EVEREST, SIR GEORGE

ĕvˈərəst, 1790–1866, British surveyor, b. Breconshire, Wales. He worked on the trigonometrical survey of India from 1806 to 1843. He became superintendent of the survey in 1823 and surveyor general of India in 1830; Mt. Everest is named for him. He was knighted in 1861.

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books on: Everest Sir George  - 89 results

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First over Everest! The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition, 1933
Book by P. F. M. Fellowes, L. V. Stewart Blacker, John Buchan; Robert M. McBride, 1934
Subjects: Aeronautics--Flights, Everest, Mount (China And Nepal)
...Descendant of its First Chief Discovers the Way to Fly over Everest--Approved by the Royal Geographical Society--Permission...and eager to maintain them; to keep them worthy of Sir George Everest, who had done so much to enhance them, worthy of Colonel...
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My Father, Lloyd George
Book by Earl Lloyd George; Crown Publishers, 1961
Subjects: Lloyd George, David--1863-1945
...say, in the case of a young would-be mountaineer born to someone like Sir Edmund Hillary? He spreads out the map of the world, and father says, There you are--Everest. Thats the highest mountain in the world. I scaled it. These--the...
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Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic
Book by Michael Smith; Birlinn, 2004
Subjects: Explorers--Scotland--Biography
...233, 236 Evans, E.R.G.R. `Teddy 84, 203 Everest Committee (see also Himalayan Committee) 143, 144 Everest, Sir George 142 Everest, Mount 141, 142-44,153, 228, 229-231...
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Morgenthau, the New Deal, and Silver: A Story of Pressure Politics
Book by Allan Seymour Everest; Kings Crown Press, 1950
Subjects: Currency Question, Currency Question--United States, Morgenthau, Henry--1891-1967, Silver
...disapproves Mexican silver, 92 Kisch, Sir Cecil, urges silver for India, 155 Klein...hemisphere defense, 99 - 100 LeBlanc, George L., attempts to divert Sen. Thomas, 59 - 60 Leith-Ross, Sir Frederick, studies Chinese situation...
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A Saintsbury Miscellany: Selections from His Essays and Scrap Books
Book by A. Blyth Webster, Sir Herbert Grierson, Sir George Saintsbury; Oxford University Press, 1947
Subjects: English Literature
...Kers edition of the Essays have not been entirely fortunate with their methods or their manners. The text of Dryden, that Everest of editors, awaits its conquest. And to have been reverently associated in another way with Dryden, with Johnson, and with
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Francis Younghusband: Founder of the World Congress of Faiths
Journal article by Marcus Braybrooke; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 41, 2004
Subjects: Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir, Sir--Biography
...once alive, none would have appreciated Sir Francis Younghusbands book more than William...in most theologians and thinkers.... Sir Francis was refreshingly free from this...into a happy brotherhood of man.... Sir Francis was sure that a new Renaissance...
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Computational Geology 29 Quantitative Literacy: Spreadsheets, Range Charts and Triangular Plots
Journal article by H. L. Vacher; Journal of Geoscience Education, Vol. 53, 2005
Subjects: Charts, Geology, Literacy, Spreadsheets
...slices and the isostatic sphere," last issue): Sir George Everest (1790-1866), Archdeacon J. H. Pratt (1800-1867) and Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892). Add to them, C. E...
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Creativity
Journal article by Cyndi Giorgis, Nancy J. Johnson; The Reading Teacher, Vol. 54, 2001
...photobiographies chronicle the efforts of George Mallory and Sir Edmund Hillary--men who aspired to climb Mount Everest. Mystery on Everest: A Photobiography of George Mallory by Audrey Salkeld discusses the...
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"Wordsworth's Most Wonderful as Well as Admirable Poem" (1979)
Journal article by John E. Jordan; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 37, 2006
Subjects: Peter Bell (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Wordsworth, William--Works
...have, of course, the Everest analogy; and if Peter...1807, and William assured Sir George that whatever the Public...Of later critics, George McLean Harper was of opinion...he had probably offered Sir George Beaumont the opportunity...
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Michaelis' Schulz, Schulz's Beethoven, and the Construction of Biography
Journal article by William Meredith; The Beethoven Journal, Vol. 23, 2008
...his famous book on the symphonies, Sir George Grove mistranslated Lindwurm as snake...he saw a movie about the life of George Gershwin. At their urging, he also...sonata had been rebaptized the "Mount Everest" of all piano sonatas. In the strip...
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magazine articles on: Everest Sir George  - 37 results

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The Quiet Achiever: One Day He Was an Unassuming Beekeeper from New Zealand, the Next He Was the Most Famous Man in the World. Sir Edmund Hillary Tells Rebecca Stephens about How He and Tenzing Came to Stand on the Summit of Everest, How Doing So Changed His Life and Why He Doesn't Regard It as His Most Important Achievement
Magazine article by Rebecca Stephens; Geographical, Vol. 75, May 2003
Subjects: Anniversaries--Achievements and awards, Hillary, Edmumd--Achievements and awards, Hillary, Edmumd--Personalities, Mount Everest--Discovery, exploration, etc., Mount Everest--Environmental aspects, Mount Everest--International aspects
...Man in the World. Sir Edmund Hillary Tells...Stand on the Summit of Everest, How Doing So Changed...which considers Mount Everest its own, but universally. If Everest is the one mountain...he says. It was George Lowe, Hillarys life...
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Everest 1953-2003: The Latest News on the Celebration of the First Ascent
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 75, June 2003
Subjects: Band, George--Works, Everest: 50 Years on Top of the World (Book), Everest: Summit of Achievement (Book), Hunt, John--Works, Mount Everest Expedition, 1953--Rites and ceremonies, Mountaineers--Personalities, Royal Geographical Society--Works, The First Ascent of Everest (Book)
...from the original film The Conquest of Everest. Members of the 1953 team--George Band, George Lowe, Michael Ward, Mike Westmacott...there will be talks by other British Everest veterans Sir Christian Bonington, Stephen Venables...
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A Brief History of Everest: Paul Deegan Chronicles Some of the Significant Events in Our Interaction with the World's Highest Mountain
Magazine article by Paul Deegan; Geographical, Vol. 75, May 2003
Subjects: Mount Everest--Discovery, exploration, etc., Mount Everest--History, Mountaineers--Chronology, Mountaineers--History
A brief history of Everest: Paul Deegan chronicles some of the significant events...as the worlds highest mountain. 1856 Peak XV is named Everest, in honour of Sir George Everest, the surveyor general of India from 1830 to 1843. 1905...
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Mount Everest and the Savage Yeti
Magazine article by Daniel Loxton; Skeptic, Vol. 10, 2003
Subjects: Folklore, Monsters, Mount Everest, Mountain climbing
...legend lingers in the shadow of Everest, almost forgotten among the fanfare...knew anything about it! Naming Everest As the Surveyor General of India, Englishman Sir George Everest spent decades creating amazing...
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The First Ascent: Although Hillary and Tenzing Were the Triumphant Two Who First Reached Everest's Summit, Their Success Was Born of Leader Colonel John Hunt's Meticulous Planning and the Generous Team Spirit of Their Fellow Climbers. Images from the Royal Geographical Society's Everest Archive Tell the Story of the Party's Historic Climb
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 75, May 2003
Subjects: Hillary, Edmund--Achievements and awards, Images, Photographic, Mount Everest--Discovery, exploration, etc., Mountaineers--Achievements and awards, Norgay, Tenzing--Achievements and awards, Photographs
...Geographical Societys Everest Archive Tell the Story...gripping our stomachs, George Lowe led us through a...little snowy saddle" SIR EDMUND HILLARY "We struggled...were on top of mount Everest and that the whole world...and the coronation too George Band, Edmund Hillary...
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newspaper articles on: Everest Sir George  - 108 results

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Everest, the Ultimate 'Ticked Box' Experience; LIFE-CHANGING: Kirsty Parson and Husband Adam on Kala Pattar - at 18,188ft Just a Foothill of Mighty Everest First Conquered by Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary, Right
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 9, 2008
Everest, the Ultimate Ticked...a Foothill of Mighty Everest First Conquered by Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary, Right...reaching the summit of Everest. Having paid myrespects...looked for the remains of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine...
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THE MAN WHO BEAT EVEREST; SIR EDMUND HILLARY (1919-2008) Tributes as Hero Dies Aged 88
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 11, 2008
THE MAN WHO BEAT EVEREST; SIR EDMUND HILLARY (1919...first man to conquer Mount Everest, has died aged 88. The...fellow expedition member George Lowe with the now legendary...started preparing for Everest. In 1951, he made his...
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Edmund Hillary, Conqueror of Everest and Hero to the World; Adventurer: Sir Edmund Hillary in Auckland in 2003 on the Roof of the World: Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay near the Summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 11, 2008
Subjects: Hillary, Edmund
...World; Adventurer: Sir Edmund Hillary in Auckland...near the Summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953. Byline...man to conquer Mount Everest whohas died aged 88...memory. The ascent of Everest on 29 May 1953 wasrelayed...the words: "Well, George, weve knocked thebastard...
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Everest's Conqueror Edmund Hillary Dies at 88; Pioneer: Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Men: Hillary and Tenzing on Their Everest Expedition
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 11, 2008
...Dies at 88; Pioneer: Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain...and Tenzing on Their Everest Expedition. Byline...first man to scale Mount Everest, died lastnight in his...later. All this and Everest too was the memorable...fellowexpedition member George Lowe with the words...
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Natasha, Everest and Her Tragically Prophetic Last Role
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 17, 2010
Subjects: Mallory, George
Natasha, Everest and Her Tragically Prophetic...the news of the death of Everest climber George Mallory. The terse message...Charterhouse school, saw Everest as the last great adventure...conquered until 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing...
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encyclopedia articles on: Everest Sir George  - 2 results

 
 
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Everest, Sir George
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EVEREST, SIR GEORGE ev r st, 1790 1866, British surveyor, b. Breconshire, Wales. He...superintendent of the survey in 1823 and surveyor general of India in 1830; Mt. Everest is named for him. He was knighted in 1861...
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Everest, Mount
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...named in English for the surveyor Sir George Everest . It was first climbed on May 28...reached the summit. The body of George H. L. Mallory , who died in an...Ortner, Life and Death on Mt. Everest (1999...


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