However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.

Thompson spent the next few seasons trading based in Fort George ( now in Alberta ), and during this time led several expeditions into the Rocky Mountains.

Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

* Thompson, Andrew, 1998, ' George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998, ISBN 0-312-17651-1.

The horseshoe is presented as a talisman in The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil ; Showing how the Horse-Shoe came to be a Charm against Witchcraft, written in 1871 by Edward G. Flight, with illustrations by George Cruikshank and engravings by John Thompson.

* 1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer ( d. 1943 )

In 1851, Truth left Northampton to join George Thompson, an abolitionist and speaker.

** George Gershwin's Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm ( book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin ) premiere in New York, NY.

* October 27 – George Thompson, English cricketer ( d. 1943 )

According to Thompson, at this time the biggest enemy the United States had was King George V of the United Kingdom.

William Allingham – Henry C. Beeching – Oliver Madox Brown – Olive Custance – John Davidson – Austin Dobson – Lord Alfred Douglas – Evelyn Douglas – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – Michael Field – Norman Gale – Edmund Gosse – John Gray – William Ernest Henley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – Herbert P. Horne – Lionel Johnson – Andrew Lang – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Maurice Hewlett – Edward Cracroft Lefroy – Arran and Isla Leigh – Amy Levy – John William Mackail – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Fiona MacLeod – Frank T. Marzials – Théophile Julius Henry Marzials – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – Cosmo Monkhouse – George Moore – William Morris – Frederick W. H. Myers – Roden Noël – John Payne – Victor Plarr – A. Mary F. Robinson – William Caldwell Roscoe – Christina Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Algernon Charles Swinburne – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Rachel Annand Taylor – Francis Thompson – John Todhunter – Herbert Trench – John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley – Rosamund Marriott Watson – Theodore Watts-Dunton – Oscar Wilde – Margaret L. Woods – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats

Among its founding members were George Field, Dorothy Thompson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Herbert Bayard Swope, Ralph Bunche, Father George B. Ford, Roscoe Drummond and Rex Stout.

The first mob of bullocks to attempt to use the stock route set out in January 1911 ; however the party of three drovers, George Shoesmith, James Thompson and an Aboriginal stockman who was known as ' Chinaman ', were killed by Aborigines at Well 37.

His most notable involvement in any naval activity was actually on the sidelines: when Lt. George Washington De Long and James Gordon Bennett Jr. set up the USS Jeannette Expedition to the North Pole in 1879, Thompson gave some advice to the preparations, but seemed determined to watch the extent of Government involvement in the project.

Depp has gained acclaim for his portrayals of such people as Ed Wood, in Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco, Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, George Jung in Blow, and the bank robber John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies.

During the 1977 – 78 season, George Gervin and David Thompson of the Denver Nuggets battled all season for the NBA scoring title.

* New York Figurative Expressionism of the 1950s represented New York figurative artists such as Robert Beauchamp, Elaine de Kooning, Robert Goodnough, Grace Hartigan, Lester Johnson, Alex Katz, George McNeil ( artist ), Jan Muller, Fairfield Porter, Gregorio Prestopino, Larry Rivers and Bob Thompson.

After relocating to Washington, D. C. when Julia was eight, her mother married L. Thompson Bowles, Dean of the George Washington University Medical School.

* George Whitefield Davis ( 1839 – 1918 ), engineer and Major General in the United States Army, military governor of Puerto Rico and the first military governor of the Panama Canal Zone ; born in Thompson

* Mr. George Thompson

It starred father and son actors Timothy and Rafe Spall as Mr Emerson and George, together with Elaine Cassidy ( Lucy Honeychurch ), Sophie Thompson ( Charlotte Bartlett ), Laurence Fox ( Cecil Vyse ), Sinéad Cusack ( Miss Lavish ), Timothy West ( Mr Eager ) and Mark Williams ( Reverend Beebe ).

Thompson and Meserve's Purchase was sold by Commissioner Willey to Samuel W. Thompson of Conway and George P. Meserve of Jackson, New Hampshire in 1855 for $ 500 USD.

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 ' ''!!

George ( his last name is never revealed ) is a stereotypical English valet who enters Poirot ’ s employment in 1923 and does not leave his side until the 1970s, shortly before Poirot ’ s death.

A competent, matter-of-fact man with an extensive knowledge of the English aristocracy and no imagination, George provides a steady contrast to Hastings.

* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English soldier ( d. 1888 )

There were attempts to regulate anagram formation, an important one in English being that of George Puttenham's Of the Anagram or Posy Transposed in The Art of English Poesie ( 1589 ).

* 1948 – George Ryton, English engineer

* 1724 – George Stubbs, English painter ( d. 1806 )

Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F. B. A., F. R. S.

* 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.

* 1925 – George MacDonald Fraser, English author ( d. 2008 )

* 1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman ( d. 1628 )

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

" During this period, Pasternak delighted in reading a clandestine copy of George Orwell's Animal Farm in English.

From 1942 to 1944 George Orwell was a proponent of Basic English, but in 1945 he became critical of universal languages.

A new revision — probably by Bishop George Griffith ( 1601 – 1666 ), of St Asaph-based on the revised English book of 1662, was published in 1664.

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.

One of the first cognitive psychologists, George Miller is well known for dedicating his career to the development of WordNet, a semantic network for the English language.