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George Jacobs Sr. (1609–1692) was an English colonist in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who was accused of witchcraft in 1692 during the Salem witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts. He was convicted and hanged on August 19, 1692.
George Jacobs may refer to: George Jacobs (inventor) (1877–1945), American inventor; George Jacobs, Sr. (died 1692), hanged for witchcraft in Salem witch trials; George Jacobs, Jr., accused of witchcraft in Salem witch trials, but fled; George Jacobs (basketball), American basketball coach; George Jacobs (valet) (1927–2013), memoirist and ...
Colonel George D. Jacobson (6 September 1912 – 18 May 1989) was a United States Army officer who served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Early life [ edit ]
The war memorial abuts the eastern wall of the gardens and is slab-like, measuring 7.25 metres (23.8 ft) in height, 9.25 metres (30.3 ft) in width and is 0.8 metres (2 ft 7 in) in depth. [4] The memorial is English Renaissance in style and resembles a classical basilica façade and is rendered in limestone from Guiting Power, Gloucestershire. [3]
Construction of the memorial began in the spring of 1931, and the memorial was dedicated by President Herbert Hoover on November 11, 1931 (Armistice Day). It was the first war memorial to be erected in West Potomac Park, part of the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, and remains the only local District memorial on the National Mall.
During the Quasi-War with France, he served under Commodore John Barry in the frigate USS United States and was commissioned a lieutenant February 27, 1801. First Barbary War:Jones was serving on USS Constellation in October, 1802 when he was arrested for aiding and abetting the murder of Marine Capt. James McKnight by Navy Lt. Richard H. L. Lawson in a duel on 14 October at Leghorn. [2]
The memorial is dedicated "to the more than one hundred million victims of communism". The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation says the purpose of the memorial is to ensure "that the history of communist tyranny will be taught to future generations." [2] The Memorial was opened by President George W. Bush on June 12, 2007.
George Emmanuel Jacobs (April 19, 1927 – December 28, 2013) was an American memoirist and valet. Jacobs was the valet of the Hollywood agent Swifty Lazar in the 1950s, before being poached from Lazar by the singer and actor Frank Sinatra . [ 1 ]