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Hepplewhite, George. -1786. English Neoclassical furniture designer.
Hillary, Sir Edmund. 1919-2008. New Zealand, first to climb Mt. Everest, 1953, with Tenzig Norgay.
Karageorge, George. 1762-1817. Serbian. Led revolt vs Turks, 1804. Murdered by Milos, starting 100 year feud.
Kaufman, George. 1889-1961. US playwright. You Can’t Take it with You 1936.
King George’s War. 1744-8. France vs Britain, War of Austrian Succession in North America. No territorial changes. Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle 1748.
Lansbury, George. 1859-1940. British Labour MP. Women’s suffrage. Pacifist, opposed to WWI.
La Trémoille, Georges de. 1382-1446. French nobleman. Obstructed Joan of Arc.
Lemaître, Georges. 1894-1966. Belgian cosmologist. Big Bang theory of creation 1927.
Little Bighorn, Battle. 1876. Sitting Bull led Sioux and Cheyenne defeat Custer’s cavalry.
Lloyd George, David. 1863-1945. British Liberal Prime Minister,1916-22. Unemployment insurance. Irish Free State. War cabinet, 1916.
Malta. c800BC Phoenecia...Carthage. 218BC Rome. 5C Vandal/ Goth. 6C Byzantine. 870 Arab. 1090 Sicily. 1530 Knights of St. John. 1798 French. 1814 British. 1964 Indepependent. 1974 Republic. Population awarded George Cross 1942.
Marshall, George. 1880-1959. US general. Marshall Plan.

Meredith, George. 1828-1909. English manners novelist. Intellectual, witty and poetic. Ordeal 1859. Egoist 1879. Dianna of the Crossways 1885.
Metastasio, Pietro. 1698-1782. Italian librettist for Gluck, Handel, Haydn, Mozart.
Modernism. 19C Movement to reinterpret Roman Catholicism based on science, psychology. Declared heretical, 1907. Loisy. Tyrrell.
Moore, George. 1852-1933. Irish novelist. Confessions of a Young Man 1888. Esther Waters 1894.
Musset, Alfred. 1810-57. French poet. Sand lover. Confession.
Neo-Impressionism. 19C. Application of optical discoveries by Seurat and Signac. Pointilism.
Olive Branch Petition. 1775. Moderate Americans attempt to avoid war. Ignored by George III.
Orwell, George. 1903-50. English satirical novelist and social critic: Animal Farm 1945, 1984 1948.
Panama Scandal. 1892. Bribery of French Chamber of Deputies discovered re 1888 Lesseps Panama loan. Discredited Clemenceau’s radicals.
Patton, George. 1885-1945. US general. Tank warfare.
Picquart, Georges. 1854-1914. French general imprisoned for defense of Dreyfus.
Pointilism. 1880. Style of dotted art invented by Seurat. Neo-Impressionism.
Pompidou, Georges. 1911-74. French statesman, Prime Minister 1962-68, President 1969-. Fifth Republic Constitution.