In 1683, George II, king of England 1727-1760 and the last British monarch to take part in a battle (Dettingen, 1743), born.
In 1935, a plebiscite in Greece returned George II to the throne.
The battle was fought on 21 September 1745 and saw Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite army win a resounding victory over the Hanoverian forces of King George II.
And was it George II or George III who said, on being told that one of his Generals was mad (but successful) who said he hoped he would bite a few of his other Generals?
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No other princess was so honoured until 1727, when the Hanoverian King George II of England styled his daughter Anne who also became a princess of Orange and lived until 1759 Princess Royal, when she was nineteen years old.
The Succession to the Crown Bill will also remove a requirement for descendants of George II to seek permission to marry from the monarch, dating back to 1772, replacing it with a requirement for the first six people in the succession to seek the sovereign's consent.
Many years in the making, these trends took a decided turn for the worse during the administration of President George Bush II and have grown even more alarming under President Barrack Obama.
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"Arrested Development" had its final broadcast on February 10, 2006 and concerned Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) and his eccentric family comprised of his son George Michael (Michael Cera), his father George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), his mother Lucille (Jessica Walter), his brothers George Oscar Bluth II (Will Arnett), Buster Bluth (Tony Hale) and sister Lindsay Funke (Portia de Rossi), and Lindsay's husband Tobias (David Cross) and their daughter Maeby (Alia Shawkat).
Among them is former Senator George McGovern , whose World War II experience as a bomber pilot is described in The Wild Blue.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a vocal critic of Planktos, has, according to George, threatened to 'intercept' the Weatherbird II if attempts are made to carry out research.
Seidler, now 73, was a college student when he first decided to write about how King George VI overcame his stutter to lead Britain through World War II with inspiring radio addresses.
Magnum Photos was brought to life in the aftermath of World War II by photographers Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour, each of whom was well acquainted with covering a changing world, where borders and allegiances were shifting as players set themselves for what was to become the Cold War.
George Soros says the global financial system faces its worst crisis since World War II.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, French President Jacques Chirac, U.S. President George W. Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin and a host of other VIPs spontaneously rose to their feet to applaud a march-past by proud veterans from all the Allied nations.
In early 2010, as Greece slid further into its debt morass, then-Prime Minister George Papandreou, a socialist, said while the issue of German World War II reparations had not been definitively resolved, Athens would not raise it during talks to tackle the country's debt crisis.
The financier George Soros calls today's credit crunch the worst global financial crisis since World War II.
Only a month ago, such sages as George Soros and Alan Greenspan were shouting from bullhorns that the 2008 global financial mess was the worst since World War II.
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