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Hanover, former kingdom and province, Germany

(Encyclopedia)Hanover hănˈōvər [key], Ger. Hannover, former independent kingdom and former province of Germany; Lower Saxony, NW Germany. Very irregular in outline, Hanover stretched from the Dutch border and t...

Bloody Assizes

(Encyclopedia)Bloody Assizes: see Jeffreys of Wem, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron. ...

Heathfield, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Heathfield, 1st Baron: see Eliott, George Augustus, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar. ...

Dawson Creek

(Encyclopedia)Dawson Creek, city, E British Columbia, Canada, near the Alta. border, on Dawson Creek and NE of Prince George. An important grain-shipping center, it i...

Goschen, George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount

(Encyclopedia)Goschen, George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount gōˈshən [key], 1831–1907, British statesman. A leading financier, he was elected (1863) to Parliament as a Liberal and was first lord of the admiralt...

Goethals, George Washington

(Encyclopedia)Goethals, George Washington gōˈthəlz [key], 1858–1928, U.S. army engineer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. West Point, 1880. After serving on various inland water projects, he was appointed chief engine...

Henschel, Sir George

(Encyclopedia)Henschel, Sir George hĕnˈshəl [key], 1850–1934, German-English conductor, composer, and baritone. His first appearance (1877) in England was as a singer, and there he and his wife inaugurated (c....
 

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