By George McWhirter, Anvil Press, 2009.

** The Invention of the World, afterword by George McWhirter

* José Emilio Pacheco: Selected Poems, Edited by George McWhirter ( New Directions, 1987 )

George McWhirter, New Directions, 1987

Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!

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.

* 1863 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and writer ( d. 1952 )

* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer

* 1847 – George Grossmith, English actor and writer ( d. 1912 )

* 1852 – George A. Moore, Irish writer ( d. 1933 )

The ambiguity in his belief in religion mirrored the dichotomies between his public and private lives: Stephen Ingle wrote that it was as if the writer George Orwell " vaunted " his atheism while Eric Blair the individual retained " a deeply ingrained religiosity ".

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay ( July 25, 1848 – January 12, 1881 ), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Cambridge University.

* 1804 – George Sand, French writer ( d. 1876 )

* 1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1950 )

In 1876, a writer named George Hanson placed John Hanson in his family tree of Swedish Americans descended from four Swedish brothers who emigrated to New Sweden in 1642.

A mutual friend introduced her to George Cooper, a former law professor, now non-fiction writer.

Author George Sand was portrayed as a character in several works in the 19th century ; writer Mario Praz credited the popularity of lesbianism as a theme to Sand's appearance in Paris society in the 1830s.

He attended George Washington University in Washington, D. C. at the start of the 1930s, before dropping out and beginning his career as a prolific writer of pulp fiction stories.

For anarchist historian George Woodcock " Although ( Pierre Joseph ) Proudhon was the first writer to call himself an anarchist, at least two predecessors outlined systems that contain all the basic elements of anarchism.

* 1634 – George Chapman, English writer ( b. 1559 )

* 1834 – George du Maurier British illustrator and writer ( d. 1896 )

* 1927 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1942 – George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer ( b. 1878 )

The most famous native speaker of Esperanto is businessman George Soros, son of Tivadar Soros, publisher and writer in Esperanto.

George Eliot ( Mary Ann Evans ) is the most-quoted woman writer.

Nevertheless, after reading the latter, the writer George Moore suggested to Edmund that it contained " the germ of a great book ," which Edmund Gosse first published anonymously as Father and Son in 1907.

( However, George King had given MVP votes to two pitchers just the season before: Rick Helling and David Wells ; King was the only writer to cast a vote for Helling, who had gone 20 – 7 with a 4. 41 ERA and 164 strikeouts.

George Jacob Holyoake ( 1817 – 1906 ), British writer who coined the term " secularism.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Is George put the cat out, dominant stress will ordinarily be on the first complement, the cat, not the second complement out.

The first directors of the Manchester Light and Power Company were John Marsden, M. L. Manley, William F. Orvis, George Smith, and John Blackmer.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

A wreath will be placed at the tomb of George Washington, one of this Nation's first Masons -- a past master of Washington-Alexandria Lodge 22 in Alexandria.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

* In 1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo from Norway became the first people to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean.

Murder, She Said ( 1961, directed by George Pollock ) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford.

* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen, in his memoirs ( With Bat and Ball, 1899 ), used the term as if it were well known.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

George W. Snedecor, the head of Iowa State's Statistics Department, was very likely the first user of an electronic digital computer to solve real world mathematics problems.

The lawyer Thomas Egerton was praised through the anagram gestat honorem ; the physician George Ent took the anagrammatic motto genio surget, which requires his first name as ".

The word " electron " was coined in 1891 by the Irish physicist George Stoney whilst analyzing elementary charges for the first time.

The resulting article in SURFER Magazine, " Quest for Fire " by journalist Sam George, put the Andaman Islands on the surfing map for the first time.

They were well received by the king, George III of Georgia, whose anonymous sister had probably been Andronikos ’ first wife.

Before the Civil War, Carnegie arranged a merger between Woodruff's company and that of George M. Pullman, the inventor of a sleeping car for first class travel which facilitated business travel at distances over.

* 1792 – U. S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

George Washington ( February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799 ), the country's first president, is often said to be the father of his country.

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.

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

He worked with George L. Stout, the founder and first editor of Technical Studies.