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Stokes, Sir George Gabriel
(Encyclopedia)Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, 1819โ1903, British mathematician and physicist, b. Ireland, studied at Cambridge. From 1849 he was a professor of mathematics at Cambridge; he served as secretary (1854โ...Perley, Sir George Halsey
(Encyclopedia)Perley, Sir George Halsey, 1857โ1938, Canadian statesman, b. Lebanon, N.H. As a child, he moved with his parents to Ottawa. In 1904 he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative,...Saunders, Sir Charles
(Encyclopedia)Saunders, Sir Charles, 1713?โ1775, British admiral. He had seen 32 years of service in the British navy when he was selected in the French and Indian War to command the fleet that carried (1759) the...Lake George
(Encyclopedia)Lake George, village (1990 est. pop. 1,100), seat of Warren co., E N.Y.; inc. 1903. Situated on the southern tip of Lake George in the foothills of the Adirondack Mts., it has been a popular vacation ...Dance, George
(Encyclopedia)Dance, George, the elder, 1695โ1768, English architect. Among his public buildings in London, the most important is the Mansion House (1739โ52), an example of the neo-Palladian style. He built the...Sandys, George
(Encyclopedia)Sandys, George, 1578โ1644, English poet and traveler, b. Yorkshire, son of Archbishop Edwin Sandys. He was educated at Oxford and in 1610 began an extended tour of Europe and the Middle East, which ...George, Lake
(Encyclopedia)George, Lake, glacial lake, 33 mi (53 km) long and 1 to 3 mi (1.6โ5 km) wide, in the foothills of the Adirondack Mts., NE N.Y.; it drains NE via rapids and waterfalls into Lake Champlain. The lake w...Bancroft, George
(Encyclopedia)Bancroft, George, 1800โ1891, American historian and public official, b. Worcester, Mass. He taught briefly at Harvard and then at the Round Hill School in Northampton, Mass., of which he was a found...Scott, Sir Walter
(Encyclopedia)Scott, Sir Walter, 1771โ1832, Scottish novelist and poet, b. Edinburgh. He is considered the father of both the regional and the historical novel. Scott's narrative poems introduced a form of v...Stephenson, George
(Encyclopedia)Stephenson, George, 1781โ1848, British engineer, noted as a locomotive builder. He learned to read and write in night school at the age of 18, while working in a colliery. He constructed (1814) a tr...Browse by Subject
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