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George Spanos, the unoffiicial mayor of Wilmington, friend to all military servicemen and young Wilmington athletes.
Photo courtesy of John Ritchie.
From "Wilmington: a retrospective" by J.G. O'Reilly.
This is George Liu, a young and very talented saxophonist. It was a pleasure to shoot him as this is my first time shooting musicians. I guess I should really start taking more portraits.
It was one of the worst days for a photoshoot. It was windy, it was cold, and worst of all, there was barely any light.
I noticed in post that some of photographs were a little dim. Seems like I have to get used to pressing that "+" sign on the flash unit...
I honestly do think that the photographs aren't what I expected. My assistant ditched me for some club activities so I was left with a light tripod with a homemade umbrella holder, and a flash unit diffused with a white translucent umbrella. Someone holding a reflector for some fill would be nice, but with me alone, it would be nearly impossible to do that.
Juniata Lodge No. 282, Hollidaysburg, PA. Past Masters Night 2012 - George Washington Gavel Presented by Potomac Lodge No. 5, Washington DC
George was one of the most influencial teachers in shaping Nancy's vocal style. Other Seattleites who studied with George include Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, and Grammy winning jazz vocalists Diane Schurr and Ernestine Anderson.
Assuming that the deaths are related (though I can't see the age of death, so I don't know for sure), it's sad to see Little George didn't even live a year after his mother's passing ... poor little soul. And poor Papa!
I had never noticed the two of these stones being related before writing the descriptions for this upload. I just inadvertantly paired the two together ... a bit eerie, and sad.
George Bush:
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George Duke
@ World Forum
the Hague
the Netherlands
The Hague Jazz 2009
Photo © Eddy Westveer
All rights reserved
2009 _EW36516
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, whose main tenet is that people should own what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly the value of land, belongs equally to all humanity. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of the land value tax as a remedy.
George was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a lower-middle-class family, the second of ten children of Richard S. H. George and Catharine Pratt (Vallance) George. His father was a publisher of religious texts and a devout Episcopalian, and sent George to the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia. George chafed at his religious upbringing and left the academy without graduating. His formal education ended at age 14 and he went to sea as a foremast boy at age 15 in April 1855 on the Hindoo, bound for Melbourne and Calcutta.
He returned to Philadelphia after 14 months at sea to become an apprentice typesetter before settling in California.
In California, George became enamored of Annie Corsina Fox, an eighteen-year-old girl from Sydney, Australia who had been orphaned and was living with an uncle. The uncle, a prosperous, strong-minded man, was opposed to his niece's impoverished suitor. But the couple, defying him, eloped and married in late 1861, with Henry dressed in a borrowed suit and Annie bringing only a packet of books. The marriage was a happy one and four children were born to them.
Fox's mother was Irish Catholic, and while George remained an Evangelical Protestant, the children were raised Catholic. On November 3, 1862 Annie gave birth to future United States Representative from New York, Henry George, Jr. (1862–1916). Early on, even with the birth of future sculptor, Richard F. George (1865 – September 28, 1912), the family was near starvation. After a failed attempt at gold mining in British Columbia he began work in the newspaper industry in 1865, starting as a printer, continuing as a journalist, and ending as an editor and proprietor. He worked for several papers, including four years (1871–1875) as editor of his own newspaper San Francisco Daily Evening Post.
George began as a Lincoln Republican, but then became a Democrat. He was a strong critic of railroad and mining interests, corrupt politicians, land speculators, and labor contractors. He first articulated his views in a 1868 article entitled "What the Railroad Will Bring Us." George argued that the boom in railroad construction would benefit only the lucky few who owned interests in the railroads and other related enterprises, while throwing the greater part of the population into abject poverty. This had led to him earning the enmity of the Central Pacific Railroad's executives, who helped defeat his bid for election to the California State Assembly.
One day in 1871 George went for a horseback ride and stopped to rest while overlooking San Francisco Bay. He later wrote of the revelation that he had: "I asked a passing teamster, for want of something better to say, what land was worth there. He pointed to some cows grazing so far off that they looked like mice, and said, 'I don't know exactly, but there is a man over there who will sell some land for a thousand dollars an acre.' Like a flash it came over me that there was the reason of advancing poverty with advancing wealth. With the growth of population, land grows in value, and the men who work it must pay more for the privilege."
Furthermore, on a visit to New York City, he was struck by the apparent paradox that the poor in that long-established city were much worse off than the poor in less developed California. These observations supplied the theme and title for his 1879 book Progress and Poverty, which was a great success, selling over 3 million copies. In it George made the argument that a sizeable portion of the wealth created by social and technological advances in a free market economy is possessed by land owners and monopolists via economic rents, and that this concentration of unearned wealth is the main cause of poverty. George considered it a great injustice that private profit was being earned from restricting access to natural resources while productive activity was burdened with heavy taxes, and indicated that such a system was equivalent to slavery—a concept somewhat similar to wage slavery. This is also the work in which he made the case for a "land tax" in which governments would tax the value of the land itself, thus preventing private interests from profiting upon its mere possession, but allowing the value of all improvements made to that land to remain with investors.
George's first stroke occurred in 1890, after a global speaking tour concerning land rights and the relationship between rent and poverty. This stroke greatly weakened him, and he never truly recovered. Despite this, George tried to remain active in politics. Against the advice of his doctors, George campaigned for New York City mayor again in 1897, this time as an Independent Democrat. The strain of the campaign precipitated a second stroke, leading to his death four days before the election. An estimated 100,000 people attended his funeral on Sunday, October 30, 1897.
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.
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE A. BREEMAN
CHIEF TURRET CAPTAIN
BORN PASSAIC SEPT 15 1887
DIED PASSAIC APRIL 10, 1937
AWARDED THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR FOR EXTRAORDINARY HEROISM IN THE LINE OF HIS PROFESSION AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENTAL IGNITION OF POWDER CHARGES IN THE FORWARD 13 TURRET ON BOARD THE U.S.S. KEARSARGE APRIL 13, 1906
GEORGE BREEMAN - SEAMAN - U.S. NAVY
A PEACEFUL SOUL A FAITHFUL HEART
WITH EACH DAY'S WORK SO HUMBLY DONE
THAT NONE WOULD MARK THIS MAN APART
UNTIL THE FATES A CRISIS SPUN
THEN DANGER LOOSED A FLAMING DART
AND HE A HEROE'S LAURELS WON
IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY THE MEMORIAL POST NO. 200
AMERICAN LEGION OF PASSAIC
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George Breeman (September 15, 1880 – April 10, 1937) was a United States Navy sailor who received the Medal of Honor for his heroism following a turret explosion in 1906 on board the battleship USS Kearsarge (BB-5).
On April 13, 1906, a flash fire occurred in Kearsarge’s forward 13-inch turret where Breeman was serving, killing several officers and men. Burning powder fell into the 13-inch handling room below. Breeman rushed from his battle station in the adjacent powder magazine into the handling room and stamped out the fires. He then returned to the magazine, closed the hatch to the handling room, and began replacing the covers on open powder tanks.
Breeman was awarded the Medal of Honor on May 5, 1906 for his actions on board Kearsarge the previous month and received $100 as a gratuity.
Medal of Honor citation
Rank and organization: Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: September 15, 1880, Passaic, N.J. Accredited to: New Jersey. G.O. No.: 21, May 5, 1906.
Citation:
Breeman displayed heroism in the line of his profession while serving on board the U.S.S. Kearsarge at the time of the accidental ignition of powder charges in the forward 13-inch turret.
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Passaic Veteran's Memorial Park - Glenside Avenue in Passaic, NJ -- Google Map -- additional views
Summer at St. George's provides fun and enriching summer camps for children ages 4 to 15. www.summeratstgeorges.ca
Each summer, St. Georges opens its doors to the world and offers a dynamic, fun and safe boarding program. Boys and Girls aged 9 to 16 years come from all over the world to enjoy a total Canadian immersion experience in one of Canada's most beautiful cities and campuses.
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!
George A. Romero speaking at the 2016 Mad Monster Arizona at the We-Ko-Pa Resort & Conference Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Jazz singer George Benson in Yerevan © PanARMENIAN Photo/ Davit Hakobyan All the images presented in this photostream are part of photo sets that can be purchased for editorial or commercial use. Contact us
Dr. George Anthony Zeller and Sophie Zeller nee Kline at Fort Creve Couer Monument at Creve Couer, Tazewell County, Illinois.
Today's Happiness or the Graces of Fashion, 1920. Engraving with color pochoir (1882-1932) George Hopper Fitch gift. de Young Museum
George Washington cosplayer at the 2015 Phoenix Comicon at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
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St Mary, Ecclesfield, Sheffield.
East Window, 1860.
By George Hedgeland (1825-1898).
In memory of Bernard John Wake who died 1st February 1842 aged 62 and of Harriet his wife who died 6th July 1860 aged 72 and of Harriet their daughter who died 17th Dec 1859 aged 43. Erected by their surviving relatives HW WW BW 1860.
George Caleb Hedgeland had a short career, practising for less than twelve years in his own right. His work represents a quite different approach to stained glass from that of most other medievalists. His inspiration came from early Renaissance glass and his boldly pictorial designs were admired, perhaps surprisingly by Charles Winston, who revived the manufacture of medieval-style 'muff' glass. On the recommendation of Charles Winston, Hedgeland first rose to prominence as the designer of the Great West window at Norwich Cathedral (1853) using Winston's new glass. Unfortunately, windows which were acceptable in the 1850s became out of date by the 1870s and 1880s and by the end of the century many had been replaced. In 1860 owing to ill health, Hedgeland sold his studio in London and emigrated to Australia where he died.
His work is characterised by his use of large pieces of richly coloured glass, softly painted with delicate cross-hatching reminiscent of 16th century paintings. By the end of the 19th century, his broad pictorial style had fallen from favour.