Casady & Greene).

Czechoslovak War Cross 1939-1945

Several American officers received the award, such as George S. Patton, and the decoration was also bestowed to national heroes, such as the men who had assassinated Reinhard Heydrich.

Edwin S. Porter

He collaborated with several other filmmakers, including George S. Fleming.

Eleanor Flexner

Plays evaluated in American Playwrights are by dramatists Sidney Howard, S.N. Behrman, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, by comedy writer George S. Kaufman (variously collaborating with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Herman Mankiewicz, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Dietz, Katherine Dayton, and others), and by comedy writers George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, and Robert E. Sherwood.

General Greene

Wallace M. Greene (1907–2003), United States Marine Corps general, Commandant of the Marine Corps

George Faber

George S. J. Faber, co-founder of British production company Company Pictures

George Gregory

George S. Gregory (1846–?), Warden of the Borough of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1887–1888

George Myers

George S. Myers (1905–1985), American ichthyologist from Stanford University

George S. Boutwell

As Treasury Secretary, Boutwell's primary achievements were reorganizing and reforming the Treasury Department, improving bookkeeping by customs houses, incorporating the United States Mint into the Treasury and reducing the national debt.

George S. Brooks

Brooks was one of a group of 249 American soldiers—both officers and enlisted men—who briefly attended the University of Poitiers as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front.

George S. Mercouris

Mercouris was re-elected to parliament, in September 1932, and made vice-president of the People's Party which he left in November after a disagreement with its leader Panagis Tsaldaris.

George S. Messersmith

While he did not personally interview Albert Einstein, Messersmith cleared the way for the scientist to leave Germany.

He was best known in his day for his controversial decision to issue a visa to Albert Einstein to travel to the United States.

George S. Mickelson Trail

The trail is named after George S. Mickelson, the South Dakota governor who helped spearhead the project.

George S. Stuart

When Stuart moved to Ojai, California in 1959, he opened The Gallery of Historical Figures and began teaching workshops on figural construction, costuming and sculpting faces.

George S. Talbot

George Thomas Surtees Talbot (1875 – 1918) was an English composer and writer.

George Stuart

George S. Stuart (born 1929), American sculptor, raconteur and historian

Greta Nissen

In early 1924, she came as a member of a Danish ballet troupe to New York, where she was soon hired to do a larger dance numbers for George S. Kaufman in the musical Beggar on Horseback.

Hans Cramer

During his repatriation journey, he was allowed to see Montgomery's 21st Army Group preparing for the invasion of Europe, but was told he was in Kent, where Patton's mythical 1st U.S. Army Group was preparing for its invasion.

Irving Gill

For example, his work was more frequently published in Gustav Stickley's "Craftsman" magazine than any other Western architect, including the Greene & Greene firm.

Israel Tal

Israel Tal's picture appears in the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor's "Wall of Greatest Armor Commanders" along with compatriot Moshe Peled, Americans George S. Patton and Creighton Abrams and German field-marshal Erwin Rommel.

Jannie Blackwell

In 2010, Blackwell was the lone member of the PHA board to vote against terminating the contract of PHA Executive Director Carl R. Greene for his alleged sexual harassment of four female subordinates.

Jeff Robbin

The three chose Casady & Greene as distributor, whom Robbin had previously worked with to distribute Conflict Catcher.

John M. Greene

He was the author of a series of works with John Johnson and Katherine Weimer on equilibria and instabilities in Tokamak and Stellarator plasmas in magnetohydrodynamics.

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Sheridan Whiteside was one of Morrissey's pseudonyms, taken from the protagonist of the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; that character was in turn based on dramatic critic and raconteur Alexander Woollcott.

Museum anthropology

Leading senior scholars in the field today include Nancy Parezo, Candace S. Greene, Catherine S. Fowler, Daniel C. Swan, Robin Boast, Laura Peers, Sally Price, Ruth B. Phillips, Christian Feest, James Clifford, Jason Baird Jackson, and Alex W. Barker.

Namwianga Mission

Namwianga also contains the George Benson Christian College, which trains secondary teachers in the areas of Math-Religious Education or English-Religious Education, and many graduates go on to plant churches around Zambia.

Peover Hall

During the Second World War the house was requisitioned and used by General George Patton and his staff.

Remington Model 51

General George S. Patton owned a Remington 51 and was thought to favor the weapon.

Robert H. Johnson

In 1972, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, which nominated the U.S. Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota for the U.S. presidency.

Robert Liberace

Accomplished in both sculpture and painting, as a portraitist his commissioned subjects have included former president George H.W Bush, ambassador Sol Linowitz, the National Symphony Orchestra violinist Steven Honigberg and General Wallace M. Greene, the last of which resides in the Vermont State House.

Robin Casady

Robin Casady founded Casady & Greene, a Macintosh software publisher and developer, in 1984 to publish fonts for the Macintosh 128K, the original Macintosh.

San Germán, Puerto Rico

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor, by General George S. Patton, thus becoming the first Puerto Rican recipient of said military decoration.

Shockoe Hill Cemetery

The cemetery holds the graves of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, attorney John Wickham, Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, famed Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, Virginia Governors William H. Cabell, John Munford Gregory (acting), and John M. Patton (General George S. Patton's great-grandfather), Judge Dabney Carr, United States Senators Powhatan Ellis and Benjamin W. Leigh, and dozens of Confederate soldiers.

The Body in the Seine

What makes The Body in the Seine interesting to collectors of Broadway cast albums is the theatrical performers assembled for the recording, including Alice Pearce, George S. Irving, Barbara Ashley and future U.S. Congressman, Jim Symington.

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

The title of the short is a reference to the 1942 Warner Brothers film version of the 1939 George S. Kaufman Broadway comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, in which an overbearing house-guest threatens to take over the lives of a small-town family.

William A. Massey

He moved to Reno, Nevada and resumed the practice of law, and was appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George S. Nixon by Governor Tasker Oddie.

William P. Greene, Jr.

During his career as a Judge Advocate, he completed his military education at the Basic, Advanced, and Military Judges' courses at The Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia; the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

William S. Greene

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy for the Fifty-eighth Congress, and the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses).


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