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Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Baron
(Encyclopedia)Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Baron: see Calvert, George. ...George, Henry
(Encyclopedia)George, Henry, 1839–97, American economist, founder of the single tax movement, b. Philadelphia. Of a poor family, his formal education was cut short at 14, and in 1857 he emigrated to California; t...Fort George
(Encyclopedia)Fort George, river, c.480 mi (770 km) long, rising in Lake Nichicun, E Que., Canada. It flows W into James Bay at Fort George, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post. ...Monk, George
(Encyclopedia)Monk, George: see Monck, George, 1st duke of Albemarle. ...Savile, George
(Encyclopedia)Savile, George: see Halifax, George Savile, 1st marquess of. ...Stephen, George
(Encyclopedia)Stephen, George: see Mount Stephen, George Stephen, 1st Baron. ...Sackville, George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount
(Encyclopedia)Sackville, George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount: see Germain, George Sackville. ...Bonus Marchers
(Encyclopedia)Bonus Marchers, in U.S. history, more than 20,000 veterans, most of them unemployed and in desperate financial straits, who, in the spring of 1932, spontaneously made their way to Washington, D.C. The...Strauss, Lewis Lichtenstein
(Encyclopedia)Strauss, Lewis Lichtenstein strôz [key], 1896–1974, American financier, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1953–58), b. Charleston, W.Va. In World War I he served under Herbert Hoover on t...Seurat, Georges
(Encyclopedia)Seurat, Georges zhôrzh söräˈ [key], 1859–91, French neoimpressionist painter. He devised the pointillist technique of painting in tiny dots of pure color. His method, called divisionism, was a s...Browse by Subject
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