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... Jeff Gordon left the track with a 312-point lead on second-place Tony Stewart ... As a result, Gordon (four wins) dropped to second behind Johnson ... Rank Driver Pre-Chase 1 Jimmie Johnson 2 ... Jeff Gordon 3 ... Tony Stewart 4 ... Carl Edwards 5 ... Kurt Busch 6 ... Denny Hamlin 7 ... Martin Truex, Jr ...
... In the Railway Series, Gordon's buffers were square and pointy ... Awdry said in a letter to a young fan that the reason for Gordon's unusual buffer shape was simply that he had broken his round buffers and square ones were all that was ... inaccuracy in the last picture in The Three Railway Engines shows Gordon with round buffers.) In the Railway Series story "Gordon Goes Foreign" from The Eight Famous Engines, we find out that Gordon used to ...
... in the Crimean War (1854–55), where he first met General Charles George Gordon ... Gordon later described him as "Italian subject, aged 49 (in 1881) ... to the headquarters of the Royal Artillery." In 1876, while serving for General Gordon, he explored the course of the upper Nile (Bahr El Jebel) and mapped its descent from Lake Albert ...
... Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker CH, PC (7 April 1907 – 2 December 1980) was a British Labour Party politician ...
... Some notable examples of the latter style can be seen in Nelson Street, Gordon ... Gordon is also the location of a notable house designed by the architect Alexander Stewart Jolly ... Federation bungalow, Nelson Street Tulkiyan, designed by B.J.Waterhouse Nebraska Gordon Public School Anglican Church of St John the Evangelist Ravenswood School ...
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“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem—and in my esteem age is not estimable.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Last night, party at Lansdowne-House. Tonight, party at Lady Charlotte Greville’s—deplorable waste of time, and something of temper. Nothing imparted—nothing acquired—talking without ideas—if any thing like thought in my mind, it was not on the subjects on which we were gabbling. Heigho!—and in this way half London pass what is called life.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,
But like a hawk encumber’d with his hood,—
Explaining Metaphysics to the nation—
I wish he would explain his Explanation.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labour in your fields and serve in your houses—that man your navy, and recruit your army—that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Dreading that climax of all human ills
The inflammation of his weekly bills.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow;
Such as creation’s dawn beheld, thou rollest now.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.”
—Henry George (1839–1897)
“Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown.... At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.”
—Ruth Gordon (1896–1985)