George and William
George and William may refer to:
George Augustus
Multiple people share the name George Augustus:
John Windle (bookseller)
John Windle is an American bookseller and William Blake expert.
Lacordaire
Several people share the surname Lacordaire:
William Zeckendorf Jr.
William Zeckendorf
Jr.( October 31, 1929 – February 12, 2014) was an American real estate developer.
Son of William Zeckendorf Sr., he was the second of three generations of one of New York's great real estate dynasties.
While keeping a lower profile than his famously flamboyant father, Zeckendorf Jr. was highly successful in his own right.
Like his father, he became known for large- scale projects that transformed neighborhoods.
" The New York Times" called Zeckendorf Jr. Manhattan's" most active real estate developer" in 1986.
At the time he was a partner in 20 projects worth well over$ 1 bn.
Central Park Place
Central Park Place is a 56-story condominium building in New York City.
The building was completed in 1988, and is located at 301 West 57th Street (between Eighth Avenue & Ninth Avenue).
It is tied with 888 7th Avenue as the 110th tallest building in New York, standing at tall.
In 1987, during the construction of Central Park Place, a piece of lumber was dislodged from one of the higher floors during wind storm and hit a 37-year-old man in the head while he was walking on the east side of 8th Avenue opposite the building.
He sustained massive brain trauma and died.
The City of New York halted construction to investigate the incident.
The builder, losing money because of the work stoppage, sued the city.
The consequence of this tragedy was a new requirement that all tall building construction projects were required to place netting over any open areas to prevent the accidental loss of debris from the higher floors.
The architectural firm responsible for the building is Davis Brody Bond and was developed by William Zeckendorf Jr..
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
William Zeckendorf
William Zeckendorf Sr.( June 30, 1905 – September 30, 1976) was a prominent American real estate developer.
Through his development company Webb and Knapp — for which he began working in 1938 and which he purchased in 1949 — he developed a significant portion of the New York City urban landscape.
Architects I. M. Pei and Le Corbusier designed structures for Zeckendorf's development projects.
Jesse Drakes
Jesse Drakes( 22 October 1924- 1 May 2010) was an American jazz trumpet player.
He was born in New York City.
Drakes hung out at Minton's Playhouse in his youth, and attended Juilliard in the 1940s.
He played in the 1940s with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans, Sid Catlett, J.C. Heard, Eddie Heywood, Deke Watson, and Sarah Vaughan( 1947).
He worked extensively with Lester Young; the pair collaborated on and off between 1948 and 1956.
Alongside this Drakes played with Harry Belafonte, Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt,( 1953), Louie Bellson,( 1955), and Duke Ellington( 1956).
In the late 1950s he played less jazz and more R&B music, touring with King Curtis and playing at the Motown studios in the 1960s.
From 1969 he was based out of New York, leading dance ensembles and singing.
He gave an interview with" Cadence" in 1984.
Drakes was found dead in his apartment in New York City on May 1, 2010.
His date of death, therefore, is unknown.
He is survived by a son, Charles L. Drakes of Rockville, Maryland.
Dugès
Several people share the surname Dugès:

Question: Did William Zeckendorf Jr. and Jesse Drakes share the same nationality?
Answer: yes