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George and V
* George V Land
He was made a " Knight of the Indian Empire " by Queen Victoria, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by Edward VII ( 1902 ), and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India by George V ( 1912 ).
* George V of Hanover ( 1819 – 1878 )
These notes featured an image of King George V ( Bank of England notes did not begin to display an image of the monarch until 1960 ).
George V had substantial improvements done during the 1910s and 1920s, including formal gardens to the south of the castle.
Of this grand plan only the Edward VII galleries in the centre of the North Front were ever constructed, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J. J. Burnet, and opened by King George V and Queen Mary in 1914.
While still a graduate student in 1934, Parkinson was commissioned into the Territorial Army as a member of the 22nd London Regiment ( The Queen's ), was promoted Lieutenant later the same year, and commanded an infantry company at the jubilee of King George V in 1935.
After a one year assignment in France, Eisenhower served as executive officer to General George V. Mosely, Assistant Secretary of War, from 1929 to February 1933.
The King George V Dock was a late addition in 1921.
The King George V Dock, London | King George V Dock had not yet been built.
The PLA constructed the last of the docks, the King George V, in 1921, as well as greatly expanding the Tilbury docks.
George V of the United Kingdom | King George V.
In 1914, due to the growing anti-German sentiments that swept across Europe during the first few months of World War I, Prince Louis of Battenberg was removed from his position as First Sea Lord in the Admiralty and publicly humiliated by King George V and Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.
He successfully brought Wishart back to port in Malta and then attended the funeral of King George V in January 1936.
Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.
* 1721 1 June – George I sent a letter to Philip V promising " to make use of the first favourable Opportunity to regulate this Article ( the Demand touching the Restitution of Gibraltar ), with the Consent of my Parliament ".
Despite these precedents, George V was still very reluctant to accept Scullin's recommendation of Sir Isaac Isaacs, and asked him to consider Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood.
In 1930, King George V and the Australian Prime Minister James Scullin discussed the appointment of a new governor-general to replace Lord Stonehaven, whose term was coming to an end.

George and wreath
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.
* The coat of arms on the flag of the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Foundation was cradled in a wreath of shamrock.
It is undecorated save for a carved wreath on each end and the words " The Glorious Dead ", chosen by Lloyd George.
In 1824 Peale painted the Patriæ Pater, in which a rectangle supporting an oval wreath surrounds the eye-catching image of George Washington.
In response, Councillor George Adam, from the Nelson and District branch of the Royal British Legion, said: " I'm annoyed-they have no right to remove that wreath.
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand in silence after laying a wreath in the north reflecting pool at Ground Zero, in commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center in New York City.
The first type represented the eagle with spread wings, one crown, with an image of St. George on the breast and with a wreath and a thunderbolt in its claws.
The reverse of the badge has the same design except that the arms of the cross are enamelled red, the blue lozenges bear the letters I. V. P. F., representing the words Justis Vt Palma Fiorebit (" Distinguished for Justice and Glory ") and the center gold medallion is of Saint George slaying the Dragon within a green enamelled laurel wreath.

George and crowns
At the time the crowns of Great Britain and Hannover were united under George II.
A dramatic scene from Rustaveli's poem where the seasoned king Rostevan crowns his daughter Tinatin is an allegory to George III's co-option of Tamar.
alt = Late-middle-aged George and Mary in crowns and ermine capes stand on a dais
Some crowns also appear to have a semi-circular platform for additional ornaments attached to the lower front edge of the crown ( on two of the crowns of Menelik II these platforms each support a small gold statuette of St. George fighting the dragon ).
At the time, the crowns of England and Hannover were united under George II., meaning that movement back and forth was easy.
However, crowns were usually struck in a new monarch's coronation year, true of each monarch since George IV up until the present monarch in 1953, with the single exception of George V.
Petrucci created the St. George & the Dragon design used on British gold sovereigns and crowns first seen during the Great Recoinage of 1816.
From 1818 until the accession of Queen Victoria, and the separation of the British and Hanoverian crowns in 1837, the Duchess of Cambridge lived in Hanover, where the Duke served as viceroy on behalf of his brothers, George IV and William IV.
A new crown, more akin to traditional British crowns, was manufactured for Queen Mary, consort of King George V, who was crowned in 1911.
The crown was made by Garrard & Co in London, the long term manufacturer of British royal crowns, and modelled partially on the design of the Crown of Queen Mary, the crown of Mary of Teck, wife of King George V. It consists of four half-arches, in contrast to the eight half-arches of Queen Mary's crown.
All other English / British monarchs were crowned with other crowns: Mary II and Anne with small diamond crowns of their own, George I, George II, George III and William IV with George I's new state crown, King George IV with a large new diamond crown, and Victoria and Edward VII with Victoria's 1838 Imperial State Crown.
* George VI of the United Kingdom 1937 – 1952: 50 % silver half crowns were issued until 1946 when the metal was changed to cupro-nickel.
The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec were agreed upon between Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, King's Lieutenant, Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, and General George Townshend on behalf the French and British crowns during the Seven Years ' War.

George and struck
* 2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final ( planned ) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.
* 1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana.
* October 20 – The Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, LA to Luling, LA, killing 78 passengers and crew.
On his appointment in 1810, Governor George Elliot was struck by the " state of irritation ... almost of anarchy ".
George appears greatly struck by the portrait, unbeknownst to Robert ( who credits the unfavorable reaction to that evening's storm ).
Two early examples are the " vapourization " of " unpersons " in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (" He did not exist ; he never existed "); and the reference to the Egyptian practice in the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments, in which the Pharaoh Seti orders the name of Moses be struck from every building and never mentioned by anyone.
In fact, George III, from the moment of his accession, never set foot in the palace ; he associated the state apartments with a humiliating scene when his grandfather had once struck him following an innocent remark.
Though the Supreme Court struck down the Line-Item Veto Act in 1998, President George W. Bush asked the Congress to enact legislation that would return the line-item veto power to the Executive Authority.
During the Grunwick dispute — where workers struck over pay, working conditions and the owner George Ward's refusal to recognise their trade union — there was a split in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet between the conciliatory approach of Jim Prior, the Shadow Employment Secretary, and Keith Joseph.
But George Pullman, who tried to negotiate for land in Lake Station for his proposed railcar company, never struck a deal and set up shop on the south side of Chicago instead.
On October 20, 1976, one of these ferries, the George Prince, was struck by a tanker and capsized as it crossed the Mississippi River.
At that point, tragedy struck: George I was assassinated in Thessaloniki by an anarchist, Alexandros Schinas, on 18 March 1913, and Constantine succeeded to the throne.
George W Bush and Abdullah of Saudi Arabia | King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia holding hands struck a nerve in the USA | US.
When Columbia Records producer George Avakian gave jazz arranger Gil Evans a copy of the Spanish World Library LP, Miles Davis and Evans were " struck by the beauty of pieces such as the ' Saeta ', recorded in Seville, and a panpiper's tune (' Alborada de Vigo ') from Galicia, and worked them into the 1960 album, Sketches of Spain.
Radisson and his companions, for instance, “ struck agreeable relations with Natives inland by giving European goods as gifts ”.< ref > George Colpitts.
Throughout 1936, coins of all denominations continued to be struck using the designs of George V, pending preparation of the new monarch's coinage.
Her tactlessness, which had amused George II, struck the French Court as simple bad manners.
By the start of the reign of king George IV ( 1820 – 1830 ) the coin was being struck primarily as a Maundy coin, although some coins were produced for use in the colonies.
George I's five guinea coins were only struck in 1716, 1717, 1720, and 1726, and they bear his abbreviated Hanoverian titles in addition to the usual British, French, and Irish title.
George I's two guinea coins were only struck in 1717, 1720, and 1726, and they bear his abbreviated Hanoverian titles in addition to the usual British, French, and Irish title.
George I's guinea coins were struck in all years between 1714 and 1727, with the elephant and castle sometimes appearing in 1721, 1722, and 1726.
At the beginning of the reign of King George I ( 1714 – 1727 ) the price of silver had risen considerably, resulting in much British silver coinage being melted down and few silver coins ' being struck.
George I's half guinea coins were struck between 1715 and 1727 except 1716, with the elephant and castle sometimes appearing in 1721.

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