Other influential conservationists of the Progressive Era included George Bird Grinnell ( a prominent sportsmen who founded the Boone and Crockett Club ), the Izaak Walton League and John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club in 1892.

George Lucas was born in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore ( née Bomberger ) and George Walton Lucas, Sr. ( 1913 – 1991 ), who owned a stationery store.

Lithobolia, or the Stone-Throwing Devil, is a pamphlet that records poltergeist activity that allegedly took place in the tavern of George and Alice Walton in 1682.

The performers included: Laura Benanti, Matt Cavenaugh, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Jenn Colella, Jason Danieley, Alexander Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Nathan Gunn, George Hearn, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, John McMartin, Donna Murphy, Karen Olivo, Laura Osnes, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Bobby Steggert, Elaine Stritch, Jim Walton, Chip Zien, the 2009 Broadway revival cast of West Side Story and a ballet performed by Blaine Hoven and Maria Riccetto set to Stephen Sondheim's score of Warren Beatty's Reds.

Tex Avery was born to George Walton Avery ( b. June 8, 1867-d. January 14, 1935 ) and the former Mary Augusta " Jessie " Bean ( 1886 – 1931 ) in Taylor, Texas.

It was named for George Walton, Secretary of the Florida territory from 1821 to 1826.

It is named for George Walton, one of the three men from Georgia who signed the United States Declaration of Independence.

George Walton, the Virginia-born statesman who signed the Declaration of Independence, resided in what would become Columbia County, as did William Few and Abraham Baldwin.

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).

George Walton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was the Chief Justice.

Hinesville is also known to have been the home of three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Lyman Hall, George Walton and Button Gwinnett.

A year later Hall and St. John's Parish resident Button Gwinnett ( along with George Walton of Augusta ) signed the Declaration of Independence.

* George Walton Academy

Former mayors of Caledonia include George Gerhart, Don Myers, and Walton O. Willis.

On a Sunday night at about 10 o ' clock, the tavern home of George Walton, a planter, was showered with stones thrown " by an invisible hand.

Tackle Harry Ostapowicz led both the offensive and defensive lines for the WPIAL Champion Dragons. Judge Reggie B. Walton, United States District Judge for the District of Columbia appointed in 2001, after being nominated to the position by President George W. Bush, is a Donora native.

Notwithstanding the fact that others were utilizing the land, Hammond sent the families of George A. Adams, Frederick I. Jones, Parley R. Butt and Charles E. Walton from Bluff to establish a new settlement at what is now Monticello.

Other Anglo-Irish scientists include George Johnstone Stoney, Thomas Romney Robinson, James MacCullagh, Edward Sabine, Thomas Andrews, William Parsons, George Salmon, George FitzGerald, and in the 20th century, John Joly and Ernest Walton.

* Nafziger, George F. and Mark W. Walton, Islam at War: a history, Greenwood Publishing Company, 2003.

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.

His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott.

Other celebrities such as Tyler Perry, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg have become successful entrepreneurs through starting their own film production companies and running their own movie studios.

At one stage he was considered by George Lucas as a possible director for Return of the Jedi but was passed.

George Lucas and Walter Murch incorporated an Eliza-like dialogue interface in their screenplay for the feature film THX-1138 in 1969.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

The film introduced George Lucas to him, who became his lifelong friend as well as production assistant in his next film The Rain People in 1969.

Upon his return home, Coppola and George Lucas searched for a mansion in Marin to house the studio.

George Lucas commented on the film after its five-hour-long preview, telling Coppola: " You have two films.

The next year, along with producer George Lucas, he was able to indulge himself by making Captain EO ( 1985 ), a 12-minute space fantasy for Disney theme parks starring pop superstar Michael Jackson.

Coppola co-produced George Lucas ’ s first film, THX 1138, in 1971.

George Lucas said that he based the Han Solo character in Star Wars on Coppola.

The Hidden Fortress was also the inspiration behind George Lucas ' Star Wars ( 1977 ).

An unfortunate episode in fanzine history occurred in 1981 when Star Wars director George Lucas threatened to sue fanzine publishers who distributed zines featuring the Star Wars characters in sexually explicit stories or art.

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

In 1991, The George Lucas Educational Foundation was founded as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools.

On September 19, 2006, USC announced that George Lucas had donated $ 175 – 180 million to his alma mater to expand the film school.

Previous donations led to the already existing George Lucas Instructional Building and Marcia Lucas Post-Production building.

George Stevens, Jr., served as director from the institute's founding until 1980.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

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.

Oilman Clint Murchison Jr had been trying to get an NFL expansion team in Dallas ( also Lamar Hunt – who ended up with an AFL franchise ), but George Preston Marshall owner of the Washington Redskins had a monopoly in the south.

* 1945 – George Smith Patton Jr., American military commander ( b. 1885 )

* 1859 – George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer and inventor ( d. 1896 )

* George Clinton, Jr. ( 1771 – 1809 ), U. S. Representative from New York, nephew of Vice President George Clinton

* 1995 — George E. Brown, Jr. ( Democrat Representative )

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

* 1832 – George Shiras Jr., U. S. Supreme Court justice ( d. 1924 )

Contemporaneously, conservative Republicans in office and in the media such as William F. Buckley, Jr. and George Will felt Dan Quayle should be ousted in favor of Kemp.

He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.

" On June 26, 1860, Flora gave birth to a son, Philip St. George Cooke Stuart, but his father changed the name to James Ewell Brown Stuart, Jr. (" Jimmie "), in late 1861 out of disgust with his father-in-law.

The band consists of Hart, Steve Kimock on guitar and pedal steel guitar, George Porter, Jr. on bass, Kyle Hollingsworth on keyboards, Sikiru Adepoju on talking drum, Walfredo Reyes, Jr. on drums, and Jen Durkin on vocals.

* 1862 – Henry George, Jr., American politician ( d. 1916 )

His cousin, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., is currently a judge in the same court, appointed by George W. Bush.

George Richard Turberville, Jr. ( 1742 – 1792 ) and Martha Corbin ( 1742 ).

Lardner was a grand uncle to 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner George Lardner, Jr., a journalist at The Washington Post since 1963.

The new weapon was the result of a 1977 development by George Chapline, Jr. of Lawrence Livermore's " O-Group ".

While George Romero denies he hired Duane Jones simply because he was black, reviewer Mark Deming notes that " the grim fate of Duane Jones, the sole heroic figure and only African-American, had added resonance with the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X fresh in the minds of most Americans ".

Harding took on a personal secretary in the Senate, George B. Christian, Jr., a former neighbor, who protected him from political patrons and intrusive inquiries, and served until the future president's death.

* George J. Graham, Jr., political theorist