Who is George Gershwin?
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George Gershwin is an American composer best known for taking his classical musical roots and stepping into the jazz idiom.  He is know for many songs which we now consider musical "standards," most of which he composed  with his brother Ira, who wrote the lyrics.  \n\nHe's become part of the American musical framework with shows like "Porgy and Bess," "Strike Up the Band," and "Crazy for You."  Some of their more memorable songs might be "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," and "Our Love is Here to STay," among many others.  You might best recognize his music by listening to United Airlines commercials...  "Rhapsody in Blue."
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Your spelling is horrible it is George Sylvester Counts\n\nThis is a good link http://www.kdp.org/about/laureates/laureates/georgecounts.php\n\nStarted real talk about what makes progressive education progressive in the 1930's.  Not sure if he was all that successful.
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Hello....google has tonnes of information about this guy. Try this.
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[ Stan Kenton and his Progressive Jazz ] \nborn. Feb. 19, 1912, Wichita, KS, died. August 25, 1979, Los Angeles, CA, USA \n Stanley Newcomb Kenton
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do u mean who? george washington
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The best is Rhapsody In Blue (Gershwin)! There are "simplified" version available if you're not up to the original.
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Do you mean George Stephenson? It helps if you spell the name correctly.\n\nThere's plenty of information on the Web, including this:\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0846668.html
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Adolph Rupp\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Rupp
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yes, William Taft\n\nhttp://www.who2.com/williamtaft.html
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http://www.georgegalloway.com
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At least Gershwin could see clearly!
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Herschel Burke Gilbert, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated composer who wrote the memorable music for "The Rifleman" and a string of other TV shows, has died. He was 85. \n\nGilbert, who later produced classical chamber music recordings on his own labels, died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after having a stroke in March. \n\nA onetime viola player and arranger for the Harry James Orchestra, Gilbert began his Hollywood career in 1944 when he was hired as an arranger and orchestrator for Columbia Pictures. Working at Columbia and other studies, Gilbert composed, arranged, or orchestrated the music scores for 62 movies. \n\nIn the early 1950s, he earned three successive Academy Award nominations: "The Thief" (best score, 1952), "The Moon is Blue" (best song, with lyrics by Silvia Fine, 1953), and "Carmen Jones" (best scoring of a musical picture, 1954). \n\nA pioneer of background music scoring for television, Gilbert's theme and music for "The Rifleman" led to his being hired as executive music director for Four Star Television. From 1959 to 1964, he composed music for numerous Four Star series, including "The Dick Powell Theater" (for which he received two Emmy nominations), "The Detectives, Starring Robert Taylor," "The Rogues," "The DuPont Show," "Burke's Law," and "The Loretta Young Show." \n\nFrom 1965 to 1966, Gilbert was executive music director for the CBS Television Network, serving as composer, conductor, and music supervisor for 300 CBS TV show episodes. His score for "Damon's Road," a two-hour episode of "Rawhide," received a Western Heritage Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame. \n\nA former president of Screen Composers of America, Gilbert was active in helping film composers become members of ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) and receive film royalties. And while at Four Star, he successfully developed a policy that eliminated "ghost writing without proper credit" for composers. \n\n"How can you hear the theme music today, much less remember it, when at the end of every show the theme is virtually shut down while an announcer shouts at you to stay tuned in for whatever is coming next, or the star of the following show is berating you with the same message?" he asked. \n\nBefore the practice began four years earlier, Gilbert said, TV fans would write in by the thousands for theme titles of shows and buy recordings of them. After the promos began, he said, viewers were hardly aware that a show even had a theme music. \n\nNetworks seem to have forgotten how valuable a popular theme can be to a TV series, he said, citing the famous "da-de-da-dum" chorus of "Dragnet," which as parodied by comics and other shows. \n\n"Just imagine," he said, "how many free plugs 'Dragnet' has received in this way." \n\nAfter retiring from television in 1966, Gilbert formed his own record company, Laurel Records, which produces chamber music of primarily contemporary American composers in addition to some jazz. Gilbert, joined in recent years by his son John, produced more than 60 LPs and 28 CDs featuring the music of Ernest Bloch, Henri Lazarof, Paul Hindemith, David Baker, Robert Muczynski and others. \n\nBorn in Milwaukee in 1918, Gilbert began studying violin at age 9. At 15, he formed his own dance orchestra. He attended Milwaukee State Teachers College and in 1939 was accepted at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he received a graduate school fellowship in conducting and studied composition. \n\nGilbert was active in numerous community organizations, including the West Hollywood and Hollywood Rotary Clubs, where he ran the District 5280 Music Scholarship Awards; and the Hollywood Community Mental Health Foundation. \n\nHe also was a past president and head garden
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James A. Garfield.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield
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Bernard Rosenberg / cultural historian / post-modernist\n-----------------\nHenry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth century journalist, satirist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche". He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century. At one point in his career he was America's favorite pundit and literary critic at the same time.
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George Graham Vest\nA Tribute to Dogs\n\nGeorge Graham Vest (1830-1904) served as U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1879 to 1903 and became one of the leading orators and debaters of his time. This delightful speech is from an earlier period in his life when he practiced law in a small Missouri town. It was given in court while representing a man who sued another for the killing of his dog. During the trial, Vest ignored the testimony, but when his turn came to present a summation to the jury, he made the following speech and won the case.\n\n\n\nGentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us, may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. \n\nThe one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. He will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings, and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. \n\nIf fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death. \n\nGeorge Graham Vest - c. 1855
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George Burns, born Nathan Birnbaum (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), was an American comedian and actor, arguably the greatest straight man of 20th-century American comedy.
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Euclid.\nGreek geometer who wrote the Elements , the world's most definitive text on geometry. The book synthesized earlier knowledge about geometry, and was used for centuries in western Europe as a geometry textbook. The text began with definitions, postulates ("Euclid's postulates "), and common opinions, then proceeded to obtain results by rigorous geometric proof. Euclid also proved what is generally known as Euclid's second theorem:  the number of primes  is infinite.  The beautiful proof Euclid gave of this theorem is still a gem and is generally acknowledged to be one of the "classic" proofs of all times in terms of its conciseness and clarity. In the Elements , Euclid used the method of exhaustion and reductio ad absurdum. He also discussed the so-called Euclidean algorithm  for finding the greatest common divisor  of two numbers, and is credited with the well-known proof of the Pythagorean theorem. \nNeither the year nor place of his birth have been established, nor the circumstances of his death, although he is known to have lived and worked in Alexandria for much of his life. In addition, no bust which can be verified to be his likeness is known (Tietze 1965, p. 8).