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Hall of Fame third baseman George Kell dies at 86.
I grew up in Toledo, barely an hour away from Detroit. Regardless, I was a New York Yankee fan as a young boy as the Toledo Mud Hens were the Yankees' Triple-A farm team. That changed in 1967 when the Detroit Tigers and Yankees swapped farm teams — the Tigers became the parent club for the Mud Hens and the Yankees taking over in Syracuse. My loyalties switched pretty much immediately.
Being so close to Detroit meant that Tiger ball games were broadcast locally; when they weren't, we were able to receive television signals from the Detroit station that carried the games. The TV voice of those games for so many years (along with a few different cohorts over the years — Ray Lane, Larry Osterman, Ernie Harwell and Al Kaline) was George Kell.
I didn't know much about Kell as a kid, except that he called the games with a warm, relaxed gentleness that was nothing short of welcoming. With Ernie Harwell calling the games on WJR, Detroit had — in my mind — the two best baseball broadcasters in the country (as well as the best hockey announcer in Bruce Martyn and one of the best football announcers in Van Patrick) and not hearing either of them since they retired remains a shock to the system.
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I discovered that George Kell had been a great baseball player. I don't recall his career coming up much during the games he broadcast, but if he had mentioned it, it never came up that he had beat out one of the greatest hitters of the game, Ted Williams, for the American League batting title in 1949 (by .00015 of a point!) or that he had been an All-Star for ten years, batting .300 or better in nine of his fifteen years as a player. Ultimately, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
While his experience as a player certainly came through in his play-by-play work, it was his love of the game that made him a great broadcaster.
2nd Lieutenant G W Hunt Northampton 1913
He received his commission from the 3rd Militia Battalion in June 1901. Served in South Africa War from 23/09/1901 to 26/05/1902 as Lieutenant receiving the Queen’s medal with clasps for Cape Colony. Then back to England until Nov 1912 when he took a draft of 74 Other Ranks embarking at Southampton on Troopship “Dongola” to join the 2nd Battalion at Malta serving there until June 1913 . Promoted to Captain on 28th March 1912.
At the outbreak of WW1 he was with 1st Battalion at Blackdown, near Aldershot. On 5th August he went to the Barracks at Northampton to collect a draft of about 260 reservists rejoining the 1st Battalion, leaving by train the next morning. Going to France on 13th Aug with 1st Battalion A Company and was wounded at the Aisne on 16th Sept. He returned to France with the 2nd Battalion on Feb 25th 1915. He lead an attack against German trenches at the Battle of Aubers Ridge and although badly wounded he carried on and was killed 9th May 1915. The 2nd Battalion had 426 casualties that day. Eldest son of George Eden Hunt of Wadenhoe House Wadenhoe. Born 1881 he died aged 33 leaving a wife and a son & daughter.
His name is on Panel 7 of Plooegsteert Memorial.
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Rights info: no known restrictions on publication.
Location of collection: Northampton Museum & Art Gallery www.northampton.gov.uk/museums
Part of: Northamptonshire Regiment Collection
Reference number:M0000491
One of Nova Scotia's two Cape George's, this one looks out over Bras d'Or Lake at the north entrance to St. Peter's Inlet. Though beautiful it may be, the road to get there isn't all that welcoming.
Make sure to get the full story behind this image and all my daily lighthouse images at:
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George Gurnett (c. 1792 – November 17, 1861) was a Canadian journalist and city of Toronto politician. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.
Born in Sussex, England, he emigrated in the 1820s to Virginia. He later moved to Ancaster in Upper Canada, where he founded his first local paper, The Gore Gazette, and finally to York in 1829, where he founded the Tory paper The Courier of Upper Canada.[1] He sold The Courier in 1837.
When York was incorporated in May 1834 as the city of Toronto, Gurnett was elected to the city council as the representative for St. George's Ward. During his 17 years on the city council he served as mayor four times, in 1837, 1848, 1849, and 1850.[2] Due to his long service on council and his years as mayor he is often considered to be one of the founders of the city of Toronto.
Gurnett held many positions while on Council. In 1837 he was appointed as the city's first Tory mayor, as magistrate of the Home District, and district clerk of the peace.[3] He held positions on committees that dealt with harbour and wharves, gas and waterworks, and education. He was chairman of the board of health during the 1847 typhus epidemic [4]
Gurnett resigned from the city council at the end of 1850, after having been appointed the first police magistrate of Toronto. He served in this post until his death in 1861.[5]
Gurnett’s first wife died in 1835. In 1841 he married Catherine Darby of Trafalgar. He had eight children, six of whom died in infancy. When he died in 1861 he was survived by his second wife and two daughters
The bookplate of [George Smyth], in the collection of Daniel B. Fearing. Country: Scotland. Dimensions: 4.6 x 6.6. Features: "Mediis Tranquillus in Undis"; dolphin devouring a fish. Type: Bookplate. In the Fearing Fish Armorial collection.
George R. Crook (September 8, 1828 – March 21, 1890) was a career United States Army officer, most noted for his distinguished service during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. During the 1880s, the Apache nicknamed Crook Nantan Lupan, which means "Grey Wolf."
Crook was born to Thomas and Elizabeth Matthews Crook on a farm near Taylorsville, Ohio (near Dayton). Nominated to the United States Military Academy by Congressman Robert Schenck, he graduated in 1852, ranking near the bottom of his class.
When the Civil War broke out, Crook accepted a commission as Colonel of Ohio's 36th regiment and led it on duty in western Virginia. He was in command of the 3rd Brigade in the District of the Kanawha where he was wounded in a small fight at Lewisburg, VA. Crook returned to command of his regiment during the Northern Virginia Campaign. He and his regiment were part of John Pope's headquarters escort at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
Crook led his brigade at the battle of South Mountain and near Burnside's Bridge at the battle of Antietam. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general on September 7, 1862. During these early battles he developed a lifelong friendship with one of his subordinates, Col. Rutherford B. Hayes of the 23rd Ohio Infantry.
Crook successfully campaigned against the Snake Indians in the 1864-68 Snake War, where he won nationwide recognition. Crook had fought Indians in Oregon before the Civil War. He was assigned to the Pacific Northwest to us new tactics in this war, which had been waged for several years. Crook arrived in Boise City to take command on December 11, 1866. The general noticed that the Northern Paiute used the fall, winter and spring seasons to gather food, so he adopted the tactic recommended by a predecessor George B. Currey: to attack during the winter.[9] Crook had his cavalry approach the Paiute on foot in attack at their winter camp.
Crook served against the Sioux during the Great Sioux War of 1876-77. He fought the Lakota at the Battle of the Rosebud. On 28 May 1876, Brigadier General George Crook assumed direct command of the Bighorn and Yellowstone Expedition at Fort Fetterman. Crook had gathered a strong force from his Department of the Platte. Leaving Fort Fetterman on 29 May, the 1,051-man column consisted of 15 companies from the 2d and 3d Cavalry, 5 companies from the 4th and 9th Infantry, 250 mules, and 106 wagons. On 14 June, the column was joined by 261 Shoshone and Crow allies. Based on intelligence reports, Crook ordered his entire force to prepare for a quick march. Each man was to carry only 1 blanket, 100 rounds of ammunition, and 4 days' rations. The wagon train would be left at Goose Creek, and the infantry would be mounted on the pack mules. On 17 June, Crook's column set out at 0600, marching northward along the south fork of Rosebud Creek. The Crow and Shoshone scouts were particularly apprehensive. Although the column had not yet encountered any sign of Indians, the scouts seemed to sense their presence. The soldiers, particularly the mule-riding infantry, seemed fatigued from the early start and the previous day's 35-mile march. Accordingly, Crook stopped to rest his men and animals at 0800. Although he was deep in hostile territory, Crook made no special dispositions for defense. His troops halted in their marching order. The Cavalry battalions led the column, followed by the battalion of mule-borne foot soldiers, and a provisional company of civilian miners and packers brought up the rear.
The Crow and Shoshone scouts remained alert while the soldiers rested. Several minutes later, the soldiers heard the sound of intermittent gunfire coming from the bluffs to the north. As the intensity of fire increased, a scout rushed into the camp shouting, "Lakota, Lakota!" The Battle of the Rosebud was on. By 0830, the Sioux and Cheyenne had hotly engaged Crook's Indian allies on the high ground north of the main body. Heavily outnumbered, the Crow and Shoshone scouts fell back toward the camp, but their fighting withdrawal gave Crook time to deploy his forces. Rapidly firing soldiers drove off the attackers but used up much of the ammunition meant for use later in the campaign. Low on ammunition and with numerous wounded, the General returned to his post. Historians debate whether Crook's pressing on could have prevented the killing of the five companies of the 7th Cavalry Regiment led by George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Crook commanded the Department of the Platte from 1875 to 1882, with headquarters at Fort Omaha in North Omaha, Nebraska. During this period, in 1879, he spoke on behalf of the Ponca tribe and Native American rights during the trial of Standing Bear v. Crook, in which the federal judge affirmed that Standing Bear had some of the rights of US citizens. That same year his home, now called the General Crook House, was completed.
George is seen in the Motor Cycle Finish department at BSA Small Heath after he gave up road testing, a fine friend and workmate. Note the road test report in the saddle sping of Len's bike, standard practice. George was a member of the support team for the 1939 Maudes Trophy.
I am debating on cutting her Wendy Weekender hair into a shorter bob like this <3 and then I realized I kinda love this on my Little Baby Vamp :D What a cutie!
Fine Boots and Shoes
206 Essex Street
Salem, Massachusetts
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Citation: Nelson Dionne Salem History Collection,
Salem State University Archives and Special Collections, Salem, Massachusetts
This is George. He runs the Italian Cycling Center in the Veneto region of Italy in the foothills of the Dolomites. This guy is around 85 years old and rides every day. I hope I have his kind of energy and fitness when I am that old.
9"x11" watercolor and pencil with some Artrage.
I've always been a fan of George Takei. I really only knew of him through Star Trek and guest appearances on shows here and there, along with a few brief interviews of his. Even in character, he has always come across as a great guy. At this con I took the time to sit in on most of his panel discussion. Wow, did he blow me away.
He is very open about his life. He discussed the recent law in California which will allow him to marry his partner of 30 plus years (I think that is the right amount of time) and the upcoming vote that will be on the ballot to change the California constitution to amend that law. He is such a well spoken man and a fantastic spokesman for equal rights, not only for the gay and lesbian community, but for all people.
He also spoke about his early life and being sent, with his family, to an internment camp. At five his family was rounded up and shipped out after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and how he, as a young boy initially thought it was great fun to be able to sleep where the horses did.
He has lived a fascinating life and is such a fantastic speaker. As much as I respected him, his sense of humor (see him in Season 1 of Psyche) and his drive and passion, after hearing him speak that respect has increased. I'm glad I took the time to catch at least part of his panel.
Co. C, 62nd ILL. Infantry
Bonner Springs Chieftain, Thursday, Nov. 23, 1916
Pg. 1 Vol. XXI, No. 28
DEATH CLAIMS ANOTHER
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
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George Foote Died Monday
Night After Brief Illness. Funeral
Services Wednesday.
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One of the most kindly, optimistic and well beloved of the citizens of Bonner Springs passed from among his fellow citizens forever on Monday night at 10:30 when George Foote, pioneer settler, loyal Mason and faithful officer of the church died at his home here.
His illness was brief. He worked for F. R. Walker Wednesday of last week. He became ill that evening with peritonitis and in spite of anything that could be done for him died Monday night.
The funeral was held from the Christian church Wednesday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. Cooper. The services at the cemetery were in the hands of the Masonic lodge. The pall bearers were selected from the members of the official board of the Christian church in which Mr. Foote had been an elder for many years, and the Masonic lodge of which he was a loyal member.
Few men have so many friends and so few enemies as had George Foote. His ever ready smile, which spoke volumes of brotherly love and kindness was a characteristic for which he will long be remembered. He was always ready to serve others, yet never sought anything from his friends for himself. A kindlier, sweeter spirited, more loyal and steadfast friends never lived.
George Foote was born in Berkshire, Delaware Co., Ohio, on Feb. 16, 1846 and died on November 20, 1916. Had he lived until next February he would have been seventy years old. He served for a while in the Union army toward the close of the war. In 1867 he drove through to Kansas, settling first in Leavenworth and afterward in Jefferson County. In 1882 he came to Bonner Springs, then known as Tiblow. He united with the Christian Church in 1872. Shortly after coming to Bonner Springs in 1882 he married Miss Lizzie E. Lee. He leaves his wife and two daughters, Mrs. H. H. Hewett of Ottawa and Mrs. Murray Nicol of Bonner Springs to mourn his loss.
Dobbies cocktail garden in George Street during the Edinburgh Festival August 2015. The bench seats have books in them.
The street has been undergoing a year-long trial, due to end on September 6th, during a dedicated cycle lane and a one-way system for general traffic and buses was introduced.
During the August festival period further disruption has been caused by closing part of the street to all traffic to create an ‘event space’ run by Universal Arts outside the New Town Theatre. This area largely provides bars and eating opportunities.
Although councillors claim they have had a lot of positive feedback, these initiatives are not universally popular and there is plenty of support locally for removing the alfresco dining and restoring the street to its former glory.
August 2021 update: Councillors are set to make George Street pedestrian only. Bus stops will be sited at either end and car parking will reduced to blue badge holders and loading access for businesses. These plans are part of Edinburgh City Council’splans to make the city centre car-free by 2030.
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www.edinburgh.gov.uk/blog/newsblog/post/874/festival-traf...
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Latest plans (2023): www.edinburgh.gov.uk/georgestreet/
I did not really even know who George Ezra was, but I volunteered to accompany Flo and Audrey into DC last night for his concert at the Lincoln Theatre. I was pleasantly surprised with some good music and an entertaining evening.
This photo was taken by Andrew Ogilvie in 1969 of George surfing the Pump House in Durban. The Bluff looms in the background.
The most photographed man in Liverpool.. or at least that's what he told us. Nice bloke and great musican.
Rudolf Siemering, 1897, Eakins Oval, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, fountain. Photo 2 of 4.
Another era. Something of John Lennon.
He wrote the script for the praised but not very well known "Cockleshell Heroes"
Not a Michael Kent photo, but a MK relative.