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  Encyclopedia: George Ellis
George Ellis is the Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.
Ellis was a vocal opponent of apartheid during the National Party reign in the 1970s and 1980s, and it is during this period that Ellis' research has focused on the more philosophical aspects of cosmology, for which he won the Templeton Prize.
George Ellis proposed a model universe that contains a naked singularity as a recycling mechanism, which he claims gives almost as good a description of the real universe as the conventional model.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Ellis   (613 words)

  
 §5. George Ellis; John Hookham Frere; William Gifford; "The Baviad; The Maeviad". II. Political Writers and ...
George Ellis; John Hookham Frere; William Gifford; "The Baviad; The Maeviad".
There was the many-sided, brilliant Canning, then in the heyday of his youth; George Ellis, the amiable antiquary, by this time, a fervent tory and repentant of The Rolliad; and John Hookham Frere, the ideal of a cultivated country gentleman, whose striking literary achievement it was to introduce the satiric Italian epic into English.
The editor was a man of literary mark, William Gifford.
www.bartleby.com /221/0205.html   (505 words)

  
 George Washington [encyclopedia]
George Washington's birthday is celebrated on February 22 using the Gregorian Calendar, but under the Julian Calendar, which was in use throughout Britain and its colonies at the time of this birth, he was born on February 11.
George Washington was plagued thoughout his adult life with bad teeth, losing about 1 tooth a year from the age of 24.
In 1976, President Gerald Ford posthumously appointed George Washington as General of the Armies of the United States, and specified that he would always outrank all officers of the Army, past and present.
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 ELLIS, GEORGE (1753-1815) - Online Information article about ELLIS, GEORGE (1753-1815)
ELLIS, GEORGE (1753-1815) - Online Information article about ELLIS, GEORGE (1753-1815)
For some years before the Anti-Jacobin was started Ellis had been working in the congenial See also:
Ellis was an intimate friend of Sir See also:
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