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George, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, rising in a lake on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, E Canada. It flows N through Indian Lake (125 sq mi/324 sq km) to Ungava Bay (an arm of Hudson Strait). George 1. Sir Edward (Alan John), known as Eddie. born 1938, British economist, governor of the Bank of England (1993--2003) 2. Henry. 1839--97, US economist: advocated a single tax on land values, esp in Progress and Poverty (1879) 3. Saint. died ?303 ad, Christian martyr, the patron saint of England; the hero of a legend in which he slew a dragon. Feast day: April 23 4. Stefan (Anton) . 1868--1933, German poet and aesthete. Influenced by the French Symbolists, esp Mallarm? and later by Nietzsche, he sought for an idealized purity of form in his verse. He refused Nazi honours and went into exile in 1933 George Georges d’Amboise (1460–1510), conjectural eponym of “Let George do it,” made premier and cardinal by Louis XII, who found him capable of any task. [Fr. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 392] See : Versatility
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