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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...Leveson-Gower, Granville George
(Encyclopedia)Leveson-Gower, Granville George: see Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2d Earl. ...Lambton, John George
(Encyclopedia)Lambton, John George: see Durham, John George Lambton, 1st earl of. ...Albemarle, George Monck, 1st duke of
(Encyclopedia)Albemarle, George Monck or Monk, 1st duke of: see Monck, George. ...Elliott, George Augustus
(Encyclopedia)Elliott, George Augustus: see Eliott, George Augustus, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar. ...Villiers, George William Frederick
(Encyclopedia)Villiers, George William Frederick: see Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers, 4th earl of. ...Prince George
(Encyclopedia)Prince George, city (1991 pop. 69,653), central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers. It is a railroad division point and a distribution center for a lumber reg...Popham, George
(Encyclopedia)Popham, George pŏpˈəm [key], c.1550–1608, early colonist in Maine, b. England. He was named in the patent granted to the Plymouth Company in 1606. In consequence of the colonization project of hi...Condo, George
(Encyclopedia)Condo, George, 1957–, American artist, b. Concord, N.H., studied Lowell Univ. Condo emerged as a painter in the early 1980s, and his work has influened a younger generation of figurative painters. H...Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith
(Encyclopedia)Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith: see Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of. ...Browse by Subject
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