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George Washington stops at the light, signaling for a right turn.
Mount Vernon neighborhood, Baltimore City.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington, 1788-92, marble, 6′ 2″ high (State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia)
Happy Families
// These five beings have been there with me since I was a child. I saw them on my shelf and thought it would make a great photo and it's very nostalgic. George is the newbie, top left. I want to have a big collection of porcelain dolls and old barbie dolls. I want to keep these buddies until I have my own children so they can have them because believe it or not - everything is sentimental to me, including these guys.
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George Garton of Sussex CCC bowling against Glamorgan CCC at the SSE SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff last Friday. How he didn't fall over I don't know.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington, 1788-92, marble, 6′ 2″ high (State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia)
I was standing on a street corner in downtown Toronto with a group of commuters waiting for a streetcar home at the end of the day. He was next to me and I noticed his St. Marten cap perched above a friendly face. He made eye contact and I told him I liked the hat because St. Marten is a beautiful place. He broke into a smile. “It sure is” he said. “I just got back from a visit there. A beautiful climate, very friendly people, and great food.” I told him my wife and I took our first Caribbean holiday to St. Marten quite a few years ago and greatly enjoyed it too. He told me he was lucky enough to spend a month because he has a friend who is living there. I introduced myself and we shook hands. Meet George.
One thing led to another as we waited for the streetcar and I learned that George is a retired electrician who spent his career doing industrial electrician work – mainly on power plants. When I commented that being an electrician is a great trade he said “It was good to me. I have worked in California, Australia, and Canada.” George is now retired and said he is doing as much travel as he can. “Now is the time, right?” When he told me he is 79 I said that surprised me as he didn’t look 79 to me. I commented that he is only 9 years ahead of me at 70. He quipped “I’ll take your nine years. You look good.” We were acting out the ritual familiar to people our age: complimenting each other on how young we look. We both chuckled at the unspoken fact that neither of us looks 30.
George was wonderfully open and good-natured. He told me he was born and raised in Guyana in South America and came to Canada at age 22. He had some electrician experience in Guyana but realized he needed papers in Canada and attended Ryerson Polytechnic School which is now a university where I take courses myself. When he learned I am a retired social worker he told me that his wife was a social worker employed in the justice system. He told me she died two years ago and I expressed my condolences. Sadness flickered over his face but was quickly brushed aside in exchange for his relaxed, warm smile.
George commented on my camera and I explained if we weren’t waiting for a streetcar, I would be asking him to be part of my Human Family photo project. He said he’d be happy to and invited me to take the portrait since traffic was heavy and there was not yet a streetcar in sight. I took him up on the offer and suggested we escape the crowd and walk around the corner to use a papered-over plywood wall as a simple background. As so often happens, George commented that it was a pretty dingy wall but I asked him to trust me and he did. The photos were rushed as I pictured our both missing the streetcar but when we returned to the crowd at the corner the streetcar was still a block away, impeded by heavy pre rush-hour traffic.
We continued to chat and stood next to each other on the crowded car after boarding and continued the conversation. We were at very close range in a crowd but I was still noticing the warmth in George’s face so I took a couple of quick portraits in the crowd as we talked. George was reflecting on how much Toronto has changed over the years (real estate prices, subway fares, and wages) and I agreed. When I invited him to share a few words for the project he thought for a moment and said “It’s all about people, isn’t it? Too many people spend their lives chasing money instead of enjoying people. I think they miss the whole point of life.” Ten minutes later it was time for him to transfer to the subway and for me to continue east so we parted company with a warm handshake.
Thank you George for making our wait for the streetcar so much more enjoyable. I’m sure we enjoyed it a lot more than the people surrounding us who were lost in thought or frustration at the length of the wait. Time passes quickly when you’re having fun. Thanks also for participating in my photo project.
This is my 373rd submission to The Human Family Group on Flickr.
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French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, nr. 112. Photo: Roger Carlet.
Handsome and athletic Georges Marchal (1920-1997) was one of the main lead actors in the French cinema of the 1950’s, together with Jean Marais. He starred in several costume dramas and swashbuckling films and later appeared in films of Luis Buñuel.
Georges Marchal was born as Georges Louis Lucot in Nancy, France, in 1920. In Paris, he followed secondary school, and then took classes in ballet and acrobatics. Many odd jobs followed, like courier, docker at the Les Halles market, assistant at the Medrano circus. He enrolled in the course of Ms. Calvi, and was hired at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal for the play Permission de détente (Permission to relax) by Yves Mirande. At 20, he joined the Comédie-Française to play in Iphigénie et Psyché (Iphigenia and Psyche). He soon also played in boulevard comedies. His film career started with the comedy Fausse alerte/The French Way (1940, Jacques de Baroncelli, Bernard Dalban) starring Josephine Baker, which was only released in 1945. During the Occupation days he was noted in Lumière d'été/Summer Light (1943, Jean Grémillon) opposite Madeleine Renaud, Vautrin/Vautrin The Thief (1943, Pierre Billon) with Michel Simon, and after the war in Au grand balcon/The Grand Terrace (1949, Henri Decoin) with Pierre Fresnay, about the heroic pilots who struggled,suffered and often died to carry the mail. He became the typical Jeune Premier of the French post-war cinema and posed as a rival of Jean Marais although he didn’t reach the same level. In 1951, he assumed the title role in Il naufrago del Pacifico/Robinson Crusoe (1951, Jeff Musso), and for Sacha Guitry, he played the young Louis XIV in the star-studded Si Versailles m'était conté/Affairs of Versailles (1953, Sacha Guitry). In 1951, he married actress Dany Robin. They were both young, beautiful, adored, and preserved their privacy in a house of Montfort l'Amaury. They made six films together, including La Voyageuse Inattendue/The Unexpected Voyager (1949, Jean Stelli), based on an old script by Billy Wilder, and the comedy Jupiter (1952, Gilles Grangier). Georges’ talent as a stuntman did wonders for his parts in costume films and swashbucklers such as Messalina (1952, Carmine Gallone) with Maria Félix, Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio/Theodora, Slave Empress (1954, Riccardo Freda) with Gianna Maria Cannale, and Les trois mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (1953, André Hunebelle) in which he featured as D'Artagnan.
The arrival of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) sounded like the death knell for Georges Marchal. He moved to Italy to continue his career. With his muscular body, he was an ideal hero for the Peplum films (the Italian sword and sandal epics). He appeared in a dozen of them, including Nel Segno Di Roma/Sheba and the Gladiator (1958, Guido Brignone - and uncredited Riccardo Freda and Michelangelo Antonioni) with Anita Ekberg, Le Legioni di Cleopatra/Legions of the Nile (1959, Vittorio Cottafavi) with Linda Cristal, and Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort, Il colosso di Rodi/The Colossus of Rhodes (1961, Sergio Leone) with Rory Calhoun. Marchal was a close friend of Luis Buñuel and also one of his preferred actors. Marchal starred in four of his films: Cela s'appelle l'aurore/That is the Dawn (1955) with Lucia Bosé, La mort en ce jardin/Death in the Garden (1956) with Simone Signoret, Belle de jour/Beauty of the Day (1967) with Catherine Deneuve, and La voie lactee/The Milky Way (1969) with Laurent Terzieff. Other interesting films he appeared in were the anthology film Guerre secrète/The Dirty Game (1965, Terence Young, Christian Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Werner Klinger) with Robert Ryan, the Romanian historical epic Dacii/The Dacians (1967, Sergiu Nicolaescu) with Pierre Brice, Faustine et le bel été/Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (1972, Nina Companeez) and Les Enfants du placard/The Closet Children (1977, Benoît Jacquot) with Lou Castel. During the 1970’s he focussed on television and appeared in Quentin Durward (1971, Gilles Grangier), as Philip IV the Fair in Les Rois maudits/The Accursed Kings (1972, Claude Barma), Gaston Phébus (1977, Bernard Borderie) and Les grandes familles/The Great Families (1988, Edouard Molinaro) with Michel Piccoli. He played a seductive older man in three TV-films based on the legendary Claudine novels by Colette, Claudine à Paris/Claudine in Paris (1978), Claudine en ménage/Pauline Engaged (1978) and Claudine s'en va/Claudine Goes (1978), all starring Marie-Hélène Breillat and directed by Edouard Molinaro. He also played Claude Jade's father in the fine mini-series L'Île aux trente cercueils/The Island of Thirty Coffins (1979, Marcel Cravenne). He retired in 1989. His last film appearance had been as General Keller in L'Honneur d'un capitaine/A Captain’s Honour (1982, Pierre Schoendoerffer) about the French army's behavior in Algeria. Georges Marchal died in 1997, Maurens, France, following a long illness. He was married with Dany Robin from 1951 till their much publicised divorce in 1969. He remarried in 1983 with Michele Heyberger.
Sources: Hal Erickson (All Movie Guide), Pablo Montoya (IMDb), Ciné-Ressources, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Cabinet card photograph taken sometime during the 1990's. The following is written on the back:
"George Powell"
George Street, looking north from Martin Place, Sydney
Dated: No date
Digital ID: 4481_a026_000408
Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions
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George McCrae
- Rock Your Baby (3'14)
- Rock Your Baby (Part 2) (2'05)
RCA Records / Deutschland 1974
ex vinyl-collection MTP
George Perez, born June 9, 1954, is a writer and illustrator of comic books known for his work on various titles, including The Avengers, Teen Titans, and Wonder Woman.
Source: Wikipedia
Photo taken April 28, 2012 at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, BMO Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The George Washington Bridge (known informally as the GWB) is a
suspension bridge over the Hudson River, connecting the Washington
Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City to
Fort Lee in New Jersey. The bridge carries Interstate 95, U.S. Route
1, U.S. Route 9, and U.S. Route 46 over it. It is considered one of
the world's busiest bridge in terms of vehicle traffic; In 2004, the
bridge carried 108,404,000 vehicles, with current AADT estimates of
nearly 300,000 vehicles daily. It is currently the fourth largest
suspension bridge in the U.S.
from wikipedia
26 de fevereiro - Rio de Janeiro - Ministro do Esporte, George Hilton durante evento teste de Rugby em cadeiras de rodas. Foto: Ivo Lima/ME
Olga Georges-Picot (January 6, 1944 - June 19, 1997) was a French actress.
Born in Shanghai, China, she was the daughter of Guillaume Georges-Picot, the French Ambassador to China, and a Russian mother. Olga studied acting at the Actor’s Studio in Paris. Her acting career covered many diverse French and English films and television roles. She was featured in Playboy Magazine’s Sex in the Cinema and also on the front cover of the periodical Adam.
She played important roles in three classic mainstream films: Denise, the OAS mole, in The Day of the Jackal (1973); Countess Alexandrovna in Woody Allen’s Love and Death (1975); and Julie Anderson in Basil Dearden’s The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970). Her break-through role in the movies was as Catrine in the Alain Resnais’ film Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968). Earlier that year, she had appeared in the French television movie Thibaud the Crusader (1968).
Biographical information on her life and career leading to her apparent suicide on Thursday, 19 June 1997 is very limited and often incomplete. However, apparently Olga suffered from severe depression for unknown or unpublished reasons. Her bouts with depression apparently led to her suicide jump from the 5th floor of an apartment building that overlooked the river Seine, in Paris, France. (Wikipedia)
George has got to nine years of age and has now decided to sneak up on the back of the settee and watch the world go by !
Panasonic Lumix G3 ~ f4.2 @ 67MM , on camera flash, 1/160, iso 160 ~ lens ~ 45-200 Lumix f3.5
French postcard by Agfa. Photo: Studio Harcourt.
Handsome and athletic Georges Marchal (1920-1997) was one of the main lead actors in the French cinema of the 1950s, together with Jean Marais. He starred in several costume dramas and Swashbucklers and later appeared in films of Luis Buñuel.
Georges Marchal was born as Georges Louis Lucot in Nancy, France, in 1920. In Paris, he followed secondary school, and then took classes in ballet and acrobatics. Many odd jobs followed, like courier, docker at the Les Halles market, and assistant at the Medrano circus. He enrolled in the course of Ms. Calvi, and was hired at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal for the play 'Permission de détente' (Permission to relax) by Yves Mirande. At 20, he joined the Comédie-Française to play in 'Iphigénie et Psyché' (Iphigenia and Psyche). He soon also played in boulevard comedies. His film career started with the comedy Fausse alerte/The French Way (Jacques de Baroncelli, Bernard Dalban, 1940) starring Josephine Baker, which was only released in 1945. During the Occupation days, he was noted in Lumière d'été/Summer Light (Jean Grémillon, 1943) opposite Madeleine Renaud, Vautrin/Vautrin The Thief (Pierre Billon, 1943) with Michel Simon, and after the war, in Au grand balcon/The Grand Terrace (Henri Decoin, 1949) with Pierre Fresnay, about the heroic pilots who struggled, suffered and often died to carry the mail. He became the typical Jeune Premier of the French post-war cinema and posed as a rival of Jean Marais although he didn’t reach the same level. In 1951, he assumed the title role in Il naufrago del Pacifico/Robinson Crusoe (Jeff Musso, 1951), and for Sacha Guitry, he played the young Louis XIV in the star-studded Si Versailles m'était conté/Affairs of Versailles (Sacha Guitry, 1953). In 1951, he married actress Dany Robin. They were both young, beautiful, adored, and preserved their privacy in a house of Montfort l'Amaury. They made six films together, including La Voyageuse Inattendue/The Unexpected Voyager (Jean Stelli, 1949), based on an old script by Billy Wilder, and the comedy Jupiter (Gilles Grangier, 1952). Georges’ talent as a stuntman did wonders for his parts in costume films and swashbucklers such as Messalina (Carmine Gallone, 1952) with Maria Félix, Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio/Theodora, Slave Empress (Riccardo Freda, 1954) with Gianna Maria Canale, and Les trois mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (André Hunebelle, 1953) in which he featured as D'Artagnan.
The arrival of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) sounded like the death knell for Georges Marchal. He moved to Italy to continue his career. With his muscular body, he was an ideal hero for the Peplum films (the Italian sword and sandal epics). He appeared in a dozen of them, including Nel Segno Di Roma/Sheba and the Gladiator (Guido Brignone - and uncredited Riccardo Freda and Michelangelo Antonioni, 1958) with Anita Ekberg, Le legioni di Cleopatra/Legions of the Nile (Vittorio Cottafavi, 1959) with Linda Cristal, and Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort, Il colosso di Rodi/The Colossus of Rhodes (Sergio Leone, 1961) with Rory Calhoun. Marchal was a close friend of Luis Buñuel and also one of his preferred actors. Marchal starred in four of his films: Cela s'appelle l'aurore/That is the Dawn (1955) with Lucia Bosé, La mort en ce jardin/Death in the Garden (1956) with Simone Signoret, Belle de jour/Beauty of the Day (1967) with Catherine Deneuve, and La voie lactee/The Milky Way (1969) with Laurent Terzieff. Other interesting films he appeared in were the anthology film Guerre secrète/The Dirty Game (Terence Young, Christian Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Werner Klinger, 1965) with Robert Ryan, the Romanian historical epic Dacii/The Dacians (Sergiu Nicolaescu, 1967) with Pierre Brice, Faustine et le bel été/Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (Nina Companeez, 1972) and Les Enfants du placard/The Closet Children (Benoît Jacquot, 1977) with Lou Castel. During the 1970s, he focussed on television and appeared in Quentin Durward (Gilles Grangier, 1971), as Philip IV the Fair in Les rois maudits/The Accursed Kings (Claude Barma, 1972), Gaston Phébus (Bernard Borderie, 1977), and Les grandes familles/The Great Families (Edouard Molinaro, 1988) with Michel Piccoli. He played a seductive older man in three TV-films based on the legendary Claudine novels by Colette, Claudine à Paris/Claudine in Paris (1978), Claudine en ménage/Pauline Engaged (1978) and Claudine s'en va/Claudine Goes (1978), all starring Marie-Hélène Breillat and directed by Edouard Molinaro. He also played Claude Jade's father in the fine TV Mini-series L'Île aux trente cercueils/The Island of Thirty Coffins (Marcel Cravenne, 1979). He retired in 1989. His last film appearance had been as General Keller in L'Honneur d'un capitaine/A Captain’s Honour (Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1982) about the French army's behaviour in Algeria. Georges Marchal died in 1997 in Maurens, France, following a long illness. He was married to Dany Robin from 1951 till their much-publicised divorce in 1969. He remarried in 1983 to Michele Heyberger.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Pablo Montoya (IMDb), Ciné-Ressources, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
George Skeris, a 36-year-old man from Redondo Beach, CA, swam in the two-mile Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim, Individual Swimsuit race. Skeris ranked 70th in the M35-39 class, 601st by gender, and 919th overall, with a finishing time of 01:34:48. His race number was 287.
Manhattan Beach's International Surf Festival hosted the event on Sunday, August 6, 2023. Swimmers traverse the ocean between Hermosa Beach Pier and Manhattan Beach Pier.
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Regimental number - 1031
Place of birth - Bairnsdale, Victoria
School - Hindmarsh Public School
Religion - Church of England
Occupation - Farm hand
Address - ...
Marital status - Single
Age at embarkation - 19
Next of kin - Father, Harry Sandford Davis, William Street, Beverly, South Australia
Previous military service - Served in the Cadets
Enlistment date - 11 September 1914
Rank on enlistment - Private
Unit name - 16th Battalion, F Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number - 23/33/1
Embarkation details - Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Troopship A40 Ceramic on 22 December 1914
Rank from Nominal Roll - Private
Unit from Nominal Roll - 16th Battalion
Fate - Killed in Action 2 May 1915
Place of death or wounding - Gallipoli, Turkey
Date of death - 2 May 1915
Age at death - 18
Age at death from cemetery records - 18
Place of burial - No known grave
Commemoration details - The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 52), Gallipoli, Turkey
The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.
The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.
The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial - 79
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records - Parents: Henry Sandford and Fanny DAVIS, South Esplanade, Semaphore, South Australia. Native of Victoria, Australia. 52
Family/military connections - Brother: 1032 Pte Harry Herbert DAVIS, 16th Bn, died of wounds, 5 June 1915.
Other details -
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
(found on ebay)
This fresco is a 14th century example of a St George icon at Staro Nagoricane in the Republic of Macadonia (former Yugoslavia). I'd love to know when Icons showing the battle with the dragon began to be made. The oldest examples I have come upon are from the 15th century.
from Wikipedia: The Church of St. George, a Serbian Orthodox church in the village of Staro Nagoricane near Kumanovo in the Republic of Macedonia, is noteworthy both for its architecture and its frescoes. The church was first constructed in 1071, and reconstructed between 1313 and 1318 by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin. During this reconstruction period, the church's walls were painted with frescoes by Mihailo and Evtihij.