Coming Up for Air, his last novel before World War II is the most ' English ' of his novels ; alarums of war mingle with images of idyllic Thames-side Edwardian childhood of protagonist George Bowling.

In George Orwell's Coming Up for Air, travelling salesman George Bowling regularly reminisces about the smell of sainfoin in his father's seed shop in Lower Binfield.

It is written in the first person, with George Bowling, the forty-five-year-old protagonist, who reveals his life and experiences while undertaking a trip back to his boyhood home as an adult.

* George Bowling is a fat, married, middle-aged ( 45 years old ) insurance salesman, with ' two kids and a house in the suburbs '.

" " George Bowling is Orwell's Jonah, and Coming Up For Air is in significant respects a contribution to the ' school of Miller '.

Bowling Green was founded in 1798 after Robert and George Moore donated an additional to to the Warren County trustees.

The first Europeans credited with having settled the area now known as Bowling Green were Robert Moore, his brother George and General Elijah Covington.

" This name was after the Bowling Green in New York City, where patriots had pulled down a statue of King George III and used the lead to make bullets during the American Revolution.

It has also been suggested by Jeffrey Meyer in " Orwell's Apocalypse: Coming Up For Air, Modern Fiction Studies " that George Orwell's primary character George Bowling in " Coming Up For Air " was modelled on Leopold Bloom.

Modern and Contemporary visual artists living in, or originally from, Guyana include Stanley Greaves, Ronald Savory, Philip Moore, Donald Locke, Frank Bowling, Hew Locke, Roshini Kempadoo, George Simon and Aubrey Williams.

On August 21, 1770, the British government erected a 4, 000 pound ( 1, 800 kg ) gilded lead equestrian statue of King George III in Bowling Green ; the King was dressed in Roman garb in the style of the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius.

The area contains many old and historic building and sites, including Castle Garden, originally the fort Castle Clinton, Bowling Green, the old United States Customs House, now the National Museum of the American Indian, Federal Hall, where George Washington was inaugurated as the first U. S. President, Fraunces Tavern, New York City Hall, the New York Stock Exchange, renovated original mercantile buildings of the South Street Seaport ( and a modern tourist building ), the Brooklyn Bridge, South Ferry, embarkation point for the Staten Island Ferry and ferries to Liberty Island and Ellis Island, and Trinity Church.

Bowling green in front of Mount Vernon ( home of George Washington ), with historical explanation

They have four children ; author Chris Offutt, Jeff Offutt, Professor of Software Engineering at George Mason University, Scotty Hyde, copy editor for the Park City Daily News in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Melissa Offutt, who is a sales executive for Sprint in San Diego.

In 1996 Governor George Voinovich appointed Bibb to the Board of Trustees at Bowling Green State University.

She taught at a number of universities, including Bowling Green State University, Michigan State University, the University of Virginia, Skidmore College, Columbia University, San Diego State University and in the Master of Fine Arts program at George Mason University.

Allegedly the Equestrian Statue of King George III of England which stood in New York City's Bowling Green until 1776 when it was thrown down and the lead turned into musket balls for George Washington's army was based upon the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius.

* First Class Bowling In Each Season By George Dennett

Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner's 4, 000 men in Bowling Green, and about 4, 000 in the Military District of East Tennessee under Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, which had the responsibility for guarding the Cumberland Gap, the gateway for entering pro-Unionist East Tennessee.

Worth's monument was one of the first to be erected in a city park since the statue of George III was removed from Bowling Green in 1776, and is the only monument in the city except for Grant's Tomb that doubles as a mausoleum.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In 1984, Titan the main shipping company of the Papanicolaou ’ s was in trouble, so Livanos's father George bought out the Papanicolaou's shares in ALL, while Gauntlett again became a shareholder with a 25 % holding in AML.

The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

The simulcasting of the main national news bulletins has led to the presenters of those bulletins appearing on the channel, including Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce, George Alagiah, Sophie Raworth, Kate Silverton and Mishal Husain.

In the city, BUS US 131 is named Mitchell Street, after George Mitchell, but may be referred to as main street.

* Carnival of Saints by George Herman features Borgia as one of the main antagonists.

The two main contributors to the alphabet's character development were Pratt and George D. Watt, a local expert on shorthand systems.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's novel set in a totalitarian London, main character Winston Smith initially dislikes Julia, the woman he comes to love, because of " the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her.

The main difference between the text in the surviving Spanish copy and that in the Italian manuscript is that in the Spanish copy chapters 121 to 200 are noted as being missing in the exemplar — although it appears that these chapters had still been present in the Spanish original when it was first examined by George Sale.

The main campus of George Mason University is situated on just south of the City of Fairfax, Virginia in central Fairfax County, approximately west of Washington, D. C.

Fenwick Library is the main research library at George Mason.

Prominently, George R R Martin's acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series more or less abandons the good-evil paradigm in favor of a more politically based and multifaceted struggle between different ruling families, most of whom display both good and evil tendencies in pursuit of power, which takes the place of the main catalyst of the story.

* 1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit

Zajdel paid a tribute to George Orwell's newspeak and to Aldous Huxley by naming one of the main characters Nikor Orley Huxwell.

The logo is possibly a reference to the ending of George Lucas ' first film, THX 1138, in which the main character stands silhouetted with his arms raised during a sunset.

George Combe would become the main promoter of phrenology throughout the English speaking world after he viewed a brain dissection by Spurzheim's, convincing him of phrenology's merits.

In Glasgow, Walter Scott's Monument dominates the centre of George Square, the main public square in the city.

King George III of Great Britain abolished trial by jury in the Colonies, one of the main grievances precipitating the American Revolution.

In February they launched a daring raid against the position across the frozen Lake George, destroying storehouses and buildings outside the main fortification.

The resulting Battle of Elandslaagte was a clear-cut British tactical victory, but Sir George White feared that more Boers were about to attack his main position and ordered a chaotic retreat from Elandslaagte, throwing away any advantage gained.

The main composers of concerti of the baroque were Tommaso Albinoni, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Pietro Locatelli, Giuseppe Tartini, Francesco Geminiani and Johann Joachim Quantz.

Close by it is the former Cathedral of Saint George, begun in 1135, when the Romanesque lower part of the main façade and the side façades were completed.

The main attack came from Stanley Baldwin, then President of the Board of Trade, who spoke of Lloyd George as a " dynamic force " who would break the Conservative Party.

George did not hold Marlborough's actions against him which he understood were part of a plan to lure French forces from the main attack.