The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.

* Fleming was knighted, as a Knight Bachelor, by king George VI in 1944.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

A financial settlement was devised, under which Balmoral and Sandringham passed to his brother, George VI.

In horse racing, there is the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse in Surrey.

It was said that when Attlee visited King George VI at Buckingham Palace to kiss hands, the notoriously laconic Attlee and the notoriously tongue-tied George VI stood for some minutes in silence before Attlee finally volunteered the remark " I've won the election.

Attlee meeting King George VI of the United Kingdom | George VI after Labour's 1945 election victory.

He was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath by King George VI of the United Kingdom in 1942.

* 1895 – King George VI of the United Kingdom ( d. 1952 )

That title was relinquished by the last Kaisar-i-Hind George VI when India was granted independence on 15 August 1947.

Mountbatten was appointed a Personal Naval Aide-de-Camp to King George VI on 23 June 1936, and, having joined the Naval Air Division of the Admiralty in July 1936, he attended the coronation of King George VI in May 1937.

Mountbatten attended the funeral of King George VI in June 1952 and, having been promoted to the substantive rank of full admiral on 27 February 1953, he attended the coronation of the Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953.

Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique ; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility.

* 1952 – King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

* 1952 – Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI.

On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

If both George and a piece of information George does not have are prominent in the context, but the idea of telling George is new, then dominant stress will probably be on tell in why not tell George??

Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

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.

Then, sculptor George Stanley ( who also did the Muse Fountain at the Hollywood Bowl ) sculpted Gibbons's design in clay and Sachin Smith cast the statuette in 92. 5 percent tin and 7. 5 percent copper and then gold-plated it.

Australia had scored a massive 586 ( Syd Gregory 201, George Giffen 161 ) and then dismissed England for 325.

According to Hosea Ballou, then Pierre Batiffol ( 1911 ) and George T. Knight ( 1914 ) Amalric was a believer that all people would eventually be saved and this was one of the counts upon which he was declared a heretic by Pope Innocent III.

He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys and Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing abhorrence of the Petitioners, and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king.

The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.

* George W. Bush hosted dignitaries, including the then President of Russia, Vladimir Putin in 2003 and hosted the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, in 2007.

He also had to skillfully manage to retain the services of the often unruly George S. Patton, by severely reprimanding him, when Patton earlier had slapped a subordinate and then when Patton gave a grossly errant speech.

In 1967, two years after conducting the first ever organized Frisbee Golf Tournament, Kevin, then the Coordinator of the Parks and Recreation Section at Fresno State College, CA organized and then taught the first ever college level Frisbee Golf activity course in which George Sappenfield was registered.

A 1984 series of strips showing then Vice President George H. W.

Great expectations attended his coming of age ; Sir George Buc recalled predictions that ' he was much more like ... to acquire a new erldome then to wast & lose an old erldom ', a prophecy that was never fulfilled.

Nathaniel Higginson, who was then the second member of the Council of Fort St George took office as the Mayor of Madras.

He successfully brought Wishart back to port in Malta and then attended the funeral of King George V in January 1936.

" George Long considered the commentary " worth reading ", but then opined, " But how many will read it?

While not one of George Carlin's original seven dirty words, he noted in a later routine that the word fart, ought to be added to " the list " of words that were not acceptable ( for broadcast ) in any context ( which have non-offensive meanings ), and described television as ( then ) a " fart-free zone ".

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

Madison pointed out that a limited government would be created, and that the powers delegated ‘ to the federal government are few and defined .” Madison persuaded prominent figures such as George Mason and Edmund Randolph, who had refused to endorse the constitution at the convention, to change their position and support it at the ratifying convention.

George Green pointed out that such a fluid would be unstable.

At Bolsena, the most likely candidate for the new Volsinii, there is a ruin outside the Florence gate that is known locally as the Tempio di Norzia, but as George Dennis pointed out in the 19th century, no evidence other than the existence of the cult of Nortia supports this identification, and the architecture is Roman.

While Henry George pointed to land-owners, John Maynard Keynes saw rentiers ( non-working owners of financial wealth ) as fitting this picture.

At the centre of the painting is positioned the eight pointed star of the Order of the Garter which Lord Burlington received from King George II in 1730.

" Herb Solow pointed out how similar this was to " Zulu " and thought it might act against the plan for racial diversity in the show, so the name Sulu remained with George Takei's character.

The work depicts a revolver pointed at the head of then President George W. Bush.

The antithesis of anti-modern Populism was modernizing Progressivism according to Hofstadter's model, with such leading progressives as Theodore Roosevelt, Robert LaFollette, George Norris and Woodrow Wilson pointed as having been vehement enemies of Populism, though William Jennings Bryan did cooperate with them and accepted the Populist nomination in 1896.

" Stewart also pointed out that in 2002, George W. Bush honored Johnny Cash, whose songs contain violent lyrics.

In one particular incident his sense quick wit and affinity for humour were demonstrated when a heckler pointed to his ample paunch and exclaimed " What are you going to call it, George?

Many people have refused to believe that George Reeves would kill himself and have pointed out that no gunpowder from the gun's discharge was found on the actor's skin, leading them to believe that the weapon would therefore have to have been held several inches away from his head upon firing ; however, forensic professionals say that gunpowder tattooing is left only when the weapon is not in contact with the skin while Reeves ' skull fracture pattern shows that it was a contact wound.

The “ Morning Post ”, a paper which strongly supported the abandoned southern Unionists, pointed out that “ a great Irishman ” had been murdered on the anniversary of King George V ’ s Belfast speech which had marked, as they saw it, the British “ surrender ”.

As the term " neoconservative " became common parlance during the administration of president George W. Bush, Glazer pointed out that it had been " hijacked " and now meant something quite different than it once had.

As Mark Palmer pointed out, “ For starters, George Hackenschmidt and Frank Gotch were major sports superstars of the early 20th century.

As Mark Palmer pointed out, “ For starters, George Hackenschmidt and Frank Gotch were major sports superstars of the early 20th century.

* During the 2000 United States presidential election, candidate Ralph Nader pointed out that George W. Bush and Al Gore were not very different in their corporate policies, and called them Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

These organisations continue, in their different ways, the adversarial politics of LM magazine and the RCP, leading some commentators, such as George Monbiot have pointed to apparent entryist tactics used by former RCP members designed to influence mainstream public opinion.

He pointed to evidence of this development in the works of an array of artists active in New York at the time, including Lucas Samaras, John Chamberlain, Jasper Johns, Dan Flavin, George Earl Ortman and Lee Bontecou.

Critics pointed out that he had made Lord Chief Justice George Coke, the chief character of his book The Struggle for Sovereignty in England ( 1950 ), into a liberal long before liberalism had came into existence.

" The reviewer also pointed out problems in his usage of George Gray's arrangement of the bird classes and states: " In thus following the phantasies of Kaup, and the mad vagaries of Bonaparte ( in his latest writings ), we cannot believe that Dr. Jerdon has acted well for his own reputation, nor wisely as regards the class of readers for whom his volumes are specially intended.

Stung by the article's assertion that Southern was responsible for turning the formerly " serious script " into an " original irreverent satirical film ", George pointed out that he and Kubrick had been working together on the script for ten months, whereas Southern was only " briefly employed ( November 16 to December 28, 1962 ) to do some additional writing.

In addition to the poetry of Spenser and Lodge noted above, critics have pointed to links with the contemporary dramas of Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Robert Greene and George Peele.

He pointed to George Sorel and Francesco Severio Merlino as revising Marx to fit the times and emboldening it.