* 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.

Parson Mason Locke Weems mentions the first citation of this legend in his 1850 book, The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen.

* 1725 – George Mason, American statesman ( d. 1792 )

In 1787 he attended the United States Constitutional Convention and was one of the delegates voting against the new constitution ( joining George Mason and Edmund Randolph in not signing it ).

* Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, a collaborative site by the Center for History and New Media ( George Mason University ) and the American Social History Project ( City University of New York )

He held a professorship with the University of Virginia from 1971 until 1994, and with George Mason University until 2000.

When he retired from Virginia in 1994, he became Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University until 2000.

In May 1769, Washington introduced a proposal, drafted by his friend George Mason, calling for Virginia to boycott English goods until the Acts were repealed.

George Mason University ( often referred to as GMU or Mason ) is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax.

Named after American revolutionary, patriot, and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972.

In recent years, George Mason faculty have twice won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

George Mason, ( 1725 – 1792 ) after whom the University is named.

In 1959, the Board of Visitors of UVA selected a permanent name for the college: George Mason College of the University of Virginia.

On April 7, 1972 the Virginia General Assembly enacted legislation which separated George Mason College from its parent institution, the University of Virginia.

Renamed that day by the legislation, George Mason College became George Mason University.

In 1978, the George Mason University Foundation purchased the former Kann's department store in Arlington.

In March 1979 the Virginia General Assembly authorized the establishment of the George Mason University School of Law ( GMUSL ) – contingent on the transfer of the Kann's building to George Mason University.

Various refinements were made to the instrument, including the use of a so-called position-sensitive ( PoS ) detector by Alfred Cerezo, Terence Godfrey, and George D. W. Smith at Oxford University in 1988.

Watterson was born in Washington, D. C., where his father, James G. Watterson ( born 1932 ), worked as a patent examiner while going to George Washington University Law School before becoming a patent attorney in 1960.

Through the aegis of her scientific uncle, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.

Thesis submitted to The Faculty of Columbian School of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts ; directed by Andrew Zimmerman, Assistant Professor of History.

* Leslie Geddes ( deceased )- Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, electrical engineer, inventor, and educator of over 2000 biomedical engineers, received a National Medal of Technology in 2006 from President George Bush for his more than 50 years of contributions that have spawned innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators, ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature infants, as well as a new method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ).

A third study allegedly lasted for 130 days in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. George C. Brainard.

She intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English, as well as San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she took a film class taught by George Kuchar and starred in one of his short films.

* " Chairman Ben Bernanke Lecture Series Part 1 " Recorded live on March 20, 2012 10: 35am MST at a class at George Washington University

At a time when scientific research in the United States was still in its infancy, George Ellery Hale, a solar astronomer from the University of Chicago, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904.

George Lewis ( Columbia University, New York City ),

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* George Washington Colonials, the nickname for the athletic teams of George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Krulak also holds a master's degree in labor relations from George Washington University ( 1973 ).

Dalhousie University was first established as a non-sectarian college in 1818 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, whom the university was named after.

He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where his classmates included five future Democratic senators ( Solomon Downs of Louisiana, Jesse Bright of Indiana, George W. Jones of Iowa, Edward Hannegan of Indiana, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi ).

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* George Wythe University in Cedar City, Utah, a liberal arts college focused on preparing students for leadership.

The next day, the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics began in Washington, D. C. under the joint auspices of The George Washington University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

George Meredith has said that fervor is the core of style.

Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.

but if George has just been mentioned prominently ( and the trip to be made has been under discussion ), what is said is probably I'll go with him, and dominant stress is probably on the preposition with.

In she has it in for George dominant stress will ordinarily be on in, where the notion of stored-up antipathy seems to center.

George E. Sweazey writes: `` There is danger in trying to make admission to the Church so easy and painless that people will scarcely know that anything has happened ''.

Of another colleague, George Santayana, he could write: `` The great event in my life recently has been the reading of Santayana's book.

George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Baseball historian George B. Kirsch has described the results of the Mills commission as a " myth ".

A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George ( patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudi's home ), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

This " institutional definition of art " ( see also Institutional Critique ) has been championed by George Dickie.

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

Susan George of the Transnational Institute has also been a long-term influence on the movement, as the writer of books since 1986 on hunger, debt, international financial institutions and capitalism.

" Tradition, reported by George Chalmers in his Caledonia ( 1807 ), and by the New Statistical Account ( 1834 – 1845 ), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by Inverurie is the burial place of Áed.

On December 13, 2001, George W. Bush gave Russia notice of the United States ' withdrawal from the treaty, in accordance with the clause that required six months ' notice before terminating the pact — the first time in recent history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international arms treaty.

The George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York has two roadway levels.

It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie ( Miranda Richardson ), Melchett ( Stephen Fry ), George ( Hugh Laurie ) and Darling ( Tim McInnerny ) – that he has built a working time machine.

* Lara has scored an 20 % of his team runs, a feat surpassed only by Bradman ( 23 %) and George Headley ( 21 %).

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.

Legend has it that there was a member of the British Royal Family onboard and that in gratitude for their bravery, King George III decreed that Caymanians should never be conscripted for war service and Parliament legislated that they should never be taxed.

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

* Barack Obama has made the camp's Evergreen Chapel his primary place of worship, as George W. Bush had done before him.

Therefore there are now a huge variety of different styles and types of map-for example, one area which has evolved a specific and recognisable variation are those used by public transport organisations to guide passengers, namely urban rail and metro maps, many of which are loosely based on 45 degree angles as originally perfected by Harry Beck and George Dow.

Feeling that Clark is the real person and that Clark is not afraid to be himself in his civilian identity, John Byrne has stated in interviews that he took inspiration for this portrayal from the George Reeves version of Superman.