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    been named USS DeLong after George W. De Long. In addition to the De Long Islands, the De Long Mountains in northwest Alaska, and the De Long Fjord in Greenland...
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    depth charge thrower was added to many ships. DeLong, named for Lieutenant Commander George W. DeLong (1844–1881), an Arctic explorer, was launched 29...
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    Shackleton, Richard E. Byrd, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Falcon Scott, George W. DeLong, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and Roald Amundsen. Pemmican has traditionally...
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    named after the USS Jeannette, and commanded by Lieutenant Commander George W. De Long. In August 1901, during the Russian polar expedition of 1900–1902...
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  • Delong is either a surname of French origin or a masculine given name of Chinese origin. DeLong and De Long are variants of the surname of French origin...
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    sank under surging ice in the summer of 1881. Her crew, commanded by George W. DeLong, took to the ice dragging three small boats. When open water was found...
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    (December 1, 2018). "The memoir I wish George H.W. Bush had written". The Washington Post. "frontline: the long road to war: assassination". PBS. Retrieved...
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    governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, he flew warplanes in the Texas Air National Guard in his twenties...
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    officially called the U.S. Arctic Expedition, was an attempt led by George W. De Long to reach the North Pole by pioneering a route from the Pacific Ocean...
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    George W. Bush's tenure as the 43rd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2001, and ended on January 20, 2009...
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    George H. W. Bush's tenure as the 41st president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1989, and ended on January 20, 1993....
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    volunteered for the Jeanette expedition under Lieutenant Commander George W. De Long and left San Francisco aboard USS Jeannette on August 7, 1879, to...
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    USS DeLong (Torpedo Boat No. 28/TB-28/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 14) was a United States Navy Blakely class torpedo boat and minesweeper. DeLong (TB-28) was...
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    On November 30, 2018, George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died from vascular Parkinson's syndrome at his home in Houston, Texas...
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  • DeLong (also called De Long or Delong) is an unincorporated community in Orange Township, Knox County, Illinois, United States. DeLong is located on County...
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  • 13 – Friedrich Miescher (died 1895), Swiss biochemist. August 22 – George W. DeLong (died 1881), American Arctic explorer. September 11 – Henry Alleyne...
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    Muntadhar al-Zaidi removed his shoes and threw them at United States president George W. Bush during a joint press conference with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki...
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    USS Jeannette was a naval exploration vessel which, commanded by George W. De Long, undertook the Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881 to the Arctic. After...
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    optimism in the theory in the 1850s and 1860s. Support faded when George W. De Long sailed USS Jeannette into the Bering Strait in the hope of finding...
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    Henrietta Island (category De Long Islands)
    porphyritic diorite. American explorer and US Navy lieutenant commander George W. De Long set out in 1879 aboard the Jeannette, hoping to reach Wrangel Island...
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    The one led by engineer George W. Melville was rescued by native Tungus huntsmen. Of the group led by Captain George W. De Long, only two of the men survived;...
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  • Miles Davis Clarence Day Zachariah Deas Cornelius H. DeLamater George W. De Long Rafael Díez de la Cortina y Olaeta, linguist Sidney Dillon E.L. Doctorow...
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  • July 27 – Hewett Watson (born 1804), English biologist. October 31 – George W. DeLong (born 1844), American Arctic explorer. November 30 – Jean-Alfred Gautier...
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  • The following is a timeline of the presidency of George H. W. Bush, from January 1, 1992 to January 20, 1993. January 1 – President Bush answers questions...
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  • Greenland National Park. The fjord is named after arctic explorer George W. De Long. De Long Fjord opens to the northwest east of Nansen Land and to the west...
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  • George W. De Long: Commander of the expedition and officer in the United States Navy. Charles W. Chipp: Lieutenant in the United States Navy and De Long's...
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    40. Mahoney, The Story of George Romney, pp. 52–54. George W. Romney: Shirtsleeve Public Servant (PDF). Provo, Utah: George W. Romney Institute of Public...
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    various sources have called him both George Washington Vanderbilt II and III. Biltmore recognizes him as George W. Vanderbilt III, because he had two uncles...
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    was born in Sendai during the Allied occupation of Japan. His father, George W. Casey Sr., was a West Point graduate who rose to the rank of major general...
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    domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration was the domestic policy of the United States from 2001 to 2009 while George W. Bush was president....
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