George Castle (FRS)
George Castle may refer to: Places * George Castle, in India's Madhav National Park * George Castle, aka "John George Bastion", in the Königstein Fortress People * George Castle (physician) (c. 1635–1673), English physician * George Castle (journalist), American sports journalist and author * George Castle (lacrosse) (born 1984), American lacrosse player Fiction * George Castle (''Law & Order: UK)'', a character in the UK TV series ''Law & Order: UK'' See also * St George's Castle (other) * George Castledine George Castledine, FRCN (died 12 October 2018) was a British nursing educator and nursing consultant. George Castledine won a scholarship to Oxford University, later attending Liverpool University. He worked as a staff nurse before relocating to ...

Madhav National Park
Madhav National Park is situated in Shivpuri District of Gwalior division in northwest Madhya Pradesh, India. Two national highways pass through the park, the Agra to Bombay former National Highway 3 and the Jhansi to Shivpuri National Highway 27 (formerly N.H.25). The park was first noticed in 1956, at 167 km2, as Shivpuri National Park. In 1958, it was renamed Madhav National Park after Madho Rao Scindia, the Maharaja of Gwalior belonging to the Scindia dynasty of the Marathas, and was finalized the following year. Sakhya Sagar, a man-made reservoir within the park, has been designated as a Ramsar site since 2022. Geography There are several small ponds in this national park, but the largest body of water is Sankhya Sagar, a reservoir, constructed for Madho Rao Scindia when it was still his hunting grounds. He also had constructed a second smaller reservoir, Madhav Sagar, known as Madhav Lake. A third reservoir was not included in the park. Located in the ecoregion of ...
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Königstein Fortress
Königstein Fortress (german: Festung Königstein), the "Saxony, Saxon Bastille", is a hilltop fortress near Dresden, in Saxon Switzerland, Germany, above the town of Königstein, Saxony, Königstein on the left bank of the River Elbe. It is one of the largest hilltop fortifications in Europe and sits atop the Königstein (hill), table hill of the same name. The rock plateau rises above the Elbe and has over 50 buildings, some over 400 years old, that bear witness to the military and civilian life in the fortress. The rampart run of the fortress is long with walls up to high and steep sandstone faces. In the centre of the site is a deep well, which is the deepest in Saxony and second deepest well in Europe. The fortress, which for centuries was used as a state prison, is still intact and is now one of Saxony's foremost tourism, tourist attractions, with 700,000 visitors per year. Construction and expansion of the fortress By far the oldest written record of a castl ...
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George Castle (physician)
George Castle, (–1673) was an English physician. Life George Castle, only son of John Castle, a doctor of medicine of Oxford of 10 July 1644, by Grisagon his wife, was born in or about 1635. After a good preliminary education at Thame Grammar School, under William Burt (1608–1679), he was admitted a commoner of Balliol College, Oxford, on 8 April 1652, at the age of seventeen, and proceeded BA on 18 October 1654, MA on 29 May 1657. Meanwhile he had gained a probationary fellowship at All Souls in 1655, and accumulating his degrees in physic proceeded MD as a member of that house on 21 June 1665.Goodwin 1887, p. 274. Castle settled in town, where he practised, as his father had done, in the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster. In February 1669 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and, as he himself indicates in the epistle dedicatory prefixed to his ''Chymical Galenist'', had thoughts of presenting himself before the College of Physicians for examinat ...
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George Castle (journalist)
George Castle is an American freelance sports journalist and author, based in Chicago, Illinois. Castle's most frequent assignment has been as the Chicago Cubs beat writer for '' The Times'' of Northwest Indiana. He spent many years as a sportswriter for Chicago's Lerner Newspapers Lerner Newspapers was a chain of weekly newspapers. Founded by Leo Lerner, the chain was a force in community journalism in Chicago from 1926 to 2005, and called itself "the world's largest newspaper group". In its heyday, Lerner published 54 .... He has written several books about the Cubs and general baseball history, including: * ''The Million to One Team'' * ''Where Have All Our Cubs Gone?'' * ''Baseball and The Media: How Fans Lose in Today’s Coverage of the Game'' * ''Entangled in Ivy''. * ''Jackie Robinson West: The Triumph and Tragedy of America's Favorite Little League Team.'' * ''Baseball's Game Changers: Icons, Record Breakers, Scandals, Sensational Series, and MoreBaseball's ...
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George Castle (lacrosse)
George Castle (born October 8, 1984) from Glenside, Pennsylvania, is an American lacrosse player previously with the Philadelphia Wings of National Lacrosse League. He is a defensive midfielder. A William Penn Charter School graduate, Castle played collegiate lacrosse with the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays where he helped his team win two national championships. In December 2008, he joined the Philadelphia Wings as a free agent for the 2009 season, primarily as a defensive player. Castle's father, J.R. Castle, played on the Wings' inaugural team during its 1987 season. In 2012, Castle was selected in the 4th round of the 2012 North American Lacrosse League draft (23rd overall) and played for the Stickhorses in their 2013 NALL campaign. The Radotin Custodes (Czech Republic) also selected Castle 17th overall in the European Lacrosse League draft where he also competed in the 2013 ELL season. See also * List of family relations in the National Lacrosse League *Lacrosse in Penns ...
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St George's Castle (other)
St George's Castle, or variants, may refer to: * Castello di San Giorgio, Mantua (Castle of St. George), part of the Ducal palace, Mantua, Lombardy, Italy * Saint George's Castle, Lisbon, Portugal * Castle of San Jorge, Seville, Spain * Castle of Saint George, Cephalonia, Greece ** Siege of the Castle of Saint George * St. George's Castle, Preveza, Greece * Elmina Castle, the ''Castelo de São Jorge da Mina'' (Castle of St. George of the Mine), Elmina, Ghana See also * Saint George (other) *Fort St. George, India *St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...