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	The VC
		The Brigade recommendation for the VC stated he had captured 10 guns, not one, a fact to which he referred in a letter to the Commanding Officer of the 19th Regiment.
		King George V presented Lyall with his Victoria Cross at an investiture on 15 March 1919 at Buckingham Palace.
		His VC and war medals are on long-term loan from the family to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Museum of Technology.
	www.102ndbattalioncef.ca /warpages/vc.htm (1175 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Warrant Officer 'Muscles' Strong
		Strong was the physical training instructor of the 1st Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, when it was trapped, outnumbered 20 to 1, by the Chinese in April 1951.
		Strong was part of a column of some 350 men and, although exhausted himself, continually moved up and down the line, urging them to keep going and not to lose heart.
		Strong's service in Korea, according to his citation, was "of the highest order; he worked unceasingly, behaved courageously and displayed an example of loyalty, discipline and devotion to duty".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/26/db2601.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/02/26/ixportal.html (910 words)

	George Strong (VC) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was 19 years old, and a private in the Coldstream Guards, British Army during the Crimean War, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
		In September 1855, at Sebastopol, in the Crimea, when on duty, Private Strong picked up a live shell which had fallen into the trench, and threw it over the parapet.
		He was well aware of the extreme danger involved, and his action saved many lives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Strong_(VC) (208 words)

	GEORGE WILSON VC
		Wilson survived his VC action and the War, but succumbed to tuberculosis in Craigleigh Hospital, Edinburgh, on the 22nd April 1926 aged only 39.
		George Wilson was so incensed by the terrible massacre that he virtually went berserk and together with a volunteer from the KRRC set out to destroy the German machine-gun position.
		George Wilson's action must rank as one of the most effective and courageous in the early months of the First World War.
	www2.prestel.co.uk /stewart/bbwilson.htm (706 words)

	George Stubbs - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about George Stubbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A Lion Attacking a Horse, painted by English painter George Stubbs in 1770.
		Stubbs has been considered as nothing more than a horse painter, and was often ignored by art critics, but the power of this painting is seen in the anguished face of the horse, and the terror created by the lion's attack.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /George+Stubbs (337 words)

	GRAHAM THOMSON LYALL VC
		Whilst leading his platoon against Bourlon Wood he rendered invaluable support to the leading company which was held up by an enemy strong point, which Lyall captured by a flanking movement, together with thirteen prisoners, one field gun and four machine-guns.
		Graham Lyall was invested with his Victoria Cross by King George V at Buckingham Palace on the 15th March 1919.
		Colonel Graham Lyall VC is buried in the Halfaya Sollum Cemetery, located on the coastal road from Mersa Matruh, near the Libyan Border.
	www.victoriacross.org.uk /bblyall.htm (625 words)

	IGN: George Lopez
		George Lopez is a guy who has made lemonade from lemons at every turn.
		Since he became plant manager at an L.A. airplane parts factory, he has handled a complicated and tumultuous job, a strong but challenging marriage, two rebellious children and a mother who can't keep track of her own lies about his childhood -- all with his sense of humor intact.
		We don't have a goof for George Lopez.
	tv.ign.com /objects/828/828043.html (253 words)

	Nathan Callahan / Boy George Bush
		Although, the Viet Cong suffered heavy casualties, they scored a surprising moral victory after 19 VC soldiers fought their way onto the grounds of the American embassy in Saigon.
		The Air Guard unit he joined was known locally as “Air Canada,” because it offered all the benefits of a trip north of the border and none of the political and climatic problems associated with it.
		Boy George Bush used his daddy’s pull to play war in Air Canada, yet the GOP says that you can’t count on Kerry.
	www.nathancallahan.com /boygeorge.html (1061 words)

	Virginia Centrist: Imus on George Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I didn't even know what that word meant until George Allen used it to explain that calling someone Jewish is an grave insult.
		George Allen's being Jewish or not Jewish shouldn't even be an issue, but his blunders have made it into one.
		In Puritanical America, George W. Bush and Clinton were arguably accused of worse, while campaigning for prez.
	www.virginiacentrist.com /2006/09/imus-on-george-allen.html (245 words)

	TigerHawk
		The VC cadres were wiped out and the NVA took almost 90% casualties in most cities including Nha Trang.
		That is, have a social system not on the verge of massive internal collapse, with sufficiently strong support from the masses not to need to draft people unwillingly into the Red Army, where their materiel was sold from under them by widespread corruption in the support and officer corps.
		VC make it a base of operations and sometimes have the gall to even stand in the open at the edge of it and fire at my uncle and his guys.
	tigerhawk.blogspot.com /2006/10/george-w-bushs-admission-and-tet.html (14237 words)

	Victoria Cross Society Latest News
		Of VC interest is the Memorial to Royal Artillery recipients which is in the Great Hall and honours artillerymen from Sir Collingwood Dickson (1854) to Brigadier John Campbell in 1941.
		It is the VC group to Flight Sergeant Norman Jackson who gained the award for attempting to extinguish a fire in the engine of his Lancaster at 22,000 feet during a raid over Germany.
		William Goate VC was a Norfolk man, who joined the 9th Lancers and received his Cross for attempting to recover the body of an officer while surrounded by enemy cavalry during fighting at Lucknow on 6th March 1858.
	www.victoriacrosssociety.com /news.htm (7065 words)

	Poetry Bay - Online Poetry Magazine
		George Wallace, Suffolk County's First Poet Laureate, is an award winning poet and journalist from New York who has performed his work across America and in the great cities of Europe.
		For two decades she has been writing and presenting poetry with a strong sense of image and situation, poignant, witty, ironic, and richly phrased.
		She is a former co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets and editor for VC Press.
	www.poetrybay.com /editorial.htm (1642 words)

	British Empire: Armed Forces: Units: British Infantry: The Coldstream Guards
		Private George Strong VC In September 1855, only days before the end of the year long siege of Sevastopol, Private Strong, aged 19, was on duty in a trench when a live shell fell in.
		He was awarded the VC on 24th Feb 1857.
		George Strong was born in Odcombe, Yeovil in Somerset on 30th Nov 1835.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyunits/britishinfantry/coldstreamstrong.htm (118 words)

	A Death in the Family - executives discuss ending magazine publication Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management - ...
		VC money shied away from a second round, and bigger publishers were in no mood to invest in a start-up in a niche that had not previously been successful.
		Even though subscriptions for the John F. Kennedy Jr.-founded George were trending upwards, and Lalli says renewal rates were strong, George's advertising outlook was dire.
		Lalli had known there was a chance that George's parent, Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, might decide to close the magazine, but the ultimate decision took him by surprise.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3065/is_8_30/ai_76561170 (926 words)

	www.EstatesinVirginia.com - Virginia Counties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Prince George County is located approximately 25 miles south east of Richmond, situated between the James and Appomattox rivers.
		Prince George is serviced by the major east coast byways of I-95, I-85, I-295, as well as Route 460 and Route 10.
		Prince George County was formed in 1702 from a section of Charles City County, and was comprised of several large plantations, many of which still remain today.
	www.estatesinvirginia.com /vc_princeGeorge.php (394 words)

	George C. Lodge — HBS Working Knowledge
		Whether the subject is Third-World development or national competitiveness, George Lodge, Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, has exercised his talent for seeing the big picture in a prolific outpouring of books, cases, and articles.
		George Lodge is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School.
		In 1958, Eisenhower named him assistant secretary of labor for international affairs, a position to which he was reappointed several years later by President Kennedy.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /item/2349.html (1010 words)

	Digital History
		All persons living in this area are considered to be VC or VC sympathizers by the District Chief.
		The civilian inhabitants in the area began withdrawing to the southwest as soon as the operation began and within the first hour and a half all visible civilians had cleared the area of operations.
		Inclosure 2 is a translation of an actual VC propaganda message targeted at the ARVN soldier and urging him to shoot Americans.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /learning_history/vietnam/henderson.cfm (657 words)

	ShinyCapstar-Home of the Coldstream Guards
		George Strong was born in Yeovil, Somerset, in about 1833.
		He was presented with his medal by Queen Victoria at the first VC Investiture in Hyde Park on 26th June, 1857.
		As well as the VC, he also received the Crimea medal with one clasp, and the Turkish Crimea Medal.
	www.shinycapstar.com /strong.htm (198 words)

	The Blog \| Justin Frank: George W. Bush - He's no Idi Amin \| The Huffington Post
		By this reasoning, there's no connection between Idi Amin and George Bush but there clearly is. Idi Amin was responsible for the deaths of 300,000 of his own people and GWB is responsible for the death of at least that many Iraqis and thousands of Americans.
		George Bush intends to spend his exile on a 98000 + acre "ranch" which he recently purchased in Paraguay.
		Idi Amin gave himself the titles, "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular."...
	www.huffingtonpost.com /justin-frank/george-w-bush-hes-no-_b_32960.html (1632 words)

	RealMoney.com: Google's Backers Stand Pat on Price Cut
		Meanwhile, the Nasdaq actually staged a late afternoon rally as investors shrugged off the latest installment of the Google IPO drama and sent some of their hard-hit tech favorites higher.
		Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, two of the heavy-hitting venture capital firms that invested in Google in its younger days, are selling none of their shares in the search engine company now that the company has cut the price range for its offering, Google indicated in its revised IPO filing Wednesday.
		One element is the VC firms' desire to, as LeFurgy puts it, "do the right thing" -- that is, make it easier for other selling stockholders, such as Google employees, to sell all the shares they seek.
	www.thestreet.com /p/tech/georgemannes/10178922.html (1251 words)

	Famous Gordon Pipers at A. Todd, Piper
		Piper George Findlater, VC of the Gordon Highlander became known as The Hero of Dargai for his involvment in that siege on 20
		Piper George Findlater, VC of the Gordon Highlander became known as The Hero of Dargai for his involvement in that siege on 20 October 1897.
		Piper George Findlater, VC died at Forglen on the 4th of March 1942 at the age of 70 years.
	www.atoddpiper.com /Pipers/Findlater.html (1487 words)

	WILLIAM METCALF VC MM
		When Canada and Great Britain began to mobilize for war in August 1914, William Metcalf, an American citizen from Waite, Walsh County, Maine, crossed the Canadian border to enlist in the Canadian Army, without telling his mother.
		William Metcalf was invested with his Victoria Cross by King George V at Sandringham on the 26th January 1919.
		William Metcalf survived the war and following the armistice and cessation of hostilities on 11 November 1918, he returned to his native Maine and worked as a motor mechanic.
	www.victoriacross.org.uk /bbmetcal.htm (733 words)

	George Fox 6 Supporters Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The NUS have done a presentation on the George Fox 6 case and what it means to students in the UK.
		More than one court member attributed their strong rejection as being in part attributable to the VC's error of judgement over the George Fox 6 case.
		The George Fox 6 Supporters Group is not representing or representative of the George Fox Six.
	www.free-webspace.biz /GeorgeFox (2664 words)

	William "Billy" Barker
		William George Barker was born on November 3, 1894 in Dauphin, Manitoba.
		As a boy he wasn't interested in school work and spent most of his free time riding his horse and hunting birds with a shotgun.
		Barker led a strong attack on the pontoon bridges in the Montello sector, he wrote:
	www.constable.ca /barker.htm (8562 words)

	William Grant Still, African American Composer, Arranger & Oboist
		He studied at Oberlin with Maurice P. Kessler (violin), George Whitfield Andrews (composition), Friedrich J. Lehman (counterpoint and theory), and Charlotte Andrews Stevens, and played in the student string quartet.
		Further study, made possible by an inheritance from his father, was undertaken in 1917 and 1919 at Oberlin (where he first heard an orchestra).
		AC:Louis Kaufman, George Berres, violins; Alexander Neiman, viola; Terry King, cello.
	chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com /Still.html (7949 words)

	sandiego.indymedia.org \| CIA role in 911 and other Incidents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		ddo clair george a strong proponent of decision.
		Yet vc were able to infiltrate soldiers, weapons, ammunition, demolitions, and supplies of all types throughout vn and attacked every major city and town completely unanticipated by cia.
		Combest said he and most of his colleagues do not share that "benighted view." Combest is also warning the clinton adm that its fiscal 1997 intel budget request will be "dead on arrival" if it is as lacking in vision as was the 1996 request.
	sandiego.indymedia.org /en/2002/02/524.shtml (19386 words)

	c o l d c i t y (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Panda is a very easy to use strong encryption system that uses the ARCFOUR algorithm, a widely respected and simple method of providing strong file encryption.
		In George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy, Jedi Knights were expected to make their own light sabers.
		As we face a real threat of a ban on the distribution of strong cryptography, in the United States and possibly world-wide, we should emulate the Jedi masters by learning how to build strong cryptography programs all by ourselves.
	www.coldcity.com /code_panda.asp.html (405 words)

	Burnt Orange Report - The Vietnam Test
		Public support for the war was generally perceived to be strong until a series of battles referred to as the "Tet Offensive" in early _____:
		Of course, to Republicans, this is just yet another reason why there is strong support for the war, the troops, and Donald Rumsfeld.
		People who dare speak their minds in opposition are labeled as traitors and unpatriotic, and are accused of undermining the efforts of those who serve.
	www.burntorangereport.com /archives/001514.html (930 words)

	Using Big Business to Fight Poverty — HBS Working Knowledge
		Yes, if such an alliance is well planned and formed soon, according to HBS professor emeritus George C. Lodge.
		recent months, world leaders—including President George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—have proclaimed their determination to reduce global poverty.
		Such promises, however, have been made before, and past efforts to follow through on them have been disappointing.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /item/3050.html (2749 words)

	Q&A: Akamai Chairman and CEO George Conrades
		Since then, Chairman and CEO George Conrades has walked the fine line between cost-cutting and investing in research and development.
		Now, after two years of highs and two years of lows, Conrades feels that the company is entering a period of steady growth.
		From there we can make a strong case for ROI by stressing cost reduction and their need for less infrastructure.
	www.internetnews.com /xSP/article.php/2218281 (1170 words)

	List of English Victoria Cross recipients - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George William Burdett Clare - 1917; Bourlon Wood, France
		Frederick George Dancox - 1917; Boesinghe Sector, Belgium
		George Vincent Fosbery - 1863; Crag Picquet, India
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_Victoria_Cross_recipients (1996 words)

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