George Washington was born at his father’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County‚ Virginia‚ on February 22‚ 1732. His father‚ Augustine Washington‚ was a leading planter in the area and also served as a justice of the county court. Augustine’s first wife‚ Janet Butler‚ died in 1729‚ leaving him with two sons‚ Lawrence and Augustine‚ Jr.‚ and a daughter‚ Jane. The elder Augustine then married George’s mother‚ Mary Ball‚ in 1731. George was the eldest of Augustine Washington’s and Mary
Premium George Washington
Roselyn Fleming Mr. Rowlee English 11 29 Feb 2012 George Strait When the name George Strait comes to mind what more could be said? This American country music icon has won a tremendous amount of awards and is the first artist in history to have entered the Top Ten Billboard Chart for over thirty consecutive years. He is known for his “twang” and his 2008 single of the year‚ “I saw God today”. George Strait has been around since 1952 and has earned the title “The King of Country”. He who serves
Premium Country music
During his short life‚ Georges-Pierre Seurat was an innovator in an age of innovators in the field of art. This french painter was a leader in a movement called neo-impressionist in the late 19th century. Unlike the broad brushstrokes of the impressionist‚ Seurat developed a technique called pointillism or divisionism. In this method‚ he used small dots or strokes of contrasting color to create the subtle changes contained within the painting. Seurat was an art scientist in that he spent much of
Premium Pointillism Color theory Primary color
George Strait is a Grammy Award winning American country singer who has been singing country music for over thirty years. Strait is referred to as the King of Country Music who stayed closest to traditional country. Drawing from both the honkey tonk and western swing traditions‚ Strait didn’t refashion the genres; instead he revitalized them for an incipient decade. In the process‚ he became one of country music’s most popular contemporary singers. George Harvey Strait was born in Poteet‚ Texas
Premium Country music
George Lucas Slide 1: No other 20th century filmmaker has had a greater impact on the film industry than George Lucas. His zeal for innovation forged a new relationship between entertainment and technology that revolutionized the art of motion pictures. His uncanny business acumen turned film licensing and merchandising into a multibillion-dollar industry. And his "Star Wars" trilogy ushered in the era of the Hollywood mega-blockbuster. Slide 2: In 1967‚ Lucas re-enrolled as a USC graduate student
Premium Francis Ford Coppola Film
Georges Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who led the nation to victory in the First World War. A leader of the Radical Party‚ he played a central role in politics after 1870. Clemenceau served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909‚ and again from 1917 to 1920. He was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Nicknamed "Le Tigre" (The Tiger)‚ he took a very harsh
Premium Treaty of Versailles World War I
May 30th‚ 2008 Per . 5 Painting George Seurat Georges-Pierre Seurat was born on December 2‚ 1859‚ in Paris‚ France. He was the youngest of three children in the family. His father was a wealthy lawyer‚ Chrysostome-Antoine Seurat‚ and his mother named Ernestine Faivre‚ she came from a prosperous Parisian family. During the early 1870s‚ Seurat was taking private drawing lessons from painter and uncle Paul Haumonte. His uncle took him on regular art expeditions. From 1875‚ he studied drawing
Premium Impressionism Modern art Vincent van Gogh
George Westinghouse was an American entrepreneur and engineer. He was responsible for the introduction and development of altering current for light and power. Westinghouse invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. He was one of Thomas Edison’s main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system. This man founded 60 companies‚ eventually receiving over 100 patents for his work with the desire to turn ideas into enterprises. George Westinghouse
Premium Alternating current Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla
Georges Braque Georges Braque (May 13‚ 1882 August 31‚ 1963) was a French painter and sculptor who‚ with Pablo Picasso‚ developed cubism and became one of the major figures of twentieth-century art. Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine‚ France. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator as his father and grandfather were‚ but he also studied painting in the evenings at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre from about 1897 to 1899.Braque’s paintings of 19081913
Premium Cubism Collage Pablo Picasso
George Whitefield George Whitefield was a Methodist preacher during the First Great Awakening. He was born in Gloucester‚ England on December 16‚ 1714 and was buried in Newburyport‚ Massachusetts on September 30‚ 1770. Whitefield took voyages to the New World seven times‚ voyages whose one-way trips took two months. He called both sides of the Atlantic “home”. He was the most traveled preacher of the gospel up to his time and many feel he was the greatest evangelist of all time. His diligence
Premium Christianity George Whitefield Christian terms