His master, Moses Carver, was a German American immigrant who had purchased George's parents, Mary and Giles, from William P. McGinnis on October 9, 1855, for $ 700.

Current honorary NL President William Y. Giles presented the league champion Astros with the Warren C. Giles Trophy.

Under opposition from Sen. William B. Giles, Madison chose not to fight Congress for the nomination but kept Sec.

In early 1793, Jefferson secretly prepared resolutions introduced by William Branch Giles, Congressman from Virginia, and designed to repudiate Hamilton and weaken the Washington Administration.

In 1827, Virginia Governor William B. Giles released a letter from Jefferson meant to be kept private to Thomas Ritchie's Richmond Enquirer.

* William Henry Giles Kingston, English writer

* Roses of Glory ( 1987 ) about the fictional Giles, son of William fitzWilliam Marshal

The county is named for William Branch Giles who was born in Amelia County in 1762.

* William Branch Giles, ( 1762 – 1830 ), born in Amelia County, United States Congressman, United States Senator, and Governor of Virginia.

Giles County is named after William Branch Giles, who was Senator of Virginia and sponsored the admission of Tennessee as the sixteenth state into the Union.

Chalfont St. Giles in Buckinghamshire was the parish home of William Penn's first wife, and the location of the Jordans Quaker Meeting House, where Penn is buried.

The Salvation Army's William Booth Memorial Training College, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, was completed in 1932: it towers over South London from Denmark Hill.

In separate expeditions, William Ernest Powell Giles and William Christie Gosse were the first European explorers to this area.

Their second son William Giles Roberts was also a leader.

William Ernest Powell Giles ( 20 July 1835 – 13 November 1897 ), best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian explorer who led three major expeditions in central Australia.

Ernest Giles was born in Bristol, England, son of William Giles, a merchant, and Jane Elizabeth, née Powell.

Giles supposedly discovered Uluru ( formerly Ayers Rock ), but was beaten to the claim by a competing explorer, William Gosse.

* William Ernest Powell Giles at Flinders Ranges Research

Chalfont was the home of William Penn's first wife, and William Penn is buried at Jordans Quaker Meeting House near Chalfont St Giles.

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

After the fall of the Conservative government to Labour in 1997, she served as Shadow Health Secretary between 1998 and 1999 and later as Shadow Home Secretary between 1999 and 2001 under William Hague.

* 1906 – William J. Brennan, American Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1997 )

* Greider, William ( 1997 ).

The Black Sea deluge theory ( published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University ) contends that the Bosphorus was formed about 5600 BC when the rising waters of the Mediterranean / Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time ( according to the theory ) was a low-lying body of fresh water.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997.

He was a team captain on the sci-fi quiz series Space Cadets ( 1997 ) on Channel 4, which guest starred William Shatner.

More recent efforts to introduce undergraduates to categories as a foundation for mathematics include William Lawvere and Rosebrugh ( 2003 ) and Lawvere and Stephen Schanuel ( 1997 ) and Mirroslav Yotov ( 2012 ).

Clyde William Tombaugh ( February 4, 1906January 17, 1997 ) was an American astronomer.

* William Galen Gray chronology — Timeline of Conan's Journeys ( 1997, rev.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

* 1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author ( d. 1997 )

234 bypass, ten miles ( 16 km ) south of Manassas, by the year 1997, and is now known as the Prince William Campus.

* Shakespeare, William ( 1997 ).

* 1997 – William Cuddy, Canadian actor

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, Major was appointed a special guardian to Princes William and Harry, with responsibility for legal and administrative matters.

* Everdell, William R., The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth Century Thought, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997

* Mars Underground ( 1997 ) by William K. Hartmann, a novel about a partially terraformed Mars by a noted astronomer.

Three researchers at NIST have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their work in Physics: William D. Phillips in 1997, Eric A. Cornell in 2001, John L. Hall in 2005, which is the largest number for any US government laboratory.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997.

* 1927 – William Hickey, American actor ( d. 1997 )

Stephen Hilgartner, the Cornell University science and technologies department chairman, wrote " The Sokal Affair in Context " ( 1997 ) comparing Sokal's hoax to " Confirmational Response: Bias Among Social Work Journals " ( 1990 ), an article by William M. Epstein published in Science, Technology & Human Values.

One source, Dr. William S. Haubrich in his book Medical Meanings ( 1997, American College of Physicians ) claims that the name came from the Eastern United States.