Search

Search results

Displaying 151 - 160

Elliott, George Augustus

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

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…

Popham, George

(Encyclopedia) Popham, GeorgePopham, Georgepŏpˈəm [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…

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…

Douglas, George

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, George, pseud. of George Douglas Brown, 1869–1902, English novelist, b. Scotland. His reputation rests on his single novel, The House with the Green Shutters (1901), a somber…

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…

Barker, George

(Encyclopedia) Barker, George (George Granville Barker), 1913–91, English poet, b. Essex, England. He has taught in Japan and the United States as well as in England. His highly dramatic poems, often…