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Look up: George

  1. George
    Meaning as a surname: Greek for a farmer.
    Found on http://www.nameseekers.co.uk/surname.htm

  2. George
    [n] - Christian martyr
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. GEORGE
    (language) One of the earliest programming languages, developed by Charles Hamblin in 1957. GEORGE was a stack oriented language, using reverse Polish notation. It was implemented on the English Electric DEUCE. ['GEORGE: A Semi-Translation Programming Scheme for the DEUCE, Programming and Operations Manual', C. L. Hamblin, U New S Wales, 1958]. […
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  4. george
    capital of the Cayman Islands Category: The cosmos
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. George
    George (jôrj) noun [ French George , or Georges , a proper name, from Greek gewrgo`s husbandman, laborer; ge`a , gh^ , the earth + 'e`rgein to work; akin to English work . See Work .] 1. A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/22

  6. George
    noun Elector of Hanover and the first Hanoverian King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727 (1660-1727)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. George
    noun King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover from 1727 to 1760 (1683-1760)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. George
    noun King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820; the American colonies were lost during his reign; he became insane in 1811 and his son (later George IV) acted as regent until 1820 (1738-1820)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. George
    noun King of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover from 1820 to 1830; his attempt to divorce his estranged wife undermined the prestige of the crown (1762-1830)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. George
    noun King of Great Britain and Ireland and emperor of India from 1910 to 1936; gave up his German title in 1917 during World War I (1865-1936)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. George
    noun King of Great Britain and Ireland and emperor of India from 1936 to 1947; he succeeded Edward VIII (1895-1952)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. George
    The name `George` is an adaptation of the Greek name `Georgios` , which is derived from the Greek word `Georgos` , `farmer` or `earth-worker`. The word ΓεÃ?‰Ã?Â?γοÃ?‚ is a compound word, formed by the words `Ge` , `earth`, `soil` and `ergon`
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George

  13. George
    • (n.) A kind of brown loaf. • (n.) A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  14. George
    (from the article `nuclear weapon`) Just prior to the conference, on May 8 at Enewetak atoll in the western Pacific, a test explosion named George had successfully used a fission bomb ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/22

  15. George
    king of Bohemia from 1458. As head of the conservative Utraquist faction of Hussite Protestants, he established himself as a power when Bohemia was ... [4 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/22

  16. George
    town, Western Cape province, South Africa. The town lies distantly east of Cape Town and immediately inland from the Indian Ocean. It was founded in ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/22

  17. George
    George is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `Farmer` Where is it used? The name George is mainly used In English.How do they say it elsewhere? Siôrs ( In Welsh) Jurij ( In Ukrainian and In Slovene) Jöran ( In Swedish) Jörgen ( In Swedish) örjan ( In Swedish) Göran ( In Swedish) Jorge ( In Spanish and In Portuguese) Jure ( In Slovene) Seòras ( In Scot
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Geor

  18. George
    George A male personal name, from Latin Georgius, from Greek Georgios, 'husbandman, farmer'; from ge-, 'earth' + ergon, 'work'. The name introduced in England by the Crusaders (a vision of St. George played a key role in the First Crusade), but not common until after the Hanoverian succession (18th century); so, also Georgian (1855) in reference to th...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  19. George
    George is a character in King Henry VI part III. He becomes the Duke of Clarence.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/K2.H

  20. George
    George is American slang for excellent, first-rate, fine.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  21. George
    George is American slang for excellent, first-rate, fine.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  22. George
    George, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, rising in a lake on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, E Canada. It flows N through Indian Lake (125 sq mi/324 sq km) to Ungava Bay (an arm of Hudson Strait).
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A082


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9 September 2010

This day in history:
The Battle of Flodden was fought on the 9th September 1513 near the village of Branxton, in Northumberland when a Scottish army under the command of king James IV of Scotland invaded England in support of their French alliance as king Henry VIII of England was otherwised engaged on the continent. The battle was originally known (to the English at least) as the battle of Branxton Moor, since that is where the battle actually took place, but following the publication of Walter Scott's work, 'Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field in Six Cantos' it has been more popularly known as the 'Battle of Flodden'. (Field is of course a poetic synonym for battle (as in Flanders Field where the poppies grew) hence the 'battle of Flodden Field' as the battle is sometimes known is pure tautology. read more

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