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George Cross: a British civilian and military decoration, instituted in 1940 by King George VI for "acts of the greatest heroism or of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger." The award, which can be conferred posthumously, is usually given ...
George I: elector of Hanover (1698-1727) and first Hanoverian king of Great Britain (1714-27).
George I: king of Greece, whose long reign (1863-1913) was the formative period for the development of Greece as a modern European state. His descendants occupied the throne until the military coup d'etat of 1967 and eventual restoration of the republic in ...
George II: king of Great Britain and elector of Hanover from 1727 to 1760. Although he possessed sound political judgment, his lack of self-confidence caused him to rely heavily on his ministers, most notable of whom was Sir Robert Walpole.
George II: duke of Saxe-Meiningen, theatrical director and designer who developed many of the basic principles of modern acting and stage design.
George II: king of Greece from September 1922 to March 1924 and from October 1935 until his death. His second reign was marked by the ascendancy of the military dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
George III: king of Great Britain and Ireland (1760-1820) and elector (1760-1814) and then king (1814-20) of Hanover, during a period when Britain won an empire in the Seven Years' War but lost its American colonies, and then, after the struggle against ...
George IV: king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and king of Hanover from Jan. 29, 1820, previously the sovereign de facto from Feb. 5, 1811, when he became regent for his father, George III, who had become insane.
George Mason University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. It consists of 12 colleges and schools offering a variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees. Several of its graduate programs have been recognized nationally for excellence and distinction including the ...
George Of Cappadocia: opponent of and controversial successor (357) to Bishop Athanasius the Great of Alexandria, whom the Roman emperor Constantius II had exiled for attacking Arianism. As an extreme Arian, George was detestable both to the orthodox and to the Semi-Arians. A ...
George of Laodicea: bishop of Laodicea who was one of the principal champions of the homoiousian, or moderate Arian, theological position of the early Christian church.
George Of Trebizond: Byzantine humanist, Greek scholar, and Aristotelian polemist. His academic influence in Italy and within the papacy, his theories on grammar and literary criticism, and his Latin translations of ancient Greek works, although at times strongly criticized, contributed substantially to Italian ...
George Philip and Son: British publishing house, one of the oldest in the United Kingdom, located in London. The company, specializing in maps and atlases, was founded in 1834. Some of its well-known publications are the Philip International Atlas and A Philip Management Planning ...
George River: river in Nord-du-Quebec region, northeastern Quebec province, Canada. It rises near the Labrador (Newfoundland) border, flows northward parallel to the boundary for 350 miles (563 km), and empties into the eastern side of Ungava Bay. Named after King George III ...
George The Monk: Byzantine historian, author of a world chronicle that constitutes the prime documentary source for mid-9th-century Byzantine history, particularly the iconoclast (Greek: "image destroyer") movement.
George The Pisidian: Byzantine epic poet, historian, and cleric whose classically structured verse was acclaimed as a model for medieval Greek poetry, but whose arid, bombastic tone manifested Hellenism's cultural decline.
George The Syncellus: Byzantine historian and author of a world chronicle of events from the creation to the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian (reigned 284-305). Together with the parallel work by Eusebius of Caesarea, George's work constitutes the prime instrument for interpreting ...
George Town: leading port of Malaysia, situated on a triangular promontory in the northeastern sector of the island of Penang (Pinang). Its sheltered harbour is separated from the west coast of Peninsular (West) Malaysia by a 3-mile (5-km) channel through which international ...
George V: king of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936, the second son of Prince Albert Edward, later King Edward VII.
George V: last king of Hanover (1851-66), only son of Ernest Augustus, king of Hanover and Duke of Cumberland.
George VI: king of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952.
George Washington Birthplace National Monument: historical area consisting of 538 acres (218 hectares) of plantation land in Westmoreland county, eastern Virginia, U.S. It lies along the Potomac River 38 miles (61 km) east-southeast of Fredericksburg. The monument was established in 1930-32 through the efforts of ...
George Washington Bridge: vehicular suspension bridge crossing the Hudson River, U.S., between The Palisades park near Fort Lee, N.J., and Manhattan island, New York City (between 178th and 179th streets). The original structure was built (1927-31) by the Swiss-born engineer Othmar H. Ammann ...
George Washington University, The: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Washington, D.C., U.S. It consists of the Columbian College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Elliott School of International Affairs, the National Law Center, the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, ...
George William: elector of Brandenburg (from 1619) through much of the Thirty Years' War.
George, Henry: land reformer and economist who in Progress and Poverty (1879) proposed the single tax: that the state tax away all economic rent-the income from the use of the bare land, but not from improvements-and abolish all other taxes.
George, Lake: lake, northeastern New York state, U.S. It is 32 miles (51 km) long, 1-3 miles (1.6-5 km) wide, and extends northward from Lake George village to Ticonderoga, where it is connected to Lake Champlain through a narrow channel that descends ...
George, Lake: freshwater lake, southeastern New South Wales, Australia, located about 25 mi (40 km) northeast of Canberra, just east of the Lake George Range, a low ridge in the Great Dividing Range. Occupying a structural trough formed by faulting during the ...
George, Saint: early Christian martyr who during the Middle Ages became an ideal of martial valour and selflessness. He is the patron saint of England.
George, Stefan: lyric poet chiefly responsible for the revival of German poetry at the close of the 19th century.
Georgetown: section of the city of Washington, D.C., U.S., at the confluence of the Potomac River and Rock Creek, about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of the national Capitol. Georgetown was settled late in the 17th century. It was laid out ...
Georgetown: town, seat (1867) of Clear Creek county, north-central Colorado, U.S. It lies along the South Fork of Clear Creek, in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 8,540 feet (2,603 metres), 40 miles (64 km) west ...
Georgetown: town, port on MacCarthy Island in the Gambia River in central Gambia. It was founded in 1823 by Captain Alexander Grant as a settlement for freed slaves. Georgetown's Wesleyan Mission (1823) introduced the peanut (groundnut), a crop still exported downstream ...
Georgetown: county, eastern South Carolina, U.S. The Atlantic Ocean is the eastern border, the Great Pee Dee River the irregular northeastern border, and the Santee River the southern border. It also is drained by the Waccamaw, Black, and Sampit rivers, which ...
Georgetown: capital city of Guyana. The country's chief port, Georgetown lies on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Demerara River. Although the settlement was founded by the British in 1781 and named for George III, it had been largely ...
Georgetown: port city, seat of Georgetown county, eastern South Carolina, U.S. It lies near the Atlantic coast where the Great Pee Dee, Waccamaw, Black, and Sampit rivers enter Winyah Bay. An early Spanish settlement there (1526) was abandoned because of fever. ...
Georgetown University: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Washington, D.C., U.S. Though it is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church, Georgetown has always been open to people of all faiths. The university includes the College of Arts ...
Georgia: country of Transcaucasia located at the eastern end of the Black Sea on the southern flanks of the main crest of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. It covers an area of about 26,900 square miles (69,700 square kilometres) and is bounded ...
Georgia: constituent state of the United States of America. The largest of the U.S. states east of the Mississippi River and by many years the youngest of the 13 former English colonies, Georgia was founded in 1732, at which time its ...
Georgia Institute of Technology: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. The institute consists of the Ivan Allen College (humanities and social sciences), the DuPree College of Management, and colleges of architecture, computing, engineering, and sciences. Georgia Tech offers undergraduate, master's, ...
Georgia Platform: statement of qualified support for the U.S. Union among Georgia conservatives following the Compromise of 1850.
Georgia Southern University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Statesboro, Georgia, U.S., about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Savannah. It is part of the University System of Georgia. The university consists of six colleges and offers more than 85 bachelor's degree ...
Georgia State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. It is part of the University System of Georgia. The university consists of six colleges, including colleges of arts and sciences, business, education, health and human services, and law and ...
Georgia, Strait of: narrow passage of the eastern North Pacific between the central east coast of Vancouver Island and the southwest mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It averages 138 miles (222 km) in length and 17 miles (28 km) in width. To the ...
Georgia, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Athens, Georgia, U.S. It is part of the University System of Georgia and is a land-grant and sea-grant institution. The university includes the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; colleges of agricultural and ...
Georgian Bay: bay, northeastern arm of Lake Huron, south-central Ontario, Canada. It is sheltered from the lake by Manitoulin Island and the Bruce (or Saugeen) Peninsula. The bay is 120 miles (190 km) long and 50 miles (80 km) wide, and the ...
Georgian language: official language of the Republic of Georgia, whose spoken form has many dialects, usually divided into East Georgian and West Georgian groups. These, together with the related Mingrelian (Megrelian), Laz (Chan), and Svan languages, make up the Kartvelian, or South ...
Georgian literature: body of writings in the Georgian language.
Georgian Orthodox church: autocephalous (independent) church of the Orthodox communion in Georgia. The church is one of the most ancient Christian communities in the world. The Georgians adopted Christianity through the ministry of a woman, St. Nino, early in the 4th century. Thereafter, ...
Georgian poetry: a variety of lyrical poetry produced in the early 20th century by an assortment of British poets, including Lascelles Abercrombie, Hilaire Belloc, Edmund Charles Blunden, Rupert Brooke, William Henry Davies, Ralph Hodgson, John Drinkwater, James Elroy Flecker, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, ...
Georgian style: the various styles in the architecture, interior design, and decorative arts of Britain during the reigns of the first four members of the house of Hanover, between the accession of George I in 1714 and the death of George IV ...