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unusual facts about George V. Higgins


Wallace Stroby

The reviewer for the Chicago Tribune wrote that the novel “moves at a breakneck speed ... Stroby's sturdy plot is augmented by his intriguing look at how money corrupts and how even a crook can have a moral compass. Fans of Elmore Leonard and George V. Higgins' 'THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE' will find much to like.”


1913–14 FA Cup

The game was the last ever final at Crystal Palace and was played in front of a reigning monarch, George V, for the first time.

1935–36 Port Vale F.C. season

Before the match the teams paid their respects to the recently deceased George V with Abide with Me, during which the "Mariners" wore overcoats as the Vale players shivered – this was the excuse used to justify their conceding four first half goals.

22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry

Jacob C. Higgins was selected to serve as colonel, A. J. Greenfield as lieutenant colonel, and George T. Work, Elias S. Troxell, and Henry A. Myers as majors.

Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur

and to have been instrumental in the killing of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, the American Chief of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization's (UNTSO) observer group in Lebanon who was taken hostage on 17 February 1988 by Lebanese pro-Iranian Shia radicals.

Ba Nyan

He also met king George V in person, after he had saved one of the king's relatives from drowning.

Carlisle W. Higgins

In 1946 he became a prosecutor for the war crimes trials in Japan.

Chris Higgins

Christopher P. Higgins (1830–1889), American army captain and businessman

Clouds of Witness

The book is moved from 1926 to 1928, which results in an anachronism – Lord Peter meets briefly with the US Ambassador in Buckingham Palace and talks with the King, but at that point the King was actually desperately ill and recuperating from a bout of septicaemia.

Donegall Road

Snooker player Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins also grew up on the road, having been born on Abingdon Drive.

Edward Leopold Dyke Acland

Rear-Admiral Edward Leopold Dyke Acland MVO CB (1878-1968), a member of the Acland Baronetcy, was a rear-admiral and naval attaché to King George V.

FAI President's Cup

The competition was founded in 2014, with the trophy to be awarded to the winning side by President of Ireland and League of Ireland fan, Michael D. Higgins.

Geoffrey Dabelko

Geoffrey D. Dabelko is Professor and Director of Environmental Studies at the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University in Athens, OH.

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 Higgins

George W. Higgins, American minister of the Holy Ghost and Us Society

George Town, Chennai

The name of this area 'Black Town' was renamed as George Town in 1911 in honor of King George V when he was crowned as the Emperor of India.

George V. Grigore

In movies he plays the most important characters of the history of being like: Nostradamus, Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus Christ, Rasputin, Pugachov, Hagendorf, John the Apostle and the fiction character like vampire Bruno, Malik The Profet, and many priest and monk characters.

According to George's autobiography, he was a mischievous child and enjoyed taking risks; at age of ten he nearly drowned while swimming in Arges.

George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs

David Wilhelm, Visiting Professor of Leadership and Public Affairs, has managed campaigns for President Bill Clinton, Sen. Paul Simon, Sen. Joe Biden, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

H. B. Higgins

Further, Higgins is commemorated by the federal electorate of Higgins in Melbourne, and by the Canberra suburb of Higgins, Australian Capital Territory.

After his son Mervyn's death, Higgins effectively adopted his nephew Esmonde Higgins and his niece Nettie Palmer, paying for their education at universities in Europe.

Irwin Steingut

In May it was announced that Steingut would sail to Europe to attend (at the invitation of one Steingut would not reveal) the coronation of King George V (as well as obtain the $5,000 inheritance his father left him).

J. A. B. van Buitenen

Johannes Adrianus Bernardus van Buitenen (21 May 1928 - 21 September 1979) was an Indologist at the University of Chicago where he was the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Jackie Sheldon

The game was the last final held at the Crystal Palace ground and the first time to be played in front of a reigning monarch, George V.

James H. Higgins

In 1912, he ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate in the United States Senate election in Rhode Island.

Jean du Quesne, the elder

Others of his direct descendants became senior British military officers, including Major-General Sir Edmund Frederick Du Cane (1830-1903) and General Sir John Philip Du Cane (1865-1947), who was also Aide-de-Camp General to the King from 1926 to 1930.

John H. Hoffecker

However, enough votes went to the Regular Republican candidate, John C. Higgins, that the Democrat, Ebe W. Tunnell was elected.

Jon B. Higgins

He later continued his studies under the renowned dancer T. Balasaraswati, and wrote his dissertation on the dance music of bharatanatyam.

Kate Sharpley

At the age of 22, when called to receive her family's medals from Queen Mary (wife of George V) she threw the medals back at her, saying "if you like them so much you can have them".

Khawaja Nazimuddin

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1926, and was knighted in 1934 by the King-Emperor, George V, when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE).

Mount Queen Mary

The mountain was named in 1935, along with the nearby (6 km away) Mount King George, for George V’s and Queen Mary's silver jubilee, or 25 years of rule.

Nathan Lewin

Lewin's individual clients have included Attorney General Edwin Meese III, whom he represented while he was serving as Attorney General, President Richard Nixon, Jodie Foster, John Lennon, nursing home owner Bernard Bergman, Congressman George Hansen, Teamsters president Roy Williams, and Israeli war hero Aviem Sella.

Naval Submarine Base New London

The Navy Yard was spared permanent closure in 1912 by an impassioned plea from local Congressman Edwin W. Higgins of Norwich, who was worried about the loss of Federal spending in the region.

Postage stamps and postal history of Mauritius

The twentieth century issues of Mauritius, like those in other British colonies, generally depicted the current monarch, Edward VII, George V and George VI, and Elizabeth II, as well as Mauritius' coat of arms.

Rastafari movement in the United States

" This was also to influence the minds of the masses of black people from continuing to worship King George of England.

Richard W. Higgins

He is depicted as one of four examples in bravery in the history of the German Air Force.

Robert Higgins

Robert P. Higgins (born 1932), systematic invertebrate zoologist and ecologist

Robert J. Higgins (born c. 1934), judge and politician in New Brunswick

Robin L. Higgins

Higgins is a 20-year veteran of the Marine Corps, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

Higgins is the widow of Colonel William R. (Rich) Higgins, a Marine officer taken captive by terrorists in Lebanon in 1988, and later murdered.

Royal Standard of Scotland

In 1934, George V issued a Royal Warrant authorising use of the Royal Standard of Scotland during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, due to take place the following year.

Seal of New Zealand

Exceptions to this rule were at the death of King George V and the accession of King Edward VIII.

Sheldon Pollock

Before taking his current position at Columbia University, Pollock was a professor at the University of Iowa and the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago.

The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep (1956) is an American black-and-white horror film, scripted by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams developed for producers Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, who had a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists.

Thomas Higgins

Thomas J. Higgins (1831–1917), American Civil War soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor

UNIX/32V

Marshall Kirk McKusick and George V. Neville-Neil, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2004), ISBN 0-201-70245-2, pp.

William L. Higgins

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

William R. Higgins

As a lieutenant, he participated in combat operations during 1968 with C Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines in the Republic of Vietnam as a rifle platoon commander and rifle company executive officer, and was aide-de-camp to the Assistant 3rd Marine Division Commander.

Returning to the Fleet Marine Force in 1977, Capt. Higgins was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where he again served as a rifle company commander with A Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines.


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