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George and realised
This was however blocked by King George III who argued that emancipating Roman Catholics would breach his Coronation Oath, and was not realised until 1829.
He sat only two seats away from George and realised that George had been murdered.
The necessity of an efficient transport network for County Durham had been realised as far back as 1767 by George Dixon and other coalmine operators.
We are informed by Dr. George Winter, that a person named Holloway, by giving lectures on animal magnetism at five guineas for each pupil, realised a considerable fortune ; and the house of Mr. Loutherbergs, another magnetic professor, at Hammersmith, about the year 1790, was daily for many months crowded with patients.
It was also promised by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger that he would bring about Catholic Emancipation, though after the Acts of Union were successfully voted through, King George III saw that this pledge was never realised, and as such Catholics were not granted the rights that had been promised prior to the Acts.
The company was founded in 1971 when three Thames executives, Lloyd Shirley, George Taylor and Brian Tesler realised there was a market for a new type of television drama.
) On learning of Chauncey's presence off Fort George, Yeo and Prevost realised that the American squadron and Dearborn's army would be probably be occupied there for several days.
The Mayor of Masham ( Mr Nesbit ) realised the potential and implemented this idea to restrict access to Masham market square on Market days, offenders who left any obstructions where the double yellow lines were painted were fined 4d of which George Bamber received 10 %, an idea soon adopted by the surrounding villages, The shrewd George Bamber ensured that his 10 % received from the Masham fines was also applicable to other villages.
I showed the sketches to George bit by bit as they were finished, and it was then that I realised that he possessed in common with very few composers a wonderful power of criticism of other men's work and insight into their ideas and motives.
George Stephenson had discovered deposits of coal at Clay Cross and realised that burning lime would provide a use for the slack which otherwise would go to waste.
Both George Harrison and Ringo Starr temporarily ' left ' the group at various points during 1968 – 69 and all four band members had begun working on solo projects by 1970 as they all realised the likelihood the band would not regroup.

George and value
Here he was influenced by the American thinker Henry George ( see Georgism ) and German thinker Karl Marx ; the land value tax in Taiwan is a legacy thereof.
Max Weber's article has been cited as a definitive refutation of the dependence of the economic theory of value on the laws of psychophysics by Lionel Robbins, George Stigler, and Friedrich Hayek, though the broader issue of the relation between economics and psychology has come back into the academic debate with the development of " behavioral economics.
George Chorpenning immediately realized the value of this more direct route, and shifted his existing mail and passenger line along with their stations from the " Northern Route " along the Humboldt River.
Even so, the ratio of flux he reported for the two stars is consistent with the modern value, so George Rieke gives Nichols credit for the first detection of a star other than our own in the infrared.
The team's popularity had begun to sag due to fan discontent with owner George Shinn's personnel moves ; he had reportedly traded Mourning and several other stars out of an unwillingness to pay them market value.
Britannia also featured on the high value Great Britain definitive postage stamps issued during the reign of George V ( known as ' seahorses ') and is depicted on the £ 10 stamp first issued in 1993.
The Second Armored Division under the command of Major General George S. Patton used the Coffee County terrain along the river to demonstrate the value, speed, and maneuverability of armored forces in a large-scale combat operation.
" Roger Ebert gave the film 2½ out of 4 stars, but questioned the value about making Jung the subject of this film, stating: " That's the thing about George.
Darwin's long-time critic St. George Mivart thought that the intermediate stages could have no selective value, and in the 6th edition of the Origin, Darwin made a concession to the possibility of acquired traits.
Here he was influenced by the American thinker Henry George ( see Georgism ); the land value tax in Taiwan is a legacy thereof.
In 2006, the Johnson Family Historical Trust discovered the value of its original deed to Whitesboro property from the George H. White Realty Company.
During the legal proceedings between the date of his death and the Supreme Court decision, the value of his estate decreased substantially ; this was attributed by a case attorney to Colonel George Bomford's use of the estate for his own purposes.
Although the efficiency of a land value tax has been established knowledge since Adam Smith, it was perhaps most famously promoted by Henry George.
In his best selling work ‘’ Progress and Poverty ’’ ( 1879 ), George argued that the value of land was created by the community, and therefore its rent belonged to the community.
Henry George ( September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897 ) was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the " single tax " on land.
The early interest in observing birds for their aesthetic rather than utilitarian ( mainly food ) value is traced to the late-18th century in the works of Gilbert White, Thomas Bewick, George Montagu and John Clare.
began an increasing promotion of and identification with " Deep Ecology ", a philosophy put forward by Arne Næss, Bill Devall, and George Sessions, which holds that all forms of life on Earth have equal value in and of themselves, without regard for their utility to human beings.
Historically, one of the earliest recorded references to the mathematical impossibility of assigning a value to a / 0 is contained in George Berkeley's criticism of infinitesimal calculus in The Analyst (" ghosts of departed quantities ").
Observing that a tax on the unearned rent of land would not distort economic activities, Henry George proposed that publicly collected land rents ( land value taxation ) should be the primary ( or only ) source of public revenue ; though he also advocated public ownership, taxation and regulation of natural monopolies and monopolies of scale that cannot be eliminated by deregulation.
At the time the British pound was strong against the euro, which had dropped in value to be equal to the US dollar, and the then-Governor of the Bank of England Eddie George said that it would be " an act of faith " for Britain to join the Eurozone.
They consisted of an engraved 5-cent red brown stamp depicting Benjamin Franklin ( the first postmaster of the U. S .), and a 10-cent value in black with George Washington.
During the late 19th century American economist, Henry George, started a global movement for tax reform whose aim was the abolition of all forms of taxation other than the Single Tax on land value.
George Akerlof in The Market for Lemons notices that, in such a market, the average value of the commodity tends to go down, even for those of perfectly good quality.
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George and education
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.
Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".
At the same time George maintained his correspondence with Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, discussing such questions as the evangelization of monasteries, the use of monastic property for evangelical purposes, and especially the foundation of lower schools for the people and of higher schools for the education of talented young men for the service of church and state.
" While he did not graduate from George Washington, his time there subsequently became important because, as George Malko puts it, " many of his researches and published conclusions have been supported by his claims to be not only a graduate engineer, but ' a member of the first United States course in formal education in what is called today nuclear physics.
George Tenet, then-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), later described intelligence reports of his meeting with Al Qaeda as “ frustratingly vague .” He, however, told the FIA intelligence officials in very clear terms that he had nothing to do with the Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization and he was only working on humanitarian issues like food, health and education.
* George Archibald ( Congressional, political, United Nations, and education reporter )
Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.
* December 9 – Bishop's University is founded as Bishop's College by Bishop George Jehoshaphat Mountain in Lennoxville, Quebec, for the education of members of the Church of England.
Sousa started his music education by playing the violin as a pupil of John Esputa and George Felix Benkert ( born 1831 ) for harmony and musical composition at the age of six.
In 1926, the education program was re-organized as Sir George Williams College, named after George Williams, founder of the YMCA.
In 1934, Sir George Williams College offered the first undergraduate credit course in adult education in Canada.
The College became Sir George Williams University ( SGWU ) in 1948, when it received a university charter from the provincial government, though it remained the education arm of the Montreal YMCA.
In 1917, solar astronomer George Ellery Hale convinced Millikan to begin spending several months each year at the Throop College of Technology, a small academic institution in Pasadena, California that Hale wished to transform into a major center for scientific research and education.
In 2003, he revealed he had voted for Labour and admired what they had done for health and education but distanced himself from the Labour government over Tony Blair ’ s support for George W. Bush and Britain ’ s involvement in the Iraq War, which he strongly opposed, although he continued to believe Blair was a man of conscience.
Under President George W. Bush, the Department primarily focused on elementary and secondary education, expanding its reach through the No Child Left Behind Act.
Abolition of the organization was not pursued under the George W. Bush administration, which made reform of federal education a key priority of the President's first term.
Under its first director, George Noble Carman, Lewis Institute was the first institution to offer adult education programs, making it the first junior college in the United States.
* Oral History interview transcript with George Gamow a lengthy interview, a few months before Gamow died ; includes reminiscences about his family, education, career, and writing.
George Foster Peabody ( 1852 – 1938 ), namesake of the awards, was a highly successful investment banker who devoted much of his fortune to education and social enterprise.
George Wallis ( 1811 – 1891 ), the first Keeper of Fine Art Collection, passionately promoted the idea of wide art education through the museum collections.
* George Turnbull ( 1698 – 1748 ), theologian, philosopher and writer on education
Starkweather Elementary School was named after George Anson Starkweather of Plymouth, which was converted to an adult education center.

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