• George Rippey Stewart Jr. (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University...
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    George R. Stewart Peak is a 7,389-foot-elevation (2,252 meter) summit in Nevada County, California, United States. George R. Stewart Peak is located one-half...
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  • Earth Abides (category Novels by George Rippey Stewart)
    Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly...
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  • prosodist to deny that feet play a part in English verse. Though George R. Stewart used foot terminology to describe verse, his scansion ignored feet...
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  • George Stewart may refer to: George William Stewart (1793–1841), Postmaster General of Ceylon G. F. Stewart (George Francis Stewart, 1851–1928), Irish...
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    This article called up memories of a novel called Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart. (...) and one day while sitting at my typewriter, (...) I wrote—just...
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  • unknown to those who explained its origin. In his Names on the Globe, George R. Stewart theorizes that Hellespont originally meant something like 'narrow...
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    Donner Party (redirect from George Donner)
    occupants relatively well, but the Murphy cabin, according to author George R. Stewart, "passed the limits of description and almost of imagination". Levinah...
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    infamous Hatfield–McCoy feud in the late 19th century. Toponymist George R. Stewart writes about the origin of the name "Tug Fork". In 1756 a small army...
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    on several late-17th-century French maps of the area. According to George R. Stewart, it comes from the name of an Iroquois town called Ongniaahra, meaning...
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  • Rogers used the name has led to many theories, which include these: George R. Stewart argued in a 1944 American Speech article that the name came from an...
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  • places named after people, such as Villeray. According to toponymist George R. Stewart, the use of the suffix -ville for settlements in the United States...
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    19, pp. 210–223, PDF Archived 2019-08-05 at the Wayback Machine George R. Stewart (1967). Names on the Land. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston. Wikimedia...
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    left behind filled with water to become the bayou. Alternatively, George R. Stewart asserts that it is "probably a French rendering of Deutsch, the name...
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    word "microhistory" dates back to 1959, when the American historian George R. Stewart published Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack on...
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  • R.A. "Pop" Miller Richard Crenna as Noxon (uncredited) Charles Bronson as Neff (uncredited) The film was based on the novel Fire by George R. Stewart...
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    water. One description of the river's naming was recorded in 1945 by George R. Stewart, but is now considered to be a folk tale: ...remembering how they...
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    U.S. Route 6 (redirect from G.A.R. Highway)
    not serve a major transcontinental corridor, unlike other highways. George R. Stewart, author of U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America...
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  • 2024). "Earth Abides: MGM+ Greenlights Limited Series Adaptation Of George R. Stewart Sci-Fi Novel". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved March 26, 2024. White...
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  • 1940 Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon, 1942 George R. Stewart, Earth Abides, 1949 George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 Ira Levin, This Perfect...
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    because of the strong winds of the Columbia Gorge.[citation needed] George R. Stewart argues in a 1944 article in American Speech that the name came from...
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    Pennsylvania's 12th district Bianca Smith, professional baseball coach George R. Stewart, author Kathleen Tessaro, novelist Mike Tomczak, former Pittsburgh...
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  • apocalyptic drama series Earth Abides, based on the 1949 sci-fi novel by George R. Stewart.. He is also adapting Sandy Greenberg’s acclaimed memoir, Hello Darkness...
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    parachute unit is prominently mentioned in the 1948 novel Fire, by George R. Stewart. Jumping into an uncontrolled California forest fire, they fight it...
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    Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012. George R. Stewart. Names on the Land. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston (1967)[ISBN missing]...
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  • Frederick Stewart (disambiguation), multiple people Gary Stewart (disambiguation), multiple people Gay Stewart, American physicist George Stewart (disambiguation)...
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    releasing his debut album that year. Stewart's early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, and R&B. His third album, 1971's Every Picture...
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    on many French maps of the 17th and 18th centuries. According to George R. Stewart, the French received the name from their Indian guides, who called...
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    Can't Take It with You (1938). Stewart went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in George Cukor romantic comedy The Philadelphia...
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  • He worked on the novel while attending an English class taught by George R. Stewart, himself a well published author. Lott received a citation from the...
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