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(Encyclopedia) Byng, George: see Torrington, George Byng, Viscount. ...

(Encyclopedia) George, Fort: see Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. ...

(Encyclopedia) Digby, George: see Bristol, George Digby, 2d earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Monk, George: see Monck, George, 1st duke of Albemarle. ...

(Encyclopedia) Fort George, river, c.480 mi (770 km) long, rising in Lake Nichicun, E Que., Canada. It flows W into James Bay at Fort George, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post. ...

(Encyclopedia) Stephen, George: see Mount Stephen, George Stephen, 1st Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Savile, George: see Halifax, George Savile, 1st marquess of. ...

(Encyclopedia) George, Henry, 1839–97, American economist, founder of the single tax movement, b. Philadelphia. Of a poor family, his formal education was cut short at 14, and in 1857 he emigrated to California; t...

(Encyclopedia) Prince George, city (1991 pop. 69,653), central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers. It is a railroad division point and a distribution center for a lumber reg...

(Encyclopedia) Condo, George, 1957–, American artist, b. Concord, N.H., studied Lowell Univ. Condo emerged as a painter in the early 1980s, and his work has influened a younger generation of figurative painters. H...