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    Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO (25 December 1881 – 4 November 1944) was a senior British Army officer with service in both the First...
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  • Laddie John Dill (born Long Beach, CA, 1943) is an American artist. Dill calls his work "light sentences". Dill received a BFA degree from Chouinard Art...
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    his father's business. James Dill's son, John Dill, was transferred 393 acres of the 650 acre plantation in 1784. John Dill later constructed the stone...
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    the English trader Captain John Dill Ross. Ross died in 1888 and is memorialized in a biography written by his son John Dill Ross Jr. William Napier owned...
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    John Dill Robertson (March 8, 1871 – August 20, 1931) was an American medical professional and politician. He served as Chicago's city health commissioner...
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    Brooke's old friend Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington, D.C. "I owe him [Dill] an unbounded debt of gratitude...
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  • Dill is a surname, and may refer to: Augustus Granville Dill (1882–1956), American sociologist, educator and musician Bob Dill (1920–1991), American professional...
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    passed over a number of much older and more senior officers, among them John Dill, Archibald Wavell and Alan Brooke, who would later become an outspoken...
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    Pickled cucumber (redirect from Dill pickle)
    with a generous addition of garlic and dill to natural salt brine. In New York terminology, a "full-sour" kosher dill is fully fermented, while a "half-sour"...
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    States Public Health Service Building in Washington, where Field Marshal John Dill represented the British half. The CCS was constituted from the British...
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    British Expeditionary Force (BEF) where it was commanded by General Sir John Dill, and then Lieutenant General Michael Barker from April 1940. After the...
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  • Marie Curie Eleanor Roosevelt Donny Schmit Ted DeVita Demetrio Stratos John Dill (British Field Marshal) Robert McFall (asbestos worker from Pittsburgh...
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    Diller was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994. Diller was born on February 2, 1942 in San Francisco, California, to Michael Diller and...
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    Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (category Knights of the Order of St John)
    and after heavy lobbying by Churchill, Ironside was chosen over Sir John Dill, then the General Officer Commanding, Aldershot Command. As CIGS, Ironside...
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    Field Marshal Sir John Dill was buried at the cemetery when he died in Washington D.C. during World War II. The equestrian statue on Dill's grave is one of...
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  • John Anthony Megna (November 9, 1952 – September 5, 1995) was an American actor, director and teacher. His best-known role is that of Dill in the film...
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    Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Melville Dill OBE (23 December 1876 – 7 March 1945) was a prominent Bermudian lawyer, politician, and soldier. Dill was born in Devonshire...
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    National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It was the home of General John Dill, a prominent citizen and original settler of Fort Gaines. He came to the...
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    boarding school in England, the Roman Catholic Oratory School, founded by John Henry Newman. From there, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, but left around...
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  • Diana Douglas (redirect from Diana Dill)
    Diana Love Webster (née Dill; formerly Douglas and Darrid; January 22, 1923 – July 3, 2015), known professionally as Diana Douglas, was a Bermudian-American...
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  • Nicholas Dill (born 1963) is a Bermudian Anglican bishop. Dill, one of three siblings, was born in 1963 to Nicholas Bayard Dill Jr. and his wife, Bitten...
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    already submitted such a proposal to General Sir John Dill, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Dill, aware of Churchill's intentions, approved Clarke's...
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    candidate William Hale Thompson, who had served as mayor from 1915 to 1923. John Dill Robertson (the president West Parks Board, as well as former health commissioner...
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    Hugh Oakeley (1906). The Army in 1906: a Policy and a Vindication. London: John Murray. p. 481. Roberts, Andrew (2010). Masters and Commanders: How Four...
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    Frank Gehry and two artist friends of Hopper's, Chuck Arnoldi and Laddie John Dill, in 1981. In 1987, he commissioned an industrial-style main residence...
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    General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 –...
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    in Algiers. In December 1944, following the death of Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Wilson was relieved as Supreme Commander, promoted to field marshal on...
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    of the 1936 Arab uprising. During the Second World War, Clarke joined John Dill's staff, where he proposed and helped to implement an idea for raids into...
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    Government in Palestine" and announced the appointment of Lieutenant-General John Dill as supreme military commander. By the end of September 20,000 British...
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    Churchill, strongly supported by the chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir John Dill, and the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, had hopes of reviving the Salonika...
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